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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

So... what are you studying?


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Scene 1
Person 1: Where are you studying at?
Me: Melbourne Uni. What about you?
Person 1: Ooh me too. What are you studyin?
Me: Engineering.
Person 1: *shocked* Oh. Which field?
Me: Electrical
Person 1: *eyes about to pop out* Wow, isn't that hard?
Me: Errr...

Scene 2
Person 2: So... what do you study?
Me: Electrical engineering?
Person 2: *trying to come to terms with what he/she just heard* Isn't that like...hard?
Me: Errr....(insert yes/no depending on what i feel like answering today).
Person 2: That's so weird. There's not many girls doing it right?
Me: Not really...


Scene 3
Person 3: What did you say u were studying?
Me: Engineering
Person 3: What sort?
Me: Electrical
Person 3: Oooh so you deal with a lot of electrical thingies like resistors and capacitors.
Me: Errr....no. More of Telecomunication and signal processing
Person 3: *puzzled by what i just said* Oh...kay....

Scene 4
Person 4: What are you studying?
Me: Electrical Engineering
Person 4: Ah cool. Not many girls doing it i heard. Which year are you in?
Me: 4th year.
Person 4: So you're graduating this year right?
Me:Err... actually i have one more year to go
Person 4: I thought engineering is a 4 year course?
Me: It is. I'm doing a double degree.
Person 4: Oh. What's your other degree?
Me: Science
Person 4: I see. Majoring in?
Me: Physics
Person 4: *dumbfounded* interesting......

Few examples of what i encounter everytime i meet someone. It's pretty much the same thing everytime. From the examples mentioned above, i seems to me that they are implying that i am :-
  1. Crazy
  2. Weird
  3. Freakishly weird
  4. "Interesting"
Which doesn't seem like a very good thing..... Oh the agony i must've put those people through when they try to be polite coz i'm the only poor lil ol species of its kind in the room. Hence they have to strike up an awkward conversation with me. So at the next party, maybe i would say this instead

Future scene
Next person i meet: So... what are you studying?
Me: Commerce
Next person i meet: What are you majoring in?
Me: Accounting.
Next person i meet: I see. That's....nice. I'm gona go get a drink now. Catch you later kay!
Me: Okay! *sly grin*

9 comments:

aLz said...

LOL! tell me about it, I get the exact same responses.....

Wey, why your bullets got flowers wan???

carmen said...

I dono! U tell me ur the blog expert. I wanted numbers n diasies came out.

Hard Khor said...

daisies are good ...

...daisy chain ...

-motorcycle-
=ghostrider=

signius said...

Best scene:

Person: Where are you studying?
You: Melb uni
Person: What course?
You: Engineering
Person: No way! Which field?
You: Electrical.
Person: Oh my! Which year?
You: 4th year.
Person: Really? ... how come I never see you before in lectures ar?


Happens all the time in med. :s

Anonymous said...

in my case it would be:-

person:hey what uni do you go to?
me: melbourne uni
person:oh i see..what are you studying in uni?
me:biotech, biochemistry, molecular biology.....
person:oh..biotech...yeah thats a booming industry
me:yea it is....

*awkward silence*

person:...yea...yea...so what is biotech?...

me : >.<"""""

carmen said...

Hahaha good ones especially HMs. Anymore from anyone? Seems like my blog readers prefer spamming my chatbox with weird nicknames than contribute opinions on the posts >.<

Anonymous said...

yalar car!..why got mat rempit...ghostrider...@.@...ur chatbox tends to attract bad company only leh..ghost, devils and villians...lolx

Anonymous said...

Case 1:

Person: So what are you studying? Engineering was it?
Me: Er, actually I'm doing Commerce. Specializing in Accounting.
Person: Ah... good money

=x

Case 2:
Person: SO what are you studying again?
Me: Commerce, Accounting.
Person: Ah (Condescendingly)

I don't know why ppl tend to look down on you when you do commerce -_-

Denise said...

you get weirder responses with 'biomedical engineering', such as:

1. there's such a course in melbourne uni?!?!!?!
2. i'm doing engineering but never heard of your course before...
3. is it engineering? (even though i already said it was) i thought normally got mechanical, electrical, civil, chemical all that only.