A Dialogue With K

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Ow July thee baycome? Crease?

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Room Service
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Imagine yourself on the phone. You checked-in the hotel in another country and no one speaks better English. You dialed Room Service and the conversation starts like this…

Room Service: “Morny, rune sore-brees” (Morning, room service).
You:Oh sorry, I thought I dialed room service.”
RS: “Rye. Rune sore-brees. Morny. Jewish to odor sunteen?” (Right. Room Service. Do you wish to order something?)
You: “Yes, I want to order something. This is room thirteen-oh-five. I want…”
RS: “Okay, torino-fie. Yes plea?” (Ok, 1305. Yes, please?)
You: “I’d like some bacon and eggs…”
RS: “Ow July then”? (Oh, do you like them?)
You: “What?”
RS: “Aches. July then? Pry, boy, pooch…?” (Alright, how do you like them? Fry, boiled, —..?)
You: “Oh, eggs! How do I like them? Sorry. Scrambled, please.”
RS: “Ow July thee baycome? Crease?” (Oh do you like bacon and crisp?)
You: “Crisp will be fine.”
RS: “Okay. An Santos”? (Ok, and toast?).
You: “Uh… I don’t know… I don’t think so.”
RS: “No? Judo one toes?” (No? Do you want toast?)
You: “Look, I really feel bad about this, but I just don’t know what judo-one-toes means. I’m sorry….”
RS: “Toes! Toes! Why Jew Don Juan toes? Oh bow eenlish mopping we bother?” (Toast! Toast! Why Jew Don Juan toes? How about english muffin?)
You: “English muffin! I’ve got it. Toast! You were saying toast! Fine. An English muffin will be fine.”
RS: “We bother”? (With butter?)
You:No. Just put the ‘bother’ on the side.”
RS: “Wad?” (What?)
You: “I’m sorry. I mean butter. Butter on the side.”
RS: “Copy”? (Coffee?)
You: “I feel terrible about this but…”
RS: “Copy, copy, tea, mill…..” (Coffee, coffee, tea, milk…)
You:Coffee!! Yes, coffee please. And that’s all”.
RS: (Repeating the order) “One minnie. Ass rune torino-fie, strangle-aches, crease baycome, tossy eenlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy. Rye?”
You: “Whatever you say.”
RS: “Okay. Tenjeberrymud”.
You: “Oh for crying out loud”!
RS: “Wad?”

You hanged up the phone: KA-BLAG!

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20 Comments

  1. Wavatar pao on 17.11.2007 at 04:56 Post reply

    lol. i remember back in my call center days, i was temporarily assigned to the singapore tech support hotline of toshiba. it’s really a bit hard to understand what they’re saying. good thing they’re really very polite. :)

    1. Wavatar K on 17.11.2007 at 06:11 Post reply

      Wow a tech support - that sounds pretty challenging job albeit hard and needs a lot of patience by simply talking/explaining to costumers what’s this or that.

      I on the other hand, have difficulties to train someone who doesn’t speak much English. But well, sign-language is fun in a way, afterall.

  2. Wavatar sofie on 17.11.2007 at 05:16 Post reply

    Hahahahahahahaha… Oh my goodness K!

    This is really hilarious. If I was laughing like crazy with the last entry, I was laughing more this time, with sound effects pa. Sumakit ulo at panga ko sa katatawa a. Ay naku, pag ako talaga yan, sigurado talagang wala akong maiintindihan. Susme…

    Have a nice weekend!

    1. Wavatar K on 17.11.2007 at 06:20 Post reply

      Sofie, I’m sorry if it did make you laugh - how ironic if your butt prevented you to release the toxic gas out of your system? Remember, a hearty laughter can keep the heart attack away, innit? Hahaha.

