Thursday, April 06, 2006
M*E*N*S*A
Over the last couple of months, The Office™ has welcomed a number of newcomers (three, to be precise) into the fold. Newcomers, who for one reason or another, cannot really fit into The Office X-Men™ clique. But actually, in reality, that's not the really bad thing...the really bad thing is that these newcomers can't even seem to fit into the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants clique and this clique takes in anything that has a heartbeat and half a braincell.
I had mentioned all three briefly in my past posts (I am not gonna link you back because I can't remember when I wrote about them...but it can't be long ago). Of the three, Queen remains the most likeable (no no no, make that lovable) of the three. This girl is a genuine ingenue and most people, after a while, just want to sayang her. If she wasn't married/engaged or whatever, I'd tackle her like Roy Keane (basically break her into half lah).
Another newcomer is Yann (if that's how I spelt it), the one with the khiam pa face. It seems that Psylocke hates her guts so much, she can't even remember her name and nearly refers to her as "that fcuked up girl" in front of The Office X-Men™. personally, I don't have anything against her...but it does seem that this girl is pretty streetsmart and a little cunning to boot.
And finally, the MAN that I want to talk about is the Man from M*E*N*S*A or 阿满 as I called him previously. Since everybody in The Office™ becomes an Office X-Men™, he shall henceforth be known as Beast, because he is the Man from M*E*N*S*A (Beast is the smartest of the X-Men after all) and well...he just looks like Beast...actually Beast looks better than The Office Beast™.
I had mentioned all three briefly in my past posts (I am not gonna link you back because I can't remember when I wrote about them...but it can't be long ago). Of the three, Queen remains the most likeable (no no no, make that lovable) of the three. This girl is a genuine ingenue and most people, after a while, just want to sayang her. If she wasn't married/engaged or whatever, I'd tackle her like Roy Keane (basically break her into half lah).
Another newcomer is Yann (if that's how I spelt it), the one with the khiam pa face. It seems that Psylocke hates her guts so much, she can't even remember her name and nearly refers to her as "that fcuked up girl" in front of The Office X-Men™. personally, I don't have anything against her...but it does seem that this girl is pretty streetsmart and a little cunning to boot.
And finally, the MAN that I want to talk about is the Man from M*E*N*S*A or 阿满 as I called him previously. Since everybody in The Office™ becomes an Office X-Men™, he shall henceforth be known as Beast, because he is the Man from M*E*N*S*A (Beast is the smartest of the X-Men after all) and well...he just looks like Beast...actually Beast looks better than The Office Beast™.
If the Office Beast™ had a major makeover, he might look something like this...
After a month or so here, nobody has really talked much to Beast, besides the extremely kind-hearted Jean Grey and Wolverine. But Wolverine doesn't count because he talks to any living thing...or non-living. Is there a good reason for the ostracism by the majority of The Office X-Men™? Maybe, maybe not. I offer you these pieces of information though.
- Seems that when JG talked to him sometime back and asked him what he is good at (or something like that), he offered the answer that he can lie straight out deadpan without giving himself away. Gosh...is that something to be so proud so?
- He draws linkages and alludes to things that totally makes no sense to some of us. Maybe we are just too dumb to understand but sometimes, when talking to him, it just feels like a Mission Impossible moment. Anytime he finishes speaking, I half-expected him to tear off his latex mask to reveal...Magma.
- He wears this rather strange M*E*N*S*A jacket that has this great procliamation: The High IQ Club. Geeez...
- He is SIAO ONZ lah...like I mentioned he typed an entire report out when all was required was an email reply. In the end, Rogue too embarrassed to tell him it's unnecessary and instead dumped his work into my report...nice. Anyway, just last week, he again had some flash of inspiration and wrote a short report after reading a couple of news articles. I am impressed by his diligence and his amazing ability to drudge out information BUT BUT BUT...
- His analytical skills seems, at best, average to me. He offers insights that is pretty run-of-the-mill and he doesn't look anything special at all in that respect. I expected something more out of him, to be frank. Jubilee said that, in his defence, he is still inexperienced and so we cannot expect groundbreaking insights from him. I agreed initially with her...and thought about it. For someone who so proudly wears the M*E*N*S*A emblem on his chest, surely I am entitled to expect something just a little special? I mean, if you did not somewhat proclaim yourself as the Special One, why would I expect something special from you?
- Finally, I don't know if he has cut it out or not but apparently he has the habit of sniggering, smirking or giving dirty looks whenever someone proclaims ignorance over something that he has knowledge of.
So well, I don't know. Draw your own conclusions. For me, I just don't talk to him. I don't see the need to (yet) unless it's professional business. And that's that.
Batman spun on 9:07 AM.
