Speech!

Back in the office we are celebrating Hari Raya, the end of Ramadan, and with the forthcoming relocation of the office to the newly refurbished area we are combining an office "Town Hall" (to give information about the move) with a catered lunch for the aforementioned celebrations.

In passing, I innocently ask the organisers about the arrangements for the event there's a paling of their faces and one of them scurries off, coming back saying that, as Director, I need to make opening and closing speeches for the Town Hall, plus do a talk about my understanding about the religious festivities.

WHAT?!

I was really not impressed with this at all. One of the organisers does offer some help by writing a few words about Hari Raya, which are basically all about Allah and how we should give praise to him after this time of personal sacrifice etc etc. Hmm.

Anyway, knowing that most people already know that I am not a great believer, I scrap all that and write a few works about what I did to celebrate – which did omit some of the reality: if I told them that I was eating pigs brains and pork soup in China on the actual day, there quite possibly would have been an international incident and I would probably have been locked up.