Yawn. Morning everyone. Hot day in Hong Kong today, decided to do an update about work.
- I taught everyone a new word yesterday. That word was "pimp". There is now a person whom we call Pimp Leung.
- I found out on the same day that the translation of "gigolo" in Chinese is someone who sells his bum.
- I've managed to get a decent number of people into the Circle game (see previous post). It's hilarious to see accountants punching one another.
- I won the official work bet for the Barcelona v Arsenal final. I win a cup of tea.
- Having a smoke downstairs with someone from the filing room. He asks me if I listen to Spice Girls. I laugh and shake my head. He proceeds to sing "Wannabe" to me, though the only word he knows in the entire song is "wannabe".
- My nickname (or name) has developed into Lai Fun. This is because jong lai fun, which means Scoop Milk Powder, sounds like Jonathan to them.
- Everything has a nickname. Eugene = gene gene. Computation = com. Manager = ah jer. Yannick = yun yun ... etc.
- Not a single person has a social life on my level. They either work 7 days a week, or work 6 days and sleep on the 7th. Their idea of a social time the bunch of us playing the PSP after work.
- The average work hours are 8:30am - 10:30pm. I get advised when I work 8:30 - 6:30 that it doesn't look good to the managers. I actually feel the need to sneak out if I leave around that time (our work contract specifies that we are meant to work till 5:30pm). There is a dude in front of me that works 8am - midnight, 7 days a week. He has a family too. I regularly see him sleeping at his desk after work.
- There are actually people who leave 10 minutes after lunch starts just so the managers think they're working hard.
- Jonathan is strange name to my workmates (as opposed to Vega or Eros).
- My Spice Girls buddy keeps getting me to teach him English swear words. He now enjoys greeting me every morning with a "You f*cking guy", or "F*cking a**hole mothergirl."
- I crept up on Silent Li ... silently. Just to see if she would appreciate my punning-through-action.
4 comments:
FYI..."lai fun" is also a type of noodle, which can be best described as half way between a normal noodle and a rice noodle.
Interesting eh? Jon lai fun ;)
It'd be funny if you crept up on Silent Li and next to her was your new Singaporean colleague who saw you doing this, and she was Liew King Bak.
The Silent Li thing you wrote made me laugh out loud. So much potential. Would her perfect match be like, a sounding board? Sigh... jet lag.
- jen
random event:
did u know russell peters is coming to sydney/melb july 10th & 11th @ enmore theatre?
Jon you crack me up! how long are you going to stay in Honker's for?
Everytime i go back I put on heaps of weight cos food is so cheap!
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