Thursday, March 20, 2008
well oh well.. a few days have passed and i have been kept busy.. every since i have quit my job.. been going out a lot lately.. doing things with friends.. teaching tuition.. goin for meetings and stuff like that.. apparently.. while i was doing all these.. there is this disturbing trend amongst us that i think i would like to bring up.. recently.. i was on a board a bus lets name it x at an interchange.. as i board the bus and i sat down.. i saw a few passengers..happily tapping their cards at the exit when they have not got off the bus and just got on board.. now now..some of youmay say this is cost saving and a lot of us are doping it so why bother.. but come to think of it..whatever we do comes with consequences.. lets list down some possible consequnces..
firstly.. the bus company would suffer a hug loss from our may i call it chaeting habits.. this will result in em resorting to find means and measures to recoup these losses.. one of the possible way ould be to increase the fare.. because since e percentage of those cheating would still be smaller than the percentage of those who dont cheat, the only way to get the money back is to "punish" those who do not cheat by incresing the fare so their revenue would increase since the demand for public bus is quite inelastic for some.. si wen revenue increase, they would be able to recoup their losses..
next.. the future generation would not be able to understand the value of integrity.. since their parents or even their family members are allowed to cheat on such small issues of bus fare, these future generation would also follow suit.. They would be a bunch who would not care about being morally upright as their own parents sometimes do cheat (on bus fare) so when the future generation lies and cheats to their parents.. we know where all these started form (its called karma what goes ard comes ard).. talk abt being a gracious society when we dont even practise the basic value.. hmm...isnt it an irony?..well.. but of course.. there are some who may buck the trend therefore i am not entirely blaming the parents.. but what i am pointing out here is the importance for us to set a good example for our future generation.. by doing the basic things.. cox what they are may afterall reflect on us..
yada yada.. some of you may think.. who is this girl and why is she blabbering all these nonsence.. well for once.. i wanna be the girl who cares abt the society and i dont wanna be a self centered person anymore.. so now.. i am making a difference(i hope) by blogging abt my experinece and my tots abt it.. but are you?..
ps..i am still chnaging my writing style so yeah.. but at e momnet i tink i'll stick to this one.. hehe...
Posted by LiL'shorTY at 9:28 AM
Friday, March 14, 2008
alright.. so its been a while since i last blogged.. so many thinngs have been going on (like duh).. well.. these few days the desire to blog has dropped cox being so caught up in this cosmopolitan world, such an activity can take up a lot of time and be viewed as a waste of time.. but no.. i am not gonna discuss abt blogging for now.. for now.. i'll just remenisce wad ever has happened..
well.. recently i got my a level results and e key to my new home.. firstly.. my results is not as fantastic as those u would see in e newspaper(again like duh.. if not u would have already seen me in a newspaper article telling everybody how i did it) but i guess it's decent enough to get me a place in uni..(i hope)..so yar.. i am a bit excited cox now i can actually plan my future and my next move.. for now all e options are still open.. so yar.. wee..(had a deep talk wif e gf abt this e other night and we both agree that its kinda difficult to choose a path cox it is possible that along e way thngs happen which may force u to chnge e direction of e path u re taking,thus forcing u to replan the future).. and i am not really excited to know that my room will be real small(even when i swap wif my bro whom supposedly has e bigger room)aiks,.. looks like i cant really decided on furniture and how to "accesorise" my room.. boo hoo.. aiyaks..getting quite worried abt e house though..
and anyways.. i had e time of my life spending time wif e gf, her cousin,e fren and her god bro in KL.. it was a 2day 1 night affair.. although it was quiet a short trip, it was sweet while it lasted.. we were allowed to roam e streets of kl on our own.. wee.. imagine 5 teenagers, walking ard without parents and trying to keep themselves busy.. our first destination was berjaya times square.. and when u go berjaya times square its usually to enjoy e indoor them park that is in it.. so like any other ppl, we went into the cosmo indoor them park and we had a blast.. e dna mixer bumper car.. and e roller coaster... ahhaa.. though it was a short one, we did get to ride e major attractions.. after spending some time at the them park, we bacame hungry n decided to grab a bite at kenny rogers.. ahha.. delicious food.. and its a luxury for us as e kenny outlets in isngapore are non halal.. u only get it in malaysia..everyone had a great time eating to our hearts content.. (jill's cheeze macaroni was superb though iqa'a spagetti was too tomato-ish)..
