With the festive season came and went, I guess all of us must have met up with fellow friends over many lunches and dinners. After all the lou sang and what-not, we Chinese would normally share food, using only one set of spoon and fork or chopsticks. Don’t you think it’s rather disgusting?
Over the years, my family sort of had gotten a little more health conscious. It’s not healthy to be using the same spoon to pick up dishes and put them in your mouth, only to stick the spoon back to the dishes. We made it a point putting a serving spoon in all dishes to avoid spreading of germs via saliva and touch.
The same goes to eating with friends. ESPECIALLY eating with friends. At least with family members, we still know their health status as we live together in the same house.
I have a colleague in office who is a Hepatitis B carrier. Not many people knew about this. The thing is whenever she goes out having lunch with other fellow colleagues, she would stick her spoon into someone else’s meals, even ala carte without permission. Of course people find it offensive. First of all, you are not my very, very good friend and I find it’s rather off putting to share my food with you. Secondly, you didn’t even ask for permission and you stick your spoon in my food. Then, last but not least and most tragic of all, you are Hepatitis B carrier and may infect people with your saliva! Then, the colleagues found out about her having Hepatitis B and because of her irresponsibility, nobody wants to have meals with her anymore.
If you have Hepatitis B, I suggest you always use a separate spoon to take dishes and your own personal spoon to put it into your mouth. And for God’s sake, don’t be so tam chiak(hokkien: Greedy) and start sticking your used spoon in everyone else’s meals! Be responsible and do not spread germs to other people who might not have the immunity. All of us should do a yearly check up and blood test for Hepatitis and also for general health.
Not too long ago, we read with disgust that there are bomohs, soothsayers, etc out there to cheat and lie hapless elderly people of their life savings. A few years ago, my relative was one of the victims.
As usual, this distant aunt of mine went to the wet market one unfortunate morning. She was approached by three ladies in the market, telling her that her son is in trouble. If she didn’t do what they say, the son would die. Somehow, this aunt is very well known for being rather shrewd and stingy, we were surprised that she fell victim to their lies. She took the three ladies home and started to ransack her own house for jewelry and cash. Her son – the one that supposed to die, was at home when the mom came back with the ladies. He tried his best to ask what happened but his mom kept pushing him away. It was as if she was possessed. He yelled and screamed and tried to stop his mom but to no avail.
After making away with RM30,000, the three ladies left her house. Then only, the aunt suddenly woke up and realized she has been duped. But it was too late. They went to lodge a police report but as usual lah, what can they do? Not even offering comforting words. The best part is, some 2 weeks later, one of the ladies came back to look for my aunt but this time, the black magic/ voo doo/ santau didn’t work. The stupid woman was almost beaten to death. When they handed her over to the police, the police said, they did not have any evidence to lock her up and let her go! HOW FUCKING STUPID AND IDIOTIC!!!!
Yesterday, I was having dinner with my friends when I was told of some stories of being lied and cheated. A friend’s friend is single and in her 30s. She got to know a Caucasian man via internet and romance was “hot” online. The man promised her everything – the sun, the moon, the stars. He even said, he would come visit her soon. On the day he was supposed to arrive, he went missing in action and unreachable for days. Then, he called to say that he had fallen very ill. To compensate for his absence, he said he had delivered a present to her.
As usual lah, the package got stuck some place and needed money for clearance. If you are talking about RM100, then fine lah. This one is RM20,000!!! What fuck clearance can cost so much money?? Probably the “present” also not worth that much! Against all protests and advices from rational friends, this stupid woman quietly took a loan from the bank to pay for the “clearance”. Yes, you guess it right. The man and the money magically disappeared in thin air. Till today, she is still financing the RM20,000 she gotten from the bank to pay for her stupidity. If you ask me, she memang asked for it! Loh lei jin!
Another story was about a divorcee in her 40s. Same thing happened. The Briton promised to see her but he never turned up. She is all ready to quit her job, pack her bags and move to England. Seriously, if a man is very much in love with you, nothing will stop him from coming to see you! With cheap air tickets nowadays, he can practically fly to see you every month! Nothing can stop him! Oprah said it best – If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behaviour. Allow your intuition (or spirit) to save you from heartache. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that’s not meant to be.
Well, not all men are out there to cheat you. There is this friend who got to know a Briton from the internet. Within three months, the man actually flew to Kuala Lumpur to see her. Knowing that their relationship is still new, he didn’t force her to quit her job to move with him to England. He gave her time to think things over and came to visit her again in Kuala Lumpur six months later. The relationship has been blossoming well. He knew that my friend is afraid of the cold weather, he bought her air tickets to fly to England this coming summer!
Well, if you ask me, how do I know for sure that this man is not after her money? Well, she’s relatively broke every month and lives from one pay check to another, in heavy debts with the credit cards which the man eventually helped her to clear and he even bank in money for her to use every month! And, really.. she’s not even drop dead gorgeous. Hahahahah!!! So bad! I really hope things would turn out to be good for her.
So women! If you feel unsure of your “relationship”, please get advice from your rational friends. Seriously, when you are in love, you would be too blinded by emotions and passion to make any sound decisions. (Sometimes, I could never understand “what passion?” since everything is ONLINE! The only passion you get is probably with your fingers. LOL!).
Please! Listen to your friends! Even if the truth really hurts.
I guess I am one of the lucky few people who don’t need to be on the road for long hours to get to work. If your work place is just 5 minutes away from your house, I tell you, you will never change your job. Haha!
