Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part LVI
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Tammie, how long have you lived in Melbourne?
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that doesn't make them very different from some Singaporeans .......
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people all ard are the same though
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Tammie, how long have you lived in Melbourne?
I have been here for about 6 years, since 2002. But I run back to S'pore twice a year. Missed the shopping and food. BTW, Tammie is my cat's name... -
Actually, the PRC's are like that too. There are those who try to talk and act as if they are Melbourne born and bred.
I almost wanted to yell at this boastful PRC girl to just shuck the f--k up because she was waiting for the tram at the Boxhill terminal station, yakking too darn loudly in badly accented English, thinking that she speaks it well and wants the world to admire her.
She was boasting to her friend, who isn't as conversant and more humble, about how she managed to 'master' the English language. * cough... splutter... yeah, riiiiight! Bad grammar, 's's in places where there shouldn't be 's's, etc etc. Her humble friend spoke to her in Mandarin, she replied in awful English... she was trying sooo hard to show off. Show off what, I don't know, because all of us at the stop kept casting nasty glances at her direction because everyone just wanted her to shut her trap! -
Originally posted by Tammiemeow:
I have been here for about 6 years, since 2002. But I run back to S'pore twice a year. Missed the shopping and food. BTW, Tammie is my cat's name...Awww... I LOVE cats!!
I can't wait till I can finally own my own apartment and have cats. My landlord doesn't allow pets, and besides, there's no balcony in my current apartment and it isn't large enough for a cat.
It's going to take me donkey years to save the deposit for one, esp since I'm taking up courses as well.
Which suburb do you live in? I'm in Richmond. I love Richmond.
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Originally posted by rlsh07:
people all ard are the same though
We think people are all the same, but some wants to differentiate themselves. Animal Farm by George Orwell shows that people are not the same... "Four legs good, two legs better" hehehe -
Originally posted by Tammiemeow:
We think people are all the same, but some wants to differentiate themselves. Animal Farm by George Orwell shows that people are not the same... "Four legs good, two legs better" hehehe
hmm.. four legs are animals right? -
well ... I only tell people I'm from Singapore .... NOT China ....
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Originally posted by Fatum:
well ... I only tell people I'm from Singapore .... NOT China ....
to whom u tell then? -
Originally posted by rlsh07:
to whom u tell then?ang mohs ..... of course ...
asians are more keyed onto such nuances ..... you know they can't really tell us apart ? ....
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Awww... I LOVE cats!!
I can't wait till I can finally own my own apartment and have cats. My landlord doesn't allow pets, and besides, there's no balcony in my current apartment and it isn't large enough for a cat.
It's going to take me donkey years to save the deposit for one, esp since I'm taking up courses as well.
Which suburb do you live in? I'm in Richmond. I love Richmond.
I found another cat lover.... I live in Brunswick... I have a so called garden, so Tammie roams around. She is so temperamental. I just love their attitude. Er R U a PR? If U R, think it's cheaper for ur courses.
BTW, wait for more interest rate hike... the property prices might go down.
Richmond has lots of yummy food. Was there at Watergardens last weekend after my binge at Boxhill.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
ang mohs ..... of course ...
asians are more keyed onto such nuances ..... you know they can't really tell us apart ? ....
we all look the same to them? hmm.. i think some can tell the difference right? because some guys married asian ladies though -
Originally posted by rlsh07:
hmm.. four legs are animals right?Orwell actually used Animal Farm to depict what happened in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. The story used animals... they overthrow the human, and all animals are equal, till the pigs gang up and decide they want to learn to be like the humans, so they learn to walk on two legs. Very funny. Perfect depiction of some asians who want to act ang moh....
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Originally posted by rlsh07:
we all look the same to them? hmm.. i think some can tell the difference right? because some guys married asian ladies thoughyeah sure .... bangkok ... singapore ... hong kong .... all fun asian cities ....
doesn't matter if the ang moh is pock marked and beer gutted ... tis' all in the passport ...
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hmm.. really?
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Originally posted by Fatum:
well ... I only tell people I'm from Singapore .... NOT China ....
Biangz, I'm sooooo glad I'm NOT from China!
Just yesterday, I had to admit an elderly patient from PRC. She came accompanied by her elderly husband and her daughter.
My nurses' alarm went "Bing! Bing!", meaning, I have a hard-to-please, potentially problematic patient on my hands. My sixth sense and my instinct warned me that it is NOT a good idea to tell them that I know how to speak Mandarin and Cantonese. I've encountered patients before who latch on to you like leeches the minute they find out that you speak Mandarin, and they remind me of one of the reasons why I left nursing in Singapore in the first place.
So, yeah, I suddenly couldn't really speak Mandarin, and had to mischievously (and convincingly) pause and stutter and insert a lot of erm's and ah's etc in my feeble attempts to speak Mandarin.
