Pardon me, I’m not used to being polite.
I read with great (dis)interest the recent hoohah about that survey that placed KL-lites as the third rudest people in the world.
Well, a lot has been said to affirm the survey results, and I must say the uproar from people who do not take too lightly towards criticism was both expected, and disappointing. Yes, we have too many social ills, the dirty streets and the longkang tersumbat and the huge fat rats that we all see scurrying along many a hawker centre in central Klang Valley. I know you know that we're all not proud of these faults.
Now to add on to this list of miscomings, we have that new infamous reputation of being a rude city. So xiaxue that pink-loving chick from across the crossway was right after all, and that year-ago uproar on the blogosphere from her less than polite remarks about my beloved city have finally been proven right by a survey made by a reputable magazine.
But really, I thought some people would learn from experiences, or at least, feign some kind of social intelligence. After all, yes you're famous, yes you're well-known, and yes, you're probably very privileged. But OMG, stupidity never sounded so incredulously stuck up until now.
Or snippets, for those who loath to read crass.
Come to think of it I think porn might very well be the answer to why some countries are rude, and some aren't! That's it, it's how liberated the country is! If it isn't, then the citizens are sexually frustrated, and will thus throw their tantrums around.
This will cause them to get even more sexually frustrated since no one wants to have sex with grumpy people, and yadda yadda, vicious cycle!
I mean, think about it… Why are
Malaysianssome countries' citizens so rude? Because it is a conservative country, and girls aren't supposed to wear little clothes.
Another gem.
Now compare another Asian city, Bangkok. Bangkok is full of sleazy sex places, and it's citizens are very polite, bowing and smiling to you all the time. It doesn't matter if they are mumbling curse words at tourists behind those smiles, the fact is that they at least bother to pretend to be polite - and it's the effort that counts!
I think sexual liberation is the key to the rudeness of a country's citizens. I know, because I bought a Playboy magazine for my guy friends (USD$8.99, dammit!), and they all appeared significantly happier.
It's a little bit amazing how this kind of rationalization actually came about huh? I'm still wondering which school churned out this kind of thinking. It's quite simply incredible and impressively bimbotic. BTW, I'm not insulting anyone per se, because this is someone who professes to bloom to fame via a consistent display of proud, in-your-face, bimbotic outbursts, so this is not a counter-attack because I'm upset by her language or observations.
Put it this way, think about it… Why is Xiaxue some country's citizen so rude? Because she is a small person, because of this that brain is of course slightly smaller so it doesn't contain much matter and she IS famous for this fact anyway, and people want to read her for the rude and outrageous things she writes. And obviously it is quite fun to be famous, with endorsements and all that, so maybe, the concept some people live by is like this, 'I'm famous because I'm rude, and because it pays my bills I'm going to make a living out of being stupid and embrace my rudeness openly. Hah!'
Anyway I was just surfing blogs, and I came across that post, and I thought, oh my, thank goodness I haven't even met anyone in KL who would put two-and-two together the way she did. Come to think of it, thank goodness not all Singaporeans sound like her, but I think I see several Singaporeans shaking their heads in efforts to disassociate yourselves from this, urm, conceptualization of how rudeness came about, right?
But of course, what do I know? I'm sexually deprived, hence this not-too-kind consideration of that post. Or so she says lah. But then again, because I myself find that post incredibly rude, the same must be said of the writer. What to do when your bf is half the globe away?
No worries, girl, we all understand your frustrations. The next time we find ourselves insulted by your display of impoliteness, we know why you're so intolerably rude.
June 27th, 2006 at 11:15 am
Point.
Some of the points made in that entry, to me, screamed shallow observations. Saying things like how a lot of Asian countries lack courtesy when I have seen/experienced otherwise:
I was taken in by a bunch of villagers who have never seen an angmoh when me and bf were involved in an accident in Northern Vietnam. (To give you an idea about how “backward” this people were, well, they live in wooden huts and had plenty of farm animals - pigs, cows, ducks, chickens - roaming around and evidently shitting everywhere too.) They shared their hut, gave us water and shoo-ed away nosy village kids for three hours while our bike was taken to a shop 5km away to be fixed. Heck, the women even told us how to go about bandaging our wounds.
My boyfriend has been to Cambodia, Vietnam, and so forth backpacker style, and he has never failed to meet anyone who isn’t friendly or curious - provided he doesn’t break any social taboo in the process.
The French may be proud of their language BUT they are polite - I have never failed to hear a French say “Pardon moi” when exiting a train, or greet a customer with a smile and “Bonjour” not to mention “Merci and bonjournee” when you have paid them and are leaving. And they ARE NOT rude to people who speak English to them. ~_~
June 27th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Hahaha…by that theory, that also explains why I can be cranky at times. That’s something you definitely won’t find out by reading the papers.
June 27th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Wingz repoting for sabo mission madam! … LOL!
June 27th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Xiaxue calling the kettle black. Hah! How lovely.
June 27th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Be above board and ignore her?
