The Curse of Thick-Skinned

As many people, or in fact, everybody should know that Felicia Chin has enrolled to NUS as Year 1 this semester. And some of my friends have been asking me if I have met her in school. Well, she is quite good in hiding because I don't really seen her anywhere except for one fateful day. And I have only seen her once throughout the whole semester... But the setting was very funny.

But before I write anything further. I think there is a need to introduce some background about the Business/Computing Canteen in my school first.

The business in that canteen is turning bad. There are 3 stalls closed down so far after my First Year due to bad business. I understand for the chicken rice stall as the food is really bad. The Wanton Noodle stall also closed down due to bad business too. However, the Yong Tau Foo cum Fish Head Bee Hoon stall also closed down, and I don't really know what happened to that stall as I thought the business is still doing quite well.

The Chicken Rice stall is replaced with Korean Cuisine, which is now doing quite well at the start, but the business is turning bad too... But still surviving as I will still patronized at least once every week.

The Yong Tau Foo is replaced with another Yong Tau Foo stall. And I tried it once, and the experience was pretty bad. The staff was actually short-handed and the stall vendors were having dispute right in front of me... The food quality is not really up there either... And so I foresee this stall will not survive that long. And my prediction was right. But the way how the stall closed down was pretty funny.

It was already 8-9 weeks since the school started. Russell and I were having our lunch in the canteen. Halfway through our meal, I heard the Auntie from the Yong Tau Foo stall shouting across the canteen saying in Mandarin: "Remember to help promote my stall!!!"

Guess who was she speaking to? Yes, none other than Felicia Chin. I could see Felicia Chin was like just purely entertain her to make her happy. Well, I think not only she would do that, I bet other artistes would react the same way.

I was like, WHAT THE HELL, the food is so disgusting and yet she was so thick-skinned and asked Felicia Chin to help...

As expected, the stall closed down the following week. It did not even survive the whole semester...

And this is how I met Felicia Chin.