I really cannot take it with this kind of people. You all got experience this before or not? The kind of friend who is the literal definition of “ai mai, ai mai” (want or don’t want). If you don’t want to go out, just say so! Nobody is forcing you, legal or illegal, to step out of your house. But the absolute worst, gold-medal standard of pattern-more-than-badang? When THEY are the ones who jio (invite) you out first.
Like, hello?! You initiated the plan, right? You sent the WhatsApp message into the group chat: “Eh, guys, weekend free? Let’s catch up, long time no see!”
Then the rest of us, being nice and normal human beings, reply within 10 minutes. “Yeah can, Sunday dinner.” We even clear our calendar, tell our family we eating out, and look forward to it. Then what happens? The moment we ask for the location or timing, the radio silence starts. Or worse, the “anyhow-also-can” response.
“Where to eat ah?” “Anywhere lo, you choose.” “Okay, how about Tanjong Pagar?” “Wah, a bit far leh. Maybe somewhere central?” “Okay, City Hall?” “Hmm, City Hall Sunday very crowded right?”
BRO. THEN YOU WANT WHAT?!
Everything also don’t want, everything also complain, but ask you to give a suggestion, your brain completely flatline. Twist and turn, pattern a hundred, like ah gua like that, cannot make up your mind. In the end, Sunday morning comes, still no confirmed time, no confirmed place. You ask again, and they reply: “Uh, actually today a bit tired, next time can?”
My goodness, my weekend just like that get held hostage by your indecisiveness. We are all 30-plus years old already, living in Singapore where time is literally money. If you want to be a hermit and rot at home with your Netflix, please just do it quietly. Don’t go around jio-ing people, making everyone waste energy to coordinate with your pattern, only for you to pull a disappearing act or drag your feet until the vibe is entirely dead.
If you jio, you lead the plan. Simple as that. Don’t be so neh-neh-fahh can or not? Next time this kind of friend jio me again, I really will just blue-tick immediately. Waste of my standard deviation time.
/end rant. Going to drink copy-o-peng to cool down.