Continuing from Part 1.
Every morning I usually woke up at 5:50 a.m.
After letting some sun light into the room, I would rush to the bathroom to take my daily morning shower.
Scrubby me here and there.
After some simple breakfast, I would put on my suit with matching neckties and long sleeved shirts, and get ready to get out of the apartment at exactly 6:50 a.m.; so that I could join my co-workers to go to work together.
Yes, I went to work with my co-workers every morning! What team spirit eh?
Anyways, our means of transportation to go to work is the famous Japanese densha system. Famous for what?
Morning rush hours and suicides of course!
*Densha (電車) means (public) train.
In all seriousness though, work-commuting by train in big Japanese cities (in my situation, Yokohama) is pure pain, and such an energy drowning experience.
There was just too many people during the morning rush hours, and not enough trains to accommodate them; causing extreme over-crowding especially from 7:30am to 9:00am.
In Malaysia, if a train was crowded with people, you would simply wait for the next train and board the less crowded one.
In Japan, even if you wait for the next train, the situation would be the same; the next train is also going to be extremely over-crowded, and you don’t want to be late to work, so you just board the train, NO MATTER how crowded it is.
Some of you might think, well a crowded train might not be so bad?
I want you to watch the video below, and you’d understand why I hate the morning rush hours that I have to endure each day going to work.
Every morning I usually woke up at 5:50 a.m.
After letting some sun light into the room, I would rush to the bathroom to take my daily morning shower.
Scrubby me here and there.
After some simple breakfast, I would put on my suit with matching neckties and long sleeved shirts, and get ready to get out of the apartment at exactly 6:50 a.m.; so that I could join my co-workers to go to work together.
Yes, I went to work with my co-workers every morning! What team spirit eh?
Anyways, our means of transportation to go to work is the famous Japanese densha system. Famous for what?
Morning rush hours and suicides of course!
*Densha (電車) means (public) train.
In all seriousness though, work-commuting by train in big Japanese cities (in my situation, Yokohama) is pure pain, and such an energy drowning experience.
There was just too many people during the morning rush hours, and not enough trains to accommodate them; causing extreme over-crowding especially from 7:30am to 9:00am.
In Malaysia, if a train was crowded with people, you would simply wait for the next train and board the less crowded one.
In Japan, even if you wait for the next train, the situation would be the same; the next train is also going to be extremely over-crowded, and you don’t want to be late to work, so you just board the train, NO MATTER how crowded it is.
Some of you might think, well a crowded train might not be so bad?
I want you to watch the video below, and you’d understand why I hate the morning rush hours that I have to endure each day going to work.
Basically this is the kind of trains that I have to board every morning, minus 10 people, maybe.
I got squished, pushed, sandwiched, pressed, feet stomped on and some more.
What makes it worse is that the majority of the Japanese salaryman here don’t believe in morning showers. Damn some of them do stink!
And I have to endure all if this for an hour every morning; what a great way to start work!
It does not happen very often, but sometimes there are people who choose to use the train, not to go to work, but to kill themselves; and we morning train commuters hate them to the bones!
Not only they delayed and decrease the available train, they also made such a mess on the platform. The number of passengers would drastically increase two, three folds when this happens, and it caused such human-traffic congestion inside the station.
So please to those who wants to kill themselves, please do it without causing other people trouble, especially when we all are rushing to go to work!
Kill yourselves in a hole that you dug by yourself in the comfort of your own lawn, please! O wait a minute, not many people in Japan has lawns!
Anyways, with so much human density in such a small space, it was inevitable that this would happen: CHIKAN.
*chikan (痴漢) means molestation, in this context, molesting female commuters in the densha. Normally this would consist of an old Japanese salaryman, rubbing his penis against the lady in front of him, or using his hands to grab and have a ‘feel’ on any available female’s ass inside the crowded train.
I pity the Japanese girls that they’re living in a land full of perverts.
I’ve seen it with my own eyes, and in such crowded situation, it would be hard to know whose hand it is that was grabbing that OL’s ass.
*OL = short for ‘office lady’.
What I don’t understand is that most of the victims stayed silent and still, their faces facing down, like nothing wrong happened. Maybe they’re just too ashamed to make a scene and report it to the police.
Maybe they thought, if I just endure this, I might get to work on time!
But because such chikan perverts exists, I’m always cautious in making sure that I won’t be mistakenly accused of doing such acts.
