Thursday, January 15, 2009

the entry about loathsome office ladies

of late, business has been dwindling down the spiral that it has led to a shrinking gamut of guzzling venues choices. dining at the local hawker centre would be the next best cost-efficient solution over restaurants charging exorbitant prices with pretentious amounts of food.

stepping into a hawker centre in the business district area during mid-lunch time and the one thing i have to gripe about, which is one you may share possibly, is that you have one huge cesspool of big, fat office ladies lumbering around the premises.

i don't even particularly like office ladies that much, even more when you see a whole lot of them. if you were to examine closely, some of them are really unpleasant looking. you can spot an office lady a mile away, what with their louis vuitton monochromatic purse, or the likes of it, clutched under their pits and the typical shabby looking office getup, congregating in groups of three or four. 

and if you have ever witnessed how office ladies eat, you'll also notice that they are always equipped with the art of holding crumpled tissue in one hand whilst still aptly maneuvering the chopsticks and spoon. from time to time, they use the same (same! gross!) tissue to wipe their nostrils or push their specs up (if they are bespectacled) with the back of their hand in the midst of their mindless conversations with fellow comrades. their cumulative decibel level, which is almost ear-crippling, are pretty much like their existence: redundant.


can you spot an office lady when you see one? plenty to go around.


a lot of them don't smell too good either
: the fat ones usually have a urine and stalely clothes combination. the worst of the lot, and it equates to a large group of them, are those who use trinkets like packets of tissue to reserve seating space, while trudging around to decide which food they would like to shovel into their mouths.

get this: more than half the seats in the locale were peppered with tissue packets of varying design and content. it is an appalling display of hawker etiquette, if you were to ask me. couldn't they simply get one of their portly counterparts to sit at their decided location to reserve the seats instead of everyone flocking to find food? i know, for one, that i wouldn't want to sit at a table where an office lady sits. it would be an outright abomination.



proof much of their atrocities?

34 comments:

Anonymous said...

haha, my chendol almost come out of my nose. great entry.

chronoskwok said...

although "office ladies and their infamous teesu paper" has been done to death.
No one else's is anywhere near as interesting as yours(wink)... so full of grit, grunt and gripe.
Did one of them happen to sit on you today? :P

Rex said...

I dislike this behaviour too.. so irritating... but this not only office lady did, office guys too man. I refer to orchard area. If no sit and I will just simply put the tissue aside if no one there. When they ask...

"opps~ I am not singaporean!" =D

kOoKy pLuM said...

lol. thats wat makes it Uniquely Singapore!

thats why i dun eat at a hawker centre during lunch hour in the CBD especially. bring ur own lunch? save even more money. i think.

cheers
Kooky

Anonymous said...

even i totally don't like you!!! idiot!

but i am agree wat u trying to say... fine!

Anonymous said...

Not sure since when use tissue to “chorp” seat become part of Singapore culture and do accept (most likely is no choice) by majority people.

It seriously gives visitors a culture shock when they are in Singapore. It shouldn’t happen in a country which almost 100% of population is well educated.

I feel sorry for people who are not doing that because they have been labeled: “Singaporean is doing this and that………”.

~no name~

Anonymous said...

You actually have time to smell the people in the hawker center?? May your dining experience be more pleasant next time around. Bring a big box of tissue to make a statement in the future.

Anonymous said...

these OLs are super irritating la.

Anonymous said...

haha, sentiments exactly.
these dua bui sou (big, fat aunties) are super irritating, and they alway make me feel better about myself.

Anonymous said...

i also hate office ladies, but i still love this blog!

Anonymous said...

quoting leo, maybe bring a whole roll of toilet paper.

now THAT would totally make a statement.

sidetrack abit, thats why i try to avoid eating out unless i need to during lunch!!

Anonymous said...

mong an u so funny !!!!!!!!!

iruffcookiedough said...

(tyc) eeeww, your chendol? yucks!! haha, that made me cough out my food too.

(chronoskwok) haha, you repeated what you texted me on msn. and no, if they happened to sit on me (god forbid), i wouldn't be able to reply to these comments at all.

(rex) that's exactly what i intend to do. what's with the tissue deal right?

iruffcookiedough said...

(kp) the food that i whip up has to be consumed on the very spot it was prepared, that's why they call it instant noodles. so any chances of packeting it and bringing it to work is almost zilch.

(god damn everyone aka lucky daily) finally you are talking some sense today. but still, you're not welcome here.

(no name) exactly! it makes us like part of them. it's just totally something we should eradicate, today with the nose picking and spitting of phlegm anywhere they deem spit-worthy.

iruffcookiedough said...

(leo) hehe, i actually did that once, just out of pure frustration. the OLs were looking at me dumbfounded. i was like, please, as if you guys hadn't been doing that for ages.

