Lately, I've alot of new friends, so I decided to dedicate this one to my faithful customers and new friends whilst I still work on my mental block for my major blog which is still in draft form.
My customers.
Drunk, yet witty.
Stoned, yet sane.
To be honest, I would be jobless if it weren't for my customers, for it is their entertainment and priceless experiences which keep me coming back to work, but un-like some of my previous occupations, I actually look forward to see what the next night has installed for me; whether it be a drunken "deep and meaningful" conversation, or the girl that got dumped by her boyfriend and has masquera running down her eyes (happens alot), each and every night I go to work motivated by you guys, and I thank you dearly.
Relation.
I relate alot to my customers. To my younger customers ranging from the ages of fourteen to sixteen, I show no arrogance and share my experiences with them hoping it will help them on their journey, although some are immature (and in most scenarios, drunk), I understand that their brains are not yet fully developed and their maturity levels vary, but I too was once an undeveloped mind (err...still developing), and I remember that older people would be rather ignorant to the younger generation, causing a hate for each other. I try to lead a good example and give advice to those who have not yet been through the roads that I have, but advice can only help so much, and they must complete their own journeys to fulfill their destinies. The greatest advice I can ever give to a growing, maturing minor is, listen to all the advice you can get! the world is full of it. Use the armies of past generations and do not make their mistakes.
Those who dwell the night with red-filled eyes.
Chocolates, chips and soft drink, seeeeeee-yaaaaaa.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Random customer chitter-chatter
(2:47am, Friday morning, Ref is working at a 24 hour convenience store)
Customer: How are you Ref?
Ref: I'm al-right man
C: Oh come-on, what's the matter?
Ref: Girl troubles man
C: Ahhh, just don't settle for a chicken dinner over a rump roast
Ref: You can't compare meals to girls. A cooked chicken doesn't have a hobby or feelings, or a vagina.
C: Yes they do!
Ref: How do they have feelings?
C: They don't, but they have a vagina
(Ref laughs till his ribs hurt and his kidneys start to ache)
(Customer raises his hand in sign of farewell)
(Customer exits)
(Ref continues to laugh)
(Dim Light)
(Fade out to black)
(Lower curtains)
Customer: How are you Ref?
Ref: I'm al-right man
C: Oh come-on, what's the matter?
Ref: Girl troubles man
C: Ahhh, just don't settle for a chicken dinner over a rump roast
Ref: You can't compare meals to girls. A cooked chicken doesn't have a hobby or feelings, or a vagina.
C: Yes they do!
Ref: How do they have feelings?
C: They don't, but they have a vagina
(Ref laughs till his ribs hurt and his kidneys start to ache)
(Customer raises his hand in sign of farewell)
(Customer exits)
(Ref continues to laugh)
(Dim Light)
(Fade out to black)
(Lower curtains)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Till death do us apart.
Throughout my high school career, I failed in alot of classes, and only excelled in drama because it is what I enjoy.
I enjoy making up scenes in my head then acting them out, I enjoy writing and make-believe scenarios which you would not come across in day-to-day life.
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine wrote up a blog about his divorce with his ex-wife which they held a relationship for over 10 years. I asked him, after 10 years of matrimony and marriage, how could you do it?. His answers absolutely shook me off my chair, and I thought to myself "how could a man pity someone so much after 10 years of being together and looking after each other?" so I did what I do best, and I created the scenario in my head and played the whole thing out, this is what I have so far on one of the most emotional scripts I've yet to write, inspired by a true story and a dear friend, but for educational purposes;
So that we may learn from those who have gone through the pain and misery.
So that we don't have to walk the path they have bled on.
(Note: this script includes dialogue as well as monologue, to help act out the scene)
(Key: J = John, M = Marsha)
The Break up.
(John arrives home after a daunting day at work to his wife serving dinner. John sits down at the dinner table with his wife and they begin to eat the misou soup which was now cold. In one motion John reaches out softly to grab marshas' hand).
J: I've something to tell you Marsha
(Pause)
(Marsha continued to eat quietly, as John observed the hurt in her eyes. John didn't know how to say it, or what to begin with despite going over it in his head a thousand times, but he had to let her know what he was thinking)
J: I want a divorce.
(Marsha didn't seem to be annoyed by his words, instead she only lowers her head)
M: Why?
(Pause)
(John avoids her question in silence with a grim look on his face, the silence puts Marsha in a state of anger, Marsha throws her fork and knife away and rises in one swift motion)
M: You're not a man!
