I guess the effects of HSE are seeping through my current department. This is my second day, with out work. On and off, I get errands to do from my roomie. Thank the Lord, for him! It is a different thing that we will be separated in a few weeks times *sniff sniff* I shall mish bugging and irritating him :-)
Yea, now days, I am very hesitate to blog about things esp. people. A lot of people from my work know my blog address, thanks to me and my exceptionally humongous mouth. So, I don’t want them to get offended or something when I write any sort of comic comments related to them. But, the things in side me are like on the verge of eruption… so if any of my colleagues are reading this… Sorry, and umm no Offence *no offence hug*
Right, what was I saying? Damn it! Forgot!
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Early in the morning, one day, my sister was dropping me to work, and I came across this sign “Al Itihad Square” Now for those who don’t know what Al Itihad is… it is a Park…. ROUND and no where close to a square shape, some where in the middle of the most crowded place in Sharjah. I think the Municipality needs to brush up on shape names, cause I think most of them … wait… all of them were absent during their GEOMETRY 001 class.
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I went to have lunch with my mom yesterday. Little did I know that banks don’t allow their employees to eat lunch. As soon as I reached my mom’s table, she slammed this Arabic pastry packet on the table, pointed to the store, and said “Eat there!.” So basically, my plans of having lunch with my mom ended up with me having lunch with myself, in an overly cramped up room having dusty shelves as my table and chair. And piles of bunches of paper… wrapped in PINK paper… as my scenery. PINK! Why PINK!
I gobbled very thing up in 15 minutes and walked out of the room feeling liberated! Don’t ask me why, I just felt it. I sit at my mom’s table and start blabbering. Close to 2:00pm, I get up, said a Bye and ask for a tissue so I could wipe my mouth from the coffee that I just sipped.
I take one.
My mom: ‘Take more… Take! Take!’
Me: ‘No Ma, it is okie, I have tissue. I just wanted to wipe my mouth’
My mom: ‘Take bussy’ [Bussy: is a word in Swahili, used how ‘Man’ is used in slang]
Me : *embarrassed… hopping no one was hearing our conversation* ‘Ma, I have tissue at work’
My mom: *frantically takes out 6 or 7 tissues from the box and waves it in the air in front of me* ‘Hebou, take it!’ [Hebou, another Swahili word, similar to Bussy]
HVH (Hamster the Voice in Head) ‘For the love of God, take the God damn thing!’
I take the bunch and walk way, nodding my head.
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I had gone to my mom’s office for some work, I had a CD along with me. My mom wanted to see the contents of the CD.
My Mom: *looking at one of her colleagues* ‘Walid, do you have a CD drive in your computer?’
Walid: ‘No’
My Mom: ‘Even I don’t have’
Me: *staring at my mom’s PC*
It was a P3… and I was thinking that it definitely should have a CD-ROM drive in it.
Me: * press a button on the CPU*
*CR-ROM tray slides out*
Me: *facing my mom* ‘Ma, you do have a CD-Rom drive!’
Mom: ‘Ala! Hebu show me’
For the next five minutes, my mom looked as though she was a 2 year old kid high on sugar as
she kept on pressing the eject button, watching the cd-drive slide in and out of her CPU
back from HELL: Spread the Blue
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