Now, that’s another whole story…
Enough with train suicides and train molesters… all of this makes me dull.
Anyways, I should be glad that starting from tomorrow, I won’t be using the train anymore because I got sent to further my training in Sagamihara, which is just a 20 minutes walk from my apartment!
Although this only lasts for 3 weeks, I’m looking forward to a new scenery; no more crowdedness, no more suicidal nuisances, no more salaryman perverts grabbing high school girl’s asses.
Three weeks of awesomeness!
[note: the extreme 'crowdiness' situation only applies during morning rush hours. using the train to get home from work in the evening is often quite relaxed; sometimes i could even sit down on the seats!]
I got squished, pushed, sandwiched, pressed, feet stomped on and some more.
What makes it worse is that the majority of the Japanese salaryman here don’t believe in morning showers. Damn some of them do stink!
And I have to endure all if this for an hour every morning; what a great way to start work!
It does not happen very often, but sometimes there are people who choose to use the train, not to go to work, but to kill themselves; and we morning train commuters hate them to the bones!
Not only they delayed and decrease the available train, they also made such a mess on the platform. The number of passengers would drastically increase two, three folds when this happens, and it caused such human-traffic congestion inside the station.
So please to those who wants to kill themselves, please do it without causing other people trouble, especially when we all are rushing to go to work!
Kill yourselves in a hole that you dug by yourself in the comfort of your own lawn, please! O wait a minute, not many people in Japan has lawns!
Anyways, with so much human density in such a small space, it was inevitable that this would happen: CHIKAN.
*chikan (痴漢) means molestation, in this context, molesting female commuters in the densha. Normally this would consist of an old Japanese salaryman, rubbing his penis against the lady in front of him, or using his hands to grab and have a ‘feel’ on any available female’s ass inside the crowded train.
I pity the Japanese girls that they’re living in a land full of perverts.
I’ve seen it with my own eyes, and in such crowded situation, it would be hard to know whose hand it is that was grabbing that OL’s ass.
*OL = short for ‘office lady’.
What I don’t understand is that most of the victims stayed silent and still, their faces facing down, like nothing wrong happened. Maybe they’re just too ashamed to make a scene and report it to the police.
Maybe they thought, if I just endure this, I might get to work on time!
But because such chikan perverts exists, I’m always cautious in making sure that I won’t be mistakenly accused of doing such acts.
Now, that’s another whole story…
Enough with train suicides and train molesters… all of this makes me dull.
Anyways, I should be glad that starting from tomorrow, I won’t be using the train anymore because I got sent to further my training in Sagamihara, which is just a 20 minutes walk from my apartment!
Although this only lasts for 3 weeks, I’m looking forward to a new scenery; no more crowdedness, no more suicidal nuisances, no more salaryman perverts grabbing high school girl’s asses.
Three weeks of awesomeness!
[note: the extreme 'crowdiness' situation only applies during morning rush hours. using the train to get home from work in the evening is often quite relaxed; sometimes i could even sit down on the seats!]
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aku belajar sampai dapat degree dalam kejuruteraan mekanikal kat universiti nasional jepun, dan lepas graduate, pihak kerajaan berhak memanggil aku untuk bekerja dengan mana2 badan kerajaan yg memerlukan. jika aku tidak berjaya untuk menghabiskan pengajian dalam masa yg ditetapkan @ menolak tawaran pekerjaan daripada kerajaan selepas graduate, aku bole dikenakan saman dan perlu membayar balik duit ganti rugi (duit biasiswa) kepada pihak JPA.
seterusnya, selepas cukup setahun daripada tarikh aku graduate secara rasmi, tetapi pihak JPA masih belum memanggil aku untuk berkhidmat dengan mana2 badan kerajaan, maka aku bebas daripada kontrak dengan JPA tersebut.
aku tak perlu kerja dengan kerajaan dan aku tak perlu bayar apa2 pun jika perkara diatas berlaku.
sebelum aku masuk company aku skang, aku dikehendaki oleh pihak embassy untuk menghantar satu surat ajaib.
surat perlepasan kontrak namanya.
kuasa surat tersebut adalah untuk memendekkan masa menunggu untuk ditawarkan untuk bekerja dengan kerajaan, daripada 1 tahun kepada 0 hari.
0 minit, 0 saat.