and den off we went shopping.. the bigest spender had to be e god bro..we roam e streets of masjid jamek n petaling street.. we only returned to e hotel ard 11 or 12 plus.. we decided to hang ard near e girl's room cox we had bigger room n a whole corridor to ourselves.. we ended up eating macs that night... ahaha.. it was deliverd to us within 45 min..and den.. off to lala land.. ( our plan of staying up late didnt come true cox we were just too tired after walking n playing).. nilai. chocholate factory.. anw.. tshirts galore.. i just miss kl..one day we( i dunno who yet but most likely e same gang wif a few additions here and there) shall go kl and genting.. ahah..
after coming back frm kl.. i had to rush down to downtown east cox my aunt got a challeut.. super fun.. watched klakar rabak sey.. really funny.. wif and without e bloopers, e movie is still nice..hehe..sleep over.. den went to wild wild wet.. ate at e usual place.. aww.. i just love challet.. (but if u dont have activity it would be boring.. it has to come wif activity) and recently jus wen riding wif the gf(chey like real only).. ahahhaa.. not real riding lah.. just that we wnet for our sp after a long time and it was free and easy.. we were making our own way and even explore places where we never go before.. ahahaha.. which is kinda scry but yeah.. it rock lah.. a few rounds of lan changing.. and a few rounds of slope and a few rounds of e brake.. we got tired and now here i am blogging our experience away.. ahaha..
these days life just gets better.. watching movies here and there( i just watched spiderwicked and 10000bc after which it was off to lucky plaza.. my old workplace*thats why i love going to e movies cox i can still get to go back to my old work place..).. going out.. always on e toe.. ahaa.. so many evenst to handle(and i am in e training department of e ndp ambassador exco.. ahahhaa.. and is till cant figure out why..)hok lah.. now its almost 2.. eyes getting droopy.. so sleepy.. so i guess i'llblog again.. when i feel like blogging.. ahaha..
tata
ps.. I MISs MY FRIENDS
Posted by LiL'shorTY at 10:01 AM
Saturday, March 01, 2008
again..
another phase of life.. just ended for me.. well its been a while since i last blogged.. wanna know why?.. ahahha... (*i can hear the yawns and jeers)well.. right after a levels. it was busy finding work for me.. mwa outings reduced and seeing the other two became difficult as each had different things to do.. finally found a job in the retail industry.. started work in an outlet along orchard road.. got a young boss who is an indonesian young man..i'll call him black eye peas..and a colleague who has been working for THE company for quite sometime..(* she's a non local who became local)..and i'll call her jie jie..i had fun working with the two.. i must say they share a bitter sweet / love hate relationship.. sometimes will quarrel but other times will be very nice to each other (get the picture?).. anyways.. i remember those days as lonesome lunch days... but i still enjoyed.. i worked my arse off and because of that i became more healthy... hmm i shant elaborate..attended bike prac in between.. black eye peas helped me a lot by teaching me and guiding me and cleared up whenever i made a mess.. (not literally.. DUH).. like when i did a wrong transaction, he'll be the one to save me frm being scolded or having to face the finance department.. and for that i thank him..jie jie and i became very close but then time separated us as a new guy was to be tranferred to our oulet and i was placed in another not far away frm my current place.. there, i wokrd with mom , guirero e boss, macdonald e ex 2nd in charge(he was asked to handle another shop), tazmanian( another 2nd in chrge, the gay boy (who was tranferred after tazmanian was asked to handle another shop), proficient in malay chinese boy(not being racists just that i dunno wad to name him..sorry).. although i was quite reluctant to enjoy myself at my new work place (cox i hated the way e new boss used to treat black eye peas), days passed and i began to accept reality .. became close to those who were in the new outlets.. shared jokes with each other.. teased each other and we just had fun..i remember the fun times wif the gay boy esp.. like how he would just smile at me.. and how he say to mac that i was his "gf".. how he would call me cute