Luna 3rd strike / catch up with John and library guy
On Sunday, I noticed in Kakaotalk that a new friend by the name of 'Amy' popped up. I was scratching my brains to figure out who it was, and even posted a status update on my fb asking "who the hell is Amy?"
It was like I had some vague memory of meeting an Amy a while ago, but could not put a face to the name. Was it a working girl? When did I get a working girl's number??
A while later, it clicked - it was the girl I met at the Korean meet up. I was in the "eh, whatever" mood so I messaged her saying "wow Amy, looks like you got a new phone!" (because she previously said she couldn't get Kakao due to her old phone). I was expecting a "who the fuck are you?" reaction, but we messaged back and forth sporadically before I finally settled into bed that night and we were frantically messaging each other almost every second.
She turned out to be a really chatty person, and said she was now taking the Korean Beginners 2 course. I asked if the teacher was Luna and she said no. She asked if I had heard about Luna, and I said no? She said "working holiday" and "can't stay at the same place for more than 6 months".
Ohhhhhhh...
She said Luna was working somewhere like Hurstville now. So that at least removed my presumptuous assumption that she was in the city and able to do lunch if she really wanted to. I guess there was some credit to her claim of being busy.
I ended up asking Amy out to lunch (purely with the intention as a friend, and to seek out more info about Luna), but she said she would be in training for the next two weeks so couldn't make it. She convinced me it wasn't an excuse as she said that Min guy asked her out as well and she couldn't go because of training.
I had to finally say goodnight as my arm was getting tired of holding up my phone.
Yesterday at work while I was out at lunch, after dropping off my dry cleaning, I messaged Luna:
"Free for lunch this week? :p"
I suddenly felt a swarm of happiness all over. I felt like a little girl having a crush, and would've tightened up and squirmed my body in the middle of the city if I could. I wasn't expecting an instant reply, hell, given her history of responding, I wasn't expecting a reply within days, but I was just happy. In fact, I probably would've been more happy if she didn't respond. Why? Because it would keep my fantasy going. If that 'no' never came, it would keep my hopes alive. So I started checking my phone hoping there wouldn't be a response.
After work I went home and drove to library guy's place. He walked out carrying his baby, and invited me inside. I greeted his wife and the baby. He invited me to hold her and I was too scared I'd drop her so refused. After a brief moment we left to meet John in Burwood. By his own admission, John was early for once, and now seemed to be impatiently waiting for us even though we were on time.
After parking, we thought we went into the right restaurant and library guy went to use the bathroom. Before sitting down, I called John and said I was there but couldn't see him. He said he was there, and then I realised we went to 177 instead of 117 - der. So I walked out and cracked out laughing when library guy came out, saying they probably thought we did that just so he could use the bathroom LOL!
We eventually found the right restaurant and found John sitting alone in a booth. I'm always surprised by how 'flash' he looks. Not sure if it's his hair or clothing. We all had hot pot which was really unique because you got your own little hot pot instead of sharing one big one like it's traditionally done.
We caught up a bit, and found out John's wife is pregnant and due to give birth next month. That probably wasn't that surprising given it was about time. But my real reason for organising the meet up was to 'declare' I was going out on my own soon, either to the bar or my own firm, and I wanted to open up my connections.
Instead, it turned into a semi-lecture of the difficulties of running your own business. I appreciated the tips, and took them to heart. One thing that hit me was they said you needed to be the type of person willing to ask for money, because a lot of people out there try to get away with not paying. The other main point they wanted to hit me with was cash flow - you had to manage it because you never knew when the next sale was coming. You could make $5,000 in a month and nothing the next. John said if I could stay in a job that paid $70-80k then I should do it, and that I'd be lucky to clear $5,000 per month (ie. have in the pocket).
But I countered by asking, if he could turn back time, he would've done the same thing and he said yes, so I guess there's the real answer.
John suggested 'dessert' and I thought he meant ice cream or yoghurt, but he meant whoring, or a massage place. I didn't really want to go because I needed to save money, but managed to use library guy as an excuse. He didn't want to go, so I said I didn't want to leave him by himself.
Even as we walked to a coffee place afterwards, library guy said we could go and he'd wait for us. I said "nah, one for all and all for one", then John joked "yeah, or I could go by myself after fucking you guys off" lol.
So we ended up in this cafe on the main road, and one of the main topics we talked about was whoring. Library guy said he couldn't do it anymore because he had a daughter and was afraid of karma. That really struck me because I had never thought of that. John said he didn't see it as an obstacle and wondered if it would change when his daughter was born. He also said he got mad at his wife for a month for having a girl instead of a boy.
We also talked about luxury cars, and John told us the story of a taxi hitting his BMW and all the trouble he had to go through to get it fixed with AAMI. Also learnt that everything was not as it appears, as he revealed all the financing done to drive these cars, whereas I always thought it was fully paid off.
We called it a night and John suggested we do this once a month, and library guy said he should settle into his new role as a father first, but John didn't seem to be too bothered by that. I drove library guy back home.
Today
Found out Mary's mother passed away during surgery, and immediately sent her a text. I even went to the office and with the help of Genie, signed the card for her and contributed for some flowers. After that I went for a walk with Genie.
I have spent the last two days listening to telephone calls, and am bored out of my mind. I am starting to wonder if they think I am dodgy and limiting the work I am doing? Or maybe Mob is treating me like a temporary and going easy on me? Or maybe there really just isn't that much work to do? Either way, I feel uneasy about being paid so much money for all this.
After work I went to the gym and had another massive session with benchpress, weights and squats on top of the usual bike and abs.
