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going back |
i went back today and boy was it worth it. so happy now, after the morning turbulance.
so i was supposed to meet mel in aj today to look up ms zhu because its teacher's day tomorrow. but, as usal, things got really screwed up when i was preparing to go out. i thought i had put on my right eye contacts, but it turned out all blury. so i did the logical thing and went to my mirror trying to figure out what was wrong. when i tried shifting my contacts, i realised to my utmost horror that the contacts werent there. so i'd essentially been prodding at my poor eye without my contacts on. great. and the weird thing is that i was really sure i had already popped it into my eyes! AND i couldnt find it anywhere. so obviously i wasnt able to go to school with mel. and things kinda got verbal despite my constant apologies and a particular msg just blew me up and i sent something really horribly sarcastic to her and that was the end of story until now. i guess we all need time to cool off.
along it all my mom and dad were preparing the buffet my dear colleagues ordered for celebration of closing, and being the nice people they are, they obviously invited me back to join them. luckily enough, this week is an odd week, so i was able to go since i wasnt bogged down by tutorials. was really happy at the prospect of being able to go back and join them, and this lifted my spirits while i was joining in the preparations for the buffet. however, it also made me realy distacted during philo lect. i couldnt find bel and yuqing, so i was stuck beside this dude who kept falling asleep. cannot describe the pure euphoria that i felt coming out of the lecture knowing that i was headed to NYK to met everyone who i've missed so much next. on the way i met yuqian, who i've been wondering why i havent already bumped into. well, i finally did so today, and caught up a little with her. and she asked the taboo question that people have been asking me a lot of late. 'are the two of you together?'. naturally she meant mr lim, which reminded me of the whole unfortunate red light incident at bugis with huiting and kwang ying. i mean, couldnt you have thought of a better response to their 'are the two of you red light' than to say yar lar yar lar in a fashion that is totally unphanthomable to which you are joking or serious? and the two dears took his words at face level and told others, resulting in me answering more 'are u two together?' and 'congratulations!' than i ever did at any point of time in our friendship. i mean, we are close friends, and i must admit we do appear ambiguous as to the real status of our friendship to the other people who know us. but as the law and rule goes, two people are not together unless one party confesses of his or her desire to take the friendship further to the other half in the equation. ceteris paribus, unless this occurs, two people are NOT together even if one of them tells someone else they are, jokingly or not. in which case, the answer to this question would be rather clear. no, we havent broached the subject, and i dont think anyone of us will do it in the foreseeable future because this would mean jeopardy for an otherwise stable friendship, because as all romantic relations go, tension is bound to be galore. thus we would presumably remain platonic unless something changes it.things will take a natural course, and i hope people will stop speculating for me this natural course.
so thats that for all that rumour stuff. and picking up where i left off before i was momentarily distracted. so i went back to NYK. and i met everyone again. sounds cheesy, but i was really happy to see them again, june, yanyan, kit, peggy, punitha, florence, sumi, jacylin, sylvia, siew hong, suan koon, beverly, josephine... so many of them!! of course there were the japanese bosses too, like goto san, nakagome san, mashita san, igo san, hata san(he still talks REALLY loudly!!), tsuchiya san, takada san.. didnt see fujimoto san tho. oh!! and yamada san came over to singapore and i so coincidentally got to see her today. LOL. it was hard keeping my laughter in especially since i know how people feel towards her and her emails. well, te bosses and everyone else kept asking about the buffet and how we managed to do it at home, what were the dishes and how did we prepare them.. stuff like that. its was nice knowing they were all at least ok or happy with the food. and i was surprised that people still remembered me, given that i was just a small temp. i was even more pleasantly surprised when i met nakagome san at the lobby while waiting for the lift. he thanked me for the food, and then asked me if i was back in school, so i said yes. then he asked me what i was majoring in and i said either lit or psych, to which he asked'literature? wat literature?' i thought that was a rather odd question so i just gave the fact and said english literature and he was like "oooh.. shakespeare?" looks like what all the lit teachers say is true.. shakespeare is the first thing that comes to mind for people when u mention lit, and my japanese boss just serves to exemplify this point. then i mentioned that i havent really chosen my major because i was in my first year and he was DAMNED shocked. he didnt know i was a first year undergrad (to which i have finally figured out why, because he thought i was an intern all along, so naturally i would not be in my first year) who just started school. then he blurted out his sudden thought that we were ten years apart in age. i was quite amused by his sudden thought, since i've known all along that we were ten years apart in age when i was typing stuff for them and saw some of their birthday details. in fact we share the same birthday month. as we chatted i realised that he knew i had been working for several months now and that he actually noticed my absence. cool. i didnt think bosses would be so mindful of details. so he concluded correctly that this was my vacation job after completing high school, and enquired about when i took my exams to which i was quite blur and took awhile to give him the correct answer. then the lift reached the ground floor and i ended the convo with a bye. to which he said he was going in the same direction. and then bye.
it was a happy ending to a turbulent day and my happy mood extended all the way to korean class which i thought i was late for, having stayed really late in the office, but i cant help it, i really liked work life, and i really liked all my colleagues.
so like what kit said, i'll try to go back 'home' every month. hopefully the next vacation will be filled with laughter brought by them too.
posted by sarangaia || 6:35 AM Friday, August 31, 2007
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