TanakaGirl's Stories

SgBoy

TanakaGirl's Stories i was a service girl in a Japanese Ramen rastaurant named Tanaka... i have my most complex and bitter and sweetest story over there. my life changed in that place.. ****************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------- i'm a tanaka girl wearin a professional smile.. "Ramen for u Sir?We serve all range of ramen and rice-sets. Would you like to take a look at our menu?Yes, our soup is cooked over 5 hrs usin fresh chicken & pork bones..the taste is fabulous!"

SgBoy

TanakaGirl's Story1

it was raining hard and i looked out of the window, totally at lost. those few month i was thrown into a entirely new world with colourful figures and many complex stories. under this roof...i had changed largely. suddenly my handphone beeped. i habitually looked around: boss was not around. i turned myself to face the corner of the counter and pressed the buttons and was expected to see a familiar name... yet it was not my boyfriend. a new name which was just added into my handphone appeared to say hi and tell me how his work was going on. that was a guy who did kind of similiar job as i did, service staff in rastaurants. just that i was working in a Japanese Ramen shop and his was Italian. his tone depicted a busy, bustle yet full of life place over there. i smiled to myself... what a funny person. i had never met him yet i wondered how he looked like. i pressed the "exit" button to see the "inbox" page. my smile faded into a sigh......this guy's name had occupied most of the lines in my inbox, instead of my boyfriend's. i turned my bracelet, felt the seashells decored on it. i wondered, what my boyfriend was doing...he was busy. but over the 2 years staying with him i really felt the discrepancy between 2 of us. we simply could not communicate well. i was upset inside... anyway and anyhow...... i didn't care much. young lives are like that, drifting around...... first customer came. i put on my professional smile and hand on the menu......

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-11-21 13:24:38编辑过]

---------------------------------------------- i'm a tanaka girl wearin a professional smile.. "Ramen for u Sir?We serve all range of ramen and rice-sets. Would you like to take a look at our menu?Yes, our soup is cooked over 5 hrs usin fresh chicken & pork bones..the taste is fabulous!"

SgBoy

TanakaGirl's Story2

that was about half a month back (from the beginning of the story)... i was troubled by the university admission procedures thus i went online to seek for help. i went to a BBS of that Uni. only a few lost soul were there panicking eachother by finding out a number of steps in the admission process which they had missed. i joined them. surprisingly we were all encountering the same problem. and dunno why, only few seniors joined our conversation and gave us guidance...... student pass, medical checkup, hostel application...all were in a mess. we depended on each other to get things done... among the six of us, 2 were PR who did not share much of the problems with me. the other 2 had their family stayin with them and thus did not need to apply for loans. left with me and another boy...2 entirely lost souls who were on this sickening island by our own and had lots of troubles...... out of the BBS i always chatted with him on MSN. Singapore is so small that he knowed quite a few of my schoolmates in the past. it was surprising to find out that we were all serving labour in the F&B field, waiter and waitress. he worked for an italian restaurant selling Hotstone... i supposed, he must be smelt of a sizzling salmon steak on a hotstone. he was not from a rich family but i adored his determination of choosing to fight for the less than 10 places of actuaries. his english was not strong yet he managed to get into the faculty of Business. by contrary my choise of engineering was exactly dull. anyway and anyhow, i consolated myself, everyone had unique interest. yet, by then, we started to know more about eachother by SMSing.

SgBoy

以下是引用SgBoy在2005-3-12 23:04:06的发言：

TanakaGirl's Story2

that was about half a month back (from the beginning of the story)... i was troubled by the university admission procedures thus i went online to seek for help. i went to a BBS of that Uni. only a few lost soul were there panicking eachother by finding out a number of steps in the admission process which they had missed. i joined them. surprisingly we were all encountering the same problem. and dunno why, only few seniors joined our conversation and gave us guidance...... student pass, medical checkup, hostel application...all were in a mess. we depended on each other to get things done... among the six of us, 2 were PR who did not share much of the problems with me. the other 2 had their family stayin with them and thus did not need to apply for loans. left with me and another boy...2 entirely lost souls who were on this sickening island by our own and had lots of troubles...... out of the BBS i always chatted with him on MSN. Singapore is so small that he knowed quite a few of my schoolmates in the past. it was surprising to find out that we were all serving labour in the F&B field, waiter and waitress. he worked for an italian restaurant selling Hotstone... i supposed, he must be smelt of a sizzling salmon steak on a hotstone. he was not from a rich family but i adored his determination of choosing to fight for the less than 10 places of actuaries. his english was not strong yet he managed to get into the faculty of Business. by contrary my choise of engineering was exactly dull. anyway and anyhow, i consolated myself, everyone had unique interest. yet, by then, we started to know more about eachother by SMSing.

