deja vu

this is going to be a very absurd post.

all the departments sans the administrative and the support staff are placed in one large-ish room. two days ago the science dept decided to rearrage their tables around so that separated units will be able to be err, united. this trigger the restlessness in the foreign language unit to do the same because, well...they (read:we) have issues and they are a messy lot. they are also hoarders of not-going-to-use-but-can-be-useful-someday antiquities. so the head of the unit started barking (while lounging) his ideas around, and all the while saying "eh, cepat la...buat la oi", still at his table looking around drinking tea.

this morning, he and the ogre decided to move things around because the ogre is afraid of the little aunty from social science who likes to park her butt and work at his work station. also because our little corner is kinda empty when the macho man of science had to sit with his department. new sitting arrangements were made. my glass cabinet is finally a foot away. it's a bit baddy-in-the-corner-of-buildingy, but i'm kinda happy. (no fire escape in case of fire for me though) little that we know that a storm was brewing...

9 a.m. chaos erupt. people dont want to sit with another person coz they are messy, dont get along with each other, has fake friendship (you name it, they have it) - this is not from the foreign language dept though, it's from the original people who started moving around. then, bean pole of the foreign language came in, and he decided that it's not fair that they holed him up, turned his workstation into a cubicle, and because he doesnt like his view of a concrete wall.

9.30 a.m. people came to comment on the new order. for example, not people friendly "ey, very unfriendly laa...why you all do like that?" and "don wan to make friends ah?" to bean-pole and i. so i said, "not our arrangement, people put their cabinets in our area, view so ugly so we have to rearrange around them cabinets. plus, it's ol'man jenkin's idea" they said, "you trying to say it's our fault ke?" "no la, dunno who's cabinets those are. leaving around sepah-sepah like that. over kawasan some more", "err,..actually nye kan, that's ours la...tak larat nak move around, so we leave just like that. marah ke?" "i tak marah, ol'man jenkin marah"...then they left. didn't offer to say when they are going to take those cabinets.

11.30 a.m. high octane banter between cavemen. i get cornered at my cubicly-workstation. get to see cavemen at work at giving ideas and moving heavy things about. finally understand what they meant by how monkeys determine their alpha male. cant say anything, am the only female in this corner of the world...and was told to stay away cause the men are doing the work.

11.55 a.m. new arrangements. yeay! everybody is happy. wait...i think i've seen this arrangement before. where's my cabinet? bugger, it's five feet away!