about a bastard

as the title probably suggests, i am not happy, and this entry will by no means be a nice pleasant one. but i will try my best to keep it vulgarity-free.

one must always strive to help others in need right? yes, so bearing this axiom in mind, when a guy approached me at a train station to get me call to his friend to tell him that he'd arrived, saying that his handphone battery was flat, i thought nothing much about it. he was relatively polite, didn't take my handphone from me, and even asked where a coin-operated phone was. so i dialed. no one picked up, he smiled, said it was all right, and i left to take the train.

big mistake.

it turns out that the number i dialled was his handphone number. very sneaky and cowardly way of getting a girl's number right? he called me a couple of minutes after i left. i thought he was his friend (see he now has split personalities) but it turned out to be him. fine, i told him i wasn't fine with being friends, rofl, seeing that he featured less than an ant in my life, at least i bother to look out for an ant. come to think of it, i didn't look at him when he asked me the question either, i have no idea how he looks like, save for a red shirt or something. he was nice about it, so i thought, case closed right?

big mistake 2.

this evil conniving etc etc bastard called me again a week after, while i was watching a movie. he called multiple times. me being me, i didn't pick up until like end of the show, when i realised i had 3 unknown numbers who tried to call me for a total of about 7 times.

by now you guys will probably realise this guy operates with not one number, but at least two. the third unknown number was withheld. i decided to ignore it, though as things were i was getting annoyed.

he calls again, twice at midnight one day, and on the very same day itself at 5am. i ignore it. the next day he calls at 6am, and being extremely sleepy due to the lack of sleep (i wonder why) i pick up the phone, he asked who's this, i gave him a fake identity and since he sounded really sorry about waking me up, i thought, yes case closed he's never going to call again.

he calls today at 4am. he remembers my fake identity name. i immediately ignore his call, switch my phone to silent and everything, he doesn't call back. i tried to call him a while ago to ask him kindly to please stop calling me, let's see how this works out since he's not answering.

i am so angry by now by the severe lack of sleep and the calls waking my family up that i call singtel customer service to try and get them to block the number for me (belated move, i know). they say they don't have such a service, but they can do a call tracing for me and send him a warning letter. it'd cost, but i didn't mind paying because i want this guy to have punished in some sort of way, to not do it again to any other girl, not just me. they say that to do a nuisance call tracing, however, they need 5 calls a day. well that's nice and dandy isn't it, since he's so shrewd that when he needs to call more than 5 times a day he uses his 3 different numbers. the lady on the other line is really apologetic, she surmises he probably knows about the policy, i ask her about filing a police report, she tells me it's up to the police to decide what to do about it. the lady suggests i change my number, no way.

bah.

so now i'm left bleary eyed typing a blog entry not being able to do much more, really except to hope he's reasonable and will stop calling and delete my number from his phone when i ask him to.

gosh what a bastard.

moral of the story, guys? when you help someone, make sure your phone number is withheld first (you can do this with any phone.) otherwise you might have to pay for it like me.