ice cream lady and what nots

there is this lady who sells ice cream out at the bus stop at the front of my house. it was one of those push cart type, which are quite common down town. i'm pretty surprise to find this type here in the heartlands.
lots of times, when i get home, it was already quite late and i still see her around, waiting for customers. but you do understand that it is quite difficult to get anyone to eat ice cream at 11pm in the night.

well, i got home a little earlier some time ago, and i went by to buy a ice cream wafer. basically, its just a chunk of ice cream between two wafer biscuits. brings back some memories of my school days, many many many moons ago.

thousand of sunrise and sunsets have come and gone since then. i remembered being a pimple-faced youth back in secondary school and jc. playing pranks and teasing each other about girls. hanging out at the mac's over at bukit timah and going to town for movies. life was much simpler back than. exams, homework, girls and looking cool were the driving force in our lives, not in order of priority, i must say.

the main motivation in my life now, has changed drastically. things are more complicated and every action does not necessarily mean an equal an opposite reaction. exams are now in the form of yearly apprasials, homework means work brought back home because it could not be finished. looking cool is totally foreign to me now.

but for that 5 mins, with that ice cream wafer in hand, it felt like things were simple all over again, as before.

ice cream anyone? my treat...