  3. Wavatar kengkay on 17.11.2007 at 05:21 Post reply

    arrrgh. kaya nga yung tunay kong pangalan nag morph din nung asa bangkok ako e… kasi hindi nila masabi. kakatawa na nakakainis na nakakapikon na nakaka… harump :D

    1. Wavatar K on 17.11.2007 at 06:25 Post reply

      Kup Krun Kup? I don’t know if I pronounced it correctly.

      One time I had this conversation on the phone with a Sales Representative. she said, “Hello, I’d like to speak to Mr blank blank”. I replied, “yep it’s me, K, speaking”. Then she paused for a second, “No, it’s Mr…., are you”? I was like what the…. I said “its me”. And she went like, “your name is….” then I realized, I gave her my blog name ‘knoizki’ pala. Hahahaha.

  4. Wavatar thess on 17.11.2007 at 05:24 Post reply

    Ah i need to laugh, thanks for providing just that!

    email me your snail-mail addy, ja? and K, have a good weekend, take care ;)

    1. Wavatar K on 17.11.2007 at 06:30 Post reply

      Thess, take it easy - I know how you feel about your friend…. “life is sometimes not fair” some people normally would say. Remember what Grump once said, “life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you’re gonna get”. Think of salad days, ‘they were folly and fun - they were good, they were young.’

  5. Wavatar cheh on 17.11.2007 at 07:31 Post reply

    nyahahaha bizit ang kulet LOL!!!Maka pag Mac Do na lang kung ganyan kakulet kausap ko aga aga!:D

    cheh’s last blog post..Snowy Weekend

  6. Wavatar malen on 17.11.2007 at 07:53 Post reply

    achecheh!

    *nosebleed*

    malen’s last blog post..Project Lafftrip Laffapallooza

    1. Wavatar K on 18.11.2007 at 17:20 Post reply

      Cheh, actually it’s a good listening exercise.

      Malen, ;)

  7. Wavatar range on 17.11.2007 at 15:37 Post reply

    Sounds like something out of the British TV show Fonejacker!

    range’s last blog post..Strange African Fruit

    1. Wavatar K on 19.11.2007 at 01:10 Post reply

      Range, you mean prankcalls and voice disguises? I think I’m good at it.

  8. Wavatar duke on 18.11.2007 at 22:38 Post reply

    bwahahahahahaha! naloko ako don ah!

    duke’s last blog post..Doctor?s Visit and the Cab Journey

  9. Wavatar K on 18.11.2007 at 23:54 Post reply

    OMG Duke, I could almost hear you back here. The common things I do enjoy working with my fellow colleagues who doesn’t know much of English, is that I learn how to pick up words you don’t normally use, Gibberish.

  10. Wavatar dimaks on 19.11.2007 at 04:03 Post reply

    i can have a nosebleed with this.. lol i might as well start to speak with my native dialect then so we can get even.

  11. Wavatar cheh on 19.11.2007 at 14:57 Post reply

    Tagged kita K! Pag lab tinatag daw eh,hehe

    Kung may time lang po:)

    have a lably week ahead!

    cheh’s last blog post..Five Posts Link To Keywords Meme

  12. Wavatar Beng on 19.11.2007 at 20:15 Post reply

    ouch, this entry reminds me of our experience in france. we spent a two weeks vacation deep in the province.

    ang hirapppp ng sitwasyon na ganitong hindi kayo nagkakaintindihan.

    Beng’s last blog post..Hiatus Is Over

  13. Wavatar Ambo on 20.11.2007 at 13:26 Post reply

    When i was in Japan, naku ang hirap talaga. Konti lang ang marunong mag ingles kaya ikaw dapat mag adjust. Na culture shock nga ako duon hahaha. Your entry is really funny! lols

    Ambo’s last blog post..Pilipinas Kong Mahal

  14. Wavatar Marni on 20.11.2007 at 16:22 Post reply

    hahahaha! Must have given you a headache. If I talk to people like that all the time, ako yung mahahawa sa way of speaking nila. haha.

    Marni’s last blog post..Two Three’s In One

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