Chinese Romantic Love Film

This is the best story, and its all true! Picture the scene: im taking a nap in my room and its 7ish in the evening. My internal phone goes off so i think Sven (who's cooking dinner for us all) is having a crisis. I pick up the phone, a little dazed, and a man starts speaking Japanese to me down the phone. The only words I can pick up is 'ze office' and then he hands the phone over to another man, who also precedes to talk Japanese to me. I tell him, 'nihonga wa hanusemasen', which is 'I cant speak Japanese', about the only line I've mastered in my short stay.

More Japanese and then I manage to pick up 'robby' meaning 'lobby' because the Japanese cant pronounce their L's. Thinking I've got a parcel that I must sign for, I went down to the lobby where a man greets me, 'oooh, Thanh-san' and shakes my hand. Lots of japanese later and I'm still completely baffled. He hands me his business card and then more Japanese. Jan is standing nearby but he doesnt speak Japanese either so we use the internal phone to call for emergency backup. I phone DJ, Brandon, George, Kevin, Liz, Emma, everybody. Kevin is the only one who's in so he came down to the 'robby' to act as translator.

The man tells Kevin that he wants me to be in a Chinese romantic love film. How the hell he managed to get my details, get into the international res (supposedly high security) and get my internal line is beyond me. He says he's seen me around nagoya and wants me in his love film. We tell him I cant speak chinese, he tells us no problem, he wants to cast me anyway. Naturally, Kevin and I are like, 'how romantic is this love film, eh?!!' He wants me to meet his partner who speaks English, so I'm thinking this is all a little strange but maybe worth investigating. Kevin tells him that we'll have a meeting and I'll bring a friend (more like the whole international entourage from the hall) but the man says it has to be tonight. He says, 'it'll only take 5...no 10 minutes- no, eight minutes'. we were like, surely it can wait til tomorrow. nope, the man wants us to go that night, that minute. We weren't that stupid, the film sounds dodgy and so Kevin tells him I'm in the middle of cooking dinner and that tonight is no good. i make nodding movements and pats my tummy. He shakes our hands and then leaves.

After he left, we all burst out laughing. It sounds like I was being recruited for some blue movie! It was the most random thing ever!!!