Sometimes I do not know whether the male species of the predominant race in this country are all the same or is it because of how I look that I am treated the way I am treated as described below.
Besides during work, I seldom have these kind of encounters with them.
1. When I was working as a computer supervisor in my uncle-in-law’s computer centre in Tg. Malim, the computer centre offered typing services for those who wanted to type any document. Most of the customers for this service were men from the nearby institute of higher learning for teachers called Institut Perguruan Sultan Idris (IPSI). One typed essay can cost them RM50-RM150 depending on its content.
The majority of teachers who studied in IPSI were mature students. Majority of those men were married men. I would not be surprised if some of them have up to four wives.
But while they were away from home, I guess their wives would not have any idea of what they were up to.
They would drop by the computer centre and checked on me. They knew that I usually finished work at 10p.m. Some eventhough during the fasting month would invite me to eat or have a drink with them after work. I received many of these kinds of invitations but I never take up on any single offer. But these men were so persistent.
(I digress - Once a Chinese man working for a nearby construction firm brought his company's printer to the computer centre for repair. On the same day, I received a call from his superior asking me out for dinner on the same night. Goodness gracious, I did not know what his employee told him but this fella said he did not care whether I am married or not; or even if I have a child, I can bring my child to meet him. I told him gently I had no intention in meeting him and put down the phone).
2. Besides the office boy TI, now I have two other colleague of the same race as TI. Both of them are based at the project site. Both are married as well.
a. The first one YK started working in the company since beginning of last month. His project has not begun yet and therefore he has been hanging out at the temporary site office. But recently he has been coming to the office everyday.
Among his one-liner so far are as follows.
i. YK: ‘Jo sun’ (morning in Cantonese).
ii. YK: Can I borrow your calendar?
iii. YK: Can I borrow your stapler?
iv. YK: Can I borrow your hole puncher?
v. YK: I pity you.
Spinxie: Whatever for?
YK: You do not have any assistant to help you in your work.
Spinxie: *speechless*
6. YK: Do you have anything for me?
Spinxie: Nothing
YK: Notice of meeting for me to attend?
Spinxie: Nothing
YK: Letters for me to read?
Spinxie: Nothing
I think he is suffering from ADS – Attention Deficit Syndrome.
b. When the second one JM came to the office to collect his salary yesterday, he looked at me and then my hair. Btw he is bald.
JM: I wish I have beautiful hair like yours
Spinxie: *speechless* (thinking to self: yeah right you are bald, remember?)
None of my male colleagues of the same race as I am ever talk to me like they do.
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