Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Purpose

"What other purpose could there be?" Selene looks incredulous.

"You know, the Galaxy Tourism Board is now going through this accreditation exercise, and those experts from the Dark Matter comment that the Board does not have a long term plan of development..."

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The flight takes no more than a few hours. In the next morning, K goes to work as usual.

To his surprise, his office is empty – the desk, the chair, the cabinet, the computer, and everything, all vanished into the thin air. For a moment, K imagines a burglary. But no. His office furniture is all from IKEA and has been in use for quite some years. In fact, K needs to pay if he wants to get rid of them.

In the middle of his puzzle, K finds the office amah passes by, “Good morning, Cindy. What happened? My office is… empty!”

“Is it? Oh, I remember now. It’s two days ago. Some aliens from the Running Chicken Nebula came and took everything in your room to the Museum of History. The extra-terrestrials said that those are antiques and good attractions for tourists!”

“Oh, my,” K is really touched, “Do you mean in the field of tourism, I am consulted for the strategic plan of development in the coming 10 or 20 years, but, at the same time, I am not even informed of using my belongings for attracting tourists?”

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