Monday, July 31, 2006
I'm sad because:
1. I lost one
yellow sock. Don't ask how, it just got lost. Damn it, my
yellow socks are my newest and favourite socks! And losing only one sock kinda throws off the balance in my life. I'm presently whining away, and my mum is so tired of it, she's giving me money to buy new
yellow socks. But then I'll have one extra
yellow sock. Waaah.
2. I have two ulcers, and they irritate like hell. Argh, braces. And to make things worse, my dentist is cheating me (or rather my mum, until I pay her back) poor.
3. I want to take some narcissistic photos of myself, to put here and on Friendster. But bad skin just keeps getting in the way.
4. Econs test tomorrow. =(
I sound like one of P!nk's stupid girls. Let's focus on the happy. I'm happy because:
1. When I was out earlier this evening, I saw rows and rows of watches on crazy sale. And by crazy, I meant stuff like 40% off Calvin Klein watches, 20% off Guess watches and it's super shiok. But I didn't buy any, because I have to save up for prom. =(
Well, so where does the happy part come in? Okay, when I was first looking at the Calvin Klein watches, the salesman (quite good-looking) came up and asked the usual "May I help you?", which I replied with the usual "No, it's okay, thanks", since I didn't really intend to buy anything. And then the salesman proceed to speak in Mandarin (the previous lines were spoken in English), that the watches were on 40% discount. So I just nodded and smiled. And then my eye caught a beautiful word: "GUESS".
I love GUESS watches. Problem is, I have a puny wrist, and the nicer GUESS watches all have big faces. So I had to content myself with just looking at the watches. And the salesman walked over.
"Ni3 shi4 hua2 ren2 ma1?" ("Are you Chinese?")
I was a bit stunned. Then I replied, "Ya." Then the salesman said because I didn't give a definite response to his Mandarin speaking, and I didn't look Chinese, so he was a little confused. I just smiled, and I was going to look at more watches, but then he started saying, "Ni3 tian1 shen1 bu2 da4 ai1 shuo1 hua4 shi4 bu2 shi4?" ("You usually don't like to speak much?")
I just shrugged and said, "You3 yi1 dian3 ba4." ("A little, I suppose.") (Strangely, I never thought of myself as a quiet person, but a lot of people have commented that I'm really quiet. So maybe I am quiet by nature. Oh well, better than some people who make far too much unnecessary noise.) Anyway, was I expected to start chatting with a complete stranger? Plus he was sorta getting irritating.
Then the salesman smiled and said, "Bu2 guo4 ni3 de4 yan3 jing1 hen2 mei3." (But your eyes are very beautiful.") A compliment! From a complete stranger! See, that's why I'm happy! Yeah yeah, you're probably going to tell me that he told me that just so I'd buy something, but he's not the only stranger to compliment me okay?
2. Later, I went to the foodcourt for dinner. I was queueing up with my mum, and after she paid, she went to another stall to buy her food. Then the stall auntie asked me, "That woman your mum
ar? So young and pretty, and her figure so nice."
Wah, I'm happy when someone praises my mum too. It means I've inherited good genes. =D
3. National Day Week coming soon. Holidays...
♥ The lights faded at
9:42 pm
