A man walks into a library and proceeds to the desk and says, "I'd like to have a beer and a bag of chips."
The librarian looks at him and says, "Sir, this is a library."
"Oh right. " the man says sheepishly. "Sorry," and he whispers politely, "I'd like to have a beer and a bag of chips, please."
Did that joke make you laugh? If not, you must be feeling way too uptight or have simply lost the instinct to laugh oddly without guilt. Read an article about 'Laughter-Clubs' flowering in the midst of glommy economies and high stress. 'Laughter is the best medicine'.. how true is that! a cancer-striken patient actually laughed his way through 20 more years of life! More people are finding themselves not laughing enough and are joining these clubs.
Personally find it rather stupid to pay someone else so that you can laugh..not as if that person is gonna put up a side-splitting performance for you or act stupid like a clown to entertain your too grave soul... No witty puns or slapsticks, people gather together to laugh like mad cows for no particular reason.. yes, for NO reason.
Actually, i find people who cannot laugh very pitiful. All you need to do is to find humor in every and any circumstance..be it good or bad.. and it will make your problem look really really small, trust me.
Anyway, that article i read while waiting for the queue number to be called at the polyclicnic with grandma. She went for her regular health-check up. We were seated in the pharmacy beside this Teochew ahma who didnt know how to look at her queue-number..well, being the only literate one within her one-metre range, i smiled at her politely and said in mandarin, "Ahma, later i help you see hor.." She was so happy, smiling gratefully at me, she asked pointing to my grandma, "Your PoPO arh?" i nodded.
The ahma stretched forward to look at grandma and said, "Wah..your granddaughter so guai ah?"
They started their dialogue..yes, it is a
dilogue.. *note i'm not talking.. damn my poor teochew*
"Ya lor, my granddaughter."
"Aiyoh, my grandchildren dun have so guai one.. Everytime sleep only. Very guai hor she... ."(pats my shoulder) "How old is she?"
"23 liao lah.. she is a
TEACHER (that word is particularly louder)"
"WAH, teacher ah? so 'kiang' ah? (people turn around and looked at me. i squrimed down my seat..*oh god, please stop them...)
God answered my prayer. i shot up the seat immediately when my grandma's queue number was called and we proceeded to take grandma's pills. Just then, dear called me on my handphone. What a timing... read on..
"hello dear ah.."
"aey, tomorrow watching KungFu with weiguang they all leh..730pm great world."
"these are your pills, ahpo! everyday take one in the morning"
"okay, so after that where are we going?"
"Aey, are these Vitamin B12 pills? these yellow colour ones."
"most probably zouk. Not confirmed yet leh.."
"Erm, wait ah...excus' me mdm, are these VitB pills?"
"What to wear tomolo?"
"Yes, they are.."
"Up to you. But make up must be nice la...Smoky eyes are
in wor...make dark dark.. wah, sexy leh.."
"I only got brown eyeliner leh..how to make??? i dunno!!"
"Then these green ones are the Cholesterol pills?"
"Yes, (looking at the labelling) they are."
"aiyah, later i go orchard and see wat they have...aey, i am so confused now call u back..."
that was it...Hey! I CAN ACTUALLY MULTI-TASK, HAHA..talking to 3 people at the same time, heh....
i gotta go and grab a short nap now...before i go for countdown tonight hehe... B)
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!!!