I have been trying to be open minded about everything around me. Since I’ve gained this belief about religions making sense to cover up scientific beliefs for justification, I’ve been pretty much hesitant before I conclude an opinion about something or someone.
Working at the current job, I guess it’s important to be pretty much open to anything that can happen around you. It seems like every angle I look from seems to have a backlash effect of yet other angles any occurrence can be seen from. Today, I was encountered with the language barrier between the local and international staffs.
So our org is going for something which would look attractive with some more other orgs working with us. As I was trying to push these people to reply to my emails by the end of day, I encountered one lady who was VERY supportive at the meeting we had the day before. Suddenly, this morning, she chucked an indirect subtle insult to how she sees our org as a monopolizing entity over the other orgs. There are a lot of things I could blog about to justify that we are not monopolizing per se, but I rather respect the privacy. However, the fact that she has changed her point of view in 24 hours was just amazing. She knew of this since the meeting the day before but somehow, she changed her view. I do respect her view but at the same time I wish this subtlety was handled more ethically given I’m just someone working under the org to get things done and not to voice out opinions.
The rest of the afternoon was spent with me calling the local NGO’s. Maltesers sent out an email, which was very simply written. It has a main question asking ‘yes or no’ for confirmation of their decision, followed by three simple questions: one asking for existence of a document, one asking the locations and the last asking the amount of implementation to be carried out. I received four emails from the local NGO’s with only a ‘yes’ followed by a hearty thank you which ended up being two paragraphs.
I couldn’t stand this knowing unless they provided with the three questions answered, they would not get what they’re going for. So, I called them up and was surprised when they asked me to explain the email sent to them. So, I ended up explaining them word by word and ironically, I also understood a whole deal lot of what I was working for. Then, it got a bit worse when they told me they didn’t know how to answer. So, for four NGO’s, I ended up asking them to answer the questions in Burmese, which in turned, I translated them to English and sent to their emails for them to send me back that email from them. From 10am until 6pm, the day was spent with me and the four local NGO’s.
The best part about this is how they were so grateful and thankful. I kinda felt like a bit of a hero to them and I guess that is one of the many things that’s kinda making things work in life. The language barriers and the disciplinary boundaries of the usage of expressions according to cultural related reasons, we find ourselves unable to grab a lot of things presented by a different language. At the end of the day, the objective is mutual and the concept is always there, agreed and appreciated but just not notified..
Working at the current job, I guess it’s important to be pretty much open to anything that can happen around you. It seems like every angle I look from seems to have a backlash effect of yet other angles any occurrence can be seen from. Today, I was encountered with the language barrier between the local and international staffs.
So our org is going for something which would look attractive with some more other orgs working with us. As I was trying to push these people to reply to my emails by the end of day, I encountered one lady who was VERY supportive at the meeting we had the day before. Suddenly, this morning, she chucked an indirect subtle insult to how she sees our org as a monopolizing entity over the other orgs. There are a lot of things I could blog about to justify that we are not monopolizing per se, but I rather respect the privacy. However, the fact that she has changed her point of view in 24 hours was just amazing. She knew of this since the meeting the day before but somehow, she changed her view. I do respect her view but at the same time I wish this subtlety was handled more ethically given I’m just someone working under the org to get things done and not to voice out opinions.
The rest of the afternoon was spent with me calling the local NGO’s. Maltesers sent out an email, which was very simply written. It has a main question asking ‘yes or no’ for confirmation of their decision, followed by three simple questions: one asking for existence of a document, one asking the locations and the last asking the amount of implementation to be carried out. I received four emails from the local NGO’s with only a ‘yes’ followed by a hearty thank you which ended up being two paragraphs.
I couldn’t stand this knowing unless they provided with the three questions answered, they would not get what they’re going for. So, I called them up and was surprised when they asked me to explain the email sent to them. So, I ended up explaining them word by word and ironically, I also understood a whole deal lot of what I was working for. Then, it got a bit worse when they told me they didn’t know how to answer. So, for four NGO’s, I ended up asking them to answer the questions in Burmese, which in turned, I translated them to English and sent to their emails for them to send me back that email from them. From 10am until 6pm, the day was spent with me and the four local NGO’s.
The best part about this is how they were so grateful and thankful. I kinda felt like a bit of a hero to them and I guess that is one of the many things that’s kinda making things work in life. The language barriers and the disciplinary boundaries of the usage of expressions according to cultural related reasons, we find ourselves unable to grab a lot of things presented by a different language. At the end of the day, the objective is mutual and the concept is always there, agreed and appreciated but just not notified..
Listening to: Shirley Bassey – Where do I begin (remix)
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