monsoon girls
maybe
- amado: Korean for possible/maybe/not certain but somewhere between could happen and should happen.
for some reason, i've picked up a habit of saying 'maybe', even when i mean yes. are you going for a beer? think yes, say maybe. it's gonna happen, but i just say maybe. why? why?
i've heard lots of Koreans use the word maybe when they mean yes. did i do something wrong? maybe. is this going to be expensive? maybe. are we in trouble with the law? maybe. should i run? maybe. can you help? maybe not.
i'm not surprised i've picked up the habit, it's just frustrating that i was frustrated by the common use of the word 'maybe', yet still, i've started doing it myself. DOH!
dancing girls
- seems that every time someone opens a bar, restaurant, bookshop or playcentre, an archway of colourful balloons and a couple of scantily clad girls are hired. according to sources who are paying attention to the girls dance moves, apparently they're never good dancers. but who cares?
what is funny to me is the weather they're standing around in. in winter, it snowed one week, the next it was -10, and two days later, the girls were out, dancing in front of a new fried chicken place (great chicken, does home delivery, yum). now it's monsoon season and, while a few of the boys were out for a drink on the strip, a couple of young ladies were out dancing under the balloons for whatever new was opening (either a bar or an internet cafe).
so it's pouring down with rain that'd wash a newborn calf into the sewers, and the girls are toughing it out, high heels and all. must get into that internet cafe, now that i think about it. whatever sells sells, ay?
better than a rooster
- there seems to be a dragonfly nesting outside my bedroom window. every morning, around 630am, it cranks up a noise so startlingly loud, it has scared me out of bed on 2 occasions. couldn't believe the first morning, a sunday. i thought a predator had crawled thru my window.
- amado: Korean for possible/maybe/not certain but somewhere between could happen and should happen.
for some reason, i've picked up a habit of saying 'maybe', even when i mean yes. are you going for a beer? think yes, say maybe. it's gonna happen, but i just say maybe. why? why?
i've heard lots of Koreans use the word maybe when they mean yes. did i do something wrong? maybe. is this going to be expensive? maybe. are we in trouble with the law? maybe. should i run? maybe. can you help? maybe not.
i'm not surprised i've picked up the habit, it's just frustrating that i was frustrated by the common use of the word 'maybe', yet still, i've started doing it myself. DOH!
dancing girls
- seems that every time someone opens a bar, restaurant, bookshop or playcentre, an archway of colourful balloons and a couple of scantily clad girls are hired. according to sources who are paying attention to the girls dance moves, apparently they're never good dancers. but who cares?
what is funny to me is the weather they're standing around in. in winter, it snowed one week, the next it was -10, and two days later, the girls were out, dancing in front of a new fried chicken place (great chicken, does home delivery, yum). now it's monsoon season and, while a few of the boys were out for a drink on the strip, a couple of young ladies were out dancing under the balloons for whatever new was opening (either a bar or an internet cafe).
so it's pouring down with rain that'd wash a newborn calf into the sewers, and the girls are toughing it out, high heels and all. must get into that internet cafe, now that i think about it. whatever sells sells, ay?
better than a rooster
- there seems to be a dragonfly nesting outside my bedroom window. every morning, around 630am, it cranks up a noise so startlingly loud, it has scared me out of bed on 2 occasions. couldn't believe the first morning, a sunday. i thought a predator had crawled thru my window.
posted by the Emperor Fabulous at 7:36 AM
2 Comments:
maybe yes maybe no, definitely yes definitely no.
i don't know if you ever picked up on it in china but in most cases maybe means no.
Funny, I say maybe too often as well--I don't think I picked it up here in Japan despite having encountered some early frustrations such as: am I supposed to attend the assembly? Maybe (of course). Do you need me to prepare the lesson for this afternoon? Maybe (yes).
But maybe is also simply a way to defer commitment and give yourself space to choose and think--or an excuse, and an effect of not making our own plans and demands. ;)
Hope you have a great finish to your school year!
otto.
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