On Hiatus!

HELLO HOLIDAY!

Don’t expect any entries in two weeks k?

I’ll try make it up to you when I’m back!

(Making up in terms of blogging to satisfy any hunger you have for my entries.  Don’t be expecting souvenirs, please. I know I mentioned I’ll be shopping up a storm, BUT IT’D BE FOR ME, NOT YOU. HAHAHAHAHA! Ok bye!)

Silence

There was a time when receiving even the most insignificant message from you would have been simply incredible — when it would have told me that, no matter what was happening, I still crossed your mind. Because as we all know, silence is the most brutal statement one can make. Screaming about how much you hated me or telling me I was ugly, well, it would have been tolerable. Hate and love are two sides of the same coin; the true opposite of love is apathy. And if you had screamed, I would have known that regardless of how hard you tried to convey your disdain for me, I still meant enough to you to write a few words, to make your sentiments known. But you remained silent, and so I shut up as well.

~ Timothy

Basic Courtesy

How polite are you?

I don’t brag to be the most polite person, ever, of course.

Who am I kidding right? I scold nabeh cheebye and I point middle finger at people.

I am, however, very particular about the most basic courtesy of all:

The Please. The Thank You. The Sorry.

It IS basic courtesy to use please in a request, say thank you to a compliment, when someone has helped you, or when someone gifts you something, and apologises when you do something wrong.

I cannot fathom how anybody can NOT follow these basic rules of life, thus I get very anal about it when people doesn’t reciprocate or show basic courtesy towards me, or to people around me.

How many of you apologises to a child if you knock into him/her?

I was walking behind a mother and her child yesterday, and the mother was among the horde of people trying to get into the mall from the train station.

The girl was around 3 or 4 years old, and was very short. The mother was looking forward while holding on to her little hand. Because of the girl’s height, and the limited space amongst the crowd, many people who’s passed by the little girl would brush their hands against her head (messing up her neatly tied pony tail, bit by bit), or knock their bags on to her head.

It wasn’t the kind that would cause real pain, but I could tell that the girl was kinda disturbed, because she touches her head everytime someone brushes their hands against her head, and she’ll check back whenever a bag knocks on to her.

All these while, I never saw a single person apologising to her. I’m assuming, because the mother was oblivious to it, thus people conveniently thinks it’s ok to ‘bully’ a child, since she (probably) doesn’t know enough to get offended, or wouldn’t dare to be offended. Afterall, she’s just a child.

This raises another question in me.

If the mother does notice that you have knocked into her child, do you apologise to her, or her child?

I was thinking people would apologise to the mother, because even if the child wouldn’t mind, the mother might mind. But why? Why should you apologise to the mother when it’s the child that you’ve knocked into?

This morning on the way to work, I was seated on the train when a lady in front of me stepped on my foot. My eyes were closed, so she conveniently assumed that she didn’t have to apologise, even though I did move my feet, meaning to say I felt it.

She probably felt that I didn’t mind, since I didn’t bother to open my eyes, thus there was no need to apologise.

Fact is, I didn’t mind that she stepped on my foot. It was the not apologising that pissed me off. It doesn’t matter whether someone minds. You apologise when you are in the wrong. You don’t apologise because people mind that you are in the wrong.

After awhile, she stepped on my foot again, even though my feet weren’t sticking out in the crowded train. This time, I stared at her, but she nonchalantly continued to watch her bloody show on her bloody phone. I then folded my legs so she couldn’t step on my foot anymore.

After awhile, the person next to me got up and she rushed to that seat. While rushing, she knocked herself on my folded leg, and she made the ‘tsk’ sound at me, because my leg was blocking her way to the seat.

Whoa.

Seriously, wtf woman?

Do you know? It won’t kill you to bear some basic courtesy.

Start minding your Ps and Qs today!

THE BLOCK FUNCTION

I just found out that you can block someone on Whatsapp!

I just did, and it was AWESOME.

I wrote that on Twitter and my friend asked if there was such a thing, so I told her that you can block the person only if you don’t that bloke on your phonelist.

Well.

I found out about that because I have never saved that bugger’s (the person I blocked) number to my phone. I didn’t start off thinking he’s irritating. I just felt that we won’t have anything to talk about, and I won’t take the initiative to message him, ever, thus I couldn’t be bothered to keep him in my Contacts.

Then he started to get very annoying, the way he talks, the way he assumes, the way he acts like a smart alec.

The last straw (a nugatory excuse to unfriend someone) was when he called me Cyn.

Ok la, I normally wouldn’t react that bad, but… I already find him bloody annoying, and let’s face it, if you start to dislike someone, whatever shit that person do will piss you off. So there.

I decided to block him after telling him

“Don’t call me Cyn.“

I know I’m being mean, because technically, he didn’t really offend me per se… but but.. I don’t like the way he talks. It irritates me to no end. Thus. Yep.

So anyway!

Remember, you can only block the person if he’s not on your phone list! (Aiya, if you already wanna block him, you wouldn’t care if he’s on your phone list or not right?)

Happy blocking people on Whatsapp! HAHAHAHAHA!

Holiday, here I come!

12 more days to the end of misery here at work! YAY!

I’m feeling the excitement already!

Hello holiday! Hello white Christmas!

HELLO CRAZY SHOPPING LIKE EVERY THING IS FREE!

I’m gonna getcha while I gotcha in sight!