jay to the bee to the singa to the pore!
my wkend wonderland (23-25 dec 06) was spent in jb & s'pore. best la jugak, not a bad trip.. i'm a bit poorer now but am all smiles from the stuff that i got. plus the lover got me a pair of super coolness birkenstock sandals (never heard of 'em before this. but when he voluntarily said he'd buy them for me, i quickly grabbed the opportunity! haha)
kak yaya (the elder sis inlaw) took a ride with us back to jb. departed from ara at around 11am and arrived jb at about 3pm. the kitties (yes, we brought them along) were restless at first but were quiet all the way down north. good cats! sampai2 je, we got the cats out, got our bags sorted, makan sikit, and then we shot off to holiday plaza for our supply of cheap dvds (read: pirated - muahaha - can the police catch me by taking this as my testimony? shite).
and that's when i saw the sunnies.
no lah, actually i've seen the sunnies 2 months ago but that time i didn't have money on me so only now i'm buying them. i mean, bought them. as i said to my larvelly grils, i am SO ready for the sunny beaches of langkawi!!! (if the clouds from johor don't fly over to the north, that is).
>>fastforward to xmas eve day - the s'pore escapade.
left home at 11am and arrived at the customs at 12noon. first and foremost, we went to the zoo! mr. want-to-relive-his-childhood was the one who wanted to go so much (tapi he told everyone that he's bringing me, the first-timer. choy! u people know i'm SO not a nature person right?) well, his intentions were good. kasi chan lah.
no need la for me to story what happened at the zoo ya. there were animals animals animals. and also humans humans humans. what else. i got loads of photos though, just to show my enthusiasm to the lover.. little did he know the 2nd hour into the zoo roaming quest, my mind was already on shopping mode! :D
>>snip to orchard road scene.
arrived the city at 4.30pm and parked our car at far east plaza, the last shopping mall on orchard road with the cheapest parking rates. walked over to ck tangs and arrived right when the doors were closing (@ 5pm for xmas preparation). kak yaya and i were devastated cos we wanted to look for cheap nick-nacks. but we moved on quite quickly from there...
next stop: wisma atria. this shoe shop, charles & keith, have lovely shoes and handbags! candy store no. 1. i spotted a pair of wedge shoes and booked them in my head. walked on further for other things first, who knows there could be another pair of shoes that's waiting for me :)
we crossed over to takashimaya after that where they had a giant xmas tree, found nothing to buy, then went to robinson's and found 2 nice and cheap handbags - for dinner and work/play. i'm wearing one of 'em now hehe.
and we found the birkenstock sandals when kak yaya said she wanted to check them out if they had any good discounts.. i ended up with a pair and she, none. thanks hunny bunny! muah :)
>>fastforward to dinner at takashimaya's food court.
their food court is full of people. singaporeans don't cook i think. they all come out to have dinner at the same effing time. sheeshh.
we had to wait for people to finish their food, i mean, literally wait behind their chairs. well, that's a normal scenario u might think, right? but in singapore, every freakin table has someone waiting for them to finish up their food and ciao so that they'd get the seats for themselves. crazy i tell u.
so anyway, when in rome, do as the romans do right? i waited on this couple who was finishing their grub. i hated doing it cos i hate the feeling of people waiting for me to finish eating, but i just had to if i wanted a table to eat on. kak yaya waited at another table so that we'd split our chances and get a table faster. the couple i was waiting on was eating their food so fast it's a wonder they didn't choke on it haha. towards the end of their meal, a kiasu singaporean aunty came over and stood behind the boy's chair (i was standing behind the girl's) and spoke to the girl in chinese asking if they were about to finish their food bla3. and when the couple got up from their seats, the fucking aunty put her fucking plate of mee goreng on the table as if i was invisible!! WTF? i maintained my calm and told her that i was waiting there for a long time already. she had the cheek to ask the boy "is it true?" in chinese, to check if i was telling the truth like dat. WTF??? lucky the boy said "ya ya she waited long time oredi" with his mouth still half full. how rude was that aunty?!! baskets full of shit - she's rude! then she said "oh sorry ah i didn't know" - what the fuck didn't u know? what the fuck is that brain of yours doing? don't tell me u didn't know, come on, i'm not fucking invisible, there's 53kg of me standing right there. u were just blatantly cutting my line, that's all u were doing. don't say sorry to put yourself in a better positon in my eyes, cos u're NOT.
i don't mean to be racist or ethnocentric, but these singaporeans are so fucking rude!!! most of them lah... maybe some are nice, but i haven't met any yet - hence my biased interpretation from my own experience.
after dinner we wanted to get back to wisma atria and walk over to our car park. the scene at orchard road was phenomenally crazy! every inch of the earth was covered with people. at one point, we were forced to press our bodies to the person behind and in front of us. i was between kak yaya and the lover, so takpe lah my own hubby sondol aku. imagine if i was behind him and another guy was pressing his manhood on my ass, mucho gross! i'm getting goosebumps from the thought of it now *stop it*. for a good 10 mins, we had to walk like penguins in that sea of people... kak yaya said she almost suffocated cos she's short and other people were towering over her.. poor thing.
