finding a husband for my sister and a wife for my brother

a series of randomness about (international students) living in wellington new zealand 

you don't play tennis at two in the morning

weirdo.

this happened couple of nights ago when i was studying at the kelburn campus up until 2AM (contrary to mass accusation I DO study).

was walking down mt. kelburn, sleepy and all, and passed the tennis court and there i saw people playing tennis, at two-frikking-ay-am.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.

you should be in bed, sleeping, or do other fun stuff that involve bed and if you're lucky, a hot person to share the bed with. or studying, like what i was doing. or watch DVDs, or BBC and follow world news. or go to courtenay place and spend your hard-earned cash at wellington's bars, spread the wealth and improve the economy of this country.

and i can still think of 1622 better things to do at 2 AM in the morning and the list does not include tennis.

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study/work + porn = happiness

the mind of a female college student works like this:

study + work + socialise + party + run for club president + nice
clothes + great hair + save the world + conquer the universe = i am
not happy I feel depressed.

all of the above + get laid = uhm yeah, whatever. still depressed.


and the mind of a male college student works like this:

study/work + porn = happiness.

study/work + porn + get laid = COMPLETE HAPPINESS.

tested and tried. true story.

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Filed under  //   college   depression   female   get laid   happiness   male   mind   new zealand   porn   sex   student   study   university   wellington   work  

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and the shoes make the man

some of my best friends are gays. but, some of my closest buddies are also self-proclaimed homophobics. and misunderstandings do happen. silver lining is, folks, we have got still so much to learn. and honestly, phobia is never a good thing.

girl: eeh? what makes you think that he is gay?
guy: just look at his shoes

my nearly homophobic friend would probably pass out or stop wearing shoes if he knows that an equally homophobic guy thinks that he is gay.

gay shoes, how do they look like? i actually stopped working on my thesis and did a bit of research on the stereotypical gay footwears.

they can look like these, and like these, and also like these.

so, what is then left for snotty straight homophobic guys?
 

hah! my point exactly. go easy on the alphamaleness, boys.

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Crazy Customers

I work part-time in a supermarket at the deli section and have had my share of crazy, funny, quirky, scary, nasty customers. Here are some of the memorable conversations I've had with them
Conversation 1:
Bhai: Hi how could I help?
Customer : Could I have the Dijon Chicken pasta, about a hundred grams.
Bhai: Sure.....there you go ( and I hand over the pottle)
Customer : oh sorry, could you take out all the chicken out of the pasta, I realised my friend doesn't eat meat

Conversation 2
Customer:Could I have some olives...hmmm about 200 grams of the olive groove mix
Bhai: sure (and I start filling the pottle with olives)
Customer: oh wait, but only the green olives, not the brown ones
Bhai says to himself: Its an olive groove MIX!!! if it wasn't, there wouldn't be MIX sign at the end of the label

Conversation 4
Drunk Customer : Could i ask a request?
Bhai: Sure!
Customer: could you kiss me
Bhai (thinking she's joking): Hahaha, can't know, not till 10:30 atleast, thats when I finish
Customer, goes bezerk, starts crying and shouting: YOU ARE JUST LIKE MY EX, MEN ARE SUCH JERKS,  I F***ING HATE YOU, ALL OF YOU, WHY WON'T EVEN ONE OF YOU KISS ME!!!!
Bhai says to himself:  probably cause your'e bloody nuts! 

Conversation 3:
Customer with a REALLY REALLY STRONG ACCENT: I want to shit!
Bhai: uhhh....umm.. water closets that way sir
Customer: to shit?
Bhai: errrrrrrrrr.....ummm......yes, .....you can ....shit in the water closet
Customer: No, I wanna to shit now!
Bhai : yes yes I know, that way sir, go now (thinking to my self, please don't take a dump near me)
Customer: (starts pointing his finger on the cabinet window): Nooooo, I want to shit!
Bhai: Ahhhhhh, you want two fish!!!! ( apparantly he was saying "two (battered)  fish" and not 'to shit')

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when (living) in wellington, your friends are my friends too

*waiteata flats, rainy saturday evening*
after a decent number of sav and ciders.........

chirpy girl #1: ....ow ow i know what we should do
chirpy girls #2 and 3: what?
chirpy girl #1: we should do a christmas party! the three of us could co-host it together!
chirpy girl #2: oh ya, thats a good idea
chirpy girl #3: just like last year we did it few weeks early so it was an early christmas thing
chirpy girl #2: eyyy...we could even do an early new year party as well!
chirpy girl #1: cool cool! so its an early christmas/new year/farewell-for-you/farewell-for-me party!
all chirpy girls: thats gonna be awesome.........

