First subject.
Location : Public phone area at woodlands mrt station.
My first subject was a chinese male who seemed to be in his late twenties. I noticed him spending quite some time at one of the public phone boots and he seemed a little bit anxious, jsut a little bit but he was certainly there for a long time. He was wearing normal clothes, cargo pants and a polo t-shirt and he had spectacles on. He looked pretty decent. The strange thing about him was that he was at the phone boot for more than half an hour and it seemed who ever he was trying to get was not answering.
He took out his handphone at one point, yes, he had a black handphone, yet he was using the pay phone. I think maybe his handphone was low on battery or he was using a prepaid card. He must have lookin through some numbers in his handphones address section to call.Mostly through out the time he spent at the boot, he didnt have much of an expression except of a little bit of eye frowning every now and then.
After about twenty minutes or so, while holding the public phone on his left ear he held his handpone to his right ear. At first thought, i thought the guy was finally doing something weird and interesting, but than i realise it could have just been a test or something for his phone, since he put his handphone back into his pocket a few seconds later.
After a few more minutes, he didn’t seem to have had anyone pickup heput the receiver down and walked away from the public phone but after about a few meters, he took out his wallet, flipped through it and went back to the phone and made a call again.This time after a miunte or so, he started talking. I presume his call whent through. Strangely, he only talked bout a few minutes with very little expression on his face and than left the boot and walked away.
Ok, in conclusion, from first views,this guy did not seem very interesting but there might be something interesting going on with him after all he was at the public phone boot for more than half an hour without getting his call through. For one, it must have been a really important call for him to wait so long. On the other hand his lack of expression on his face and tamed manerisms points me to believe it was nothing to serious…
Second subject.
Location: under of the void deck near my block.
This happened on saturday and is rather interesting. I was chilling out with some friends under a void deck and i noticed this Indian boy in his late teens who was dressed in a football jersey, shorts and white sandals. His hair was cut really short which looked something like a crew cut. He had two silver earings at his left ear.
He was sitting on a stone chair and had his legs up on the stone table. He was playing around with his handphone with his left hand and he was fidling with a lighter with his right hand. He had a bored expression on his face and would ocassionaly look around his surroundings and sometimes stare up at the ceiling even.
He stayed there for a almost an hour before two other guys, friends of him, who dressed similarly met up with him and they left.From the way he dressed i presume he is part of some gang or rowdy group of people. He may be still schooling or he may not be, but he looked like a bum to me. I may be wrong though, probably am.
The young man would meet the boy under the void deck where he’s sitting while the man’s on his way home. He would stop under and wait under the block because it’s raining and he would ask the indian boy a lighter to light his cigarrete. The boy gives him the lighter and the two start talking about singapore life and how stressful it is. In the midst of the conversation the man would realise he was from the same gang as the boy is in now when he was a younger lad himself.