Yesterday was my last day with HP. Alright, it was not as joyful as I would want it to be. I wanted it to be very low-profile as it could be. My closer bunch of colleagues planned for a farewell lunch, with Jacky came into office 3 hours before his shift started. We could never guess that Boss suggested the same thing. She wanted to go early, at 12pm so that they can make it back for a 2pm meeting. I was seriously hoping Jacky will come in after 1pm but unfortunately, he came in super early. We asked him to go hide somewhere so that the boss won’t see him and still believing that we are waiting for Jacky. It was too late when the boss came back from morning meeting and saw him. “Let’s go”, she said.
Okay, lunch with her was not that bad actually. This made it bad. Before going, she stood in front of my desk (Raymond’s actually), while looking on my left (Gan’s and Jacky’s direction), she said “Today’s your last day ya. So you gotta decide where and what to eat.”
“Anything will do,” I responded. While trying to act cute and looking at Jacky, “Is there any shops called ‘Anything’? No, right?”
“Yes, there is.. in Singapore, I’d believed.” No idea why Jacky answered. She pissed me off and I think I blew it a little by raising my tone telling her ‘hey, seriously, just go anywhere and eat!’, in my head of course. Lai was beside me and he sensed the anger from my face.
I prayed that she do nothing to piss me off again, else I’m gonna blow up for real. Sadly, she did it again. We went to Restoran 228 at Dengkil for ala-carte. To everyone, “She has to order everything today. So later pass the menu to her ya.” Okay loh.. I’ll play along. There were photos of 6 dishes on the main page of the menu. I looked at the waiter and told her, “Everything on this page, please!” I was not sure if she sense it or not or she was just playing dumb with me. At the end, I ordered 2 dishes and the rest kaotim by Lai. It was an awkward lunch.
Back in the office, I was busy clearing the stuffs in my laptop, uninstalling non-HP programs and applications and drafting farewell e-mail
I packed my bag at 4:30pm as I have to pass my laptop and stuffs to Helen and I got Lai to tag along as I need an escort. Out of formality, I think it’s better to just tell her that I’ll be going and a last goodbye. Bad decision. The usual stuffs, ‘all the best’ and ‘good luck’. Kit, while typing on his keyboard, says “Sure not going to think about it?” and smirked. She asked, “Taken photo already?” Shit, I said in my head. “No, I don’t have camera,” I said. “Oh, I brought mine and it’s with Lai.” I was standing next to Bryan and when Lai came with her camera, took one with Bryan. Then she said she want one too. I had an awkward smile. Lastly, one with Lai. She said I can go around and take photo with anyone. Seriously, that was the reason why I want to leave quietly. I’m not some kinda big shot in the team and I don’t like to go around and announcing my last day.
I went down to my car to pack my laptop into a box; parking sticker, transponder, ActivKey and tag into an envelope. Then both Lai and I headed to 5th floor to pass these to Helen. I think I’ve startled her. Before this, she came to our floor with the boss and she asked, “When are you planning to come up and see me? Or you are planning to leave just like that?” She surprised me although she was just kidding. I told her that I will see her after 4:30pm. Because of the boss, it was almost 5pm when I see Helen. Again, the usual stuffs but from Helen, I sensed sincerity. Before going, she gave me a hug *aww* and offered to get me downstair (I have returned my access card) but I told her that I’ve brought an escort, pointing at Lai.
Goodbye HP! Hope I’ll be back one day!