One senior colleague is quite eccentric.
His behaviour towards me is quite cold and I had assumed all along that I must have long gone to his bad books.

Today, as I was joking with my closer colleagues, he said something which I couldn't understand.

It was ambiguous and I immediately took it the negative way.

I was very sad after that because I thought that incident have confirmed my suspicions of how much he dislikes me.

Suddenly, he looked over my shoulder and asked what I was reading.

"Aiya, don't read that rubbish. Read this."
He passed a very renowned Advertising book to me.

I was so touched, I was ....

all I could think of was...

He doesn't hate me!!!