Everyone's not really aware of movies made by actors until they get major popular, dies or if anyone ever checks out imdb and care to look for the movies from their favorite actors. I never knew Chris Pine had a movie called "Carriers" until I find myself renting that DVD, just cos he's hot. Cheap, eh?
What was supposed to be a total annoying blocker for my life from Craig's internet chats turned out to be quite a fun trip to Ngwe Saung, the beach, and somewhat reflectory. It's true I am a friendly guy at work and it's true a lot of my workmates know me but I work on level 0 in a room which is big enough to fit five to six people on my own. So, the whole office doesn't see me much.
The trip, despite its purpose for workshops, turns out to be more of a 'get to know' routine for me. I do know them and it's easy for me to appreciate or like any of my colleagues, be they in my project or other projects. Yet, it's amazing how a LOT OF them end up with "I never thought"s.
I don't know what type of first impressions I give to these people but a lot of them has come up with pretty interesting comments. The following statements are followed by "I never thought you'd be this type".
1. Just so it happened, I could not drink alcohol and one of the days on the trip turned out to be my vegetarian day, which is part of the eighty one buddhism rosary beads ritual, where I do NOT drink for 81 days and do rosary beads everyday and be vegetarian for nine days. A lot of the girls from the other project started to realize how I'm quite ok with religion. So, I guess their first impression would have been me, this Buddhist who don't know shit about religion.
2. This is quite common in the office. Despite my sense of humor and my 'facial expressions' easy face, a lot of my colleagues end up thinking I'm the serious type. Maybe cos I wear ties? Maybe cos I walk straight and prance around like I'm a busy secretary? But, for some funny reason, they don't know how much of a goofball I actually am. Now, this made a lot of my colleagues easy to communicate with me.
3. I'm a Burmese and I'm damn proud of it. Yes, it's true I whinge about how some Burmese could be a pain in the ass.. how some are so stubborn and stupid. This does NOT make me hate Burmese. In fact, I am one and just because I grew up somewhere, my big boss's boss(Dr W) was surprised that I could eat rice salad with chilli and Burmese tea for dinner.
4. I guess everyone in the office knows that I'm gay and they should by now given I joke about it 24 7. It's not insecure but I like to call it the modesty humor where you pay yourself out on a minority scale just to make others laugh. Yet, everyone's curious and quite keen to know what type. "You don't dress like a girl?" "You don't like girly men?" "Do you enjoy sex?" "Do you cross dress?" Boy!! Burma don't know a goddamn thing about various types of gay men!!!
So, I guess I could say six months of working with these people has finally paid off in the socializing department. Now, I have become somewhat acceptable and I guess any curiosity or talks behind my backs would be totally boring by now since I guess I like to dwell on what I believe I can be, and not what I am trying to be. "You have come a long way, baby"... Yep, I have and nope , this isn't the end of a phase yet. Now that they know me better at work, let's see how they deal with this boy.
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