One night in Hilton...
Spent yesterday fixing up the brief for the hearing on Wednesday. I got annoyed at how Wendy kept updating it by adding stuff to it, and there were like five or six versions of the table of contents because of it. But then I reminded myself that if I ever became a barista, I would have to put up with this sort of thing. That helped sooth my annoyance as I patiently verified each part of the brief. What made it worse was that I had already prepared a time line which referenced each event to parts of the brief, so that needed updating as well.
At lunch I went to the MRT. I had seen on their daily hearing list that there was a "Lee" listed for refusal of bridging visa. There was a slight chance that that could be Jin, and I guess I was just curious. However, it was listed at 2pm and when I went it was like 1:20pm, during their lunch time break, so didn't see anyone or anything really.
I then went to the Korean supermarket on the other end of town to get that spicy sausage broth to eat with sushi later that night. Then I went to the Asian supermarket to get some drinks and snacks, and then got some sushi for that night and also for lunch.
At 5pm I left the office to check in at the hotel. The room was pretty fucking awesome. On the 35th floor, it was a spacious room containing a large bed, a mini lounge area, two toilets, a shower and a spa. All this for $649 per night. It made me realise what money could buy, and how stupid I was to throw it all away on gambling.
I returned to the office to get more work done, and later on Matt the Canadian texted me saying he found the pool table place I had told him about. Seeing that I wouldn't see Lina until 3am anyway, I figured it would be better to hang out with him during the night than to test the temptation of the casino. So I replied saying I was up for dinner if he was still going to be in the city later on, and he said yes.
So I did a bit more work before packing up and moving my stuff to the hotel. Again amazed at the room. I got changed and went to the gym. Some people saw me dressed in my bball gear probably wondered how the hell I got onto the executive level, but oh well.
The gym was ok, one strange thing though was as soon as I got onto the bike, the lady on the next bike struck up a conversation with me. I was polite and just made a bit of banter but for the most part kept to myself playing mahjong. She kept coughing and I wondered if she was trying to strike up another conversation. She did, and I realised that was probably her motive. I think she was the same lady who talked to me at the same spot a while ago. When I finished, I just said "have a nice work out" and left, and she said "you too", which I reckon she probably thought was a bit awkward.
I started doing my chin ups again, and could only manage two full sets before only getting up to five on my third set. Such fail.
I then met up with Matt the Canadian, who happened to be at the Hungry Jack's across the road. He was sipping a frozen drink and we chatted a bit before I said I'd take him to a Chinese restaurant. We checked it out before I said we could come back to it after showing him the Friday night market stalls. We ended up eating enough there to not feel hungry anymore, and then I showed him the KGV courts. We then walked back to the main part of the city where we had a Chat Thai drink which he says is very popular in Canada. He wanted to play pool or go check out the casino, but I wasn't really up for either. I told him I didn't want to take someone to the casino if they had never been as it could be a bad influence, and although I stand by that, I wonder if I was being too serious.
I got quiet towards the end, mainly because I was a bit tired, and I was also thinking about the rest of the night, and he probably took it as me not wanting to hang out, so we parted and I headed back to the hotel.
I had earlier texted Lina saying I'd just hang around the city until she finished work which I thought would be around 3am, but she replied saying she would finish maybe at around 5 or 6am. I got a bit annoyed at this, because she knew I had booked the hotel, and I also wondered if this was her way of trying to get me to see her as a customer. This theory dominated my mind for the remainder of the night.
I went to sleep in the hotel room, before being woken up at 12:30am by a message from her, asking me where I was. I said I was at the hotel and asked if she had finished. She said no and asked if I had eaten. We messaged back and forth a bit before I finally stopped replying. I was now tempted to go to the casino or call a girl for an outcall. I started browsing the "who's nearby" in WeChat and realised I was only doing this because I felt lonely and abandoned by the person I liked. I thought that this was probably the same for a lot of other men. I thought maybe if their women gave them enough love and attention, they would stray a lot less.
I managed to resist both and went back to sleep, before being woken up again by a message from her asking if I was asleep and saying she would finish at 5am. I was still wondering if this was just a ploy to get me to see her as a customer. Maybe she was trying to emphasis how late it would be, and so it would be a waste of time for her to even come see me, so that was her out for cancelling later on. Or maybe she wanted me to go see her like last time and be her "last" customer and then we could go to the hotel together.
