From Volatile to Versatile
23rd December 2005, Friday
The day for the X'mas party and I carried over that whimsical and volatile spirit I had been experiencing at the end of last evening..
I was rushing to finish up that last bit of work to make it for the feeder bus to the MRT station before the non-existent corporate coordinator of our measly place named Candice had to lead these pair of frail-looking skeletal aunties who can easily assimilate the role of minions for the white witch of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe".
They came ro scout the area for a shooting of the corporate video to woo suckers from worldwide to come to our state-of-the-fart research facilities here; I really don't give a slight damn what fabulous production they are concocting, I just wanna get home after a hard day at work...
Their uninvited presence resulted in my loss of concentration and I left the stacker of the equipment ajar and a whole load of samples left undone for the entire night...GMD!
Thus I had to clear it aptly in the morning and more stuff lining up before the day begins.
My fustrations were compounded with the fact that YM and the young ones would be on a very relax mode today...seriously they could offer not much help either on the work front.
I then lugged the big box of gifts my fellow colleagues had been pitting in heart and soul to participate in the gift exchange exercise. There was also the few large boxes of Kinder selection I had acquired as the "early birds gifts"..there were the elusive Kinder-hippos (basically white chocolate shaped as hippoes) which my sis claimed to be really rare to be retailed locally and would even cost at a dear tag of $2...
Anyway the morning preparations were delegated to Triana and the new attachment girl, Ziyue while I went back to do some house-keeping stuff to alleviate the workload hoping for an early knock-off after the party...
The crowd was flowing in at a snail rate and by 10, there was only a handful individuals indulging in the Malay pastries prepared as appertizers while I was busy stuffing myself with that tasty banana fritter/ball/kueh before cajoling the incoming colleagues to take the Kinder chocolate bars and in no time the "Kinder Bueno" and the hippoes were first to disappeared off the tray..
The programme was led by this scrawny fellow from the 8th floor called Nick and he was assisted by this lass who both pretty up to task to get the crowd going for the games which is always the hardest issue of the X'mas party year in year out....
They had this lucky draw where everyone willingly contribute a $2 note with own name written on top..It took some hustling by the resident hustler, Chew to get the notes filling in that huge box...
So the first game began and I showed my versatile side to help out to get the small crowd to sit by a circle to pass the newspaper-wrapped parcel around with a forfeit within each layer, you know the rest....
The next game really everyone on their feet literally...
A reprise of the balloon from last year as this time is a royal rumble every man/woman/child for themselves within the boundary..for the elusive reward of ...$10 NTUC VOUHCER!
It is through such adrenaline-rushing game that some guys got a bit heated and ego overwhelming their basic chivalry self when a particular pimple-faced lad was over-zealous when guarding his balloon from been squadhed by competitors yet using plenty of effort to burst that of the others...
He would be exerting way too much force at times, without malice I hope, regardless of gender he is facing...
However he got on the nerve of Ron who was tussling with him for a while before, glaring him with that same eyes one could imagine from a gladiator in an arena awaiting the opportunity to quashed his enemy to death...I had to be the mediator to calm Ron down and it wasn't long before he was back to his old self, don't feel justified to get too agitated over such a petty issue...
After some other mindless games to give away all the presents available, it was then for the buffet lunch and for people to interact but basically people just stayed within their own cliques, defeating the purpose...
The sad excuse of a human being, the ex-colleague of ours we know more affectionately as "shit (大便)" had no one to talk to and had to resort to join our group as his immediate colleague Ron was with us....
It was when it struck me that I was surrounded by so many new faces as the turnover rate of the non-academic staff was drastic as recently heard been quoted by our admin head, Old Hag as "dispensable consumable".
I also noticed that the new female co-workers are much attractive than their predecessors. If I am a single and eligible testerone-filled guy now I would sure be interested to hook up in some "office affairs"...ahem...anyway the whole dining was accompanied by the paino-playing of a lady from the computer department who really make the pun of "permanent head damage" in "Phd" all so true...
She got her Phd from Harvard but also suffered serious mental issues and now could only find solace in her music and she really was indulging in her moment for the entire time, can be scary looking at her showing off her trades at time...
The end was preceded by the gift exchange procession and the lucky draw of the "pot of $2 note" which was hand-picked by Hag herself and the total of $78 was won by LR from the protein side and finally he could afford to buy a month of legal porn instead of been caught downloading in the office...heehee.. yes he was the one famous for been caught in his act by his colleague...
All in all, our party got accolades from some people and the responses in the end wasn't that bad...
I was busy from the point of returning to the lab, trying to finish up the entire bulk of work within the shortest time possible and as expected my supervisor came in to inform me to leave once I deem it's right time too...
By 3.30pm, I grasped the breathing space available and made my escape from this version of Alcatraz before anyone did a last minute appearance to load me with more work on this eve of X'mas eve....
