seriously, i have no idea why. i seems to be able to attract " hao lian " people to talk to me. basically " hao lian" means arrogant and show-off. i have no idea if it's my face, my responses or my attitude that made these hao-lianers think that i am actually interested in the stuffs that they are hao-lianing to me. so werid. to date, i can only remember 2 such person who like to hao-lian to me for nothing.
i remember in secondary school, when i was 13/14, i have this classmates. she was FOREVER haolian-ing to me about how she only buys branded goods and how guys are mesmerized with her. seriously, to start haolian-ing, i believe one needs to be of a certain standard. i am not saying that this classmate of mine was sub-standard BUT seriously, i wasnt sure if she was haolian-ing or lying. with regards to branded goods, the only branded stuffs that i've seen on her are t-shirts. seriously, how branded was that??!!! okok maybe to a teenager, it was. BUT seriously, she didnt need to call me EVERYTIME she bought a new Versace, D&G or DKNY t-shirt. do i look like i really care? as for guys, she wasnt exactly a beauty, not even average-looking. she's kinda huge and has very fair skin ( not the nice fair but the white fair and it made her look sick ). so whenver she haolian-ed that her boyfriend was very good to her and etc etc, she could only show me the picture of a guy. period. 0r there would be times, when she haolianed to me about how this ang-moh tried to pick up her at her estate and this ang moh was drop-dead gorgeous. till this day, i had never seen that ang-moh. interesting. but seriously, i hope to meet up with her again. i wanna see what she is doing now and how is life treating her. tried googling her and fb-ing her but nowhere to be found. still trying. wish me luck!
then recently, i kinda make a new friend at work. she covers the taiwan market and so do i and so we happen to have dinners and lunches a few times in taipei. and while having lunches and dinners, we kinda need to chat right? and so we chatted. well, initially, i was just trying to dig out more information about herself and so i was asking general questions. but at times, her answers were pretty interesting. i remembered, i once asked her " so do you get pick up by clients a lot? " in fact, i have asked this questions to many sales reps in my office and 99% of them would answer " aiyah, this is just a number game. and it doesnt really matter loh " but this friend of mine replied " of course i do get picked up, in fact several times. but of course i didnt accept their invitations to dinners and all.... " and she went on and on about how to reject clients nicely and how not to whatever whatever. SERIOUSLY, i am not interested to know how your clients picked you up. it was just a conversational question. another time, we were talking about school. so just talking about general stuff in school. she said " actually i wanted to keep a low profile in school but somehow, it's not that easy. i was always being noticed by people in school. in fact, im kinda like the high-flyer in school. i can study quite well and i excel in sports and stuffs " mmm, what did she expect me to say? all i said was " orh " . period. i didnt even praise her or anything but every now and then, she will re-emphasize that she is a high-flyer in school and she's darn popular with guys and etc etc etc. so haolian right??? *puke*
BUT.....on one occassion, i managed to "overturn" her haolian-ness. she was once haolian-ing to me that she and the Asia sales manager are kinda closed as he was the one who helped her to relocate to HK ( oh she's a fellow singaporean who relocated to HK around the same time as me. however, she is alawys faking the taiwanese accent which gets on my nerves . argh!). she mentioned that whenever the sales manager is in HK, they will definitely sit down and have a nice long chat. so one day, while having lunch, she mentioned " finally it's friday and the HK manager is not around. yay! " and to that i replied " oh, but the Asia manager is in HK right? " and she gave a very shocked look and said " really? he's in hk? i thought he has left. are you sure he's in HK? " and to that i replied " yup, im absolutely sure. just saw him before i left for lunch. mmm, you mean you havent spoken to him yet? thought you guys will always chat when he's in HK? " to that, she kept quiet and changed the topic. HAHAHAHA. that was my happiest moment of the week!
i remember in secondary school, when i was 13/14, i have this classmates. she was FOREVER haolian-ing to me about how she only buys branded goods and how guys are mesmerized with her. seriously, to start haolian-ing, i believe one needs to be of a certain standard. i am not saying that this classmate of mine was sub-standard BUT seriously, i wasnt sure if she was haolian-ing or lying. with regards to branded goods, the only branded stuffs that i've seen on her are t-shirts. seriously, how branded was that??!!! okok maybe to a teenager, it was. BUT seriously, she didnt need to call me EVERYTIME she bought a new Versace, D&G or DKNY t-shirt. do i look like i really care? as for guys, she wasnt exactly a beauty, not even average-looking. she's kinda huge and has very fair skin ( not the nice fair but the white fair and it made her look sick ). so whenver she haolian-ed that her boyfriend was very good to her and etc etc, she could only show me the picture of a guy. period. 0r there would be times, when she haolianed to me about how this ang-moh tried to pick up her at her estate and this ang moh was drop-dead gorgeous. till this day, i had never seen that ang-moh. interesting. but seriously, i hope to meet up with her again. i wanna see what she is doing now and how is life treating her. tried googling her and fb-ing her but nowhere to be found. still trying. wish me luck!
then recently, i kinda make a new friend at work. she covers the taiwan market and so do i and so we happen to have dinners and lunches a few times in taipei. and while having lunches and dinners, we kinda need to chat right? and so we chatted. well, initially, i was just trying to dig out more information about herself and so i was asking general questions. but at times, her answers were pretty interesting. i remembered, i once asked her " so do you get pick up by clients a lot? " in fact, i have asked this questions to many sales reps in my office and 99% of them would answer " aiyah, this is just a number game. and it doesnt really matter loh " but this friend of mine replied " of course i do get picked up, in fact several times. but of course i didnt accept their invitations to dinners and all.... " and she went on and on about how to reject clients nicely and how not to whatever whatever. SERIOUSLY, i am not interested to know how your clients picked you up. it was just a conversational question. another time, we were talking about school. so just talking about general stuff in school. she said " actually i wanted to keep a low profile in school but somehow, it's not that easy. i was always being noticed by people in school. in fact, im kinda like the high-flyer in school. i can study quite well and i excel in sports and stuffs " mmm, what did she expect me to say? all i said was " orh " . period. i didnt even praise her or anything but every now and then, she will re-emphasize that she is a high-flyer in school and she's darn popular with guys and etc etc etc. so haolian right??? *puke*
BUT.....on one occassion, i managed to "overturn" her haolian-ness. she was once haolian-ing to me that she and the Asia sales manager are kinda closed as he was the one who helped her to relocate to HK ( oh she's a fellow singaporean who relocated to HK around the same time as me. however, she is alawys faking the taiwanese accent which gets on my nerves . argh!). she mentioned that whenever the sales manager is in HK, they will definitely sit down and have a nice long chat. so one day, while having lunch, she mentioned " finally it's friday and the HK manager is not around. yay! " and to that i replied " oh, but the Asia manager is in HK right? " and she gave a very shocked look and said " really? he's in hk? i thought he has left. are you sure he's in HK? " and to that i replied " yup, im absolutely sure. just saw him before i left for lunch. mmm, you mean you havent spoken to him yet? thought you guys will always chat when he's in HK? " to that, she kept quiet and changed the topic. HAHAHAHA. that was my happiest moment of the week!
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sigh... am not in today, else i wld haf dug out her identity. the characters u haf to deal wif;)
NICE hahaha, cannot tarhan thick skinned people
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Im only covering macau this time. Taking my parents with me. I wonder hows the shopping in macau dunno whether its as cheap as hk tho
Love ur blog i really appreciate ur blog thanks for sharing ur life story online❤
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