I slept early on Thursday night. Was so tired that I knocked out at 10.30. So tired that I forgot all about Tut until he messaged me and said he couldn’t make it for dinner. I told him to message me when he was done with dinner. And he did. At 12+am. I was in slumberland by then, and even though I heard the phone, even though I saw his message, I was too tired to reply him. Ha! Sorrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Yesterday, JG and AS were talking about going shopping one day. JG said that she was worried that she would be too broke by the date they set. I turned and told them my brilliant idea.
‘Why don’t we request to have our salary for December to be banked in early?’
JG turned and gave me that Do-you-know-what-you-are-talking-about look.
AS was further away from me, and she missed the ‘Why don’t we request’ part, and exclaimed excitedly.
‘REALLY??? We will have our salary banked in early this month????’
JG and me laughed and laughed. Then I looked at them seriously and said,
‘Ya, why not? Hari Raya the Muslims also get half their salary early. Deepavali also what. Why not for Christmas? We can try writing in to President. Maybe he will agree leh?’
And so, I drafted this email which I intended to send out to our dear President of the company.
Dear Mr. XXX,
Thank you for the inspiring speech you gave at the D&D a week ago. It definitely was a moral booster, and we hope to achieve better results in the years to come.
As you know, Christmas is around the corner, and Christmas, being the season of giving, needs alot of giving. We at XYZ company, would like to spread our love around by taking this opportunity to send our loved ones a token of our love.
As we all have more than one loved ones (as a matter of fact, we all have lots of loved ones), we will need to spend more than a bomb on Christmas gifts. Therefore, we would like to request that our salary for December be banked into our respective accounts by 14 December, to ensure that we have sufficient resources to spread our love, and have time to source for them.
We sincerely hope that you will take our suggestion into consideration, as we feel that besides working hard, we need to play hard, and also to have work-life balance. We need love, and we need to show our love.
Looking forward to your favourable reply, and hope to see the money in our bank accounts by 14 December.
Sincerely,
Rose, on behalf of ABC Department of XYZ Company
JG laughed and laughed.
‘Rose, I am sure you can get your salary before 14 December. And you don’t even have to work after that. Because you will get fired!’
Will meh?
You think my email will work?
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