Monday, June 26, 2006
reflections of waiting
I am struggling to form sentences nowadays. This is really bad.
I am a nervous wreck & the only feasible explanation I can find is the ouh so big Interview coming up on tuesday. I use to be okay with interviews. Never mind that it took me a few to land a job, but it was okay to me. I was confident going into interviews knowing that I can always answer anything. Now, I really feel like crammed up in a nutshell. The worst part is I cant even express it in proper sentences. This is not good for the essay.
Bleagh :(
Can I not think about that for now ?
The weekend was normal. Nothing out of the ordinary. Same ol' same ol'. Plain waiting and losing on all corners. So whats new right.
Speaking of waiting...
Anyone never had the pleasure of waiting for people ??
I am sure every individual have at 1 point or another in their, short or long, life have played the ever willy waiting game. You know the game where you sit and wait. Wait & wait some more but for what you just arent sure. Bak pepatah orang melayu baru ,'Tunggu tunggu punya tunggu macam buah tak jatuh.'
don't you just hate it when you have to wait during an appointment, meet up or whatever that you would choose to call it. Ive been patient but I am starting to dislike it very much. The pleasure of waiting and waiting almost always falls upon people who upkeep promises pertaining to time. In other words people who are punctual. Now when we talk about promises about time, 3 types of people will normally pop up.
The first is what is generally known as the punctual species. The type of persons that no matter how far or late the appointment can be, come rain or shine, you will find them at least 10mins ahead waiting for the schedule to actually happen. Yesh they will be extremely early. The correct word to use is punctual, hence the punctual species. These types will not heck a care what type of people they are meeting. Even if the other parties are known so well for notoriously being late, they just cant kill themself even to turn up a little late. They will almost always presume that the latecomers will turn over a new leaf this time. Either that or they are just in a good habit to leave early in case something crops up that can make them late. They will always inform people if there is ever the slightest chance that they maybe on time. No, not late. If they would be on time, they would text. hell if ever the remote chance that they would be late, they will 90% of the time give a courtesy call to inform of their lateness. And stupidly they will always be rushing against time to reach the appointment. Yet with each appointment they arrive be it punctual, on time or even late, they will just wait be tapping patiently for the other latecomers.
The 2nd type of people are what you would call perfect timers. They are the ones who will arrive just on the dot. If ever early, they would just give say not more then 3mins buffer. The same buffer period can be said for their lateness too. It just surprises me that there are these type of peole who manage to perfectly time their arrival each and every time. They dont encounter any least bit of time wastage on their journey to their destinations. These types of people will normally be the minority of the group. Cause its quite an impossible task to time your travelling every time down to the finest details.
Of course last but not least, will be the arrival of the star karats. These is what is sparking my thoughts today. These species of the human race, never ever realise that they are late. They will come up with all sorts of stupid excuses in their earlier teenage years. As they grow older and they find the excuses themselves stupid, they will just tend to shut up and expect people to tolerate their lateness. And the thing is they are not even sorry about it.
Examples of lateness for them is having a meet up at 2pm and only at 2pm will they sms to confirm where is the place. Of course they would be just about ready to leave their homes. So with a minumum of 1 hr would they appeart to meet their friends. Isnt this frustrating.
Actually I don't know already where I am heading now. I should just be honest, I am using this as a practise for my essay. Sheesh what lousy content.
Anyway, I will tolerate lateness for the moment. Still will also tolerate dissapearance acts. or otherwise known as bubble, aeroplane and the such. but dont take this kindness for granted. I have always been rushing for time whenever I think I could be the slightest bit late. Yet it always never surprises me that I can still be the earliest even when Im late.
Bah. Lateness is just a bad habit. Period.
when darkness turns to light @ 7:07 am
