{"id":299,"date":"2004-10-05T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T10:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2004-10-05T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T10:25:41","slug":"freeloadin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Freeloadin’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Good morning Albert hey do
\nyou know how to get tickets to
\nthe Malaysian Idol finale? I
\nreally wanna go…\n<\/div>\n

Such SMSes before my teh tarik breakfast will result in delayed reply.<\/p>\n

Now the funny thing is, how does she know that I know how to get tickets?<\/p>\n

She doesn’t know that I know people who work in 8tv<\/a>. I’m not exactly a shareholder who can demand 10 tickets be delivered to my doorstep (or get VIP backstage access to shows), I just have ex-colleagues there.<\/p>\n

She doesn’t know Jasmine<\/a> or how<\/b> I helped her get tickets.<\/p>\n

I don’t talk about Malaysian Idol all day; I don’t even watch it, and my 8tv reception is baaad<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, then, my friend messaged everybody in her phonebook, but took the effort to include my name. Perhaps she only bothered to do so for the first few people in her phonebook. Alphabetically.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, it was my aura of freeloading, wearing a different free T-shirt each day. And no, I don’t have William<\/a>‘s “I have no professional training<\/i>” 8tv T-shirt.<\/p>\n

Now if you’re a nubile schoolgirl reading this and panting Vick’s name… pant my name and maybe I’ll help you. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Now for a real ancient pet peeve. It can be very disheartening for a hot chick to SMS me, asking me to help her book two tickets for a movie. First off I’m not in the plan, and secondly, I never agreed to be anyone’s pet brother\/emergency crutch. It can be worse when I have two free tickets, where I offer one and she says she’s busy, but later asks for both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning Albert hey do you know how to get tickets to the Malaysian Idol finale? I really wanna go… Such SMSes before my teh tarik breakfast will result in delayed reply. Now the funny thing is, how does she know that I know how to get tickets? She doesn’t know that I know people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}