Romeo and Juliet
Yesterday, we met Romeo and Juliet. Really. Only that this Juliet was so pissed with Romeo, she told him off at the window.
We were having dinner in our apartment when we noticed that there was a man talking fairly loudly outside our door. We figured… hmm... maybe he was on the hand phone coz my neighbor had already returned about 10 minutes before and there was no other voice except his.
Then we started to make out bits and pieces of the conversation…bits of ‘I love you’, ‘please’, ‘I beg you’, ‘I really love you’…
Ooo… couple fight. Neighbor not opening the door. Poor guy. He actually started crying outside her door.
Then we heard him go downstairs and shout from the courtyard for her to open the door and speak to him. Of course, my curious husband poked his head out of the window and instead of telling him off, this nice guy actually said, “bonjour, Monsieur” (good day, Sir). Can you imagine! If he was a Singaporean guy, he would have said something like “What you looking at?!”
Anyway, we left to poor guy to beg and plead for another 5 minutes before we heard him knocking on something. And the funny thing was, his voice sounded nearer. So Kar Wai went to peep again and lo and behold! This guy was hanging on the windowsill of his girlfriend’s 2nd storey apartment, knocking on her window, asking her to open the door! And he did that for like 10 min before she opened the window, told him off and closed it again.
And we thought this only happens in the movies…gosh, if not for anything else, I would have opened the door just for being nice and polite even in his desperate situation.
Jo
7 comments:
Ah Paree ... so rrrrRomantic! = )
According to the Handbook of Useful Singaporean Phrases, the correct colloquial response to your husband popping the head out of the window would be: "Kwa si mi! Lim peh talking to his gerrfren, you see what? Kiam pah ah? You see some more, lim peh come up find you!"
We muts all do our part to promote charming Singaporean speech patterns abroad...
wah, no wonder they say French guys are so romantic... but it's not S'porean guy's fault. S'pore guy can TRY to climb up HDB also, but at 5~30 story the leg sure become tofu right?
Come to think of it... 2nd story abit high by my standard already.=P
kw
wah drama mama...
on a lighter note:
wes! feed your wife!! she looked thinner than the last time.(noticed that when i was at 153 and u guys were at the busstop heh =) )
wow.. i felt like i was reading a page from a romantic book or a scene from the head of shakespear himself! but it felt good. wahaha. I mean, how often to you witness such things! climbing right up to the window.. hehe.. let us(or at least me) know if they got back :D
hey drummerboy. so far no news about the lovers. its been quiet so far. and eadwin, i hear you, but she got stressed when we were back in spore lah and she's the type to lose weight when she is stressed. me unfortunately is the opposite. :p
wes
That's not typical of Parisians since most apartments are almost impossible to climb up.
Secondly, I had a guy friend in Toronto who broke into a friend's apartment from the window, stole her typewriter, wrote a ransom note, and exitted in the same fashion. The apartment was eight floors up. So you see, it's not a Parisian thing. Sorry to rain on your parade.
Yelling, crying and public domestic disputes are common enough though.
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