Bits and pieces of MY LIFE

The Most Fantastic Thing about NUS — the diversity of accents that you can have a chance to experience. Some of them are confusing *to quote an example from my Ngu Yen friend from my previous post*, some of them are intriguing *Ever tried talking to a Pakistani, Bangladeshi, a Sri Lankan and a Singaporean together at once? Man, takes some time to switch your brain into different modes before you can comprehend them =.=” * , sometimes you have to understand them in pieces *as examplified by my chinese friend, "err… how…your… lecture…?" *, and last but not least, sometimes… You just find that one accent that turns you on… makes you wanna go Wooonoooo…^^ coz it is so sexy and cute that you just can’t resist posting about it… *And the one in question here is not a GAL’s btw…*

Yesterday, i attended my Electrical Engineer lectures as usual… ( As usual the Lecture Theatre is BLOODY COLD =.=” ) I was almost falling asleep as the lecturer goes through the boring stuff of circuits and networks… when all of a sudden He thrown in this phrase… * Thou Shalt Not *… And my eyes popped wide open and went WTF? Nobody ever uses that phrase nowadays… And the problem is after saying that he did not even flinch or twitch, just like he uses that in his everyday phrase * Now that is way AWESOME!!! Thumbs up!!!! o.O” *

If I’m not mistaken, he is a Prof from Hong Kong, and it has been known that his accent ( I think it is some kinda distorted American accent, but What The Heck… who cares if it is distorted, as long as it ROX!!! ) is so sexy… that it drives people to insanity!!!! *Sigh… If I only had that kinda accent… * The phrase "Thou Shalt Not" bring back many memories, like the 1st time I heard of it in TEN COMMANDMENTS, LOTR… Aah… The problem is not everyone can say it with the Ooomph that is required to exert it, for example, if you were to say it like "tau shat nut" then it would sound like garbage, or "thou shalt not" then the power is absent, but if you go "THOU SHALT NOT" like what my beloved prof did… then everyone in class would be jolted awake!!!

Haih… very nostalgic phrase indeed for me… very ingenius way of playing with the Language… and to quote a phrase from DOTA… My Professor is GODLIKE!!!!

The other day, I was just talking to this Pakistani Gal (Saara) living in PGP, and I casually asked her if she can cook… And she said that she could ( Haha… me asking her was no coincidence coz i already knew she CAN COOK!!! ) And after saying that, all of you guys who know me well should know what the next request will be… right? ( Come on, I am REALLY tired of eating out everyday and the food in PGP really SUX TO THE MAX… )

So, I kindly requested to have a first hand chance to taste her cooking… and to my surprise… SHE SAID YES!!! >.<" ( The answer came as a surprise though coz I thought that she would shy away and turn me down or something like that ) What else can I say? My charm extends across International Borders and Culture… Damn, I HATE MYSELF FOR BEING SO GOOD!!!! XD

But I digress, so I went with her to shop in the morning for the ingredients and Wahlao… She can really shop!!! I paid for the groceries though coz after all, she’s the host and I can’t make her pay for the ingredients as well, after she so kindly invited me over for lunch… Just plain unethical if I were to do that…

I called along another Malaysian friend ( Kong Jien… Gals, if u wanna know this guy, just nudge me… Coz He is Hot!!!! ) and we both helped her to cut up the vegetables and prepare the stuff… Bla bla bla… ( I shall skip this part to save our embarrassment for we both kena kutuk kao kao from Saara for cutting up the veggies like ^!#$% ) Anyways, the dish is called… Erm… I forgot… nvm… ( Sigh… The worst thing is I don’t have my camera with me… Or else I could’ve showed you guys how nice the dish was… Haihz… )

The aroma was just tantalizing, I think she added some sort of Pakistani masala into the curry… OMG… My mouth just waters whenever I think about it. Her cooking is way better than mine the day before ( I cooked with a senior, Ruzhi a day before this happened, and HONESTLY…  I didn’t think my cooking was that good, but my senior said it ROCKED!!! ^^ To the skeptics, please visit nus2ndyear.blogspot.com that’s my Ruzhi’s blog!!!) After the meal, me and Kong Jien was like… WTF… That was really GOOD!!! And I suggested that I come by every weekend for meals >.<” ( To which she gave the WTF look and the I-knew-It smile… but she gave her assent provided that we buy the ingredients… Which to me is a pretty darn good deal!!! )

Really missing some home-cooked food T_T. Next target will be French food… Haha… Then maybe Bangladeshi food… Man… Exchange Students are the BEST!!!

Ok, so here is how the story goes… There is this guy from my cluster… A Ngu Yen guy (means Vietnamese…dun ask me why they call them that =.=” — Maybe coz Ngu Yen is the most common surname in Vietnam? Or izzit coz Ngu Yen sounds cool?). Man…. I do wish we had one for Malaysians… Maybe Ahmad Guy or Mohammad Guy, anyone?

