Eric Yap

Hi, my name's Eric Yap. I work as FileMaker Business Consultant. 

Originally from Malaysia, am residing in Japan for almost 16 years now. Yes, I have been here too long that I sometimes forget that I am not a Japanese. 

I worked for quite a few paid jobs that I think people fed up to ask me what I am doing anymore. In Japan, change means not good. You got to stick to one job forever.

Until I independent, I wasn't sure what kind of company that I could work for long though I had tried many. At last. Still, whenever people ask, "So what's up?" the irony smell of greetings, I would answer, "as usual." Exactly. People don't care who you are. I sometime wonder if I do either. 

 

I am still searching for the best job I can do for long, which I am getting to go for it. I am now on my own, trying to make a living with my consulting business. I wonder if you know what consulting is all about. No intension in challenging your intelligence, it's in fact an amazing profession. Like the internet marketing business.

Consulting is you talk people to give you lots of money more than they actually need to and you keep talking bullshit, endlessly, by keeping your social conscience underneath your shoes. Proudly say that, I think I am not so good at that, else I would be wealthy rich by now. 

English isn't my mother tongue nor my 2nd language. In fact, I feel much comfortable with Japanese compared to English as I graduated from one Japanese university here.

Like most of the Chinese Malaysian, I speak Malay, Chinese including Cantonese, Mandarin, and Hokkien, English and Japanese. Nowadays I am more comfortable with English and Japanese. The others start to get alien with me. 

 

I have to go to alien registration office in Japan for renewal of my visa every 3 years here. Yeah, I am not converted to a Japanese PR, and I have no plan too. In other words, if I got divorced then I might have to leave this country. 

Well, having been here for so long, how do I like Japan? Why am I here? Good question. The truth is, I am going to write it. 

Oh, by the way, I think the truth is out there, not here.