April 6, 2010

The Most Sensitive Malaysian Couple I ever Seen - Part 1

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They lived by their hiding place, a ground floor room beside a hall which has converted into a room where the owner now lived. The house is a three storey house, 2 rooms on 3rd floor, 3 rooms on 2nd floor and 3 rooms on ground floor.

I was renting the 3rd floor early April 2009 till October 2009 I was moved to 2nd floor when I first realised their existence on the ground floor. I start to hear noises that coherent with my movement and my action. I puzzled because I didn't really notice anything nor hear anything while I was living on 3rd floor. I guess I'm not so sensitive and get irritated easily kindda person. I was totally ignorant for the noise they made in reflect they hear my every movement downstairs. I puzzled...why is that so?

Why on earth would anyone care about the noise emitted from 2nd or 3rd floor? And I found out the actual reason why. After doing much lazying around for over a week on the computer in my room, I somehow got to understand and track back their every movement. They are following me. And every sound or movement I made, they are doing it back. As I start to get a clearer picture, they are sensitive but in what area?

The Couple Hide Out

The sound of footsteps, talking on phone, running water, something spill to the floor; in fact every slight movement you make they can hear. They can even hear you talking upstairs and going into the toilet bathing. They know your every movement in the house, where you are and what you doing.

They are very curious to find out what you doing all the time...it's 24/7 keeping track of your movement, action and position. What they do is nothing but staying in their room all the time doing all these. They do not watch television in their room, nor do anything useful that is what I found out. They are just staying in their room and lazying around, I would like to point out one factor the cause of sensitivity in human lies in being too lazy.

Therefore, there will always be 'someone' following you when you step into the house. You feel that this unknown connection is trying to reach out to you but do not want to communicate face-to-face. Just want to lure you in your movements, things you do when you preoccupied your mind with house chores. You will feel that this unknown connection is challenging you to connect with it while you are doing your house chore or doing something, there's a plug that tries to pull you away from doing your thing so you can understand it and stop everything you're supposed to do.

What's more surprising, you want to focus on your thing but sink deeper into it and can't focus anymore. Your mind wants to do something, but that it tries to pull you away and the message it trying to tell you is, they exist and want attention. Want to be noticed and to be pampered according to its mood.

You are just there to sleep, bath, and do your thing but this couple was trying to halt you into doing your things. All because of sensitive, could not switch off its plug but choose to switch it on and follow you everywhere you go.

It did not comprehend your existence so it tries to aggitate you but it failed cause of my response that was throwing a cold shoulder and ignoring completely. The sound got louder and you hear things being thrown to the floor, door being slammed several times and murmuring words inside the room. Then, when you can't understand all the more because you weren't that sensitive, it tries to get your attention by doing things to alert you without confronting you upfront. That is the biggest problem I think we all wouldn’t want such thing to befall upon us.

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April 4, 2010

Is this a Mockery from Singapore on the English Standards of other nations?

I saw this post on Stomp Singapore and i thought this is the most ridiculous and corniest things I had ever seen.

Duck Egg in China.

Quoted from Stomp:
The abuse of the world's most widely-spoken language of public administration, English, in some countries is a primary factor in marring their international repute, says STOMPer Zen.

Worse, this abuse makes these countries laughing stocks as they are errors which are not only humorous, but ridiculous.

So, Zen hopes Singapore would not descend to this low level. How can investors and tourists take a country seriously when it can't even the most international language English right?

As a frequent traveler, he sees such abuse in countries like South Korea and Japan.

The author seems to jeer at non English speaking communities and thought that English is everything to this world.

Our Complain reporters hit the busy streets of Orchard Road and let’s see what people have to say?

Complain reporter: "What is your reaction if Stomp Singapore post an article that is trying to educate fellow Singaporeans about the standard of English by including some elements of mockery on other nations?"

And here are the responses so far;

Mr Oh Xiang G

Mr J Anime

Mr Sumi Momo

Here are some verbal responses:
16 years old Ah Beng Tan says: "I dunno lah, don't ask me leh, my father come from Taiwan, my Mother come from Hong Kong and my friend all call me Bengster Tan but irony i dunno how to speak simple Canto or Minan Hokkien. Singapore's school say only talking Guai Lo... I fail my Ang Mo, now i end up all cannot speak, even more jialat. (worst)"

47 years old Politics Ah Kau says: "I strongly agreed that we should constantly upgrade ourselves and try to master English tapi (but) we should not be too Kiasu (paranoid) about it. My father from Shanghai is a CEO of Jin Jialat Water Pte. Ltd. and my mother is the GM of Obasan Technology Sdn. Bhd. They are not native English speaking people and their success is not owned because of English, now I am the director of both enterprise and I never pass my GCE 'O' level English."

30 years old Vietnamese’s expat Trung says: "Japan and Korea have very deep influence in the world in terms of culture and contributions and they have good inventions and products and their manual are all written in their native languages. They feel so proud about it. For example, who never heard of Sony, Samsung, LG, Toshiba, Mitsubishi or Toyota. How many nations know of the Singapore brand Enzer? You mean because English so important until these creative products cannot survive without English?"

55 years old 4D, Magnum, Toto and Dua Chai striker Ah Koon says: "Now a day, young people in the Singapura don't know how to speak Malayu only talking English because this is what the school teaches by default and we call our selves part of South East Asia or ASEAN surrounded by 4 Malay countries? How to Kao Puway (associate) with people? Later they Jia (Bully) you ah. Then never mind, even the own native languages also cannot talk... Isn't that we need to feel more ashamed rather than Japanese or Korean?"

King of Complain says:
"So please i know you have many thing to Kao Bei (Complain) tell me what is your Kao Bei and give me your best Kao bei in the below Kao Bei section.

