I have a love/hate relationship when it comes to medications. Typical as it may sound, my prescription list after my surgery was a bit too long to memorize. With this amount of external chemicals inside my body system, I get hungry easily; well, mostly weak. Then, since some of the medicines must be taken after or before a meal, I end up finding an excuse to nibble on something despite my inner Hein asking me not to eat during the ‘you cannot jog in the evenings’ phase. Sorry, innerHein, I have to nibble on this bag of potato chips or I can end up foamed up like an overdosed celebrity. So, after a bag of potato chips, I had the right mood to blogify my new document of MicrosoftWords.
Excuse my lack of blogging during my PMS era but I forgot to mention BubbleGum is FINALLY in town. The analyst who I was supposed to help with was in town since last week. I was happy about his happy face despite his angry tone on emails. Emails are just so ever-deceiving; reading this, BooMan? Then, I got to learn how passionate this Indian expert is. Having worked with people like ToyBoss and BigSis, passionate colleagues are a major thumbs up and BubbleGum somehow managed to grab the ‘most impressive colleague of the month’ trophy despite his one week stay. I blame the system I was working under. Seriously, too much meetings, gentlemen!!! Where art thou, o’ God of Implementation? So, back to BubbleGum, he’s full of philosophies and he would start a sentence with ‘there’s a saying in….’. It’s a wonder working with him but just like any Indian people who I’ve met, he’s not afraid to bargain.
“There you go, sir, I got this done”.
“Oh can you do this one more thing? You’re doing a great job!!”
I swear I have a Chinese blood in me but flattery gets me anywhere and I’m gonna quote what he said “Swe, your involvement has caused a QUANTUM LEAP and it has given me hope on my assessment”. Now, you give me one god-damn reason why it’s not fun to impress this man. BubbleGum and his way of getting things, such a passionate man and nice to work with.
Ok, here comes the BUT part. He happens to work in the meeting room which is the room beside our disaster risk ‘not really’ reduced small for 8 people office room. Given the water cooler is in the meeting room, it’s a huge chunk of challenge for us to get water whenever we’re thirsty. Some of us swallowed our saliva; some tried to swerve distraction to the fact that the internet is slow; some ignored it. Thirst is ONE thing our DRR room was not really humble about. We find ourselves scared shitless to go to the meeting room where BubbleGum is to get water from the water cooler.
There was even a mutiny of those ‘have gone to the meeting room’s who would ask help from those in the room who hasn’t gone under the arms of BubbleGum’s death wreath. MissMyanmar was the last victim to be asked to fill a cup of coffee and a water bottle while quenching her own thirst. BubbleGum hesitated at first and we were quite surprised but I think it was because of the time taken to fill the coffee cup and the water bottle, she was finally yet another prey of BubbleGum’s babbles.
He talks and talks and talks and talks and the worst thing is while he talks, he finds more tasks for us to do. With Maltesers and Angel on vacation (given they play pretty major roles in our office), minor tasks and small talks were not pretty much welcomed especially when one is trying to quench his/her thirst. If you think I’m exaggerating, get this. This is mainly because I have a huge appetite for H2O, I now know the South African handshake, BubbleGum’s wife’s favorite color for a laptop, Indian geography, Punjabee language and a lot more. All thanks to BubbleGum’s babbles whenever I would be filling my water bottle and not to forget the load of small tasks asked to do on my way back to my office cubicle.
He’s a great man and I highly respect him but I wish to see him next at a picnic as opposed to our ‘ever busy’ office room.
Excuse my lack of blogging during my PMS era but I forgot to mention BubbleGum is FINALLY in town. The analyst who I was supposed to help with was in town since last week. I was happy about his happy face despite his angry tone on emails. Emails are just so ever-deceiving; reading this, BooMan? Then, I got to learn how passionate this Indian expert is. Having worked with people like ToyBoss and BigSis, passionate colleagues are a major thumbs up and BubbleGum somehow managed to grab the ‘most impressive colleague of the month’ trophy despite his one week stay. I blame the system I was working under. Seriously, too much meetings, gentlemen!!! Where art thou, o’ God of Implementation? So, back to BubbleGum, he’s full of philosophies and he would start a sentence with ‘there’s a saying in
“There you go, sir, I got this done”.
“Oh can you do this one more thing? You’re doing a great job!!”
I swear I have a Chinese blood in me but flattery gets me anywhere and I’m gonna quote what he said “Swe, your involvement has caused a QUANTUM LEAP and it has given me hope on my assessment”. Now, you give me one god-damn reason why it’s not fun to impress this man. BubbleGum and his way of getting things, such a passionate man and nice to work with.
Ok, here comes the BUT part. He happens to work in the meeting room which is the room beside our disaster risk ‘not really’ reduced small for 8 people office room. Given the water cooler is in the meeting room, it’s a huge chunk of challenge for us to get water whenever we’re thirsty. Some of us swallowed our saliva; some tried to swerve distraction to the fact that the internet is slow; some ignored it. Thirst is ONE thing our DRR room was not really humble about. We find ourselves scared shitless to go to the meeting room where BubbleGum is to get water from the water cooler.
There was even a mutiny of those ‘have gone to the meeting room’s who would ask help from those in the room who hasn’t gone under the arms of BubbleGum’s death wreath. MissMyanmar was the last victim to be asked to fill a cup of coffee and a water bottle while quenching her own thirst. BubbleGum hesitated at first and we were quite surprised but I think it was because of the time taken to fill the coffee cup and the water bottle, she was finally yet another prey of BubbleGum’s babbles.
He talks and talks and talks and talks and the worst thing is while he talks, he finds more tasks for us to do. With Maltesers and Angel on vacation (given they play pretty major roles in our office), minor tasks and small talks were not pretty much welcomed especially when one is trying to quench his/her thirst. If you think I’m exaggerating, get this. This is mainly because I have a huge appetite for H2O, I now know the South African handshake, BubbleGum’s wife’s favorite color for a laptop, Indian geography, Punjabee language and a lot more. All thanks to BubbleGum’s babbles whenever I would be filling my water bottle and not to forget the load of small tasks asked to do on my way back to my office cubicle.
He’s a great man and I highly respect him but I wish to see him next at a picnic as opposed to our ‘ever busy’ office room.
Listening to: 3oh!3 – Starrrstruck (feat. Katy Perry)
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