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Yes, so if you say so, that is so funny. You know what's funny? So another thing that my friend
said, I was describing to her what it's like working in a museum and I told her that like
one of the biggest difference is that I have way more women in my immediate environment,
immediate work environment than I ever did in grad school. Like in grad school I was frequently the
only female in the room and I didn't even think it was that weird. It's just like it's just the
nature of my field being physical chemistry already had fewer like I think within female,
sorry within physical chemistry sub-discipline, maybe the ratio was like one to four like male
female to male ratio at least for the time I was there and in my lab I think there was always
one other girl in the lab maybe but she was a simulation girl so she wasn't always in a lab
so like in the lab space I was frequently the only woman and I kind of just got used to it right and
here in a museum all of my science team except for my boss is they're all women, they're all girls and
so yeah I have two other scientists and one senior scientist, they're all women and
most of the conservators
to my knowledge are they all women? They're all women except for one guy who is
one guy who is a digital media conservator who like fixes video and like things like that
so yeah like I work a lot more with a lot more women these days and I was explaining to my friend
how like yeah like that's one of the biggest difference and it's so interesting and refreshing
to see like go to work and see like fashionably dressed people who look like they should regularly
shower it's so different from my my phd lab where like people showed up half the time in like you
know jeans and pajamas and yeah some like some of them definitely needed to shower more frequently
that's funny yeah it's and and she said that she said that I sound like
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a boy whose school just became covid so like
that's so funny
I'm like okay not that but I see where you're coming from
yeah very different um environment it just it's it's really interesting
that's interesting oh wow yeah it is different yeah I like in other departments there are more
guys like it's it's just that for the the conservation department
uh is predominantly woman um and predominantly asian woman as well so that's another interesting
yeah although yeah I think most of them are um like local hong kong people um and
um but I have a korean girl in my science team so that's cool that's that's different
but yeah the other day we had um a vendor come to train us for one of the equipments
and the vendor person didn't speak very good english so she wanted to do the training in
mandarin and uh we like me and korean girl were like oh shit what are we gonna do
yeah so our colleagues had to translate for us most of the time even though the vendor person
did try to um you know do more training in english it just like was it it got too difficult at some
point and she just stopped trying to speak english as I'm just like all right that's that's a
definitely a new uh experience too because um yeah like now I'm in a non-english speaking
side I mean Hong Kong generally like everybody speaks english really well that's usually never
an issue but um there are preferred languages and I don't speak that so
interesting interesting yeah I don't know I don't know if I have I don't know if I have
room to learn Cantonese in my brain
yeah I mean Cantonese is apparently very different from mandarin yeah it's a little different yeah
yeah it is it is yeah but when I go to like super local restaurants and stuff
um sometimes I do wish I spoke Cantonese and it's very funny too um people assume
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you know because I'm Asian I look Asian people assume that I speak Cantonese usually in the first
glance um oh wow yeah so like they talk to me in Cantonese and I'm just like sorry
don't don't speak don't speak that and then they like begrudgingly like oh fine okay we'll speak
English for you yeah yeah yeah yeah that's racist racist very very uh new thing of moving
to Hong Kong for sure yeah I don't know if you if you're gonna start with like hi thank you that's
enough I did learn um the the most convenient phrase is ngoi in Cantonese it's like
please
I feel like yabai like oh shit oh shit you know like
hey is that versatile hey I think it's versatile he's like oh hey oh that's
that's yabai oh hey that's so good but oh hey that's yabai then that's bad you know
no I feel like yabai is so versatile
ah
not sure but okay okay if you say so
okay okay okay
okay
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I never really had a situation where people don't speak English though like when they figure out
that I can only speak English they usually switch and they don't have any issues um but
oh wow that's tough you know and he asked me to navigate
because he saw that I have a GPS I had a google map he was like okay you navigate
me to to the place you want to go to I was like
yeah
oh that's intense yeah well you made it apparently but yeah and I yeah so so I learned I learned how
to say my street name in Cantonese so that I can at least go back home if I ever have to use taxi
I don't really have to usually you know because if you use uber and stuff you know
the they have the GPS so you don't have to tell them where you're going
but taxi and most of the people who drive taxi only really speak Cantonese so
oh that's tough yeah but are you learning more I guess yeah I guess I need to I need to learn a bit
more I want to be able to order food I think order food and get the food that I actually ordered
and do any exchanges of you know like like I want to do I want to be able to do that seamlessly
and I'll be happy yeah yeah that'd be good yeah well we'll see where I am two years from now yeah
yeah okay that's it for the show today thanks for listening and find us at
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