the lucky pick II

so she asked me where i stay, who's car that i'm driving, whether i'm studying or working.... i just answer all her questions honestly without even thinking.. well, she don't seems to be so interested to remember anyway... so i was trying to tear off the envolope.. damn hard to tear off okay, it took me like.... half a minute! then i saw some picture on the envolope and it's so small and it was at night and i was in the car so it's very dark... so there's a picture in it with few cars and some RM 100,000 printed on top of the cars picture.. i thought it's advertisement or what.. i was looking for the word "shopping voucher" or "thank you for participating" but it was nowhere in sight... then, i ask, "kan na li de?" (see where one?)

Girl A: oh, mei you shi ma? (then she sighed)
oh, nothing on it is it?

Girl B: Bu shi ah, ni kan ching chu yi dian, zhong le!!!
no, see properly, you got it!!!

dy: -_- (questions mark all over)

Girl A: (with a sudden change of tone, very loud as well, and super excited) shi ma? Miss, gong xi ni o, ni cou zhong le wo men de da jiang!! ni deng yi xia, gei wo kan yi xia...
Miss, congratulations! you won the grand prize! wait, let me see...

then she took a look on the envolope and took out a one-page newspaper cutoff, which is very very old looking newspaper cut (can see that it'ss been took in and out a lot of times from the look of the folding) and it's Chinese newspaper, the picture on the newspaper cut is the same like the one in the envolope, got cars... and RM100,000 writen there...

Girl B: Gong xi ni o Miss... (shake my hand few times...)
Congratulations Miss...

Girl A: Miss, you see this, you won the grand prize... bla.. bla.... this is in the papers as well, you can see it's sponsored by some famous companies that i don't recall now... (she said that with a very super duper excited tone... )

dy: uh....... ah ha....?

she continue babbling about the prize in mandarin, talking very fast and loud and excited.. at the same time, she sounded like a robot.. like she said this so many times that she's too fluent and sounded like reading from a script.. (sounded like what i'm doing everyday at work tho...) quite a good actress though...

so at the very moment when she suddenly turned to be so excited, i confirmed it was a scam... I was half unsure at first when she asked me to pick a card earlier cos they looked like those promoters who are working part time for some local cheap product company, giving out flyer and free sample type? and when she shake my hand and congrats me with the worn out newpaper advertisement, i damn confirm they're cheaters!!!

so after they got all excited like they were the ones who won, especially Girl A, i just told them that i don't want it.. it's okay.. i don't have time to collect it..

right at that moment, my sis came in the car and just said, "worry, we don't want... bye" then asked me to drive away...

so i just repeatedly told them off that it's okay, i don't want it and i need to go.. Girl A, still with a very excited tone, repeatedly said something in mandarin that i don't really catch what she said cos i really want to leave, i think she's trying to pester me to take the "item" that i "won"...

she scared the hell outa me when she excitedly and loudly say that i "won" grand prize.. luckily shorty got in the car and we left... they didn't even tried to get my address or other particulars.. i mean... IF i REALLY won and it's a genuine lucky draw, they should have taken down my at least my phone number right? but no... when we insisted to leave, they just steped back and let me go.. with a quite disappointed look...

come to think of it, i should have get their "company" details and pretend to be happy about the winning and see what's next and then report it to police... when i was driving off, i saw they were preying for another victim... good luck to those other victims out there, hopefully they won't fall for it..

The Lucky Pick.

so i was with my sister the other night. sent her to a departmental store to get some stuff.. since that it's just a short trip, i parked the car near the entrance and waited in the car. while waiting, i lit up a cigarette... was happily puffing away and listening to the radio and suddenly out of nowhere, (seriously dunno where the hell), 2 girls popped out beside me and greeted, "xiao jie, bu hai yi shi, da rao ni yi xia".. ("Miss, sorry, disturb you a while")..

mahai! she really scare the shit out of me man! dah lah my window was down, my hand was outside.. imagine if she chop down my hand and runaway... damn scary.. so anyway, she speaks Mandarin, a language which i prefer not to speak in public because i suck in Mandarin...

dy: (jumped a bit and took my hand in)

Girl A: bu yong pa, bu yong pa, wo men bu shi yao ni shen me.. ji shi xiang wen ni yi xia, ke yi yao ni yi dian shi jian ma?
don't scared, we don't want anything from you, just want to ask if you have a lil time?

dy: ha?? oh..

Girl A: Wo men shi xxx gong shi, (i'll translate in english from here cos she talk damn fast i only catch what she's trying to say...) so we have this lucky draw thing, whereby you do not need to pay for anything, just pick any of the card here, (shoved me a handful of card) and inside we have shopping vouchers from parkson.. if you picked the shopping vouchers, then you can shop inside with your family but if you get a Thank You note, then bu hao yi si lor...

dy: er... bu yong la.. ni men qu li mian wen la.. bu yong la..
no need lah.. you go in and ask la.. no need..

Girl B: xiao jie, bang bang mang la.. wo men yao fang gong le.. wo men pai wan le zi hou jiu ke yi hui qu le.. xiao jie..
miss, help us leh miss, we want to finish work already, after we give out these we can go home already..

Girl A: miss, shi lor, wo men pai wan le jiu ke yi hui qu le... miss, bu yong pa, zhe ge shi mian fei de.. ni zi shi cou yi zhang chu lai er yi..
Miss, after giving out, we can go hone already.. Miss, don't worry, all you need to do is pick one card, it's free..

dy: ha... (to shoo them, i have to take no matter what...) ok lah..

so i picked one card... while opening the card-size envelope, we had a small talk...



to be continued...

grass is always greener on the other side. no matter how hard you try to cnvince yourself that perhaps the grass on the other side is actually the same, yellow, looks green due to optical illusions, or even fake, you'll still see it as greener, brighter and fresher...

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i've been having weird dreams lately.. it seems so damn real that i almost thought that it really happened! i dreamt of the past.. from high school til end of college.. it's like a flashback. i felt a pang in my heart when i woke up in the morning. i felt sad.. clueless..

lucky it's just a dream.

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i really feel like writing in here everyday.. but then when i sign in, i don't know how to write, where to start, what to say.. so many things that i feel like bursting out here but then don't know why nothing came out. i think subconsciously, i chose to keep things to myself rather than writing it out. or maybe it's just pms...

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