Long sleeved men’s collared shirts that a bold, solid colour… and FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER SHIRTS!

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All that aside, Le Sab and I had marched our excellent selves down to The Singapore Expo to experience the farce that is the Food Expo.

I’d been ridiculously excited when I’d first randomly picked it out of a hat as a subject of my assignment because:

1. It’s a FOOD expo!
2. Ergo = FREE SAMPLES
3. Did I mention that it was a FOOD expo?

Okay so we, the dynamic duo, shuffled about with laptops in bags and arms attached to our shoulders set to conquer the mainly Auntie crowd. I have personally proven that:

500A = B

if A is the jostling that one experiences at any MRT station at peak hour, B is the jostling one experiences at the Food expo.

You get the drift.

I think that the best thing about the entire experience was that there was entire section devoted to tidbits, and Nigel, there was Ramli Burger, so you missed out. Truly. Anyway, cheese balls and buttered hotdog buns later there, Sabrina and I were standing and munching thoughtfully on some Puttu Mayam when we realised that the mother and daughter we’d been sharing the table with had now been reduced to a daughter.

I started feeling a bit paranoid when I didn’t see the mother hadn’t come back after about 15 minutes. Then it struck me. THAT DARN WOMAN HAD LEFT HER DAUGHTER TO BE ADOPTED BY US!

I wasn’t ready to be a parent but somehow that girl looked so lost and confused, I could feel my maternal instincts stirring within me. I looked at Sab and she just shrugged, and it was then that I had decided that i needed to get a job to finance an apartment to raise the child.

Too many decisions were being weighed down on me at once! What was happening?!? I was eating a delicious Indian dessert and suddenly I have to adopt a child??!

My mind was reeling and yet my hands were still busily working on that darn Puttu Mayam! What was the child’s name? How was I supposed to explain to people why the child has two straight female parents? What on earth was I supposed to wear to school tomorrow?

Luckily though I was saved by the mother who had come back looking particularly relieved to find her child still there.