Messing Around In London

Few years ago, there was one time when Zico, Ferron and I just left Tukdin (a Malaysian restaurant in London) and had a walk around London for sightviewing. We were all from different nationalities and knew quite a few simple phrases of other languages.

When we were casually strolling along a street, there were only us and a man walking in front of us. Being the usual us, we spoke and messed around with each other using multiple languages at a time. Most of the time, the languages we used were English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Malay, Korean, Japanese, Spanish.

We were talking quite loud at that time. I remember us saying "sumimasen". To our surprise, the man who walked in front of us suddenly turned around facing us, with a face saying, "yes?".

It turned out the man was a Japanese guy! He heard us clearly saying "sumimasen" and thought that we were actually trying to talk to him!

We were all very surprised and we said sorry multiple times to the man for the misunderstanding. The man was bewildered like hell. 😂

What a coincidence to have spoken in Japanese while messing around with your friends, just to have a random Japanese man hearing and understanding us, in a city of London. 🤣

You kind of need to bear in mind that London is full of people from different nationalities. 😅

Oh, for those who do not know, "sumimasen" means "excuse me" or "sorry". Kind of when you wanted to ask a passerby for a question etc which.....kind of what we might have sounded like to him. 🤣

Haha good old days. Memories like this make me missing London a lot.