I bet you know exactly how extremely peevish it feels when a bumbling idiot pushes all the wrong buttons producing the combination for utter stupidity. In other words, yes, I bet you know how it feels to meet a moron.
Its not the first time for me. But I'm a move-on type of person so yeah. Let bygones be bygones, let sleeping dogs lie. Yes. Yes. Yes. I will, if only you let me.

Meet Ken Lam. You may find it strange I refer to him as Ken Lam and not as just plain ol' Ken, but thats because I think his name has long become KEN LAM more than anything else in the world. Anything that doesn't have two syllables doesn't sound normal at least in relation to Mr Lam.

Mr Ken has less manners and sensitivity than an emotionless plate. And I dare say, he tries too hard to be 'in' or hang out with the normal people or something.

Its not that I think he's abnormal, but he KEEPS doing things to remind you that he isn't really a normal person even though you don't think hes off his rocker or mad or mentally unsound.

Its like he's stuck in that P6 primary school boy phase where you do all the wrong things to sound right. When you try to act normal but end up sticking out like a sore thumb. The period of life when you think you've got it when you've not at all.

He's the kind of person you pity so much you TRY VERY HARD to be nice to him, but manages to tumble down that nice wall of mingled sympathy and friendliness you try to build for him. And he's definitely someone who never fails to make you both angry and sorry for at the same time because if you don't, you're obviously someone very mean.

I was so mad at him I couldn't help but say this when we were talking about career options when growing up, "What do you think Ken will be when he grows up? (Stops for a moment.) IF he grows up."

This in other words, makes him the most irritating person to be acquainted with. And also that makes him one of the most frustrating challenges you meet in school. You can't be friends with him and you can't NOT be friends with him.

I don't think I'm very friendly but there IS a limit to what you can push in school you know.

There IS a pecking order. Eat that. If you can't beat that or ignore that, you HAVE to live with that. THATS LIFE. Nothing is fair. So I wonder why Ken still thinks he's a solitary figure whose actions will only affect HIMSELF and HIMSELF only. The world doesn't revolve around you Ken... *Rolls eyes* The world doesn't stop to say, "Hey little fella, I see you have problems. I'll stop spinning around my little axis to help you."
The world spins on whether you freaking like it or not. Accept it. If you cannot then you can forever continue to 'survive' around here.

First things first, rumours aside. Yeah. Ken is weird, but 'ok' for awhile. We get to know him. TRY OUR BEST to treat him normally and hope that he doesn't act all sticky and weird on us the way some P4 kids do when they have no friends. But somehow he doesn't allow people to treat him normally. HE HAS to do something totally unacceptable ethically or morally or something to get you all fired up and furious with him. If he doesn't do that he's not Ken or something.

I applaud Clara for her undying kindness to people who freak the hell out of me. Seriously. She has this degree of patience which exceeds my own almost 360 degrees. I mean, I can be pretty patient with people sometimes, but not ALL the time and Ken is the case when I say "NOT ALL THE TIME".

He gets on my nerves and there is only so much I can take from him! I mean WHY DOES HE HAVE TO ACT LIKE AN IDIOT? To think I actually thought MAYBE just MAYBE one day we could all be just friends you know.

Numero Uno. He's afraid of teachers. Yeah. He EXPECTS everyone to be helping him all the way. He EXPECTS people to do what he wants them to. Thats fine. That problem WILL go away when he finally grows up.

Secondly, he doesn't have priorities. Maybe he does and that is to go home immediately after school for GAWD KNOWS WHAT? People try very hard to tell him that he has to stay at school for this class or that class or listening O level or something and he just doesn't care. It IS his responsibility to know and when we tell him its important he hecks us. Hello! That is like SO rude!

Third point. Mr Lam ignores us when we care. Okay. In particular ME. I cannot STAND IT when people ignore me. Sometimes I try and I really do to act normally but he doesn't think I deserve a chance to treat him like a living breathing human being. I think he secretly wants me to treat him like some teeny weeny bacteria cell or something because he absolutely gives me NO chance to form a friendship properly.

And last but not at all the least, KEN LAM gets on my nerves because he's a JERK and I mean EQless JERK! I don't think I can ever score really high for EQ but not this low on my meter man! Not this low! Today he stepped on my toes real hard and he thinks its funny. I don't mean it literally of course. He went around greeting people with, "You're gonna fail your English Prelim Oral" and also with "Yay!" plastered at the back.
HELLO BAD EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN MALE SPECIES! HELLO! Me, the very bad excuse for human male species because I am in no way male thinks that YOU'RE A VERY BAD EXCUSE! Wake up can? People with functioning brains can tell them you DO NOT ENCOURAGE your friends in the midst of an exam by saying horrid stupid things like, "You'll fail your oral."

HELLO? YOU BRAINLESS AH? OR JUST A BIG MEAN PERSON WITH NO HEART, NO SOUL, NO FEELING?

Then when Clara asked him why he said that he just shrugged nonchalantly and added, "I don't know. It makes me feel good."

WTH?

Look at me Ken. Do you THINK its funny. I bet you do. But the question here is NOT ABOUT YOU. Its about this game called life that YOU and everyone else has to play. You are not supposed to DO things (and moronic things like this) because YOU think its very funny. Your ONE action can actually influence MANY lives you know that? And this game called life is about YOU and OTHER PEOPLE. Not just YOU. Do you even think I THINK its funny?

I know you have a brain Ken... Don't pretend you don't just so you can continue doing weird brainless idiotic stuff without being blamed. Theres a word to describe that. I believe its COWARD.
Whatever lah. Whatever.

I looked him very angrily in the eye and said this.

"You have NO EQ. No IQ. And worst of all, you have little to no knowledge of being friendly. Why do I even bother about you?"

I think I said something along those lines.

And I wonder to myself now. WHY do I even bother really. I shouldn't care. I give up really. Clara I don't know how you do it but everyone has a limit and KEN has hit 100 degrees. My thermometer cannot register anything higher before it explodes into smithereens so yeah. Good luck. And of course luck is not enough. I think God Bless would be more appropriate.

Fuming,
carrie