The Revival of The Traditional Asian (and some irrelevent Pictures)

As promised, after Tax exam I said I would do a nice long post with lots of pictures.

Pictures make everybody happy. So miscellaneous photos first; and then the topic of today: The Revival of the Traditional Asian.

Have you ever tried to study/teach somebody anything online? It can be heaps distracting...or really productive. Here are two MSN screen prints which demonstrate this.

[See this is incredibly productive, Noelle is showing me some International Finance. And yes, my DP was the Tiger Onitsuka's.]

[I've annotated it for you all, but feel free to click on it for a better read. See how unproductive MSN can be? I got little done at home]

[In the end i did manage to learn the entire six weeks of Tax in about eight hours. Missed out ALOT of marks because of that last question. Dang it! Used 43 post-its for this unit so far]

[This was my mane in full flight after a shower. I had to cut it off because I have a bunch of meetings this week. I cut it at Top Image, not bad place either! I miss the flow and freedom of my mane already]

But now onto the main course, today i am offering a lesson in Persuasion 301. Prerequisites are Absent of Dignity 201 and Confronting People 101.

All these lessons are in an attempt to revive The Traditional Asian; the non-swearing, hardworking, Teochew/Cantonese/Minor dialect/bad Mandarin speaking martial arts oriented, cheap-ass hoarding warrior that belonged to the generation before us. And bought everything on the basis of Bang for Buck.

Our parents however decided not to teach us this (no idea why!) and decided we should be the Modern Asian; who are characterised by their constant cursing and procrastination, their over use of Mandarin-from-Chinese-School to the detriment of their ancestral dialect, DotA/KTV oriented, inability to understand bang for buck and slackness.

I want to revive the Traditional Asian and I'm gonna do it. The Modern Asians shame the last of us.

So here we go...

After Buddha's Birthday the other day, the wonderful people at FKS gave us a heap of tokens to go and buy lunch around the Festival. Pretty much coupons with $1 or $2 or 50c written on them and you trade it for food. I'm guessing they later get reimbursed for that stuff.

Anyways, so with my meagre five dollars I set out into the festival to find some food. On average things were about 3 dollars-ish. Some stuff was darn expensive too! Like Turkish bread, with the Vendor only accepting cash.

But back on topic, my first port of call was a lovely sticky rice stand tended by a pleasant innocent Malaysian-Chinese-Honky-FOBish-with-ABC accent girl around my age. So I carefully ripped off one dollar and went to talk to her to see if i could get a $3 sticky rice for a buck.

[Need i say more? I shall: "It was wunnn dorrrrrrlah!" It proved painful later on during the Lion Dance as I got stomach pains]

Down to four bucks i saw a $3.50 Ice Kacang vendor with a pretty depressed girl as the vendor. In light of this i wandered over to say hullo (she seemed familiar...turns out i didn't know her). We chatted for a little bit and finally i walked away with another great bargain. One Ice Kacang for a dollar. No need for a picture.

I finally blew the last 3 bucks on a bubble tea. I only managed to get the girl to give me 50cents off, but hey...that 50 cent is one share of Yellow Rock Resources (YRR).

But from that short story we have seen me milk five bucks into an Ice Kacang, a Sticky Rice and a Bubble tea.

HOW?!?!

I'll tell you how, by just being friendly and nice. Being well spoken and eloquent helps but its not necessary. Don't come on too strong when you are bargaining/asking for a cheaper price cause they just get scared. And if you really have to, just flick the flirt button on.

Just a hint, no more. The crooked smile, the slight tilt of the head, the wave. We are all grown up here. Don't deny it. You know who you are. And its not me. I use my smooth talking and elegant body language to get my discounts. Or Jedi mind tricks.

And if well spoken and flirting/Jedi mind tricks gets you nowhere with a discount. HELL Show your abdominal muscles. That woos everyone. Why else have them?!

[1st rule of Being a Traditonal Asian Club: Ask everybody to give you a discount]

And the concludes the first stage in Traditional Asian revival. Expect more. Always remember Bang for Buck and always get your entitled discount. The phrase "gaginang" works wonders and will open many doors. Only if your Teochew though.

And some more miscellaneous photos from the day. The captions are important.

[This kid...his hair...ha-lar-ious. Then he did the most pansy fan dance. If I was his parents I would find a psychiatrist quickly]

[Huge fan of Cheongsams in general (being traditional and all). But my god...i felt this one was really revealing esp for a religious function. Imagine if the wind had picked up. Worse, imagine if it had poured rain! White! Water! Girl! (^_~) Or am I just too old fashioned?]

[Jase and Me performing the Five Mandarins dance that made the crowd go wild]

[Andy and :. This picture was a good one of the sky...it was sooo close to raining]

[Penny, Mum, Me and Alison before the second dance. I never realised how short my mum was.]

Off to bed to lose sleep over Tax exam.

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