Finals, finals.. 2 papers down(take it literally if you want
), and 3 more to go. I know that I probably shouldn't be posting anything here now, but I shall make an exception for this.
I had my 1st paper last Monday. For all those unfamiliar with my
habitational patterns, I am a hostelite, staying in the slums of NUS -
PGP(ok lah, I'll give it to them - it is still a place i call home in
this otherwise foreign land).
Monday's was a evening paper, so naturally I, the guy who has
tendencies to think with his stomach, needed a snack prior to the
paper.
Uhmmm umm.. a sandwich ought to do the trick.
But there was one problem, I have been almost literally confining
myself in my hostel for the sake of my studying - or attempts to study,
if you prefer to call it that^^ ; My cash is running low without access
to an auto-teller-machine for almost a week now. I messaged Chin Seong
about the price of a sandwich at the canteen and found it to be a
dollar each. *Looks in wallet* -- 20cents left T.T .. Aha, but out of
desperation and knowledge of my money(and just about everything
else)-misplacement-patterns, I managed to come up with a dollar's worth
of 10cents and 5cents coins(for those unfamiliar with the Singaporean
currency and denominations, 5 cents is the smallest value one can get
from a coin-the government discontinued 1 cents quite some time ago).
So this is roughly what I had to work with:
10 five cents coins, 5 ten cents coins, a button from my favourite shirt
that fell off ><, a super cute piggy and a medal(Sorryyy..
couldn't resist gloating a bit=P).
So anyway, I jubilantly marched down to the canteen only to find, to my
horror and disgust, that the sandwich stall owner would not have my 5
cents coins!! Unheard of! I was totally disgusted!! She reasoned
that it's very troublesome for such a small scale business as hers to
manage 5 cents coins. OMGWTFBBQLASERGUNPEWPEWPEW! Duh! that's why i'm
PAYING you for the trouble?! Your sandwiches are 25% more expensive
than the other campus stalls in the respective schools?!
But that's perhaps, what is wrong with the majority of society
nowadays- we just don't care about 5 cents worth of something. My
experience gives an example of how this discrimination of denomination
exists in the business sphere, but if one would care to think about it,
one would find that this trend of human behavior is veering its ugly
head in many other areas, like in our relationships
with other people in ethics and even mankind's handling of worldly issues.
(read my super long next post if you are interested in my evaluation of this;) )
