Wednesday, May 30, 2007
My Lousy Chinese
Ok one thing that this internship have made me realise was HOW LOUSY MY CHINESE STANDARD IS NOW! I am really ashame of my chinese now, really!
Road to discovery of Jizmine's lousy Chinese...
A reporter from China call dear jizmine to discuss abt a contra agreement: (R=reporter, J=Jizmine-who-thot-she-was-great!)
R: Hi, diss is Peeee de (Peter) I eh I wang tell diss de butt de eh eh we 我可以讲华语吗?
J: *thinking to myself - Of course man come on! Hello! MY Chinese is like A2 ok? Aiya and I used to read Chinese books that flips from the left with traditional chinese characters written vertically read from the right ok! Don't look down on my OH-So-Power chinese man!* 当然! *with a proud-of-myself tone*
R: 哦, 是这样的. 我门这边无法与....(&%^(%&*$^&^(#&*(_>^$
J: oh...*I can understand k! Jus tt it's a hassle to type down all that he said! He's so long winded can? With all the si-shua-si-shua*
R: (*^%(#%@!@#$^&*(@@$_@%&>... 这样我们就这么决定了!
J: 好!
*it's actually my turn now to
1) ask him the specifications needed for the ad to be published in the China magazine
2) tell him that I will fax over or email a scanned copy of the endorsed agreement to him*
J: eh 这样我就 eh 那个*eh for 10 secs* *silent for another 5 secs* (AHHHH!!! I remembered!!!) 準备!!! *say until very excited so abit louder* 那个那个eh那个(Wad the hell is contract in CHINESE???)*silent for 10secs* contract *end up still use English* 给你!
R: contract 那个合约对吗?~!@#$%^&*(@#$%^&&*()<>}{:(&^
J: um! 对! 我然后,我签了就 *silent for 5 secs again* 寄给你 Ah! 电邮!我签了然后电邮你. 我会先...先(HOW THE HELL DO I SAY SCAN IN CHINESE??? OH MY!)eh 扫描了然后发电邮给你!
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I can only go this far! typing chinese is quite a torture to me too considering the fact that my ping ying is not very strong! Oh My GOD! LOOK AT my ATROCIOUS chinese words used and the fact that I spent so much time thinking of a chinese word yet in teh end still resort to English word!
I am really ashame of myself....