Usually I’ll greet or at least nod my head with eye contact whenever I meet these people in office regardless I know them or not, because we are all in the same workplace.

There is this Malay lady whom I guess is from building maintenance management based on her outfit, walkie-talkie in her hand, running from place to place for checkup daily, she came to me when I was playing games working with my eyes staring on my notebook and greet me! I didn’t realize she was around me until she greeted me and I look away from my notebook and greet back to her.

A few more people whom I don’t know and didn’t work with me passed by my cubicle and greeted me and asked me whether I have my breakfast/lunch. Strangely, I barely know them by names except for their faces. It is very kind and friendly of them to someone don’t work for them.

Another case wasn’t happen in office, but somewhere out of town in Sungai Long just after a pouring rain. As I was reaching my car to drive out, an Indian man approached me and informed me not to use the main highway as it was blocked by a tree caused by heavy rain and strong wind blows earlier and it causes a massive traffic jam, advised me to use an alternative road instead.

I thanked him but this Indian man didn’t inform this piece of information to other people as they too going to their car and wanted to drive out I assumed. I don’t understand why this is happening as he will not know whether I am driving out of Sungai Long or am I from Sungai Long itself.

Today, I was on my notebook reading some news online, this cleaning lady came to me out of nowhere and tells me that she will clean my workstation in the evening. I was completely surprised by her action!

• First, I didn’t inform the cleaning lady to clean my workstation.
• Secondly, my workstation is not dirty or messy, it is as clean as Britney spears shaved her head bald.
• Lastly, she don’t work for me, she is working for my client and I’m based in their office as vendor, even though she is responsible to clean up my workstation, doesn’t mean I can instruct them to do work.

Maybe it is my luck, I don’t know as I’m really surprised by their action, their kindness, friendliness. I do hope we can have more of these people around us, I’m sure we will have better environment to work in and to live in. 1Malaysia.

No particular reason for doing this, but one thing I found strange is, where I had experienced many times, that people looked away or avoid greeting their colleague in office. I understand if you are out on the street, it would be best not to talk to stranger, or even smile at stranger.

Once in the office, I was walking towards the pantry/photocopy machine/washroom, on coming is one of the colleague that I have seen many times, despite not knowing the name, I look straight into this person’s eyes as I’m walking and smile/greet/nod my head.

This person sees my eye contact and quickly looked down and dashed away!

I don’t feel disrespectful or stupid, I was wondering do I have anything weird on my appearance, so immediately I went to the washroom and first thing I check on myself the zip on my pants, did I left it unzipped and something left hanging there? No. No giant spider on my head, negative ink stained on my shirt’s pocket. A quick check ran from head to toes and I was completely fine by appearance.

I still left with no answer why was this person react in this way when met me. Maybe I have a face that got rejected by beautifulpeople.com. Ok, I admit.

If anybody smile and greet me, I’ll do the same in return. In my opinion, it is always good to smile and greet your colleagues, because this shows that you are an open to social, friendly and cheerful.

Let’s put this into some situation, you smiled at people, people think that you are friendly, you win! If you are good looking, cheerful and friendly, another plus point!

If people smiled at you, you ignored, people think that you are ego, you lose! If you are good looking, this projected bad image to people think that good looking people are often egoistic and unfriendly, you lose it all!

Remember, your social life begins with a smile!