Wednesday, December 17, 2008

English.
The very common medium through which people communicate with.
The language that is.
Its world-widely known.
So how can anyone not know the basics of sentence construction?
Simple adjectives or verbs.
Nouns.
Or even conjuctions.
Subjects,objects.
If you dont know english, you basically cant communicate.
Especially in a multi-racial community like singapore.
And if you cant communicate,you cant survive here.(in s'pore)
Am i right to say that?
I truly think i am.

what im trying to say is.....

I went to the coffeeshop near my house to get myself breakfast. so i went to get some chinese food.Pau. I ordered. And the shoplady (a chinese) asked me if I wanted it packed and i agreed. After which she told me something in a dialect,which I am so sure it wasnt mandarin, as if it was a question. My reaction, "huh?". And she kept repeating that same line over and over again like as if that was ever going to help me understand. Her assistant could not even help cause she didnt know how to translate? perhaps. But she kept repeating it OVER and OVER...
I got pissed. By this time i was thinking, "LOOK AT ME!!! WHICH PART OF ME TELLS YOU I CAN CONVERSE IN YOUR DIALECT???"
Its a pretty rhetorical question.
And people like that shoplady can actually be seen in a car driving off after work.Like WTH man..
Honestly, I am sick of seeing people in the service sector who can only speak mandarin.or malay.or tamil for that matter.
Learn English people.Its good for you.

Its hard to believe i didnt swear much in this post.

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