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Monday, November 07, 2005

uneventful much

weekend uneventful.

my friend had to go back to korea for a few weeks to settle family business, so my life has become quite uneventful recently.

i made a new friend who works at the supermarket across the street part-time on weekends. she is a vitamin salesperson and gives out vitamin samples and harrasses you to buy vitamins.

apparently it was funny to her that all i come to buy is water. sure i have bananas, and a couple little things in the cart, but mainly bottles of water. is it really that funny? i'm not sure why other locals aren't buying mass loads of water. i find it a pain in the ass to keep boiling water when i go through 5+ litres a day. mainly due to the fact that i dislike hot/warm water anyways.

i seem to have always gotten funny stares from people before, although none of them actually came up to laugh at me. they always start off by looking at my cart, then giving me some strange look as i pass by. kind of like 'wtf, why is this person wasting so much money on water?' funny thing is, i buy the cheapest and most cost effective water. when i see other people buying water in smaller quantities than me (of course), they always buy the more expensive brands. sooooo i'm not entirely sure why they give me funny looks since my bottles are sometimes 1/3 the price of theirs. strange.

anyways, vitamin girl thought it was funny that i bought so much water, and also funny that i had green tea in my cart. apparently only girls like green tea???? actually i was looking more for green tea powder so i could throw it in some congee and make some half-ass ochazuke. unfortunately i couldn't find any so i had green tea bags as i figured since it's getting cold here maybe i'll want to drink something hot as i don't know how well central heating works.

though since she found it so amusing, she kept giving me free packets of vitamins, so now i have enough vitamin c to give me a kidney stone. maybe i'll eat it all in one day, get a kidney stone, piss it out, write a novel on how painful pissing a kidney stone out was, and then sell the stone on ebay.

or i could just take them regularly like most people.

1 Comments:

At 10:51 PM, Blogger gobi said...

OMG THANKS FOR SUCH AN IMFORMATIVE POST LA ~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

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