*waits at the taxi stand*
after a long tired day, and not having been home for 36h, carrying a large guitar on my shoulders, a stuffed to the brim crumpler, and bags of clothes from sleepovers at my friend's place...

the taxis were not coming because it was 2230h.
and the queue was full of disgruntled people...
the lady behind in hot skirts on the phone with about ten bags of things on the floor behind her...
the other conference staff workers with boxes of items to bring back to their church....
the young man beside me whom i offered to send home since we were both westerners in eastern singapore....

2 taxis till our turn... and I prayed in my heart for 3 to come.

no nothing happened.

after being so weighed down by my belongings...
and having random talks with the conference staff members. not a single taxi came... all had red signs that zoomed past the road just parallel to our slip road where the taxi stand was...
everyone was dead beat after a 2pm-9pm conference.

i said outloud 'i hope that 3 "hired" taxis come in right here and the passenger alights!'
because sometimes "for hire" taxis miss this ulu spot and drive past the slip road...

shortly... almost immediately 2 actually did.
wee~ must be our turn next!

yet my prayer answered only seemed to met the needs of others.
for the next one.... we waited a long wait again.

2 red sign taxis came in.... "ON CALL"
sian 0.5

and we waited and waited.
until I was so tired... seeing the clock ticking towards 2300h. which i knew then we would have to call a cab too ... because many would wanna earn the midngiht surcharge. and would probably choose not to pick passengers at this time anymore...

i said out loud again "God give us a cab before 2300h pleaseee."
becuase $3 booking fee plus $20++ cab fare plus nets extra $0.30 is a major sian factor.

we waited and waited.
and yes... a "HIRED" redsign drove into the slip road and the person alighted.
a taxi with nets - at 2252h

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