Ah hah, here is my first "interesting" post, it's about an event I shared with melvyn about on msn.
Today I went to Just Acia at Douby Xchange to study with Gabriel. We found a nice cosy corner where we can plug in to our laptops and settled down pretty nicely. But not long after we started studying, a group of about 8 guys were seated right beside us. Their age range probably from 13-18? and maybe 1 old guy(lets call him A), well at least what he said made him seem to be though he definitely don't look it. Anyways heres the thing....
Well you know, because they were seated right beside us, and they were pretty loud, so I just couldn't help listening in to some of the things that were spoken by them. A, seemingly dominated the entire conversation and all the other guys seem to look up to him in great awe for the "greatness" of his "knowledge".
I have no idea how the conversation led to talk about the army, but what really sparked my interest to evesdrop (yes I know it's bad) was when A started to talk about him using the m16 in the army. He explained that there are 2 firing modes, the single shot (1 bullet at a time) and the burst fire (a chain of bullets). And he started to brag about how he fired in burst fire before (guys who went through the army would know why, ask them if you don;t =D)and how the burst fire mode fires 6 bullets at once.
The other boys were listening so intently to him and gave him that "wow you did it" look and totally believed him. It was hilarious, cause right when he said it's 6 shots burst, I knew there and then he was lying through his teeth but the boys that were with him were so awed by his story. Then he went on to say how he thinks AK47 is a better gun (well it obviously is cause it's ranked the best in the world) and one of the boys asked him "so you fired it before?" A stuttured for a split second and went on to say "erm... yes yes I did" then the boy was like "life? with real bullets?" A went like "erm.. yes of course, I was at life range firing the AK47 and I jumped into the foxhole then after that I used the SAR21 (he changed gun during his range WOW!) and given only 5 bullets. The transparent magazine looked really cool blah blah......"
I literally laughed out loud on the spot at his bullshit. To further amuse me, A later tried even harder to be the "Mr know-it-all" when one of the boys asked "how they make money giving people free-flow of drinks and ice-cream man". A went like "of course la, the ice-cream is damn cheap, it's really damn cheap loh, you know how many tubs they change everyday?" Well firstly it doesn't makes sense because the more tubs they change = more cost$$ and he talked like he know the cost price of the ice-cream the restaurant actually purchases it at. Whatever the case, the boys believed him.
One of the most memorable thing was during a part of the conversation where one boy even said, "shut up shut up all shut up and listen to A" and A just went on as fast as he could. I can't emphasize more on how much they "look-up" to him and believed everything he said at surface value. It's just like in madagascar 2 when the guy said, "Let's hurry before they come to their senses" haha Though this isn't the first time I heard the "magnified" version of army stories, it did not fail to amuse me nevertheless, the believing crowd just adds to the laughs..