So i had just come back from a meeting at a client's office and as soon as i settled into my seat, my phone rings!
Now if you don't already know, my office phone HARDLY rings. There's only three people that would possibly be calling me - the editor, the Boss or the Friend. It's easy to know when the Friend is calling - it just comes out as LN-003 or LN-002 whereas when a call comes from internal extensions, it's usually the person's extension!
So Friend mentioned calls me excitedly and says (before i carry on with the conversation, i'll fill you in on the plans for tonight). We're all suppose to meet up and meet at the Norfolk Hotel to take advantage of some discount someone in the group gets to chomp down on some good steaks, lamb chops and good wine (i hope!) Now that you know the Plan, i'll fill you in on some of the tough life decisions my Friend and I constantly go through in Saigon.
Friend : Sooo...what's the story?
Me : Erm..i just got back from my client's office and on the way my colleagues and me stopped to ..... (she starts talking)
Friend : Oh...so no plans lah...!
Me : ...............
(we figured our life decisions are too important to be wasted listening to each other's food stories so yeah...)
Friend : So i was talking to D, and he says before dinner he'll probably go to the gym..so i think maybe i'll go too before dinner.
(now i know D was just trying to make himself feel good because he's sure gonna whack food like crazy tonight so gymming before dinner makes up for all the eating - i suppose?)
Me : Erm...ok, so what's plan # 2 while waiting for dinner to start 7.30pm?
Friend : Maybe i'll go buy a dress (the one we saw after lunch earlier)
Me : For what again? To simply waste money is it?
Friend : .... umm, yeah ah - but i need a new closet....
Me : erm...maybe i'll just call A and see what she's up to before the dinner - maybe we'll have a round of starters before meeting you guys...oh but she might wait to close shop then come to dinner...damn!
At this point, we're back to the start of the conversation after reaching no where in that less than 5 mins of planning and deciding what to do to kill time before dinner starts....
Such are the tough life decisions when one works here....I'm gonna miss her and these funny conversations :)
The outcome of our conversation - NIL. What are we doing while waiting for dinner to start at 7.30pm? Well it's 3 minutes to 6pm now and i still haven't got THAT call so i guess i'm gonna have to trick her into not going to the gym OR waste money on the dress....bring on the chardonnay girl!!
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