superficial

are any of you readers out there named "joan"?

i was surprised to receive this email on my gmail account today...

'ms. pang'* wrote:

"hihi,

sorry for the late reply..
just got your email from joan last nite..
u can send the member's invitation to my company email or xxx@hotmail.com.sg.
i will be on msn as well. Thanks alot.."

*no first names will be revealed...relax.


but the thing is...i didn't know who this 'joan' was, much less the writer of the email.

so i replied:

"hi,

sorry, but who's this? i don't know who 'joan' is either...much less anything about an invitation...haha.

cheers,

tien chi"


she replied:

"r u max hsu? (???)
'ms. pang' here..
u asked joan for my contact and asked her to pass me yr email the other day when i met u guys briefly at balcony.."


shit. i was at balcony, but like two weeks ago...don't tell me i was THAT high. no way...i don't even know any joans. and max hsu??? haha...that's not a name i'd ever use...just think of the implications in life man...maximum loser. haha. whatever, to each his own...

actually, come to think of it, 'sky' is not much better...but at least i'll still be able to win some at mahjong...haha. btw, max, if you're reading this, buddy, please ignore all of the above. cheers. =)

anyway, i replied:

"hmmm...nope...sorry, wrong number..."


but after some thought, i realised that hsutienchi@gmail.com isn't exactly an email that can be easily mistyped...damn...maybe max hsu's chinese name is tian chi or something similar!!! maybe i've got a secret identity running around out there somewhere...scary thought huh? haha.

so...to the joan(s) out there spreading my email around...please stand up, please stand up. i've got an invitation for you...to meet sky hsu. haha. especially if you look like:


joan chen

haha. aiyah, kidding lah. don't look so disgusted can? sheesh...i'm not superficial lah...i'm just: apparent, casual, cosmetic, cursory, depthless, desultory, ditsy, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, frivolous, general, glib, half-assed, half-baked*, half-cocked, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive, lightweight, nodding, one-dimensional*, ostensible, outward, partial, passing, perfunctory, peripheral, quick fix, seeming, shallow, shoal, silly, sketchy, skin-deep*, slapdash*, slight, smattery, summary, surface, trivial, uncritical, warped.

(source: roget's new millennium™ thesaurus, first edition (v 1.3.1)
copyright © 2007 by lexico publishing group, llc. all rights reserved.
* = informal or slang)

damn i feel corny today...must be those doritos i had last night. haha. cheers. =)