It's strange that there could be any linkage between the typhoon "Swan" and baby delivery. However, the two of them unleashed the inquisitiveness among colleagues, in a legitimate sense.
Every time, when there is a typhoon approaching, everybody would be incarnated as Fung Shui masters, or stock pundits. By projecting when we could be released from office, whether the storm could attack HK face-to-face, would be our joyous moment. Anyway, being accurate or not, the result is superficial and superfluous as the stuff would just ebb out in the usual hollow way.
Going to the baby delivery, speculation is everywhere and diversified in the pettiest sense. Public or private hospital? Boy or girl? Caesarean section or natural . . . the list could go on endlessly. Somehow, it is strange that men, mythicized to be more rational than women, could click to the topic, as fervent as any chatterbox. To me, as sang-froid as ever, would just think that baby delivery is simply a one-way trip, from nothingness to nothingness.
Cynical, though, I would think that this behaviour is despicable. However, I am old enough to participate in the discussion and get rid of the even duller stuff in the office . . . at least boss would join-in and the office could be united in the real sense at that moment. Cheers to evasion.
sang-froid! very Derrick! ;) btw, you know I was delivered by C-section too? Will visit your page very often - please keep us reading & sharpening our minds as well ;) Thanks!
回覆刪除haha, once upon a time, I was a "natural-born" baby!
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