Anyhow, this does not stop me from experiencing blood pressure rising moments on the road when meeting with these people (are they even human??) during one of my rare drives. Seriously, I salute myself (when I was working in the heart of KL) and some of you people who have to brave 1-1.5 hours jam to work every morning. For entertainment sake, I put up some drawings to illustrate how frustrating it is to encounter such morons and idiots on the road.
Don’t you just hate it when a moron hogs your lane when he was supposed to keep to his right in order to get into the lane he wanted? I supposed he’s not lost because there are MANY of such kind trying to cut the Q by going into people’s lane only to get back to their lanes to avoid waiting time.
Don’t you just hate it when a moron hogs the left turning because he cannot wait at the long traffic light and trying to cut into the lane as soon as the light turns green.
Don’t you just hate it when you are driving on the fast lane, then there’s this idiot coming at you from behind at even faster speed?? Like running 180 kmph on a 80 kmph lane??? The best part is all the cars in front of you are also travelling at 80 – 100 kmph only and there are SO MANY CARS on the road. Worse is when you are driving at night and these road bullies modified their headlights which can blind you!?
This happened awhile ago and I wrote about it. I think this is THE ULTIMATE cause of traffic jams in Malaysia. So many KPC on the road!!
Some people just like to hog the fast lane even when they are driving like 50 kmph on a rather clear road. Please lah. If you want to take all the time in the world, please go to the slow lane lah. Better still, don’t drive, please do everyone a favor and buy yourself a bus card. Like that, you can even sleep in the bus! You might cause accidents if some idiot coming at you as fast as running away from the meteorites in 2012!
I can NEVER understand people who drive 40 – 60 kmph on the fast lane.
This happened in my office. Imagine, the company compound is quite large, there are plenty of parking spaces. One would just need to walk a bit further away if one could not get a parking lot nearby office. However, there is this particular moron who always park at the passage way where cars would be passing by. This of course, inevitably caused inconvenience to others. The best part is, this moron would scream at the security guard whenever he asked her not to park there. What a moron, huh?
They say, if you repeat the same mistake twice, then you are stupid. How about if you repeat 10x? Haha! I rest my case.
Well, hope you had a laugh. We all need a little humor every day. What to do? God made jerks, morons and idiots and put them in this world to entertain Himself. Haha.
The weekend has been rather fulfilling. I ended 2009 having dinner in company of very good friends, watching fireworks and drinking wine moderately. Haha! Then, spending the next three days watching Avatar (2x!) in the cinema, shopping, having lunch with friends from Penang, attended my brother’s house warming for the family, etc.
Last night, I was supposed to pack for my Guilin trip this coming Wednesday but Keanu Reeves was on Cinemax! I didn’t manage to watch “The Day the Earth Stood Still” when it was on theater last year so I made it a point to watch it last night. My cousin brother was saying that I was watching this movie because of Keanu Reeves. He was complaining that the movie was a waste of his time. But I was glad I watched the movie. I enjoyed the movie (yes, 50% of it is due to Mr Reeves!). I think the movie has an important message to everyone on earth to start loving our planet. It was almost surreal that, this might happen. An alien from outer space acting as a galaxy environmental police and punish those by death if they do not comply with galaxy laws.
Even Avatar, the movie portrayed human greed which caused detrimental repercussion when humans do not respect the earth. They just take and take, and never give back.
This morning, I read in the papers that, most consumers were caught off guard of no plastic day on Saturdays at major hypermarkets and they actually complained about not given ample notice of the new ruling. Ample notice? Earth is heading towards destruction and you need a memo??
I guess most people are just giving lip service whenever they talk about helping the environment and yet, go shopping without bringing their eco bags. I have started to carry my own shopping bag in my handbag whenever I am out, even if I don’t intend to buy anything coz we will never know. So people, please act, and not talk only. I also carry my own tumbler now and do not buy mineral water.
Here’s hoping that 2010 would be the year that human race takes it seriously to protect and do whatever they can to sustain planet Earth.
I was at Carcosa Seri Negara for English afternoon tea last Saturday. Seriously, if WL didn’t mention this place is going to be closed down for good, I wouldn’t have gotten my lazy ass to get there. The quaint place is tucked away in city centre, surrounded by lush forest, you would feel as if you are going to Fraser’s Hill for a quiet get away.
Cozy ambience
However, when we got there, there is no such thing as a quiet get away. We saw a French flag hanging from the balcony. They were having some sort of a carnival. Silly me for not taking pictures of the camaraderie! They have black faced painted clowns, horses and horsemen!
This is my first time having high tea so I didn’t know what to expect. The funniest part is our friend asked for coffee instead of tea. The waiter playfully told her that, this is called high tea and not high coffee. Haha!
There were many choices of tea. I requested for fruity fusion based tea – raspberry royal. It tasted like Swedish berries from Coffee Bean.
View from outside
The three-tier goodies were filled with sandwiches, biscuits, cheeses, cookies, fruity tarts, cakes etc. We were also given choice of plain or raisin scones. To top up it all up, strawberries with cream were served. *heart*
Three-tier goodies for five!
After the delightful high tea peppered with care free chats and shared jokes, we took a stroll around the area. By then, the French carnival was over. We were in awe with the historical building, admiring pictures depicting auspicious moments like the Tunku Abdul Rahman declaring Merdeka and lamenting that it’s such a waste that this place might probably be closed down for good. I wish there is more to be done to preserve such a heritage mansion.
