Where Do You Want To Go?

"Let's go to Hong Kong! You can bring me around the good makan places."

I was already rubbing my hands in glee, imagining myself chomping down the famous YungKee roasted goose, and the marvelous dim sum. And cafe valencia in Starbucks!

"Erm, where else you want to go?"

An open-ended question. Boy, could I answer him well enough.

"A lot of places. Santorini for one!"

"Too far. Somewhere regional lar."

"Hong Kong lor. Bangkok is OK too."

"You like Bangkok so much?"

"Cos I can eat a lot of cheap and good Japanese food, and walk around."

"Stock market is not doing so well. Pick somewhere nearer."

I frowned. What a spoilsport, I didn't ask that he paid for my share.

"Bangkok is near enough, " I told him.

"What about Bintan or Batam?"

Er... "And do what there?"

"Relax in the resort. Sleep and rejuvenate yourself."

How would I put in politely: that I think it would be impossible to just "sleep" in the room with him, anything above the 8 hours of REM would be a trial. These are couple places, for godsake.

And since we're at that ambiguous are-we-couple-friend-or-what stage, it's better not to muddy up the water any further.

"I prefer to go walk around, take in the local sights. Unless you want to go Genting or KL?"

"Genting is too far for a drive and the bus journey is too long, KL is too confusing to drive in."

Wait a minute, didn't he offer to let me drive his car to KL a few months back?

"Sigh.. you can't go on leave with me, can you?"

"The problem is, I don't know when I can take off. It's the RFQ I'm working on..."

I pouted for a few hours after that. Why made me go through a list of places when he could not make it in the first place?!

I really wished there was a BIG longkang nearby. Or a really tall building I could kick him off.