Anyway, how do you really pronounce IKEA? IKEA is pronounced as "EE-KEH-AH" in Swedish and "EYE-KEH-AH" in English. Memories of my friend poking fun at me surfaced when the huge words "IKEA" appeared at the webby. I didn't understand him when he said "EYE-KEH-AH". He said I am too Singlish. Fyi, that happened years ago and I still remember. It somehow made an impact on me.

Youtube video on the Swedish and English pronunciation. Singapore uses the Swedish version.

Here's a link to Yahoo answers:

What is the correct way to pronounce IKEA?

And here's the online talking dictionary:

Talking dictionary on IKEA

It's fine if you correct me when I am wrong, I will learn from that mistake. Convince me. Show me the proof. In my job, I'm trained to question, look out for mistakes and find out what are the "should be" or correct figures. In short, AUDIT.

Just don't make a big fuss and pretend that you are of a higher standing, roll your eyes, give me the "zist" sound or pretend that you are irritated. I deal with this everyday when my figures are wrong. I know from the body language.

I've been trying not to apply what I've learnt in my job to my daily life.

Job = 1. find one mistake

2. compute the correct figures

3. solve it in 5 minutes without any hassle

4. search for the person who did it (given up on this. wastage of time.)

So sometimes, I actually heck care and go with the crowd even though I know it's wrong. (I do lots of googling, my phone is my best friend for information. Google map rocks too! My dear compass which prevents me from getting lost.) This is to avoid any confrontation on who is right and who is wrong. It has to go through a process of verifying, convincing, admitting and last of all, awkwardness. I can be emotionless at work, but in my normal life, I can't.

Been through this crap loads of times with Gaston. Thank goodness we are still together. I reckon that he's the only one who can put up with my temper.

Kind of decided long ago that I will "act blur" in those situations. If it doesn't hurt anyone, why not?

装傻可能会活久一点。