"Can You Write The Date Properly?"

I asked my assistant to write down quite a number of receipts and when I checked what she did, I was shocked that she didn’t even know how to write the date properly. I was like, “My goodness. Is that how you write dates?” She wrote it like this

01. January. 2009

And all the receipts received the same fate. Yes, of course I was pissed. “Who teach you to write dates like this?” She said, “That’s how I used to write dates.” I just geleng my kepala and said, “There Is NO such thing as this. Ini bukan surat cinta yang kita buli suka2 taruh noktah macam tu. Ini receipt untuk kegunaan formal, Ok?”

Ok, I was kidding. Hahahaahha. I mean, I did not sound that harsh though I think I SHOULD. I kept my tone very very low so that she won’t hear how pissed I was. Because of how she wrote the dates, I wasted 1 whole receipt book that I have completed with the company’s stamp.

Earlier today, I sent some clothes to the nearby tailor, also a friend of mine. I said to her, once done, send to me the receipt and I'll pay you cash. So just now, she sent me the clothes and the receipt. I look at the date. And you guessed it. She wrote it down like this.

29 hb. Januari. 2009

Ladies and gentleman, is it me who have not updated my knowledge on how to write down dates or am I surrounded by the people who don’t know how to write date properly? Cos if it was me who made a mistake about the right format, then I am all ready to laugh at myself right now. *Sighs

NOTE: I seriously want to know if I should laugh at myself instead. :P