(John knew that all she wanted was to know what happened to their marriage, but he could barely give her an explanation, he had lost his heart for Marsha, He didn't love here anymore, he only felt pity. That night, silence distilled the air as Marsha went to bed and John would spend the night on the couch with Marshas' weeping in the background)
The Next Day.
(With a deep sense of guilt, John drafted a divorce agreement which stated Marsha would own the house, the car and 30% of Johns' company. John had felt sorry that the woman who he had spent ten years of his life with, had turned into a complete stranger.
(Marsha observes the paper with sorrow in her eyes, then begins tearing it into pieces)
(Pause)
(Marsha begins to cry loudly. John only feels a sense of release because the idea of divorce which had obsessed him for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now, words were not traded for nothing was needed to be said)
The Next Hour.
(John walks into the dining room to find Marsha writing on a piece of paper)
(John glances at her, then heads straight to the couch and fell into a deep sleep)
(Pause)
(John wakes up and glances over into the kitchen, and Marsha was still there, writing. John didn't care, so he turned around and was asleep again)
The Aftermath.
(When John awoke, Marsha presents to him a piece of paper)
J: What's this?
M: The conditions to our (pause) divorce.
(John recieves the piece of paper, and begins to read)
VoiceOver: The conditions to our divorce.
Condition 1: A months warning before divorce,
Condition 2: In that one month, we must both struggle to live as normal a life as possible.
(The reasons for her requests were simple, their son had his exams in a month's time and she didn't want to disrupt him with their broken marriage)
J: That's it? (Pause) you don't want anything but this?
M: No that's not all
(Marsha raises the tissue from her hand to cover her mouth as she murmured)
M: Do you remember how you had carried me into our bridal room on our wedding day, 10 years ago?
(John nods sadly then lowers his head)
M: I want you to carry me out of our bedroom every morning for the next month
(John thought she was going crazy, but to make the last days together bearable, he accepted her odd request)
To be continued.......
side note: this is not even a quarter of the entire script, but the rest is still in draft form and am continually adding to the original. I will publish the rest when deemed necessary =)
I enjoy making up scenes in my head then acting them out, I enjoy writing and make-believe scenarios which you would not come across in day-to-day life.
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine wrote up a blog about his divorce with his ex-wife which they held a relationship for over 10 years. I asked him, after 10 years of matrimony and marriage, how could you do it?. His answers absolutely shook me off my chair, and I thought to myself "how could a man pity someone so much after 10 years of being together and looking after each other?" so I did what I do best, and I created the scenario in my head and played the whole thing out, this is what I have so far on one of the most emotional scripts I've yet to write, inspired by a true story and a dear friend, but for educational purposes;
So that we may learn from those who have gone through the pain and misery.
So that we don't have to walk the path they have bled on.
(Note: this script includes dialogue as well as monologue, to help act out the scene)
(Key: J = John, M = Marsha)
The Break up.
(John arrives home after a daunting day at work to his wife serving dinner. John sits down at the dinner table with his wife and they begin to eat the misou soup which was now cold. In one motion John reaches out softly to grab marshas' hand).
J: I've something to tell you Marsha
(Pause)
(Marsha continued to eat quietly, as John observed the hurt in her eyes. John didn't know how to say it, or what to begin with despite going over it in his head a thousand times, but he had to let her know what he was thinking)
J: I want a divorce.
(Marsha didn't seem to be annoyed by his words, instead she only lowers her head)
M: Why?
(Pause)
(John avoids her question in silence with a grim look on his face, the silence puts Marsha in a state of anger, Marsha throws her fork and knife away and rises in one swift motion)
M: You're not a man!
(John knew that all she wanted was to know what happened to their marriage, but he could barely give her an explanation, he had lost his heart for Marsha, He didn't love here anymore, he only felt pity. That night, silence distilled the air as Marsha went to bed and John would spend the night on the couch with Marshas' weeping in the background)
The Next Day.
(With a deep sense of guilt, John drafted a divorce agreement which stated Marsha would own the house, the car and 30% of Johns' company. John had felt sorry that the woman who he had spent ten years of his life with, had turned into a complete stranger.
(Marsha observes the paper with sorrow in her eyes, then begins tearing it into pieces)
(Pause)
(Marsha begins to cry loudly. John only feels a sense of release because the idea of divorce which had obsessed him for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now, words were not traded for nothing was needed to be said)
The Next Hour.
(John walks into the dining room to find Marsha writing on a piece of paper)
(John glances at her, then heads straight to the couch and fell into a deep sleep)
(Pause)
(John wakes up and glances over into the kitchen, and Marsha was still there, writing. John didn't care, so he turned around and was asleep again)
The Aftermath.
