Thursday, January 10, 2008

Inviting myself to an unwelcomed party....

Wow, almost 2 months since I last made an entry. Better catch up a little.

Today, I felt like inviting myself to my friends place for dinner. Of course, he will be the last one to know. Weird huh... this is exactly what happened to two of my other friends - Jason and Rebecca. So think of us as a circle of friends, activities partner sort of thing. And there is also a 5th wheel Kyle. I mean, we used to hang out with Kyle a lot too, until the little bastard become a two face moron who like to talk behind our back. I no longer work with any of them, but they still work in the same company, which made things even more interesting for Jason and Rebecca. According to both J and B, they are up to their throat with work. Kyle is pretty much a pronounced failure in his current project, stories from J and B (and others insider source) told me that Kyle is being complained across the board by different people, like managers, project managers and project lead. Many of them asked the question whether Kyle knows what he is doing. As expected, this seems to be something that was made up by a good handful of people, and according to Kyle, and his own story, his project is sailing as smooth as a bullet shooting out of a gun barrel, its so smooth that he is going to get an award for the ultimate employee of the country, and that everyone is praising him. Wow.... presenting the great "Danton" .. applause (from the Prestige).. oh wait, no no, he is not the illusionist.. he is the one in delusion..... Oh well, people choose the way they want to live, and being drugged high all the time isn't that bad, especially if you aren't on any drugs and still manage to hallucinate.. now thats a gift. Kyle also like to "fake" his presence at work, he told the entire world that he doesn't use remote access, so this way, if he logs in at 3:00AM, he can just tell the boss and the world how hard he work that he was in the office.

So as you can see, his behavior isn't quite the most attractive (BTW, he thinks that he is hot sh!t, he thinks that all woman wants to sleep with him.. again, natural high on something), as a result, Jason and Rebecca start to isolate him.

While work isn't as successful as he himself claimed, he becomes the number one kiss up to the manager, as an attempt to save his career that is well under water to seek the Titanic, he is also trying to save his friendship with Rebecca and Jason, and interestingly me. His first attempt is with Jason. Jason is getting married next year, summer of 2009. Its not his intent to be inviting too many people, so he has been selective. As far as I know, Kyle is not on the invite list, but was made aware of Jason's wedding because we were talking about it not long ago at a gathering. I was lucky enough to be half decent at photography so I am one of Jason's photographer. Kyle start making suggestions of all kind to Jason, so thats fine, but this is the fun part, one of his sentence was "I will be your general manager". Its just all natural, for someone with such hunger for power (he loves to tell other people about all kind of fancy title he has at work), its just natural that he wants the "Manager" title, so yup, I guess its normal for him to request the "General Manager" position... oh wait, who said you are invited anyways?

Then come the incident with Rebecca, out of the blue, I mean, really, it was extremely out of context, they were not even talking, he just decide to tell Rebecca that "My wife and I will be coming to visit you and your husband this Saturday, we can do a card game and have dinner or something"... ooh that news to me, I didn't know he is that close to Rebecca.. but then, even Rebecca didn't know about the visit.. nice, do you want me to cook too?

Isn't it interesting what people would do when they are in a panic?