Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Office Communications

Colleague: Hello, [company].
Janvier (mechanical voice): [Colleague], zhao an!
Colleague: Shi me zhao an? Shi wan an!
Janvier (still mechanical voice): Ah! Dui bu qi! [Colleague], wan an!
Colleague: Wan an!
Janvier: Ni hao bu hao?!
Colleague: Wo hen hao? Ni le?
Janvier: Wo ye hen hao!
Colleague: Hen hao hen hao!
Janvier: Wo yao wen ta ni...
Colleague: Ah, shi me?
Janvier (normal voice): It's about the end of this year, when are the dates that we're supposed to be coming down...

Yes well we told our colleague we'd have to use Google Translate if we wanted to speak in Mandarin any further.

7 comments:

William said...

Would love to hear a recording of this

wai said...

fucker , u better respect mandarin word

zhenyu27 said...

anyway , how come u dont talk much about your love life . Are you and the chief an item ?.I mean , how is life in the 30's ? do u have another blog that u jot ur life ? I have seen ur facebook profile but im reluctant to add u , unknown if ur gonna act cold to me now

Jaded Jeremy said...

Hahaha. Sai mmm sai ar the mechanical voice?

savante said...

Ganas! Please repeat the conversation when we meet again!

ooi2009 said...

hmmm , why arent there sexy pharmacist's like u in my hosp ....

Janvier said...

William: Perhaps some other time :P

Jaded Jeremy: Sai!

Savante: We recall Charming Calvin wanted to reenact a certain game where we sing Chinese songs and everyone else tries to guess what song it is!

Ooi2009: Surely there are!