A Tale of 3 Scorpios

I read Scorpios like a book. I know how they function, I know exactly how they think and I know what makes them tick and what annoys them. I've been surrounded by Scorpio friends throughout my life. It's like a love-hate relationship. Sometimes what they do annoys me, but yet I enjoy the company of Scorpios the most. I can deal with their 'psycho' behaviour and they can handle the emo crabs. But one common thing about Scorpios is that they like to have their way. Every Scorpio I've met has been like that.

I had dinner with Mr S this evening. It was our first proper catch up dinner since my last trip, and also the first since I started work on this job proper. It was like NS days once again, I was telling him about my current job, what I liked and what I hated.

I like the work environment. I like my boss and my colleagues. I like the money. I like my seat. I like the nature of it. I like the fact that time passes really fast in a day and I have no spare time on my hands. Really?

I hate having no time. I don't like the fact that I'm losing my personal time. No time for gym activities, dinner with my ex-colleagues and my friends. I don't like working till 9:30pm everyday. I don't like accumulating bad karma points at work everyday. But that's life.

That aside, we had dinner at Kuriya. The food was amazing. We ordered a full course set dinner, and a fresh fish (half grilled and half for sashimi). The bill of course was amazing but everything was worth it. I don't mind paying for good food.

So during the dinner, I had a few SMSes with Ms S. Ms S is my colleague from another team, but from my training batch. We hit it off during training and have remained in close contact till now.

Ms S was feeling depressed at work, and I can totally understand how she was feeling. It made me remember our training days when we used to sneak off for coffees and blah blah blah... She would relate to me her evil ways and plans for revenge for those who have crossed her, and I would listen in amusement, believing every word she says, because, trust me, you would never ever want to offend a Scorpio.

Then I came home, I chatted to Ms Y (also a Scorpio) online. Ms Y is my ex-colleague and also never fails to amuse me with her Scorpio-like behaviour. It's true. Scorpios make me laugh.

Ms Y was telling me how angry she was and I probed further. Apparently, she screamed at her mother for buying saline for her when she wanted the multi-purpose solution to clean her contacts. And she's been using saline for two days blah blah blah... the story could go on, but that wasn't my point.

I gave Ms Y a dressing down. I asked her to put herself in the shoes of her mother and imagine how her mother felt. It must have been emotionally draining.

When the mother helped her buy the saline, she was probably feeling very happy that she bought something for her daughter. No parent in the world would want to buy something wrong for their kid intentionally.

Secondly, when her mother woke up from her sleep to rush to CHEERS to get it for her, and returned empty-handed because they don't stock it, she must have felt panic.

I felt like I could identify with Y's mother at that time. The feeling of panic and fear. Emotionally drained. I've been through all that before.

After hearing me out, Y felt really remorseful and asked me what she could do. I told her, for one, she could drop her mother a 'sorry' SMS so that when her mum wakes up, she can see it. Or she could eat some of the food her mum cooked for her but left in the fridge cos she had her dinner outside already.

It reminded me of an incident a few weeks back, when I left my laptop overnight to download the latest BC release, and my mum shut it for me. Needless to say, I lashed out the very next morning when I woke up, only to regret it for the entire day. It (me lashing out, and not the failed download) made me so ineffectual at work that I ended the day early and reached home at 7pm. Throughout the day, I was feeling the guilt of my mum for shutting my laptop, all because she had good intentions and thought I forgot to switch it off. I know she was feeling it.

That incident really made me wake up. Because after all this while, my mum is still the most important Scorpio in my life.