Missing my buddy
Posted in Work on 12/17/2007 06:09 am by GraceWhen I came to work in this present company, there are 20 people in the department and 19 of them are men. After a couple of months, someone came to occupy the vacant desk space beside me. She is Indian and a muslim, covered in long black gown and headress. She seemed very unfriendly at first but of course I still continued to harass and pester her with my talks. I was glad there was another female specie and I thought we should be friends!
Ayshath was shy because she did not know English very well. At first, it was very hard for us to communicate. I would use all my body parts to convey the simplest message and she would say sorry endlessly to apologize for my inconvenience. So I found a way to facilitate our little girly talks by cutting pieces of paper and scribbling the words we both wanted to say. We would sometimes explode in silent giggles which I am so happy about because I don’t have to die of boredom when I am free.
Now her English has improved a lot and she is even using some Japanese words I taught her. Ayshath has left to India for a full month vacation. I am starting to miss her terribly. Suddenly, I stopped giggling and smiling. All I do now is work, work and work and sometimes write drafts in notepad because of the current internet issue in my company.
I never knew I’d miss her this much.
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December 17th, 2007 at 7:34 am
sweetness!
kalooy nimo diha. alone again.
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December 17th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
I totally understand. That’s why I don’t like working with an all-guy crew. Sometimes you just need another female to talk to.
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December 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Don’t be sad.
Just work harder. At least your boss will happy! 
December 17th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
At least she will be back! It does make the day go faster when you’ve got someone nice around!
December 17th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
I’ve got a friend at work too. We work shifts and she has two days off which are two of the days I am on. The day drags on a lot longer when she isn’t there.
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December 18th, 2007 at 7:42 am
ei ate grace, you’re so lucky for having a friend to miss
me, i’m very eager not to see one of my workmates
vacation days…. oh come, come.
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December 18th, 2007 at 9:07 am
That’s cute, it must be nice to have a work buddy!
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December 18th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
She’ll be back. And count your blessings that you found a way to connect with her. I’m sure she’s grateful, too.
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