Some conversations that make no sense
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There’s this new bakery shop from near I live that I usually visit before heading for work, I would usually buy my favourite bread with beef fillings (siu bao) plus one chrysantemum (tea) drink. As I entered, I overheard two ladies having a conversations like:
Lady in a black glasses: “D’ya mind if you can grab me two of those tuna bread?”
Lady in Jeans: “Two of this”? (pointing to the tuna bread)
LIABG: “Yeah, how much i’ssit”?
LIJ: “For two”?
LIABG: “Nevermind, I’ll ask the lady in the counter”.
LIJ: “Oh, maybe they should put a tag price in the bread basket”.
In an elevator, standing to the back, two men were murmuring:
Guy #1: “…so she told me to meet her at the Armani Exchange shop and she was not even there. Can you believe it”?
Guy #2: “What did you do”?
Guy #1: “Of course I went inside the shop, I looked for her around”.
Guy #2: “What did she say after you find her?”
Guy #1: “I was speechless, we didn’t talk for hours”.
Guy #2: “Wasn’t that hard, not talking for an hour?”
Guy #1: Actually, she got mad that I was late for an hour”.
The other day, I went to the new McDonald Shop at The Admiralty Building and I ordered something just because it was hot outside and I needed some refreshments.
Girl Giggling With A Colleague: “Hello, may I take your order”? (in Cantonese)
Me: “Yeah, may I have one Mango Sundae and one large french fries please”.
GGWAC: “Oh you speak English?”. (Giggling)
Me: “Yes, I’m sorry I can’t speak Cantonese”.
GGWAC: “Do you want a burger with that?”
Me: “A burger?”
GGWAC: “Did I say something funny?”
Me: “Um no, I didn’t laugh”.
GGWAC: “But your Mango sundae will be ready in two (2) minutes”. (Giggling)
Me: “Thanks, thanks a lot”.
In other news, I am proud to say that I have numerous exciting things above my head that I wanted to say but I seldom thought about putting them into words.
As a lonely person (meaning alone), I like hanging out with people I haven’t even met. I blog words spontaneously because insomia is more entertaining at a keyboard. I’ve learned a lot about people - people I would otherwise never get to know. We learn codes, HTML, talk about food, share videos and I learn about everyday life in faraway places. I think that we are all so much alike - and I still wonder why blogging make sense in a little way but in reality I have nothing exciting going on whatsoever.
Have a Great Weekend, folks!
Me & U
by: Cassie
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That last bit there it was like you were blogging my blog for me. I feel more alive, more valuable, more approachable while blogging than in real life. People never take me seriously and I constantly get ignored but when I blog, I’m heard.
“People never take me seriously and I constantly get ignored but when I blog, I’m heard.”
I am sorry to hear that. But I think I’m the opposite, some close friends probably been reading my blog and they were stunned at how I write - I think I express more in my writing than actually saying it to the people face to face. I wanted the anonymity in this blog but somehow, I don’t anymore make rules, I just put words because it’s how I speak.
Anyway, I blog because I can. Because it’s the best place to inform and be informed by the hearts of the best bunch of people I’ve never met.
Ditto@gnarlykitty.
Asha - I think that make sense, it’s not cool to be redundant. hahaha. Pffft*
you should ride on our elevator. you’d get to listen to stuff you wouldn’t even want to know… thank god for the ipod.
I know, ladies talking about their “shoes” or the guy on the cellphone, or wait… how about kung may umutot? I will hate to be in ‘your’ elevator then. Nyak.
Making people more approachable is what blogs are for, so that when we try in the Real World again, we’ll won’t feel so afraid
Don’t worry, just a theory 
True, true Menta. Blog is our neighborhood. It’s where we live. We create ourselves and we spend much of our time in some online mode (well that’s me). And this is just an extension of who we are and how we spend our time.
Blogging is more timely than meeting someone in person who is always late (and that’s probably me). I blog because I’m an ‘egoist’ and obsessed with the idea that my life is like a movie, starring myself.
That’s surely a senseless conversation. But far worst than that, are weird conversations. I mean, I always hear weird news, weird babbles, and anything and everything under the sun almost everyday. And because of that, I’m becoming weird also.:razz:
I guess in blogging, a few simple words would mean a lot, it allows us freely to express our thoughts + emotions + experiences through everday life + knowledge/wisdom about a particular matter/subject.
OK JV, I’m giving you an assignment, maybe you can blog about it. List down “100 Reasons Why I Blog”.
It’s the same questions as to, why do people paint? Write books? Make movies? Well sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn’t but - - I often ask, if I come across to some blog, I’d ask, “How did I get here”?
