The Baby
A new classmate, C, joined my Japanese class earlier this year. She's in her early 20s and is really tiny, standing at 1.4m thereabouts!
Back then I was transitioning from employed to unemployed status while serving out my notice period at the ex-company. She offered to introduce a friend who might be able to hook me up with something. We had this SMS exchange:
C: My friend's number is 9xxxxxxx. I've told him to expect your call.
sunnie: Hey thanks much! Appreciate the help :)
C: Eh since you are so free and not working anyways, wanna come walk my baby in the park next week?
Baby?? Like a dog or something?
I was puzzled but didnt question.
Then recently, during a class conversation practice, sensei asked C to tell the class how she spent her weekend.
"I entered my baby into a baby-crawling competition." (in half-Japanese, half-English)
We all understood she brought a baby to a crawling competition but didnt think it was hers, so Sensei thought she made an incorrect sentence and told her to try again. She made a second attempt but the meaning was still the same.
We were then confused as to who's baby it was that entered the competition. She was confused why we were confused since she explained it rather clearly! Talk about lost in translation.
At that moment, i realised the baby she mentioned in her sms from before was actually, in fact, a real, non-four legged human baby.
Good thing i didnt clarify if she meant a canine back then. :P
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My boss has this tendency to give me a heart attack. At a meeting today, a colleague reported that he would be travelling to a couple of countries from Thursday onwards to meet some biz partners. Boss remarked it would be good for me to attend those meetings since im involved in that project. So mad scrambling on the secretary's part to get a flight out tomorrow but there were no available tickets, so i was kept on the waiting list till just hours ago, i was informed i cannot go after all -_-
This project is getting me really stresed. It's an important initiative for the next half of 2007, but it involves most of the APAC markets so the volume of ground work is enormous. Difficulty only compounded by the fact that there is no one-size-fits-all approach and direction we can give to the markets seeing that the local situation is different and requires customisation to the biz model. Of course im not alone in this project or maybe, it's precisely because there are so many parties involved that this makes it so complicating. From marketing to retail to sales to channels to country managers to biz partners and the mounting urgency to have something rolled out by Q2. Gah I'm getting a headache thinking of it. Time to sleep!
Back then I was transitioning from employed to unemployed status while serving out my notice period at the ex-company. She offered to introduce a friend who might be able to hook me up with something. We had this SMS exchange:
C: My friend's number is 9xxxxxxx. I've told him to expect your call.
sunnie: Hey thanks much! Appreciate the help :)
C: Eh since you are so free and not working anyways, wanna come walk my baby in the park next week?
Baby?? Like a dog or something?
I was puzzled but didnt question.
Then recently, during a class conversation practice, sensei asked C to tell the class how she spent her weekend.
"I entered my baby into a baby-crawling competition." (in half-Japanese, half-English)
We all understood she brought a baby to a crawling competition but didnt think it was hers, so Sensei thought she made an incorrect sentence and told her to try again. She made a second attempt but the meaning was still the same.
We were then confused as to who's baby it was that entered the competition. She was confused why we were confused since she explained it rather clearly! Talk about lost in translation.
At that moment, i realised the baby she mentioned in her sms from before was actually, in fact, a real, non-four legged human baby.
Good thing i didnt clarify if she meant a canine back then. :P
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My boss has this tendency to give me a heart attack. At a meeting today, a colleague reported that he would be travelling to a couple of countries from Thursday onwards to meet some biz partners. Boss remarked it would be good for me to attend those meetings since im involved in that project. So mad scrambling on the secretary's part to get a flight out tomorrow but there were no available tickets, so i was kept on the waiting list till just hours ago, i was informed i cannot go after all -_-
This project is getting me really stresed. It's an important initiative for the next half of 2007, but it involves most of the APAC markets so the volume of ground work is enormous. Difficulty only compounded by the fact that there is no one-size-fits-all approach and direction we can give to the markets seeing that the local situation is different and requires customisation to the biz model. Of course im not alone in this project or maybe, it's precisely because there are so many parties involved that this makes it so complicating. From marketing to retail to sales to channels to country managers to biz partners and the mounting urgency to have something rolled out by Q2. Gah I'm getting a headache thinking of it. Time to sleep!