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I went through my past posts in this blog. Thank goodness that I only had about 100 posts for the past 2 months. But 100 posts… Do seem a lot. But hey, I didn’t waste my time on blogging, k? I type very fast de… And considering how I’m frank in my blog entries, it is understandable that thoughts just flow into words when I blog.

But whatever…

I realized that I was rather depressed for the last 2 months. The workload then, or the expectations of work loads to come, was freaking me out. And although my profs were disdained about the quality of my work, considering how I was stuck for the past few months in the work with no one to help, I believe I handed in an A+ work le. They can judge me with their own biased standards for all I care.

Some day, someone will appreciate my talents.

The main aim of this entry is actually to dispel the thoughts that I was just indulging in some ‘non-serious’ whining about being depressed. I mean, a lot of people like to cry foul and attract attention when they met with some bumps in life. I do also lah, bumps I meet, but many bumps appearing at the same time.

But I must say that now that my major hurdles are over, with only 4 papers to cross, I really appreciate those who helped me through the tough times. I do feel relieved and happy now that I’m advancing towards graduation.

Just maintain a degree of hardworkingness, like in the previous sems, pass my modules and I’m on my way to getting my degree!!

Whatever

But the symptoms are subsiding.

I was sneezing so much for the past few days, my eyes were swollen. Yes, they looked like eyebags, but they were painful to the touch.

And all the itchiness. haiz…

Anyways, some prominent blogger commented on how the SIA air-stewardess were insensitive to muslim passengers, 1st asking the outwardly muslim-looking passengers (with flowing beards) if they wanted a muslin meal and then asking them if they wanted red wine.

Some comments argued that the stewardess were sensitive enough to include the possibilities that those people could be modern muslims who do not mind red wine, while the others believed that modern muslims would not have sported such stereotypical muslim looks.

So the argument led to the system in Singapore (again) being too academic-orientated for Singaporeans to have ‘worldly’ view.

haiz… The thing about the Singaporean system is partly correct, but it’s machiam blaming the government for every fuck thing that went wrong with their miserable lives. Lifts not working, blame government. Taxi fares increase also blame government. Price increase also blame government. But these people never realize that if it weren’t them who kept on patronizing the above faults, those managers of the services would have bucked up and stayed competitive.

Whatever.

I just felt that in this world of ‘rojak’, it’s too difficult to decide whether the stewardess was in the wrong.

Those people were saying that modern muslims would not have sported long flowing beard, or modern muslims would not have bothered having muslim meals or not. But I think it was the very fact that Singapore has a significant muslim presence that allowed us to know that people practice muslims in a wide spectrum of ways.

Modern muslims do not necessary sport long beards, but neither do all who sport long beards are hardcore muslims.

It’s just like Buddhists who were supposed to be vegetarian. Some followed only the teachings, some practised hardcore vegetarian diets, some only on certain days of the month.

So what rules stated that modern muslims must not have long beards, or that all hardcore muslims should have long beards?

We were brought up to practice not to judge people by their appearances, or the choices they make, but there were still people who does that.

But then, being in the service industry is like walking on a tight rope.

It’s damning to ask hardcore muslims whether they wanted red wine, just as damning if you do not ask hardcore muslims whether they wanted red wine (’Why aren’t you asking just in case?’), even as damning if the person looked hardcore, but you did not ask if he wanted red wine. What if you did not ask someone who did not look like a hardcore muslim, but who happened to be a hardcore muslim?

That’s why I can never be in the service industry. People are hard to please. When religions, political views are mixed in, servicing someone is even a tougher job.

ha!

End of crapping.

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