The day for the X'mas party and I carried over that whimsical and volatile spirit I had been experiencing at the end of last evening..
I was rushing to finish up that last bit of work to make it for the feeder bus to the MRT station before the non-existent corporate coordinator of our measly place named Candice had to lead these pair of frail-looking skeletal aunties who can easily assimilate the role of minions for the white witch of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe".
They came ro scout the area for a shooting of the corporate video to woo suckers from worldwide to come to our state-of-the-fart research facilities here; I really don't give a slight damn what fabulous production they are concocting, I just wanna get home after a hard day at work...
Their uninvited presence resulted in my loss of concentration and I left the stacker of the equipment ajar and a whole load of samples left undone for the entire night...GMD!
Thus I had to clear it aptly in the morning and more stuff lining up before the day begins.
My fustrations were compounded with the fact that YM and the young ones would be on a very relax mode today...seriously they could offer not much help either on the work front.
I then lugged the big box of gifts my fellow colleagues had been pitting in heart and soul to participate in the gift exchange exercise. There was also the few large boxes of Kinder selection I had acquired as the "early birds gifts"..there were the elusive Kinder-hippos (basically white chocolate shaped as hippoes) which my sis claimed to be really rare to be retailed locally and would even cost at a dear tag of $2...
Anyway the morning preparations were delegated to Triana and the new attachment girl, Ziyue while I went back to do some house-keeping stuff to alleviate the workload hoping for an early knock-off after the party...
The crowd was flowing in at a snail rate and by 10, there was only a handful individuals indulging in the Malay pastries prepared as appertizers while I was busy stuffing myself with that tasty banana fritter/ball/kueh before cajoling the incoming colleagues to take the Kinder chocolate bars and in no time the "Kinder Bueno" and the hippoes were first to disappeared off the tray..
The programme was led by this scrawny fellow from the 8th floor called Nick and he was assisted by this lass who both pretty up to task to get the crowd going for the games which is always the hardest issue of the X'mas party year in year out....
They had this lucky draw where everyone willingly contribute a $2 note with own name written on top..It took some hustling by the resident hustler, Chew to get the notes filling in that huge box...
So the first game began and I showed my versatile side to help out to get the small crowd to sit by a circle to pass the newspaper-wrapped parcel around with a forfeit within each layer, you know the rest....
The next game really everyone on their feet literally...
A reprise of the balloon from last year as this time is a royal rumble every man/woman/child for themselves within the boundary..for the elusive reward of ...$10 NTUC VOUHCER!
It is through such adrenaline-rushing game that some guys got a bit heated and ego overwhelming their basic chivalry self when a particular pimple-faced lad was over-zealous when guarding his balloon from been squadhed by competitors yet using plenty of effort to burst that of the others...
He would be exerting way too much force at times, without malice I hope, regardless of gender he is facing...
However he got on the nerve of Ron who was tussling with him for a while before, glaring him with that same eyes one could imagine from a gladiator in an arena awaiting the opportunity to quashed his enemy to death...I had to be the mediator to calm Ron down and it wasn't long before he was back to his old self, don't feel justified to get too agitated over such a petty issue...
After some other mindless games to give away all the presents available, it was then for the buffet lunch and for people to interact but basically people just stayed within their own cliques, defeating the purpose...
The sad excuse of a human being, the ex-colleague of ours we know more affectionately as "shit (大便)" had no one to talk to and had to resort to join our group as his immediate colleague Ron was with us....
It was when it struck me that I was surrounded by so many new faces as the turnover rate of the non-academic staff was drastic as recently heard been quoted by our admin head, Old Hag as "dispensable consumable".
I also noticed that the new female co-workers are much attractive than their predecessors. If I am a single and eligible testerone-filled guy now I would sure be interested to hook up in some "office affairs"...ahem...anyway the whole dining was accompanied by the paino-playing of a lady from the computer department who really make the pun of "permanent head damage" in "Phd" all so true...
She got her Phd from Harvard but also suffered serious mental issues and now could only find solace in her music and she really was indulging in her moment for the entire time, can be scary looking at her showing off her trades at time...
The end was preceded by the gift exchange procession and the lucky draw of the "pot of $2 note" which was hand-picked by Hag herself and the total of $78 was won by LR from the protein side and finally he could afford to buy a month of legal porn instead of been caught downloading in the office...heehee.. yes he was the one famous for been caught in his act by his colleague...
All in all, our party got accolades from some people and the responses in the end wasn't that bad...
I was busy from the point of returning to the lab, trying to finish up the entire bulk of work within the shortest time possible and as expected my supervisor came in to inform me to leave once I deem it's right time too...
By 3.30pm, I grasped the breathing space available and made my escape from this version of Alcatraz before anyone did a last minute appearance to load me with more work on this eve of X'mas eve....
Japanese word of the day: 逃げた~ni-ge-ta~ (Escaped!) Before being embroiled in more mindless work...
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