Would there be friendship developed out of work?
Somehow I really wonder.
I remembered once Ms Karen, our lecturer from socialogy said about classifying "friends" and "colleagues", there are differences there, and she mentioned something like "can't really get friends when you are out in society"... I can't really remembered what was the whole lesson about, all that I remembered is that people are trying to place like family photos in the cubicle and try to make the place more pleasant to work, something like that.
In the past, I would tell my mom "I am going out with friends after school to work on our projects", rather than "I am going out with my schoolmates after school to work on our projects"; for now I would say "I am going out with my colleagues after work to discuss about work issues".
You see, there are differences!
Friends are more like someone who would work side by side with you, someone that once in a while you can share your little secrets with; colleagues sounded so much different, as if you can only share real business and nothing else.
Hmm...
But I do believe that friendship could be developed at work, people like Nana, Kim, Silin, Old Big, Ke.....
I mean, for them I would put the word friends when I want to quote them.
For Ah Ma?
I would say, "Mom, I am going out with Ah Ma!"
LOL. Anyway they have met each other, I guess it's easier to say.
Oh yeah, speaking of which I guess I probably know why, because my mom has seen almost all my friends, like Xian, like Haohao, like Nadiah, like Mac, like MS and gang; she knows EXACTLY who they are and how they look like; while colleagues, are people that she have not acquainted with previous.
So...
At the end of the day, the meaning of "colleague" is just a collective term to avoid long explaination?
Ha.
