Friday, September 09, 2005
Today is Exercise Day!!

Nope, I didn't exercise today but it is "Exercise Day" at my company today and there was this aerobic workout session in the big field under the hot, fiery sun at about 3 pm...arrgggh...I am glad I didn't take part, otherwise I would be black and burnt and smelly now..haha...There was also a bazaar set up at our club house with booths for facials, massage, health food, gadgets, etc..quite an interesting sight as there was quite a wide array of things for us to explore and look at.. so of course, Poodie, Sronz, E & I went to visit the booths. Sronz went for this detox session while E went for this facial session, which costs only $20 each...but they both felt it wasn't anything fantastic. Poodie & I decided not to waste our money cuz the session only lasted half an hr so we were abit apprehensive about the outcome. (Guess we made the right choice! Haha) For Sronz & E, think they didn't have much of a choice, cuz they wanted to escape the workout under the scorching sun (since their colleague had helpfully signed them up for the workout before that!), so they had to sign up for something at the bazaar(probably to show that they were participating in the event in some other ways)! Haha..

Talking about visiting the booths, I was gone for barely 45 minutes past my lunchtime and my boss questioned where I went to! I was quite indignant cuz it was as though he didn't know that 'Today is Exercise Day'! (but of course, I was not in my exercise attire, so maybe he had cause to query) So I retorted "I went to the Exercise Day area." to which he replied, "But you didn't participate, did you?"

Yup, it was true that I did not participate in any of the activities, so I frankly told him "I didn't... but I went to the Baazar!", which I thought would pacify him. But no! He further replied that the bazaar was meant only for lunchtime!! What the heck were the booths doing, staying open the entire afternoon then, if they were only meant for lunchtime crowds? So I told him so and I guess after that, he left it as that...

Of course, the whole episode made me think further about why my boss was so "interrogative" about something like this when almost half of the division was missing during that time. Afterall, it was widely publicised that "Today is Exercise Day!" so theoretically speaking, we should not be working but moving about..interacting with our fellow colleagues and being on the move and being "seen" as he had so often advised us & not bounded to our desks just because we were not exercising!!

Kimmie scribbles
5:43 pm |

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