In Work #4 Enemies

My job is to educate the newbies and look into the works of the other colleagues. I was chosen for this position after a long period of hard work. In reality, many colleagues especially senpais wanted this position too. However, take note that it is JUST a part-time job.

It just makes me harder to make my job done when I am in the middle of sides. One is the superior. One is the colleagues. When my collegues get things done against the way my superior wants, I will be the victim (I am the one who get the scoldings). Then I will go to that colleague and look into how he does his work and re-correct his mistakes. I felt so sicked when I had to reteach him twice or more. By wise, I will change my personality to show him that I am serious here. If he does not try to get things right here, I dun want him to spread the wrong message among the colleagues.

It makes me much more confusing "Why does the A.Manager chose me?" I mean, there other potential collegues you can choose from. The A.Manager chooses the people for the certain position or job. My talents are limited. I am not a robot, I am a human. Human are not programmed to be 100% perfect.

This is something different than what I wanted to share here. When you get wiser or grow up through time, your surroundings changed. You have to change too. I am not a child anymore. I have to be independent sooner or later. Of course, considering yourself better than the others is something childlish. I often told myself that this is my culture and I hope that the others respect my culture when I tried to push my culture forward as time goes. But there was one thing when you are in overseas, your parents may failed to recognize that new culture you are having now. That is one headache I am trying to get myself away from. To be quiet or communicate more. Both proved to be useless to solve this. Sometimes I thought they should be here and look into this new culture I have been in for this years. At least some understanding is build between us.

The other day, I was able to attend a talk given by a manager who came from a cosmetic company concerning employement guidance. His talk was very inspiring. I was shocked that he told us the truth of working in any company has the same environment no matter where you go in Japan. The first thing that came into my mind is that "Is it all right if you talked about it in front of the audiences here?"

What I mean is that words of his will bring down the image of the company. But if you are optmistic, then you will agree with him then. Many will agree with him. I do not have regrets joining the talk.

I know, no matter what kind of working environment you got yourself inside, you will always have clashes with people you like or you do not. The truth is there is no work haven in this world. Even today I have enemies now. There are people who wanted my job now. I was an object of humiliation when it comes to mistakes. Of course, I should be thankful that they look into my work instead of my nationality. One thing the Malaysian society should look into talents instead of looking into nationality.

Sometimes I thought, "This is how stressful networking can turned into." Studying here in Japan gave me a much more direct observation into the working society. Unlike my days in Malaysia, we depended a lot on friends. When you got yourself into trouble, you could quit easily. Here, pulling yourself away from something important is a taboo. I am talking about responsibility. They are talking about that too.

But getting myself into thinking the negative sides is making me at fault in any thoughts. Hey, look, I think I should show my enemies that I could do it better than they can. I can be better in other aspects too. The maddest thing is that they probably have not realized that I have been recognizing them as my enemy while I hide those feelings inside me. I just hope to get my work done without any problems. You may be right and I may be wrong. But I am trying to get my work done here and move forward.

Working and building relationship with enemies can be fun.

Misty Weather

#1 The main Katayanagi Facility Building

After days of heavy rain, the surrounding of the Hachiouji campus turned into a land of mist. I felt like I am studying in the wrong place and the wrong time.

Eventually, we got to return home earlier because of the weather.

Japanese Family Rule

One day, I was invited to stay a night in my nakama`s house for a night. We drank too much and his home is nearer so we went to his home.

It was weird to me that he kept looking at his watch while we were heading to his home.

After we went into his house, his dad brought a big chain and a few locks. I looked into his Dad and I looked into his hands. His dad smiled to me.

「ちょっと待ってね。」
*Chotto matte ne. Just wait for a while.

He locked the gate outside with a long chain, then he put another lock into the main door. He came in and we had a few chat together with the whole family. I then realize that this is the family rule his Dad set up. He said that he will locked the doors up on 12am daily (isn`t it that troublesome???).

He wants the kids to be back home punctual on time and prevent them from being outside too much. He believed that the kids should not be out there too late or too much. After all, kids should spend more time with the family. I think that he has made a point of making a good family policy.

Then I thought, wait a minute、if my friend is here next to me. Then why are you still locking the gates?

「兄さんいるよ～」
*Nii-san iruyo. I have a big bro.

\(・◇・)/

Where is his big bro?

Staying a night in the family restaurant nearby.

The chain will be reopened by the next day on 6am. (swt)

Those days, I have the freedom (but not so wide) to come home late by not worrying about my parents locking the gate and the doors. Of course, I will leave a note or a message before leaving so they dun have to worry about me. But since my parents are busy too. My mum made a rule that everybody must be at home by Sunday morning and have breakfast together. I think that most family have a family rule that they need to obey. How about yours? Maybe you should share your family rules?

On the other hand, Japanese youngsters today are not like kids in the other country.

Most of my friends said that they weren`t at home quite much and it can worried their parents a lot even though they know about it especially the girls. The kids here in Japan know how to get themselves busy. Not all of them go to tuition centres (Most students think that tuition centres are like 2nd school and makes them hate school more, to them love the life or love the school). Most get themselves busy doing baitos(part-time job) or joining bukatsu (co-curricular activities). Yup, most of them are already workaholics since young. And when you want to talk about play, you need to make sure you need to make a `booking` 1 or 2 weeks earlier.

Thats the living way of the Japanese kids the Japanese parents are troubled. Will you get troubled when you communicate lesser and fail to understand them as they grow up?