Bittersweet symphonydespite all the lack of privileges in my company,
i do have to admit that i have made quite a number of interesting
aquaintances in that office.
for instance,
Poh, my mentor.
never in my wildest dreams had i ever imagine getting along really well with a 34 year old chinese ah beng.
he's the smartest ass loadsheeter i noe.
drinks teh-o in the afternoons and get drunk in the mornings.
never panicks.always bo chap.
he s so streetsmart that im awed by it.
i finally understood how soccer bettings go abt thanks to him.
and my hokkien vocab has improve tremendously ever since he became my mentor.
and its nice to noe that hes introducing me to all those old timer ahbengs at work
as his next "child prodigy";)
im most prob the only non chinese member in their "kua si mi" group.
and then there's kannan.
hes an indian national.
he looks like those indian nationals u avoid in little india.
but the moron's hilarious.
he's the first indian national i noe whom uses hokkien vulgarities when he's mad.
shld see his face when he says "wahlauey chou chibaiiii"
and then there's the 2 bangladeshi workers.
allo and fazlur.
they hate each other.
they feel threatened by each other's presence in the office.
allo calls everyone and everything Bhai.
"kinah-bhai,poh-bhai, yusoff bhai..etc etc"
even if he doesnt noe ur name, it ll be "load-sheeter bhai,control bhai,computer-bhai(when hes talking to the computer alone)"
and fazlur, is just obsessed with his pretty young wife in bangladesh.
he's the staunch muslim in that office and
he feels ostracized sitting there wif the rest of the setans.
there's many many more i can elaborate on.
its jus that,i ve got to stop here.
got to wash the toilets before The Mother starts screaming.
sigh.
when is this hari raya thingy gona be over and done with?
jus leave me alone.
the toilet stinks for gods sake!