My friend made a very interesting point with regards to the posting on the rude shop assistant, that the guy have some serious identity crisis, he thinks he is Yoda, or Yoda he thinks he is.
Lol...hilarious...I had to post this right?
LOL
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Chinese doesn't = bad english
I had the rudest encounter with one Marks and Spencer's shop assistant the day before. As usual, I went town to get some tights to prepare myself for the bitter cold winter that's approaching. I was on my mp3 player as I was making my payment for the stuff in my basket and I could have completed the buying transaction without saying a single word had it not been for the rude shop assistant's rude and presumptuous statement.
I couldn't quite understand at first the problem the shop assistant was having when he was laughing up his sleeves as I presented my basket of item, I thought to myself, maybe I am just being sensitive and he might just be uncomfortable with handling women's tights and then when he opened his mouth and said the following to me, I clobbered him at least 100 times at the back of my head:-
SA: "You must be not able to speak english very well?"
Liv: "Of course I can, what are you talking about?"
SA: "Where you are from? China?"
Liv: "No, I'm from Singapore"
SA: "Yeah? and english you can speak?"
Liv: "No I can't, I am speaking some ancient tongue now. Anyway thanks"
I didn't even utter or murmur any word before he opened his big fat mouth. And believe it or not, this guy's not even a Briton, he's just some random guy from some random country who speaks with a randomly weird accent and his english, sucks (as highlighted).
Ok fine, I get the point, generally people think Chinese can't speak good english but that is not true, maybe 100 years ago, I would agree with you but not now, not anymore, more and more Chinese people are learning english and they are sometimes not very good with the language because everyone at home speaks mandarin and I think there is nothing wrong with that, I would be very worried if all Chinese can't speak their own language but only english.
Also what's with that conspicuous laugh and that senseless statement of his? Is he trying to imply Chinese people are bad with english? Is being bad with english (or so he assumed) a shameful matter? If that is the case, I too have a right to disregard him for his bad english, don't I? Also does this too means that I can then laugh at him for not being able to speak mandarin or hokkien or even teochew? Languages makes different racial groups unique in their own ways and so what even if english is commonly spoken, does that give anybody who is fluent in english or who thinks they are fluent in it a right to disparage others? Absolutely not.
Such blatant display of discrimination is just unacceptable, chinese does not equal bad english, even though there are chinese who speaks bad english, they don't represent all and for your information not all caucasians speak good english, white trashes don't speak proper english, a proportion of spanish, italians and germans don't speak good english too, why don't discriminate these groups of people too? Languages does not give anyone a right to disparage or disregard anybody in particular and people should all know that and accept people who speaks a different language with an open mind so as to promote prosperity and harmony in the society and what respect should anyone accord one who mocks at others' inability to speak a certain language and what does that really tell you about that person other than he/she being a shallow and narrow-minded ass?
Last but not least, I shall end with the following:
"Those who know, teach."
I had the rudest encounter with one Marks and Spencer's shop assistant the day before. As usual, I went town to get some tights to prepare myself for the bitter cold winter that's approaching. I was on my mp3 player as I was making my payment for the stuff in my basket and I could have completed the buying transaction without saying a single word had it not been for the rude shop assistant's rude and presumptuous statement.
I couldn't quite understand at first the problem the shop assistant was having when he was laughing up his sleeves as I presented my basket of item, I thought to myself, maybe I am just being sensitive and he might just be uncomfortable with handling women's tights and then when he opened his mouth and said the following to me, I clobbered him at least 100 times at the back of my head:-
SA: "You must be not able to speak english very well?"
Liv: "Of course I can, what are you talking about?"
SA: "Where you are from? China?"
Liv: "No, I'm from Singapore"
SA: "Yeah? and english you can speak?"
Liv: "No I can't, I am speaking some ancient tongue now. Anyway thanks"
I didn't even utter or murmur any word before he opened his big fat mouth. And believe it or not, this guy's not even a Briton, he's just some random guy from some random country who speaks with a randomly weird accent and his english, sucks (as highlighted).
