What Is He Up To?

When my collegeau found out that Doraemon planned to tag along on my Shanghai trip, she did a double take.

I could see how hard it was for her to keep the questions from tumbling from her mouth as we were having lunch outside. After all, it's a silent agreement that only a few people know about my relationship (or lack thereof) with Doraemon. And my junior colleague was not one of them.

Then after lunch, she dropped by my cubicle, and sort of squatted down, munching a pineapple tart.

"Wanna be kaypoh a bit, what is the PM up to?"

I was stumped (after 3 hours of department meeting and non-stop calls), and was about to ask which PM (since at any one time, I'm working with at least 5 PMs), when it dawned that we refer to only Doraemon as the PM.

"I dunno, he's just taking an advantage of my trip to stay at a good hotel."

"But he has a girlfriend, right?"

Well, I'm not entirely sure about that as everytime I asked him about her, he'd hedge and change the topic.

"Seriously, I don't know."

Yeah, what's a 33 year old guy up to when he wants to tag along on a female's friend business trip, sharing the same hotel room?

And he has asked me a couple of times to go on business trip with him.

Am I mistaking friendship for something more? Or taking something else as friendship?

Sigh..