I miss them!!

I suddenly thought of my ex-colleagues. I remembered the times we had laughing, grumbling, eating, poking fun at each other, sleeping & throwing snide looks at each other (during meetings especially), or even greeting each other with enthusiastic “Hi!”s at the walkways. I smiled to myself as I reminisced about how colourful these colleagues are. Actually there are so many of them that I can't list all now.

I remembered this old short Chinese guy. He isn’t good looking but I won’t classify him as ugly because he was really very funny. He was a natural effeminate and he was the only one who never gave me the goose bumps, in fact he was really friendly and naturally funny. I never failed to laugh at him and with him just at the way he speaks and the way he walks or moves his hand. Sometimes my colleagues and I would pretend to be coquettish with him and he would reciprocate. I think I seldom saw him get angry, he always smiled but even his angry looks are comical. He’s sporting too, at our company events, we would often get him to play effeminate characters and he does them very well yet exaggerated.

There’s another graphic designer who looks and is shaped like a bear. Most people think he’s good looking and he’s quite well-built. Well, he has an artistic bad temper, can be very frank but he’s been friendly. He’s another one great at cross-dressing and he sings like Jacky Cheung, having won a few of the company’s karaoke events. He is the “husband” of another graphic designer who is very sporty but has an honest decent look. This other guy is often bullied by the girls in my department but he is quite comical and good-natured when we asked him to help us with things.

How I miss them!

My ex-manager is quite a fierce lady in terms of look and strict in terms of disciplining us, her subordinates and she does have quite high expectations. Yet beneath all that, she is caring and a good mentor.

Another ex-colleague, she has a bubbly smile and a kind, helpful heart that she cannot seem to say No to anyone. She helped me lots and though we had some brushes with work initially, there were no grudges and I would often laugh at her jokes.

How I miss them… too!

Ah, another one I miss a lot is this young girl with short hair but pretty spunky. She’s studying and working at the same time but she’s really blur. Her blur-ness never fails to make me laugh at her daily till one day I decided to term her my “kai1 xin1 guo4”. Hey she doesn’t make me laugh too, she loves to argue with me and I would do the same and we will just poke at each other till we both cannot take it. Sigh. I miss that banter.

I also miss those nice uncles in other sections, they are really friendly and “elderly” to us as they treat us like their own daughters and are ever so helpful. Even though at company functions or training, they seem pretty left out given their Chinese education, they did not behave grumpily or arrogantly.

Oh, how I miss them!!!