Sunday, August 16, 2009

My 华文 not bad

Hostel soccer competition this morning, play until damn dulan. The damn PRC's don't play soccer, they play 'kick leg then kick ball'. This sport pisses me off man. Don't know about the rest of my mates but I was on the verge of hitting one of em. 2 separate incidents stood out in this match.

The first was when our goalie was body-checked by their player. Foul la duh, but the knn PRC still wanna argue with the ref saying that it was bloody legal. So I was like 'Do you even know how to play soccer? You can't freaking touch the goalie.' I said this in chinese, with him replying 'What you say?' ironically in english. The convo ended with him scolding me 'F*** you' and me, well, ignoring him.

The second incident won us the game, and won me painful nights ahead. 2 assholes sandwiched me when I was in midair, trying to head the ball. The end result? Let me put it this way, I'm using counterpain lotion on my back and it burns. Some idiot still had the nerve to say that it was my fault. Obviously enraged, I questioned his knowledge of soccer while hurling insults at him, in chinese. Have you ever had this situation where you are in so much pain, but you just wanna laugh your ass off? That was my case as I saw the puzzled look in his eyes.

He was like 'WTF??? THIS DUDE UNDERSTANDS CHINESE?' while I tried to stop myself from bursting into laughter.想用华文压我?想得美. Anyway we did win the match, the penalty of course, and not before receiving a few more kicks to my ankle.

Free movie tickets for winning the soccer tournie, but at the price of a few extra medical bills. WTF

Monday, August 10, 2009

Any Given Sunday

Met up with Malaysian Cat High scholars to celebrate TN's birthday. Had to go all the way to Bukit Timah. So long didn't see them, all still look the same. Dillon with his cock face, Wei Chen with his blur face, Dong Lum and Yong Khang like their usual loud selves, TN bday boy, so cannot say anything. E Yang like somebody who just got out from jail. Perret no need say cos see him all the time, like no diff.

Paid 25 bucks for lunch, some Japenese buffet. My spending this week has exceeded 200 bucks. Damn. Food was damn nice, the supply was endless, I guess.

Oh, and almost ALL of them have a gf now, even E Yang. Feel damn 自卑. Went for movies after that, then dinner, then go back hostel. Only managed to study ionic equilibria, damn. Long weekend wasted just like that.

Monday was the most painful pw session ever. No thanks to my beloved pw mates. You watch out....

Saturday, August 8, 2009

讨价还价-FAIL

Went to Queensway to check out class shirt with JJ and Jia Le. An attempt to 讨价还价 over the F10 futsal boots was a complete failure. It was an utter disaster.

Anyways, more money gone. Lets see how much I've spent the past week.

Bag: $38
Wallet: $18
Shoes: $79
Asean dance ticket (which i was force to buy): $43

This amounts to the grand total of $178. OMG....
But the shoes not bad la.


Oh yeah, 0923 were first runners up in the handball comp, pics on fb. WHOA.
Guess the words...

Saturday, August 1, 2009

讨价还价-ed

Long time no blog. I would love to blog about what's been happening between my last post and this one, but lets leave it at that shall we?

So, woke up at 12 today, tried to do EOM till 2. Obviously failed. So went out with 2 of my room mates to have lunch, at 3 p.m. K.F.C again. I've lost count of the number of times I've eaten K.F.C for the past month or so.

Anyway went to Fairprice later to replenish my food storage which was drying up. 20 bucks worth of snacks. WHOA.... Walked past a stall selling bags, one caught my eye. So I asked the uncle to let me take a look at it. 45 bucks, I was like wtf. I told him I'd think about it, so went shopping for groceries first.

When I went back , I planned to use chinese to 讨价还价 with the uncle. Obviously with 2 Indonesian room mates and me looking the least bit like a chinese, it was the best chance I had to convince the dude to lower his asking price. Armed with courage and a merit grade for my chinese oral exam, I 讨价还价-ed.


Me: Uncle, 可以35块吗?

Uncle: 35 块不可以. 不 如 38 块. 你让一步我让一步.

Me: 这样可以 check 先吗?

Uncle: 可以.

So obviously I checked the bag to make sure that it was in perfect condition, and it was. So 38 bucks for a bag which was originally 45 bucks. Looks like chinese is useful after all....所谓尺有所短, 寸有所长; 物有所不足, 智有所不明.


Have no idea why I added the idiom. Makes me look pro in chinese.