Ok fine, I get the point, generally people think Chinese can't speak good english but that is not true, maybe 100 years ago, I would agree with you but not now, not anymore, more and more Chinese people are learning english and they are sometimes not very good with the language because everyone at home speaks mandarin and I think there is nothing wrong with that, I would be very worried if all Chinese can't speak their own language but only english.
Also what's with that conspicuous laugh and that senseless statement of his? Is he trying to imply Chinese people are bad with english? Is being bad with english (or so he assumed) a shameful matter? If that is the case, I too have a right to disregard him for his bad english, don't I? Also does this too means that I can then laugh at him for not being able to speak mandarin or hokkien or even teochew? Languages makes different racial groups unique in their own ways and so what even if english is commonly spoken, does that give anybody who is fluent in english or who thinks they are fluent in it a right to disparage others? Absolutely not.
Such blatant display of discrimination is just unacceptable, chinese does not equal bad english, even though there are chinese who speaks bad english, they don't represent all and for your information not all caucasians speak good english, white trashes don't speak proper english, a proportion of spanish, italians and germans don't speak good english too, why don't discriminate these groups of people too? Languages does not give anyone a right to disparage or disregard anybody in particular and people should all know that and accept people who speaks a different language with an open mind so as to promote prosperity and harmony in the society and what respect should anyone accord one who mocks at others' inability to speak a certain language and what does that really tell you about that person other than he/she being a shallow and narrow-minded ass?
Last but not least, I shall end with the following:
"Those who know, teach."
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Who says it's impossible?
Every single day, everyone is trying or doing something which someone once said was impossible. Thus you can achieve what you want to achieve in life if you try and if you give everything a fighting chance, you can make things happen.
Someone great once said, "We are all winners, we just have to show it now" and I truly believe in that, no matter how hard life was before, it is now the past and things can only get better. I believe in trials and tribulations and I believe in good karma, I believe in what comes around goes around, I believe you reap what you sow.
Even if what comes around don't go around, it does not matter anymore as I quote my learned friend Kelv, "we should just sit back and believe, at the very least, in ourselves".
We should thus believe in ourselves, at least in our abilities, what we are capable of and woo the world we what we have to offer, more importantly, stop being all bothered about what kind of glam life those big bad wolves are leading, we don't get paid for scrutinizing their lives do we?
P.S: I hardly link anyone's blog so his blog is indeed worth checking out, too bad he doesn't keep archives.
Every single day, everyone is trying or doing something which someone once said was impossible. Thus you can achieve what you want to achieve in life if you try and if you give everything a fighting chance, you can make things happen.
Someone great once said, "We are all winners, we just have to show it now" and I truly believe in that, no matter how hard life was before, it is now the past and things can only get better. I believe in trials and tribulations and I believe in good karma, I believe in what comes around goes around, I believe you reap what you sow.
Even if what comes around don't go around, it does not matter anymore as I quote my learned friend Kelv, "we should just sit back and believe, at the very least, in ourselves".
We should thus believe in ourselves, at least in our abilities, what we are capable of and woo the world we what we have to offer, more importantly, stop being all bothered about what kind of glam life those big bad wolves are leading, we don't get paid for scrutinizing their lives do we?
P.S: I hardly link anyone's blog so his blog is indeed worth checking out, too bad he doesn't keep archives.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Some songs are just so apt that you have to share the lyrics with others...
Louise - 2 Faced
(Who does she think she is)
(I dunno)
(Do you reckon they’re real?)
