NASI LEMAK HORROR STORY
This is for illustration purposes only - bought by Sugar this morningThere has been a buying nasi lemak trend in my office for our colleagues as breakfast whenever we feel super generous. So far, we had sampled nasi lemak from Cheras, Sg. Long, Kajang, etc just to name a few.
Yesterday morning, my spinster colleague (“SC”) decided to buy us nasi lemak from her housing area. Surprised by her generous gesture, we thanked her but somehow couldn’t eat it for breakfast as the nasi lemak arrived after we finished our breakfast. All of us decided to eat it during lunch.
Usually, after tasting the nasi lemak, we would give our comments and USUALLY, the comments would be positive…. but not this time.
SC bought mee hoon for the Budgetary HOD, and the HOD gave it away to the HR Manager. HR Manager is not that lucky. After lunch, he complained that he swore to find out who is the person who packed the mee hoon for Budgetary HOD and he ended being the victim. Greed doesn’t pay.
The HR Manager complained, “You know how they make this mee hoon or not?? Take out mee hoon, soak in water. When the mee hoon turns soft, dry it and pour kicap (soya sauce) and mix. Nah.. eat.. @#$%^&*. I think this mee hoon didn’t even worth 30 sen, okay?? No taugeh, no nothing!!! I think if we feed this to the chickens, the chickens won’t even finish it, and eat only half.”
He can be a real bitch for a man. Heh.
The best part is this…. I asked SC, is this the first time that she bought the nasi lemak - she said no. She had bought a few times before, and said that the nasi lemak is NOT nice.
I thought to myself, “Wah lau yeh.... not nice some more buy so many???? Got brain or not???”
Damn. When I told Sugar, her mouth opened wide in disbelief. She finds it rather disturbing to have bought the nasi lemak if she had known is not nice. How could you yourself said, it is not nice, and yet bought the same for the rest of us? Where is the logic?
Sugar complained she had a terrible stomachache. Our VP offered her the nasi lemak, which was remained untouched in her room, but my boss refused frantically. She tried to be funny and suggested the VP to offer it to the HR Manager, who complained incessantly about the soaked mee hoon with kicap, and chickens not wanting to eat it.
12 other colleagues did not breathe a word about the tragic nasi lemak. I believe, no one dares to condemn freebies and SC might not be able to take the criticism constructively.
Skinny Finance Manager would be the last one to find out as she was on liquid diet. She kept the nasi lemak in the fridge and would be eating the nasi lemak at home tonight. Sugar asked me if we should inform SFM to fry some eggs and ikan bilis to go along with the nasi lemak. I told Sugar there is no need to do this, but let SFM figure it out and ask her for feedback tomorrow. Then we will have another round of crouching silent-and-stomach-bursting laughter in the store room. … Shit.. we are so evil!!!
Moral of the Story: It doesn’t pay to be generous and nice. .. and never ever accept whatever SC bought.
We will never look at nasi lemak the same away again.
Yesterday morning, my spinster colleague (“SC”) decided to buy us nasi lemak from her housing area. Surprised by her generous gesture, we thanked her but somehow couldn’t eat it for breakfast as the nasi lemak arrived after we finished our breakfast. All of us decided to eat it during lunch.
Usually, after tasting the nasi lemak, we would give our comments and USUALLY, the comments would be positive…. but not this time.
SC bought mee hoon for the Budgetary HOD, and the HOD gave it away to the HR Manager. HR Manager is not that lucky. After lunch, he complained that he swore to find out who is the person who packed the mee hoon for Budgetary HOD and he ended being the victim. Greed doesn’t pay.
The HR Manager complained, “You know how they make this mee hoon or not?? Take out mee hoon, soak in water. When the mee hoon turns soft, dry it and pour kicap (soya sauce) and mix. Nah.. eat.. @#$%^&*. I think this mee hoon didn’t even worth 30 sen, okay?? No taugeh, no nothing!!! I think if we feed this to the chickens, the chickens won’t even finish it, and eat only half.”
He can be a real bitch for a man. Heh.
The best part is this…. I asked SC, is this the first time that she bought the nasi lemak - she said no. She had bought a few times before, and said that the nasi lemak is NOT nice.
I thought to myself, “Wah lau yeh.... not nice some more buy so many???? Got brain or not???”
Damn. When I told Sugar, her mouth opened wide in disbelief. She finds it rather disturbing to have bought the nasi lemak if she had known is not nice. How could you yourself said, it is not nice, and yet bought the same for the rest of us? Where is the logic?
Sugar complained she had a terrible stomachache. Our VP offered her the nasi lemak, which was remained untouched in her room, but my boss refused frantically. She tried to be funny and suggested the VP to offer it to the HR Manager, who complained incessantly about the soaked mee hoon with kicap, and chickens not wanting to eat it.
12 other colleagues did not breathe a word about the tragic nasi lemak. I believe, no one dares to condemn freebies and SC might not be able to take the criticism constructively.
Skinny Finance Manager would be the last one to find out as she was on liquid diet. She kept the nasi lemak in the fridge and would be eating the nasi lemak at home tonight. Sugar asked me if we should inform SFM to fry some eggs and ikan bilis to go along with the nasi lemak. I told Sugar there is no need to do this, but let SFM figure it out and ask her for feedback tomorrow. Then we will have another round of crouching silent-and-stomach-bursting laughter in the store room. … Shit.. we are so evil!!!
Moral of the Story: It doesn’t pay to be generous and nice. .. and never ever accept whatever SC bought.
We will never look at nasi lemak the same away again.
Comments
JoeC | Homepage | 10.22.05 – 1:29 am | #
Heh, when I read about the nasi lemak half way, my mouth was wide opened with great disbelief too, like your friend … =O
Haha, never know people like this exist! I mean, what is the point of buying food to treat ppl when you are so sure that it’s not even delicious! Ahhhh!
People can be so bizarre … eh?
greenapple | Homepage | 10.22.05 – 2:01 am | #
Man! That pic, is it just me or does it someone drank too much red wine, swallowed a load of rice without chewing and it all came out of his ass? And those “kerang” were frolicking in that delicious puddle of red wine and rice puke. Cool!
Chris Wu | Homepage | 10.22.05 – 7:09 am | #
JoeC: Maybe that explains the lack of “lauk” in the nasi lemak – ikan bilis – 2, hard boiled egg – 1/10th only.. and lack of sambal. Economies of scale is not necessarily good.
Emma: Not that I wanna exaggerate, I think my face showed signs of disbelief when she told me that.. but luckily, she didnt look at me when she talked to me.
Chris: The kerang in red wine and pool of puke is nice.
Gina | Homepage | 10.22.05 – 2:26 pm | #
=P
Chris Wu | Homepage | 10.22.05 – 9:34 pm | #