People

In my line of work, clients are always ‘right’ … but of course although I don’t always agree with them, I’ll nod agreeingly as they’re paying for my services. They deserve my full attention and I’ll try to cater to their every needs

But that doesn’t mean I’ll agree to their every whimsical requests; Uncle Sha is no punching bag. I’m a practical person, so I’ll be upfront of my capabilities to my clients before I start work. I’ll stop short and drop them like a bad habit if they want to ‘play punk’ with me. I don’t need the stress

My work life very much reflects me in real life in fact

I tend to observe people, hear them out, before speaking my mind. On most occasion, I find most Singaporeans are just too defensive and would rather have their say first rather than hearing out practical reasoning or the other party explanation. In their mind, they could do no wrong

You could say I’m one of those pacifist realist. I’m the type who tend to implode rather than explode. It takes a lot before I loses my top, and you don’t want to be around when that meltdown happens honey

At times I’ve been an observer of many confrontations … the people waging tongues at each other, often losing the plot on the very reason, behind their argument in the first place. It’s more of character indifferences most of the times. Ego and losing face are deeply still embedded in our Asian culture, despite our so called ‘progress’

The other day in all places, at the MRT, a young couple (no it wasn’t a Mat and Minah hor!) was arguing over who should feed the baby of theirs. They were at the top of their voices arguing over something trivial. Luckily I believe their parents or guardian was around to pacify them

I think the sudden role reversal of going from teen to parenthood is pretty frightening to anyone, as being entrusted with such demanding responsibilities at a young age, well nobody should ever be in that position; “Youth is wasted on the young” as George Bernard Shaw would finely put it

I do feel for them and it got me thinking don’t these kids learn birth control & contraception from schools and their parents

Gone are the days of conservative Gen X like me … teenagers nowadays are battling with adult worries. They’re are growing up too fast for our liking.

No I won’t find a rock and crawl under it, as this is what we call progression. Either get on with the time or be left behind. So for me, one fine day when I do have my own kids (hopefully), my solution to young trouble angst issues is only letting my daughter starts dating when she’s 35 years old, haha. Wishful thinking hur

Hmm today’s entry is pretty random or no logic dot com hur … how the hell did I get from ‘clients’ to ‘birth control’