Been pretty moody these days, so I guess I'll just blog about negative stuff to vent it out. If you have any of the following trait, it's okay because I don't hate you. Let's be objective and just talk about the traits, not the people. By the way, they are not in any order as they are all equally annoying.

1. Not listening
It's downright annoying when two people are having a conversation and one of the two people pretends to understand what the other person is thinking. It goes like this:

A: "Hey, are you angry about what he said?"
B: "No I'm-"
A: (interrupts) "I mean, relax la. He's just anyhow saying only what."
B: "I'm not angry."
A: "You're obviously angry."
B: "I already said I'm not."
A: "If you like that also angry, people will hate you, you know?"

This is not an actual conversation. I came up with it because I can't/don't want to remember the real ones. The point is that I have conversations similar to this and it is annoying like shit.

Another form of not listening is as follows:

A: "Today I'm sad because he said that I'm a pig."
B: "Aiya relax la. By the way, I went to the zoo yesterday, then very funny - Alex never go to the zoo before, then we (blablabla)."
A: "Oh. Haha... Oh yeah, so I was saying, he called me a pig..."
B: "Anyway, tomorrow you got class? Want to meet?"

So self-centered. I hope that some people remember that life doesn't revolve around one person. Finally, there's the most obvious not-listening, and I must admit sometimes I'm prone to it, but when people does it to me it's just annoying. I should stop doing it too.

A: "Where do you want to eat?"
B: "..."
A: "You want eat at Pastamania?"
B: "..."
A: "Nevermind la, I think we eat at kopitiam."
B: "..."

I mean, it's okay to not answer things when you genuinely didn't hear it. If you don't know how to answer, at least say something like "don't know leh". Don't leave the asker hanging. Worse still if one bitch about another after giving no response;

B: "Just now A brought me to Pastamania. So selfish. He knows I don't like Pastamania." (how can A not be a mind reader?)
C: "How can he do that?"
B: "I know right." (I thought my "..." is obvious enough that I don't like Pastamania)

I must admit I'm kind of having fun generating random conversations like that :/

2. Uptightness
Another thing I don't get and cannot stand is when people cannot take jokes at all. Some people can't take certain jokes, I get it. But some just can't take any. And then they say that I'm a very serious person. just because you don't get me doesn't make me too serious.

Anyway, something like this:

A: "C shall treat all of us today!"
B: (genuinely angry) "How can you ask C to treat us? You think he very rich?"
C: (genuinely angry) "Ya... You think I'm your bank arh?"
A: "It's just a joke..."
B: "There are some things that you cannot joke about!"

I'm a little uptight at times too, I don't deny that, but still...

A: "Can you give me some butter?"
B: "WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK EARLIER?! JUST NOW ALEX ASK ME TO TAKE YOU NEVER ASK ALSO! NOW I HAVE TO GET MY HANDS DIRTY!"

Such uptightness.

3. Arrogance
I can't stand it when people are arrogant. I don't mean when people are proud of what they are capable of. I'm fine with those "I'm so awesome" people to some extent, but not the "I'm better than you" kind. One is comparing while the other is not. I can't stand the comparing one. And it does show quite obviously.

A: "I think it'll be nice if we hang this picture here."
B: "No, that's stupid."
A: "You haven't even tried."
B: "I don't need to try know it's stupid already."

There are more traits I hate, but that will get too offensive. But people are imperfect, I am imperfect, and no one can be completely pleased with another person. No one can be completely pleased with themselves either. The point of this post is to vent my frustrations as well as try to open whoever up to my perspective. I don't claim to be right, but you shouldn't either.

Life doesn't have an answer. The most important thing is to accept one another's flaws and live with it.

Labels: rants