An Ominous Duan Wu
31st May 2006, Wednesday
It's the end of May and one of the well-celebrated Chinese festival commonly known as "Dumpling Festival" (because people start stuffing themselves with gluttinous rice dumplings till they suffer chronic digestive issues, or is it just me?) or "Dragonboat Festival" (due to the competition held to commemorate this occasion)...but generally no one really gives a hoot about this non-public holiday unlike our friends from China, Hong Kong or Taiwan....bummer...
I did not start this very day too well..it actually began last evening when I was suffering from that mysterious diarrhea once again...
I traced back what I had eaten for dinner to be the exact cause of my douldrum...and it could be the banana which was at the point of rotten...
I had one during Sunday evening as well...but Monday too when I was perfectly fine..so I highly doubt my favorite yellow-skinned fruit friends....
Fortunately I am still well enough to make it for work today...which now I am kind of contemplating a MC wouldn't be too bad for this wretched day...
I got up much earlier than before now that Dad had quitted his contractor job and no more transportation to the MRT station...
There are a routine SOP (standard operating procedures) to be done every morning especially what to bring along such as wallet, handphone..and one crucial activity would be dousing myself in eu de toillete...which I had forgotten for this very day..
Usually I am fine to do a day without my T shirt smelling refreshing (in the morning only) but today I just felt that my Mambo Tees just stunk..even to myself...
In times like this I am actually glad that I had like 5 micro-litres of an old bottle of CK One in the office...
But the worse was bound to happen...
Mom said that today was an auspicious day to treat oneself with some herbal essence..and in our case a nicely simmered "Emperor Chicken" (a chicken simmered with Chinese herbs which is supposed to be more powerful than Tokar Ali or Viagra)...
I really dig this delicacy from Mom especially the soup created which is strong in smell and appetite-inducing..I can have bowls of plain rice with the soup and the chicken...
WAIT A MINUTE... soup in my lunch capsule....is like the root of disaster...
I am a rough guy who tends to mishandle my stuff...and when I packed my lunch capsule into my slingbag, whatever contents within had to endure the bumps I took while scurrying to work...
Usually rice and some non-wet dishes are capable to hold their shape upon the rushing process..but for soup you would need a sublime air-tight vessel to ensure no spillage would be resulted...or in other case handle with extreme care..
Knowing me option 2 is definitely out of the window, and I had been assuming that my costly lunch capsule has to be justifying every penny we paid for it to contain the soup tightly with a trace of a chance to leak...boy was I wrong
I was on the train ride, enjoying my music and reading the sports section of Straits Times and laid my bag on its back on my lap as usual; before I was alerted by my inner conscious that the soup might actually leak in that position, so quickly I readjusted my bag's position to the vertical axis..well not exactly which I realized just as I was alighting at my destination.
I felt wetness in my inner left thigh and I had no involuntary sphincter muscle problem, so I was quick to think it's the soup.
A quick peek at the underneath of my bag proved that my hypothesis is right...
So that I was limping towards my workplace, hoping no-one would notice a wet jeans at some disgraceful nether region which people would assumed to be from my body instead of soup from the bag...while I am vexing about now my bag and the lunch capsule bag ahd to be thoroughly washed to be rid of the herbal smell..
Luckily, today's concoction seemed a bit light and not so "aromatic", so I would not have people giving me that "did that guy smell like herb" look when they walked past me the entire day...
Ultimately, I should have be more careful when come to transporting soup for lunch to work as 10 out of 10 times a spillage is bound to happen...
This very afternoon, had another classic mind game with JxMMy when I sought work to do yet he had been kind of hogging when opportunity arose...seriously others may not have noticed it but it sure was suffocating to work with him especially when he would pop in a few gimmicks daily and not notifying anyone ...I would pop in a few myself but I have none to begin with...
With the fact that I would be leaving in less than a month time, I am getting even more intolerant of his behavior..and all the best to whoever taking over my role..most probably Bobby but even they don't clicked that much...
Lastly I had been trying to put an act to appease my future supervisor to be dead serious and enthusiastic about my new job since meeting her yesterday...
However during our 1 to 1 conversation, I think I might had expressed to be losing concentration easily while she didn't seem to be too hopeful about my coming over as of before especially now I heard that another new staff would be joining the team...
Perhaps I was a bit too sensitive...
But for the long run of my new career and most importantly for my appraisal and performance bonus, I had to prove to them and myself my switch was a good choice...
So I tried to read through the specs of the machine I would handling and could not grip my attention even it was just a 1 and half page long write out...
Seriously with the likes of JxMMy and Bobby showing interest in long and dry scientific papers, I rarely do more hands on work...even domestic house keeping would be fine...
Is it I am becoming too easy with work itself? Or I am at fault for not showing enough passion?
I know when I have a job to do I would do to the best..but the problem is I lack that initiative factor and perhaps won't impress my employers too much...
Urgh....gotta start thinking of the way to play the politics to my favour soon...after the World Cup that is...oh lady luck please continue to shine on me...