(abc) you speak my mind. =]

(anonymous) haha, how do the dbs make you feel better about yourself?

iruffcookiedough said...

(infatuated) thanks for you support. hope to see your comments in future. =]

(ptmd) that's because you don't work in town mah! i am sure you don't encounter such problems one right? if not, you will surely become very bik chek like me too.

(duncan) siu mong an!!! funny much?

Unknown said...

Yea, I dislike this too..Sometimes, i was so frustrated that I swipe off the tissues on the table or chair!

Just dun understand Y can't just one of them stay behind. Oops, I forgot, gals like to go together! Like they did for toilets!

Anyway, so OLs dress so high=class, but pls la..these act cheapen rite away!

Anyway, good entry, ruff!

kOoKy pLuM said...

this is starting to become a discussion thread w00ts!

oh u can make sandywiches. sandwiches are easy and can be brought to work. or u can just buy subway.lol.

fufu said...

lol the latest trend there? or still the kiasu spirit? anyway just dont only shoot at office ladies, i bet some office boys/men did the same as well
well i plan to make my own lunch box when i go working there later =)

Rex said...

just do it man~ they won't dare to argue with u since you look so fit. hahahaha~

lcfu: I thought you work in singapore last year! u never meet this problem when you go makan eh?

Anonymous said...

OH MY GAWD... i recognize this hawker centre!!! You work nearby?? =) Maybe we can do lunch together soon... soooo happieeee... =)

C.A.D

iruffcookiedough said...

(noise) we should totally just use their tissue paper in front of them. what do these ols think they are in the first place? some kind of a reservation plaque?

(kp) maybe you can post some sandwich recipes? those that do not become soggy kinds.

(lcfu) i bet you did make an interesting entry out of singapore as well when you're here. looking forward. =]

iruffcookiedough said...

(rex) i will just use the same excuse you said, i will try to pass off as a japanese. haha

(c.a.d) i hawker-hop! hehe. so no fixed place as to where to go for makan-ing. =]

maybe if possible, we might be able to bump into each other again at the said hawker centre that you go to. ^^

Unknown said...

Im office lady as well :S
Don't smell me tomorrow! Lol...

Rex said...

u japanese! haha.. qualify since u are MA. XD

Anonymous said...

wow des, i'm an OL leh. i'm use to that and i do that once in awhile also la. hahaha. i think i didn't have any incident having sitting with someone who smell but i know it's definately feel awful.

anyway, the lunch crowd in CBD is crazy and i do hate the crowd too. the only time i can avoid/find peace is to buy back to office.

oh yeah, one more thing is hateful. whenever u got ur food and some inconsiderate HIGH CLASS OL just refuse to make way and giving u the face "u can't walk pass that's ur problem".

iruffcookiedough said...

(x-tin) i am sure you make a conscious effort to preen and look pretty, if not decent looking. see you tomorrow!!!

(rex) my small eyes?? japanese much??

(huiying) i see a lot of the younger ols are the considerate ones who don't do that. it's only the more experienced ols who don't give a hoot about anything or anyone else.

i am pretty sure you're not that much of a bad ol as i described those in my entry. welcome back btw. how was the states?

the.ramonas said...

thanks for the comment! very nice blog! I love how you have the "cookie" theme all over. "27 scoops of comments". hope seeing you around more often! happy friday!

love,
the.ramonas

Anonymous said...

thanx thanx. =)

yesh, US has been very nice except the winter cold which i don fancy thou i like looking at the snow everytime. life is very much peaceful during my 3 weeks stay which i feel so reluctant to come back sg and now im back i think sg has a crazy living life. hahahaha.

iruffcookiedough said...

(the ramonas) not at all. i totally dig your blog. now if only there were more entries on men's related, that will be great! =]

(huiying) and i bet you'd be missing the cold weather there. i prefer colder temperate countries than sunny all year round. anyways, welcome back!

kOoKy pLuM said...

hmm i guess u need good bread. a good stiff bread. those flimsy white bread just won't do. or all u have is white bread then toast them.

recipes? up to you imagination really. banana and mayo. yummy. or banana and bacon. omg so yummy. but thats just me. lol.

i guess the main thing to not get ur sandwich soggy is not too much sauce or condiments, good bread, crisp veggies and don't squish ur sandwich.

thats my sandwich making theory. lol.

Unknown said...

Des, Im still very much sober to write you this comment.
Arghh... how can you leave me alone here with those wolves

:'(

iruffcookiedough said...

sandwich 101, any of you have any queries, do look up kooky plum. not so kooky now eh? haha

Anonymous said...

this cute guy in blue shirt in the queue, in front of the ah-pek