and then one day...

Well... it’s been a while right? A few months at least. And to be honest, I don’t think I’m back so to speak.
Updates being, I moved to this place called Phnom Penh and have been having what can roughly be summarized as the best time I’ve had over a fair period of time in any given town.

I guess I belong to the category of people who have a saturnine view towards the present and not so towards the past. So going by that generalization, I guess it does speak a lot about the town eh?

Now for what I want to write about, like I told you, I’m not exactly back. I still prefer the quiet, the sit back and watch amused kinda lifestyle. But this, I had to put up. Was insane when it happened I tell ya.

For starters, I agree with most girls I know when they tell me that the flirting techniques most software dudes seem to possess (and seem to be convinced about it’s hit-rate) leave a lot to be desired.
for example, this is what happened today, this chap and me are walking down the corridor, and this lady who works at the client place turns up from the opposite direction. I go about the usual routine which has me midway between smiling and saying ‘hmmpfh’.
Anyway, our man goes “hi”
so she replies “hi”
he: how are you?
she: fine... (muted)whatev
he: that’s not a good reply
she: eh?
he: you should say, I'm always fine hahahaha

and you know that look people give right, when they think they’ve said something extremely intelligent or something, and they’re now giving you time to analyze whatever it is that they said, cause you aren’t intelligent enough to figure it out straight away... and so when you do figure it out, and you come up with a look of genuine appreciation, they’d have a kindly smile which tries to at the same time also be, marginally humble, consoling, encouraging and grateful (for the appreciation).

Well, he was trying to fit his face into the aforementioned look, and was beginning to seriously resemble a plateful of a cross between a scrambled egg and thick noodles.

Subtle... hahaha

And in the meanwhile, the lady looks at me like I AM SOMEHOW RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS.
I mean, lady, seriously, I don’t know if you got the idea from movies or something, but really, guys DO NOT discuss pickup lines (if you could call “you should say, I’m always fine” one).
I didn’t actually bother telling her that. I was more like trying to blend into the background, which being mostly glass walls wasn’t much help.

She probably was expecting a rational explanation from me or something. When she realized it wasn’t forthcoming, she decided to move on looking fairly amused.

And as we walked along, our man gives me the “now that’ll surely land her in bed” look.
I couldn’t help but retort with a “it’ll land her in bed alright, but not with YOU!!” look.

He probably was basking in his own glory way too much to be noticing second halves of sentences people’s looks are supposed to convey. So effectively, my look conveyed “it’ll land her in bed alright”. That probably glorified his achievements further. Made his day.
Or maybe he got the whole sentence and assumed I was just jealous. Similar results.

And the world goes round...