The two pieces of fried chicken from Popeyes, plus some coleslaw, corn and fries, made up my first meal for the day. It was a happy start to our weekend mahjong marathon.

Yep, another ten hours of mahjong there because I’m on leave again.

Yep, I have 21 days of annual leave and 30 days of unpaid leave for the financial year ending 31 March.

So while we were playing, Jan happened to log on to Facebook and saw that Justin and Irvin were having ice cream. I wasted no time in starting a group chat on Whatsapp.

To my utmost astonishment, they appeared minutes after!

I was joking there. Really. If any one of them were to ask me to do something like that, I would either show them a finger or reply coldly, “Which part of Cruz Teng looks like a delivery man to you?”

I was speechless.

Thanks both.

***

And in case you were wondering, I was left with five miserable chips at the end of the night. Tragic.

⋯⋯很熱心。

⋯⋯很無禮。

⋯⋯很無聊。

This, is a historical photograph. In more ways anyone (outside the industry) can ever imagine.

Dasmond and Chongqing came to my 21st birthday party right after Singapore Hit Awards 2000. I knew them since I was in my teens so it was only appropriate that they were among the hundred-odd guests to watch me transform into an adult.

Many memories flooded back the evening I flipped through the dusty albums containing those 3R and 4R images.

Things were much simpler then.

And I realised later with a heavier sigh, that these emotions only hit you when you’re not that young anymore.

不管在哪裡，聽眾都是一樣的。

剛看了「康熙來了 」之 ‘走出廣播電台的DJ們’ ，台灣北、中、南不同地區的DJ上節目。十個人那麼多，無法深入去聊甚麼，但我發現很多地方的聽眾都有共同點。

其中一位提到，她在空中說自己餓了、病了，馬上就會有聽眾送吃的、補的，而且都只留在櫃台，然後默默離開。那位DJ認為這很溫馨。我倒覺得有點可怕。要是有人下毒，你死了變厲鬼，也不知道要找誰。至少也要留個名字吧？哈哈哈！不過，這樣的下毒事件不曾在我們身上發生啦。

有幾次，我剛好在空中說想吃些甚麼，然後那樣東西就很神奇地出現。我不知道其他DJ怎麼處理，可我不常在空中道謝，因為這會給人產生一種錯誤的印象，像是我在鼓勵大家送東西來電台。No, no, no，這不太好。

從這個節目中感受到，不管在哪裡，聽眾都是一樣的。聽廣播成為一種習慣，那個非親非故，成天只會說話的人，莫名其妙成為了自己生活的一部分。他／她想吃雞腿？關我屁事啊？！不會自己去買啊？！可是，不知為何，還是會千里迢迢送來一隻，甚至兩隻，香噴噴、油膩膩的雞腿。

說到這裡，我重複一遍：請不要買東西給我。拜託拜託。我們情誼藏心底，不要破費，ok?

新加坡夜晚的廣播天空 容得下丁志勇嗎？

這幾天放假，我在家裡看書、聽廣播－聽的是國外的音樂頻道。我突然很想很想主持晚上的節目。

我感覺晚上的節目可以真正地拉近人與人之間的距離，晚上的寧靜可以讓人更仔細地去聽歌曲裡頭的故事。白天的偽裝，到了晚上終於可以卸下；所有的委屈，到了晚上終於獲得釋放。

十多歲的時候，主持過週末晚上的節目，也經常代振榮的班。我甚至還有自己的代班開場。那個時候連續接了三、四個小時的live call in，有些帶子還保留著，但我沒有勇氣再拿出來聽。一個乳臭未乾的小孩聊的話題能有多精彩啊？！

轉為全職之後，在「收聽率第二高的傍晚黃金時段」呆過一年，也主持了半年的「弦歌寄意」，其餘七年半都在「收聽率最高的早晨時段」。我沒有機會做相對低調，從來不是用來拼收聽率的深夜節目。但我覺得我比十多歲的時候多了些智慧與歷練，應該能更好地和晚上的聽眾交流，然後做沒有辦法在早班做的東西：一些更有質感的音樂節目、更有層次的名人訪談。

可能嗎？再說吧⋯⋯

I didn’t have any engagements for the weekend, and I’m on leave from Monday to Wednesday. That’s FIVE days away from the microphones. It’s not that I desperately need any rest or something. I just have to clear my leave balance before the end of the financial year.

SATURDAY | MAHJONG MARATHON

Wisdom comes with age. We’ve finally decided not to do overnight mahjong because a lack of sleep is detrimental to health and complexion. Our 11 hour mahjong began at 12pm on Saturday. T. fed us well. I could taste the shrimp, lap cheong and luncheon meat in every bite.

I proclaimed on Twitter that I was the 自摸天王 for the day. There was this 清一色平糊 and this 自摸kar long一台 when people were doing splendid combinations. The exhilaration and luck! Oh, and I won $180 at the end of the night.

SUNDAY | MOVIE MARATHON

Simple planning required. Look at the duration of each movie, buffer in an estimated 15-20minutes of ad time, and you should be able to shuffle between cinema halls at a comfortable pace.

MONDAY | SNOOZE MARATHON

Got out of bed at 2pm. Can this get any better?