Conversations in the Office

After the virus incident, I naturally shared my experience with a few close colleagues. It was great fun, I tell you! For a few days, I felt like a small time celebrity in the office pantry.

During one of my story telling sessions, a colleague of mine, Siti shared her own experience. This allegedly happened a few years ago when she was working in a government organization.

An Ang Moh conslutant wanted to see the Senior Director of her department. He walked up to the Director's secretary (who was sitting accross Siti) and said, "Hi, I am here to see En. Hamid."

"Oh. I am sorry, sir. En. Hamid just past away five minutes ago." replied En. Hamid's secretary with a smile.

You can imagine the shock that registered on this consultant's face. Before he could say anything though, the secretary chirped in.

"Nevermind, sir. Maybe you sit down and wait. He will be back five minutes."

LOL! Stupid bitch probably meant that En Hamid had just stepped away for five minutes.

Pity the Ang Moh fella. Welcome to Malaysian English. Sigh.

My Very Own "Dilbert" Moment

It was just after lunch one day in the office. I was minding my own business when up walked our busty Marketing Manager.

"Jimmy...I heard you just installed a virus in our network. Is this true?"

"Huh?...Virus? No way! Why would I install any virus?"

"That's weird...Thomas from Finance told me that his department has been using the virus since yesterday. I was hoping you can help me setup my machine to use it."

My mind went into overdrive. Installed a virus? Using the virus since yesterday?? Setup machine to use the virus??? WTF???!

In a split second, the provebial light bulb went on in my head. Suddenly, it all began to make sense...

"Ohh...you mean the WIRELESS network?"

"Yeah la...that's what I said...virus la."


Stupid Ah Lian bitch. Sigh...