It's the end of May and one of the well-celebrated Chinese festival commonly known as "Dumpling Festival" (because people start stuffing themselves with gluttinous rice dumplings till they suffer chronic digestive issues, or is it just me?) or "Dragonboat Festival" (due to the competition held to commemorate this occasion)...but generally no one really gives a hoot about this non-public holiday unlike our friends from China, Hong Kong or Taiwan....bummer...
I did not start this very day too well..it actually began last evening when I was suffering from that mysterious diarrhea once again...
I traced back what I had eaten for dinner to be the exact cause of my douldrum...and it could be the banana which was at the point of rotten...
I had one during Sunday evening as well...but Monday too when I was perfectly fine..so I highly doubt my favorite yellow-skinned fruit friends....
Fortunately I am still well enough to make it for work today...which now I am kind of contemplating a MC wouldn't be too bad for this wretched day...
I got up much earlier than before now that Dad had quitted his contractor job and no more transportation to the MRT station...
There are a routine SOP (standard operating procedures) to be done every morning especially what to bring along such as wallet, handphone..and one crucial activity would be dousing myself in eu de toillete...which I had forgotten for this very day..
Usually I am fine to do a day without my T shirt smelling refreshing (in the morning only) but today I just felt that my Mambo Tees just stunk..even to myself...
In times like this I am actually glad that I had like 5 micro-litres of an old bottle of CK One in the office...
But the worse was bound to happen...
Mom said that today was an auspicious day to treat oneself with some herbal essence..and in our case a nicely simmered "Emperor Chicken" (a chicken simmered with Chinese herbs which is supposed to be more powerful than Tokar Ali or Viagra)...
I really dig this delicacy from Mom especially the soup created which is strong in smell and appetite-inducing..I can have bowls of plain rice with the soup and the chicken...
WAIT A MINUTE... soup in my lunch capsule....is like the root of disaster...
I am a rough guy who tends to mishandle my stuff...and when I packed my lunch capsule into my slingbag, whatever contents within had to endure the bumps I took while scurrying to work...
Usually rice and some non-wet dishes are capable to hold their shape upon the rushing process..but for soup you would need a sublime air-tight vessel to ensure no spillage would be resulted...or in other case handle with extreme care..
Knowing me option 2 is definitely out of the window, and I had been assuming that my costly lunch capsule has to be justifying every penny we paid for it to contain the soup tightly with a trace of a chance to leak...boy was I wrong
I was on the train ride, enjoying my music and reading the sports section of Straits Times and laid my bag on its back on my lap as usual; before I was alerted by my inner conscious that the soup might actually leak in that position, so quickly I readjusted my bag's position to the vertical axis..well not exactly which I realized just as I was alighting at my destination.
I felt wetness in my inner left thigh and I had no involuntary sphincter muscle problem, so I was quick to think it's the soup.
A quick peek at the underneath of my bag proved that my hypothesis is right...
So that I was limping towards my workplace, hoping no-one would notice a wet jeans at some disgraceful nether region which people would assumed to be from my body instead of soup from the bag...while I am vexing about now my bag and the lunch capsule bag ahd to be thoroughly washed to be rid of the herbal smell..
Luckily, today's concoction seemed a bit light and not so "aromatic", so I would not have people giving me that "did that guy smell like herb" look when they walked past me the entire day...
Ultimately, I should have be more careful when come to transporting soup for lunch to work as 10 out of 10 times a spillage is bound to happen...
This very afternoon, had another classic mind game with JxMMy when I sought work to do yet he had been kind of hogging when opportunity arose...seriously others may not have noticed it but it sure was suffocating to work with him especially when he would pop in a few gimmicks daily and not notifying anyone ...I would pop in a few myself but I have none to begin with...
With the fact that I would be leaving in less than a month time, I am getting even more intolerant of his behavior..and all the best to whoever taking over my role..most probably Bobby but even they don't clicked that much...
Lastly I had been trying to put an act to appease my future supervisor to be dead serious and enthusiastic about my new job since meeting her yesterday...
However during our 1 to 1 conversation, I think I might had expressed to be losing concentration easily while she didn't seem to be too hopeful about my coming over as of before especially now I heard that another new staff would be joining the team...
Perhaps I was a bit too sensitive...
But for the long run of my new career and most importantly for my appraisal and performance bonus, I had to prove to them and myself my switch was a good choice...
So I tried to read through the specs of the machine I would handling and could not grip my attention even it was just a 1 and half page long write out...
Seriously with the likes of JxMMy and Bobby showing interest in long and dry scientific papers, I rarely do more hands on work...even domestic house keeping would be fine...
Is it I am becoming too easy with work itself? Or I am at fault for not showing enough passion?
I know when I have a job to do I would do to the best..but the problem is I lack that initiative factor and perhaps won't impress my employers too much...
Urgh....gotta start thinking of the way to play the politics to my favour soon...after the World Cup that is...oh lady luck please continue to shine on me...
Japanese word of the day: スープ ~suu-pu~(Soup) Maybe I shoudl refrain from bringing soup or any other watery foodstuff to work altogether...
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