IF u guys ever go to NANYANG'S POPULAR BOOKSHOP, please BEWARE

there is this irritating asshole there, who has got horribly bad service. she looks real grumpy, with specs and relatively long frizzy hair, dyed brown with streaks of grey.

dun ever approach her for help or anything. not only is she rude, she also has a tendency to look down on children, or ppl whom she sees as children.

ask me, because I went through it.

im too lazy and too tired to type out all the details of my little encounter with her. but i noe im calling her to scold her tmr. its her fault she's down on luck. i'm not to be trifled with when im not in a good mood. so too bad for her.

her attitude is so bad i just felt like shouting at her there and then in the bookshop, and those of u who noe me KNOW i NVR pick quarrels with ppl, regardless of who they are. i always tolerate. even when im in a bad mood. but she made me feel like screaming at her. so since i was nice enough not to do it in the shop in front of everyone, i shall call her and yell at her over the phone tmr. *scoffs* she has no idea what she's in for. ill ruin her day for her. too bad.

she is the reason why bad service in singapore still exists.

Blogged @ 8:43 PM


hmm...i had these few days free to myself, so i have been giving some stuff some thought. i also had been reading books by jennifer coburn(not a lot, only 3)and since they were always on the topic of men and women, i shall....blog a little abt men and women today.

men and women mostly dun get along because they are so different. different as in, the men are reallie simple and the women are reallie complicated. examples later, but abt the "simple brain" part, i dun mean to insult. i mean it as a fact. men have simple brains. if u look up the web for...pictures of the male brain(not those from scans cos i bet u wouldn be able to interpret the diagrams) you will realise that a HUGE part of the male brain revolves around sex. so u see, with so much of the brain devoted to sex and sex only, there isnt much space left for other aspects of development, say, speech, for example. therefore, there are many men who arent very vocal. they prefer to 1)write, 2)keep stuff to themselves, 3)fight to put their point across. sounds familiar now?

in the book, Reinventing Mona by jennifer coburn, there was a part abt the difference in the way males and females think which i shall use here.

in this part of the book, Mona was rudely jolted up from her dream by a phone call from mike.

"hey, i'm sorrie, dog. i was just having a good dream and u called and woke me up. u cant blame a girl for being cranky after that"

"oh" he digested. "okay"

"okay, like okay, ure over it? or okay like, 'okay whatever? ure whacked but i dun want to get into it'? "

"is there a difference?"Mike asked.

"the difference is that one is like, 'oh okay i can understand where ure coming from and we're fine now' and the other is like, 'i dunno what ure talking abt, but i dun reallie give a damn either, so i'll say okay so we can change the topic and move onto things i actually care abt...'"

so see, this kinda shows the diff between the functions of the male and female brain. its like, when a man says okay, he reallie means okay full stop. with no further meaning or whatsoever. but women normally like to probe. women LIKE detail. they will investigate EVERYTHING down to the smallest nook and cranny of the matter. men, on the other hand, prefer the big picture, and just as long as they get the idea of whats going on, they can pretty much adapt after that and dun care for the details. therefore, lessons learnt? 1)if u want to gossip, go to a female. u'll get the FULL story 2)if ure in a rush to get things done, ask a male. dun ask a female ecause females will irritate u with all the details.

and this is probably why females are more likely to be secretaries than males. if u notice, men like replays. like...during sports events, they love to watch the replays after every goal or smth. read somewhere that this is because the men cant register whats happening fast enough so they need instant replays to jolt their memory. so, most men dun become secretaries because there are no such things as instant replays in real life. bosses dun like repeating themselves.but women happen to be the more meticulous gender. so mostly we get bored by instant replays. and thats why we make great secretaries, cos we can catch everything the first time round.

so mostly men and women dun get along, because while men likes to keep things simple, women likes things detailed. its like my sis and my brother. if i tell my brother NO, he may argue, but if i shout, he will keep silent and walk away. but if i tell my sister NO, no matter how many times and even if i shout, she will still ask me why. and when i tell her the reason, she'll probe and argue until she gets a satisfactory answer. and its also because women want to noe so much that they can become irritating and cause misunderstandings to arise. men, on the other hand, with their simple ways of thinking and handling things can cause ppl to feel that they have a heck-care attitudeand couldn be bothered by whats happening around them.

okay. this post i realised, is very messy. hahaha feel bad abt leaving the topic hanging there in the air, but nvm, its my random thoughts all spilled out in one post. there now u have the original si1 lu4 of mmm. next time i'll blog more abt other stuff. TATA

Blogged @ 10:07 PM


haix

muddie is still away at camp. but she'll be back tmr. according to jb their camp ends tmr. so i'll get to see her!

for one day only though.

haix. so many things have happened and i just want someone to talk to. 24 hours is so far away. i hope she's fine and all. eat well...sleep...nah. she couldn have slept well. so little hours of sleep every night!

u noe, somehow that blithering shithead is always in my mind. just cant get him out of my head. its like, he's always in our lives, meddling with all our affairs. i hate him so much. jlp and i already had everything planned. we'll heck all the way. kill him with our nonchalance and indifference towards his presence. and of course, our little tatics will enhance the WHOLE effect.

reallie feel like slapping the shit out of him and tearing all his *********ted hair off his pathetic scalp.

wth wth wth.

i have a lot of anger in me now. like jlp says, ytd renewed our hate towards him. retribution will befall him soon. oh, just wait. after all, there is justice in this world. i believe the saying, do unto others what u want others to do unto u, was not concocted for fun.

lalala

i dun suppose there is anything else left to say. thats all for today's post. not in the mood for some insightful crap.

