Doll-y

In our corporate cultural & ethnic online training, one of my colleague found out that apparently addressing a lady from China as China Doll is a violation. Well, personally, I wouldn't mind if someone calls me China Doll, think it's kind of cute, not sure why it's an ethnical issue :s

Anyway, this 'mean' colleauge purposedly highlighted this point to me & call me China Doll just to see my reaction (probably he's trying to violate the rules & get some warning? hmm...). Instead of getting the respond that he expected, he got corrected because I'm not really a 'China' Doll but more of a 'Malaysian Doll' :p

Feeling defeated, he came back to me hours later, called me 'Dolly' and explained that Dolly is the name of the first clone sheep (duh...I know :s). I responded with -- 'méhh' which surprisingly entertained him a lot. Now whenever he sees me, he greets me with 'méhh'...

I will 'revenge', soon!

Pic: Dolly the sheep

Updates (9-Oct-08)

I was complaining to another friend that my mean colleague, let's call him 'B' is calling me 'Dolly' and received feedback that instead of making people complying to the training material and become better behaved, the training actually brings out worse of my colleagues. How true...

My 'Dolly' story starts to spread around the department (partly because I find it funny & tell a lot of people...my own fault) and my boss finds it amusing. He said B is right. I'm Dolly from 'Méh-laysia', a Pe-'néh'-ng girl...

Another colleague (after hearing the story) said I should stop dressing in t-shirt & jeans to 'live up to my Dolly reputation'...ish...