(Nah)
(Hi, girls)
(Hi, Louise, you look great)
Ow, ow, twisted and deceitful
All those two-faced people
Taking me for some kind of fool
Ow, ow, pretending to be so nice
Let me give you my advice
I don’t need you, ooh
Friends in disguise
Dressed up in lies
It’s an act that you’re playing
Ow, ow, first you recognise me
Then you criticise me, what’s goin on
Stop your bitchin’
‘Coz you’re so sad
Bitchin’ behind my back
Honey, I don’t need that
So kick it to the curb
Because I heard you’re two-faced
Tryin’ to get in my place
Work too hard to make mistakes
So stop your bitchin’ on me
Ow, ow, they’re so narrow-minded
Truth is so one-sided
They’re just counterfeits
Ow, ow, hot and cold you’re blowing
Keep them walls closed
And who are you trying to kid, eh
Two-faced people are so shallow
Put yourself in my place
Ow, ow, the fairy tales you’re spinning
Sounding so convincing
But I’m at a loss
Stop your bitchin’
‘Coz you’re so sad
Bitchin’ behind my back
Honey, I don’t need that
So kick it to the curb
Because I heard you’re two-faced
Tryin’ to get in my place
Work too hard to make mistakes
So stop your bitchin’ on me
Poison words are spoken
My faith in you is broken
But I’ll make it on my own
Ow, ow, twisted and deceitful
All those two-faced people
Taking me for some kind of fool
Ow, ow, they’re so narrow-minded
Truth is so one-sided
But honey you’re wrong
Stop your bitchin’
‘Coz you’re so sad
Bitchin’ behind my back
Honey, I don’t need that
So kick it to the curb
Because I heard you’re two-faced
Tryin’ to get in my place
Work too hard to make mistakes
So stop your bitchin’ on me
Stop your bitchin’
‘Coz you’re so sad
Bitchin’ behind my back
Honey, I don’t need that
So kick it to the curb
Because I heard you’re two-faced
Tryin’ to get in my place
Work too hard to make mistakes
So stop your bitchin’ on me
Stop this hypocrisy
You’re criticising me
‘Coz I don’t wanna be With two-faced people, yeah
(Ya know, she’s probably talking behind our backs right now)
(She probably is, she’s like that)
(She’s two-faced)
(You never know what she’s gonna say, hahaha)
(I cant’ believe you said that about me)
(Believe it, honey)
Louise - 2 Faced
(Who does she think she is)
(I dunno)
(Do you reckon they’re real?)
(Nah)
(Hi, girls)
(Hi, Louise, you look great)
Ow, ow, twisted and deceitful
All those two-faced people
Taking me for some kind of fool
Ow, ow, pretending to be so nice
Let me give you my advice
I don’t need you, ooh
Friends in disguise
Dressed up in lies
It’s an act that you’re playing
Ow, ow, first you recognise me
Then you criticise me, what’s goin on
Stop your bitchin’
‘Coz you’re so sad
Bitchin’ behind my back
Honey, I don’t need that
So kick it to the curb
Because I heard you’re two-faced
Tryin’ to get in my place
Work too hard to make mistakes
So stop your bitchin’ on me
Ow, ow, they’re so narrow-minded
Truth is so one-sided
They’re just counterfeits
Ow, ow, hot and cold you’re blowing
Keep them walls closed
And who are you trying to kid, eh
Two-faced people are so shallow
Put yourself in my place
Ow, ow, the fairy tales you’re spinning
Sounding so convincing
But I’m at a loss
Stop your bitchin’
‘Coz you’re so sad
Bitchin’ behind my back
Honey, I don’t need that
So kick it to the curb
Because I heard you’re two-faced
Tryin’ to get in my place
Work too hard to make mistakes
So stop your bitchin’ on me
Poison words are spoken
My faith in you is broken
But I’ll make it on my own
Ow, ow, twisted and deceitful
All those two-faced people
Taking me for some kind of fool
Ow, ow, they’re so narrow-minded
Truth is so one-sided
But honey you’re wrong
Stop your bitchin’
‘Coz you’re so sad
Bitchin’ behind my back
Honey, I don’t need that
So kick it to the curb
Because I heard you’re two-faced
Tryin’ to get in my place
Work too hard to make mistakes
So stop your bitchin’ on me
Stop your bitchin’
‘Coz you’re so sad
Bitchin’ behind my back
Honey, I don’t need that
So kick it to the curb
Because I heard you’re two-faced
Tryin’ to get in my place
Work too hard to make mistakes
So stop your bitchin’ on me
Stop this hypocrisy
You’re criticising me
‘Coz I don’t wanna be With two-faced people, yeah
(Ya know, she’s probably talking behind our backs right now)
(She probably is, she’s like that)
(She’s two-faced)
(You never know what she’s gonna say, hahaha)
(I cant’ believe you said that about me)
(Believe it, honey)
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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