Rambling Insanities of a Bear’s mind

Welcome everyone, to another episode in the life of "Traaavel Aaagent Bear!" As you all know, the MATTA International Travel Fair was run over the last weekend. All in all, it was business as usual, walking, talking, persuading and collecting. Walking around, Talking to the prospective clients, Persuading prospective clients to take up the packages on offer and Collecting the deposits from them. Aaanyway… "Traaavel Aaagent Bear!" somehow found out how small the world really is. Firstly, by having an ex-schoolmate freelance for the weekend and help out at the booth. Then… ex-classmate from *drum roll* PRIMARY SCHOOL turns up with soon to be fiance but not yet, AND… buys a package from us. ON TOP OF THAT… said ex-primary school-classmate knows current colleague. Talk about seriously small ass world man… But more on current colleague in a bit. So, back to jolly catching up with these guys as "Traaavel Aaagent Bear!" has not seen them in oh… lets see… about… shit man… since high school, so just about over 14 years or so, give or take a year? Thats like, yeah… a kid born the year we left high school would be in like 8th Grade now man! DAAAAMN!!! Tempus Fugit… ( you don’t know it, go wiki or google it, OR go watch Handgelina Droolie in Tomb Raider again) buuut I ramble… as usual… Anyway back to topic. Long story short, we caught up, laughed, reminisced a bit, and all as usual promise to keep in touch, which now quite handy as we have an alumni forum set up by yet another old skool fren… literally… and we promise to dessiminate said forums address to all the ones we know, which I have done, said friends included. Now… to current colleague who quite recently had a massive shock to her nervous system due to being sounding like a total idiot to a very high ranking foreign person (read: Ambassador to Malaysia from Central African Country) all because of the difference in pronunciation. Which we all now know is very the important to get ‘da message’ across. Said Ambassador’s secretary calls up for flight information, current colleague asks for whom should it be for, and secretary says ‘Ambassador’ but it comes out ‘Um Bo See Dor’ and naturally current colleague writes it as ‘Mr Ambu Sidur’ in that his first name is ‘Ambu’ and his last name is ‘Sidur’ (which we all know is his TITLE, not his ACTUAL NAME). Current colleague checks with "Traaavel Aaagent Bear!" who naturally has NO FOOKIN IDEA who "Mr Ambu Sidur" of Central African Nations Embassy in Malaysia is. AAAAAAND… quite obviously "Mr Ambassador" does NOT come to mind. So, current colleague calls back to the Embassy, asks for "Mr Ambu Sidur" and quite naturally does NOT get to "Mr Ambu Sidur" as it SHOULD be pronouced "Mr Ambassador" or "His Excellency. The Central African Nation’s High Commissioner to Malaysia" and after much checking back and forth, finally getting the secretary to give "Mr Ambu Sidur’s" proper name… All hell breaks loose as "Traaavel Aaagent Bear!" overhears said name and goes "oh shit… she meant the AMBASSADOR of Central African Nation to Malaysia" aaaaand all ends well as we have a collective group laugh session at current colleague who now knows that not all English is pronounced properly even though its the common tongue for international communications. I guess thats why we have the fraggin interpreters at the UN. Thats all for now folks, do stay tuned next time for another episode of… "Traaavel Aaagent Bear!"