Things you learn about yourself.

There comes a time when everybody learns something about themselves from somebody else which they never knew about. That time for me is now, or actually awhile now but I never thought about it much..until now.. when I have the opportunity to blog about it.

So, while having lunch with Hann Meng, I once again brought up the “how-come-nobody-talks-to-me-on-msn” issue. In a nutshell, I learned today that a lot of people perceive me to be a person who talks about nothing else but serious stuff. Every string of sentence that exits my mouth has got to do with politics, natural disasters, financial issues or some other “serious stuff”. That means: To me, I sound interesting; to others, I sound dead boring, and that is why nobody wants to strike a conversation with me. Of course, it takes two to clap, I shouldn’t exclude the fact that I’m not initiating conversations with people first. It would probably be wrong of me to blame the whole world but me. But still, I really wonder if it’s true. Am I really boring and serious? Am I not capable of saying something funny or un-important? I’m probably in self-denial but I’m pretty sure I have a comedian in me, I’m sure I can make people laugh! I HAVE made people laugh, yeah..*snort snort* tons of times! Right?

That made me think, are people turned off by serious talk? I think I should choose my conversation topics more carefully next time. But hey people, I’m friendly! Really! Talk to me! I can converse in gossip language and funny language too!! I’m not all earthquake and pension money!!
Coming back to the “it takes two to clap” thing, as of today, I’m going to initiate conversations with other people first to solve the “how-come-nobody-talks-to-me-on-msn” issue. So u people better have something to say to me aR! LOL

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Yesterday, I left the house late for my Monday 9 a.m. meeting and was half walking half running to the lab, panting when I reached. My building has got 5 lifts that would take me to my floor, 3 lifts belong to the private hospital and the other 2 lifts located around the corner belong to the clinical sciences building (where I’m working at). All 5 lifts were about 10 feet from each other. Usually when I’m impatient I’ll press the UP button for both the lifts in the private hospital and the clinical sciences building and stand around the corner where I can see all 5 lifts, I’ll then get into the lift that arrives first. Let me tell you, even with 5 lifts, the average waiting time for ONE lift to arrive at the ground floor is like 5 minutes or something. It takes soooo long for ONE lift to arrive at your floor that once while I was waiting, this surgeon’ fella’ misused his only-for- emergency lift key to make the lifts come to our floor faster. (There is a keyhole under the UP and DOWN buttons of the lift that is meant for emergency purposes only. Hospital staff have the keys for this and they use it when there is a medical emergency to override the lift system so that they get priority)

Back to my story…I was running late and was a little bit irritated at the lifts since they took forever to come. Finally, one lift arrived and I boarded it with 2 other women. They walked into the lift first and I was trailing behind, so both of them pressed the buttons to get to their desired floors and then they just STOOD there, right in front of the lift buttons! WHAT the HECK ladies? Press your buttons and then move away!! I’m sorry, I get pretty annoyed with these people sometimes. I don’t understand why they can’t just press the button and then step back so that other people can press their buttons too! (sounds funny at this point). Seriously, you have to go like *ehem* * EHem* excuse me miss,* push them shoulder to shoulder* just to press your lift button! Tsk tsk..and they ask you to clear one side of the escalator so that people can walk up and down.