Friday, December 10, 2010
Today was a day full of perceptions. And a day in which I discovered more about myself.
I got a comment that I am actually very 'jiak kentang' (which means very ang moh-fied, to put it in simpler terms). The person said that I kind of sound like I have an accent whenever I talk. Well, I have to emphasize that the lab I am working in is indeed very chinese. People always speak in chinese, other than the non-chinese and we interns. It was pretty amusing to me. I mean, yes, I've been told by a small number of people that I am 'jiak kentang', but today, it felt like a bomb exploded in front of me. I never ever thought that I give people such impressions. Interesting, very interesting. Haha, at that point in time, I was feeling a little flattered, because did she mean that my english is good, or what? Hmmmmm. But thinking back, this characteristic of mine might have pulled me away from some people. Maybe if I were to speak more chinese at work, I would have gotten to know some of the perm staff better.
Anyway, she also mentioned that she actually had a very bad impression of me at the beginning. Apparently, I did something which she edited and found that there were a lot of mistakes (BUT I totally cannot remember doing the thing that she mentioned at all). This was another funny incident to me as she formed a perception of me without having spoken to me at all before (at least for the first 18 weeks of my internship, currently, I'm at week 20). Wow, so there could be a lot of people whom I've met in my life, but may not have spoken to before, who have really got a bad impression of me. Talk about First Impressions.... It's kinda upsetting huh?!
But oh wells, we can't please everyone! If we want to do that, life would be really miserable.
Oh and then there's the situation where someone-has-totally-done-nothing-to-you-but-you-just-hate-her. This has definitely happened to be whereby I've been in both positions. The person whom people hate, and the person who hates. I'm sure this has probably happened to some of you out there as well. This is really another social interaction which continues to puzzle me till this very day. Dang. Heck it. Just live life the way you want to!!
- Social interactions
by snoopy_lim @ 10:56 PM