[辦公室英文] 如何優雅地對老闆說：會議前請你出現握握手就好，不用出席會議

我約了廠商來公司討論事情，想要讓主管知道一下，也同時讓廠商知道你們有被主管重視。但是因為是討論事情，有太多細節，主管不是也不必要參與前端的討論狀態，最後來收尾知道結論跟產出即可。

於是我很優雅(ㄐㄧ\ ㄑㄧㄠ\/)地跟主管說，某某團隊某日要來開會，我們要討論某某事項，我想要你參與，但是因為還是前端討論會，這可能會浪費你的時間，你可不可以在會議前開場，並跟對方施加一點壓力。

XXX is coming to the office on Wednesday, we are going to discuss xxxx. It will be good if you can join us, however, it's probably not the best way to spend your time, cos it's the first meeting. But can you come and say hi to them? also put some pressure in them cos we do need to speed up.

我主管聽完之後，也很會挖苦我跟他自己。

回說：為什麼聽你說起來就是比別人還不粗魯rude，都只是要說：主管你沒什麼貢獻度，唯一的貢獻就是出席露個臉握握手😓😓👏👏

因為我們已共識多年，我懂他這個人直接地玩笑程度🤣🤣
有時候主管分身乏術，有會議想參加又時間卡住，這時候我就會觀察狀況跟他說:
We can take care the meeting, and we will update you afterwards.

意思是請他放心，減少他的壓力跟疑慮

但他真的真的覺得這會議很重要的話，還是會半途插進來參加一下

如果說社會歷練是什麼，有時候可以說是這種厚臉皮的婉轉說話術吧（永遠博大精深學不完）😝😝😝

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#好文回顧新增版

我的書【大英國小職員職場奮鬥記：拒絕壓榨!大膽出走海外就業去】
博客來購書網址：https://goo.gl/V5Vm7y
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香港：三聯、中華、商務書局
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[辦公室英文] 如何優雅地對老闆說：會議前請你出現握握手就好，不用出席會議

我約了廠商來公司討論事情，想要讓主管知道一下，也同時讓廠商知道你們有被主管重視。但是因為是討論事情，有太多細節，主管不是也不必要參與前端的討論狀態，最後來收尾知道結論跟產出即可。

於是我很優雅(ㄐㄧ\\ ㄑㄧㄠ\\/)地跟主管說，某某團隊某日要來開會，我們要討論某某事項，我想要你參與，但是因為還是前端討論會，這可能會浪費你的時間，你可不可以在會議前開場，並跟對方施加一點壓力。

XXX is coming to the office on Wednesday, we are going to discuss xxxx. It will be good if you can join us, however, it's probably not the best way to spend your time, cos it's the first meeting. But can you come and say hi to them? also put some pressure in them cos we do need to speed up.

我主管聽完之後，也很會挖苦我跟他自己。

回說：為什麼聽你說起來就是比別人還不粗魯rude，都只是要說：主管你沒什麼貢獻度，唯一的貢獻就是出席露個臉握握手😓😓👏👏

因為我們已共識多年，我懂他這個人直接地玩笑程度🤣🤣
有時候主管分身乏術，有會議想參加又時間卡住，這時候我就會觀察狀況跟他說:
We can take care the meeting, and we will update you afterwards.

意思是請他放心，減少他的壓力跟疑慮

但他真的真的覺得這會議很重要的話，還是會半途插進來參加一下

如果說社會歷練是什麼，有時候可以說是這種厚臉皮的婉轉說話術吧（永遠博大精深學不完）😝😝😝

照片是倫敦Google國王十字辦公室

#好文回顧新增版

我的書【大英國小職員職場奮鬥記：拒絕壓榨!大膽出走海外就業去】
博客來購書網址：https://goo.gl/V5Vm7y
誠品購書網址：https://goo.gl/fEFNDP
樂天電子書：https://goo.gl/KStfuT
香港：三聯、中華、商務書局
英國郵寄購書請私訊

柏柏爾人與撒哈拉 Berbers and the Sahara
(This post is bilingual. Please scroll to the bottom for English version.)