I wondered about the blurred lines between a prostitute and a client when they start communicating outside of work. For me, I concluded that what really blurred the line was when she paid for the breakfast the other day. To me, that was a pretty good indication that this was outside the client relationship. Add to that the holding hands and kissing on the street.
Thoughts of the casino again crossed my mind, and I may well have given in had it not been for the fact that net bank was down for maintenance until 7:30am.
Down for maintenance! God bless you!!
At 5am she texted me saying she was going now, and so I waited a bit longer before she called and I went down. She was already waiting at the lifts and got in. We went up and she apologised for being late, saying she was going to finish at 3am but her friend had finished work early. She said she had introduced her friend to the agency but the agency didn't like the friend because she wasn't friendly and her English wasn't good. So as her friend left early, she had to "cover up" for those other hours.
Before meeting her I was going to send her a photo of the suite, as it was so fucking amazing, but I thought she had probably been here before and I didn't want to make myself seem like a bogan who was too easily impressed. However, when she saw the suite she made an impressed "whoa" sound as well.
We sat down on the couch, and I she could eat, have a spa or sleep. She said she wanted to eat first, then spa, then sleep. So we started eating the sushi, but she didn't want the broth as soup. She also didn't seem to take too many sips of the drinks I bought.
We talked as we ate, and somehow we got talking about how fat we had gotten, and I said it was because a couple of weeks ago I was studying in the library and eating all day. She asked when my exam results would come out, and said we should celebrate whether I pass or fail.
She asked me how much the room was and I said not to worry. She started guessing, with her highest guess being $400, and I just said not to worry about it.
After eating she said she was tired and we would have the spa the next day. She showered and we slept. Although I had slept on and off, I still managed to drift off to sleep, although I woke up per my usual time and tossed and turned from then on. I would try to snuggle with her but she was too sleepy. I figured I wouldn't push it, as she really did only have about four or five hours sleep at that point. Can't wake someone up just for sex.
I got out of bed a few times to use the bathroom, check out the room, and play on my phone. I ended up laying back in bed, reading on my phone about casinos cheating in roulette. What woke her up was her phone, which was plugged in and charging on the other side of the room where the work station was. She made no attempt to answer it, and it actually rung for so long I started wondering if it was an alarm instead of a ring tone.
The phone rang a second time a bit later and she got up to answer it. She told me she had forgotten about having lunch with her friend at noon. It was now 11:40am. She knew this wasn't satisfactory. I was pissed, and just said "it's ok" and turned to face the window. She knew I was pissed. She apologised to me, went to brush her teeth and came back with the tooth brush in her mouth to make sure I was alright. She said I was angry and I said I wasn't, even though I was, and I was pouting.
I knew the potential this could lead to, so I didn't want to get too angry. But seriously, for fuck's sakes, I had paid $670 for this room from 3pm to 1pm, she gets here at 6am and is now going to leave at 11:40am!!! What the fuck did I pay for???
We both got dressed, and she said something about wanting me to go to lunch with her as well. I wasn't sure if I heard correctly so didn't assume that's what she meant. I wasn't sure what to say, I didn't want to be too pissed off, yet I didn't want to be seen as a door mat either, so I just said "call me when you want to go to Tosung", and she said "no, I will call you every day, even if we don't go to Tosung".
Yeah right.
She then said we could go to Tosung tonight as she wasn't working. When we went down to check out, I was still angry, and she knew it. She even said it, saying something about me paying for one night and all we did was sleep.
When the receptionist gave me the invoice to sign, Lina stepped forward to have a look and saw the price tag. She then made a sound indicating she felt bad about it and said something about not wasting my money.
We walked out and I was starting to accept the whole thing a bit better. She apologised again and I said I can go home and come back for dinner, but she wanted me to join her and her friends for lunch. I asked if her friends could speak English, as I didn't want to sit amongst a bunch of Korean girls who couldn't speak English. She said it would be her friend and her friend's husband, who could both speak English.
We went to this restaurant that was hidden away in an alley. Apparently it was new. I saw a couple sitting down who seemed to greet us as we approached. The girl had this look on her face as she saw me, as if to say "so this is Lina's new boyfriend". Or maybe it was just my imagination.