Oh yah, you can catch the original Kao Bei from Stomp at [here]

For foreigners who can't understand Singapore's or Malaysia's Lingo in the above posting please drop a Kao Bei as well. You know you like to Kao Bei."

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March 22, 2010

I want to Complain about your Oranges

Fruit vendor employee (Ng Liap Nee) told us that he met a very angry and unreasonable Chinese customer (Lim Zhou Kong), demanding refund of two foul oranges that he recently bought from Tan.

Stress over two Oranges.

Mr. Tan had told us that he sold the oranges in a box of 50 to Mr. Lim. After two days of purchase, Mr. Lim returned with his wife and a red plastic bag containing some oranges. He claimed that these oranges were bought from Tan.

At first, Lim told Tan that, he want a refund for some damaged oranges that he bought from Tan.

Tan ask Lim to be specified on the numbers of damaged oranges. Lim replied Tan that 2 of them were damaged upon purchase.

Tan told Lim that he is sorry that he is unable to refund or exchange the damaged oranges with Lim.

Tan told us that: "As you can see, the oranges comes in boxes of 50 oranges each and I don't sell individual orange, therefore I can't exchange the whole box of orange for the 2 damaged oranges that Lim complain about."

Tan told Lim that it was only 2 foul oranges out of the 50 oranges and he is very sorry that he can't do anything.

Lim immediately became so furious and Tan quote us a sentence that Lim said to him in English: "So 2 orange spoil never mind, you mean? You eat lah, the two spoil orange you eat lah, now you eat in front of me. I want you to eat the spoil orange in front of me then you can tell me never mind."

Tan remained silenced while Lim continued to spell his authorities: "I know who you are working for and I am very good friend of your director. I will make sure you learn what customer service is all about and you won't be in this line anymore."

The furious Lim then fumble off while still grumbling from his mouth to his wife, Tan quote us what he had heard when Lim fumbled off

"Can you believe this, I can't change the orange, and I am the customer you know. What kind of customer service is this?"

Tan further tell us that when this incident happens, it was still at the peak hour and there are still a lot of surrounding traffics and customers. Who really is the issue or problem, tell me what you think?

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Little Girl's Hand is Very Itchy

Ms. Chia Swee Ren, a full time general employee working in NTUC Fair Price of Singapore (Super mart Similar to Wal-Mart or Tesco) complained to us about a 70 years old defensive Granny and her little hero granddaughter.

While Granny was shopping in NTUC, her mischievous 4 years old granddaughter moved around the mart and pull out electric plugs like a hero!

Ms. Chia who was the main promoter for the desert corner had turned panicked when she found out that the ice creams inside the ice cream fridge were melting. She realized that the switch has being tampered with so she set foot to find out the culprit.

Ms. Chia had caught the granddaughter red handed while she (granddaughter) was busy unplugging the fridge containing yogurts. Chia hold the little girl's hand away and give a very light smack on the little girl's palm.

Don't mess with Singapore Granny.

Ms. Chia gives the girl a stern look and tells her that it is wrong to do this. It was at this moment that granny appears; granny saw what Chia had done and started the big scene.

Granny demanded an apology from Ms. Chia and she wanted to see Chia's manager as well. Granny create a Hollywood scene and many onlookers stop by and "look see look see". Granny claimed in front of the public that Ms. Chia had bullied and hit her granddaughter hard without any reason.

Ms. Chia was very embarrassed by the scene and she tried explaining to granny that her granddaughter has been tampering with the electrical wirings. Chia also tried to explain that this is a very dangerous act and she also didn't hit her granddaughter. What she did was simply stopping what the girl is doing.

Despite what Ms. Chia was actually doing. The public seems to believe what granny is saying and Ms. Chia had to back off.

Granny then grabs her granddaughter's hand and went off.

Ms Chia told us that: “The ice creams are almost in a liquid state, I don't even intend to call the authorities, all I want is just to bring the message across to the girl and her granny that it is wrong to tampered with electrical wirings in a public supermarket."

How come some customer like that one?

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Singaporean Love to Stare at People and get Angry

Mr. Chao Ji Wai a retail supervisor in a local electronic department store complains to us that he had unknowingly became a victim of a starring incident. Mr. Chao just went for a toilet break. He was going for the hand washing basin after his business. What he didn't realize is that he is in the middle of a raging war between a middle age bald Chinese man and a young Bangladesh in his mid-twenties.

Mr. Chao started to realize that he is actually the buffer border between the warmongers when he looked at himself from the mirror. He was standing exactly in between two people that had been starring at each other for a long time.

Singapore Old and Bald Chinese Bad Ass

The Chinese guy started to pull Mr. Chao over by the arm in an aggressive manner. The Chinese man told Chao: "You look, you look, at the sick pathetic Bangladesh, why he look me? Look my age, I am a Singaporean and I can retire anytime with loads of pension and money. Look at that f*cking Bangladesh, how much can he earn per year? I pitiful and pathetic third world country worker. He low status, so no look at me. I no same, I can look at him as I like."

When Chao was about to turn away, the Chinese man started to prompt Chao further: "Am I right? Young man, am I not right? You tell me, i want you tell me."

Mr. Chao didn't know how to response so he just pretended to look away while keep washing his hand.

The bald Chinese man went off angrily swearing and cursing the young Bangladesh man and the young Bangladesh starts to tell Mr. Chao what had happen: "I was simply starring blankly at the mirror just now, while waiting for the washing basin, the Chinese man turn and stare at me as if he wanted to kill me. I didn't know what really happen and I was thinking, is there anything wrong? So I just look back at him blankly and this was the time you came out and stand in between us."

Mr. Chao told us that in a prime and premier country like Singapore, he felt that he never expects a Singaporean will behave like this. Is Mr. Chao wrong to assume the attitudes of a Singaporean?

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