Discovery of awe.
Omg, I just realised I am stuck in a rut, and no one but myself can pull me out.
I was digging out all my worksheets of sec 3 & 4, and I found loads of stuff which I am oblivious to.
So, catching up isnt as easy as I thought.
But it's a need, a must, a paramount task that supersedes all else.
I have to sharpen and refine my blunt sticks, hitherto, into razor-sharp swords to slaughter the wild boar... nono, the O lvls.
It's sucidal to go into war with sticks and stones, like the primitive men who have no inkling of what is a sword.
I will take it that guns do not exist, hence swords are the best I can lay my hands on.
P.s. If I had a gun, I wouldnt be here.
Damn the stomachache which has been bugging me since recess.
It is still hurting, and iono if it's also connected to my rib pain.
I dont think I can do anything extreme until it gets btr.
I cant fucking breathe properly. I cant die at this point of time, can I?
There is always a time to work and also a time to joke, but apparently some guy tried too hard to add humour to his monotonous work by cracking a joke which obviously wasnt funny, and which insulted a customer.
The joke went like this:
Customer: "One coffee, please." Owner: "How to make that? I don't know how to make 'coffee-please'."I think the owner was just trying to test the limits of stupidity, and he certainly got the record.
Our older generation has got to change their attitudes towards anglophiles, and not thinking that speaking english is an act of acting sophisticated.
And trying to inject jokes, while commendable, is just too much for some to take.
There was a discussion on this in the newspaper.
An entry by Francis Chin was quoted as saying:
Oh, lighten upI am not here to judge Mr Tay's tone when he replied but I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
Singaporeans have to lighten up and have some sense of humour. What Mr Tay replied with was quite humourous. Even if Mr Tay sounded impolite, he meant it to be humourous.
I'd rather have funny polite Singlish than stiff upper lip politeness anytime.
I know everyone is entitled to their opinions, but I dont like how he phrased it, which sounded like as though we are always serious. At least we are serious when we get to work, which is much better than trying too hard to joke around, unless your profession is a clown or a comedian. With his second comment, I presume his sense of humour is satirical, that or he missed out a word "not". It needs to understood that not everyone is that forebearing to be able to tolerate that kind of impundence. I certainly cant. I also have this niggling feeling that the owner purposely picked on the senior citizen, perhaps looking like a easy taunting target. I know for sure that the owner would not have done so if it were a gangster with tattoos all over towering over him. The selective treatment is what is making me indignant for the old man. Unless he can show that he treats everyone this way, I will look at him with contempt right in his face.
I would love to see this kind of shop owners cower under the shadow of a gangster, not daring to be a smart aleck. Damn these noobs.
Aura of confidence.
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