The guy introduced himself as Eric and shook my hand. The girl didn't really introduce herself. We sat down, and saw that they had began eating already. Guess Lina wasn't lying.
It felt kinda surreal for a while sitting there, as this seemed like a parallel universe to the whole Suri/Ash thing. Like, was this just the same thing all over again? Really? I thought about blackmailing the guy months down the track, and realised he looked like someone I didn't really want to mess with. He had that "tough guy" look.
I found out he works at Westpac, and the girl is actually his wife, and they had to open their cosmetic shop the next day. The guy and I didn't talk much, I asked him if he played any sports, he said no, I said I played basketball, and he said he used to play that every day but now has no time.
The girls spoke a lot to each other, and Lina and I ordered some food. The girl said she was the oldest at the table, and asked me to call her "Nuna". Not sure if that was her name, or if it was Korean term for the oldest person in a group.
When it came time for paying, every one got up before I did and I gave $50 to Lina to tell her not to let them pay for us. But when I got to the counter, Lina said it was too late and gave me back my $50.
Mental note: Jin would've KEPT your $50.
There was talk about coffee so I said I would get coffee. We went to this coffee shop that was next to their store, and I paid for the drinks. There was even less conversation between Eric and I this time as we sat diagonally across each other. The girls kept talking as Lina flicked through a Korean magazine. There was this one article about a Korean girl committing suicide as she felt humiliated on a reality tv show, and I said I read about that as well.
I flipped through the magazine and later on Lina asked me to go back to the horoscopes page. I said I was the year of the dog, and I asked what year she was to get an indication of her age. She began to point at something like the dragon, before she realised it would reveal her age and refrained, then putting the magazine away.
Lina told me Nuna had said there was an apartment for rent across the road - the one where I had paid to see her before - for $600 per week, with two bedrooms. She was thinking about it, asked me if I thought it was cheap. I said it was, that she could rent one out so rent would only be $300 per week. I was thinking if I moved in then it could be $150 per week.
After coffee we walked behind Nuna and Eric, and Lina again asked me about the apartment.
Don't say what you're thinking. Don't say what you're thinking.
"Together?"
You're a fucking idiot.
She said "really?" before we reached Nuna's store, where I said bye to all of them before leaving. I caught the bus home and was just glad to get away for a bit so I could change and have a shower.
At lunch I went to the MRT. I had seen on their daily hearing list that there was a "Lee" listed for refusal of bridging visa. There was a slight chance that that could be Jin, and I guess I was just curious. However, it was listed at 2pm and when I went it was like 1:20pm, during their lunch time break, so didn't see anyone or anything really.
I then went to the Korean supermarket on the other end of town to get that spicy sausage broth to eat with sushi later that night. Then I went to the Asian supermarket to get some drinks and snacks, and then got some sushi for that night and also for lunch.
At 5pm I left the office to check in at the hotel. The room was pretty fucking awesome. On the 35th floor, it was a spacious room containing a large bed, a mini lounge area, two toilets, a shower and a spa. All this for $649 per night. It made me realise what money could buy, and how stupid I was to throw it all away on gambling.
I returned to the office to get more work done, and later on Matt the Canadian texted me saying he found the pool table place I had told him about. Seeing that I wouldn't see Lina until 3am anyway, I figured it would be better to hang out with him during the night than to test the temptation of the casino. So I replied saying I was up for dinner if he was still going to be in the city later on, and he said yes.
So I did a bit more work before packing up and moving my stuff to the hotel. Again amazed at the room. I got changed and went to the gym. Some people saw me dressed in my bball gear probably wondered how the hell I got onto the executive level, but oh well.
The gym was ok, one strange thing though was as soon as I got onto the bike, the lady on the next bike struck up a conversation with me. I was polite and just made a bit of banter but for the most part kept to myself playing mahjong. She kept coughing and I wondered if she was trying to strike up another conversation. She did, and I realised that was probably her motive. I think she was the same lady who talked to me at the same spot a while ago. When I finished, I just said "have a nice work out" and left, and she said "you too", which I reckon she probably thought was a bit awkward.
I started doing my chin ups again, and could only manage two full sets before only getting up to five on my third set. Such fail.
