Lots of Short Stories II

The First Meeting Up

It was promise on the Wednesday 11am. He sent me a text message by 10.30am saying he'll be there by 11.30am. Hence, I'll have another 30 minutes for me to walk around before the meeting. By 11.25am, he called.

"Hello…"
"Hey Nic, Markus here. I'm at MV now. Where are you?"
"Hey, I'm still at home. Sorry about…."
"OH MY GOD!!!"
"………"
"YOU SOUND LIKE LAI KWAN!!!"
"Oh really??!! Cool…."
"Anyway, I'll be at MV for quite some times, just give me a call when you're here."
"Okay, sure. Sorry about that."
"Nah, no worry."
"Okay, see you later."
"See you later!!"

I only drive to MV after the phone call. Yes, I lost track on time on some unnecessary things. As the normal Lai Yin, I'm always ahead of the schedule but during this holiday, my brain seems to jam every thing up.

I reach MV by 11.45am and I than ring him.

"Hello Markus….?"
"Ah… Hey Nic…"
"I'm at MV now. Where are you?"
"I'm at Carrefour looking for a DVD player."
"So where should we meet?"
"Hmm… Do you know where restaurant XXX is?"
"Erm, why not McD?"
"Oh, sure. Not a problem. I'll be there by another 5 to 10 minutes."
"Okay, see you than."
"See Ya."

I than went into some shops near McD. I predict that he'll be later than 5 to 10 minutes as he promised. Because I was late and he's mad. About 10 minutes later, he called.

"Hey Nic, I realized there's two McD at MV. Which McD you were talking about?"
"The one next to Carrefour."
"Than I guess I'm at the right place."
"Oh really? I'm near McD as well. Hey I saw you…"

I than pressed the red button on my phone and wave to the guy who wears a cap and holding his phone near to his ear. Standing at the corridor in front of McD, here we are on our very first meet up. He's not as ugly as Lai Kwan describe. For the last whole week, we communicate through SMS's and finally we're here at the busy shopping mall.

*P/S: This is neither a blind date nor an internet-friend date. It's just a friend of my sister.

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Results of Transformer movie

Before Transformer….

Feyi: Lai Ming, what car your sis currently driving?
LM : Aveo.
Feyi: What Aveo?
LM : Chevrolet.
Feyi: Huh, what's a Chevrolet?

After Transformer…

Feyi: Eh Lai Ming, will your dad get you a new car after you pass your driving?

LM : Nope. I'll be sharing car with my sister.

Feyi: What car?
LM : Aveo, Chevrolet.
Feyi: CHEVROLET????!!!! VERY EXPENSIVE WAN WOR….!!!

Just because Bumblebee in Transformer is a Chevrolet, everyone knows what's a Chevrolet and they think it's a sports car brand and EXPENSIVE. The truth is, NOPE. NOT AT ALL.

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Thank You VS Terima Kasih

During my volunteer job period, I realized Malay prefer to mix around with Malays and Chinese with Chinese. At University Putra Malaysia, my mom's own a cafeteria at their Kolej 12&14, which is their hostel name. There, like I said, I work as one of the cashier voluntarily there. The full-time cashiers there are all Malays, but they're very nice towards me. I wonder is it because I'm the boss' daughter? Some of the stalls tenders are friendly too. But, mostly are because I'm the daughter of my dad. They are just trying to respect the big boss. However, there's two new tender this semester. They're new and they dint know who am I. So they kind of disturbed me. Too bad I maximize my mp3's volume and pretend not to see them. I'm not scared of them, like they will complain to my dad that I ignore them. Anyway, 80% of the students at UPM are Malays, 9% Chinese, 4% Indian, 4% other Malaysia's races and 3% other countries' nation (not the exact ratio. It's just base on my gross guessing.). And this semester, female seems to dominate the university. So I'll be facing tons of wonton.

When ever the customers pay for their purchase, we have to thanks them. However, I'm a Chinese and I'm get used to say thanks instead of terima kasih. So, there's a small amount of Malays girls give me a why-is-the-cashier-a-Chinese look. Is not because I do not respect them nor raciest, but 'thank you' is shorter than 'terima kasih'. Thank you is just 2 syllabus where else Terima Kasih have 5 syllabus. Think about it. When there's a long queue waiting behind, do I still spend extra seconds just to say 'Terima Kasih'? I could save up times and increase my productivity by just simply saying a 'Thank You'.

So, is Thank You a bad thing to say to malay?

Is there any different between Terima Kasih and Thank You other than language?

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Addiction


Here's a list of the things I'm addicted. The numbering is base on the ranking of seriousness of my addiction.

• Coffee
• Junkie
  
  
  
  
• Story books
• Nap
• Mountain climbing/ jogging
  





• Reading blogs
• Manicure/ pedicure
• Facial and masks
• Shoes
• Teddy bear/plush toys
• TV
• MP3
• Bags
• Make-up
  

Due to lack of money, it causes lack of supply for the things above, so I have to lower my demand in order to reach equilibrium. How do I lower my demand? Curb my addiction is the only solution. Here are the things that I have to curb and the solution to curb it.

• Junkie. I lock my junkie inside the store room and my mom will keep the keys. As long as no junkie appears in front of me, I do curb my addiction.
• Coffee. Substitute it with milk tea to reduce my addiction towards my demand of caffeine. Than slowly substitute milk tea with Chinese tea. It does work and I'm still working on it.
• Story books. Try not to visit book stall too often. If has to, bring enough money for necessity only. Or read the books in a slower rate. I'm getting broke by buying 2 books in a week. Or borrow it from friend. But this doesn't work. I don't borrow books from anyone.
• Nap. Don't get near to my bed, or sister's bed or parent's bed. Try not to enter rooms if possible. Keep my self busy. Do not really work thou.
• Mountain climbing/ jogging. Not going to curb this addiction. It's a good addiction.
• Reading blogs. Only go online before bed. So I'll get sleepy and too tired to read the same blog over and over again.
• Manicure/ pedicure. Do it myself. It saves me a lot. And I'm brain washing Lai Kwan to do it herself as well.
• Facial and masks. Not going to curb it since my mom pay for it.
• Shoes. Store my entire shoe collection into my closet. Every time when I open my closet and look at it than I'll get terrified by the amount of shoe I've got. Does not really work when there's Mega sales and Year End sales.
• Teddy bear/ plush toys. Not getting near any toy shop. Hide all my teddy away from me except for the 2 teddy that had be with me since I'm young. Yes, laugh all you can.
• TV. Not bother to curb it anyway. It doesn't cost me a buck.
• MP3. If possible try using a CD player instead as my MP3 eats AAA battery like mad, I do mean literally.
• Bags. I don't pay for my bags. Lai Kwan does.
• Make-up. Well, not really addiction. I just wanted to get new mascara when ever I get near to any. But I could control myself as I already have 3 unfinished mascaras.
  

There you see, I manage my addiction well and I also make use of my economics knowledge. Well done to Lai Yin. YAY!!!

Love,

Nichole @ Lai Yin