Gender issues

I just received this e-mailand found it hilarious!

Hi there Mystery Shoppers,

We are looking for FREELANCE or FULLTIME staff to assist us in our DRUM CIRCLE PLAYSHOP and CORPORATE WARGAME events. You MUST be:

a) Male or Female
b) VERY outgoing type, NOT shy and Fun type
c) Very friendly type and can communicate well
d) Able to travel outstation for events
d) If you can play music or instruments, so much the BETTER
e) State whether you can work weekdays/weekends

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Ignorance

Listening to: HowL & J - Perhaps Love (사랑인가요)
via FoxyTunes

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I got really angry listening to my colleague today. She announced that she will be getting a puppy soon. What made me mad was when another colleague asked her who will take care of it when she's at work. Her reply, "Just put it in the cage la." I wanted to tell her off but that wouldn't be such a good thing so early in the day. Why keep a pet if you're just gonna lock it up in the cage most of the day? As much as you'd like it to be your companion, you will have to be one to it too, not let it be your prisoner!

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Ridiculous number

It's not a good idea to put your mobile phone in your handbag, and wedge the bag between yourself and a chair. I did that and ended up calling a ridiculous number: *****ppp***pppppp*p*ppp*ppp***pppp*ppppp*pppp9990990000*9*p009p**ppp9p68p

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Just my luck...

Listening to: 이정식 - I Know (Saxophone Inst)
via FoxyTunes

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...to find something and not be able to get it. The company I'm working in was running a contest on the website and the prize for the weekend was a RM50 Jusco voucher. As an employee of the company, I'm not allowed to participate.

I was just showing my sister some images on the website and I happened to chance upon a winning "ticket"!

I now want to scream because I can't join and neither can my immediate family members.

 

*sigh* There goes 50 bucks down the drain. The contest just ended 30 minutes ago. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I am Rojak

Listening to: Steven Curtis Chapman - Cinderella
via FoxyTunes

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Just yesterday, during dinner, my cousin's daughter asked me what rojak is (she was referring to the food). My brother answered her with "Y-O-U". True she was, with her parents & grandparents being of different races. This brought me to realise that I too was of "mixed blood", although when people asked me if I was pure Chinese, I'd always say yes (because both my parents are classified as Chinese).

A few days ago, my family and I went to a relative's house for a CNY lunch. I had always thought that she was my mother's (first) cousin. Only when I got there and saw a few pictures did her brother tell me that my mother's grandmother and their grandmother were sisters, making them my mother's second cousins. I also found out that my great grandmother's mother was the Siamese gunslinger, who is so famously known in our family. From the picture I saw in the house, my great grandmother & great grandaunt were wearing kebaya & sarong, the traditional Baba Nyonya clothing. My mum said that they were Baba Nyonya's, which meant that their father was from a Baba Nyonya family. This is my mother's father's side of the family.

My mother's mother was from a Baba Nyonya family. I always liked listening to my mother, aunts & uncles when they told us stories of when they were young, when my grandparents were still around, when my grandmother & her sisters would play mahjong and scold those around them in Malay/Hokkien when they lost in the game.

I would have loved to meet my grandparents but unfortunately there's no way of doing that.

My father's side is very simple. My ancestors from his side of the family are purely Chinese from China.

So, the mixed blood that I have in my veins are those of Chinese, Baba Nyonya & Siamese.

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The worth of hardwork

Listening to: 911 - New Groove Generation
via FoxyTunes

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It's almost 2 a.m. and I've just finished part of the work I brought back home to do during the long weekend. But that's less than half of what I wanted to accomplish during the holidays. Just as I'm about to finish, I wonder if doing this is worth it. Is it worth it to be absorbed in my work and ignore everything else? Is it worth it to try to be so hardworking to the point that my loved ones are disappointed (and sometimes angry) at me? And most of the time, it doesn't look like anyone's gonna appreciate it. Like Andrew told us, "Why want to be so hardworking? Got employee of the year award meh?" True, there's no award nor consolation for working so hard. But considering that there's so much to do, even without ad-hoc tasks popping up, I don't see how it's possible to finish anything. And it doesn't help that my computer & I are both slow. Until I manage to clear the mess on my table, I cannot stop doing whatever I am doing now, although I won't be able to bring that accomplishment to the grave.

On the other hand, I also wonder why some people tend to want a job so badly and when they do get a not-that-bad one, they go all out to show their dissatisfaction. Is it in the nature of people to always want more than what they already have?

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End of the year blues

Listening to: Gary Farr - You Are Too Beautiful
via SKY.fm (Solo Piano)

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Just a few days ago, Jessica, my colleague was talking to me about how fast the year is coming to an end, i.e. we were getting older. Some of us fear the ageing process. In her case it was because she's afraid her relatives will start badgering her about when she'll tie the knot. I remember my cousin going through that (even when she didn't have a better half back then). The pressure by relatives when one reaches the marrying age.

In my case, I don't have that fear. I mean, I do fear getting older, but for some other reason. I don't think it necessary to be married. I'm fine with being a spinster (or some people like to say old maid). I get to do what I want without having to worry about another person or that person worrying about me.

Anyways, my fear of getting older is that I can't live up to the standards set for the people at that particular age. Allow me to elaborate. As a kid, in kindergarten, we are excused for doing most things, because we are too young to know the difference of right and wrong, and this is the time when we learn new things. Moving on to the schooling age (primary / secondary), we know most of the rights and wrongs but we are considered not matured enough to do certain stuff. Fair enough. Then comes the age between being a teen and an adult. Although considered matured, we can still act crazy. Then comes the age of late twenties and thirties. We'll probably be considered to have known much more than most of the young'uns, the age where we'll have to teach more than be taught, the age where we must be able to make decisions. Then comes the forties and above. The age where we're considered to have gone through all the "asam garam kehidupan".

For me, I'll probably be stuck having the mentality of the-age-between-being-a-teen-and-an-adult. I may grow older by the year but I can never grow up. That's what worries me.

This also reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip I read recently:

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