Feeling Like Strangling Someone

Last Monday in Singapore: I attended a few meetings as interpreter. In one of them, I was looking at a material written in English, projected onto the screen of the room. I really didn’t understand much of it because it was so badly written. Why can anybody be happy writing and reading something like this? The author is someone I’ve been working with since February 2017 and he is a division manager. I felt disappointed.

Last Tuesday in Singapore: I almost felt like strangling someone. She, manager of another division, simply did not stop talking and went on almost two hours without a break. (And it was not the first time I felt this way with the person.) How can anybody expect me to be able to follow someone like her. (She is a very nice person, though.) And the PPT material she had prepared was incomprehensible to me in many places.

It does seem to me the mistrust that has been shown by their UK sister company may be because of bad writing by these people in managerial positions in Singapore and Malaysia (and possibly Japan too). How are they communicating with each other, I wonder?

With no respect to language, they make no effort to make their writings grammatically correct and succinct. They do not have to be beautiful.

 

A few morning ago, my mother appeared in a dream. It was a nightmare.

Sometimes, the power button of this Acer PC, bought only a year and five months ago, does not work…