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As a nice gesture, our big bosses paid for a buffet lunch from their own pockets, after learning that we were planning to have a feast "outside". Despite our disappointment at being kept in, everyone was getting excited about the food. At 12.05, bosses were still at their desks. Mdm Foo and Kaifen were trying to nudge us to start but no one moved. Desiree had started peeking into the dishes and I responded by taking up the first plate.
"Kieran not back yet. Aren't you going to wait for him?"
"I don't care...", I replied and the eating began.
Of special note (to shame) are people like Dennis, who cut the queue not just once but twice, before some of us even had our first serving!
Kieran returned with vegetarian curry and 3 boxes of yu(2) sheng(1). So that solved a mystery.
Big Satan queued up, much to everyone's surprise.
There are about 60-70 of us so the queue is pretty long. JW (myself) being the first, only had to queue for his second helping.
As we have staff who are on a vegetarian diet, we transferred its one pack of salmon to from one of the yu sheng to the one in the middle. I called Sonika in to experience this weird local "social event". The other Indian staff had stayed away and were not in, so she was the only person in the room who cannot take meat. Mdm Foo, Sonika, myself and some unnamed faces were at the "vegetarian" yu shen corner. The others had crowded around the "meat".
At the crack of the gun, everyone started tossing the salad. Somehow, a war broke out among the participants in the middle and they started flinging the yu sheng at each other. When the armistice was called, 2/3 of the plate was gone and salmon now decorated the table and floors. The pity was compounded as 2 packs worth of fish was in there! Those girls! On the other hand, some of the bio-weapons went into Kaifen's top, so a guy must have been involved too...
After the expensive food fight, we returned to our assignments half-heartedly. We knew full well at our colleagues at the HQ can get off at 3pm. We knew that our client had gone off to the outside world to have their celebration and released after that. We also knew that most of our target customers were on half-day. I replaced my messaging client with this message, "If you are looking for my soul, it is somewhere else".
At 2 plus, Big Satan swept by and told Sarah to disseminate the message, "Those who got nothing to do can go home at 3 but pass their names to me". Nobody in Saturn room moved and I dramatically shouted, "Entrapment!...".
When the news spread to the production room, Sonika had to say, "I got nothing to do" - fn1.
With our guileless lady sticking out her neck, the exodus began.
fn1 - There was a time when I said that without fears...
Meanwhile in Saturn room, productivity was not very high. A large group went to a time wasting ceremony where they bathed two metallic objects on wheels with soap and water. At 3pm, we broke out the refreshments. Probably due to something in the water, two of them gained the colour of a cooked lobster. I shared my drinks with hk and the natural goodness from its plants origins started to promote sleep in us. Finally, we couldn't take it any more. hk and I ended our charade and said our goodbyes.
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