*quiet moment mesmerising the awesomeness*

chirpy girl #1: so who are we gonna invite?
chirpy girl #2: okay...hmmm...my latin american friends of course
chirpy girl #1: yes....yes....and your law school friends
chirpy girl #3: yes....yes.....
chirpy girl #2: and your friends of course....
chirpy girl #1: yes....yes....

chirpy girl #1: wait, they are basically the same people that came to my birthday party
chirpy girl #2: hahahahaha PLOP

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you can never choose your family, NO, sometimes you can

sister: i have no reason to apply for a permanent residence. why do you think i should?
brother: i don't know...so that you can call me everyday?

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sometimes i cut flowers from the bolton street cemetery

remember funny-vegan-american girl? i know from her ex-flatmate, the extra-funny-caribbean girl - which happens to be one of my best buddies...and my brother's twin (yes, we're a pretty much inter-related lot here) - that she has a thrifty tendency, but i don't know that she can be THAT cheap.

so i spent quite a significant amount of time today with FVAG. you know, doing domestic goddess chores, like, going to the sunday market to buy veggies, fruits and flowers and then bake bread and mop the floors of our flats.

10AM - sunday market, willis street

me: oh yeah, am getting some flowers for the open house
funny-vegan-american girl (FVAG): ouhh, sometimes i cut flowers from the
bolton street cemetery
me: but FVAG, thats bad luck, plus its scary
FVAG: yeah but they're free

and....

3PM - while passing the anglican church

FVAG: oh look pair of shoes there, somebody must have left them, maybe we should take them?
me: but FVAG, you don't even know if those shoes are your size!!
FVAG: yeah thats why we should go back and try

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your typical postgrad moment

is of course staying up late pass 2AM in the sudden wintry wellington weather (in october!), with no heater (because you don't own one) and the central heater has been switched off (since like, july). trying to make the subchapters of your chapters coherent because you're meeting your thesis supervisor in less than seven hours, coffee has gone cold and you wish that you could just drink that good bottle of wine and perhaps with a slice of brie but you erased that thought from your mind because it is not helping at all. it is also not helping at all that you have so MANY BLOODY THINGS on your mind, like, cheese scone, facebook status updates, jobs, wine, your funny mother, biting your nails, john mayer and many more things that just popped every two seconds on your head. although i dont mind john mayer.

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burn the kitchen down!

 Ok, so i live with 8 other guys from the sub-continent, so i guess you can assume we aren't the best or the most cautious of cooks. This is how me and my flatmates cooked dinner and nearly burned the kitchen down.
9:00 pm, Bhai: hey i've got 3 kgs of chicken mince, it was on special. lets cook it.
Bhai's Bro: why do you want to cook 3 Kgs of meat in one day?
Bhai: well we won't need to cook any tomorrow, more time for studies!
Bhai's Bro: dude, the wok is too small, I think it may spill over
Bhai: No it wont, lets give it a shot.
So the mince just fits, right upto the brim, we are pleased and decide to watch T.V with the other mates.
9:30 pm:
Sri lankan flatmate: Why is there smoke?
Drunk Punjabi flatmate: who's smoking, is it you, i'm telling mom!
Drunk Punjabi flatmate's bro: No i'm not, its, ohhhhh no Fire!!!!
Everyone runs to the kitchen. Apparantly, the oil was leeking from the side of the wok and the stove had caught fire.
Srilankan flatmate: Crap the ambulance is gonna be here (i think he meant the fire brigade)
Bhai: oh no, quick i'll move the wok
Bad idea, never move a utensil that quickly from a fire, the rush of air actually aids the fire
Bhai's Bro: Ahhh, your sleeve is on fire
Drunk (now heavily drunk) Punjabi flatmate: hahaha, whose sleeve is on fire?
Bhai: dude, i'm not wearing a shirt, u r , ur sleeve is on fire!
Drunk Punjabi flatmate: Ahhhhhhhh!
South Indian Flatmate 1: Aiyooo!!!
South Indian flatmate 2: water, water, water
Sri Lankan flatmate panics, turns the tap the other way and jams it shut.
South Indian flatmate 1: oh no, pour something else, pour the wine!
Everyone else: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
So we turn the stove off and stopped both fires using a blanket and blowing air on them. Well, all of us were blowing air for the first 30 seconds and then reaslised we had a fire blanket.
9:45 : best mince we ever had!

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random sms conversation #3117: checking out preggy woman

bhai: ewww...! i was checking out a chick n later saw she was pregnant, i feel so disgusting!

didi: whats so disgusting about preggy woman? u are so unmanly

bhai: i cant check out a pregi woman, there's a child in her!
bhai: i mean i feel as if d child is looking at me checking her mom out, thats weird!

didi: well. as long as the dad's not looking.

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