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jadi legally, aku tak perlu punbalik untuk bekerja di malaysia.
tapi aku tetap rasa yang aku perlu berkhidmat untuk negara.
kalau tidak, buat apa kerajaan habiskan setengah juta; cuma untuk lahirkan seorang jurutera yang akhirnya bekerja dengan syarikat bukan kerajaan?
bukan kah pelik lagi aneh sekali program tajaan luar negara yang aku sertai nih?
pelik, memang pelik.
aneh, memang aneh; kalau kita tidak tahu objective utama buah fikiran tun mahathir nih.
anda pernah dengar pasal dasar pandang ke timur tak?
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seperti ramai muda mudi malaysia zaman sekarang, tun mahathir pun suka sangat2 dengan jepun dan rakyat2 nya.
muda mudi suka anime dan manga, tun mahathir suka dengan japanese work ethics.
muda mudi suka j-pop dan j-dorama, tun mahathir suka dengan japanese customer service.
muda mudi suka mihiro, tsubomi, maria ozawa, yoshizawa akiho, yui komine, sakurako, riko tachibana, takako kitahara, tina yuzuki, hiyori shiraishi, nao yoshizaki, ran monbu, erica kurisu, kaede matsushima, serina hayakawa, yuka ozawa, rio hamazaki, sakura sakurada, jun seto, kazama yumi, ayukawa nao, asami yuma, hatsune minori, natsume nana, mizaki mao, nakano mina, imano yume... (kalo korang tahu lebih daripada 5 nama di sini, maka korang memang kena kurang kan tengok japanese AV... seriously dude ;p)
tun mahathir suka japanese punctuality, precision and passion for detail.
tun mahathir suka + kagum sesangat dengan orang jepun nih, sampai dia mahu makin ramai orang malaysia yang jadi macam orang jepun.
cara untuk menjadikan impian tun mahathir itu satu kejayaan adalah dengan menghantar student2 malaysia untuk belajar di universiti2 di jepun, dengan harapan bila mereka pulang nanti, akan terbentuk satu komuniti malaysian yang mempunyai ciri2 kejepunan, dan komuniti ini diharap dapat mempengaruhi rakyat lain untuk mencontohi sifat2 kejepunan yang tun mahathir suka sangat tu.
kesimpulan nya, tun mahathir mahu supaya rakyat malaysia pon mampu bertukar jadi ultraman.
memang cantik sekali rancangan itu.
tapi seperti mana2 rancangan manusia, ianya tidak sempurna.
[note: aku dapat explanation nih daripada bekas setiausaha peribadi tun mahathir ketika kami tengah minum kopi kat doutour selepas menunaikan solat jumaat di sebuah surau dekat dengan stesen shin-okubo. of course la aku tambah perisa sket...]
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rancangan ini kurang sempurna kerana japanese work ethics tidak di ajar di universiti2 nasional jepun, tetapi hanya bole dipelajari apabila seseorang itu bekerja dengan syarikat jepun di negara jepun.
so kawan2 sekalian.
macam ini lah cara nya aku berfikir.
macam mana nak berkhidmat untuk negara.
adalah dengan menimba ilmu dan pengalaman bekerja dengan orang jepun, dalam syarikat jepun kat jepun.
sebab tu lah aku sengaja pilih syarikat yang tidak ada seorang pun pekerja malaysia.
aku masuk sorang2, dan hopefully aku bole buat kawan baru dan dapat memahami culture jepun sepenuhnya.
walaupon memang aku tidak nafikan, yang bekerja kat sini bukan lah mudah, tetapi aku kuatkan juga semangat.
bila aku dah rasa macam dah ada pengalaman, baru aku rasa aku boleh balik, dan tolong jump start project2 kat malaysia pula.
aku harap aku dapat ilmu dan pengalaman yang membolehkan aku mempengaruhi orang malaysia jadi ultramen, satria baja hitam, flashman, 5 ranger etc.
aku harap aku dapat menjadi 'jambatan' yang menghubungi malaysia dan jepun.
alamak, cakap besar plak aku nih.
tapi, itu lah motivasi aku buat masa nih.
motivasi ku adalah untuk memberi sumbangan kepada negara.
setengah juta punya budi, kena balas jugak walaupon orang tak minta.
[nota aneh: aku tak pernah lak dengar mana2 senior aku yang end up kerja dengan kerajaan. tidak ada seorang pon. majoriti yang kerja kat malaysia pon, masuk syarikat jepun juga. perkara aneh ini sebenarnya tidak lah aneh sangat. kerajaan nak pakai ke jurutera yang reti cakap bahasa jepun?]