Monday, February 13, 2006

Senseless Surveys

Went to school, had lesson. Decided to start on my thesis. Finally! Hahah... So 1 look down, 9 to go.

Decided to come home an hour early. Wanted to sleep in the bus. Damn it... This woman who sat next to me had an extra agile head and body. Think of the waist as the axis, the body and the head as 2 seperate parts. The bus can travel on a straight road, and her body is like swaying from left to right to front then back. Her head can also rock 360 degrees. So I was sitting at the window seat on the right. She is on my left. Imagine this, her body is swayed to the left, head tilts to the right. Anyway, her head kept on hitting the bar of the seat, its amazing how come she still didn't wake up. Maybe she also has spongy skull. So anyway, it was quite irritaing lah! There I was trying to sleep. She kept on swaying and banging my shoulder. I squeezed in to make her avoid me. WAhh... Didn't help, that gave her more space for her acrobatic movements. Pissed off.. I started to nudge her away each time she leaned against me. Which was like once every minute. I know, a bit mean lah. But goodness sake, who likes a stranger to lean on them?

She finally got off, I was damn relieved. But reaching my stop also.. Darn it lah! Why always kena this kind of shit when I'm very tired and taking the bus from school. Always leh!

Then after I got off the bus at the interchange, I spotted those surveyors from the insurance company. I was already very tired and didn't wish to entertain their marketing gimmick. The one where they ask you to pick either a ball or a straw to get an instant prize? So I purposely walked outside. Then this guy had to approach me. Try to get me to do survey but I said I wasn't interested. So he tried to do small talk and pointed to my makeup bag and asked what is that.
I gave the -___- face and replied "my stuff lor."
Then he still can't get hint that I'm not interested. Carried on asking, "so what's in it?"
I gave the even more buay song face and replied "my stuff lor."
Wahh... He still continued asking. Is it makeup stuff?
Think my face was like damn "black" already. Plus the sun shinning in my face, with my eyes squinting, makes me look damn fierce and unfriendly. But I likeee.. Its especially useful when it comes to such people. Hahaha!!!
He carried on asking lame ass questions and I carried on giving single syllable replies till I reached the traffic light.

I don't understand how come the insurance companies still carry on doing this survey thing. If this is the way they collect data, its damn unrealistic. Their survey just requires people to fill in answers and don't have to do give details. So lets say personA is a person who loves doing surveys. personA's answers are always very positive to the company. Say personB is a person who hates doing surveys cause they feel very negative towards the company and their policies. personC loves doing surveys hoping to voice "opinions" out but doesn't like the company and has bad impression of company. So if A does a survey 10 times and B does it like once C does it 5 times. Won't the company give the results that out of 16 people surveyed, 10 agree that blah blah blah good stuff. Want to do real survey, should get unique people to do only once mah.. Whats the point of asking the same twice, thrice or more?

When the guy asked me what was in my bag, I so wished I brought my other duffel bag along. The one for my hair course with the fake head. So maybe I can reply, I'd have to kill you after I tell you. Then him being thick skin will continue to ask. Then I will say, there's a head in there... No body though. Left some of it in one of the reservoir, some behind some MRT stations, some in Mandai for the lions' next meal. You'll be my next victim since you continued asking about my bag's contents.