(When John awoke, Marsha presents to him a piece of paper)
J: What's this?
M: The conditions to our (pause) divorce.
(John recieves the piece of paper, and begins to read)
VoiceOver: The conditions to our divorce.
Condition 1: A months warning before divorce,
Condition 2: In that one month, we must both struggle to live as normal a life as possible.
(The reasons for her requests were simple, their son had his exams in a month's time and she didn't want to disrupt him with their broken marriage)
J: That's it? (Pause) you don't want anything but this?
M: No that's not all
(Marsha raises the tissue from her hand to cover her mouth as she murmured)
M: Do you remember how you had carried me into our bridal room on our wedding day, 10 years ago?
(John nods sadly then lowers his head)
M: I want you to carry me out of our bedroom every morning for the next month
(John thought she was going crazy, but to make the last days together bearable, he accepted her odd request)
To be continued.......
side note: this is not even a quarter of the entire script, but the rest is still in draft form and am continually adding to the original. I will publish the rest when deemed necessary =)
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Milky Way vs Andromeda
A couple of months ago, I watched a very interesting documentary about galaxies. I was highly fascinated, particularly on a certain part which really caught my attention. That being, the merging of our galaxy (Milky Way Galaxy) with the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy are on a collision course! When?
Some say 3 billions from now, some say 2 years from now, it's uncertain. But one thing that is most certain is, they're on a collision course, and the two gigantic galaxies will merge to become one super galaxy.
Galaxies collide and interact occasionally and there are several well-known examples in our very own galaxy. Little galaxies in our solar system often merge, and the results are quite dramatic
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy are on a collision course! When?
Some say 3 billions from now, some say 2 years from now, it's uncertain. But one thing that is most certain is, they're on a collision course, and the two gigantic galaxies will merge to become one super galaxy.
Galaxies collide and interact occasionally and there are several well-known examples in our very own galaxy. Little galaxies in our solar system often merge, and the results are quite dramatic
Monday, August 30, 2010
Introduction and The Subconscious
So I begin my love for blogging once more. I have to be honest, I didn't stumble on this blogging website by accident, nor was I suggested or referred here. I simply googled "blog" and this was on the first page, and happened to be the link which landed under the deadly tip of my mouse. But I really wanted somewhere I could release my brain onto.
I enjoy internet communities. It really is very different to real life, considering you can type something, proof read it, and if it didn't come out the way you wanted it, you press backspace a couple of times and history is re-written. Such a luxury we have. Whether as in real-life, when you exert information from you're brain and out from you're mouth, nothing can be taken back, and what is said is then history and you must deal with the consequences without any luxury such as the backspace key we have on our keyboards (or a time-machine).
I'm twenty years of age, and I still feel like a child. My occupation at the moment involves alot of customer-service. I get a wide variety of characters that come into my work, although the vast majority are either drunken pub crawlers or some junky that's on some illicit drug. I receive these types of customers mainly because of the hours I work (graveyard shifts 10pm-7am), and the area, which is mostly populated by the younger "party" generation.
As I serve these most, intoxicated and benevolent people, I adapt and adjust myself to their custom. From reading their body language, clothes, intoxication level or how big their pupils are, I read my customer like a Dan Brown novel. All of this must be processed within few seconds of the customer entering, first impressions are everything, considering the sub-conscious of the human brain absorbs information almost instantly and is then imprinted, hence making the first impression the most important because it is the first thing they remember about you and will have the biggest impact.
Everyone has a different reaction, and they always change.
Being in this customer service profession has tought me alot of lessons. One day, some-one could be the happiest person on the planet, then a chain of mis-fortunate events happens to come across his path, making him/her, not so happy. Newton's law has it, "What goes up, must come down". This applies to almost anything in the world, such is the balance of life, for without evil, we would never have good, because it wouldn't exist (Ying and Yang), which makes me think, maybe you have to be evil, to be good, because how will you ever truly know the meaning of "good" if evil never existed.
"Have you ever had something that you loved, and you felt unique having it, so you display and show it off, but then one day, it's not there anymore?".....Ted Roosevelt
...So you pray and pray to whatever god-like entity you believe in, that it comes back, but it has vanished into the abyss. Then you realise how much it meant to you, and now that you don't have it anymore, you no longer simply "like" it, but you "love" it. Therefore, to learn the true meaning of something, you must first apprehend living without it. Hence, without evil, there would be no good, because it simply would not exist for it would have no application or use.
