Saturday, September 5, 2009
Things that annoy me...

Hello!

Happy September everybody!

It's the last weekend before I start school, last twenty days till I sit for my basic theory test (for driving if y'all don't know). It's also one of those weekends that I feel inclined to stay home because of a large (very red!) zit sitting right smack in the middle of my face, on my nose. Right now from the side it looks like I've got two bumps on my face. The tip of my nose and the tip of the evil pimple. My brother said I looked like Rudolph. But I'm going to take that as a compliment. I choose to believe that he was trying to say I looked cute.

I've got two days left to sit around; after which I will be immersed back into the whole school, study thing. In the meantime, y'all are in luck! I'm in the mood for entertaining. Fun. Joy. Laughter. Hooray!

So I've been a little more irritated these few days (month?), and I think I've finally figured out why. I was going about my chores this morning and I looked at the rolls of toilet paper in the bathroom. It suddenly struck me that I really disliked the current brand of toilet paper the family was using. It broke easily, was thin, looked really crappy and cheap. The kind of thing my mother buys when she is in the whole nevermind-as-long-as-it-works-and-is-cheap-who-cares moments. This is why I have to constantly remind her, if I go shopping with her, to do quality control.

Besides toilet paper, I was also thinking of what other things annoyed me, or have been annoying me. Bear with me. In no particular order;

1) Cheap, low quality toilet paper (already explained)

2) People who turn off the air-con in my room whenever they like (my parents and brother when they think that it is time that I wake up, when it is not time!)

3) My computer's speech recognition software not responding to my voice (only since yesterday)

4) Norton's software help and support (they are slow in responding)

5) Call centres with foreign staff or are based overseas (am I suppose to understand their Indian accent? Not that I have anything against their race. I just think that companies should be more considerate and provide us with locals whom we can actually communicate with. The things people do just to save money.)

6) The concierge of that hotel in Austria. (how vould I know vad he's saying? von bedsheet? von room? vad are you saying? The guy implied that I didn't know how to speak English! Slow service too. Vait vait I'm busy. Come to Singapore and I'll give you von lesson on how to speak ze proper English.)

7) Staff in restaurants who are foreigners and can't speak fluent English (they don't know that I don't know how to speak fluent Chinese. We end up going "Huh?".)

8) People who try to kiss me. Sorry let me re-phrase that. People who try to kiss me and I'm trying to back away; forgot there was a metal cabinet behind and end up banging my head against it. (oh the pain! Oh the realisation that I don't know that person very well and that the person still managed to kiss me. Twice! Oh my modesty! I've been outraged!)

9) Birds outside my window. (I like animals. Birds are fine. But but! They leave their poop and feathers around everywhere! They should see my Mom for a lesson or two on personal hygiene and social responsibility. It is not cool to leave one's defecation everywhere! It's like a poop-and-run.)


Well that's all I can think of right now. Actually I was thinking of making a video on this topic. But, I'll see how the response is and then, decide if I should start video blogging. Reading text is not as personal as watching a video.

So anyway, just in case y'all are interested. I've got six more rolls of crappy toilet paper here. If any kind soul wants to help me finish them up. Come over; we'll have a toilet roll party. Alternatively, I could always encourage my family members to use the toilet more. "It is good to clear your bowels and pee as much as possible Dad!" Of course, he already knows that. If going to the bathroom was like Pokemon, he would be a level 100 pooping-machine with straight intestines.

Ciao!