Friday, January 29, 2010

Food Fight

Had a fight with the girl working at the bakery store this morning.

Just finished with my banking for this month and was kinda hungry, so decided to drop by the bakery next to the bank. Bought the chicken ham sandwich and saw the cream puff that was in the chiller and told the girl at the counter that i wanted the 'cream puff'. she told me to take it myself, which i did. when i handed over the tray to pay, she looked at the 'cream puff' and said 'oo..ni bukan cream puff, ni butter cream. tu cream puff..!' pointing at the custard puff on the shelf above. which was stupid considering the fact that

1. the cream puff she was pointing at was not a cream puff, it stated there clearly 'custard puff'.
2. butter cream is not a pastry. nor a type of bread. butter cream is something you scoop up with a spoon, so clearly she's stupid.
3. i dont know the names of the products on display cos i'm not paid to work in a bakery and memorize all 6 items that you probably have.

whatever.

then she looked down at the item in my tray (cream puff/butter cream whatever it is) and sighed. she poked the cream with her bare fingers and mumbled something about it 'tak keras lagi' and walked of to find a box. when she returned, i told her:

you pegang roti i tadi dengan tangan you eh??
ha? mane ade?
i nampak you pegang tadi depan muka i. you cakap tak keras lagi
eh takdelah..mane ade kak
saya nampak! awak cucuk cream dia. awak cakap tak keras lagi!!
yang mane satu?
yang ni la - i pointed at the one she contaminated with her fingers.
by this time, her colleagues were all looking up to see what the deal was.

haa takpelah. akak amikla yang lain.
i kept quiet and ignored her while watching he pack the rest of my stuff
pergila amik yang lain!
takpayah. saya taknak.
ler..taknak pulak ke?
i looked at her, looked away and ignored her
saya ni bukan ape kak... saya pegang tadi tu nak tengok cream die lembik ke tidak.
then her colleague chipped in
lain kali cucuk la pakai thong.

she angrily picked up the item and dumped it in the garbage bin - with as much force as she could (how much force la sangat takat roti tu. bunyi pun takde..)

i mean, like wth?

are you gonna dip your fingers inside my bowl of noodles 'just to see if they're warm enough?'

i hope you work there till the cows come home. save other places from your stupidity.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Least Stressful Jobs

Low stress
Rank Job title Best Jobs rank % who say their job
is low stress
1 Education/Training Consultant 35 60.0%
2 Physical Therapist 7
59.5%
3 College Professor 3 59.2%
4 Software Developer 12 59.0%
5 Technical Writer 28 56.4%
6 Telecommunications Network Engineer 30 55.6%
7 Speech-Language Pathologist 27 53.0%
8 Software Architect N.A. 51.6%
9 Occupational Therapist 14 50.0%
10 Civil Engineer N.A. 49.1%


From the November 2009 issue

Source: CNNMoney.com/PayScale.com survey of more than 35,000 workers

Friday, January 22, 2010

Ditched

D and I had dinner at PappaRich last night. And then i witnessed something. Someone in front of our very eyes got ditched on a blind date. Very sad. What an asshole that guy was.

It started with me first reading a magazine while waiting for the food to arrive, then D takes out his magazine and starts reading too. My food came first and naturally, being famished i dug in. I looked straight ahead and saw this couple sitting down. An almost good-looking guy and a plus sized girl. The guy was on his phone, totally ignoring the girl. I continued my meal.

Few minutes later the guy was still on the phone. Girl looked kinda annoyed and started stabbing at her phone. I continued eating. Then three people started walking into the shop and started pointing to the guy and started laughing. The girl didn't notice as her back was to the entrance. I heard their conversation and among the words were 'blind date'. I found this really amusing and told D about my observation. D suddenly got interested and started watching them from afar too.

After a while, the guy ended his phone call got up and walked away. Few minutes later, one of his friends from the table behind us, went up to the girl, sat down and started talking to her. the girls was clearly and visibly upset. D remarked that the guy was probably covering for his friend who had left and ditched the girl.

