in which I appeared to be a person who hates overseas students

This post was originally titled "funny thing I said last week that appeared dumb in retrospect". It was titled that until I read Crazy lecture note doodler's comment on my last post.

The story first I guess, then things will hopefully be a bit clearer. So last Thursday I had a workshop for Pharmaceutics. The uni likes to call it a "workshop" but I call it a "whole-lot-of-confusion,-talk-and-a-tiny-bit-of-work-shop". And I think the tutors like to call those workshops "pain-in-the-ass-shops where nobody has the gut to yell out he correct answer even though it's obvious".

What happened last Thursday was we arrived early and there were about half of the workshop people there, we realised that the room we are scheduled to be in is tiny and we frowned. Then I, being my full of bright ideas self, suggested that we moved to bigger room. Here's how the whole conversation went.

ME (talking in normal, not very loud voice):
How about moving to the bigger tute room?

CLASS:
crickets chirping.

RANDOM GIRL SITTING NEXT TO ME (in a much louder voice):
Let's move to the other room.

CLASS:
crickets chirping again and then someone just started talking in Chinese in a voice louder than mine.

ME:
Oh yeah, someone's translating it into Chinese.

INDIAN BREAD (to me):
That's tight!

I was just trying to be funny. And apparently what came out of my mouth arrived in my friends' ears as something like "Someone translates it into Chinese". Hence the "tight" comment and hence the title of the post. Seriously, how hard is it to say "yes, let's" or "no, let's not because that room might have been booked already"? I'm just annoyed at people who just sit there and don't do anything.

I don't hate overseas students, I don't hate people, I just dislike people who annoy me or who give me a good reason to dislike them. I know I seemed to write about my annoyance at people who speak Chinese loudly (usually Chinese overseas students) in libraries quite often but that's because that happens to me lots of time but I also write, albeit less frequently, about assholes (usually random Caucasian) who piss me off on the train.

So to sum things up, I don't hate overseas students, I just hate anyone who pisses me off.

I had a laugh out of technologically challenged people

I know it's cruel to make fun of people who might or might not be well endowed in the department of using complicated machineries such as a computer but when you're bored you're just glad you have something to laugh about. So the story is I was in the library watching porn when this blonde walked in and sat in the computer terminal next to mine, wiggling the mouse for what seemed like five minutes before she figured out that the computer was turned off. That's the story.

Ok, seriously, I wasn't watching porn, I was reading about how different levels of agitation can increase dissolution time of drugs (seriously, that's just common sense, if you stir your coffee you're gonna dissolve the sugar you put in faster. What's the point of writing complicated paragraphs about common sense huh?). And it wasn't a blonde that walked in and sat next to me. It was an Asian girl and some of her Asian friends who, beside being so technologically challenged that they can't tell if a computer is on or off, talked like there's no tomorrow and they had to get anything and everything off their brain in loud voices in a foreign language.

I was not gonna post about something as trivial as people don't know how to turn on a computer but those girls pissed me off. I was already annoyed at a textbook for using a whole 2 paragraphs to talk about something they could have put into 2 sentences. Those girls are just the last straw. So there.

Here's looking at YOU!

There is a free afternoon newspaper called mX. Everyone who rides the sardine cans from the city reads this because they don't want to stare at the person sitting in front of them. It's not a very good newspaper if you ask me but who cares? Anyway, mX has been running this "Here's looking at you" columns for people who wants to hook up with random people they see on the train because they find said random people beautiful, cute, has Kate Moss looks, etc. but are too shy to walk up and talk to them in person, and thus has to rely on a free publication to broadcast their message to the general masses in hope of reaching the intended target. I'm ripping mX off and doing my own "Here's looking at YOU!" for people who I find generally annoy the fuck out of me on the train. So here goes the first edition of "Here's looking at YOU!"

To the obese man who got on the train at Parliament station only to get off at Jolimont. I know everyone including you wants to get home fast but can you display some sensibility and NOT get yourself into an already packed carriage next to me. You have plenty of padding but I don't, you almost squeeze all the air out of me during that 3 minute ride. Please don't ever get near me again.

The next annoying thing

Remember Crazy Frog? I think it was named that way because it drives people nuts listening to that Frog singing without pants. What the hell really, it wears a helmet why doesn't it wear pants? I know safety must be first but decency must come before safety.

Anyhow, I've found something that rivals Crazy Frog in the annoying level: Funny Bear. This one wears shorts at least.