The most hated question after the vacations...

FAR AWAY are those days in which I placidly rested in a hanging bed in a dreamt paradise such as the one in the picture (Redang, in the East coast of Malaysia). NO NO NO, after coming back from my vacations in Canada I opened my inbox to surprisingly find 720 emails waiting for my only two eyes to read them. I struggled not to go crazy and jump out of the 23rd floor of our building. Instead I drank lots of coffee and between the nice, yet sort of retarded questions "How were your vacations?", stood up to the challenge and went through all of them. YEAH!

A comment, I know people mean well and it is also sort of cutomary to ask, but SERIOUSLY, do people expect me to sumarize 2 of the best weeks of my entire life in a 3-minute conversation in my desk or the hall or the bathroom. By the way, quite an odd moment, to say the least. Picture this: you holding "it" and while staring at the wall in front of you, you kindly share with the guy next to you - who is also holding "it", sometimes with one and soemtimes with both hands - how nice it was to be in Canada and how cold it was out there. You try to be expressive but not too much. You want to have eye contact, but NOT really. And you try not to make too many movements with your hands or you might have some embarrassing wet spots in your pants in VERY noticeable places.

Needless to say it is said the body has a memory and therefore by the soly fact or remembering the -32ºC and how cold it feels "it" shrinks once again to the same size "it" sharnk in Canada at the ridiculous and scarry temperature of -32ºC (as some of the days I experienced over there).

'It was really nice. I spent time with friends and their families. Quite cold but I cannot complain, it was awesome' This is the pre-made speech for those who asked (or will ask) HOW MY VACATIONS WERE. Some may call this being phony, I would rather call it 'being strategically nice and short while trying to freaking work, ok?! Give me a break and go bother somebody else, GEEZ!'

Enlightning note for the girls out there reading this posting: YES! It is true, with the cold "it shrinks" and with the heat "it expands". And that explains the sizes in different continents and races, OK?. (You are welcome, guys!) ;)