I then met up with Matt the Canadian, who happened to be at the Hungry Jack's across the road. He was sipping a frozen drink and we chatted a bit before I said I'd take him to a Chinese restaurant. We checked it out before I said we could come back to it after showing him the Friday night market stalls. We ended up eating enough there to not feel hungry anymore, and then I showed him the KGV courts. We then walked back to the main part of the city where we had a Chat Thai drink which he says is very popular in Canada. He wanted to play pool or go check out the casino, but I wasn't really up for either. I told him I didn't want to take someone to the casino if they had never been as it could be a bad influence, and although I stand by that, I wonder if I was being too serious.
I got quiet towards the end, mainly because I was a bit tired, and I was also thinking about the rest of the night, and he probably took it as me not wanting to hang out, so we parted and I headed back to the hotel.
I had earlier texted Lina saying I'd just hang around the city until she finished work which I thought would be around 3am, but she replied saying she would finish maybe at around 5 or 6am. I got a bit annoyed at this, because she knew I had booked the hotel, and I also wondered if this was her way of trying to get me to see her as a customer. This theory dominated my mind for the remainder of the night.
I went to sleep in the hotel room, before being woken up at 12:30am by a message from her, asking me where I was. I said I was at the hotel and asked if she had finished. She said no and asked if I had eaten. We messaged back and forth a bit before I finally stopped replying. I was now tempted to go to the casino or call a girl for an outcall. I started browsing the "who's nearby" in WeChat and realised I was only doing this because I felt lonely and abandoned by the person I liked. I thought that this was probably the same for a lot of other men. I thought maybe if their women gave them enough love and attention, they would stray a lot less.
I managed to resist both and went back to sleep, before being woken up again by a message from her asking if I was asleep and saying she would finish at 5am. I was still wondering if this was just a ploy to get me to see her as a customer. Maybe she was trying to emphasis how late it would be, and so it would be a waste of time for her to even come see me, so that was her out for cancelling later on. Or maybe she wanted me to go see her like last time and be her "last" customer and then we could go to the hotel together.
I wondered about the blurred lines between a prostitute and a client when they start communicating outside of work. For me, I concluded that what really blurred the line was when she paid for the breakfast the other day. To me, that was a pretty good indication that this was outside the client relationship. Add to that the holding hands and kissing on the street.
Thoughts of the casino again crossed my mind, and I may well have given in had it not been for the fact that net bank was down for maintenance until 7:30am.
Down for maintenance! God bless you!!
At 5am she texted me saying she was going now, and so I waited a bit longer before she called and I went down. She was already waiting at the lifts and got in. We went up and she apologised for being late, saying she was going to finish at 3am but her friend had finished work early. She said she had introduced her friend to the agency but the agency didn't like the friend because she wasn't friendly and her English wasn't good. So as her friend left early, she had to "cover up" for those other hours.
Before meeting her I was going to send her a photo of the suite, as it was so fucking amazing, but I thought she had probably been here before and I didn't want to make myself seem like a bogan who was too easily impressed. However, when she saw the suite she made an impressed "whoa" sound as well.
We sat down on the couch, and I she could eat, have a spa or sleep. She said she wanted to eat first, then spa, then sleep. So we started eating the sushi, but she didn't want the broth as soup. She also didn't seem to take too many sips of the drinks I bought.
We talked as we ate, and somehow we got talking about how fat we had gotten, and I said it was because a couple of weeks ago I was studying in the library and eating all day. She asked when my exam results would come out, and said we should celebrate whether I pass or fail.
She asked me how much the room was and I said not to worry. She started guessing, with her highest guess being $400, and I just said not to worry about it.
After eating she said she was tired and we would have the spa the next day. She showered and we slept. Although I had slept on and off, I still managed to drift off to sleep, although I woke up per my usual time and tossed and turned from then on. I would try to snuggle with her but she was too sleepy. I figured I wouldn't push it, as she really did only have about four or five hours sleep at that point. Can't wake someone up just for sex.
I got out of bed a few times to use the bathroom, check out the room, and play on my phone. I ended up laying back in bed, reading on my phone about casinos cheating in roulette. What woke her up was her phone, which was plugged in and charging on the other side of the room where the work station was. She made no attempt to answer it, and it actually rung for so long I started wondering if it was an alarm instead of a ring tone.