True enough, the patient turned out to be so obnoxious and fussy that by the end of my shift, her husband got red-faced from being irritated at her, and her own daughter was close to tears trying to please her. One of the Aussie patients in the four-bedded room asked to be moved to a private room, and the other patient turned her TV on loud to drown out the drama.
Extraordinary... she was extraordinarily difficult. THANK GOD I pretended I couldn't understand her half the time.
She had this habit of clearing her phlegm twice a day and it is some kind of elaborate exercise whereby she'd drink orange juice first, then spit it out and spend the next 20 mins, I kid you not, hacking and doing the Aaaaargh, Acccck, Pweeee!! routine! It was disgusting. Horrifyingly, instead of doing it in the bathroom, she did it by her bedside!!
The patient beside her was so repulsed, so was I, I had to step in and get her to stop and continue at the bathroom! 
Even the Team Leader shook her head and frowned at the commotion. Awful, just plain awful.
No wonder the Aussies don't really like the PRC's...
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Actually, the PRC's are like that too. There are those who try to talk and act as if they are Melbourne born and bred.
I almost wanted to yell at this boastful PRC girl to just shuck the f--k up because she was waiting for the tram at the Boxhill terminal station, yakking too darn loudly in badly accented English, thinking that she speaks it well and wants the world to admire her.
She was boasting to her friend, who isn't as conversant and more humble, about how she managed to 'master' the English language. * cough... splutter... yeah, riiiiight! Bad grammar, 's's in places where there shouldn't be 's's, etc etc. Her humble friend spoke to her in Mandarin, she replied in awful English... she was trying sooo hard to show off. Show off what, I don't know, because all of us at the stop kept casting nasty glances at her direction because everyone just wanted her to shut her trap! I am having a tummy ache from laughing..... U realised there are some who still insist on speaking English to you when reply them in Mandarin.. I try to indirectly hint that I understand them better in Mandarin.
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nevermind, it's just me .... maybe after you've spent some time abroad, you'd learn to tell what's ang moh trash ....
I'm all for free love .... I just hope some ladies can open their eyes wider and not settle for some second stringers and also-rans just because the chap's "different" ....
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Originally posted by Tammiemeow:
I am having a tummy ache from laughing..... U realised there are some who still insist on speaking English to you when reply them in Mandarin.. I try to indirectly hint that I understand them better in Mandarin.
just tell them directly then. i just tell the customer directly that i can speak mandarin and that she can speak mandarin to me though
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Originally posted by Fatum:
ang mohs ..... of course ...
asians are more keyed onto such nuances ..... you know they can't really tell us apart ? ....
You know what's interesting? My Aussie Team Leader used to tell me that it's weird, but the Filipino Team Leader seems to be ruder and more obnoxious to the Asian staff than to the Aussies. She used to say that she would never talk to the Aussies the way she talks to the Asians.
In the end, the day before my last day on that ward, her unreasonable shouting at me was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Even the other staff who were around in the locker room were horrified at her behaviour towards me. When she left the room, the tension was still thick in the air, so I looked at an Aussie staff, she said, "That was so rude! Unbelievable!" and I just said, "Yeah, she's like that to me all the time. Bitch!"
That TL later sms'd me and said that she had heard me call her Bitch, if I want to be a friend, I should know how to be a friend, to which I replied, "Forget about being friends. You would never have treated me that way if I were an Aussie. Even an Aussie TL has commented on your behaviour before. Friends? Forget it... you are too double-faced!"
So she, of course, thought she was being wronged, yada yada, complained to the Aussie TL, who told her that she's not being professional shouting at me, then sms'ing me when she could have approached me directly.
Thank God the Aussie TL heard my side of the story first before landing judgement. Phew! Too many Filipinos in my old ward. Not a healthy environment.
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well ... I did say before, that one fine day ... being a chinese somewhere in the world will get you spat on ..... it's not hard to see why .....
but of course ... they can't tell us apart, really ...
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Originally posted by rlsh07:
just tell them directly then. i just tell the customer directly that i can speak mandarin and that she can speak mandarin to me though
They do not want to be associated with Mandarin.....aiya..... the PRC here... many go for old Ang Mohs...Like Fatum said, all in the passport -
Originally posted by Tammiemeow:
I am having a tummy ache from laughing..... U realised there are some who still insist on speaking English to you when reply them in Mandarin.. I try to indirectly hint that I understand them better in Mandarin.
Oh, I know the sort. I try to be nice, and I do speak English to those who do speak well, but there are those who... you know they try hard, but I just feel like running my nails across a chalkboard whenever they try to "speaker the Engerish". *pukes and starts to convulse uncontrollably, foaming at the mouth...
Trying to boast when erm... what's there to boast about?
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Originally posted by Tammiemeow:
They do not want to be associated with Mandarin.....aiya..... the PRC here... many go for old Ang Mohs...Like Fatum said, all in the passportmuahahahahaha ....
like rupert murdoch's latest wifey ? ...
at least she's got herself a mint .... some settle for rig pigs or cattle farmers ...