Made in somewhere products

I guess all of us have heard about the milk powder fiasco from a certain country right?

Well, apparently alot of stuff that comes from there is real bad. Like really BAD. Let me list down more examples :

Goodyear Tyres made from you-know-where

I went to a alignment shop to fix the alignment of my car. The boss there said it could be becuase of an 'inherent problem' caused by my tyres. According to him, some types simply just cause the car to veer to the left/ right. He added that the Goodyear tyres that are made in Thailand are fine but those made in China are not 'very good' - and he doesn't know why. As expected, mine was made in China.

And I thought the brand was pretty ok lor. What, they mix milk powder into the rubber mixture meh?!

Alteration Shop opened by person from you -know- where

Brought my brand new flared pants for alteration. I said I wanted it to be 'straight'- in perfect mandarin. Simple right? Somehow she manged to alter it to 'tapered'.

For the record, tapered means the width of the pants is at its widest at the waist, with the rest the pants getting more and more narrow all the way to the ankles, where it is at its most narrow.

The trick for gals is to wear straight- cut pants to disguise a pear shape, and to avoid tapered/ tight jeans. The later is fine if you are some prepubescent, anorexic etc thing.

So, I went back to her to try to salvage the pants. She couldn't do much since she snipped away most of the cloth during the 1st alteration. But what got my goat was that she did such a slip- shod job on both occcasions. The seams on the 2 sides of both legs had threads sticking out of them. There were so many I had to spend 10 min pulling the threads out. And another 10 minutes snipping off those that didn't budge.

All alterations shops would iron the seams flat after alteration and you would receive the neatly pressed clothing in a bag. Mine looked like it was hastily stuffed into the paper bag and the altered seams were bulging.

So much for clothes alteration. She is the worst I have ever come across.

KTV gals from you-know-where

I don't mean K-Box, or Party World.

I guess most guys love them, together with their nubile, well-endowed bodies.

To me, they are just here for money. Everything can be bought by money. Affection, one evening, whole night etc. - you get the gist. I admit I am prejudiced, but I can't help but wonder if the skimpily- dressed gal speaking in the tell-tale accent beside me at Mango or Zara(shopping for even skimpier clothes) works in a KTV.

I agree with the rational that with demand there comes supply, meaning to say the influx of such gals are actually a product of our testosterone-driven men here. But whatever, I don't like them and I will continue to look at them with disdain.


So much for things and people from you- know- where.