Luna still has not responded. I got curious earlier and looked her up using the new fb feature of graphs. I saw some old photos she was tagged in, including one where she was kissing a girl on the lips.
Could she be...a lesbian?
It was like I had some vague memory of meeting an Amy a while ago, but could not put a face to the name. Was it a working girl? When did I get a working girl's number??
A while later, it clicked - it was the girl I met at the Korean meet up. I was in the "eh, whatever" mood so I messaged her saying "wow Amy, looks like you got a new phone!" (because she previously said she couldn't get Kakao due to her old phone). I was expecting a "who the fuck are you?" reaction, but we messaged back and forth sporadically before I finally settled into bed that night and we were frantically messaging each other almost every second.
She turned out to be a really chatty person, and said she was now taking the Korean Beginners 2 course. I asked if the teacher was Luna and she said no. She asked if I had heard about Luna, and I said no? She said "working holiday" and "can't stay at the same place for more than 6 months".
Ohhhhhhh...
She said Luna was working somewhere like Hurstville now. So that at least removed my presumptuous assumption that she was in the city and able to do lunch if she really wanted to. I guess there was some credit to her claim of being busy.
I ended up asking Amy out to lunch (purely with the intention as a friend, and to seek out more info about Luna), but she said she would be in training for the next two weeks so couldn't make it. She convinced me it wasn't an excuse as she said that Min guy asked her out as well and she couldn't go because of training.
I had to finally say goodnight as my arm was getting tired of holding up my phone.
Yesterday at work while I was out at lunch, after dropping off my dry cleaning, I messaged Luna:
"Free for lunch this week? :p"
I suddenly felt a swarm of happiness all over. I felt like a little girl having a crush, and would've tightened up and squirmed my body in the middle of the city if I could. I wasn't expecting an instant reply, hell, given her history of responding, I wasn't expecting a reply within days, but I was just happy. In fact, I probably would've been more happy if she didn't respond. Why? Because it would keep my fantasy going. If that 'no' never came, it would keep my hopes alive. So I started checking my phone hoping there wouldn't be a response.
After work I went home and drove to library guy's place. He walked out carrying his baby, and invited me inside. I greeted his wife and the baby. He invited me to hold her and I was too scared I'd drop her so refused. After a brief moment we left to meet John in Burwood. By his own admission, John was early for once, and now seemed to be impatiently waiting for us even though we were on time.
After parking, we thought we went into the right restaurant and library guy went to use the bathroom. Before sitting down, I called John and said I was there but couldn't see him. He said he was there, and then I realised we went to 177 instead of 117 - der. So I walked out and cracked out laughing when library guy came out, saying they probably thought we did that just so he could use the bathroom LOL!
We eventually found the right restaurant and found John sitting alone in a booth. I'm always surprised by how 'flash' he looks. Not sure if it's his hair or clothing. We all had hot pot which was really unique because you got your own little hot pot instead of sharing one big one like it's traditionally done.
We caught up a bit, and found out John's wife is pregnant and due to give birth next month. That probably wasn't that surprising given it was about time. But my real reason for organising the meet up was to 'declare' I was going out on my own soon, either to the bar or my own firm, and I wanted to open up my connections.
Instead, it turned into a semi-lecture of the difficulties of running your own business. I appreciated the tips, and took them to heart. One thing that hit me was they said you needed to be the type of person willing to ask for money, because a lot of people out there try to get away with not paying. The other main point they wanted to hit me with was cash flow - you had to manage it because you never knew when the next sale was coming. You could make $5,000 in a month and nothing the next. John said if I could stay in a job that paid $70-80k then I should do it, and that I'd be lucky to clear $5,000 per month (ie. have in the pocket).
But I countered by asking, if he could turn back time, he would've done the same thing and he said yes, so I guess there's the real answer.
John suggested 'dessert' and I thought he meant ice cream or yoghurt, but he meant whoring, or a massage place. I didn't really want to go because I needed to save money, but managed to use library guy as an excuse. He didn't want to go, so I said I didn't want to leave him by himself.
Even as we walked to a coffee place afterwards, library guy said we could go and he'd wait for us. I said "nah, one for all and all for one", then John joked "yeah, or I could go by myself after fucking you guys off" lol.
So we ended up in this cafe on the main road, and one of the main topics we talked about was whoring. Library guy said he couldn't do it anymore because he had a daughter and was afraid of karma. That really struck me because I had never thought of that. John said he didn't see it as an obstacle and wondered if it would change when his daughter was born. He also said he got mad at his wife for a month for having a girl instead of a boy.
We also talked about luxury cars, and John told us the story of a taxi hitting his BMW and all the trouble he had to go through to get it fixed with AAMI. Also learnt that everything was not as it appears, as he revealed all the financing done to drive these cars, whereas I always thought it was fully paid off.
We called it a night and John suggested we do this once a month, and library guy said he should settle into his new role as a father first, but John didn't seem to be too bothered by that. I drove library guy back home.
Today
Found out Mary's mother passed away during surgery, and immediately sent her a text. I even went to the office and with the help of Genie, signed the card for her and contributed for some flowers. After that I went for a walk with Genie.
I have spent the last two days listening to telephone calls, and am bored out of my mind. I am starting to wonder if they think I am dodgy and limiting the work I am doing? Or maybe Mob is treating me like a temporary and going easy on me? Or maybe there really just isn't that much work to do? Either way, I feel uneasy about being paid so much money for all this.
After work I went to the gym and had another massive session with benchpress, weights and squats on top of the usual bike and abs.
Luna still has not responded. I got curious earlier and looked her up using the new fb feature of graphs. I saw some old photos she was tagged in, including one where she was kissing a girl on the lips.
Could she be...a lesbian?
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