A Ridiculous Grocery Shopping Experience

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Earlier just now I went to ASDA to do some grocery shopping. As I handed over my credit card and start packing my groceries, I noticed that I needed another bag. So I said to the receptionist.

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Me: Hey ya. Can I have a bag?

Hak Guai Poh:...(completely ignored me)

Me: Hey can I have another bag? (I repeated myself assuming it went unheeded)

Hak Guai Poh pretended to be busy.

Me: Excuse me?

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Hak Guai Poh suddenly recovered from her deafness and say: In UK we say please.

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I could not believe my ears. I stunted and stared at her for a few seconds. And then I laughed at her face w one side of my eye brown higher than the other. That was my WTF face and I still managed to get my bag. HAHAHA BITCH!

I'm not being racist, but seriously, I think black people has something against me. For more information please refer to A Ridiculous Exam Experience.

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The Climb

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Success is nearer than you thought

Don't give up on yourself as others have not

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Competence Equals Confidence

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I used to dissent from the saying: In life there is no shortcut. Because from what I saw in every aspect of life, there'd always been a shortcut, it's just the matter of whether you are able to discern it or not.

Take examinations for instance.

In the throes of preparing for my exams, instead of learning the whole subject I'd always dissect the past year papers and only read those topics to which are connected to the past year questions. I might not be the best student around, but I scored good grades w/o putting much efforts, and here I am studying in a much prestigious academic institution.

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However much I managed to cope, I've come to a significant realization that, I might be competent enough to sit examinations, but knowing that what I know is pretty much cukup makan sahaja, I have never ever been confident sitting examinations.

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I think, in order to do something right, it is imperative that competency and confidence exist contemporaneously. In other words, not only that you need the competency, the necessary skills and knowledge derived from devotion of your efforts, it is important to have the confidence to take action on your ability, to do what you know and use them to your full potential.

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Say, you are competent but you lack of confidence. The odds are that you'll be rattled whenever you hit a hurdle. Nervousness will find its way and creep on you easily whenever you come across w something you are unfamiliar with. You have no self belief at all and you are stuck.

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On the other hand, if you are incompetent and yet have unjustified confidence, I'd say it is a perfect recipe for disaster.

The other day my flatmate who remotely knows how to cook at all placed a cup noodle in the microwave w/o opening it and let it microwaved god knows for how long. The microwave then exploded, fire works here and there and set up the fire alarm. It was damn cool thou.

(Dear Flatmate if you are reading this please note that I have kept you anonymous and I love you)

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So guys, I know I don't sound like me at all, and you think you would never hear this from me in a million years but yes, you need to be more competent, you need to study. You might be confident that your future is all set. You may have liable connections, you may have a filthy rich dad who already mapped out everything for you, but if you don't have the necessary skills, don't delude yourself that success is at your hand.

Don't go getting delusions of grandeur. As confidence alone is not called confidence. It is called arrogance.

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In life, there may not be a shortcut. But there's a detour to a better outcome: hard work pays off, but smart work pays better, a practical advice I read from Roe's. Let's us all work hard together, be more competent than we are now so that in the time to come we could frighten the others w our achievements, stand straight w a surge of confidence and swagger in the utmost cocky way, underestimate others and say 'Fuck you in the face!'

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Ps: same thing goes to picking up chicks =p if you don't work (force yourself to approach them chicks), you'll never come by the confidence. I did. True story ;)

cheers*

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Yang Sik's Top 3 SOHAI moments in Manchester (by Misha)

1. You know how chinamen have their own way of saying 'fuck'? they dont say it like other normal human beings,they pronounce it like its spelled fak and say it like FAK!!! Ive never realised it before,until i arrived in manchester and my mom was here with me for the first few nights.We went out for lunch one day with dear yang sik,and my mom asked him "So how was ur journey here?"

YS : the flight was ok,then i had to take a cab to my hall,had to pay twenty pounds man!!

MOM: why didnt u sign up with the uni for the pick u p service?

YS : i did!! but when i got here,they werent around,i was like what the FAK!!

oh god.then we sat down for lunch.mom started talking about how lively the city was that weekend,the streets are packed with people,performers and entertainers everywhere u look.i said yea,they even have christians trying to convert the shoppers when they walk out of the stores!! did u see that just now?

YS: haih.all these christians.i didnt hear anything,u know me la,i just dont give a FAK!!

(moms a catholic btw.)

2. Yang sik and i were walking to the city,on the day of the big Man U vs ManCity match.

11.50 a.m:Bumped into my housemates Phillip and Cyril on the way...i asked where they were going,to the pub to catch the match they said.

YS : No la,its at midnight,why dont ya'll come watch it in the residence bar later tonight?

3. Harjun and i arrive in yang siks flat for dinner.He made pak cham kai,some vegetables and rice.Told us about how he cut his finger *pointed at large butcher knife 3 layers of plasters on his finger which the blood has already leaked through.

Halfway through dinner,his housemate joins us.I tell yang sik to stop slurping and chomping like a starved chinaman.he tells me to FAK off.i ask his housemate "isnt he disgusting?" his housemate replies "no...i think its ok for him to eat however he wants"

Yang Sik,jumps up from his seat and happily agrees *SNAPS FINGERS*

Bleeding starts again.