But I digress, anyways… this Ngu Yen dude, when I talk to him for the 1st time, I couldn’t make out head or tail of WTF he was saying. Then I ask him to repeat himself… OK, so maybe my English is not that good after all (which I doubt is the case here) and I had to make him say it again. Then I found out that he was trying to say Hello!!! So I had to be a nice guy and say Hello to him. And I ask him wat’s his name, and he pronounced something like TTTTTT….IIIIIGGGGG….HHHHH….. (Why the hell was he stammering? Never seen a Malaysian tigh before? Or was there something invi behind my back? OMG O.o”)

So I kindly asked him for his name again, and then he muttered Tai… Ok, not too bad, got it on second attempt. Then he asked for my name. Then I said Zi-Xiang with the Queen’s English accent. That was when I thought all would have gone well, when he read it as zhi chang. So I repeated over, and over, and over again until the situation went pretty awkward (actually a stunned silence for 2 minutes to be exact). Then I could see that he was sweating… so i just said good night to him to ”unfreeze" the situation. (BTW, until today, whenever he sees me he just smiles and waves in a peculiar "aqua" manner, the type of wave which gives you second thoughts of waving back)

Ok, so it’s a known fact that vietnamese’s English is worse than PRC’s, period. But that’s not all, last night I went to do laundry together with another Malaysian cluster mate. We brought our guitars down and wanted to do a duet serenade under the moonlight to attract the attention of some chicks in the surrounding blocks (Gals just love Guitar Romeo’s, don’t they Guess wat I saw when I passed by the TV room? Tai was sleeping on the sofa, curled up into a ball. OMG, that’s the bloody common room for @!#$% sakes. (luckily he wasn’t drooling) Sheesh, that spoiled our mood for love instantly. (No seranade for the Night Ppl) We ended up playing some random songs and exchange some ideas and songs and techniques. Then all of a sudden, he woke up!!! He walked into our room and waved that freakin scary gay wave and smile at us… (ish ish… I think it has become an impulsive thing with him whenever he sees me)

Ok, nvm, so he ruined my night. Next morning, Aaahhh…. fresh air…. nice day… stroll to the kitchen…. only to see him sleeping on the kitchen chairs!!!! WTF? #$%@!^&*@#$!….. He must be a sleep walker or something…. (but he is a bloody good one at that, coz he managed to turn on the fan throughout the night O.o”) I begin to suspect that there’s something wrong with his room, or he is missing his Ngu Yen bed back in Ngu Yen city so much that it has messed up his Ngu Yen brains and became a Ngu Yen psycho? (OMG!!! Ngu Yen rulez!!!!>.<) But I do pity him, sometimes, being a compassionate person and all…. ( Yeah, rite…. =.=”)

But anyways, he is a nice guy after all… so far hasn’t given me any problems yet, coz me and him the best conversation we had was like

Me: Hello

Ngu Yen: HHHHH….EEEEE….LLLLLLLL….OOOOO

Me: Erm… How’s your day?

Ngu Yen: ………….

Me: Never mind. What course are you studying?

Ngu Yen: !@#$%!$#!%!$@!#$@!$@! ( totally not discernable, could have been bastard or diu or something bad )

Me: Sorry, couldn’t get you.

Ngu Yen: !@#$%!@$#!%%%^@!$#@ ( really sounds pissed off right now )

Me: Ok, then. Bye!!!!

Ngu Yen: Bu……..B….a….i!!!!

Feels like I’m talking to an old gramaphone right? But not all Ngu Yen’s are like that. I have another one who is one of my very good friends. So until now, miscommunication continues, life goes on, shit happens, and the Ngu Yen still continues to talk jibberish……

Haihz… Long time since I’ve updated my blog… ( Bloody hell, life here is hectic OK? So do give me a break ) WARNING, THIS POST IS MEANT TO BE BRAGAPOST, SO ANY OF YOU WHO DO NOT WISH TO HEAR ABOUT MY AMAZING FEATS IN NUS, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM READING!!!! AND OF COURSE, FLAMING COMMENTS AREN’T ALLOWED!!!!

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!

Brag point number 1 —- ( Drums rolling……. ) I got band 5 for QET ( Qualifying English Test ) !!!!! ^^OMG…. I can practically dance right now ( background samba music rolling while I do the ROBOT!!!! ) And for your information… Getting a band 5 for QET means I don’t have to take extra English language modules for the rest of my life in NUS… Which in turn saves time, which in turn allows me to do more of other stuff, which in turn allows me to torture others about the fact that they have to attend english classes while I go swimming on HOT AFTERNOONS… *Ah… the PLEASURE!!!* And the chain reaction goes on… and on… and on…( OK, that was a joke… seriously I mean it… come on… I didn’t mean to insult anyone, HONESTLY!!!! )

NOW, FOR THE ULTIMATE BRAGAPOST ( Curtains drawing now… The audience is getting restless… )

BRAG POINT NUMBER 2 — I’M NOW OFFICIALLY A UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR!!!!! ( The crowd goes wild…. STANDING OVATION, PEOPLE… ) this is besides the fact that I’m already an ASEAN SCHOLAR!!!! ( OMG… All the gals in the stadium begin to faint due to overheating… )

DISCLAIMER : The show-off character of the main cast in this post is purely fictional and does not reflect, in any ways, the character of the original person himself. The author reserves all rights to prosecute anyone who flames him in anyways, including by calling him a braggart, show-off and any other words that might directly or indirectly offend him both emotionally and physically. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

P. S. Alison, if you happen to read this post,  hehe… please dun take this seriously becoz I’M NOT LIKE THAT!!!! Don’t feel to bad about the QET, OK? Coz IMO, Singaporean English isn’t that great anyway!!!! Malaysia rulez, period.