Reading week (y)

First of all I'd like to say: "Yeaaaahh, blog danya yg baru najong banget - sorrey, mengganggu mood mu dan"

Anyhoo... READING WEEK HAS BEGUN! For me at least. It's basically like a mid-term break, only, it's not a break. You have to work; read mostly. And that's annoying. Reading "Harry Potter" is different from reading "The Age of Extremes: 1914-1994" by Eric Hobsbawm (I sounded so smart having just said that, but really, I only understood 5% of what the gibberish book is saying)I wonder if Hobsbawm himself knew what he was writing about. Nobody should know more vocabulary than Shakespeare, unless he right-clicked and thesaurus(ed) every word he wrote. If you can get the point across using simpler words, then why bother writing sentences like "Even the cadres of communist parties began to concentrate on the ordinary satisfactions of life once the millennial aim of earthly salvation, to which they had dedicated their lives, moved into an undefined future." [insert reference here]
What...the bloody BLEEP.
That, ladies and gentlemen, was a glimpse of torture. It's a really fun subject, but the reading ain't so fun.
Soo yeah, end of rant :D

Bon soir,
Monica

The underground station is really a fantastic source of entertainment

Hullo, I'm bored and I've got nothing else to do so I'm gonna tell another tube story.
This didn't actually happen in the tube, but on the stairs as we were getting out from the underground station.

There was a black man (and I'm not being racist), who was walking behind me and my mum as we climbed up the stairs from the underground station. So there was some sort of rail that divides the stairs into two, and people going up or down should always keep right. However, a lady who was rather big (I'm trying to be subtle here... She was big) who was going down took the left side, where people are supposed to go up. She realized this quite late so she kept going down anyway. The man behind me was quite agitated I suppose so he tried to block the lady who was going down, and so she was kind of pinned between the man and me. I tried moving as near as possible to the wall to give her space but the man just sort pushed her and she said "Hey! I was just trying to..." she didn't even finish the sentence, as the man walked past her she hit his bag (I think she was aiming for the arm but missed), and the man swiftly continued to walk up the stairs and said "Keep left, it says you need to keep left. And keep your hands off me or I'm going to make you lose some weight!" (He must've meant right, it says to keep right)

Toodle-oo,
Monica

The tube is a fantastic source of entertainment

Since Danya and Emira made a blog post I feel compelled to write one too.

I was in the tube the other day, and as I was sitting I saw these two dudes - let's call them dude A and dude B - getting in each other's faces. Something must have happened before I got in the compartment, but dude A, who was relatively younger, told dude B to "just sit down!" (yes, he was a rude little punk who had his scared "female companion" there with him) while bobbing his head like some thug. And then they went and mind their own businesses... For about 5 minutes, until the rude little punk (dude A) caught dude B staring at him, and so he said "You're pissing me off man, stop staring at me, I'm gonna break your face", and dude B, who looked Indian by the way, mumbled something I couldn't hear very well. And the punk just stormed at him, so now both dudes stood up, again, getting in each other's faces. Some people were laughing silently at them, some had a concerned look, and a girl who was sitting right beside dude B kept on yelling "Stop it, stop it! Tell them to stop it!" I'm pretty sure people silently thought, "but this is a source of entertainment in our mundane lives..."
Okay, so what happened then was, dude A got his belt out (I don't know how that happened, but if you think about it, he kind of made a fool of himself just trying to get that belt out awkwardly while trying to confront another guy) He picked up his hand presumably trying to whip the other guy (dominatrix much) but a biiigg Caucasian man held dude B back, and a man who was sitting down was sort of holding dude A back as well - not like there is much to be held back, he was like paper thin... For a thug.
These people who were supposedly "fighting" were just standing there, gazing at each other's eyes, pretty sure they were both scared to make the first move (wimps...) but then, dude A's female companion who was utterly embarrassed by the whole situation walked towards dude A slowly and held his arm and they both retracted.
After the whole scene, dude A remain standing and dude B sat, the whole time I'm pretty sure dude A felt quite awkward and exposed to the whole world. Oh, and the whole time, there was an Oprah-like woman mumbling to herself and a girl beside her about how stupid the situation was.

That's the story for the day, until next time.
Toodle-oo,
Monica