Alter Ego

we are planning to sneak to the balloon fest on our own later today -- hopefully we can get rid of Allan and not bump into him there. he was just talking about the very same fest to yifan yesterday. hmm, was that a hint? i dun know.

it's not that i dun like Allan, but i'd prefer to be alone with yifan on weekends. after all, he sees yifan 5 days a week, surely that is enough. i can understand that he must be feeling lonely, without family and friends in the US, but we dun want to be stuck with him every single weekend too. like that 3 of us might as well get married to one another.

the weekend before we went vegas, we had dinner with him. he called again on the vegas weekend, but we were away. ( thank god!) then last weekend, we were out at the photo shoot when he called ( phew) and i get a feeling that he will try his luck again this week. ( please no !!!!)

weekends with him aren't exactly fun-- he's around 40 years old. and he's yifan's manager at work, so we also have to watch what we say around him, and i dun think having the additional stress on precious weekends is worth it. allan's fave activities are: sitting in Starbuck's drinking coffee and chatting ( about work cos what else is there to talk about, and yifan and i dun like coffee !!) and hanging out in restaurants despite finishing our meal more than half an hour ago, with the waiter asking if we want the check every 5 minutes.

truth be told, i think even if he isn't the manager, i also wouldn't really want him out with us so often. it's a tough situation when 3 people go out together.. especially when it's a couple, and an odd-one-out. i mean, how do you go window- shopping in the malls, and chit chat while walking in 3s? all those times that we were out with him, we were always stuck in the restaurants for hours, becos there is simply nowhere else that can accomodate us.

moreover, i think meeting him once a month on weekends is more than sufficient ( and if i may add, already being very kind and sympathetic). yes, he is lonely and bored, and i feel sorry for him, but that doesn't mean we have to keep him company on weekends.

if we manage to shake him off this one time, how are we going to do that the next time? and the following time? now, if he has a girlfriend, things wouldn't be that bad. or if there is someone else too, making 4 of us in total, i wouldn't mind. but three is ALWAYS a crowd.