the magic of Christmas
My office is now full of Christmas trees. From where I currently stand, I can see like 2 - 3 of them. With blinking lights and ornaments around it. Then there are these 2 particular ’special’ Christmas trees, which are white in color. No not because of those artificial snow, but they’re really white all over. The leaves, twigs and trunk … all white.
I don’t know why they’re white - for all I know, leaves are supposed to be green… due to the chlorophyl stuff for a plant to create it’s own food. I’ve never seen a tree with white colored leaves before, not even those artificial ones. Maybe it’s part of the cost saving initiative that has been going on lately - where they could have combined the snowman with the tree - and that’s how we got a white Christmas tree ! How smart
One of the 2 trees, even came with an electronic buzzer that emits monophonic melody. “Silent Night”. It was quite nice, I must admit, sort of remind us employees that 25th December is Christmas. I guess they’re just worried that somebody might miss it out or something. How very thoughtful of them.
So, we have this music tree reverberating it’s melody across half the office floor, which, can be heard clearly from my cube. It was being played non-stop, you know, like a ring that never ends. It sort of put everyone in a jovial holiday mood and foment love/peace in our soul …. when we’re constantly being reminded that Christmas is round the corner.
I took very little effort for me to stand up and look around, and witness the difference the tree has caused. Everyone’s talking to each other … and the environment is livelier than usual. In any normal days, my co-workers would usually glue themselves in front of their computer screen, being busy about mindless paperwork and deluged in corporate bureaucracy. The only noise I can hear are just keyboard clacking and phone calls. But not today. Today, I hear people chatting, people missing laughing and a lot of positive comments about the warmth of the environment that the management had prepared for us. Just like this :
“Goddam ! Why can’t they shut the goddamn thing off ? ?” - Michael Ooi
or
“Silent Night my ass… this is so fucking noisy !”. - Michael Ooi
Wait, that’s me hymning. No, I meant this :
“Leh mar leh …. lim peh sio kong ha mi lang eh handphone tan …” - Pirate
[translated as - "Nice melody"]
“Kau giak luan ah !!!” - Unknown voice from one of the cubes
[translated as - "Awesome melody"]
Who would have thought, that a simple white colored tree with rambunctious pastoral melody could ramify love of such magnitude across the office floor …. No one could. This must be the magic of Christmas.
aiyoh! that sucks!! that reminds me of the stupid HR lau ee who used to share a cubicle with me. during the chinese new year month, she played a chinese new year MIDI all day long on her notebook (without plugging in the speakers) for 3 freaking days. i almost went crazy. luckily she got relocated.
my heart goes out for you. my sympathies. lol.
we hv no trees here. not even a twig. but colleague has been playing some xmas tunes with donald duck singing… rescue meeeeeeeeee!!!!!
The only reason why I lurve X’mas is that it’s at the end of the year. No one does anything. No work gets done. And this blissful art of doing nothing is continued till New Year (or at least the first week of Jan). Hallelujah!
I had to decorate 18 big Xmas trees at my workplace this three days. Talk about ; sucks.
So when are you going to put up a photo of white Christmas tree and silent night monophonic Nokia ringtone on michaelooi.net?
in sunway pyramid… theres a fat santa right at the entrance that shakes its ass and sings jingle bells (or something like that)… thats fucking annoying… i wanted to unplug the bastard…
just curious, do you use a thesaurus when you blog?
Good job with the translation. Keep up the good work.
Dude I bought a xmas tree, feels awesome!
http://www.shaolintiger.com/?postid=54
BTW the ‘white’ xmas trees are trendy, supposed to look like snow or something…
*sings santa baby*
I hate those lights that play tunes tho, so fucking cheesin.
phew, just woke up from my nocturnal driving adventure back from Melaka - KL - Penang yesterday. Anyway,
elphine - office lau ee’s are pain in the ass. they pisses everyone off. my heart goes to you too, dear.
olivia - sabotage his/her speakers … pour water into it or whatever.
rednexus - yeah … end of the year is usually the easiest period of our lives. x’mas … new year … and then smack ! CNY again. There goes my savings.
din - that’s the next worst thing of having to wear some big suit being a fake santa…. my sympathies to you too .
doc - no time lah. I blogged this entry 1 hour before bailing the office for a night drive to KL on Thursday. And you didn’t turn up at the gathering… what the fuck.
k3ng - dude, what’s stopping you ? You’ll be more popular than him if you cream his ass.
sarah - no i don’t. that’s why there’s a lot of mistakes in my blog. i support publik edukasion.
100 - thanks. let me know if you needed any professional translation service.
tiger - yeah man. Cheesin is tha word. In hokkien, it’s called “siao”. In tamil - “paitio”.
hey mike,
this is to inform u that my blog (procrastination) does not exist anymore.
i’ll be setting up a new one shortly.
jxt2j - just let me know when you have your new blog up and I’ll link it. cheers !
it’s not the mistakes. it’s the super vocab. i learn new words everytime you update larr wei.