Pink, the hate of - a pre-lunch discussion

Just past noon today, I initiated into a discussion of a pink monkey. It was lying on the In tray of a partition-separated, neighbouring colleague, Kien Wai (here's a link to his Friendster page). He is a rich media developer. No, he does not own a newspaper and sidelines in housing. He builds websites instead. Anyway, I asked about his pink tendencies and he brusquely denied them, professing that the said monkey toy was a gift. Ok, we believe you. It sounded like a good online name thought. "Pink monkey" or "Blue Chihuahua" or "Angryparrot89". You know, like those.

Having mentioned that there are people I know who hate pink, he pointed to Edalene (linked here as insomnicbitch). We then pursued a path of no return, a challenging battle to determine the preference of pink in terms of shade. (Note the embedded examples of vintage can of cherry drink and pink plastic toy soldier as hue references.) Edalene clarified her demands on the colour - it has to one of two shades. An almost white shade which we are referring to as ICI or Nippon Paint rose white and a bright pink which can only be accepted on a black background. She also provided me a link to http://www.bitchwhocodes.com and wished the pink was more intense. Hmm. Eventually we confirmed the following pink of choice - refer to accompanying JPEG below with colour code reference, gladly provided by said partial-pinker.

Somewhere in this conversation, I mentioned ingestion of pink items. Cake and Bandung were highlighted, items Edalene prefers not to consume (weight watching pink hater). It turns out there's this other girl in the office, Shamie, who hates pink and also hates Bandung. Note that these 2 items are taken as separate entities of displeasure, not to be grouped because of colour. (I have only a MSN shot of Shamie. This animal is not her.) Edalene doesn't like Bandung too. Poor rose syrup-milk drink. I like Bandung. Sweeet and crreeeamy.

It was a thoroughly engaging pre-lunch 20mins.