New Road Safety Lesson

Most of us would probably have sat through one of those road safety lessons – check that the traffic light shows a green man and that it’s not blinking, look left look right and look left again, put up your right hand and cross the road safely.

Nah, thrash all those ideas. Just step out onto the road, and as the cars come honking towards you, put up your right hand, hold out your middle finger and shuffle across the road like your father owns it. Continue showing your finger to fellow pedestrians after you cross. That’s the way I saw a hippie do it today.

Cosmopolitan and Beer

Tonight was spent catching up with friend and in the process, had some insightful revelations and peeped into the “Blind” quadrant of the Johari window.

Friend: “Caucasian bosses really know how to enjoy. They work hard, but to them it’s also very important to enjoy. They tell me, ‘The weekend is here! Go, go out and enjoy your weekend!’. Unlike Chinese bosses who’ll work late into Friday nights.”

Me: “Sure, Caucasian bosses enjoy their weekends while you work hard for them.”

Friend: “Yeah, that’s true too.”

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Me: “This song is not supposed to be played with the guitar. The piano should be the lead.”

Friend: “Can you not be so square and think out of the box?!”

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Friend: “You look like the sort who sits in a bar and drink milk.”

I promptly let her in on some of the benefits that come with being perceived as the goody-two-shoes.