Today there was a guy, behind a glass panel at Pasta Mania who stopped placing ham on a pizza, came to the counter and inquired, "Hey remember me?".
Naddah. So I said, hey yeah you look familar, dragging it while doing major thought processing so it came out like haaaayyyyyy...yeeahhhhh yooooou...look..familaaaar. with a look that crosses constipation with intense concentration.
"Desmond, from JS?", he offered.
I remember Desmond. He was never in my class, but we used to do weird things together in primary two and three, like collect army styled erasers. But then again, who didn't collect army styled erasers? The warship was pure gold. Desmond was a good kid, he was always laughing, although he didn't channel as much energy into education as he did with rubber appreciation. And yes, we used to call erasers rubber. A perfect example of ignorant knowledge.
Desmond, circa 2006 wasn't always laughing. First of all, he looked 25 in the black uniform of the establishment. Maybe it was his gold-cropped hair and earrings. He told me, clutching strips of ham that he went to Monk's Hill Secondary after leaving JS, and eventually Republic Polytechnic and well was working as a pizza artist to make ends meet.
And it hits me that Desmond, JS alumnus is doing more for himself, society and Italian food in general than any one of us slogging in the name of education. Success is subjective, and in the long run graduates from the International Baccelaurate program may have fatter wallets or bigger houses,
But at least now, Desmond the pizza artist is being a man, working for his keep, doing something with his life, gold hair and earrings in tow. And suddenly I can't say that I've been there, done that, or am world weary because I haven't been anywhere and done anything worthy to be standing on the other side of the glass panel, slamming salami onto circular dough with the intensity of a seven percent GST hike.
Delivered at 11:09 PM;
KENNETH
Name:Slumber
Born:16th August
FANCIES
Him.K.anglo-chinese.music for the passionate.marvel.gunners.
Orange.debate.
long bus rides armed with an eye and a pod.74.
philosophizing.dystopia.
coffee.Rove.Health.Famary.
Buddies.
writing.1984.
expression.Italian food.
journeys.teh-peng.
stream of consciousness.
witty play on words.musing.
accents.the heartrands.performing.
being a closet connossieur.
a point of view.vigorous
interaction with spherical objects.
irony&pathos.yum.
JS.spirit.a girl that would smile