all in all, i shopped till my legs went wobbly. walked from one end of orchard road to the other end and quite happy with the things i got for less than S$100. i yam a good bargain hunter, yes i yam :D
>>snip to scene at the malaysian custom at 10.30pm.
bonda pesan for us to buy some persimmons in singapore. so we put the fruits in the boot naturally. when we arrived at the customs, this young customs officer (a girl of no more than 26 years of age) interrogated jim on the fruits. u see, the fruits' brand name was "sharon" - coincidentally the name of israel's president/PM or whatever.
customs officer (CO): bak sini passport kamu. kamu ni Islam ke?
jim: ya saya Islam lah.
CO: abis tu kenapa kamu beli barangan dari Israel? kenapa kamu sokong dia?
jim: ????? mana ada beli barangan dari Israel???
CO: nama buah ni kan sharon, kamu tak tau ke ini nama presiden Israel? ini barangan larangan tau, saya boleh rampas ni!
jim: mana ada buah ni dari Israel, ini nama brand dia aje. tak semestinya nama ni nama presiden Israel.
CO: kamu kerja ke saya kerja ni?
WTF????
in my condemning the singaporeans, let me add to that list of stupid and rude people - this fresh from university person i shamely call my own saudara melayu & Islam, is so ignorant and she's trying to show her authority with my husband by saying idiotic things like that. plus, she totally ignored the fact that malaysians are polite to those older than they are.. jimmy is obviously older than her, she can even see his IC no. in his passport, but she was so desperate to show her gila kuasa-ness that she forgot the rule of thumb in customer service - never argue with a customer. isn't the government striving for better customer service in this day and age? yet there are still a few of these hooligans yang terlepas kandang. B.O.D.O.H.
i am very humiliated to have fellow malaysian citizens like these and i know there are MANY out there like her. i've encountered them myself many many times.
marah tak if u were me?
in the end, jim just brushed off her stupid comments and she let us off with a stupid warning. she can shove her warning up her fucking asshole.
***
we left jb yesterday at about 4pm and arrived home sweet home at 8ish... the cats were sleeping soundly throughout the journey, amazingly... we must've drugged them before we departed hehe.
moral of the story: never get yourself in a bind with the customs officers. they're a bunch of kiss-assers and gila kuasa buggers.>>snip to orchard road scene.
arrived the city at 4.30pm and parked our car at far east plaza, the last shopping mall on orchard road with the cheapest parking rates. walked over to ck tangs and arrived right when the doors were closing (@ 5pm for xmas preparation). kak yaya and i were devastated cos we wanted to look for cheap nick-nacks. but we moved on quite quickly from there...next stop: wisma atria. this shoe shop, charles & keith, have lovely shoes and handbags! candy store no. 1. i spotted a pair of wedge shoes and booked them in my head. walked on further for other things first, who knows there could be another pair of shoes that's waiting for me :)
we crossed over to takashimaya after that where they had a giant xmas tree, found nothing to buy, then went to robinson's and found 2 nice and cheap handbags - for dinner and work/play. i'm wearing one of 'em now hehe.
and we found the birkenstock sandals when kak yaya said she wanted to check them out if they had any good discounts.. i ended up with a pair and she, none. thanks hunny bunny! muah :)
>>fastforward to dinner at takashimaya's food court.
their food court is full of people. singaporeans don't cook i think. they all come out to have dinner at the same effing time. sheeshh.
we had to wait for people to finish their food, i mean, literally wait behind their chairs. well, that's a normal scenario u might think, right? but in singapore, every freakin table has someone waiting for them to finish up their food and ciao so that they'd get the seats for themselves. crazy i tell u.
so anyway, when in rome, do as the romans do right? i waited on this couple who was finishing their grub. i hated doing it cos i hate the feeling of people waiting for me to finish eating, but i just had to if i wanted a table to eat on. kak yaya waited at another table so that we'd split our chances and get a table faster. the couple i was waiting on was eating their food so fast it's a wonder they didn't choke on it haha. towards the end of their meal, a kiasu singaporean aunty came over and stood behind the boy's chair (i was standing behind the girl's) and spoke to the girl in chinese asking if they were about to finish their food bla3. and when the couple got up from their seats, the fucking aunty put her fucking plate of mee goreng on the table as if i was invisible!! WTF? i maintained my calm and told her that i was waiting there for a long time already. she had the cheek to ask the boy "is it true?" in chinese, to check if i was telling the truth like dat. WTF??? lucky the boy said "ya ya she waited long time oredi" with his mouth still half full. how rude was that aunty?!! baskets full of shit - she's rude! then she said "oh sorry ah i didn't know" - what the fuck didn't u know? what the fuck is that brain of yours doing? don't tell me u didn't know, come on, i'm not fucking invisible, there's 53kg of me standing right there. u were just blatantly cutting my line, that's all u were doing. don't say sorry to put yourself in a better positon in my eyes, cos u're NOT.