It’s the reason why I post because you read. Thanks.
senseless indeed,lol
Hello Knoiz!:)
Hi there Cheh, uyyy.
See, that made you smile. At least this post connects with the world outside myself that I’m trying to make sense of. Hahaha.
Thanks for the shout out. I’m adding you too, a new blog-neighbor.
Speaking of elevators, here’s a little something for you ( sorry it’s in Tagalog)
Dalawang probinsyano sumakay sa elevator
Paolo: magkano ibabayad natin?
Joe: tanga! inosente! bugok! stupid!! Para kang si Arnie bat ka magbabayad eh wala pa tayong tiket!
Have a great weekend, K!
LMAO. Parang narinig ko na ang jokes na yan.
Eto meron ako, did you ever notice when you sits at the upper deck of a bus in HK, makes you think, why it’s moving without a driver (parang di-remote control)?
Bulok na jokes ba? hahaha.
I love watching the interactions of people.
I don’t drink, but do go clubbing and it can lead to very entertaining nights just watching and listening to people getting drunker and drunker, talking more and more gibberish. I also find the psychological aspect facinating too, like watching the tell-tale unconcious signs of attraction, or repulsion, and predicting their success or failure during the night.
People are great, life is great. Just one big melting pot of madness!!!
.. and watching drunk people sleeping on the floor, on the road, puking on the toilet bowl, foul language… etc, hahaha.
Blogging can form an acquaintances, it’s easier than meeting some folks for lunch. My blogging makes a sense of obligation to my readers and those I linked, to maintain these kind of discussion, and as I go on, it makes me feel that this is my full time job.
What could be nicer? To meet some of you in person. Happy Sunday Pep.
our line of thoughts are sometimes … lost in TRANSITION … or just plain … lost in TRANSLATION
you have a good one too tito k!
Sometimes when I try to read my mind spontaneously in Tagalog, I can’t interpret them into English right away.
Seriously, I just want to tell something to no one specific and get it off my chest - but sometimes language can be a source of misunderstanding.
Did you ever use BABEL translator? It translates this:
“When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore.”
To this:
“If the moon fixes its eye like a great vector of Fleischpie of the vector of Pizzapie, is the lover.”
I always like to listen on people’s conversation especially if it’s a bit funny. You should check overheard in newyork and LA, K.
I do listen attentively to a “green” conversation. I’m a perve myself so yeah I have come across that site I believe, but no I don’t wanna hear people talking on a loud cellphone inside the train. Or a talking annoying peeps in the cinema.
I enjoy alot about kids conversation. Purity fun.
Well yeah that is another story. Btw, I also dig Cassie now. And I just learned that she is indeed half Pinoy
Oh really? I thought she was half Japanese. Beautiful.
I dig her “Me & U” - my morning exercise, you know what Shakira would say, “hips don’t lie”. But Cassie needs serious dance lesson, but she’s a big star now I think.
hi knoiz bruho,
know what, i should stop blogging because i always feel lousy when i write. kaya naman lousy din ang entries :D.
you are lucky you have the talent.
Nooooooooooo ATE Beng sus. Keep on BLOGGING, ok I was not referring about the “ari”. LMAO.
Teka, remember the first few times I visited your blog? I love the way you put your entry like the “MOM KNOWS BEST” posts mo and I still enjoy it dahil sa nag papa-inggit ka ng beautiful themes mo, so keep that up.
Walang lousy entries sa blogging world, uy. Gi-atay.
Blogging is also another way to showcase our talents (see mine and you know what I mean)
Has anyone thought of nonsense conversations to be a new way of speaking a language that is a part of a certain culture that no one understands? Another theory 
Theories are good!
Menta, exactly.
Check on JV’s post about “100 Things Why I Blog”, I think it answers all our questions. Maybe you can also write something like that.
pssssst!
happy weekend K!
i totally enjoy listening on peoples’ conversations…some are totally hilarious, some are totally interesting
And sometimes you can’t hang up on the phone when you’re having conversation with your lovedones, right? I always wondered that myself too. Ends up you buy another phonecard to dial again.
hahahaha, alam mo ang word na “gi-atay”? hmm, alam mo bang kayong mga close friends ko sa net ang aking inspiration and also the reason why my blog still exist. true yan at ‘di pa ek-ek.
have a wonderful sunday
Oppss “gi-atay” is a bad word? hahaha I’m hearing this all the time with my sister in law. She’s bisaya but turns out a nice “expression”.
Lika, treat kita sa McDo, ate Beng.