I was on my way back from the office after doing a trans on Wally Amos (who I realised is one hell of a former cheating bastard, but makes great cookies, and made me crave for a bag of Famous AMOS choc chips and pecans). As usual I made my detour into the restaurant to buy me carrot juice when I saw someone familiar. But since it was like, 6 years since I last saw her, and she was with a group of male friends (which is typical, makes you realise some things don't change after years) I decided to put my cellphone to my ear and shout her name instead in hopes that if I got the wrong person, I could pretend that I was on the phone.
"ZUNN!"
She turns her head, with eyes bulging and screamed,
"CHE SHAAAAIIII!!! Oh my God oh my God! Che Shai!!!"
(she is the only person in the world calling me "Che Shai")
And went on a hugging frenzy and was like, "I thought I saw someone coming to the restaurant and feels like deja vu. It is you!"
Turns out she is working at PointFlex which is next to the restaurant, while I have been a pekerja bergelandangan for the office for three months already and they're just a couple of offices away. But since I always got out early, we never stumbled upon each other during lunch hour or stuff like that.
Zunn, as some of you might recall is my next-desk buddy in high school. Since Tim, Mun and Nad were all technical students and I'm the only bozzo who got stuck in Accounts (thank God anyway, because I sure can't survive physics), Zunn was my bestfriend in the class. It's funny, because we were opposites. She was more into broken guys, and panadol-in-the-Coke, and I was the rule-follower who would look at her and go, "Wouldn't that become a drug?" But she's fun to hang out with because she has this ability to just lie and conned people with a straight face.
She should play poker.
(Hmm... I always find friends like that... that would explain Chaq...) <- Shai's moment of finding herself. Ha.
But anyway. I was just introduced to a new Shai joke - you know, the annoying jokes guys always do when I am introduced as "Shai", like, "Oh, shy shy cat...", or "How shy are you?" or "You don't look shy to me..." in which I go, "Ha.Ha. Good one. Yeah........" Grumble. Grumble.
But this time, my friend's friend looks at me and went,
"Shai? Short for what? Shai-yang (Sayang)?"
"Ha.Ha. Good one. Yeah." No grumble.
I can't be annoyed. That's original, that's the first time I heard that. It considered funny and kinda cute... FOR NOW... Everything sounds cute when you heard it for the first time.
Shaiyang... that could be a nice mushy nickname if I ever want one... NOT NOW.
Hell, my schedule is upside down. Why the hell I kept working late at nights and still couldn't finish a single thing? I have not even called Luncai Emas about the tickets to M.Nasir concert. Sorry, Ema, I'll try to find a time to do that.
Paklong ajak gi Jertih to Mimi's wedding. I want to see a childhood friend get married but I can't do Terengganu twice in a week's time. Although I do want to check out that place in Marang again... ouh, I want to go to there...
Speaking of Terengganu, I have this one funny story. You know how Terengganu people sometimes say their NG to N and N to NG like, "Sakit pinggan basuh pinggang..." and other jokes like, "Tak ke Agon nak buat gitu denge Husseing Ong..."...
When I was in Matrics UIA, I was chosen as one of the naqibah and we had to go to its meeting where the head nuqaba' - a Terengganu guy - had to explain our duties and stuff and trying so hard to swallow his Terengganu accent so all of us accent-nincampoops can understand him better. So, I was sleepy and he was saying something that made me laugh. He went;
"Abang bukan apa, abang cuma nak tekankan di sini..."
But since his N turns NG, it sounded like this,
"Abang bukan apa, abang cume nak terkangkang di sini..."
Sadly, only I find it funny. The others looked at me and went, "Sshhh..."
Pfft, can't even appreciate a joke.
