Thursday, March 01, 2007
Propose!
Just this sunday, zhongren proposed to shuhui and we were part of it! It was really fun to plan together with him and spring this wonderful surprise for shuhui. We all enjoyed being part of this romantic proposal :D
Singaporeans who have nothing better to do
Sarah is working in IRAS and she has to take calls from people who have questions about filing their income tax. Over mom's specially-prepared steamboat dinner just now, she told me about this lady who is obviously off-centre and deluded. It's terribly funny!
here goes her story... (according to sarah)
Sarah: Hello, may I help you?
Off-centre aunty: Yes, I'm calling to check my son's income tax.
Sarah: Name?
OC aunty: *rattles off some jap name* eg. takada hiroshima
Sarah: Oh.. Your son is japanese?
OC aunty: Yea, he's japanese... because his father is. His father is actually from Taiwan... And he cheated on a lot of women.. *rambles on and on*
Sarah: (checks computer system, and replies in a distracted manner) Yes yes.. I see.
OC aunty: You know, his father and i are actually liang shan bo and zhu ying tai? You know how i know? Because guan ying niang niang told me in my dreams...
Sarah: HUH! aunty, cannot be lah... these things are not real.
OC aunty: You don't believe ah?
Sarah: Aunty, it's really not real...
OC aunty: Are you a Christian? Actually, we were Adam & Eve. I am Eve but my son's father.. blah blah blah *she carries on and on and talked about guan ying niang niang, monkey god and her being Eve.
Sarah: (exasperated) Aunty, cannot be lah.
OC aunty: You don't believe ah? Never mind... (hangs up)
Sarah: .....
And there's this guy who called and enquired why didn't he get any income tax form. Worried, he called to file his income tax. So sarah asked him if he's earning more than $22,000 a year. He said NO. SIGH. THEN DON'T HAVE TO FILE.
There's also this case that's quite sad.
This man called to tell sarah that his late wife used to file income tax for him... But now, he has to do it himself since his wife has already passed away. It's depressing to hear such stories.
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