Strange Encounters

"You got a very lucky face."

A towering Singh with a yellow turban said to me when I was waiting to cross the road at Tanjong Pagar. On his yellow turban is an emblem which I did not see clearly.

"Sorry huh..." I said and looking puzzled.
"You got a very lucky face." The Singh said again.
"December will be very lucky to you and 3 happy things will happen." Said the Singh
"Oh......" At that moment I was freak out.
"What is your name?" Said the Singh
"Wei Tat." I said. Unsure that I should tell him at all. I wanted bullshit an English name like Peter or Jackson.

Then he took out a yellow namecard that is laminated. On top it wrote "God loves you" and his name "Raja". There were other words but I was too freak out to read. He said something which I can't remember and I told him that I am in a rush and return him the namecard and he just said "ok". To my surprise he is not persistent. I just cross the road and walk away from him.

The second encounter was with a woman while I was sitting in the train going home. She was sitting beside me and she suddenly spoke to me.

Woman: "You have a nice bag, where did you buy it?"
Pineapple Tat: "I bought it from Metro."
Woman: "What brand is this?"
Pineapple Tat: "FX Creation."
Woman: "How much is it?"
Pineapple Tat: "I can't really remember..."

Then she start having a conversation with me about her son's bag being too heavy and she wants to buy a lighter one. Suddenly she start molesting my bag by poking it, feeling the material and pinching to feel its softness. My bag was humiliated just like that.

In a third encounter, I was in the train going home with Ms K and Ms Piggy. After they alighted, 2 men nearby suddenly start talking to me. They say I look very familiar. They have seen me somewhere before. However both of them came from Malaysia, and I can't recall seeing both of them before. Upon realising that we don't know each other. They still kept talking to me, what is most suspicious about them is that they kept asking about my occupation and my life. They seem really interested in me and one guy even shake hand with me and introduce himself. In an instance reaction, when the train reach Lakeside, I got down, one stop before Boon Lay where I alight to go home. I just told them I am alighting and then left. In the end I walked and took a bus home.

When I was selling credit cards part time, sometimes I would try to look grumpy and lean on the underpass wall of a credit card hub at Orchard MRT. However and strangely people will still ask me for directions. I mean I try to look grumpy so that nobody will ask me anything, can't these people read body language?!

You know what I conclude from these incidents - That I have a handsome face. Even the Singh thinks so. He said "You have a very lucky face." Just tell me, "You have a very handsome face." I will understand it just as well. No wonder strangers keep talking to me...

My 6th Wife

I have always wanted to change my 6th wife, in case you are wondering who are my wives, please look at the following (I have 7 wives):

1. Ms K
2. Ms Piggy
3. Ms Lily
4. Ms Public Holiday
5. Ms Chipmunk
6. The female security guard at Old Chinese Banking Company recreation club
(I suspect Ms K wants to prevent me from adding more wives)
7. Mr Purple Tomato
(my ex-boss, Ms K insist he is number 7. She just wants to prevent me from having more wives)

You can find the photos of my wives in 25/06/07 article. Well I don't have the photo of my 6th wife but it's pretty obvious why I want to change. One, I don't want to know her. Two, I don't even want to know her. And Three, I know who I want. She is Ms Prozac.

I have been trying to get her to be my 6th wife. I have raised the question a few times. Ms K always say must go through her approval, Ms Piggy's approval and Ms Lily's approval before she can join. Ok fine. But where is the application form?!

One day, I raise the question again at Timbre and Ms K said, "Must go through our approval first." Ms Lily said, "We didn't agree to it." Ok so finally I gave up...

Then yesterday, Ms Prozac told me,
Pineapple Tat: "Hey, why don't you get yourself a boyfriend? (we can't be selfish)
Ms Prozac: : "I am trying but don't have suitable one... Anyway you have been asking this like forever." (see I told you I am not selfish)
Pineapple Tat: "Why don't you lower your expectations? You can't always find someone as good as me."
Ms Prozac: "I have already lower my expectations, so low that I am willing to choose you!"

After hearing this, I am touched. She has said yes to be my 6th wife! I have decided next Friday (26/10/07) when all my wives meet up for dinner. I will raised this up again, get an application form (if there is one) and apply for Ms Prozac to be my 6th wife.

Almost there

I was sitting at a stand alone bus stop in the middle of nowhere. In front of me is a vast green field with the nearest flat 1 km away. 200m behind me a modern white elephant of the Punggol MRT station. The road in front of me stretches to my left disappearing into the forest and to my right into nothingness. The sky is dark and I can feel the strong cool breeze. It is going to rain...

I thought to myself: "What am I doing here?"

Suddenly life descend into nothingness...

I was on the verge of understanding the meaning of life, almost attaining nirvana, nearly achieving enlightenment, closing to the truth... Suddenly I realise everything is meaningless and non-existent. It exists because you think it is and you give value to it.

And then I woke up and realise how "ulu" (deserted) Punggol is. It is a place where birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't shit at place. Here I am waiting for a bus to go into the forest on my far left and expect to find a restaurant?! Why would someone open a restaurant at this place which is far far away long long ago?? The first thing when I met the restaurant owner I will say,

Pineapple Tat: "Hi! Nice restaurant, I would like to do promotions with your restaurant."
Restaurant Owner: "Sure!"
Pineapple Tat: "Can you sign the contract here?"
Restaurant Owner: "Ok!"
Pineapple Tat: "We would like to give you some point of sales materials like A1 banners, acrylic tentcards and bill folder inserts."
Restaurant Owner: "Yipeee!"
Pineapple Tat: "I can see that you have lots of customers like birds, racoons and monkeys in your restaurant."
Restaurant Owner: "These are my regulars."
Pineapple Tat: "I see there are no humans here. What promotions are we doing?"
Restaurant Owner: "1 for 1 Bananas, 10% off ala carte peanuts and 20% off signature earthworms."
Pineapple Tat: "I see..."

