1:57:00 AM
Music: Understand - Christina Aguilera
"I made you think, you didn't understand"
I have nothing better to do :) and I just finished writing totally nonsensical one page articles on hypothetical social etiquette being 34 times more in Africa, some crap that I made up just to keep myself busy with writing.
Anyway. The weird quiz thingie on Tsui's blog makes me remember totally random Benjamin from church camp sitting on the top of a double decker bed opposite Rafael going "Ok this game is very easy, we ask each other questions and then you must answer truthfully" :) :) :) :) Haha whatever. This is so totally random. My friends seem to wake up at 2 am. For some reason, the number of contacts online now has increased from 6 out of 180 to 15 out of 180!
Anyway whatever.
Here's my social etiquette thesis. Hope people don't sue me.
Social Etiquette: An overview; 2007
With some quotations from the social etiquette handout from the workshop in sec 1 or 2 that I found half crumpled up in my desk.
Social Etiquette is the unwritten code of conduct that you are expected to practice socially. It is ingrained in you since you were a small child by your parents, and in your foundation years of education by your teachers. Like it or not, Social Etiquette is very important to our well being.
For example, it is rude to stick your hands into some one else's fishtank with hungry piranhas. This act against social etiquette is punishable by corporal punishment ala your hand. In another example, it is very rude to be rude to your CLE teachers. CLE teaches you good moral values and important such as the every-popular integrity and sportsmanship, and should be taken seriously, hence your teachers must be treated with utmost respect; they are, after all, the messengers from integrity heaven.
A recently concluded informal study on social etiquette has produced alarmingly alarming results. In the barely surviving PaulWeKnowYouSecretlyLikeBenLee (PWKUSLBL) Village in Western Africa (the place with the polar bears), it has been proven that the social etiquette standards are 34 times better than that of Singapore. As a citizen of our glorious first-world Garden City of Formula One, I am distraught. How is it possible that 12th-world community PWKUSLBL Village can have standards higher than us?
Singaporeans, please, do not be alarmed.
During the recent expedition fo PWKUSLBL Village, Mr Tan Tock Beng, leader of the expedition to the snowy mountains of western africa, told Classified Ads Straits Times the true nature of PWKUSLBL Villagers' social etiquette. We quote page 1234 of the February 31st Classified section.
PWKULSLBL VILLAGE HUT 3 ROOM ASKING PRICE $1000 OR 15 BASKETS OF MUD, WHICH EVER YOU CHOOSE. NEAR SWIMMING POOL/MUD SPA. - CALL +1900 - WHAT - EVER.
Oops. Mr Tan Tock Beng meant to contact the classified documents office, but he got the classified ads instead. Our mistake. As Mr Tan's scripted notes say: "PWKULSLBL villagers supposedly have social etiquette 34 times better than that of Singapore. I affirm these claims. The most common form of such undying politeness is a very prompt and respectful bow to all village members, and an unoffensive, graceful gesture towards the field of serenity, as they call it. They even add, with a dazzling smile, "You first".
Mr Tan adds: "I think I saw a sign in front of the serenity field thing. If I'm not wrong, it said GRAVEYARD."
