Friday, 8 December 2006

i left my england in ENGLAND.

the other day i went to MAC, as in apple's mac. anyways there's this annoying 'gentleman' but was a very very good customer. he pratically bought more than rm20k worth of products.

anyways the manager was patching up paris (the mac ibook) and tinker-bell (the printer).
*they didn't wanna communicate, so they needed to be... patched up*

and mr gentleman came talking to mr manager suddenly. interupting my time...

(please imagine a strong thick ENGLAND accent. but he's very the melayu man)
*i wanted to do a video demo... but i thought i rather spare you the pain*

gentleman: oh how much is the macbook?
mr manager: it's rm7999.
gentleman: oh that's only about £1000 plus. oh you do know it's £1 = RM7 now don't you?
me: *i had to open my mouth...* OMG. REALLY? DANG!
gentleman: it's like i come back here with so much more money.
me: eyes rolling...

and they kept on going on the prices. this mac how much that mac how much...
and talks on... should he reserve the key board for US or UK... blah blah...

then out of the sudden... he had to drag me into the conversation...

gentleman: you chinese people... *points me* think you can simply come to england and you can't even speak proper english...

i was flabbergasted... like HULLO... what did i ever do to deserve this?
did i have a sticker on my face... ENGLAND?
HULLO... i wanna go back to JAPAN not even VISIT england!

the gentleman kept on continuing. and i think he felt my rage. he then included the malays, the indians being ignorant with culture blah blah... *mind you he's a malay man...*

and again... i was flabbergasted...

but i managed...
me: perhaps it's due to the tv we watch now. since most of the english used is american and not british.

and he started ranting on those days they had no tv and now his wife has so many tv...
*like that's my fault and like he doesn't watch it la*

the point is...

i don't understand why and how come these people think they have any rights to walk up next to you and start bitching about the pass.

*this has happened before when i worked part-time in a bookstore. this old man suddenly came to the shop... dragged me to the dictionary section and decided himself that i do not know how to use a dictionary. opened the T section, asked me to pronounce 'tuition'... and then asked me to pronounce 'intuition'... and then starting to complain since there's so many tuition center centre around this area and they don't seem to pronounce it properly... i was like... HUH... mister... are you planning to buy this?*

yes it was probably the right way. i mean it is the right way... but i still don't see you speaking like a 'Shakespeare' do i not. and that was... is... proper english as well... get me!?

time has changed... your england era has left the building. now it's my... well not even my time... i'm even back dated... look at bahasa... keluarga is now known as famili... yucks. and you know he's like not even proud of his bahasa... idiot...

YEAH i mean hey if you felt that we have difficulty back here in your own country... then why don't you come back here and contribute to your nation huh!!! arsehole! why run away from your OWN country and just come back here to support the... 'economy' and then bitch how bad your country is... the country in the first place, that sent you off for your education in that grand la la university... *yes he mentioned that he got a scholarship to LONDON back then in the god knows his time era* idiot...

and my last argument...

yes you are probably educating me. but i never asked for it. i only wanted entertainment from paris and tinker-bell. and no i'm proud the way i speak, the terminology i choose to use. i love my grammar errors. i am afterall a malaysian. i don't see a problem with having a US english and UK english... so i declared this, we now have MY english as in malaysia's version of english.
live with it. =)
besides... i'm truly asian. LOLs.

*FYI i don't care if there's any grammar, spelling etc. i DON'T care!

2 comments:

William said...

In Queen's English:

I say, how obnoxious of those pheasants!

dy said...

what a total jerk. hate those ppl who feel their superior than others just bc his/her ability to speak english. one thing he gotta learn is to respect others.

me thinks paris and tinkerbell sound adorable.. my iPod is called Prada.. :)