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- Brad
- Former adult teacher who loves island beaches. Happy homebody and family man; once devoted dog owner, now without Tashi, my Tibetan Terrier. I prefer the absurdity of the imagination to the absurdity of imagining nothing.
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A Rant
If I were Sherlock Holmes, I must find out who don’t clean the seat of the toilet in our female’s washrooms in my office. Every one looks nice, mellow, and polite in my mind if I never use the washrooms. Every time I find the yellow drops on the seat, I couldn't help myself saying dirty words! Do they do the same thing in their own homes? I don’t think so. Please, beautiful girls and ladies! Wipe the seat before you leave the washroom! OK?
A Rant and the use Apophasis:
Service with Clean Hands
It is unnecessary to bring up the importance of washing hands or how it might affect for human’s health. Serving food with clean hands is a common sense; especially for severs, it is also their duty. All severs need to take FOOD SAFE before working at restaurants.
A few years ago, I went to a fast food restaurant. The young employee came back to the counter after he had played with the dog of the customer at the entrance. Smiling, he asked me,
“ Hi, what would you like?”
“ I don’t need to remind to you, but can you please wash your hands before you take order?” I told to him softly.
He nodded to me with a bitter smile and disappeared.
Unfortunately, I’ve seen some servers at restaurant avoiding hand washing although they had touched money, a rubbish bin and their faces and hair. Of course, I don’t need even mention to them that they should study about how bacteria would contaminate and its danger. It is a fearful that bacteria will spread around and harms our bodies. I hope servers at restaurants must always be concerned about cleanness, which is the basic of a good service for customers.
Public Speaking
You see the straw in another's eye but fail to see the beam in your own. (Proverb)
Sauna at Canada Games Pool is a wonderful place in many ways except two: it is very small and always full of people. Very often it sounds like a small peaceful conference hall where people share news and exchange opinions; however, sometimes, discussion turns into a loud argument that is hard to bear. I feel irritated when people speak or arguing loudly or when a group of people speak loudly in a language that not everybody can understand. In those cases I want to tell them, “You needn’t to be reminded that it is very impolite.” How easy it is to judge others, and oh, how ashamed I feel when somebody caught me on the same mistake that I hate in others.
A Rant
Yesterday afternoon I borrowed a beautiful book, Donald Sommerville’s World War I, from the library on Kingsway in Burnaby. What I found in this book made me angry. Some body underlined and marked this beautiful book from the very first page to the last. Although the handwriting is excellent and I can see this person studied hard, I would never make this person my model because he or she seems forgot this book doesn’t belong to them! Please, don’t! Don’t mark the library’s books! It is not only a shame to you but all of our residents understand?
(I took some pictures as evidences)
A Rant About Showing Off
Last week, I attended my alumni reunion held in a restaurant, Coquitlam. Most of my alumni are middle aged house wives because my university is a girls’ one. We enjoyed chatting about our old days and shared the fellow spirit, by the way a lady sat across me got on my nerves.
“My brand new apartment has excellent view of the English Bay,” she continues, “the university where my daughter attends is the best in dental science.” She kept blowing her own horn. She made me upset. Silently, I smiled at her. I shouted in my mind that I would never say like her no matter what I am a billionaire. I did not mention that I am not jealous at her possession or I am superior to her mentally.
Hi,Ritsuko:
I think if you see the whole process of making food in the kitchen of most restaurants, you will don't dare to go to restaurants any more;however, real Japanese restaurants may be better in this respect, I have to admit it.
Hi,Natalia:
The thing bug me most is as same as what you experience.
Hi,Rosaria:
I haven't known you are a billionaire until you told us in your writing above. Haha!
A Rant
They Really Don’t Know?
I don’t want to blame our people, but there is something really bugs me. I’m working in a big shopping mall in Richmond, so I have to use the escalators every day. Many people like to stand on the escalators side by side and don’t keep a bit room on the left for other people who want to walk up. Sometimes I wonder that if they really don’t know this rule or they are just uncaring for others convenience. Every time I am stuck behind those people, I nearly can’t help to shout out at them: get out of my way!
A Rant.
I know I needn’t tell you of the world’s largely accepted views of violence. I watched the news of Virginia Tech yesterday, along with many other people. It hit me harder than 9/11. I don’t know why, but it did. What bothers me even more today is people’s reaction. I talked with many people and they all told me, “Well, that’s just the world today.” “Just get used to it.” “It wasn’t the first school massacre and it won’t be the last.”
The whole idea of accepting this atrocious act of violence makes me physically ill. How can people walk around justifying this as “just another school massacre?” Like it was just another day. What about the victim’s families? Was it just another day for them? I want to slap anyone who makes light of this situation. It’s time to put a stop to the notion of violence as commonplace.
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