Today, I went to Beach Road to sew various bits and pieces of useless stuff on my army uniform. I spent close to $90 on 4 uniforms. I had to sew on the Singapore tag, Division tag, and infantry tag. Worse of all, I had to resew a new non-camouflaged nametag, which means removing the old perfectly good condition nametag. It should be noted that new recruits who enlist now will have all these tag sewn already, while those with the old uniforms have to sew and pay for the sewing from their own pockets. Anyway, i shall not say much further, lest i get whisked off to somewhere where no one knows about (aka whitley detention centre). So anyways, while i was waiting for my uniform to be done. I went to have my lunch. I ordered chicken rice from this malay stall, and it was a BIG MISTAKE. Why? They might as well be serving me chicken bone rice. I was so disgusted i kept looking at them while removing uneaten chicken pieces from my plate and putting it on the table. I didn't finish my rice either. I already had to fork out a tidy sum for useless stuff, and the weather was so fucking hot i was sweating bucketloads, then now i get cheated of my food. Fucking cheating motherfuckers. Seems like anyone will do anything to make a quick buck these days. Why are people like that? 3 dollars for chicken rice and the best you can do is a chicken wing bone? Why did i even give you a chance to serve me? Why do i even bother? (And please, before anyone of you thinks that I'm being racist here, I'm not. I did not say all malays are cheating motherfuckers. There is no race involved, except for descriptive purposes. So please, just because a blog post has a Indian, Malay, or Chinese word written in it, it does not mean it is necessarily racist.) My day sucked. I hoped yours was better. Savant at 5/20/2008 09:50:00 pm ; (0) comments What's the deal with the hand that you eat with?I was watching channelnewsasia this morning and there was this documentary on about India or something. They were filming people eating in a cookhouse with their hands and some local guy was being interviewed. He explained something about how they only eat with their right hands only, because the left hand is usually reserved for 'unclean' stuff like washing their bottoms after defecating. However, aptly enough, the next shot showed people in the kitchen preparing food with both hands. So it set me thinking, how's that different than people who are allowed to only eat with their right hands? Before any of you accuse me of being ethnocentric. I'd like to say first that I haven't said anything offensive towards any race. I also didn't say that something or a particular behavior from my race or culture is "better". I didn't. What I did was this: Asked question based on logic. If its rude to eat with your left hand, why isn't it rude to make food with your left hand too? Because they wash their hands? Then how about washing the left hand and eating with it too? So what goes? If you are going to tell me that "It's just their culture", please don't. I really wouldn't wanna start thinking lowly of you. Savant at 5/01/2008 10:13:00 pm ; (0) comments
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