あっという間に Ah! toiumani Before one knows it....

It's been 6 months since I transferred to this office.
I will return to the place where I have worked before in August, which is next week.
Sounds confusing? It's just a 6 months routine change from one office to the other.
Before I realised it, another year of my life has slipped away....

They say time flies when you are enjoying...
Yes, I have had some good moments,
making fun of the idiosyncrasies of my fellow workers,
thinking men had dressed up as women, when they were only running, 'josou'
but the classic was going for my health check up.

At the 'eye-sight booth', the nurse asked me where was the number 8.
"..... ? ....."
"er... It's beside number 7?" unsure of my answer.
Only after 10 minutes of confusion did I realised she was talking about the tiny circle with an opening under the digit. "Great, now I know!"
"So are you asking about the circle above or below digit 8?"
I can see them clearly! Just tell me which god damn circle are you talking about?
"Er... So is it above or below?" she asked me....
Here we go again.....

I don't think my language proficiency is that bad...
Rather, it's a matter of background knowledge and context.
In my country, you are asked to read out what you can see, be it numbers or alphabets.
Here you are excepted to tell them which direction the opening of the circle faces.
Well I didn't know and she didn't know
and both of us expected each other to know,
wondering if the other party is trying to be funny or just plain stupid.
The other people around us probably had question marks circling around their head
or were trying to contain their laughter.....

wow.... I seemed to have diverted way off my title.
But that's how life is I guess,
time flies and I realised I am now doing something different from what I started out to do.

Before I know it, it's time to knock off. 5pm.