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