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After standing there taking pictures of pink flowers for ages, a white bearded old man waved at me from across the road and came over. "Scuse me, I can get up to the city this way, can I?" "Hang on. I'll just check for you on my phone." "I might take a bus because I've been up and walking about since 8.30am." "...ahh...? Ok yup, map says just keep going straight." "Right, thank you!" He then took off singing down the street at the top of his lungs. You can see his red coat on the left side of the picture. Not sure if I met a crazy man today, but I must have looked pretty crazy myself taking pictures of trees in the blustery wind, long hair blowing all around. Heh.

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I'm not buying weed to go in the brownies!

-- overheard couple in Wal-Mart

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Positive feedback

I bought a secondhand, fairly new MacBook Air charger from a Carousell seller the other day. She was super warm and friendly from the start. I explained I was in a rush that day and would only be able to meet real quick. She told me sure, suggesting I take it back home to test out first and bank transfer her the money if all was well. I was surprised at her trust in a complete stranger! But took her up on her offer.

As promised, her charger worked perfectly. I was mighty pleased and asked her for her account details to transfer the money over, intending to give her an excellent rating on Carousell after – what most sellers are quick to ask for. But before I knew it she’d marked the item as “sold”, and I couldn’t leave any feedback at all! I told her I actually really really want to, but she just said: “Oh it’s fine :) Hehe hope u use the charger well!”

Just for the record, I had been intending to leave her something like “best seller I’ve interacted with on Carousell yet!” Now I’m thinking more along the lines of: Faith in humanity reaffirmed, if not restored.

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Beautiful today

Was walking down my street this morning when the garbage truck came by. One of the guys jumped up and hung on to the truck’s side with one arm, leaning out and waving at me with his other. We’d never met, but he was grinning at me like we see each other every morning.

“Good morning!” “Morning!” “You look beautiful today!”

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A new old school bakery opened at CP, and I got a hot and toasty $1 waffle on a whim as a tea time snack :) @pistachio-tales This pic is missing my Nutty Struck up a convo with the lady behind the counter which wasn’t too successful because 我的华语很烂, but she did ask me about the 吉他 I was carrying and ending up telling me how her 女儿以前也有学，可是学到一半而已.

It’s actually been a day of conversations with strangers – my Uber driver today told me about his road trip around Europe, learning Dutch, why he approves of my manual driver’s licence, and noted, “your hair is so dry!”

At the end of the trip he held out his hand and thanked me for the trip and said hope to see me again. “And here, let me pass you my name card. Hit me up if you ever need any advice.” Turns out he’s a retired hair stylist now freelancing! Hahahaha

The day began with a very brief hardly-can-qualify-as-conversation I struck up with a stranger at the bus stop. Most people were taking temporary shelter from the downpour and huddling together in umbrellas to cross the road to be on their way. I asked her if she needed to share mine since she was waiting around without any apparent brolley or any friend. She laughed and thanked me and said she was waiting for her friend actually. Though she didn’t need my brolley and our convo was 1 sentence each, I like to think it began the day well and set the right note for the other conversations that occurred :)

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Funny how this blog is called Nesspresso Tales, yet Ness hasn’t had espresso of any form until now. This was given by a friend (my weekly llao buddy) who saw coffee and thought of me☺️ Thanks X!

Another funny thing: A friendly Malay auntie on the bus spotted my half-finished bottle and asked me where I’d gotten it, asked what kinda coffee it was, and then consequently struck up a conversation with me about coffee and tea and which was better for rainy days such as this one. The last time a stranger on the bus struck up convo with me was when a random ah beng tried to hit me up. Both experiences amused me, but I’d take tea talk over tease talk any day.

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