How are you?

When someone asks you,

How are you?

What do you say? Most people will give the standard usual uncreative answer:

Okay la

Sigh. Boring. I realise that it is used to/when:

Avoid personal conversation about something you wanna hide with someone whom you are not so comfortable offering pieces of you to.

Talk about everything other than yourself

You're too lazy to answer the question

you don't really want to talk but have to kinda be nice

A polite way to reply without actually replying. And so i have decided to stop using okay la as an excuse.

Maybe i'm uncomfortable telling that person something, i could say Well, i Don't want to talk about me...let's talk about something else. If person persists, Tell him/her to stop. If person persists further, Tell him/her to shove a rock up their nose.

Maybe I don't want to talk., i could say Well, er, i'm kinda busy right now, do you mind if i talk to you another time? Or if you don't have any significant work to use as an excuse, you could say, Er, I'm not really in a talking mood right now, maybe another time? If that person doesn't respect your work, then he/she can go and talk to a brick wall.

Maybe you don't want to talk but have to be nice, you could just be nice and be truthful. Say you don't wanna talk. Fullstop. Period. Kau dim. Finish. Finito. Hahah..Problem solved.

So easy.

SO...How are YOU?