Meanderthals and Frustrations

I mean, seriously: you can’t polish a turd so why even bother.

This is how I feel about Singapore at the moment. I have actually had it up to the neck with it all at the moment.

Who wants a fricking list of disappointments and frustrations?

WORK:

 WTF? I have been in it for 18 months and I love it, like actually love it.

I am not one of these people who went out got a generic tossy degree or one of the people who attended university to escape home/grow up/ find myself. I also did not post graduation have the ordacity to sit and cry over the said degree whilst holding down a job as an admin assistant/stripper. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with having a shitty job you hate and has nothing to do with your Law degree or History of Art Degree from a prestigious university... But, I actually went out, got a degree relevant to my chosen profession and practice the teachings of my practical and wonderful degree every day. I am registered with not one, but two professional bodies and daily uphold the morals and ethics I have been indoctrinated intoThe job i do, which i like is indeed the very I’m in Singapore. I like it, and I like the people I work with and I actually like the clients I work with- EVEN though they will daily and predictably darken my door all whinging and whining and moaning and demand the most obscene and obtrusive things and even at times make you sob uncontrollably and into your dirty, sweaty shirt. But, I actually love the job.

The job that as of February 2012 will no longer be mine.

Unceremoniously and thrown out with the trash of old un-renewed contracts, I too will be replaced.

Plan? fuck this, I'll go and get my framed degree certificate, Cry over it, and become a stripper.

I'll probably make more money anyway,

and well,

it cant be more humiliating than being told you are pretty wank at your job.

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MEANDERTHALS:

meanderthal
	(noun) People who wander around aimlessly and always seem to get in your way in stores and supermarkets, chatting on their cell phones and paying no attention to their surroundings. Use: "I would have been here ten minutes earlier if I hadn't been stuck behind that meanderthal."

It’s a well know fact that Singaporeans like to get in the way.

Its a well know fact that Singaporeans like to use their iphones too

It's a well know fact that Singaporeans like to use the iphones and get in the way at the same time.

They just wander meaninglessly meandering through life in the Malls, at food halls, in the corridors of work: they just love pottering about. And <fuck> the iphone, it’s the bain of life to normal people trying to get places.The “Meanderthals” walk aimlessly at 2km per hour, they also stare downwards at the screens of their iphone and not looking where they are going bump into people, or WORSE still, walk so slowly and wonky, drifting left to right that you can’t even get past them.

This is fine. The Meanderthals stroll I mean, its ok to potter – IN THE PARK.

Not in the corridors of work where staff are in a rush, and often a genuine – SOMEONE MAY DIE HERE rush. Fucking meandering around.

Meander this Meanderthals.

                               
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Lunch Breaks

I just want a sandwich. Just a plain old sandwich. not a processed to the heavens subway or a salad, or a wrap.. not a rice dish or noodles. Soup? no thanks not in this heat and not without crusty bread!
                                              

Hows about a bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich? or ham and salad? cheese and ham? philidelphia even? prawns on soft brown bread? chicken salad? beef pastrami?

 Perhaps a little trickle of salad cream, a drizzle of ketchup a dab of mayonnaise?

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I'd settle for a cheese and beans jacket potato.

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oh, and one last thing.

and let me get high, higher than Charlie Sheen on a good day.

Cellphone-toting meanderthals are dangerous because they are oblivious to their surroundings. Baby-stroller-pushing meanderthals could wipe out the next generation. Meanderthals of any kind survive only because most drivers use their brakes.

—Jack Brubaker, "Meanderthals and freedestrians make driving in the city a challenge," Lancaster New Era (Lancaster, PA), July 23, 2002