Month: August 2007

A continuation from ‘An old love story‘.
The girl only went out with the guy one time. But he continued to visit her at the bookstore, trying to convince her to give him a chance. That took a few months. She told me that she had other admirers, and all of them could sweet talk, so she refused to believe the sincerity of this particular guy.
What she didn’t know was that he had visited her family behind her back, and introduced himself to them.
A few days later her father asked her if the guy was her boyfriend. She was shocked and her father told her that he had visited him. (If you can’t guess it by now, she comes from a conservative family and didn’t want her parents to think she was eager to be married off.)
Once again, she felt bad and a little bit touched with his persistence. She started dating him.
But 2 months later, he was transferred to Penang for work. He had just joined the police force back then. Crazy, you’d say, since most of you disagree with long-distance relationships!
The guy put in a lot of effort. Back in those days, he wrote her almost every week. She wrote to him once in a while. Occasionally, they’d arrange to have a telephone chat – she’d have to go to a public phone to call him at his aunt’s house.
Back in those days = 12 to 13 years ago……
It continued for 2 years, until she stopped hearing from him. She tried contacting him but couldn’t. He disappeared for a while.
Then she found out from his relatives that he had just gotten married, to a distance cousin.
She told me that after she recovered from the shock, she realised that she had come to love him then. But with him being married, she backed off. When she finally got in touch with him, he was apologetic, but it was a marriage arranged by his parents.
It took her some years to recover and to fall in love again.

The Mall, situated across from Pan Pacific Hotel on Jalan Putra, used to be a popular shopping mall in the 80’s and early 90’s. Back then, there was no Midvalley Mega Mall, nor SUnway Pyramid. It was THE place to shop, with Yaohan departmental store.
I remember I loved the stationery from Japan, when I was younger. But they were so expensive! My mum would never allow me to buy too many of them. Sniff.

They now have Parkson Grand instead. With its bright lights, everyone’s complexion looks horrible – every crater, scare and pockmark can been seen ever so clearly. I walk around with my head bent low whenever I’m in Parkson – don’t want you people to see my ugly scars……. though I rarely shop at Parkson, anyway. ;D

Kenny Rogers along a corridor (?) …. which reminds me of McDonald’s at Carrefour Subang. ;D

Continue reading The Mall @ Jalan Putra, KL

Once upon a time, a girl just finished high school and had her first job in a bookstore. She was quite shy and never mingled with boys, due to her conservative upbringing. One day, her colleague introduced her to a guy, and all she did was say, “Hi” and walked away.
She didn’t think there was anything about it until a few months later, her colleague asked her if she knew that the guy was interested in her. She refused to believe. Her colleague said, “Look outside at the football field. Haven’t you noticed the guy waiting for you under the tree all the time?”
[Sounds like a stalker to me!]
Gradually, she paid attention and indeed, she noticed that the guy would always be there every evening!
A few weeks later, the guy started going into the bookstore just to catch a glimpse of her. She never noticed until her colleague pointed it out to her. He’d buy a pen every other day, just to have her serve him so he could say, “Hi.”
She never thought anything about it until one day, he caught her after work and confessed his feelings for her. He said he loved her, and would like to have a relationship with her.
She told him not to say such a thing. If you really loved me, she said, I’m sure you’d get a better job and improve yourself. Which he did, anyway.
He asked her out, but she refused. But he never gave up that eventually, taking pity on him, she agreed. But she said to keep it short, as she didn’t want her father to get the wrong idea. (She told me that those days, it wasn’t polite for boys to go out with girls without introducing themselves to the girls’ father. Well, in her case, anyway.)
Somehow her father saw her that night, but never said a thing to her.
To be continued… ;D