“Yeah… Whatever… Bitch……”
I miss travelling. I have not been going overseas ever since my two years of hell started (other than Taiwan), so even before exams ended, the booking of air tickets to Australia in May, and France in July, had already began online. So here I was, imagining and illustrating my dreams of frequently flying and travelling once again, to a "friend". And he started a whole chain of moronic comments which totally spoiled my joyous mood for the entire day. It all started with…
"Wah, rich arh….."
If there is one thing i truly despise, that would be hypocrisy. Yes, you heard me. You being an asshole, just standing there, acting like a poor, starving bastard with nothing on you, and expecting a free lunch from me. Well, guess what? You can go back to your million dollar private condo, take a nice bath in your jaccuzi, wear your fancy ralph lauren polo, drive your big lexus back here and flash me some of your platinum cards. Say hello to my US number 8, you stingy son of a bitch…
Been flying around the world even before i was born. Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, England, Japan, France…..
You name it, I have probably been there…
Otherwise, I live a simple life, in a hdb flat with my mom and dad. Sis supports herself and lives outside in a rented apartment with her partner. Mom is a normal housewife who does…. housework. Dad is already way past retirement age, but still works eighteen hours a day, seven days a week to pay for the roof above our heads. And there are still many more installment payments in the years to come. I have no fancy clothes and I cannot afford to buy any new clothes on chinese new years. I just replace them when they are all worn out with holes or something. I have no cat, although i really wish i did own one. I do not have a car. I do not need a car. And I am a full time student, jobless, with zero income. But sometimes, for all the hard work, sweat, blood and tears, my family would reward ourselves by travelling around the world and experiencing other cultures, while surviving on instant noodles and cereal, and sleeping in cheap motels and inns. Good thing dad works for SIA, so we get heavily subsidised air tickets. And the tickets to Australia? Not subsidised. I paid for them myself. With my ns allowance savings. That leaves me like, a couple of hundred remaining in the bank account….
Get the idea?…
If not, let me tell you a story that i made up. It is about a farm of chickens. A particular chicken tells his bunch of comrades, saying "Oh no, i am dead!". Then the chicken egg farmer comes along, and chops its head off. And yet, the headless chicken picks up its head, manages to escape by flying up a tree, and lives in the canopy for a couple more days, screaming "i’m dead! I’m dead!". As it turns out, the headless chicken had bird flu, and the farmer had to kill it in order to save the entire farm. But whenever the other chickens see the farmer, they would scream in unison "Oh no, we are dead! We are dead!", when the farmer is just there to collect the eggs, and has no intention of killing any more of them. So the chickens, as well as their future generations, continued their lifelong, sacred tradition of screaming "I am dead!" for no reason whatsoever, while continuing to live long and healthy lives….
It is just like so many of the students in ntu. They always flap around after a test or an exam like chickens on steroids…
"Shit, i screwed up my test today!…"
"Oh no, i am going to fail this paper!…"
"What to do? What to do?!….."
"Oh no, i am dead! I am dead!…"
"pok, pok pok pok….."
"pok, pok pok, pok pok pok pok……."
"pok, pok pok pok pok, pok, pok pok, pok pok pok……"
And what kind of grades do they get in the end?
A plus, A, A minus, and B plus…
Except, they do not have brains the size of green peas, like the chickens….
And when I say I screwed up or failed my tests? I really did…
Cs, Ds and Fs…
The morale of the story?…
Stop being a hypocritical jackass.
Stop pretending.
Stop lying through your teeth.
Tell the truth for a change.
Get real.
Hmmm…..
"Wah, rich arh….."
I can still play that out loud and clear in my head…
The irony…
Seriously, I do not know whether to laugh at you, pity you, or punch you in the face. But, even an idiot deserves an answer. So i made it short and simple enough for your ass to comprehend. Guess what I said…..