（昨天在沙漠裡過夜無法發文，今天加倍奉還文章較長敬請見諒。 Wasn't able to post in the desert last night. This one is therefore longer -- please bear with the lengthiness :D）

1. 柏柏爾人

撒哈拉行程第二天一早，帶我們參觀柏柏爾村莊的當地響導請我們一行人站在田埂上，和我們分享著他們族群的生活。

「我們每個人看起來都一樣，只有帽子的顏色不一樣。阿拉伯人、柏柏爾人、猶太人……住在一起都沒有問題。因為我們所有人都有同樣的爸爸和媽媽。」

說到這裡他停頓了幾秒看我們的反應。歐洲人的眼神看起來是領會到什麼了，其他人則有點茫然。

「亞當和夏娃。」他補上了這句。令我印象深刻的是他並沒有用英文裡Adam和Eve的發音，反而相當接近中文翻譯的「亞當」和「夏娃」兩個字。

嚮導帶著我們穿過田埂和水圳，告訴我們不同作物的季節和用途、哪個是橄欖樹哪個是杏仁樹、當地人如何只交換不交易等等。接著來到一個土造的傳統建築裡，在裡面向我們介紹他們手工地毯的文化，向我們解釋流程及困難之處，也告訴我們這些地毯都是沒有設計圖的，樣式全靠家族中的婦女傳承各家的專屬樣式。不出所料，下一步就是鼓勵我們買東西，還說他們現在提供DHL送貨到府。雖然是推銷，看在他那麼誠懇的份上我們也沒什麼抱怨（雖然也沒有人買啦）。

最後我們走過河上的木板橋，河邊正好有幾個婦女在洗衣，嚮導就順道提起：「柏柏爾人的女性力氣都很大，因此有時候男人蠻辛苦的……。」我馬上察覺到他在開玩笑，於是便反問他：「所以請問您有這樣的困擾嗎？XD」

他笑了笑之後說：「我太太嘛，生氣的時候真的很……（做出頭腦爆炸的手勢）；不過還好，他通常燒的都是綠色的火，不是紅色的火，兩天之後整個人又開開心心的了。」說完他馬上問我：「所以你的太太如何？」接下來過了一秒鐘，我還來不及接話，他隨即補上：「你沒有太太。來，下一位！」（我心想，哇，你這嚮導婊人的功力果然還是魔高一丈呀！XD）

2. 撒哈拉

前段故事埋了個跟撒哈拉有關的哏，不知道各位有發現嗎？

沒錯，就是村裡的作物「橄欖樹」，同時也是三毛作詞、李泰祥作曲、齊豫原唱的歌曲名，連同三毛女士的作品，是使許多華人嚮往撒哈拉的啟蒙作品，按我同團的兩個中國女生也提到這件事（他們受友人之託要把撒哈拉的沙帶回去）。「不要問我從哪裡來，我的故鄉在遠方」的歌詞，配上李大師刻意營造不規則感的旋律，也曾經讓我對於這首歌的意境嚮往；當天下午四點，我們終於一睹撒哈拉的廬山真面目。車子在基地營把我們放下，接下來得騎一個半小時的駱駝到達沙漠中的營地，在那邊吃飯過夜之後隔天返回。

那晚，我們這些觀光客們圍在營火旁邊，當地嚮導們拿出了各種大大小小的鼓，叫我們自己先玩玩。我對於一開始大家不夠high這件事看不過去，於是就自己開始憑感覺亂敲亂唱，用固定但帶一點變化的鼓點配上五聲音階的即興旋律，後來當地嚮導竟然請我和他們一起演奏、吟唱他們的傳統音樂（我只好繼續用萬用和弦與結奏矇混過去，哈哈）。最後所有人都手舞足蹈完，大家也終於放開了，在星空下圍著逐漸黯淡的營火聊著彼此的故事。

