10/02/2015 Evening

A moment I wish i had captured on video.

I had written in my very 1st post about some moments being not easy or downright impossible to capture on film/video, and I just had one of those moments yesterday.

Nevertheless, while it is still fresh in my memory, I'd better pen it down, less this very valuable piece of memory fades, or worse, forgotten.

So I took bus 700 back home, which instead of dropping me along Petir road, would drop me off at Pending road, next to the community club. I would then make my up up and (jaywalk) cross Petir Road, which I did.

All the while I was trying to keep a lookout for the boy and his Ah Ma. 1/2 way through, at the road divider, waiting for traffic to clear, I caught them about 200 meters away, just in front of the counselling centre, working their way up the ramp. As usual nowadays, En En is the one pushing his own stroller, up the ramp, and they were exactly 1/2 way through, at the bend.

The seem to have spotted me too. Ah ma was asking En to look at my direction, and I waved. En could not ascertain if it was me. At this point, I could have taken out my ipad/ iphone and started recording. However, as much as I wanted to, I am mindful that I am still on a road divider, and it would be very unwise to be holding a recording device, trying to capture, AND at the same time cross the road while looking out for traffic.

Thus I could only commit to memory (and words) the following scene (at about 100 plus meters away):

So he paused and looked intently in my direction. Then he confirmed it was me and became very excited, pointing in my direction and from my viewpoint bobbing up and down (and making shouts of exclamation).

Then he turned and began running down the ramp at top speed. However, he was grabbed and stopped by Ah Ma, who probably told him he was forgetting something. So he turned back, grabbed his stroller with both hands firmly at what could be termed as handlebars, turned it back facing down slope and started pushing and running down the ramp as fast as his little legs could carry him. Ah ma, was of course concerned that he would fall and tried to hang on to the stroller and slow him down.