I work in a restaurant that serves food and alcoholic beverages. We carry bottled beer because it’s easier to serve, consume, and throw. It was a usual day at work when I served a table of two a bucket.

Our SOP is that we will serve the bucket already then will open for the customers on the spot ma, so I did that, but when I try to open the bottle of Heineken, I not sure why but it’s harder to open than usual.

You say ham I hungry

So I just use more force, but as soon as I did, the lip of the bottle broke off and the force used resulted in the bottle cutting off a small slice of my finger. This is not the normal scratch or what leh. You got see how people slice Christmas ham before? With the big fork then slowly slice a thin piece. Ya just that the ham was my finger.

Blood dripped profusely and I had to get some tissues. I apologized to the customers and told them I’ll get a new bottle for them in awhile and darted off to wrap my finger.

For context, only my boss and I was working that day and he was talking to other customers. He noticed the commotion and the trail of droplets of blood leading to the bar counter but he continued chilling there. For the whole night, the blood didn’t stop dripping even though in my free time I applied pressure to the wound. We didn’t have plasters either so I was stuck with tissues for the evening.

Bye bye for a bit

Yet, My boss decided it was okay for me to run the store before telling me he joining his friends for drinks elsewhere for awhile. What to do, suck it up and continue working lorh. At some point I was feeling lightheaded and was a little worried, but luckily most of the customers left already so I sat down to rest for abit.

In the end, I didn’t go A&E cause I figured it shouldn’t be that bad, but now also healing already. But really, this kind of boss ah… I don’t know what to even say about him..

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Why cannot best of both worlds?

I (31, M) have been with my girlfriend (28, F) for about 1 year. It was a long day at work, and I just reached home (my GF stays with me sometimes). I was just minding my own business, eating my dabao-ed caifan when suddenly my gf called my full name. I straight stun and choke on my food.

Give me PTSD

You know the feeling when you just going about your day, then suddenly your wife/girlfriend/mother call you by your full name, even with the Chinese name? Ya it scared the crap out of me. I thought she found out something she shouldn’t have found out.

She called me to ask me this: “B ah, do you like my chest or my behind more?”. Brother… Limpei eating my dinner you come ask this kind of thing for what. What kind of tiktok you see?? I gave the politically correct answer of “Dear of course I love both la.. If not I don’t pick you already” so I could get her away and enjoy my dinner but she was persistent.

“You can only pick one”, she said. I told her I pick her shoulders because she gives good hugs. Then she suddenly got angry and told me to stop avoiding the question. At this point, mans just wanted to finish his dinner and go bathe.

300 IQ move

But we must use our brains to think and achieve a win-win situation if possible, right? So I replied “Okay I’ll answer you, but if I choose already never get it very sian leh”. I think she got the hint because she came over and started rubbing my shoulders.

I told her “You let me finish my dinner and bathe, then I tell you which one I like the whole night”. She smiled and went back to my room first. Needless to say, this was a happily-night-after ending.

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I still remember the days when I was a kid and my best friend and I used to hang out together, talking about our dreams and ambitions.

We were inseparable, and we had so much fun together. We’d always joke around and play pranks on each other, but in the end, we’d always be each other’s backbones.

We’d been friends for so long that I couldn’t imagine anything changing our relationship.

Changed after making money in property

But then, something really did change our relationship. My best friend made it big in the property sales industry and suddenly, he was a different person.

Where once he was a humble and down-to-earth person, he was now a show off and obnoxious.

He would constantly flaunt his success and brag about his money. He had become someone I hardly recognized.

He would often invite me to parties and events, but I could never quite enjoy them the way he did.

He was always surrounded by people who were only interested in him because of his money and success, and I felt like a total outsider.

I could tell he was enjoying himself, and I was happy for him, but I couldn’t help but feel a little bitter.

Drifted apart eventually

My best friend had changed, and it was hard for me to accept it. I tried to talk to him about it, but he just brushed it off. He was too busy reveling in his newfound success and wealth to care about our friendship.

I felt like I had been replaced by his new life, and it was heartbreaking.

