Hazia’s Reflections

Lately, most of my entries have been on ‘work’, boring bits, nothing much. It’s not that I don’t have significant things to share, but for some incomprehensible reasons, I tend to put them off for a while.

Referring to my previous entry (Manning), I was looking forward to attending a talk by a tycoon in Putrajaya on the same morning. Initially, Mr Defensive offered to give me a lift from the office. However, he later found out that he had to attend another meeting there prior to the talk, so no such luck. Anyway, because of the manning crisis, I didn’t get to go at all.

Also, I think God was sending me a message. I was getting dangerously too close to him. Nevertheless, Mr Defensive and I text each other that evening, after my headache has gone down. He enjoyed the talk but he said the worst part was that Ms Murai sat next to him. Looks like my theory is right, she fancies him, despite him being married and all.

Oh, who is she? LOL! This story is due weeks ago. I got a lift to a dinner with the minister from a female colleague. Ms M tumpang too. To our horror, we got lost and arrived 2 hours too late. My presence was crucial, I was the emcee. Another colleague took over, but no 1 and IS never let me forget that. Yeah, I got a verbal warning.

Who would have thought that the person driving did not know the way, she only asked us if we knew when we were already getting into her car. Had I known 30 minutes earlier, I’d have tumpang  1 of the guys or take public transport instead. She later apologised though, sensing that I’d be in grave trouble.

Okay, that’s not the story. The 3-hour period that we were stuck on the road that evening was a nightmare. Ms Murai took the opportunity to interrogate me. She is a crude and noisy character, asking about my personal life as if we were friends e.g. my taste in men, is Mr Bird my taste, etc. The woman was unbelievable, if word gets out, I’d be in s##t. She then jumped straight to ‘me taking a lift from Mr Defensive a few months back’. She nagged that I only asked him, I could have asked them for a lift too. Startled, I told her that it was only once and he offered.

Satisfied with that, she went on to the next question. "Is Mr Defensive your taste?" Whoa! I was glad that she was sitting in front. Otherwise, she would have seen me turning red. She concluded my silence as a ‘No’.

On our way back from the event, she was equally teribble, lectured me for being late, my role was important, etc. Hello, did she have a short circuit in her brain? Did she forget why I (we) were late? The worst thing was that when I tried to defend myself, she turned on the car radio volume.

I later shared the whole incidence with Mr Defensive. He already knew her true character, he was only waiting for me to discover it myself. It turned out that he likes to purposely enrage her.  That day when I was in the car with him, she called, he didn’t pick up. Later, he told her he was busy talking to me as I was in his car. She questioned why he gave me a lift, and yet he had never offered her. They’d worked together for more than a year.  They share the same office while I’m based a few floors down. Ding dong! She was jealous.

When she questioned why he was going home early one day, he jokingly said he was meeting his girfriends, since he has plenty. Yeah, he likes to enrage her. He advised me never to let her sense that I don’t like her, it could be damaging. LOL!

Well, I admit, the guy is really something, looks and all. Whenever he dropped by at my office for a chat or called me after a long hard day at work, I’d feel better. He is like a dose of sunshine. But…. a married man is a married man, what is there to be jealous about? He is already taken laa. What’s with the competition, duh!

p/s: I took the above picture in front of a hotel at Joo Chiat Road in Dec’07