奇人

星期一晚放工去咗一個由 PEO 我個 area chapter 舉辦既 seminar (my first time to go to these kinds of seminar), pretty much a waste of time. 如果唔係因為個 topic  同工作有關，再加上地點就係喺我屋企附近嗰個 library 可以行到去，我係唔會去．可惜，I didn’t learn anything that I didn’t already know.

The speaker was an Indian guy with super heavy accent. Thank goodness that 佢犯了 powerpoint presentation 既其中一個錯誤，就係將ｄtext 打哂出黎，但好彩正正因為咁，加上佢講既大部份嘢我本身已經識，所以先勉強"聽"得明佢個 presentation. But some of his slides had so much text on it and the text was so small that I couldn’t read it from where I was sitting.

Since the presentation itself didn’t contain much new info for me, the highlight of the event became the attendants. They provide two trays of sandwiches for the attendants, which, of course, were completely gone by the time I arrived (I was a little late and I didn’t want sandwich anyway. I ate at home before I headed out). There were also a few boxes of granola bars and pops and water. Since I already ate and was not hungry, I only grabbed a water.  And since I was late, I sat at the back and therefore can see everybody.

So here’s the list of all the weirdoes that I’ve noticed that night:

1. An old man dressed in some sort of old fashion thick thick suit jacket so he looked like he could be an retired engineer was picking on the empty sandwich plate to nibble on the bits and pieces that fell out of the sandwiches… :S
2. A guy in suit came in late, grabbed a few granola bars and a pop. He proceeded to finish eating them and then fell asleep during the seminar. Everyone in the room knew that he was sleeping cos he started snoring loudly.
3. An older chinese couple who were super late to the seminar, like the man in #2, grabbed some granola bar each and pop. They sat behind me and ate their granola bars. But they made a lot of noise as they kept brushing their pants. This made me peeked back and realized that they ate the granola bars super messily. All over their clothes and that’s why they kept brushing the crumbs off. And guess where the crumbs went? Onto the carpet on the floor… so stereotypical Chinese… 無公德... sigh… shame… Basically, neither of them looked like engineer. Instead, they looked like that were from the neighborhood, just dropping in to chow down some granola bars.
4. During Q&A session, an old man raised a questionBefore he asked his question, he introduced himself of his credentials in the area. Basically, he’s more experienced and knowledgeable than the speaker. And since his question is more like a comment, there wasn’t much the speaker needed to answer but to simply acknowledge that he was right. 驕傲的老人.
5. Another guy who asked question was an Asian guy. He dressed up in white shirt and gray pants. Looked like he was wearing school uniform. He had this very soft and polite voice. Sounded like he’s pretty fresh from school and just joined PEO not long ago. But as he turned around to face the rest of the ppl, I found that he had this HUGE mustache! Bigger than 林子祥! That’s so weird. A huge mustache on a very young face and young personality. And asian, too.

So there, the above summarized my first PEO seminar adventure.