I was pretty happy when my office is FINALLY going paperless for meetings. However, today, I received an e-mail on the deadline for all reports to be submitted. It said:-
Please submit to us the reports and other relevant papers (black & white – double-sided with page numbering) in PDF Format on or before [date].
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Have a good weekend!
I saw rather amusing remarks from colleagues when replying to the HR for the exact same memo concerning their lateness to office.
Reply from a female colleague:-
1. I was late from [date] and [date] due to the major road works nearby my house which caused terrible traffic jam.
2. I was late on [date] because I took a wrong turning into an unfamiliar route when I was frustrated because I was stuck in a jam for over 45 minutes.
3. I was late on [date] because I woke up late as I was feeling a little unwell the night before.
Reply from a male colleague:-
Traffic jam.
LOL!
I was having conversation with 6-year-old Quan Quan just now during dinner. The boys are here to stay with us for awhile, till their mom recovered from the nasty episode with the evil spirits in their house.
Me: Do you see ghosts everyday?
QQ: No.. just sometimes.
Me: What do they look like?
QQ: I didn’t see properly but my brother did. He said, it’s red in color.
Me: Red? Is it a female or male ghost?
QQ: Female.
Me: How did the ghost even come into the house?? Are there any ghosts when you first moved in? (The previous house was burned to the ground. Luckily it was just a rented property and the boys were not there when it happened)
QQ: No. It all started when dad brought back a stone from the market.
Me: What stone? From the market??
QQ: Dad went to market, then saw a stone. His friends gave it to him. They said, “A god asked him to have it”. So he took it home.
Me: Aiyoh! This is terrible!
QQ: Che che, you are not afraid of ghosts meh?
Me: No, I am not afraid.
QQ: Why are you not afraid?
Me: Because I have 耶稣 (Jesus) in my heart.
QQ: 椰子树?? (Coconut tree)
Me: LOL!! 耶稣 lah. (At this moment.. I am at lost of words, how to translate “Christian” into Mandarin)
Me: Do you want more siew yok to go with your rice?
QQ: No…
Me: Eat more vegetables. Good for you.
QQ: Why do you eat so much?
Me: @#$%^&&^* Coz I am an adult and you are a kid!
QQ: Aren’t you supposed to 减 肥 (go on a diet)?
There goes my evangelistic skills, trying to minister to a kid about Jesus.
We were discussing about how equipped our company’s pantry is and of course, disappointed. Haha. I still remember during my first job – my company had a tea lady who made coffee and milo every 10 am and 3 pm for our coffee breaks and wheeled the cups to us at our cubicle for us to choose! How nice! Then, there’s another company who had a tea lady who made the best Nescafe in town! I think she could even rival the mamak shops! I
In my current company, we only have choice of coffee or tea. Then to add insult to the already measly choice, we are the only ones not having Milo in our pantry. It seems, it stemmed from the wastages or rather pilferage earlier, committed by the ex tea lady. Other colleague mentioned that, some people are simply too wasteful. They will drink one small mug of Milo but, put 5 scoops in it! She even saw people pouring away 1/2 mug of Milo when they couldn’t finish it. And we all at our floor, seething with anger coz we don’t have Milo! Haha.
This discussion sort of jog my memory of a story I read or, someone told me many years ago.
There were two sisters who always like to waste their food. Every time they go out, they would order plenty of food but only ate 10% of them because they said, they were on a diet. Then one of the sisters, died in an accident and was sent to hell. The other surviving sister was heart broken and dreamed of the dead sister one night.
She saw her sister eating and kept eating a whole pile of food, like a few storeys of building high! So, she ran to her sister, crying and asked her, “My dear sis! Why are you eating? And why are you eating such a big pile of food!”
The dead sister was chewing and trying to swallow, with tears streaming down her face. “This is my punishment for wasting food when I was alive! So, I have to pay for this, in my afterlife by eating all the food I wasted!” Then, she kept crying and eating.
The living sister cried even harder and said, “I pity you sister! You still have another huge pile of food to eat!” pointing helplessly to another pile of food next to the pile that the dead sister was eating.
The dead sister looked up, choking on the food and said, “Sis! The other pile is actually waiting for you when you die!”
So kids, it’s not good to waste food!
My close friends would know, I can be a really lazy ass. I like to sleep. A lot. Most weekends, when I have nothing much to do, I would usually sleep it off. I can fall asleep at anytime, anywhere.. in fact, everywhere. Even if somebody drive me to work, even only for 5 minutes, I could press the snooze button and black out. And it’s really embarrassing that, I could sleep soundly while having facial – soundly here means snoring.
Just yesterday, a new colleague asked me to join her for yoga class after work. I said I cannot. She was puzzled on why I couldn’t. I said, I am very bad at one particular position. That is the corpse position. She scratched the head and said, "But that’s the easiest pose!"
"Yes, that’s the easiest but I am most afraid of………..", I said sheepishly.
"Why??" she asked.
"Coz I tend to fall asleep and snore DAMN LOUD that it will wake others!" I said.
She laughed.
I was just having conversation with a friend sometime this week and said, I might be suffering from sleep apnea. I know, I did coz earlier, I do get choked sometimes during my night sleep that kept me awake. Thank God the problem has subsided. But now, don’t know somehow, I just tend to snore louder. Snoring is definitely in my family’s genes. Even Ern Ern at age 2.5 years old snores in her sleep. Luckily my sis is a quiet sleeper… but my mom, dad and my brother are chronic snorers. If we travel together and stayed in the same room, you can hear the entire concert of symphonies throughout the room!
Maybe I should get a surgery to deal with it.. since losing weight is such a struggle.
Well, am writing this filler post coz I was a little drowsy at work after a good lunch meal. Haha.
