Things That Make You Go "Huh?"

A nice day of a leisurely visit to the Museum, with four meals to go along, and nice company (thatnks Nikki et al), today was. Haven't been to the place for a long while, and I had forgotten how nice and peaceful the place was, dredging up memories from years past when the place was my everyday affair as I slaved there for the peanut that the paid me. Good experience though, worth dredging up again. Of course nice co-workers, who still remain as friends to these days, hence the special treatments I get everytime I go there - discounted entrance fee ("he is my brother" and I look like the moon and she looks like the sun), discounted merchandise at the shop ("ring him up under my staff ID"), free latte and baklava at the restaurant ("nevermind la..you haven't been here for sooo long"), a tour of the never-open-to-public VVIP lounge, patron's lounge, director's offices, and soon-to-be-open patron's library ("what do you think of the beams, they are sooo ugly"), and again discounts at the shop ("don't close the register yet, he wants to loook at the chinese calligraphy!"). I felt so warm and fuzzy after (and I wonder why I ever left? Simple, money :) ).

The "huh" things happened during the visits (no, haven't forgotten about the title yet):

Huh No 1: A phone call came when I was peering at the mughal painting that costs half of my salary at the shop. My client from the just finished project called to check on some system thingy, and I told her that I was on vacation and was at the museum, hoping she was going to cut the call short. And she blurted out "oh, you are taking your children out for a museum tour?". Huh?

Huh No 2: Chatting away with my museum friends at the restaurant over latte and baklava in that white, very white space of a place, lulled by the also white noise of the afternoon, feeling contented and happy, when Hal motioned to Mid, complete with that sly conspiratorial smile, and said "aren't you going to tell him what my friend said the other day?" and Mid said "oh yeah, Hal's friend said that I didn't know that Mid is married. Boy, I have a very young husband!". This was when we went to Hal's housewarming party together. I too, had to say boy... Nikki almost drank his latte through his nose! Double huh!

Huh No 3: So many cute people around today. Nikki also pointed out the same thing too. That waiter at the Museum restaurant, what's his name again? Syed? Wowwee... (Nikki, he is MINE!) That maintenance worker in the lift. The guy in the blue shirt at GEM...(Nikki, if I have to kill you I have to kill you for that one, and I saw him first!). Now, are there that many good-looking people, or have we been too long cooped up, or are we just plain desperate? And that includes Nikki too. Desperate I mean. Another huh!

Now, for a hmmmm experience instead, go to http://www.iamm.org.my/ to experience the experience I experienced today (the museum's that is).