As I left the restaurant, the restaurant owner offer me some flies, I kindly decline. I think I saw him sticking out his tongue and sucking the flies.

I am almost there. Almost where? Almost getting out of there.....

Marketing Advice

Today I ask my lecturer that if I wanted to study for a degree in Marketing, where should I go? He told me to check out MIS (Marketing Institute of Singapore), the chairman is his friend and this friend started the Mediacorp Group. Another option is SIM (Singapore Institute of Management) because it is reputable although he is not sure about its marketing course.

However what he said next surprised me. He said the best marketers are engineers! He mention that those lecturers that are teaching at Insead (one of the leading management schools in the world) have engineering background. And even in knowledge of finance, engineers are the ones that are good at it, not accountants. Because engineering is a process, it is the improvement of process that put them one up. I am starting to have a new found RESPECT for engineers...

It does make sense because I read a book "Conversation with Marketing Masters", apparently some of these marketing masters had a degree or masters in a totally different discipline from marketing, like economics, engineering or even science. Yet they are the marketing masters. One example is Philip Kotler who is economics trained and a french guy (can't remember the name) who invented a program for marketing strategy.

My lecturer told me to be a marketer, I must have knowledge in finance because marketing is about bringing in profits and I need to know how to read the financials and derive the figures. He told me that since I work in a financial institute I should know all these and overcome it. What he said next really struck me,

"A marketer who doesn't know finance is just a bloody salesman!"

I am back!

Ok I know I should have write my blog almost everyday right but my brother was using the computer to watch anime. I am not a barbaric person, that is why I did not use my position as the "big brother" to ask him to let me use the computer. (except when I need to do work)

Everyday I always thought of what to write, however when I reach home, either I forgot what to write or I have no mood to write. I used to think that since I am doing a social experiement on blog writing like a girl, I wanted to name each blog entry "Social Experiment Day 1", "Social Experiment Day 2" etc.

However I scrap that idea of the naming convention. Maybe... I should scrap this whole experiment! By the way I took some photos. You must be wondering why I didn't post them. Too lazy lor...

Eh... What to write huh?

I wanted to write my blog yesterday but my brother was using the com. It's ok I shall continue my social experiment as usual on how to write like a girl as mention on 07/10/07.

Let me see what I should write about today... Let me see... Let me see... Write about work... No no no... Write about the places I visited the past few days meeting my merchants? Nah... Write that I drink on my job? Write about my colleague's last day tomorrow? Or write about someone is joining my team?

I don't know what to write leh... I know I know what to write... How about I don't write anything at all?

Just write baby

As mention in my last article, I will try to write everyday as a social experiment. I will write what I like and how I like it without caring about the content or topic... So I am going to write like a girl!

Ok today I saw my cousin at UE Square in a art & craft shop. Apparently she is there teaching art & craft to kids. The best part is that I didn't know anything about her. You see, she belongs to my mum's side and I am more close to my father's relatives. Thus I have learnd more about her than I have seen her for 20 years of Chinese New Year (ok we usually see each other on CNY). Today I finally know her age and she is born on 1986. Haha... I just thought she would know 2 of my friends who studied in SP interior design like her. But they are born in 1984, so I actually thought her to be older. (I don't mean that, you do look young, it's just that it did not cross my mind about your age)

After writing in one breathe, I shall stop here and do my stuff. What stuff you might ask, like sleeping?

How to write a girl's blog

I once ask a guy friend to read another guy's blog. I told him it's pretty interesting. Guess what he told me,

Ignorant Guy: "I usually don't read a guy's blog, I read a girl's blog because I think its more interesting."

I was speechless... Of course I won't debate with him on the stereotyping of a sexes' blog on whether it's interesting or not. However I do realise that a girl's blog usually has the following characteristics,

1. Lots of photos - They love to post lots of photo, photos of food, photos of where they go, photos of what they buy, photos of me etc.....

2. Lots of entry - They have lots and lots and LOTS of entries, they can write almost everyday about nothing. Even if nothing special happens. They just write, no matter how short or how uneventful the day is. (except when they are busy with work)

3. They bitch and talk about everythings - You can really see the emotions, the complaints, the dramas and sometimes the vulgar languauge all come out! They talk about the weather, they talk about their friends, they talk about what they do at home, thay talk about what they do outside, they talk about shopping, they talk about and I am tired of writing... (in short they talk mostly about experiences and human relationships)

4. They like to post lyrics, poems and those psychoanalytic tests - You can see they like to share with you things that really touch their hearts and emotions. Sometimes it contradicts them and they feel confuse.

5. Lots of mystery - They sometimes write about certain things, after reading it, you still don't know what is going on.


I suspect my guy friend prefers to read a girl's blog because he think its more drama or he thinks that by reading a girl's blog, he can understand a girl better.

A guy once told me to post more photos - I would love to but should I post photos of myself showing a 'victory sign'? Post photos of the food I eat? Or post photos of myself in my new dress, sorry I mean clothes.

I am considering writing everyday instead of a bi-weekly special in my blog no matter how trivial or little I have to write. I would like to experience how it feels to write everyday even if it's about nothing. I guess the trick is to write everything about myself instead of commentating on things and topics.

Writing about all these, suddenly I have a thought. Will reading about a girl's life on her blog, actually makes you understand her more?