A Gangster's Diary 3

This is the third and final three-part story about the diary of a gangster. Read the first and second ones first if you had not done so

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Day 10

First thing in the morning that Ah Zui do when he reach office is run into my room and tell me he had supper with Miss Charlotte last night.

I told him that he got high chance already just to make him feel happy and he really believe me. I wonder why Miss Charlotte's taste so lousy one?

Anyway, our VP who is also Financial Controller of the company requested for a meeting with everybody today. Everybody calls him Sa-Kor ($3 in Hokkien) but nobody knows the reason.

The main topic of this meeting almost made me want to laugh. Sa-Kor said we should stop vandalizing people's houses to collect debts. It tarnishes the image of our profession and professionals like us.

Instead, we should give them longer grace periods, decrease interest rates, have complimentary gifts and give out memberships to secure more regulars and attract potential customers.

Logistics department can also save up a lot time and effort from stocking up paint and other equipment. Finance department can also cut costs and use the funds for other purposes.

Sa-Kor also said that HR is in the midst of recruiting younger gangsters who are bilingually proficient. He also said that a few have already joined us and will be introduced into our department soon. One of them even got a degree in computer science.

So many newcomers joining the underworld nowadays. Is it because police's salary too little already?

Day 11

Time now is 5.30pm. We gangsters can hardly enjoy our weekends because we need to work unless some big big dachi happen. I realized that I spell dachi wrongly in the previous entries.

But I am free this week! So I ask Tiffany out and we decided to go to the Sentosa casino. At first, I felt very strange inside because I am always a casino staff but now I am the customer.

Ours and theirs more or less the same with the only significant difference being their staff got uniform whereas ours is qin cai.

Then we went to watch a movie but this time I was the one who decide. It was a horror show. Scare the shit out of me man! I remembered to switch my phone to silent mode but nobody called me.

Today's English lesson is cancelled as Miss Charlotte's boyfriend's mother is in hospital. Hahaha Ah Zui, time to wake up from your dreams man!

Day 12

I was eating breakfast at the kopitiam with my friends, Black Dragon and Ah Mong. Suddenly, we saw two groups of teenagers scolding each other from far. About 3 or 4 on each side. One of them walked up and pushed another.

They started to fight.

So the 3 of us looked at each other and immediately dashed over to stop them. Black Dragon shouted "fighting doesn't solve anything!" I wanted to continue by saying "Only money solves everything".

It turned out that they were all classmates and one group lost to the other in a DOTA game because the latter cheated.

Speaking about DOTA, I almost forgot to ask Mabel about the pirated Warcraft game I ordered last month. Mabel is the manager in charge of all those fake pirated games and DVDs. I think her nose is fake as well.

Day 13

CEO asked me to ask Sa-Kor if there are enough funds to buy prizes for this year's company dinner. Because of our background, no sponsors dare to find us so we have to use our own money every year.

Since it is the 40th anniversary celebration this year, CEO wants it to be a grand one. There are rumours that the chairman will also be present during then.

I don't understand why CEO can't ask Sa-Kor on his own. Just because I had known CEO for more than 10 years doesn't mean he should approach me regarding work matters.

In the noon, Tiffany called me to say that she needs to go to Thailand next week for some project thing. I wanted to tell her that I will contact the Thailand branch staff to be her bodyguard there but if I said that, I would have revealed the truth about my job.

Not telling her it doesn't mean not doing it. I called the Thailand branch in the afternoon and had a hard time trying to speak English, Mandarin and Hokkien to someone who replies in Thai.

I realized that my English has improved ever since I started writing this diary. Too bad, tomorrow would be the last entry. I don't whether should I feel happy or sad to finish this assignment.

Day 14

It was a busy day today. I had to meet Kim Loong Gang this morning as one of my hia di fought with one of their staff. The whole group of five people all in Gothic clothing with golden hair.

Both parties apologized to each other and had dim sum. We laughed and talked about our profession and the industry.

Went to casino with Ah Zui as we are in charge of the money-lending corner today. It's been a month since I last did this. There were so many people queuing up and I was calculating and writing non-stop that I forgot to go toilet.

The day after tomorrow, we will be launching a new loaning package to attract more customers. Interest rates will drop down to only 8%.

We had already pasted some posters as advertisement in the casino but there are still many gamblers who can't wait to borrow money to satisfy their addiction.

In the evening, I had to rush down to our company's store house to collect 2 laptops for my staff. Only managers know where is the store house located at so I bo pian must sacrifice.

Then I need to rush back to office to put the laptops there before meeting Tiffany.

I told her that I won Toto yesterday so we dined at a restaurant and had spaghetti. I almost thought of using chopsticks to hold the noodles. I think that I am so sua ku.

After dinner, Tiffany asked me something that shocked me. She said "tell me honestly, what do you work as?" I kept quiet for a moment and laughingly said "why you suddenly ask?"

"because you were lying"

"no, you see, I'm finance manager"

"Stop it, I just want you to be honest"

There was a short period of silence. Then I reached into my bag and took out this diary for her to read.

This entry wasn't yet written when she was reading it just now. I just want to say that no matter who I am, I will always be the Ah Kong that you know.