The long and short about That Lousy Lie

Mondays have always been a draggy affair for me. It was even more so today because the minute I stepped into the office, everyone looked sibeh sian.

Office Bimbo looked sibeh sian. Boss looked sibeh sian. And Ms Tan was looking for Sibeh Sian because he made some sibeh stupid mistakes at work. About the only person who was smiling broadly was Nerd, because this is the second last week of his internship. Then he started to look sian too after I passed him more data entry jobs to do. Haha.

During the tea break chit-chat, I realized that everyone was feeling down because of Brazil’s shock defeat at the hands of France over the weekend. Some were even feeling suicidal because they contributed a major portion of their paycheck to Singapore Pools.

I realized my colleagues were not the only ones who suffered after I received a call from this fellow while having dinner just now.


Acquaintance Whom I’ve Not Heard From In Months: I will forgive you for what you did the other time if you help me out this time.

Me: Eh… I really can’t lah. . . . (Struggles to think of a convincing reason) Because of Brazil, I am also very broke now.

A: You mean you also betted on the match?!?!?

A: Don’t lie to me Sian, you were always very vocal against gambling one.

Me: (Took a deep breath)

Me: What I meant was that I paid a lot of money for my Brazilian waxing.


He hung up after a long and uncomfortable silence.

Heh.

With Love,
Sibeh Sian