::Azman@Work:: Japanese Speaking Meeting
Mar 6th 2007azmanAzman@Work
Just before 5.30pm, my Japanese bosses would call me for a meeting. This happens almost everyday. They call it the “Japanese speaking” meeting because it will be conducted in the language of the raw fish eating people. As someone who doesn’t understand Japanese, my main problem would not only be to understand what the discussion is all about but to actually understand WHY they even bother to invite me for such a meeting??! and to make things better, sometimes they even treat me as someone really important that just HAVE to attend it!
The meeting normally takes more than 3 hours and at times it takes a whole day.
For me, I just have to sit through it. It’s an obligation without any responsibility. They do not even care what I do during the meeting. However, sometimes they can still be kind enough to ask me a simple question..”Ok ka??”.. or “Understand ka??” and what I do is answer “OK naa..!!” or “Hait !!..Wakarimashita”.
It doesn’t matter if I actually understand or not!.. the most important thing is to give a positive answer. If I say I don’t understand; they will try to explain to it to me. With their communications methods of Japanese English with sign language; they will confuse me a lot more and also can take up an extra of 1-2 hours of sitting there listening to them chatting.
If I choose to say that I don’t understand; I just say it sarcastically “Kuah-kari-ikan-masin” ( actually, Wakarimas-sen means I don’t understand ). It’s a pretty good joke that of course they don’t understand..still, I can be proud of my stupid joke & smile about it as they go on with the meeting. Their egos will stop them from asking me further about my suspicious grin!! hehe
If I really want to ask them a question just to remind them that hello I am still alive here, I must make sure that it’s not a difficult question and they already know the answer. If I ask the wrong question & they don’t know the answer; they’ll try to answer it as confusingly as possible to make sure that they appear smart and they will explain it until I give up or until it’s already past 5.30pm and say “I understand!!!”
I’m not sure either i like it or not. If the time is still 8am ~ 5.30pm…it should still be fine even though it means i would be wasting my time there doing nothing for the whole day and listen to them talk. I may not understand word by word; but I definitely know most of their conversation is not about work but golf.
However if the time is past 5.30pm.. i really feel like committing hara-kiri..puuiihhh..
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17 Comments »
iena amoi
on 06 Mar 2007 at 6:01 pm #
rileks ahhh..camtuh..mkn gaji buta…seronok tuh..hehehe. Love your drawing…leh buat komik!! tp english or malay language please…japanese..tak paham!!
azman
on 06 Mar 2007 at 6:07 pm #
saja type in japanese supaya semua dapat tau dilema saya ni..kan ke pakat2 tak paham??
abg bani
on 07 Mar 2007 at 12:05 pm #
aku dapat bayangkan azab yg ko rasakan masa meeting tu. kalau aku berada kat tempat ko, utk mengelakkan daripada boring tahap dewa ataupun utk mengelakkan aku dari tertido, mesti aku berimaginasi dalam hati menukarkan dialog diaorg spt drama alihsuara oshin ataupun gaban. dlm erti kata yg sebenarnya, aku selalu buat drama alihsuara dlm hati setiap kali meeting kat opis ni har har har
diyanazman
on 07 Mar 2007 at 12:09 pm #
Lihat lah dunia… ini lah orang-orang that I have to put up with at work and at home.. OMG…..
azman
on 07 Mar 2007 at 2:20 pm #
aku dah biasa buat mcm tu bani..tapi…kalau dah hari2 sampai berjam2…lagi baik berimaginasi lawak mr.bean
Nize
on 07 Mar 2007 at 3:22 pm #
hu hu hu..chotto…chotto-mate kuda masai nee.. ;-P
John_eSHam
on 07 Mar 2007 at 3:26 pm #
mate, aku tgk poster Mr Bean goes Holiday dah kluar, nanti kite tgk sama2 eh, tp tu pon kalau bini aku on call lah, tp erkkk kalau dapat g tgk ngan Babyrena lagi besh takyah la ajak nkau ekk huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh…
abg bani
on 07 Mar 2007 at 3:34 pm #
har har har…aku teringin nak nengok mr bean jadi mat rempit
diyanazman
on 07 Mar 2007 at 5:34 pm #
bani, komen ko tak relevan dengan main argument la…
John… im soooo telling that to your wife!!!!
farah kawaii
on 08 Mar 2007 at 8:43 am #
bani memang camtu, tolong pahamla kan he’s suffering from replymania disease har har har.
sib baik dia tak imagine diyana cakap macam gaban huhuhu
farah kawaii comel
on 08 Mar 2007 at 9:13 am #
bani tu memang camtu, kan dia tu bapak kpd segala kesengalan di dunia ni. sib baik dia tak keje dgn org2 jepun tu, or else depa akan bunuh diri nanti hahaha
abg bani
on 08 Mar 2007 at 12:11 pm #
farah takkan aman idup dia kalau tak reply komen gue…..
azman
on 08 Mar 2007 at 3:05 pm #
cis…katak aka john esham pun dah nak jadik freak yg sanggup melupakan rakan seangkatan demi rena yg tak dikenalnye..iskkk..iskk..
farah kawaii comel
on 08 Mar 2007 at 6:38 pm #
diana, u r so padan with ur hubby, sama-sama sengal haha, tapi bani jauh lebih sengal
obeks
on 13 Mar 2007 at 9:53 pm #
He2..ciput..wat aku tegelak sorang2 baca blog ko ni..
btw, bila nak jepun lg..bleh wa kirim vaio canteek punya..
eriq kontena
on 14 Dec 2007 at 11:13 am #
I love the japanese language. Ni semua sebab dari kecik dok tgk black & white ultraman in nippon language.
I once beli CD & buku learning japanese, ari ari naik keta degar CD tu belajor, tapi hampeh tak jugak terror cakap jepun. But it helped a bit when i watch japanese soap operas like Oshin :o)
eriq kontena
on 14 Dec 2007 at 11:16 am #
Kalau Tokyo tu cost of living tak mahal, nak jugak pindah dok sana. Best…