We started to drift apart, and eventually, I stopped trying to stay in touch with him. I still think about him from time to time, but it’s hard to reconcile the person he is now with the person he used to be.

His newfound wealth and success had changed him too much, and I couldn’t handle it anymore.

I guess some things just aren’t meant to last.

Ah ma no where to spend her CPF money.

I work at a bar near town. I’m a poly student, so just working on the side to earn abit more for daily expenditure. This bar gets all kinds of patrons, old to young, male and female and we’re usually busy most days.

However there was one day that I was working, on the shop floor was only 3 of us part-timers, and we are designated sectors to serve the tables. It was about 8pm if I recall correctly, when this random ah ma came in an ordered a Guinness Stout.

Lai liao lai liao

I didn’t think much so I just got the stout from the bartender and served it to her. She started talking to me in mandarin, asking me “xiao di ah, ni que qian ma?” (which is chinese for “ah boy, do you need money?”).

I thought to myself, nowadays the scam really evolve leh. Some is scam through message and links, some is love-scam, some is call you, but this one I never see before sia. Some old lady in person asking if I need money… I played along so I said “shi de, suo yi cai hui zai zhe li zuo gong” (yeah, that’s why I’m working here”).

No money, no honey

She replied saying she will reward me $5k if I can send her home and take care of her. Ok for all students out there we know how being broke is, but no way I can accept stooping to this level. But maybe $10k I will say ok HAHAHAH.

Anyway, I humbly declined her offer and never went back to her table. She finished her pint and left shortly after. Ah ma please take care of yourself and I hope I never meet you again.

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A Singapore Uncensored reader shared with us about his experience on board a MRT recently where another commuter (male), crossed his leg while seated and placed his foot on his lap while doing so.

After that, the reader shook his leg, in order to get the commuter to take his leg off his lap and they got into a mini argument.

Note from the reader that the train was not crowded at the time the argument happened as it was non peak hours.

Man not happy that the reader shook his leg

The commuter was apparently not happy that the reader shook his leg, because as he shook his leg, his foot which he had placed on his lap started to bounce up and down.

He then asked the reader if he could stop shaking his leg, without having the basic common sense to take his foot off the reader’s lap.

When the reader asked him to take his foot off, he avoided the question totally and asked the reader where he studied as if he was going to complain to his school about his rude behaviour.

The commuter then gave up as the argument became a little pointless and told the reader that talking to him was a waste of breath.

The reader then turned to the commuter’s wife to tell her that she is wasting her time by marrying the commuter.

Here was how their argument went

Commuter: Eh boy, can don’t shake your leg?
Reader: Then can you don’t put your leg on my leg?
Commuter: What school you from uh?
Reader: What school I go my mum know can already.
Commuter: your mum never teach you manners uh?
Reader: your mum give birth to a f*****
Commuter: I waste my time talking to you
Reader: (Talks to dude’s wife) You waste your time marrying this guy.

I must say that one of the things that I have enjoyed seeing the most since the pandemic has hit is the sight of women wearing masks.

I always people watch whenever I am on the train or bus

I cannot deny that women looked quite beautiful in them because their face were mostly covered and I could only see their eyes/

Requirement going to be lifted soon, it makes me sad

Now that the requirement to wear masks is going to be lifted even on public transport, I think there would not be much chio bu left.

I feel like all the mystery has gone. Without the masks, everyone have gone back to their usual looks, and while some might still look fine, there will not be the mystery of seeing a woman in a mask again and thinking if she is as chio when she removes her mask.

So now that the requirement to wear masks has been lifted, I must admit that I am a bit sad. I had gotten used to seeing women with masks and now I feel like something is missing.

My morning and evening commutes will not be that interesting anymore.

I would definitely miss the mystery and elegance of the masks, and I would also miss the feeling of looking at a girl with her mask on thinking that she is a chio bu.

It doesn’t matter at the end of the day if she is not chio, but as someone who like to people watch, it gives me a certain ‘kick’.

So while I’m also happy that the requirement to wear masks has been lifted, I will surely miss the way women looked with them on.