i don't mean to be racist or ethnocentric, but these singaporeans are so fucking rude!!! most of them lah... maybe some are nice, but i haven't met any yet - hence my biased interpretation from my own experience.
after dinner we wanted to get back to wisma atria and walk over to our car park. the scene at orchard road was phenomenally crazy! every inch of the earth was covered with people. at one point, we were forced to press our bodies to the person behind and in front of us. i was between kak yaya and the lover, so takpe lah my own hubby sondol aku. imagine if i was behind him and another guy was pressing his manhood on my ass, mucho gross! i'm getting goosebumps from the thought of it now *stop it*. for a good 10 mins, we had to walk like penguins in that sea of people... kak yaya said she almost suffocated cos she's short and other people were towering over her.. poor thing.
all in all, i shopped till my legs went wobbly. walked from one end of orchard road to the other end and quite happy with the things i got for less than S$100. i yam a good bargain hunter, yes i yam :D
>>snip to scene at the malaysian custom at 10.30pm.
bonda pesan for us to buy some persimmons in singapore. so we put the fruits in the boot naturally. when we arrived at the customs, this young customs officer (a girl of no more than 26 years of age) interrogated jim on the fruits. u see, the fruits' brand name was "sharon" - coincidentally the name of israel's president/PM or whatever.
customs officer (CO): bak sini passport kamu. kamu ni Islam ke?
jim: ya saya Islam lah.
CO: abis tu kenapa kamu beli barangan dari Israel? kenapa kamu sokong dia?
jim: ????? mana ada beli barangan dari Israel???
CO: nama buah ni kan sharon, kamu tak tau ke ini nama presiden Israel? ini barangan larangan tau, saya boleh rampas ni!
jim: mana ada buah ni dari Israel, ini nama brand dia aje. tak semestinya nama ni nama presiden Israel.
CO: kamu kerja ke saya kerja ni?
WTF????
in my condemning the singaporeans, let me add to that list of stupid and rude people - this fresh from university person i shamely call my own saudara melayu & Islam, is so ignorant and she's trying to show her authority with my husband by saying idiotic things like that. plus, she totally ignored the fact that malaysians are polite to those older than they are.. jimmy is obviously older than her, she can even see his IC no. in his passport, but she was so desperate to show her gila kuasa-ness that she forgot the rule of thumb in customer service - never argue with a customer. isn't the government striving for better customer service in this day and age? yet there are still a few of these hooligans yang terlepas kandang. B.O.D.O.H.
i am very humiliated to have fellow malaysian citizens like these and i know there are MANY out there like her. i've encountered them myself many many times.
marah tak if u were me?
in the end, jim just brushed off her stupid comments and she let us off with a stupid warning. she can shove her warning up her fucking asshole.
***
we left jb yesterday at about 4pm and arrived home sweet home at 8ish... the cats were sleeping soundly throughout the journey, amazingly... we must've drugged them before we departed hehe.POWER TO THE PEOPLE, YO! :P
**can't wait for langkawi this wkend!!**
4 comments:
Aiyark..ye la..and did u see how the Singaporeans drive here? And menambah lagi, customs officer usually bukan u grads pun, they just have to undergo a course only after SPM heheh, can ask me la. I have a male cousin working as customs officer..:P
But so typical kan Zied, in this kind of situation..selalunya laki kita bleh cool jek, kita yg geram. Kalau jadi kat aku, tak tahu la. But about the cutting line, mmg selalu jadik, especially with that kaum and bila jadik, aku geram tapi most of the time aku keep quiet, malas nak gaduh walaupun dlm hati nyumpah :)
Wow are you serious or what? I guess she is just an ignorant bitch afterall since she doesn't know what a persimmon looks like and the fruit's name. Sharon huh? I have never ate a Sharon before. Perhaps I should go look for her. Anyway, have a good day :)
zeed,
kau dah caught the really auntie kiasu-type s'porean. try the taxi drivers-they're really nice n friendly.
and takashimaya fc is really small n crowded, u should eat at other places. kat sana org mmg biasa share tables or wait on others as space is limited.
brand sharon? what ppl don't know most persimmons even here in m'sia is from israel. ada yg masuk s'pore dulu then being re-packaged b4 masuk m'sia. my dad n i penah belek 1 box tp we balun gak that thing..
jaganganla kutuk kastam: not all yg teruk heh!
amy> yelah laki kita cool je tapi kita ni yg over emo hehe normal ler..
lene> u shud really try the persimmon, either a sharon brand or not hehe.. it's really sweet and has many healths benefits i read somewhere on the net. try googling it :)
kay> aku dah email kat ko my reply :)
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