Blogged @ 9:28 PM


hmm

u noe i was just thinking, sometimes singapore can be so absurd.

lets talk abt service, the most trivial parts of it, since the biggest problems always arise from small things, from MY point of view

if u go to the supermarkets in singapore often, u will realise that promoters of various foodstuffs in the supermarket are unwilling to offer their products to children. normally, when these promoters see children, they will ignore them. very very seldom will they actually offer these children food samples. and i applaud these small handful who offer food samples to children.

when my friends and i go to supermarkets and walk past these promoters, they'll mostly pretend we werent there, even when we ask abt the food they are promoting, they will just dismiss our queries or answer briefly in a totally slipshod way. but its like, when i go with an adult, ah then things are reallie different. the promoters will coo away in ur face, urging u to try their food samples and to buy their products. this reallie pisses me off. okay, maybe u ppl out there might wonder to urself what this crazy girl is ranting about, but the biggest problems reallie arise from the smallest things. small things, like this. ppl always think that children are poor and...generally penniless, as compared to adults. well yes, i cannot blame them for thinking that way. after all, most of the time, we dun look like we are buying anything. but does that mean we arent entitled to the same treatment that adults get?some adults also walk around without buying anything u noe. and seriously. how do u noe tht we arent rich enough to buy the stuff u are promoting? do u have to force us to take out wads of dollar bills and wave them in ur face like a fan before u are willing to extend the same treatment as adults to us? when that time comes, i wun even bother to look at u crawling back to beg me to buy ur food. humph. and just smth to think abt, what makes u think our parents are not with us? my mum always sends me to walk alone around the supermart to do market survey for her. and i believe she isn the only parent, no?

*u noe, on a sidenote, maybe all parents should send their children out on "market surverys". not for the food, but to actually test the quality of service from these promoters. would be fun, dun u think?

another thing, service should begin at home. If u observe carefully, most of the time, foreigners(in this case, it means tourists) are treated much much better than Singaporeans(general term for ppl who live in singapore. PRs foreigners and singaporeans). As in, besides the fact that foreigners get all the smiles and Singaporeans dun, ppl are also generally more polite and courteous towards foreigners and not Singaporeans. Yes, I noe and I understand why Singaporeans are always treated fairly worse than foreigners. But still, isn’t the government always harping on providing good service to consumers? Aren’t we consumers too? Good service is impt for the growth of the economy of a country. I agree that foreigners play a part in contributing to our economy, but isn’t it true to say that we, the ppl who live in this country contribute much more to the economy? After all, we are here all year round.

U noe the GEMS(it stands for Go the Extra Mile for Service, in case u didn noe) campaign set up in Singapore? Well I definitely hope that kinda treatment extends to us countrymen! I seriously feel that service providers should extend equal treatment to ALL consumers, regardless of whether u are rich, poor, tourist or not. After all, tourists can SEE. Though they will no doubt be superb-ly flattered by the first class treatment they get, they will nonetheless be critical when they see the difference in treatment between tourists and non-tourists. What will they say then?

Besides, how do U noe whether a tourist is a tourist or not? Some tourists may LOOK and SPEAK like Singaporeans, so unless they whip out their identity card or in this case, passports, u wouldn noe, would u? so lets say u meet a tourist like that and make the mistake in thinking he is Singaporean, when he is not. And u extend the cool, indifferent, or maybe even hostile kind of treatment towards serving him. What kind of impression will U, as a service provider leave on him? Or even worse, what kind of impression will Singapore leave on him? U wouldn want to make that mistake, would u? man, wouldn that spell doom for u! worse still…if he is a columnist in a newspaper, or a critic. What would he write? I wouldn want to imagine. SO, to prevent this kind of mistakes from happening, (or happening again, for ppl who might have made the mistake once already) GIVE EVERY SINGLE COMSUMER THE BEST SERVICE THAT U POSSIBLY CAN.

And my, when that day comes, there will only be choruses of praises in the air, and no one will ever criticize service in Singapore again.