Anyways, about ten minutes later, the guy came back, his friend went back to his seat and he started ordering the menu. All this without even looking at the girl. He totally, totally ignored her. Evil! They both order and when the food arrived - surprise, surprise, everything was packed to-go. Dude quickly got up paid (i saw the girl take out money, probably paying for her half of the meal) and dropped by his friend's table.

The bad thing was, with his blind date, he totally ignored her, didn't talk to her, didn't even as much talked to her but when her went to the other table..he was happily chatting away with his friends and laughing with them. The girl just stood there uncomfortably.

D felt so sorry for the girl. D told me,

'If it was me, i would've just gotten it over and done with. Just be friends.'
'I knowwww...i mean where's the harm in that? are all of your friends drop dead gorgeous and beautiful?'
'no, of course not'
'so, what the hell is wrong with being nice and being friends with that girl?? ugh..unless you were silly enough in the first place to all romantic-ish with someone you've never met!'

I've learnt my lesson. Mostly through others. Don't mess around with people .Especially when you don't know the person. It's a tiny tiny little town, this place. And in the era of Facebook and all that, you really don't wanna mess with anyone. You never know which circles people travel in, whom their parents are, whom their siblings are and worse still, if they really are whom they say they are.

I've did blind dates decades ago. But they all turn out cute. Thank God. (i had a battalion of friends with me though for extra measures)

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

ssshhhhhhh..!

am inside a great big hall invigilating an exam for 266 students. Note to self: wear comfy shoes next time. I love looking at students and their sense of style. Exactly like the ones portrayed in the teen flicks. The gorgeous 'uns will flock together in their designer garbs and bmw keys on their tables. The junkie rockstars - skinny, skinnier jeans and hair in the face. The demure tudung girls with snug jean- innocent yet alluring and the usual middle easterners with exposed chest. okay, am gonna go to the loo now. Later.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

New Year

Never to late to wish everyone a happy new year. And like i said on my facebook, this year is gonna be awesome cos I'm gonna make it awesome. Hopefully less sleepless nights, less drama and less negativity!

Lacking updates, so sue me already. :)

What i've been up to so far;

1. went to watch the kl dra.gons beat sing.apore slin.gers last weekend. Loved the game. Didn't know i had it in me. Now i only wish wish wish that i had enough $$ to go South Africa for the World Cup. Wouldn't that be awesome. Once, just once in this lifetime i wanna see the world cup - LIVE. - anyways we had VIP tix and had access to the lounge and good seats and stuff, though we moved from the VIP seats to the front rows where we had a really clear view of the cheerleaders' wobbly bits.

2. my cousin and her gorgeous wedding. attending by the PM & wife, Raja Nazrin Shah & his wife. And sheila majid performed at the wedding! wonderful. :) it was on the day of the AJL finals where i had 5 tix but couldn't make up our minds which one to go and finally decided on the wedding instead. D saw KJ at the wedding, then i spent the remainder of the night scrambling to find him to add to my photos of 'me & KJ' collection but he left early. Darn it. Yes, i am infatuated by KJ and yes everyone smirks when i say that :p

3. shoe shopping! the usual. started the year with three pairs. 2 C&K and 1 absolutely favorite gorgeous MNG heels. They're on display in my living room cos i think that they're too nice to be locked up in the shoe cabinet. Lol!

4. starting something new - deserves a whole new post all together. happier and less headaches.

5. D bought the xbox! Spent hours at LowYatt deliberating the plus and minuses of xbox vs ps3 and xbox won. So he sits and plays all night while i do my wedding dashing on my netbook. Would love to try xboxing, if only they had much much interesting games instead of those killing spree or mad racing. Time management games would be awesome.

6. Movies- Didja hear about the Morgans? (we loved it too bits despite Sister02 telling me it was boring as hell), Sherlock (saw it for the first time and we both left 20 mins into the movie cos we waited for the midnite show for too long, then saw it again the next day), Avatar (not my thing).

New resolution would be to update more often - Status: Failed.