隔天早上天還未亮就得拔營起行，原本應該是「夜色茫茫、星月無光」的（欸這是不是有幫某人助選嫌疑啊？XD），結果碰上大滿月，沙丘的輪廓一清二楚，連我們騎在駱駝上的影子都清晰可見，沉睡在黝黑中的沙漠其實很美，只不過氣溫是要命的冷，冷到讓人對撒哈拉完全失去興趣，只想回基地營吃熱騰騰的早餐；一直到接近基地營時，嚮導帶我們來到一座沙丘頂端看日出。這時天色已經不是魚肚白，沙丘也從全黑慢慢被調成土灰色；突然，太陽從地平線上出來了！

只見眼前無數的沙丘從頂部開始被一一打亮，接著整片沙漠像是前晚點燃木炭一般，從灰暗中緩緩轉成溫潤的黃褐色，不見烈焰飛騰，卻像是被陽光烘烤到燒了起來一樣。事後回想此情此景，我突然理解某首台灣國語流行歌詞表達的意境了：

「我的熱情（啊！），好像一盆火，燃燒了著整個沙漠。」

（結果這篇文章莫名其妙的用了一大堆國語歌曲哏，不知道自己在寫什麼，大概是腦袋被撒哈拉的太陽給燒壞了，哈哈。）

1. The Berbers

"We are all the same. Only our hats are different. Berbers, Arabs, Jews... we have no problem living together, because we all have the same father and mother..."

It was the second day of the Sahara tour, and this was said by our Berber guide. The Europeans in our group seemed to get something, while the other remained intact. Then the guide continued: "Adam and Eve." (Interestingly, his pronunciation of the names were very different from English, which I guess were probably Arabic or Hebrew.)

The guide led us through the fields into his village, showed us olive trees and almond trees, and told us how they exchange instead of purchase them. Afterwards we were led into a mud-made residence, where he introduced how traditional carpets are made, and how women passed down family-specific patterns down without any draft. At the end, unsurprisingly, he encouraged us to buy. While one of us bought anything, everyone seemed to be comfortable with that, as he had been passionately showing us his culture.

Finally, we crossed a river while some women were washing clothes. He said, "the Berber women have a lot of strength, and sometimes it can be hard..." Understanding his humor, I jokingly asked, "so, do you have this problem?" He laughed, "Well, when my wife is angry she is... (showing head explosion with gestures); but she usually has green fire, not red fire. After two days she is happy again..." Then he turned to me, "how is your wife?" Not waiting for me to respond, he contiuned, "you don't have a wife. (Indifferent and turning to the next guy,) so how is your wife? ..."

(I have to say he is indeed a very professional tour guide, who even knows how to play back on visitors' jokes.)

2. The Sahara

Many Mandarin speakers became interested in the Sahara because of the literature and a pop song "Olive Tree" of San-Mao, a Taiwanese writer who moved to the the Sahara with her husband in 1970s. The irregular, mysterious melody of the song also helped build my impression about the Sahara. Decades later, I finally arrived at the desert's margin around 4pm. Our trip began at the base camp, and we spent the night in the dessert after 1.5 hours of camel ride.

That night, we gathered around a campfire, and the local guides gave us some traditional drums to play. As an icebreaker, I started making regular beats with some random 5-node scale singing. The local guides were excited and invited me to join their playing and singing. Finally, after some singing and dancing, the group got relaxed, and people exchanged their stories around the dimming campfire.

The next morning, we headed back in the darkness -- well, not completely. It was close to the full moon, and the ride therefore came with very pleasant and tranquil desert view. However, feeling frozen in the temperature, all we wanted was to escape from the desert. Finally, we were led to the top of a sand dune to watch the sunrise. At then, the desert already turned from black to brown-gray. All of a sudden, the sun came up from the horizon. Gradually, the entire desert was "toasted" like charcoal, injected with very warm and amicable soil yellow color. The desert was ignited!