Blogged @ 7:37 PM


i have decided

if i dun become a doctor, or a chemist when i grow up, i will be an ambassador against religion and racial discrimination!

i mean it. dun laugh.

i even thought of a name for it. the BROWN RIBBON CAMPAIGN.

why brown? u ask. well...add red, brown, white, black, yellow, or in other words, all the different skin colours of races. and what do u get? black plus white=grey, red plus yellow=orange, therefore by estimation, grey+orange+brown=brown? i'm quite sure of it. so i shall launch the BROWN RIBBON CAMPAIGN, an all out effort against racism and religious discrimination. and when that happens, i hope everyone out there will support my movement. i thank u all in advance.

let me preach.

racial and religious discrimination is commonly seen in our society. daily, we hear of killings going on in other countries, if not our own. news of murder of people from a different race, genocides in rwanda and sudan and europe during the holocaust(there is so much info on the holocaust so just google "holocaust" and read urself) which shocked the world when news of them spread are very real cases of religious and racial discrimination. but the question is, is racial and religious discrimination inevitable? my answer is, NO. it only SEEMS inevitable because we humans made it so. i am a 16 year old girl, and if i can live in harmony with different races, why cant u?

ppl talk abt the fear factor in racial and religious discrimination. it is true, actually. humans are selfish creatures. we constantly fear. in the working world, we fear that our colleagues will out-perform us, we fear that we wun get promoted, we fear that someone else might come along and rob us of our jobs. in school, we fear that someone else might trump us in an exam, leaving us stumped and feeling stupid, we fear that our friends will hate us, so we constantly change ourselves to keep our friends etc. yes. i do not deny that all of us fear. even i do. its human to fear, because humans are selfish, and think only of themselves.

but because humans are he2 qun2 de4 dong4 wu4 (er...groupy animals?!) we dun work alone. thus ppl tend to gather together, in their own "species", or race/religion to fear other races/religions. why does a race fear another? well, imagine this. u and ur ppl have been living in country A for a long time. then alonng comes this group of ppl who are 1)smarter, 2)more efficient than u. they settle in country A and live happily, using the country's resources, but bringing good economical growth to the country. being the country's original inhabitants, u are AFRAID that one day they might take over and run ur country, leading the country. u then feel that its odd to have foreigners leading ur country, and u suddenly feel that u dun want them here anymore, thus u start to HATE them, and want them out. see how fear leads to hate now? but though some hate comes out of fear, some ppl hate just for the sake of hating. just because they dun like ur skin colour, they hate u. just because they dun like the way u speak, they hate u. but think abt it ppl. isnt it totally brainless and stupid to discriminate against skin colour? its not as if u can help being born a certain colour. why cant everyone live in harmony and be friends? we all share a world. i think i'm being emotional but i'll say this. if the above story abt country A and its inhabitants happens, shouldn the inhabitants be happy? foreigners are IMPROVING the economy for their country. they should be grateful to them! not hate them! besides, if country A is pissed that their leaders are foreigners, then make them citizens! set a rule, or a law or smth.

since we all live on this earth, we have to learn how to share. we have to put our selfishness aside and think. is it worth it hating and killing others just because u fear them for selfish reasons? everyone is a daughter or a son of someone else. do u think it is fair to rob someone of their child? how would u feel if someone took ur child away from u?

as for religious discrimination, i feel its a more complicated matter to explain.according to the internet, religious discrimination is "valuing a person or group lower because of their religion, or treating someone differently because of what they do or don't believe". that, i noe, but what i dunno is WHY. i seriously dun understand. issit because of fear too? but i dunno what's there to be afraid of. but i noe most religious people believe that their god is the one true god. well, yes it is true. but cant EVERYONE share a god? god is universal. its like, even though diff religions have diff gods, their teachings are generally alike. 1) god is merciful. 2) god loves his children 3) god will look upon u when u need him 4) do not sin 5) do good, and u will be repaid. do bad, and retribution will befall u 6) in life, coming together is fate 7) we were created by god. of course, there are discrepancies, but i will not discuss them here, because to discuss i'll need to give examples, thus indirectly naming the religion i'm talking abt. but seriously, if every god teaches us to be good, merciful, and loving, why cant we believe in all gods? if u dun want to believe that god is universal, at least make an effort to accept and respect others' gods, and not stubbornly argue that ur god is the true god.

sometimes, religious discrimination becomes so serious that ppl fight or kill one another. well, isnt that ironic? god teaches us to love, care and show mercy to others. He teaches us to forgive all who have done us wrong, and love them in return. but look what the religious followers of god are doing? everytime i read abt killings because of this i get very upset. because i dun understand why. reallie, if U LOVE UR GOD, ABIDE BY HIS TEACHINGS! like what's the meaning of this? i thought religious ppl respect their gods and love their gods. well if u respect god, and is a follower of god, u have to learn from Him and practice what He teaches! how do u think god will feel up there when He sees his people killing others? what makes u think all the gods up there dun wish for everyone to respect every god? i'm sorrie i'm getting very emo here, but i reallie feel damn strongly abt this.

i want everyone to live in harmony, is that so hard? i want to see the whole world holding hands and loving one another, is that so difficult? i want to see everyone making an effort to help others who are in need, and i noe that can be done. there's a chinese saying, ren3 yi1 shi2, feng1 ping2 lang4 jing4. tui4 yi1 bu4, hai3 kuo4 tian1 kong1. tolerance and giving in to others is very very impt. i guess if everyone can do that, there will be less cause for emo ppl like me to rant like this.

Blogged @ 10:40 PM