Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Masked and Ice Maiden strikes
Two things happened in office today:
Incident 1: Masked!
Yes, that's a pic of me , wearing a mask at work. Tried to give my famous " icy glare" , but dun think it is fierce enough.
Nope, I dun have any SARS symptoms .
Should I phrase it as it was an act of mischief?
The story goes like this: Remember that horrible auntie subordinate I had mentioned abt? She have been coughing and sneezing without covering her mouth for these few days. Yet refusing to see a doc. How strange is it that she will see a doc and got MC whenever we told her that we need her to help out with something on the following day.
Anyway it seems that her germs are everywhere in the office, for quite a number of colleagues seems to gotten the bug and down with cough and flu. Scary man.
Last evening, my partner and I had talked abt wearing masks to hint that we are fed up with her inconsiderate behaviour. She had been coughing and sneezing very loudly, yet she blame it on the cold air-con. Yeah yeah, 是环境的错，她从来没有措。
Excuse me, she had already asked the Maintenence to turn the air blowing away from her, making us feeling so stuffy, If she is cold, why did she insist on wearing sleeveless everyday?Since we both are "on" abt wearing masks, we decided to see if this tactic works
This morning, we were waiting to see if she had heed our advice to see a doc yet she reported to work though there isn't much work for her to do this week. Moments after we heard her coughing, we put on the masks.
The temp. gal had a good laugh seeing us with masks. And my partner said I look more like a nurse than her.
As for the auntie, she pretended not to see us wearing masks, avoiding eyet contact when she need to talk to us.....
Hmm, was she thinking that we are sick and she is actually afraid to catch the bug from us???
Incident 2: Ice-maiden strikes!Tuned to my "ice maiden mode" today to some irritating guy. Yes Ms Tay, if u are reading this and was thinking if he is the irritating Project Executive from the office's renovation contractor I had mentioned to you abt, yes he is the one.
也许你会觉得我很怪癖，可是我就是这样，跟我不熟的人，我绝对不会应酬他，跟他敷衍几句，因为这么做对我来说，感觉很“假”。
He had already made me made annoyed by asking abt my age, my job, my status when I was working OT weeks ago. Somemore he is not my colleague, there is no need for me to interact with him to this level. At most, I only need to convey message from him to the directors when the auntie colleague is not ard. There is no need to know me to such a personal level.
我就是这样，常建一座高墙在我与陌生人之间。
I thought I had make it very obvious to him that I dun like to talk him unnecessarily by avoiding eye contact and putting on an "icy" look whenever I had to answer to his questions. Until last week, this insensitive guy commented to my partner that " 她很 serious 的, hor?" while smiling at me.
Groan! Can't he differentiate the
"I dun wanna be disturbed" look with the
"I am serious" look???
Ok, I admit I was rather bad to him this morning. This was what happened:
My partner and I have to show him which are the four pedestrals to be replaced in the new wing as they can be opened using the same key. While walking back, I was expressionless and you can't expect me to entertain him right?
他竟然冒出一句：“Ey, 你要笑，笑才好看。不要这么凶。”
我跟他不熟，他无缘无故要我笑给他看 ，他是不是"siao"的。
我便回了一句：“笑给你看来干嘛，我又不是卖笑的。”
As I walked away from them, I heard my partner laughing at my reply.
Later in the morning, my partner "betrayed" me by telling him where I was sitting when he couldn't find me at my desk.
I was working from another cubicle at the far end of the office, as I need to use the scanning machine.
Obviously he saw that I was busy yet he asked:
"我可以有这个荣幸请你吃饭吗？" And went on saying abt thanking me for the help rendered.
Help? When did I ever help him. The person he always liase with from our company is the anutie colleague and he should be treating her instead. I only helped to measured something once as that auntie was not around.
"我都没有帮到什么。”我回答。
Forgot whatdid he said but my next reply was
"我不能出去吃，我得帮J 打包。” J is my partner, and her leg is still on braces. And it is true that I have been buying ours lunches and eating in office.
“这样啊。那你在哪里吃？” Darn. He still continue to ask despite me not looking at him.
“Office 的哪里。 Pantry?”
“Cubicle". I replied curtly
Then heard him mumbled something “总不能叫我在你的cubicle吃。”
Siao, I din even say he can join us for lunch lor
“我们就是喜欢在我们的 cubicle 吃。” I replied. Yeah yeah, that is rather rude, I know. But bo pian, I am doing work and hate to be disturbed.
Saw his exasperated look before he walk away. Keke. Then later caught him mentioning abt "banged into wall liao" to my partner. Before he left the office, he still dare to say that 他没那个荣幸请到我吃饭。 Grrrrh.
"What he came to ask u har?" My partner asked, and I saw the twinkle in her eyes.
Stupid woman, betrayed me....
Then she purposely ka-jiao me, said that "U very bad, ppl date u, U reject him. He came to ask me where are u leh."
Scolded her with a "You siao arh. Don't anyhow say."
Then it was back to serious talk. We are not the sort who like to receive treats from others. Whatever I had done to help was part of the job. Besides, if he really meant to treat, he should be treating the auntie colleague who was the liasing person between the renovation contractor and the director.
But the main point is: I dun like to lunch with people I am not familiar or comfortable with. I rather be considered "cold" or "rude" than forcing myself to such ordeal.
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