Outing with my colleagues
My first outing with my colleagues and it turned out pretty all right. Weiliang, Vincent and myself met up earlier and had a game of pool and billiards. Weiliang thought us a new game involving a deck of cards and number balls, for billiards, and it turned out pretty fun. I could never stand playing billiards because of the lengthiness of each game - I'm not particularly good at it, so each game takes a long time to complete. This new game we tried allowed up to 4 participants.
Mor came along a little later with another Citibank colleague, Carrie, I think. (Mor, if you're reading this, I've written about you and there's nothing you can do about it. :P) We all talked and had dinner at a food court somewhere around Lavender - The wan ton mee there was supposed to be good. I had a plate of chicken rice already and Mor wanted to have more. He persuaded me to queue up with him for the noodles, and not wanting to disappoint him, I did. I was fairly full, and I wanted dessert. As we advanced closer to the lady taking the orders, a middle-aged woman approached us.
"Erm, excuse me, can I just queue in front of you and buy this ah? We are very hungry and want to eat this." she said.
Astonished by her request, but replied in my most polite manner, "I would love to help, but if you could convince this queue behind me, I would gladly let you queue in front of me." Seriously, if she could convince the rest of the mob, I would definitely let her take the spot. Firstly, she was polite enough to ask me, and secondly, it would only show that she's either really hungry or that she had such persuasive abilities that I had to give it to her.
"But we are really hungry and we want to eat this." she retorted.
Unconvinced, I replied, "I'm sorry mdm, it is not up to me to decide. The people behind would not be hap..."
"Ohh, so not helpful lah?" she snapped and stormed off.
"...?!" Mor and I just looked at each other. He was quite pissed off but I wasn't bothered a bit by it.
"I can't stand being said by people like that." Mor said.
"But did you lose anything?" I questioned. We were 2nd in the queue and she still had to line up. I was full from my chicken rice initially, but having that encounter only made me want to buy a plate of the noodles just to spite her - Which I did.
Mor came along a little later with another Citibank colleague, Carrie, I think. (Mor, if you're reading this, I've written about you and there's nothing you can do about it. :P) We all talked and had dinner at a food court somewhere around Lavender - The wan ton mee there was supposed to be good. I had a plate of chicken rice already and Mor wanted to have more. He persuaded me to queue up with him for the noodles, and not wanting to disappoint him, I did. I was fairly full, and I wanted dessert. As we advanced closer to the lady taking the orders, a middle-aged woman approached us.
"Erm, excuse me, can I just queue in front of you and buy this ah? We are very hungry and want to eat this." she said.
Astonished by her request, but replied in my most polite manner, "I would love to help, but if you could convince this queue behind me, I would gladly let you queue in front of me." Seriously, if she could convince the rest of the mob, I would definitely let her take the spot. Firstly, she was polite enough to ask me, and secondly, it would only show that she's either really hungry or that she had such persuasive abilities that I had to give it to her.
"But we are really hungry and we want to eat this." she retorted.
Unconvinced, I replied, "I'm sorry mdm, it is not up to me to decide. The people behind would not be hap..."
"Ohh, so not helpful lah?" she snapped and stormed off.
"...?!" Mor and I just looked at each other. He was quite pissed off but I wasn't bothered a bit by it.
"I can't stand being said by people like that." Mor said.
"But did you lose anything?" I questioned. We were 2nd in the queue and she still had to line up. I was full from my chicken rice initially, but having that encounter only made me want to buy a plate of the noodles just to spite her - Which I did.
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