People SARS should have taken

This is what Fiona would have said about this guy I'm working with in the Indonesian project. Oh, I miss Fiona... She could be quite sharp, even harsh at times but once you learned how to deal with her and recognise her moods, oh it would be hard to find such loyal friend. She would always help me out of sheer kindness. She would also have comical remarks about things. Had she met this Indian guy, I'm sure she would have scolded him back to his insignificance. "Never mind him, lah!", she would have said, "These are the people SARS should have taken but didn't...".

I'm tired. Depressed as I haven't been in quite a while. My back pain and cramps have returned. The soles of my feet hurt when I walk. Classical symptoms of stress. I started taking my tranquilizers again. I had to! I was about to tell this guy to shove an entire sacred cow up his vegetarian Indian ass!!! Oh, boy... That would be really rude... But it certainly would lower my blood pressure. I feel delighted just to imagine his face and reactions! Haha!

Geez, to think that some people actually believe I'm a good person!

Anyway, those pills do work. After I started taking them I did not care much about his bullshit anymore. As it usually happens, my lack of response to his provocations got him pissed and he started trying harder to get me to really explode. I can proudly say he failed, even after acting bossy and raising his voice to me today. I was just too stoned to bother. I just said very calmly "Please, mate, I beg you: do keep your voice down. Shouting with me will not help any". It might have turned something off inside him because he did lower his tone to acceptable levels though he kept bitching.

The guys from the VAR and the customer are starting to realize I'm not the jerk he was so willingly trying to depict me to be. Unfortunately these guys are not on the management layer. They are the hands-on guys who will have little or no say when the time comes to praise those who actually did the job. He shields me from the big guys. And to them, I'm just the guy Genesys sent to work under the “expert”… Good, huh?