Inconsiderate people...

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

I finally have collected my confirmation letter from Kah Bintang Auto regarding my internship programme. And as expected, they'll appoint me as apprentice mechanic, which, I think is a nice way to say that I'll be a kuli to mechanics there. ;) So if any of you guys have a Hyundai car and would like to send it for servicing, send it to Kah Bintang. I'll personally attend to it. (Chewah... macam laaa reti repair kete... :P)

For being an intern with them, I'll get paid a monthly allowance of RM 300, which I must say is quite low. I've heard about interns at other companies being paid Rm500 or so. Well, I'm not gonna complain, coz this internship is generally considered as voluntary work, so I should be happy that they even consider paying me. Plus, my home is sooo close to the workshop, which means that all RM 300 of the allowance will be money that I can use leisurely, since I can just have breakfast and lunch at home.

However, as I mentioned previously, Kah Bintang will be my last choice. I'll only work there if I don't get any other offer from other companies. As of now, yup, no offers yet, but I'll still be hoping. Top priority - Exxonmobil, of course.

Let's change the topic shall we?

Reading lutfi's blog makes me wanna blog about smoking. Yup, smoking. And no, I'm not a smoker. You smokers out there: you know who you are! The closest I ever got to smoking was during primary school when I placed an unlighted cigarette between my lips and acted like I was an adult smoking a cigarrette. I'm glad I never thought of lighting it up.

Why do you smokers smoke? You do know that it's extremely bad for health, right? You do know that you might get cancer, and plenty other ailments by smoking, right? And what's more, you do know that buying cigarettes is a very expensive activity nowadays, right? I guess it's the addiction factor. Must be that, is it not? Because if you were to follow common sense and follow what you're taught at schools, you would definitely know smoking is totally bad for your health, and you would've stopped smoking.

I don't deny the fact that when you're addicted to something, it's truly, truly hard to stop doing that particular something. But what I don't get is how inconsiderate you people are to us non-smokers. You smokers always do not care about other non-smoking people while you puff away your own life. You do it in front of us, beside us, sometimes even blowing the damn poisonous smoke straight to our faces!

Now, this is a fact: do you know that us passive smokers (that's us non-smokers who inhale the smoke that smokers blow at us) have more than twice the risk of contracting smoking-related diseases compared to active smokers? I don't know the actual number, whether it's really twice or not, but the risk is definitely higher compared to active smokers. Why? For the simple fact that smokers are slightly protected by the cigarette's filter, while we non-smokers suck the unfiltered smoke straight into our lungs.

So basically, when you huff and puff your life away in front of us non-smokers, you're actually not just killing yourself, you're dragging us non-smokers to our deaths too! How inconsiderate is that?!!

When confronted with a situation where a smoker is smoking near me, I'll either hold my breath and breathe in short gasps, or better yet, move to other places. But it should be the other way round. The smoker should be the one who's supposed to move, not us non-smokers, who are doing nothing wrong. Huh...

So, I plead to you (although I know it'll fall only on deaf ears), when around us non-smokers, please don't smoke. Or at least, have the courtesy to blow your smoke away from us. We're innocents. We did nothing wrong. So don't kill us. If you wanna kill yourselves, go ahead. But don't drag us along with you.

I wonder how bad my lungs are currently...


Posted by Nikman Shah at 11:27 pm
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