"Do you think your character will change?" Mei Ling asked me at the end of SSP while we were packing up. I was taken aback by her question and asked her what she meant. "Maybe not since I've not changed much the past few years." I replied.
"Because I saw that you were quite smart just now. I'm afraid that you'll become bad. Smart people usually become bad." She told me. Then she left with Si Yuan to catch the shuttle bus out to the MRT while Huey Ying waited for me to walk out to the parade square to wait for our parents.
That night, I stayed up late thinking about this question. It was a simple yes or no question yet it made me think hard about an answer for I am sure there is no definite right or wrong to my answer. What I think might not happen might happen. Who knows? Who knows what I'll be doing in 10 years time? Who knows what if my friends and I will remain as friends forever just like how clase we are now, laughing, joking, chatting and me trying to be sarcastic.
For now, I'll tell you that I will not change. I guess I will not change and hopefully I do not change much, maybe just change and become a better person. My reason is simple for I am not a person easily influenced. I do not believe what anyone says unless it is reliable, credible, just like a history source. I know clearly I have not changed much over the years though my classmates have for they who used to be someone I know seem like a stranger today. I no longer know what type of person they are. The classmates I know when I first met are so much different. From a young and innocent child, they have succumbed to peer presure, changed their habbits, not being themselves, pretending to be someone they are not just to gain acceptence. To me, I feel that there is no need for these. I just want to be myself and I want people to accept me for who I am and not accept me because I am just like them. It feels pathetic to be like that.
I have grown alot. My thinkings have changed. I'm probably not as childish as before. In the past 4-5 years, I've seen quite a bit of the world. I have probably experienced more than some of my friends have. I am no longer innocent...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Cash Register
It was Saturday night. Just like any other Saturday nights, I was at my maternal grandparents' house. I had gone swimming with my brothers earlier, late afternoon. After which I went to my grandparents' place for dinner like we always did on Saturdays.
Tonight was special for I decided to spend the night at at the cash register with my cousin. It was a great experience serving customers although there were some hiccups.
The first thing that happened was that...
a girl was standing at the cashier, waiting for us to calculate how much she had to pay and there we were, trying to look for a calculator for our mental sums is not as good as it used to be. We were so desperate that I took out my phone to calculate using the calculator in my phone. That was when my grandpa came and calculated it in a short while.
So, lesson learnt? We (I mean my cousin and I) decided we should do this more and that we are revising math for we need to calculate the amount to be paid as well as to calculate how much change is needed. I can claim credit for finding change for I calculated faster than him:)
Second thing that happened...
A guy came and wanted to but cigrattes. He wanted this certain brand of cigrattes-Next light (I think) It was a box of cigratte with green packaging. Having little experience working at the cash register and not knowing much about cigrattes, we looked up at the wide range of cigrattes of that brand with green packaging and did what I think is a stupid thing. One by one, we took the cigratte box from the shelf and asked him(the guy) if that was the brand of cigrattes until...Bingo! I finally found what he wanted. My cousin then recieved the money from him and gave him his change.
Lesson learnt? We concluded that it's not easy to sell cigrattes. You'll have to know the differnt brands and differentiate same brands with same colour packaging...
I think that's all for today=)
Tonight was special for I decided to spend the night at at the cash register with my cousin. It was a great experience serving customers although there were some hiccups.
The first thing that happened was that...
a girl was standing at the cashier, waiting for us to calculate how much she had to pay and there we were, trying to look for a calculator for our mental sums is not as good as it used to be. We were so desperate that I took out my phone to calculate using the calculator in my phone. That was when my grandpa came and calculated it in a short while.
So, lesson learnt? We (I mean my cousin and I) decided we should do this more and that we are revising math for we need to calculate the amount to be paid as well as to calculate how much change is needed. I can claim credit for finding change for I calculated faster than him:)
Second thing that happened...
A guy came and wanted to but cigrattes. He wanted this certain brand of cigrattes-Next light (I think) It was a box of cigratte with green packaging. Having little experience working at the cash register and not knowing much about cigrattes, we looked up at the wide range of cigrattes of that brand with green packaging and did what I think is a stupid thing. One by one, we took the cigratte box from the shelf and asked him(the guy) if that was the brand of cigrattes until...Bingo! I finally found what he wanted. My cousin then recieved the money from him and gave him his change.
Lesson learnt? We concluded that it's not easy to sell cigrattes. You'll have to know the differnt brands and differentiate same brands with same colour packaging...
I think that's all for today=)
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