Sunday, November 27, 2005

Not much updates cause I'm busy with lectures(sleeping of course), tutorials(getting answers from some other people) and practicals(disaster, think Hurricane Katrina) in school. Somebody tell me how to stay awake? 3 weeks of lectures, none registered. At this rate I'm really going to get all Ds. Again.

Posted by melvin at 12:59 AM

Saturday, November 19, 2005

Kelvin got married today(my cousin, not the Kelvin Tang). The wedding was a fine one, as far as weddings go. Congrats man, and I'll look forward to your first ang bao during Lunar New Year.

Posted by melvin at 11:56 PM

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Hectic past past few days, from preparing to return to the dreaded mass of concrete and bricks, to standing/shouting/selling at the Singapore Expo Taste Asia Pacific @ Singapore exhibition and I am pooped. Not literally, but tired. Try standing the whole day, that'll get you sore but there are things worse than that. It's the people(read: certain caliber of aunties) that get on your nerves. Take a few classic examples translated from chinese, the traditional medium of communication for aunties other than Hokkien and Cantonese and whatnot.

Me: Miss, want to try our fruit candy?
(We have to address them like this. It's not a matter of choice but a matter if they suddenly turn off because they don't face up to reality. And they think you're being cheeky.)

Auntie 1: What? Free one?

Me: Yes. It's low sugar and-

Auntie 1:*Takes a handful and walks off in a matter of seconds*

Okay. Samples are, as the name suggests, to try and sample, no grouses there. But can at least have the decency to take a few and not a freaking handfull. Why take so much? Just because it's free? Free doesn't automatically give one the right to snatch as much as one can hold and walk off.

Speaking of free, a certian mentality is present in them as they scour the site for sales and FREE gifts. Personally, I've got nothing against free gifts. Really, actually I quite enjoy it when I get free gifts(with some substantial value of course). With that said, let's take a look at the next example then.

Me: So that's one packet of Guiling Gao(Something made from tonics brewed in a turtle's shell and then crushed into powder before being made into gelly. Sounds disgusting but that's the way I think it's made)?

Auntie 2: Buy this got give what?

Me: Oh, this is very cheap already, no free items.(Price is like SGD$2.00+)

Auntie 2: WHAT? No free gift? How come!

The thing is dirt cheap and you still want a free gift? What is the company going to earn? Or what am I going to earn, to say the least. Another thing is asking if everything else can be given with the item bought.

Auntie 3: *Picks up packet of cookies* What's this? Buy get free?

Me: No no. That one need to buy one.

or this

Auntie 4: Eh, I buy 2 leh. Can cheaper?

Me: This 1 very cheap liao. Already discounted you see.

Auntie 4: HOW CAN LIKE THAT! I BUY 2 LEH!

People buy 5 also didn't ask for a discount and you just buy 2 and you complain about having no discount? Where's you manners! Oh I forgot, Aunties. Should have known. Anything that is in packets and lying on the table automatically means free gifts? What kind of logic is that? Is our kiasu-kiasee, everything must have/everything must top image coming from this type of people? Figures the attitude was brought over from the Great Depression. Haha. Super kiasu aunties. Imagine the next generation of Super kiasu aunties(meaning my generation), would we turn out the same way and have our kids sniggering at our behaviour?

I wouldn't want to.








繁华如三千东流水 我只取一瓢爱了解只恋你化身的蝶

Posted by melvin at 6:26 PM

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Jay 周杰伦 - 黑色毛衣
********************

一件黑色毛衣
两个人的回忆
雨过之后更难忘记
忘记我还爱你

你不用在意
流泪也只想刚好合意
我早已经待在谷底

我知道不能再留住你
也知道不能没有孤寂
感激你让我拥有缺点的美丽

看着那白色的蜻蜓
在空中忘了前进
还能不能重新编织
脑海中起毛球的记忆
再说我爱你

可能雨也不会停
黑色毛衣
藏在那里
就让回忆永远停在那里

Posted by melvin at 9:43 PM

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Well, we've come to the end of the holidays. Before we wrap up, I'd like to review all the fun stuff that was done during this period of time.

*thinks for a moment*

Not really a lot of things, although a word of advice/caution:

  1. Work from respectable, reputable companies may turn out shitty.
  2. Please take fliers from people who are obviously temporary staff(been there done that).
  3. When you take a job that requires you to do something horrible/bad/physically hurting(eg: removing a thousand plus staplers), retribution will come and bite you in the ass in your next job(eg: stapling thousands of papers).
  4. But it seems justifiable by the pay.

So that's about it. School starts tomorrow. What's new right?

Loneliness: I've never really left you.

Me: Fuck off.

Posted by melvin at 8:51 PM