have you been approached yet?

how would you react to a stranger who suddenly comes up to you?

would you smile warmly, and engage in a conversation?

or would you become all wary, and think 'what does this person want?'

once, i had a pair of strangers, who said they were from malaysia (KL), asking Farty where he bought his bag from. i guess i belong to the 'get wary' group and i clammed up. we gave the info asap and then left.

they were really friendly though, but i thought it was weird how they started the conversation. anyway, we didn't think much about it, and when they sms-ed us (yeah the short conversation went all the way to 'oh let's be friends and exchange handphone numbers'. which i didn't really like.), i deleted the msg without much thought given to them...

until yesterday.

i was on the way home, taking the train when these two women came aboard. suddenly one of them said to this lady sitting near me, 'wow your necklace is so pretty! my friend would like to know where u got it from...?'

being polite, the girl replied, smiled, and took out a book to escape from the conversation. it was utterly useless.

the lady continued the conversation and said, 'wah, you're reading this? what are you doing now?' and i just felt that her questions were rather intrusive, but being very polite and patient, the girl responded.

one thing led to another, and the 2 women sat down next to her. however, only one was very chatty; the other just listened on to the conversation.

i couldn't help but eavesdrop because the woman was talking so loudly and it was really quite irritating. that one woman was really being a tad over friendly.

apparently they both were from sarawak, and having a holiday i think? at first they were just talking about singapore, then suddenly the woman asked, 'so what do you do on saturdays?'

my gosh! why is she asking questions like that? i don't know about you, but that seemed really weird to me.

that was when i started thinking, 'she probably struck up conversation with a motive.'

i was right.

she asked what the girl does on her saturdays, and whether she goes to XXXX (a place in singapore - i won't say where because it'll be too obvious).

that woman beat around the bush... then she finally said, 'do you go to church?' sheesh, she was trying to invite her to church!

wah lao eh. i had a very sick feeling in my stomach.

i am christian, but what the woman did just made me feel repulsed, i guess? i don't know how to describe my reaction, but i just didn't like it.

if somebody did that to invite me to church, i'll probably think 'my goodness, so she was so friendly with an ulterior motive!' i'll also defnitely not want to go to that church.

i know, because it happened to me before i knew God, and at that time i was just as repulsed as yesterday.

argh, why do they have to do this???