Aiyo yo… I tell you… today is one eventful day la. In the morning, I see in the news that the Perak fiasco not solved yet, but got light ahead. Then, by 10am, got rumors circulating in office that two of the PKR guy will jump ship. Like that, BN get power back in Perak. Its like two brothers saw a beautiful girl, they both fought to get the girl, they were so busy fighting, suddenly, their neighbor is the one who rides into the sunset with the girl. Rumor only.. Then, coming back from lunch, my wife called, she said her colleague mother just came back from Komtar, got many people there, looks like got fighting.. going to have riot, asking me to balik rumah. Her office all people scared and really balik rumah. The boss in Singapore gives approval. I checked for news, and nothing was on the web, only news on the Star and Straight Times asking people to stay away from Komtar. The bridge looks fine too on the bridge cam. So I told my wife not to worry, people are just making small things to become big, and ask her to balik first.
I continue with my work. An hour later, I went to the lab to check some stuff out. I told the lab lady, “eh, Komtar ada kekecohan!”, “Ya ka?” She said, in disbelieve. Another colleague called her friend. “Khairy gia 10k lang lai lor!” (Khairy bring 10k people), everyone silence a while. I said where got, that guy where got so brave, not easy to transport so many people around. Then she said the bridge tutup liau, I said where got, go see the penangbridge at blogspot, traffic lancar, sui sui. Then my friend asked, “Eh, you tak pergi ka?”, “tak ada la, I tak dapat invitation I said. UMNO tak ajak I pergi pun?, Jika tidak di undang, jangan nak pandai pandai pergi, orang tak suka.” I said, we all have a good laugh. Then when I get back to my office, my other colleagues start to receive info that something is going down in Komtar, and start to gather and search the web. Start la the ofice kecoh for a while. At that time, I already got a mail from another colleague, picking an article from Malaysiakini. 500 people only, and when police ask to disperse, they all disperse quietly, no arrest was done and it was a peaceful demonstration. Later I got back to the lab for another issue and told the colleagues there, “500 saje la, mana ada 10 ribu, your news agent cannot pakai la?”, we all laughed.
Then they said, eh, you seronok la, office tutup 2 hari. I said mesti la, Sabtu dan Ahad memang holiday ma. “Ya eh” she said, then she continue “kita ada food poisoning, sudah 30 lebih orang kena, semua cerit berit.”, I said you kena ka? She said “Tak la, saya tiap tiap hari makan kanteen kanak kanak riang dan sihat.” This one not a rumor, the cafetria got shutdown because of overwhelming visits to the clinic. Then when I got back to my desk, I have a dozen mails of latest development, photos of the demonstration in Komtar, then Banners in KL asking Pak Lah to step down, Mahatir son asking Pak Lah to step down, and many annoying colleagues chasing me for my work. I tell you some colleagues are testing my patience. I have not encounter such colleagues in the last company, but then again, in this company, a product development life cycle is just 3 months, so everything is super fast. Then just before I go off, I read that Perak have work itself out, 6-3-1 is the formula. I wonder if can buy 4d on this one, have to guest the 4th digit la…
On this day..
- The Ever Elusive Sufferings - 2008
