crazy cool

I absolutely love this photo! It's guaranteed to make you laugh or at the very least put a big smile on your face.

body language

I was shopping at a tenant store of one of our local shopping malls recently and something happened that made me realize that the world is still far from being truly beautiful.. I overheard the following conversation between a sales clerk and a fairly large man. The conversation happened entirely in Malay but for the sake of globalization, I'm gonna translate it here.

Large: Excuse me, do you have this jeans in a size 46?

SalesSkank: Huh? Oh hang on..

At this point, she looks abit turned off and noticably shows her displeasure as she rummages thru the pile of folded jeans.

SalesSkank: Sorry.. We don't have it.

And she says this without any apologies. Heck, I'd even settle for remorse but her face was a blank canvas. And by blank, I mean make-up less and emotion-less. Seriously, bitch needed to put some colour on her face.

Large: Do you know if your other outlets might have the size?

SalesSkank: Actually, I doubt if we carry that size at all. People like you are not our target consumer.

At which point, the blood in my head had reached it's maximum boiling point. First of all, this bitch has no work ethic. Two, she is just plain rude and three, she needed a wake up call. I walked up to the both of them.

"Who the hell do you think you are saying that to him? He's your customer. Didn't your parents teach you manners? Didn't this company give you some sort of training on how to talk to your customers?"

It sounds abit more vicious in Malay - ( Kau ingat kau sape cakap dengan dia macam tu? Dia tu customer kau tau. Mak bapak tak ajar ke cara nak cakap ngan orang? Company ni pun tak ajar kau ke macam nak cakap ngan orang?)

At this point one of SalesSkank's colleagues comes over and tries to pacify the situation. And a few other people had begin looking our way to see what the commotion is about. I told SalesSkank's friend that bitch needs to learn some manners. Then turning to Large I asked him if he was ok. He appeared to be very embarassed and was in shock at what just happened and by the looks of it, I could tell that this guy rarely stood up for himself let again let others stand up for him. But I could not stand by and let morons like SalesSkank speak to other people that way.

Large looked at me and smiled and said thank you. I told him don't worry about it and told him to get himself a big piece of cake to which he laughed and asked me to join him but I was in a hurry so I said goodbye and walked off.

I get pissed off whenever people who are supposed to be in the service industry act like it's beneath them to be nice to people who are not of society's acceptable standards. And truth be told, sometimes I'd turn the other cheek but some situations call for lessons to be taught and morals to be learned ;)

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we are golden

I am convinced of the following:

1) There are some guys who should never ever wear shorts or bermudas or three quarters.

2) There are some people who should never ever smile in photographs.

3) There are some people who should never ever be photographed.

4) There are some people who seriously need to use spell-check or get someone to check their grammar before updating.

5) There are some people who should consider never speaking. Nobody wants to hear broken English.

forever is over

These past few days have been a really emotional rollercoaster ride. I thought life was going all peachy smooth and then WHAM I get hit by buckets of lemons..

A long time ago, I was never a really happy kid. I was content but not happy. Things in life were just there for me to go thru and that was it. In high school, I did not have a nice time at all. I just wanted to get away from it all. I hated it. I hated the school. I hated the philosophy behind the school and I hated most of the people there. But I made good friends. Friends whom I treasure til today. And it is because of this friends that my memories of high school are good memories. Then I entered college and a whole new world was opened up to me. I became part of a gang. An elite group. And life seemed so much more nicer and brighter. But still I wasn't too happy. I never smiled in photos. Actually I don't remember smiling period. But as the years went by, I became different. I grew. And I embraced life and was beginning to like it. I guess you can say I finally found my place in the world and was for once happy. I began laughing more, I began smiling in photos, my personal aura changed for the better and people seemed genuinely interested in becoming my friends.

However lately, it seems all this goodness is in vain cos I keep getting played. I keep getting hurt. So I don't know.. Maybe it's time to put up those walls again. Maybe it's time to stop caring again.

Life is seriously never smooth. It's forever complicated and forever turbulent. But I guess that's life isn't it? Just need to deal and move on..