Nice Surprises

I am not insensitive to the fact that my colleagues meant to have a surprise party for me within a hour from now. Unfortunately, I shall not be surprise because of several reasons:

1. They had to tell me something was up today to make sure I do not go out for lunch with my usual lunch buddy, as we are in the habit of doing on Fridays. It was quite a surprise for them to find out yesterday that my lunch buddy (also my colleague) did not pick up the hint to stay in and even went as far as suggesting going to a nearby shopping centre for lunch and window shopping. Anyway, I was asked to relinquish this plan and stay in.

2. The two main organisers of the event were young girls (Ahem! Women. But, they will remain girls to me till whenever they stop being so obviously younger and girlish compared to me.) who could not maintain the veil of discretion. Even their inviting of other colleagues in our department to chat online (myself excluded, naturally) about the forthcoming event was not very hushed up.

3. The two girls mentioned before sit adjacent to me and their talk is usually audible to me.


Still... I shall be mightily touched. I thought that the big cake for me last week in the department was quite delicious and enough. I did not expect more.

My colleagues are really rather nice and fun. Also, not having 'Hatsumomo' (Thorn) in the celebration previously helped. I wonder if it would be so this time since it is going to take place during lunchtime.

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An hour after the above entry, the whole secret (if it was meant to be a secret) is completely gone. My other colleagues are complaining of hunger while doing their work and wondering where the two organisers were. Those two should have been back by now seeing that they left shortly after 11am. Well, we are indeed in the heart of the city and it is very prone to traffic congestion around this time.

Meanwhile, people are discussing where to put the food and cake. They even joke about calling to tell the organisers to cancel the plan and let everyone go out.