Sorry the post is very delayed. I've been busy. But i've had such a exciting weekend it's a sin not to report it.
First of all, i stayed with Aileen, so it was a BLAST. She even prepared sample bottles of Crabtree and Evelyn toiletries and laid them neatly on my bed to welcome me.
We ate lots, shopped lots, and we played chor dai dee, something we haven't done for a long time.
Cut to the best part. We visited this furniture exhibition along Nanjing Road. The exhibits were not bad, most of the stuff were imported and really really expensive.
So i was walking walking and i saw this cool looking magazine rack. Its just 3 pieces of perplex glued together stylishly. So i bent down and tried to play around with it, it was kinda elastic so i figured "oh cool! A foldable magazine rack!" And then... Kreeaaaak...GASP!
An angmoh man rushed over...
"Oooohh.... (like he was in pain so i assume he's the designer), why did u have to touch it..."
I was like "I'm so sorry i thought it was kinda elastic i didn't mean to"
Then this ABC woman rushed over to join the crowd "Oh, yOu're dead, u gotta come with me to the front and you have to pay 500RMB!"
Then she and the angmoh man started arguing. The angmoh didn't want me to pay the damages cos he clearly saw that i didn't mean to, but the girl on the other hand was CHAMPIONING for me to pay the damages. Apparently another chinese guy broke one the day before too...
ABC woman " I don't care u have to come with to the front and pay for this, you didn't have to touch the exhibits"
Aileen " HEY Excuse me, if you don't want people to touch, u shd put a sign which says PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH. Have you been to China? People TOUCH".
ABC Woman " Yeah it's our first time here and we're never coming back"
Stella " Okay then don't come back cos china don't welcome you. And your design is a failure, how can it break so easily!"
We got away with it. Geez but i wish i had done MORE to embarrass them cos i actually had a MEDIA pass, which means that i could have pretended i was journalist and threaten bad press on them.
Seriously, my greatest despise goes out to ABCs who has this white complex. Not all are bad, but i hate the ones that treat their own people like dogs, and yet their brains are inferior to dogs.... In the first place, a magazine rack isn't suppose to break, its a piece of furniture tht is supposed to endure a bit of mass (and i wasn't using any force). And the fact tht another guy broke it the day before says a lot right? Secondly, its a furniture exhibition, people need to touch and feel materials. Thirdly, writing out china? Yeah good luck. I hope u can sell 2 pieces of your sorry magazine rack per year.
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