Frustration.

I serioulsy believe that some people are just out to give me trouble. They can’t openly confront you, so they resort to small, irritating actions (in Chinese we call these acts 小动作) – these small acts can’t make things too troublesome for you, but they are just downright irritating and it just shows how petty these people can be. It never fails to amaze me how some people can go all their way out to irritate me. The reasons that I can come up with are:

1. They are having PMS.
2. They are just jealous of me.
3. They are narrow-minded people because the further they have gone in their lives probably is Pudong.

Now I fully understand what my boss meant when she said she doesn’t think too highly of Shanghaiese. They are just downright petty. What’s worse is that they are so full and proud of themselves even though they are not value-adding at all. They bite on small things, make things difficult for you, and yet not big enough to outright challenge you, so they resort to these “five-cent ten-cent” things, and think that they’ve got one over you because you feel annoyed by these small actions. Small-time selfish bigots. I don’t really want to deal with such people cos it’s just downright a waste of my time – I have more fun unblocking the toilet than dealing with such people. The bad thing? I have 4 more months to go dealing with such people. But well, coming to Shanghai has allowed me to learn a lot of things, handling these small-time Charlies is probably another thing that I can learn well.

Why can’t some people just accept the fact that they can never be comparable to me? It’s not like I want to look down on them, they voluntarily let me look down on them, so what more do they want? They just don’t have anything for me to look up to them!

Crazy people.

(The song I’m listening now is the first song that my first real fling in Singapore sent me – I wonder how’s she doing now. I wonder if she even remembers me.)

Zapata’s.

Spent the whole day working on the company website again. It really isn’t my top most priority now, but since I was kinda pressed into getting the website up and running, I basically have to spend the entire day in office working on that. Make no mistake, I don’t mind doing that because it was something that I can do, so that worked out fine for me.

Went to Zapata’s for a night’s out. Met some of my Norwegians friends from the NVC class, and basically had a pretty good time around there. The disappointing thing is that the music was kinda bad – though there were a few good songs being thrown in here and there, it was generally disappointing. Oh well, perhaps it isn’t always going to be fair comparing it to Zouk, but then again it’s hard not to compare especially the position of Mambo Jambo is so firmly established in my mind. The good thing though is that the whole lot of us went to Zapata’s together and I would like to think we really had quite a bit of fun despite the music being not really up to standard.

Maybe next week we can venture to Windows at Shaanxi North Road next week. At least the drinks there are always going to be cheaper – though I’m not entirely sure about the music though.

Oh by the way, according to the Lunar Calendar, authmn has supposedly come. But in real meteo terms, it will only be authmn when the average temperature gets lower than 22 degrees Celcius for 5 consecutive days – that seems far away.

Off to sleep. It’s good to be able to sleep without having unnecessary things going in my head. Haha.

See you guys tomorrow.