But then, not everybody is polite, not even yourself. … nor i
June 27th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
I like the line where she said she bought playboy mag for her guy friends and that made them significantly happier…wonder how far she’d go to extend her good deed and make everyone (guys) happier…..wahahahaha….
that was a very shallow observation from her..that sexual deprivation cause rude behavior in people……obviously her observation doesnt go very far with the examples she quoted. I still believe you treat people the way you want people to treat you. Hence, if you think someone has been rude to you, chances are, you in one way or another has been rude to them………but there are exceptions..some are just imprinted in their behavioral genes.
June 27th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
wua wua changing header and think can psycho ppl against xiaxue meh..cheh
if u so smart & brave, go attacked menj for sabo ur christian religion lor then only u are called smart “acting-virgin” lady ok?
June 27th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
To be honest, I do understand what Minishots is getting at. XX is superficial, stupid and self-absorbed. I think her world view is extremely narrow and one-dimensional and she has obviously bought the American worldview that her American boyfriend that everything in America is better.
But on the other hand, I do think XX’s article is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. It’s actually a pretty old joke that porn makes people happier. I guess XX just stole that joke off her American boyfriend, or one of her clubbing friends, added a few more colourful words to make the idea her own.
It’s not a joke to everyone’s taste. And while I generally can’t stand people who hurt other people’s feelings and then claim that these people are oversensitive and do not have a sense of humour, there are a lot of people out there who think this way. There are tasteful jokes and there are tasteless jokes, XX’s preferences obviously run to the latter and unfortunately, so do a lot of other people’s.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
it took so long for you all to hate her? it was hate at first sight, really.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
a lost cause, we should just ignore her
June 27th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
However, it would be interesting to find out the statistics such as this one. Maybe she’s right after all.
June 27th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
well, i’m a singaporean, and i couldn’t agree more with u! matter of fact, i’m sure many of our kindred probably think of her as just a plain, ignorant and immature kid who’s let fame shoot right up to that airhead of hers… i’m glad that there’s finally a blogger of notable fame like yourself whopping her arse, putting her into her rightful place… cheers…
June 27th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
I LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE DISS XX!
June 28th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Honestly, I can’t believe how some people can form such ignorant conclusions. I wouldn’t have been able to make such absurd statements. She deserves some shelling. Kenny Sia, she’s your friend, please educate her a little.
June 28th, 2006 at 12:20 am
minishorts is just annoyed at xiaxue’s wider readership because she thinks she herself is more interesting (and intellectual and enlightened and whatever) than that midget.
June 28th, 2006 at 9:12 am
I totally agree with you. I personally found her comment about no young people in Perth really such a no brainer comment. It was as if she was saying don’t blame her for looking at old people when she was a 5 year old.
I would say she is ‘qualified’ to talk about this subject, as she has absolutely NO social graces and no brain for that matter.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:39 am
Come, let us all get in a blogosphere fight and we all can get famous like that Sillyporean. Gah!
June 28th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
I’ve nothing to say about her observations but, for someone who’s bloody RUDE to say that Malaysians are rude.. oh, the irony. Guess she’s speaking from experience anyway.
June 28th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Minishorts is nice and bouncy
June 28th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
have some pity for XX. we all know how rude and disrespectful her entries are. and now we know why. poor girl. aint getting any.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
[quote] z. says:
minishorts is just annoyed at xiaxue’s wider readership because she thinks she herself is more interesting (and intellectual and enlightened and whatever) than that midget.
Posted Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 12:20 am
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BINGO.
and to get more ppl on her side, since there’s so many anti-xx out there.
she’s angry that she’s got no endorsements for all her rants and efforts to whore herself out there.
ha ha. no one appreciates PMS anymore eh?
June 28th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Well, we’ve known all the while why Choo Ki is such a flaming rude bitch. And now we have an even more ‘femes’ blogger to back up the theory.
But seeing as how she’s been fibbing about her precious hymen, she shouldn’t have any excuse to be this rude, annoying and pretentious.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Anal virginity counts.
June 28th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
She is tight-assed if that’s what you meant.
In contrast to her flabby cellulite thighs and those humongous monster cheeks.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Being a bimbo is what gets her famous. Kind of like Jessica Simpson … at least Jessica was something to look at.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:33 am
lolz, it doen’t take too long for me to hate that girl either. So damn lucky she live in a country witth slightly freedom of speech.
pardon to those who claiming minishorts trying to psycho people to hate that girl, she is not, ok?
Sometimes look at what she wrote really makes my blood getting hot. This is the typical type of people who abuse the phrase “freedom of speech” to the max.
i hate it when i saw people leaving negative comment anonymously or come out with a slight modified nickname from the author. Get a life man, take responsibility for what you said, if you have guts.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Her writing gets your blood hot?
Then you must be a very well-mannered young man if there ever was one.
June 29th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
[quote]But seeing as how she’s been fibbing about her precious hymen, she shouldn’t have any excuse to be this rude, annoying and pretentious.[/quote]
doh. that would mean only one thing: her bf is a bad fuck. silly vivids!
June 30th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
i cant agree more. same point as Matthew and John. Each time if happens to blog read hers, im thinking wat a wee brain this person is..seriusly
July 5th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Dr Tan Yee Hou, ish! Why am I, of all people, charged with the responsibility to educate XiaXue?
November 12th, 2006 at 3:17 am
If everyone is polite.. especially on the road..then we have no accidents cos… everyone is so happy….but then.. its human nature… even at times.. I am rude myself.
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