Ok, this is a Singaporean question. Sorry if some of the terms i use are not comprehensible.
This happened last year. Till now it still gives me the creep.
Ok it was a typical saturday night, there was this pasar malam (night market) at Jurong East, near the MRT station. it was on the big field, in a tentage.
As you know, the pasar malam organizer will lay these rectangular wooden boards on the grass patch, as nobody wants to walk on wet muddy grass. Like in the pic below.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/PasarMalam.JPG/280px-PasarMalam.JPG
I was with my parents n sister. As you know, pasar malam sell many irrestitable tasty snacks like taiwan sausage, fried fishballs, kueh tutu, wah koh kueh, keropok lekor, ramly burger etc.
So my parents, being generous people, bought snacks for us n themselves. I was muching on this taiwan sausage pierced on a long toothpick-stick. Very yummy. So we were walking n eating, n i was checking out the sight n sounds. Oooh, especially trying to spot hot girls…wow, i see many. Most were in short denim shorts or FBT shorts, kinda dressed casually like most singaporean teen girls.
Alas, i tripped on the floorboard!! Bloody hell! If you look carefully at the picture above, these boards are often layed haphazardly. With their edges sticking out as they overlap one another. Some boards are warped too, when you walk over them u have a bouncy feeling on ur feet.
My flip flop somehow got caught in the edge of the wooden board. i lunged forward, but luckily i didn’t fall flat to the ground, as i stabled myself with my fit n toned legs. (thanks to regular running n working out in the gym)
I was munching on the sticked taiwan sausage in my mouth at that time. I can’t imagine what will happen if i were to trip n fall flat to the ground. the sharp pointed stick in my mouth will probably impale through the back of my throat n cause me to bleed n die a painful death.
After i picked myself up, i cursed the floorboards. Damn, why did they have to be so dangerous? From then on, i watched my steps as i walk, instead of always focusing on hot babes around me. And also no more toothpick-stick impaled snacks while walking on pasar malam death traps.
I am lucky to be alive to narrate this true experience. Have anyone of you ever tripped or almost tripped due to those floorboards?
this has never happened to me, but my grandmother once tripped while holding my baby sister(i wanst born yet0 i her hands!! she had to keep holding my sistr and resist the urge to put her hands in front of her as she was falling, or else my sisiter would have been dropped and probably injured because of her age. my grnadma got really bad scrapes, but my sister didnt have a scratch on her.. my grandma had a very strong will
March 30th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
this has never happened to me, but my grandmother once tripped while holding my baby sister(i wanst born yet0 i her hands!! she had to keep holding my sistr and resist the urge to put her hands in front of her as she was falling, or else my sisiter would have been dropped and probably injured because of her age. my grnadma got really bad scrapes, but my sister didnt have a scratch on her.. my grandma had a very strong will
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March 30th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
i think you just wasted alot of your time writing that
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