I can't think of any better way to end our time in the Sahara.

Hello大家好, 我是Ashley。
上一集, 我提及過在這間餐廳吃過一些韓國地道美食

我覺得這間餐廳的芝士拉麵和紫菜包飯是挺好吃的
其實吃了這間正餐後已覺得很飽了, 但也沒辦法, 我實在受不了外面的誘惑,
所以我便繼續逛街, 繼續吃貨了。

首先在外先喝過米汁, 這杯米汁其實還可以吧, 不過比較甜了點兒。

然後逛著逛著就發現: 欸, 這個娃娃挺可愛呀! 好像我一個朋友耶!
除了給它吸引之外, 其實它的包裝盒子也挺美的。
看真點兒, 這個檔攤是售賣草莓糯米糕, 有點像之前我在日本吃過的莓大褔似的。
所以最後我也忍不住買了一個來試試看, 因為肚子再沒有餘地把一盒草莓糕買回酒店吃了。

之後我們逛著逛著,又看見另有一個是賣鍋貼。
其實之前在餐廳已吃過水餃了, 不過這麼大的鍋貼是挺吸引,所以最後也買了一盒試試看。
最後我們買了這杯鳳梨作飯後果幫助消化
之後便回酒店休息了
第二天我們在這間明洞酒店check-out了
不過check-out之前都可以先吃早餐
這間酒店我覺得最吸引的就是這個pantry了
它麻雀雖小, 但五臟俱全
我就是吃這些早餐了
其實我覺得這個草莓醬挺好吃的
應該在韓國才能找到的

而且還有一碗可可脆
其實這個可可脆在香港都可以吃, 只是不知道為什麼在當時的氣氛、環境之下
覺得這個可可脆特別好吃
可能是因為我一面吃早餐, 一面欣賞街景及聽著古典音樂,
這個氛圍令我覺得這個早餐是不錯的
這次旅行, 我在明洞只逗留一天, 之後我們就到別的地方去了
如果想知道我之後到哪裡去的話, 就要反留意下一集「首爾清州遊」了
好, 我們下次見!
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Hello, This is Ashley
At the previous episode, I had my dinner in this restaurant
The cheese noodle & mixed kimbap tasted good.
I was so full after dinner, but I still wanna to try those street food.
So let’s have a look!
First, I tried this rice juice. It taste good, and it’s just so sweet.
While having a walk, I found that lovely doll. It’s so cute, looks like a friend of mine!
the outer-package is so attractive too
Actually, this booth sold the strawberry sticky rice cake. It was similar to the strawberry daifuku I ate in Japan.
So I can’t help buying 1 cake to try. I was really too full and I cannot buy 1 package anymore even though those packages look beautiful.
Walking around, I saw some fried dumpling.

I ate dumplings in restaurant already. But these fried dumpling seems so big. So finally we bought 1 package.
Finally, we brough this pineapple. It’s good for digestion.
And we back to hotel.
next day, before we check out this hotel, we had the breakfast.
I like this pantry, the focus of this hotel.
it’s tiny in size, buy complete in detail
this is my breakfast
this strawberry jam is so yummy
there also is a koko krunch
其實這個可可脆在香港都可以吃, 只是不知道為什麼在當時的氣氛、環境之下
It has been in HK as well. But it seems to be better .
Maybe because I was facing the street view and listening to the classical music
, while having the breakfast.
That’s what I enjoy under such circumstance.
we just spent 1 day in Myeong Dong, then we visited other places.
if you want to know where we went afterwards, kindly keep your eyes on the following epsiodes of Seoul-Cheongju travel.
See you next time!
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♥人氣影片
1) 北村八景 + 韓藝Café 嘉會翰耕軒 [慳遊首爾]
https://youtu.be/G9zGrudiqTU

2) 首爾明洞美食 - 紫菜包飯天國 김밥천국 Myeongdong food - Kimbap Cheonkuk // 慳遊首爾
https://youtu.be/6nfc3etVagU
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