Sometimes, I feel that I have alot of things to write but it just disapppears in my mind when I started to write it down.

I think probably because of the air-con in our office, getting infected by a flu virus can be so easy and now I'm getting a day mc to rest at home. It's a good opportunity to tidy up my messy room and organise my things since I was unable to do that during the weekends due to my sickness. Even had to wait 2 hours to be able to see the doctor just for 5 minutes and get my medicine before leaving beauty world centre for home. During the 2 hours, had lunch, went shopping around although there's really nothing for me to buy. Eventually I came across a top which I think was not bad but was interrupted by my sis to ask me to go down to the clinic as it was near my turn to see the doctor.

An encounter with a Japanese Culture

I wanted to share this small incident with you about how "too" polite Japanese are. This Japanese customer came to our office to review at his data. Showed him the DVD. After finding that he's data was not there. He explained to me in Japanese and I was stunned by what he was trying to tell me. Then I continued by saying that if data cannot be recovered then we won't charge them a cent. He then said "sankyu" to me.

I told him to take back his "thumbdrive" and you know what he answered? He raised his hand pointing to his thumb and said "thumb?" I was like shocked as to what is he's trying to say. I can't be bothered to explain to him so I just went over to my desk to take the thumbdrive.

After signing the necessary forms, I passed him the thumbdrive and he used both hands to take from me. I was quite surprised. Does he need to be sooo formal. Then I told him "sorry" and he told me a whole lots of "sorry, sankyu, gome" and even "BOW" to be me! I was shocked. Before he left the office, he also "bowed" to all the 'staff (as if we cared)" in the office before disappearing from my sight. What a polite guy. I wonder if he still remembers this is "Singapore" and not "Japan".