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Telur Dada

Posted by jiunjie in Personal Encounter on December 17, 2009

Blazing hot afternoon, lunch time, in a restaurant lining up in sweaty shirt for my turn to pack my lunch. There is this guy in front of me is ordering his dishes to the kakak at the back of the stall.

“Ayam goreng”, the kakak put one piece of fried chicken into a pack of rice wrapped by brown paper with banana leafs.

“Ubi kentang”, she scoops some potatoes and added on top of the rice.

“Telur dada”

She paused for a moment while looking at this guy’s eyes. Then she looked down and smile while taking a piece of malay styled omelette, telur dadar, add on top of the potatoes she added in earlier and  she wrap up the brown paper and put it into a plastic bag.

This reminds me of once a famous politician with his famous phrase,

“Jangan hisap dada” on a anti drug campaign.

I couldn’t agree more.

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Misunderstanding

Posted by jiunjie in Office Bored on December 15, 2009

During a meeting,

Participant: This function is not included in the system, right?

Presenter: Yes, you are right.

Presenter carries on with presentation.

Participant: Excuse me, earlier you mentioned that this function will be in the system.

Presenter: Which function?

Participant: Earlier I asked about the function in the system.

Presenter: Yes, I did reply to your question.

Participant: You said the function will be in the system.

Presenter: No, I did not.

Participant: But earlier you did reply yes?

Presenter: You were asking me the question ending with a “right”, so I replied your question by agrees with your statement. Yes, you are right. I don’t mean yes to the function is included in the system.

Participant: Sorry.

The whole meeting room had an awkward moment of silent.

 

Moral of the story, ask your question clearly and listen for the answer carefully, don’t just listen to the first part and make your own assumptions for the remaining of the answer.

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