"A happy person is too content with the present, to think about the future"....Albert Einstein
The secret to life, to some, is a rhetorical question. But in this one case, I was told that the secret to life is not simply happiness (as one would automatically assume), because happiness is only a state of mind, which can be altered and modified. According to this person, preparation is the secret to life, because no watter what situation you are in, no matter how horrific or horrendous it may be, the only beneficial thing you can do, is prepare for the next scenario, mentally. There are other choices of-course, but lets admit it, revenge and anger never got us anywhere good.
Use the Armies of the Past......
Why think about what you are going to do, when somebody has already done it. We have to remember that there is always a solution for a problem, because, there wouldn't be a problem if the solution didn't exist (vice versa, ying and yang).
This is why history is so important. I recall some students in school used to say "Why do we need to know about this miss? it's in the past....", because at one point, you just might refer to what happen in that historical event, and apply it into you're own life.
Going to leave it here for now...
Next blog, continuation on the subconcious, how the brain functions (and how much of it), also space, aliens and inter-galactic resource wars. You thought America going into Iraq to steal their oil was bad....just wait until a battalion of super-intelligent super-evolved aliens start harvesting our very limited resources..... stay tuned
I enjoy internet communities. It really is very different to real life, considering you can type something, proof read it, and if it didn't come out the way you wanted it, you press backspace a couple of times and history is re-written. Such a luxury we have. Whether as in real-life, when you exert information from you're brain and out from you're mouth, nothing can be taken back, and what is said is then history and you must deal with the consequences without any luxury such as the backspace key we have on our keyboards (or a time-machine).
I'm twenty years of age, and I still feel like a child. My occupation at the moment involves alot of customer-service. I get a wide variety of characters that come into my work, although the vast majority are either drunken pub crawlers or some junky that's on some illicit drug. I receive these types of customers mainly because of the hours I work (graveyard shifts 10pm-7am), and the area, which is mostly populated by the younger "party" generation.
As I serve these most, intoxicated and benevolent people, I adapt and adjust myself to their custom. From reading their body language, clothes, intoxication level or how big their pupils are, I read my customer like a Dan Brown novel. All of this must be processed within few seconds of the customer entering, first impressions are everything, considering the sub-conscious of the human brain absorbs information almost instantly and is then imprinted, hence making the first impression the most important because it is the first thing they remember about you and will have the biggest impact.
Everyone has a different reaction, and they always change.
Being in this customer service profession has tought me alot of lessons. One day, some-one could be the happiest person on the planet, then a chain of mis-fortunate events happens to come across his path, making him/her, not so happy. Newton's law has it, "What goes up, must come down". This applies to almost anything in the world, such is the balance of life, for without evil, we would never have good, because it wouldn't exist (Ying and Yang), which makes me think, maybe you have to be evil, to be good, because how will you ever truly know the meaning of "good" if evil never existed.
"Have you ever had something that you loved, and you felt unique having it, so you display and show it off, but then one day, it's not there anymore?".....Ted Roosevelt
...So you pray and pray to whatever god-like entity you believe in, that it comes back, but it has vanished into the abyss. Then you realise how much it meant to you, and now that you don't have it anymore, you no longer simply "like" it, but you "love" it. Therefore, to learn the true meaning of something, you must first apprehend living without it. Hence, without evil, there would be no good, because it simply would not exist for it would have no application or use.
"A happy person is too content with the present, to think about the future"....Albert Einstein
The secret to life, to some, is a rhetorical question. But in this one case, I was told that the secret to life is not simply happiness (as one would automatically assume), because happiness is only a state of mind, which can be altered and modified. According to this person, preparation is the secret to life, because no watter what situation you are in, no matter how horrific or horrendous it may be, the only beneficial thing you can do, is prepare for the next scenario, mentally. There are other choices of-course, but lets admit it, revenge and anger never got us anywhere good.
Use the Armies of the Past......
Why think about what you are going to do, when somebody has already done it. We have to remember that there is always a solution for a problem, because, there wouldn't be a problem if the solution didn't exist (vice versa, ying and yang).
This is why history is so important. I recall some students in school used to say "Why do we need to know about this miss? it's in the past....", because at one point, you just might refer to what happen in that historical event, and apply it into you're own life.
Going to leave it here for now...
Next blog, continuation on the subconcious, how the brain functions (and how much of it), also space, aliens and inter-galactic resource wars. You thought America going into Iraq to steal their oil was bad....just wait until a battalion of super-intelligent super-evolved aliens start harvesting our very limited resources..... stay tuned
(side-note: I apologies for over-using the word "maybe" because I like to look at everything from a different perspective. Therefore I will most likely have more than one opinion on a subject, therefore everything to me is a theory, and (almost) never a fact, that's why I love sci-fi books and movies, but that's another story for another blog)
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