晴れ

After yesterday's wind and rain, today is surprisingly very sunny with clear blue skies and cool breezes. Another day that should not be spent inside the office.

Today, my neighbor cubemate (an older woman with teenager sons) was telling me that she thinks one of our co-workers (a fresh grad.) is starting to look like me in terms of outer appearance. And she was the one who recommended her to do that since this older woman thinks I am cool (and has nothing better to do, obviously) and wants to introduce my best friend at work to her. And she came to ask me what I think. Personally, I am ok with that since my relationship with my best friend/co-worker is purely platonic. But having someone trying to look like me before introducing to my best friend? I think the whole idea is just a bit wacky. It reminds me of the movie Single White Female. Why can't her be herself? While I was thinking about this, I met this other female manager on the same floor and she was telling me, "Hey, you know, I am starting to get confused between you and that fresh grad. girl. You guys look so much alike from the back." So here it goes again. I am feeling annoyed to say the least. I hate being confused with someone else and I don't want 2 me in the building! First, she does not look anything like me at all. Second, she might start wearing similar style of clothing but we are still not the same. We might be of about the same height with almost the same hair style, but please I am the cool one! Ok, she is probably a lot younger than I am so I guess in that sense, it could be a compliment, but that's ok. I am happy with my age and all. My best friend had said "No, thank you." To my cubemate before when heard about the lunch meeting with this frist grad. after checking her out on the company directory. Now I think the strategy she is going to go with is that, she actually looks like me and not like the picture in the directory. I would hate to be used like that!! Sometimes I think there is something wrong with this world when things like these happened. How in the world does my best friend at work get to know her? Well, they both worked for the same company before joining our current company. She has always treated him like a son because of the age difference and the fact that my best friend is always the star of the department he works for. Anyway, I plan to have nothing to do with this and not warn my best friend about the whole thing. I believe things should happen naturally and not through manipulation. Let's see what comes out of it. Oh, by the way, this best friend of mine owes me 10,000 (pearl) milk tea drinks. We had a bet that we were both very sure won't happened, but it did. So he lost the bet and I failed on a task. The only catch to this bet is that I can not cash out the unclaimed milk tea or share the bet winning with anyone. :-) I have been getting milk tea maybe only once every few months. So I should have plenty of free milk tea for the rest of my remaining days to come. *Sometimes I wonder if that's another way of hinting "let's be friends forever". Well, that's just fine by me. :-)

Oh, today's Japanese word is:
Hare
Sunny, clear (weather)
E.g.
今日は晴れ
昨日は雨の降る寒い一日だった