OH NO NOT AGAIN!!!

Dopey and female colleague enters lift… We press level ‘3′. A middle-aged very tanned patient enters lift too… I help him press ‘1′. Uncle looks gratefully at me, proceeds to smile to me, then turns to the other side of the lift to smile at my female colleague…

Uncle: Ni3 men2 shi4 cong2 zhong1 guo2 lai2 de ma? Xian4 zai4 qing3 hen3 duo1 zhong1 guo2 ren2 le…

Me and female colleague: *speechless*

We shouldn’t have replied him in mandarin… should have said ‘No, sir, pray thee, you are mistaken, we’re from the beautiful land of Singapore’ (with a stiff upper lip)

My apologies to ‘female colleague’, if you weren’t stuck in the same lift as moi, you probably wouldn’t have gotten mistaken as a zhong guo mei! -_- (and trust me, you don’t look anywhere like one! maybe nepalese, thai or erm indonesian? but not cheena la…)

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Zoomed from my current hospital to a western one in 15 min today (EW you were right!) Then proceeded to pick up some stuff from Bt Timah shopping centre… where I wasted like 15min trying to parallel park! -_- to the great amusement of two ahbengs, one auntie and one uncle… the ahbengs tried to help, to no avail… finally, their ahlian friend finished picking up their stuff and they drove off, leaving me with TWO parallel spaces to finally succeed in parking! WOOO…

I just need this sandbox to bury my head in! and stop sniggering boss!