The phone rang a second time a bit later and she got up to answer it. She told me she had forgotten about having lunch with her friend at noon. It was now 11:40am. She knew this wasn't satisfactory. I was pissed, and just said "it's ok" and turned to face the window. She knew I was pissed. She apologised to me, went to brush her teeth and came back with the tooth brush in her mouth to make sure I was alright. She said I was angry and I said I wasn't, even though I was, and I was pouting.
I knew the potential this could lead to, so I didn't want to get too angry. But seriously, for fuck's sakes, I had paid $670 for this room from 3pm to 1pm, she gets here at 6am and is now going to leave at 11:40am!!! What the fuck did I pay for???
We both got dressed, and she said something about wanting me to go to lunch with her as well. I wasn't sure if I heard correctly so didn't assume that's what she meant. I wasn't sure what to say, I didn't want to be too pissed off, yet I didn't want to be seen as a door mat either, so I just said "call me when you want to go to Tosung", and she said "no, I will call you every day, even if we don't go to Tosung".
Yeah right.
She then said we could go to Tosung tonight as she wasn't working. When we went down to check out, I was still angry, and she knew it. She even said it, saying something about me paying for one night and all we did was sleep.
When the receptionist gave me the invoice to sign, Lina stepped forward to have a look and saw the price tag. She then made a sound indicating she felt bad about it and said something about not wasting my money.
We walked out and I was starting to accept the whole thing a bit better. She apologised again and I said I can go home and come back for dinner, but she wanted me to join her and her friends for lunch. I asked if her friends could speak English, as I didn't want to sit amongst a bunch of Korean girls who couldn't speak English. She said it would be her friend and her friend's husband, who could both speak English.
We went to this restaurant that was hidden away in an alley. Apparently it was new. I saw a couple sitting down who seemed to greet us as we approached. The girl had this look on her face as she saw me, as if to say "so this is Lina's new boyfriend". Or maybe it was just my imagination.
The guy introduced himself as Eric and shook my hand. The girl didn't really introduce herself. We sat down, and saw that they had began eating already. Guess Lina wasn't lying.
It felt kinda surreal for a while sitting there, as this seemed like a parallel universe to the whole Suri/Ash thing. Like, was this just the same thing all over again? Really? I thought about blackmailing the guy months down the track, and realised he looked like someone I didn't really want to mess with. He had that "tough guy" look.
I found out he works at Westpac, and the girl is actually his wife, and they had to open their cosmetic shop the next day. The guy and I didn't talk much, I asked him if he played any sports, he said no, I said I played basketball, and he said he used to play that every day but now has no time.
The girls spoke a lot to each other, and Lina and I ordered some food. The girl said she was the oldest at the table, and asked me to call her "Nuna". Not sure if that was her name, or if it was Korean term for the oldest person in a group.
When it came time for paying, every one got up before I did and I gave $50 to Lina to tell her not to let them pay for us. But when I got to the counter, Lina said it was too late and gave me back my $50.
Mental note: Jin would've KEPT your $50.
There was talk about coffee so I said I would get coffee. We went to this coffee shop that was next to their store, and I paid for the drinks. There was even less conversation between Eric and I this time as we sat diagonally across each other. The girls kept talking as Lina flicked through a Korean magazine. There was this one article about a Korean girl committing suicide as she felt humiliated on a reality tv show, and I said I read about that as well.
I flipped through the magazine and later on Lina asked me to go back to the horoscopes page. I said I was the year of the dog, and I asked what year she was to get an indication of her age. She began to point at something like the dragon, before she realised it would reveal her age and refrained, then putting the magazine away.
Lina told me Nuna had said there was an apartment for rent across the road - the one where I had paid to see her before - for $600 per week, with two bedrooms. She was thinking about it, asked me if I thought it was cheap. I said it was, that she could rent one out so rent would only be $300 per week. I was thinking if I moved in then it could be $150 per week.
After coffee we walked behind Nuna and Eric, and Lina again asked me about the apartment.
Don't say what you're thinking. Don't say what you're thinking.
"Together?"
You're a fucking idiot.
She said "really?" before we reached Nuna's store, where I said bye to all of them before leaving. I caught the bus home and was just glad to get away for a bit so I could change and have a shower.
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