for a girl was attached...i admitted that i behaved abnormally. usually no gal with a bf would be so free and so bored to go online and chat on MSN for hours. that few monthes i was crazy, went out to catch movies with a guy who i only knew for days; went to KTV, makan..etc with a bundle of "internet-peers". moreover at the ramen shop i gave my MSN to a customer who everyday took 20 minutes by bus to our shop for ramen for 2 weeks. when he asked me if we could be friends, i said ok without even taking a split of a second to think over it. being lonely was what ultimately drove me into doing all these...i never tried to find a new bf from any of them but just that i wanted to get rid of the painful thoughts nagging in my mind. i knew, i was weak inside yet i refused to face it.

SgBoy

TanakaGirl's Story3

that was a sunday.

"hey i thought today you are off? why don't you go out with your bf?"

this familiar message appeared on my desktop...the hostone boy used to ask me so when he found me lingering online on my off days.

i sneered at myself. "Does he ever remembers that i am off today? he had long time never contact me..."

yet what came out on the screen as i typed was "ya, going out later~~~"

after talking for a few more lines i told him that i was going off. so i logged off my MSN. the feeling sucked.

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in fact the night before i received a message from my boyfriend which was"can you help me find some nice musics online? i was busy playing games these days." the message stuned me and flamed me up. that time i was on the bus back home after a long and busy day of work (saturday was always nightmare). i felt lonely, cold and exhausted. the thought of him sitting comfortably in front of the computer "busy" playing games and sending me commands to do things which he can always use gaming time to do so disgusted me.

i replied with a short sentence : "no, i am busier than u."

after about half an hour. the hotstone boy sent me a message "how is your day? i just finished work, going back now. today lots customers came and i did not stop running in and out for 3 hours exactly...now my body feels no longer mine..hahaha...i supposed your saturday is not easy as well"

i sighed. perhaps waiters knew more about my working life. yet, sadly, a boyfriend knew me less than a guy who i never met.

SgBoy

TanakaGirl's Story4 I believe that, everyone is selfish to a certain extent. However, my boyfriend did things for himself rather than for both of us. In the month of June, something destructive happened to me… The faculty of the university of my first choice rejected me. (the reason for it being my first choice was not because that university was well known for engineering but it was my boyfriend’s only choice of university.) The other university which was better known for engineering had accepted me into that faculty. I struggled, and decided that I should pursue my interest because it would affect my whole life. Telling him what was going on in my mind I thought he would support me. But I was wrong. He went crazy about this. “Do you know why I am still in Singapore uni? It was all because of you. You did want to go overseas for further education. I wanted to stay with you. And now, you want to go to the different uni... All my effort gone! I put my future in expense and wish that you could stay with me in the same school, yet you waste my effort! ...” I was totally stunned. Yes, I did not want to go overseas because I thought local education was nothing worse that overseas’. Moreover I did not want to impose too much financial burden to my family. He had a more wellbeing family and he could afford overseas school fees and all other expenses. I had told him to go wherever he wanted before both of us sit for the final exam. I sincerely told him that I would always support his decision. Ideals were more important. Yet…he was blaming me for wasting his effort at this moment. I never forced him to stay… Nuts! I had nothing better to say…… perhaps I was the one being selfish. But my selfishness did not come into intervening other people’s decisions, especially those important decisions marking a serious change in one’s life. I frowned, turned away, thought that I might break into tears. But no even a little moisture was felt. I looked at him into his eyes and said, “well, I have made my decision. I am choosing where I am going to based on the course offered, but not the school. I would be sorried if I don’t do so.” That was June, the lovely summer of June, the goddamned June!