Its Show Time

Today is Tuesday (20th May 2008), and as mentioned, our weekly gigs start tonight at Gemini.

I was having my lunch at UNO today. Alone, cause my 3 good work female friends were not available due to their own reasons. Natali (my Boss) was on a special “diet”, not to lose weight, but to eradicate some unwanted aliens growing on her face (hehe.. hope she doesn’t screw me up for revealing this), Flo is as pregnant as can be (Going back to her mom’s place for Pork Leg rice – Yum), while Rita is simply unavailable cos she always goes home for naps in the afternoon.

Meanwhile my usual guy friends are taking a break from each other cause last week, we had dinner with each other (approximately 9 of us). So we decided to stay away from each other for a while.

So, while sitting on a table on my own, having my Penang-Style Fried Hot-dog with clams, with sambal belacan sauce, suddenly a guy just came and sat with me.

“Hey Leo!”
“Hey Mr. Maroon”. This guy is one of the big shot Manager from a company I used to work for, Middle age dude, who looks younger than his age.

“Eh, I saw you in newspaper today lah” he said.
“Which section? Don’t tell me it’s the rape section ah”

Anyway to cut the story short, he was reading United Daily News, and he came across a photo that showed me with my teamwork. But he wasn’t sure it was me (now how is that possible?).
So he called Natali (remember my boss? She's his company client), and asked her if it was me.

She said she wasn’t sure (she hasn't been updated with the forien newspaper yet today. Not to mention my fans are normally those younger ladies man!). Next he called one of his younger clerks, into his office to “verify” if the guy in the photo was me (I guess it’s normal to have people fussing over your photo in the papers, especially if you’re "Famous” right?).

“Ya lah!. That’s Leo. You don’t know meh. He so famous wor” was her response. (Okay, so maybe I added the “so famous” part). But the point is, I’m a celebrity. And if my photo really appeared in the rape section, it would be because I was raped by female fans. (again ladies and gentelmen is the Man's EGO).

To be honest, I didn’t know a great deal about the report in the papers today till Mr. Frank informed me. So I came back to the office and informed my co-workers, Joe, Kevin,Rita and Flo about it (who happened to be not there when this picture was taken by the press in the field). Flo was excited as always (she even got me to sign on a our picture. I asked her she crazy or what? She said "In case one day you famous, I can cash in some money with this". Oh well.)

So, Flo who works on the ground floor (where all the newspapers are) and Rita who works on the 2nd floor (who is the most reliable person in our admin department), collaborated to help me get the newspaper cutting scanned. Flo took the liberty to search for the newspaper at the lobby area of our office, and passed it to Rita to scan. And while all this was happening, I was still sitting on my seat on the 3rd floor.

It’s either I really have good friends (which I am sorry I am not such believer anymore), or they’re just trying to kiss my ass so that next time when I’m really famous I won’t forget them. :P

Anyway, buttom line, after the picture was scanned, it didn't turn it out clear at all, but yet I had to thank them for their hard work tho, Lah?!!!