anyway, if there might be a non muslim who read this blog and wondering what is the meaning of Assalamualaikum, here lemme tell you.
“peace be upon you”
2 days before 4th mensiversary since I moved here. Time fliessss.
Today is the second day of my natsu yasumi or Summer Break, yeay!
A lot of schedjule in the first week of natsu yasumi have awaited me. Alhamdulillah.
And I just had a mood to write again, yeay! So here it is..
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Flashback to the last year, the first time I was into Japanese world. No matter how many My Father's Japanese books in my home, but last year was actually the first time I saw how Japanese live their life with my own eyes.
At that time, I was a fresh grad, lack of experience in working life esp Manufacturing Industry.
My Manager was Japanese, we were working on the same room. I worked for him and my SPV. The first two weeks was so thrilling, I need to learn a lot from the former person in my position. By the time what I say learning It was not like they explaining A to Z and I make a not. Well yes they explained me first, but mostly they explained me while made me to practice at the same time.
They mostly asked me to look around when I had time. It wasnt like looking around as you were in field trip. But I need to look around and see the details.
After my mentor officially resigned and left the office I was left alone in the office and need to get used to their habits by myself. Like they wouldnt ask me to do A first and then B, but I was the done who had to figured it out what to do first, what to do next and so on.
Things are changed that much within short period after my mentor left, all i need to do was making my self ready for any kind of situations.
Like as I know sometimes they didnt remind me that tomorrow we'll have an audit by customer in few days before, but it could D-few hours and I need to understand the things and figured out what to do quickly.
My Japanese boss didnt speak English, he drew somethings, or idk what he did actually but somehow I understand what he wanted me to do :")
Whenever there was a problem He always tried to figure it out by himself. He would never assuming the proble by only what people told. He listened, He checked the thing by himself, He researched and so on. I was felt like I was in auto-pilot mode when I saw that. Whenever I need a data from XYZ or YWZ I looked for that by my self whether in old files in the PC or among the files in the shelves.
Now, jumped to the 3 weeks after I moved here. The time when I get my first part time job in a Japanese Restaurant in here.
The chief of the kitchen always asked me to look around and say "Shirabete" means look around and observed.
They also explained things for 1 time only and then practice and practice and try to memorize everything.
Very typical of Japanese.
But unfortunately I didn't make it for that job due to my lack of Japanese level that time. LOL.
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Moments before I write this post I was just watching youtube channels, some Ted Talks that led me to watch a video of an English woman who is trying to live as a Muslim for a week. If you want to see that, kindly click this link. That video brought me to a Tedx video from Japanese who found her treasures "ISLAM" that I watched couple months before.
On that video Miwa Essadi san, said that as she learn about Islam, she found out that Islam principals has a lot in common to Japanese values. Such as, Modesty, Piety, Courtesy Honesty, Righteousness.
But in my experience, when my former bosses, always said Shirabete or Shiraberu. It's just like Allah first order that's written in Quran. QS Al Alaq.
Iqra means read. But actually it doesnt mean like read literally, but it means to seek knowledge.
Alhamdulillah I could find the same value of Islam and Japanese culture that I experienced it by my own self.
Eventhough the experience at my first part time job was unpleasant (when I ask or forget how to do something they always said "shiraberu!". Shiraberu is an unformal way actually to asking someone to find out something, it should be "shirabete kudasai" ) but I'm happy that I learned a lot. Becasue actually when we try to find out something by reading, observe it's part of Japanese Principals, Mindfullness to others.
Try to observe so you won't ask others that much that might be bother them. That is also the part of their character of being Mindfullness to others. An act with full sense of care to others, to make other people more comfortable, and to not bothers others in every thing you do.
Good Night!
Racita.