one minute and say that i bring him nightmare the next.. (hahhaa..idiotic right?..but still.. i really miss him)..den he left and a new colleague came.. i'll call her ateh..we got along well..and we had this chemistry.. (she invited me over when she organise her son's bday party.. ahhaa) slowly, me and ateh and proficient in malay chinese boy became close and we shared our secrets.. occasionally, mich darling or arfie love would also drop by to accompany me.. and every fri being the lunch date wif mich.. how i treasure those times.den the twin came along.. she shares similar name with me and she's abt my height just a lil taller lah.. and she stays at bp while me at bb.. wad a coincident right?.. we became real close and soon me, twin and proficient in malay chinese boy started hanging out with each other.. the late night talks and walk.. the scndal.. the funny incidences.. the stupid talks.. the crazy imagination of opening up a biz for us only.. being information counter... soon. it was e end of road for the guy and it was left with me and twin.. twin got transferred to my old place and i would frequently go to her outlet just to see black eye peas and diturb him and also to be with her lah.. mostly to.. u guess lah hor.. ahahha.. bah.. the late night spooky call to her outlet just to piss off black eye peas and saying sorry the next morning (yes, thats how silly we were)and the late luch spent together.. oh.. i am gonna miss all these cox just a few days after the end of road for the proficient in malay chinese guy, it was my end of the road..
now new opportunities awaits me and i am getting excited..but looking back, i am really gonna miss the bitter sweet experience i had with e retail company.. life would never be e same again..
and oh i fogot to mention.. me and twin even had our signals when we are on e road.. ahaha.. just kidding.. but for those who are on the road, look out for girls doing weird signals (when i pass and get my licence)cox it may just be us.. ahaha.. and the two new guy who i dont really get to interact with due to e lack of time..hope u guys would enjoy urself like i did..
anyways... recently i heard abt the case of the talkshow in taiwan that criticized singaporean's english.. well frm wad i heard.. the talkshow was criticizing our use of english base on their shopping experience in singapore.. firstly, let me highlight.. the retail industry is not dominated by locals.. there has been an increasing trend of retail company hiring foregners..and it is less likely that locals would want a job in e retail industry as it is part of e sevice industry which locals dread to go into.. ( a chat with most of my frens confirm this that most of them dun really like to work in retail.. and e no of frns that i have that are doing admin work right after their a levels is a testament that singaporeans generally hate to work in e retail industry)...so it would be unfair if they say that singaporeans cant speak proper english.. besides that it is quite difficult to diffirentiate between a local and a non local who is working in e retail industry.. well i know this real well coz i have been in e retail industry (read above).. and many a times, i have been mistaken as an indonesian, a fillipino or a malaysian.. firstly, i believe that half of e world has a wrong impression of singapore.. when u mention singapore, a foreigner may think of it as a country filled with white ppl wif small eyes and there exist only one race.. ( my vietnam trip taught me this and a conversation with a few customers confirm that they have no idea that singapore has malays and indians)so yar is the opinion fair?..
but still to be fair.. i really cant complain much abt the talkshow..(even if i am quite pissed abt it) coz afterall, we do have room for improvement in terms of our grasp of the english language..(stop it with e singlish already..learn to switch.. between prper english and singlish depending on e circumstance will ya?aahaha) we are human afterall.. human do make mistake sometimes but hopefully not all e time.. therefore i am encouraging all singaporeans to improve their level of competency in the english language and upgrade.. and for this, i applaud the speak good english campaign for without the campaign, i dunno which other country would be mockng our standard of english..
Posted by LiL'shorTY at 7:40 AM