road blockS

what really happened...

Time: 130 am to 2 am.. Venue: Along west coast road and the road towards JE from teban gardens..

Heres the conversation at the first road block:

Police: Where were you from?

MJFL: West coast mac.

POlice: Where are you going?

MJFL: Home after studying..

Then we were told to park our car at the side. I thought they will just search the car and thats it... NOPE!

Police: Take out your ICs(both) and driving liscence(for darling)

MJFL: OH!

For a moment, I was awaken form my dreamy night... ICs... Never have I been asked for IC by a policeman! Though I didn't do anything wrong, i felt scared...

Following that, he called back to some HQs and have our ICs checked.

Police: Is this your car?

darling: my dad's one, we can't afford one you see, we are students.

POlice: Oh.. this car is rather affordable actually.

MJ's thought: "HUH? hmm... huh? what a comment.. is that a friendly policeman trying to strike some conversation with some commoners? Or he just thinks that we, undergrads are rich? A car leh! How to afford one when you are still trying to survive and giving tuitions to make your living..."

So after some checking of the car and recording+checking of ICs, we were finally released...Though i felt a tinge of relief that our policemen is doing their job, but i thought that they were wasting their time on us. The whole process took about 10 to 15 minutes...maybe there were more thieves to be caught somewhere else.. IF you had watched "The chaser", you can't help but ponder about the efficieny of policemen...

At the same time, I think the other van beside us were driven by indian foreign workers.. I was thinking why only both our vehicles were stopped...

After putting in some thoughts, maybe our reason of studying at Mac is just too LAME to be true??? Come on! We are youngsters! I bet if we said we just went home from clubbing, maybe he will just test darling's breath and thats it....... haha.. so i learnt that the reason you give should follow the stereotype of typical youngsters...

Guess what? along that short route home, we encountered ANOTHER road block... haha.. its quite funny, given that the policemen asked the same starting questions. I think they are trained this way... But this time round, we being more experienced, immediately flashed our ICs and confessed about our previous road block. Within seconds, he let us passed..... hmm... we were so "lucky"! a pity we didn't buy lottery... aiya!

While other days we were already asleep by 2am, this very day, we were checked by some policemen. Thankfully, its a pleasant experience. =)

Of course,one that we hope we only encounter once.