Standing up

Today, during our parade, one of my friends got called up to receive an award of commendation for something he did. The point was, my whole company [k, not whole la.. but a huge chunk of them] were so shocked and surprised beyond reasoning why he would get an award. Like it's something that can never happen and even the higher management were stunned. I felt quite irritated as i watched them joke amongst themselves at how it must have been a typo or what...

Then he came back to join us after rehearsing and they went on and on about how they must have made a mistake... and he was right there la. they were saying, sure not? you get award... typo la. must have read wrong name la. cannot be la.

and boy was i getting more and more flustered. I was jus tolerating it all hoping he was ok about it all. He is normally picked on in company line too la. And i told myself if they say one more sentence about how he cannot have received it, i would have spoken up and told my superior off in a way that was nice. Told myself that if they said one more i'd jus tell my superior... with all due respect, i dun think we should be laughing or doubting his potential. Let's rather joy and celebrate with him. I'm sure he can do with the encouragement and recognition.

but thankfully they stopped before i had the chance. really... my blood was almost 80degrees.. almost getting to boiling. haha... but it all ... boiled over after a while and he received the award... then later on after the parade, he was recognized in front of company line and we all clapped for him... but i still felt that it was really childish, immature and ultra insensitive to be laughing about it with or without him around.

So here's to my friend. I believed in you and i didn't doubt for one second that they might have gotten your name wrong. You know who you are and i'm real glad you were recognized for your good effort in that particular event. Keep it up and dun worry if you feel you dun deserve it... in my eyes, you did great. Plus, dun care bout what they might say or how they may look at you... you jus believe in yourself and let them mumble all they want k? :)


Stand up for what is right, Right what is wrong.