是非精

她看着女人一手握着驾驶盘,一手拿着电话,还能不断转过头来对她挤眉弄眼感到心惊不已. 这年头的女人真是太强悍了,一心不止二用, 同一时间脑子在转,嘴巴在讲,手在动,脚踩油门. 她只能呆坐在一旁,听女人细细数落另一个女人, 插不上话也认不清路, 脑子里一片空白, 只能傻傻地陪笑. 这让她很有挫折感. 很多时候她怀疑自己是出生在错误的年代里.

雨落下来了, 水珠一颗颗打在窗上却完全掩盖不住loud speaker phone 传来一波又一波夸张又恶毒的对话. 是针对另一个女人的话题. 她有一阵晕眩, 脸上一阵发热.“你刚才有看到X X 那个死相吗?” 女人转过头来寻求她的认同. 她一愣,半晌才回过神来. “你说什么?” 她问. 女人一皱眉, 对着电话里的女人说她在发白日梦. 电话的另一端传来清脆的笑声. 她不置可否的耸耸肩, 只能陪着一同笑. 强颜欢笑了整个早晨,她觉得那张麻痹的脸不再属于她自己.

无聊, 使她开始细细打量身旁的女人. 女人面目姣好, 青色的上衣用的是本季最流行的弹性质料. 贴身的无袖上衣毫不保留的展示优美的线条.下垂的领口褶皱, 若隐若现的乳沟配上卡其裤, 青春洋溢. 她自形惭岁的看见自己一身暗淡色调所带来的沉闷, 黯然的垂下眼皮. 难怪他们喊她叫嬷嬷.

电话那端的女人也是她的朋友. 此刻她旁边的女人正在向电话那端的人打小报告. 说有个野女人要勾引电话那端女人的男友. 她听得头皮发麻. 半个小时前, 大伙不是都还好端端的一起用餐吗? 所谓的野女人酷酷的, 说话直直的. 有和男人眉来眼去, 眼光直直盯着男人的一举一动吗? 有露出不屑的表情吗? 算了, 对她而言都不重要. 她对感情事向来反应迟钝, 要不然也不会到如今仍然单身.

一滴晶莹的水珠顺着窗慢慢滑下, 撞向另一滴连为一体, 复而迅速地再滑下, 消失在眼帘. 女人问:“拜托你不要在他面前提起这事好不好?” 她感觉到女人的不安. 电话另一端的声音开始激动起来: “ 我早就觉得那个XX对他有意思. 果然, 现在连你也这么说.” 她为那男生流一把冷汗. 终于, 车子开到了火车站. 女人还喋喋不休的一直讲. 她挥挥手, 迫不及待的逃离那辆车. 明明是短短的路程却让她感觉身心俱疲.

她看着电动火车缓缓驶进月台. 依呀一声, 门打开了, 繁忙时间的车厢竟然还有空位. 她不敢相信自己的好运, 就如她不相信那个美丽的女人竟然如此不堪. 她心里一宽, 坐在椅子上, 全身的骨架好像快要散掉. 火车慢慢地往回家的路途开去.

Ah Tan's story

Wal-Mart and Metro AG will set up their hypermarket in Malaysia soon. Good news? Bad news? U decides after u read the story below.

Ah Tan owns a small grocery shop. His father was a migrant from China. The old man was able to raise 10 children by running this small family business. Although they are not very rich, but Ah Tan’s father was always very proud with his small little shop.

Ah Tan’s father passed his shop to his eldest son after he retired. At first the business was good. Their shop has a good reputation in the neighborhood area as the boss is polite and friendly, the price is reasonable and the location of the shop is very strategic.

However, according to Ah Tan, the business in the shop has gradually decreased through out the years. At first, more grocery shop was being set up in the neighborhood. Then, slowly, more supermarket, shopping center were opened. Now, with all those hypermarket, not many people want to come to his shop anymore.



Ah Tan know the reasons behind. His shop is small and old fashioned. When compare to the hypermarket, the goods that he sells were not as many and complete. Besides that, the space in hypermarket are so huge, comfortable, air conditioned, the sales girl are all young and attractive. The most important thing is, the prices of the things they sell are very very low-priced. He doesn’t blame his customer for not wanted to come to his shop.

Now that the business was so bad, Ah Tan was in a dilemma now. He was 50 this year. His children Wei Hong and Wei Ling are still in secondary school. With the crude oil price rise to $90, soon there will be increase price in everything in the market…



Can he increase the price of the goods to earn more money? He doubts that. If he does so, the remaining customer will all leave him. How is he going to survive in this competitive world??? If he closes his shop now, what can he do??? As the only bread winner in the house, how is he going to support his family???

There are many similar Ah Tan stories in Malaysia now. Will the small and medium industries go into bankrupt one by one when all the big companies from overseas started to come in under globalization concept? What can the government do to help them to survive?