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I was eating at the frontier this afternoon after my maths lab and the jap stall served me a lesson i'll never forget. There were two helpers in the stall, an indian lady and a middle aged chinese women. The former took my order and then proceed to prepare the dishes. The chinese woman came along and communicated with her in malay before starting to fry a couple of pieces of chicken. Note the wonder, an indian and a chinese conversing in malay. I thought it was rather amazing as they even punctuate the flawless malay with some english phrases (which incidentally is another composite language called Singlish). Then skipped along a uncle with wrinkles drawn all over his face by the age pen. He sprouted hokkien and all three (yes...including the indian) conversed in hokkien. Amazed.

I dyed my hair ash grey yesterday but it turned out to be blonde. A classmate of mine even commented that it looked lime green. I answered multiple questions of similar nature and obvious stupidity. "What happened to your hair?!" For those who are still clueless, think Alan Smith. Anyway, people should be clobbered for it is with common sense that one can easily deduced that i either dyed or bleach my hair. I don't know why i took the trouble to explain to everyone who asked how the colour didn't come out as expected (i.e. dark ash grey is not equal to blonde/limegreen). Another fren thought i looked like a character from Getbackers, other said i'm from dragonball. Frankly speaking, i don't notice anything different about myself simply because i don't see the end result as often. The only time is when i enter the toilet where mirrors decorate the walls. Yet, on average, if i spend 3 minutes in the toilet, 1.5minutes will be spent peeing, 0.5 minutes spent unzipping and zipping my pants, 0.5 minutes to wash my hands (which i found out recently, is not a common practice) and 0.3 minutes looking at the mirror. So if i compute a total of 3 toilet trips a day, i spend less than a minute looking at the new colour on my head. What's there to wow about?! btw, if you're sharp enough to notice that the above allocation of time in the toilet does not tally, you're right. I forgot to add in the 0.2 minutes which i use to check if i'm in the right toilet.