Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Gong Xi Fa ... CNY’s Nearly Over?! Damn...

Oh how time flies. It's evil I swear! CNY is officially over come this Thursday, i.e., tomorrow. Shocking eh? Anyway, updates in my very mundane life...


 

  1. I'm in Brunei at the moment and will be back in KL on the 23rd.
  2. My STUPID MOUSE IS BROKEN AGAIN (I'm so going to raise hell)
  3. I have been eating. ALOT!
  4. I cut my once long hair (was up to the middle of my back, easily) and am now sporting a cute shoulder length cut.
  5. My dad thinks my driving needs a lot of work (daddy dear has been forcing me to drive around the neighbourhood every time he comes home from work)


 

My brother, Desmond, has been back in KL for a couple of days now. He's a Buddy again this year. So! For the ickle firsties that are coming into monash this sem:


 


 


 

WELCOME...


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

... To HELL...


 

Nah... just joking! Or am i?!?!


 

Monday, February 04, 2008

And this little piggy ended up as a shoe...

An interesting thing happened yesterday when I followed Nick to get his "CNY" shoes. He had decided to try on a pair of Adidas Goodyear Street shoes that were brown with suede trimmings. The shoes were driving shoes and Nick has been planning to replace his Puma ones (there's a hole in the side!). The thing about the shoes was that the suede bits were made of pigskin. Saying that, you can imagine how delicately the matter was handled. Literally.


 

We were at the Leisure Mall branch of Royal Sporting House and the employees yesterday were all working very hard to cater to the CNY crowd. The staff on duty yesterday were all Malays. Here's the rather amusing part. Due to the shoe having pigskin bits, they held it like it was coated with poo and carried the plague. Nick and I couldn't help but be amused.


 

When we were paying for the shoes, the girl at the counter had to take the shoes out of the box to scan it. I tried to be nice and told her that the suede was the pigskin leather and the rest was synthetic leather. She in turn asked me, rather rudely, "You macam mana tau?" ("How do you know?"). what would I gain from conning her into touching pigskin? Sheesh!


 

Anyhow, tomorrow, I'll be sitting for my marketing paper. Goodness! I hope I fare well... wish me luck folks!