Thursday, February 1, 2007

Locals in Korea

Day 8 of my working trip. it;s been a few days since my last post.. Well i am still surviving, but still not enjoying a bit. Ok today i am goin to talk about locals in Korea, and i meant the Singaporean locals in Korea, or in short my fellow colleagues.. It;s not hard to notice ppl's quirks when u have to hang around them from morning till night at work. Lunch and dinner are with them. Breakfast is the onli meal i can stay away from them to have my own time alone, cos i chose to have it earlier than them. I went to Korea with 3 other colleagues, let;s call them A, B and C, just to give them some anonymity. :)

A is the manager-level guy of the group. Being more senior in age and position, he keeps himself away from all the lamenting from his fellow colleagues, including me. haha. When issues of sex were talked about(what else do u expect 4 lonely guys to talk about?), he will pretty much keep his comments to himself, but u can see the glimmer in his eyes how interested this topic is to him. haha..And i can see him trying hard to control his urge to visit a "girl" here. Well, he was given a namecard of some dubious services(in korean, dun understand, but it had a 100,000won priced service written in BOLD), which he showed to us days ago and he showed to us again just now It;s still in his pocket!!! ahha. Well he tries to stay optimistic when the project is almost down the drain, though u know his not feeling that way, cos as the project manager, his ass is on the line more than ours. To quote his favourite words, "Life goes on"

B is a tall guy, well his a malaysian, looks ok, but still unattached. Maybe what i am goin to write might be the reason behind it? yes, B talks loudly, very loudly. haha.. imagine being in a small eatery full of Koreans, and then this guy starts talking loudly, very loudly, in chinese, and yes, with the malaysian accent, and u know how awkward the situation is. I hate to stick out in a foreign country. i dunno about u, but i cannot take it lah.. haha

C is also malaysian, yah yah yah... But his accent is much worse than B. So i practically have to endure hours of malaysian chinese talk.. Maybe i might start to talk like that now without me realising it. If u hear any of that accent coming out of my mouth, please slap me.. Thank u very much, :) Anyway, the problem with C is not the accent, but his eating habits. he eats loudly!!!! 1 talks loudly, the other eats loudly.. phew... His those kind that dun close his mouth when he chews, and the resulting noise it creates, is unbearable. I can feel the angst in me growing everyday. But, as what i found out, there is always a cause and an effect, action vs. reaction. Cos last nite while we were having fried chicken for dinner at the small eatery(the one which B talks loudly in), i suddenly realised, because B talks so loudly, his voice drowns the eating sound of C. Amazing, i looked at his chewing mouth, yet i cant hear nothin! hahaha

anyway, we were joined by 2 fellow colleagues in office today, D and E. D is interesting as of now, and he was suggesting we go ski-ing this weekend. We shall see. E will be goin back to singapore (envy envy) tomorrow and he really needs a lip moisturiser badly. His been licking his lips the whole day (due to the dry weather) and it;s really looking like 2 pieces of taiwanese sausages by now.

Ok that;s all for now and it;s 12.06am here!!! dammit, personal time flies!!!

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boxedfish said...

whao liao, please dun use my real name can or not? hmmpppphh.. there's a reason i am always boxedfish....