Linda stormed into the office with a long face. Nobody bothered to take a glance at her. For the ones who had worked for a week or so, would certainly know that she had a bad night. This bad night would transcend into nightmare in the office. It would be wise to treat her as a transparent object. But, cautious should be highly exercised. Any slightly slip of the tongue would mean you would step into the landmine. Get yourself the best doctor to heel the wound.
There was solution to that emotional problem. Again, the only person to be the mentor for Linda would be John again. This sounded ridiculous. Why John would take all the credits again. By now, you should have known why John is such a hot object in the office. His abilities to deal with many situations had many inability people green eyes. As such, don’t blame me for why I like John more than other people in the IT department. He is a rare species.
Of course, John has the look of the Khan’s family. Many in the office were wagging the tongue his forefather, one of them or two, must be the great worrier in the war field few centuries ago. But, as John said, ‘ I have nothing to deal with Mongolian nor the squash champion. Oh ! The Bollywood Khan? Neither be one.’
‘No one can get away from the DNA, you may deny the fact but the fact is written in your face.’ Suresh, the medical college dropout would profess his knowledge.
‘You are absolutely right, in my family, there are many ingredients put together, like the ABC at the corner of the Public Bank ice kacang Mulu’s favourite ABC, but certainly there is no black or white, only yellow, from the land more people are afraid of, snare at, especially the book called The World Is Flat had being published, adding the hatred and love into it. This land is legendry associated with the animal of four legs.’
John loves puzzles. He would leave the end few pieces of the info for the ones who are into the same game guessing for a few minutes if not a few days. Linda at most of the time, as if a kindergarten kid would look at her hero with the eyes full of curiosity. Later, she would in and out of the IT department until she found another new object of speech.
For John, he is all the time busy with calls from within the office, the internal lines would be free of charge and as well as the external lines where he is involved with, a charity organization that deals with the disables. Linda would be happy to put on the big hat on a Sunday charity bazaar, happily tagging behind John to sell the tickets.
I should not have said much about John. Otherwise I would be in hot soup. Perhaps, my finger would busy dialing the 69 extension. Linda would scan the office to look for the hand with the phone receiver when her dialing to John’s extension is filled with the engaged tone. Particularly, for the situation like today, she would be either be seen in IT department or holding the phone receiver for the 69 extension.
One thing that interested me is how John could easily let loose of the ‘L’ lady, her nick name is LEARNING TO LIVE. Well, the account department bachelor, Mr. Heng was rather straight forward.
‘ That chap is such a waste, he should be a millionaire now. His abilities to handle such a many things in one go, he should be a successful businessman. If not, he should be the CEO of a multinational company, earning at least 6k with all taxes paid for, a big bangalow and what more, a chauffer that could help in taking him to Genting Highlands. Even a helicopter can be chartered for that weekend event.’
Mrs Choo would gently reminded him that his account again had some problems in the balance column. Tirelessly preaching this stocky man for not involving in the vice either in gambling or woman.
If Mr Heng dared to rebut some personal opinion, he would not have the chance to leave the office at dot. Overtime work was seemed to be a punishment for him from Mrs Choo.
Perhaps, the whole account department would be lit up till prime time news on RTM 1 is over too. By the end of the month, the pay slip in the overtime column is written with a nil.
It would be either half of the staff in the account department would with the excuse of getting the dinner for Mrs Choo and never reappear. The take away shop delivery man would walk in with at least five packages of pizza, KFC and even the newly open nasi kandar products.
Now, you should know why Mr Heng is a stocky man.
kurt see said
very nice