在敗犬和剩女等詞盛行之前,未婚的女子都怕被稱為老姑婆。日本人對她們有個乍聽好像好一點但實質也很可悲的稱呼--聖誕蛋糕。何解?因為聖誕蛋糕在25號前奇貨可居,25號以後不單無人問津,簡直被視為過了期,半賣半送也沒有人要!
而且相比起香港呀中國呀,日本的職場基本上未有想過要讓女性融入。好像想當然的他們認為女子就是應該讀完書要嫁人安份守己地做全職師奶,所以就算是工作也只是玩票性質吧。如是者男上司/同事也就從沒有想過女同事會擔當些什麼重要的工作伙伴,而實際上她們就算是上班基本上也只是被安排做做part time或者毫不重要的庶務部。又,看過一齣日劇,裏頭的女主角己經被形容為超級能幹幾乎其他男主角也要被比下去了,但她主要的工作竟然也只是take一下minutes,甚至只是沖一下茶...另一齣劇更稱那些考取更高職位的女人是性轉變做男人...如是者,日本己達所謂適婚年齡(聖誕蛋糕的比喻是指25歲,我猜現在門檻得調整一下吧?)但未結婚的女子應該會比其他地方的剩女更為著急,也解釋到當地由著急未婚女子衍生出來五花八門的相睇聯誼活動吧。有關於聯誼飯局,我就曾經近距離目擊(不是參與啦)一個了!
話說一次花太郎約了個大圍飯,一行10人到他相熟的樓上舖吃私房菜。題外話,有一次我在超市偶遇私房菜的大廚自己在選白蘿蔔--連食材也親自挑選,抵你收得貴!說回那晚私房菜吧。話說我們身旁正正就是一卓table for 8,即是4男對4女。八卦的我一眼便瞄到並立即向阿魚他們報告。一心來看熱鬧的我們認定日本人不太會英語,便有持無恐地在鄰座高談闊論他們的聯誼大會,又品評各人的表現芸芸。
席間,我們發現其中一個女生不斷參與身旁男女的對話,卻全不理會對座的男生,但那男生卻繼續努力地有一撘沒一撘地嘗試和她聊著。Given 日本人天生好禮貌,我們不禁想知道到底那個男的要有多醜又要有多古怪才會落得如此被冷然不理的下場呢?但我們的座位只看到男生的背影,就一個背脊也很難斷定他是否正常吧。不要緊,為了滿足人類最基本的求知欲,聰明的我們總有辦法的!
無錯咧!就是扮去洗手間然後回程時偷望,仲要係10個人輪住去添!係,條橋好假,好舊,我知,但係又work喎。咁其實佢即係點樣架呢?
經我們來自不同背景,不同喜惡,有女亦有男的10人會議,一致裁定--他的樣貌加上衣著絕對正常,是非常typical的日本仔模樣,看不出有什麼不妥之處。至於他的人是否古怪雖然單憑打扮也不是準確的推斷,但從我們不斷穿梭洗手間和飯桌其間也隱約聽到一些,乍聽那些話題也好像頗正常嘛,那到底是為什麼呢????
當我們正郁悶著想知又不得而知時,花太郎終於要出招了!!好一個天不怕地也不怕的花太郎,他二話不說,拿起自己的椅子就跑到相睇男女那邊大刺刺地坐了下來!!
一如你所料,那些男男女女都被他那特如其來的舉動和他那貌似黑道中人的打份嚇到講不出聲。就算心裡覺得非常古怪也只敢把口牢牢合上,深怕亂講話會招來殺身之禍。另一邊廂,我和阿魚他們則笑到下巴都甩!!
~~~~to be continued~~~~
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i really want to know what happen next...
thanks for reading ^^
well from wut i recall, our friend bugged them for another 10 mins or so, because the girl was too shy/black face to talk further so our friend just kept chatting with the guy who got ignored. and then eventually our friend left them alone and came back hehehe
but none of these "helped" the guy from not-being-ignored! :P
Hi there :o)
I´ve made some research and the next time a fleamarked will be held in Forum in CPH is from 01-04-2010 to 02-04-2010
http://www.forumcopenhagen.dk/kalender/ca40/eventid/20476
so no luck there if you´re arriving in may. But if let me know the precise date of your visit to Copenhagen, I´ll be sure to write you all the better fleas around the city at that time:o)
Have a great weekend
//svanna
我有几个剩女朋友啊,每次看到有这种题目的文章我都会认真看,哈哈哈。你住在日本吗?
thanks a lot for your lovely comment on my blog!
Ilove the drawings! i wish i knew what it says :)
thanks grafico! :)
let me try to recap the happening in a short paragraph..basically it was me and my frds were in japan in 2003, and we saw a blind date with 4 men vs 4 women next to us, but one of the guys got ignored. so one of our frds just decided to jump over to their table (!!) n started chatting with the being-ignored-guy and the woman-who-ignored-that-guy :P hehehe it was a funny experience!
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