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About the GrumpyQueen


A.K.A Gatekeeper

I love food, don't deprive me of it.

I'm not Princess, I'm Queen

I can be quite grumpy and when I am, I hide here, my dungeon for reflections, ramblings and ranting.

Whatever I write are opinions, and may not be the whole truth. Do not read it like the Gospel.

I hate as vehemently as I love
I already know I'm crazy, be my friend, it's safer

Different is not bad, just not the same as the rest

If you don't like me, it's probably mutual
But I'm nice, really :p

Blog started 21st June 2007, shifted from www.thegatekeeperstory.blogspot.com

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I went on the Flyer today. Pics another day. I'm here to rant.

Basically went into this shop for dinner. I stepped in, was told I have to fill up my own order form and make payment at the cashier. Very self service, machiam Ikea's style.

So happily paid at the cashier and can you imagine my shock when I saw that they were gonna charge me 10% service charge? The nerve of them! Where is the service, may I ask?

I ranted to my sister and friend who was there with me. Basically all of us were not happy with the service charge thing but we just swallowed it.

Next, I remembered that I didn't request for no breast meat for my chicken rice. I went to the counter and asked them to make a note.

"Oh, but your chicken rice is ready." And there was a plate of chicken rice staring at me with chunks of breast meat in it.

I politely asked them to change it because it was my mistake I didn't tell them earlier.

After a few minutes, the chicken rice came back with drumstick as requested. And I just left the food there without touching it while waiting for the rest of the food to come.

Then after another few minutes, the waiter came and said, "Miss, is it ok if we charge you another 60cents for the drumstick."

I flipped. What do you mean is it ok? Of course it's not ok la, you stupid dickhead!

"First you charged us a 10% service charge and I even had to go to the counter to order my stuff. Where is the service? Now, you're charging me 60 cents for requesting for drumstick. "

"Oh because normally we give all the customers breastmeat, if they want to request for any other parts, we will charge them 60 cents for it."

"Where in the menu is stated that I have to pay 60 cents to request for drumstick?"

And to call that piece of paper a menu is a joke. They don't even have menus, we can't even see what the dish looks like. That paper is just an order form, no pics, nothing.

So anyway, I think I scared the guy a bit. He said he'll check it out for me and later came back and told me to forget about the 60 cents.

Under normal circumstances I would have shut up and paid the stupid 60 cents. But from the time I stepped into the Flyer place, I just thought that it was an overrated and overpriced ride. Yes, the view was lovely, yes we enjoyed taking pictures up there but..

For something as iconic as the biggest ferris wheel in the world, one would expect to receive service comparable to the service received at Changi Airport. Their service was not bad, it's just not remarkable.

Everytime I return from a holiday, I'm always proud of the service I get at Changi Airport and I really think we deserve to be the no.1 airport in the world. This ferris wheel may be the biggest, possibly one of the most expensive but definitely not one of the best.

19.4.09 10:01 PM

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Suicide and all that jazz



I did a bit of thinking recently and came up with some thoughts that I realise might cause a bit of controversy. Skip this post if you're a staunch follower of any religion or have taken a fixed and moral stand on suicide.

Consider this statement.

“Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.”

Simply put, someone who commits suicide might not want to die, they just want to stop living the life that they're living now because it's too painful.

Your problems won't disappear just because you're dead but I guess it's the only method a trapped individual in a lot of pain can think of at that time.

Some people can take more pain and some less but I guess it's fair to say that most individuals, at their breaking points would have had suicidal thoughts.

Everyone is born with the instinct to protect themselves and not to self destruct. So I guess for someone to think of ending their lives, they must be in a lot of shit and can do without your criticisms and moral lectures. If you cannot pull them up, at least don't contribute in pushing them over the ledge.

I'm not God, or the Pope, or some other religious head. I'm not here to change the views of the society on suicide. I'm just sick of people who condemn others for choices they've made just because they haven't stepped into their individual's shoes and walked one mile in it.

Of course it's easy to stand on a platform with a holy book in your hand and preech away. And I think one can do that if,

1) one lacks empathy
2) has everything going for them that they won't breakdown and won't know what pain is.
3) one is living in denial.

I would go on about abortion and abandoning babies and whatever not but I guess it is the same theory. Try to empathise but if you really can't, shut up. People already know how holy and religious you are and how high your moral standards are so you don't have to prove it.

And lastly, it's none of your fucking business how someone wants to run their life anyway. Of course, it's none of my business that some people are born preechers and more moral than the rest of us poor sinners but who asked you to read up till here anyway?

12.4.09 11:30 PM

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There is no reason why you can't pick up the pieces and walk again. People who're not as smart, who're uglier, who're older and poorer have done it.

You have so much more in you, yours is not the worst of problems. Stand up, walk and live.

Love yourself, you're all you've got.

7.4.09 9:34 PM

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