{"id":5329,"date":"2018-12-21T02:08:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/?post_type=blog_post&#038;p=5329"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T08:49:47","slug":"how-david-saved-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/how-david-saved-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"David&#8217;s Christmas Adventure and how a translation saved the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1556797554776{padding-top: 200px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;background-image: url(http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Blog.jpg?id=7370) !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;David&#8217;s Christmas Adventure and how a translation saved the day&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; el_class=&#8221;uppercase&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1541668699420{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #bf2026 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1541405850168{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_hidden-xs&#8221;][menu select=&#8221;style1&#8243; menu=&#8221;Newsroom&#8221; extra_class=&#8221;uppercase industries-menu&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1556797593841{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1556798713617{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;content-div-link&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0After hearing the noise and eventually realizing what had happened to that poor little helper who had to be scraped off of the wall\u2014Mrs. Claus shook her head in worry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the week before Christmas, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santa and his Little Helpers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were steady at work, packing gifts &amp; stockings and preparing for the Big Day. As Santa was assisting one of his helpers, he suddenly let out a huge sneeze that blew the little helper across the room. After hearing the noise and eventually realizing what had happened to that poor little helper who had to be scraped off of the wall\u2014Mrs. Claus shook her head in worry. \u201cOh no, not again.\u201d she said, \u201cYou\u2019re sick!\u201d Santa nodded his head. \u201cWhat are we going to do?\u201d She asked. They took some time to think about it until they came up with a solution:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhy don\u2019t we ask my cousin from Korea, Jin-woo? He\u2019s always been jealous that I got to be Santa instead of him.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut he only speaks Korean, and you don\u2019t speak any Korean. We\u2019ll have to get the list translated for him.\u201d She said. \u201cNo worries, \u2026I know just the guy who can help us,\u201d Santa said with a confident smile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few hours later, in the office of 1-StopAsia, as David was hovering over his desk with a fly swatter in his hand and looking down at the mouse that the exterminator horribly failed to capture once again\u2014the phone rang. The sound startled the mouse whom David was just getting ready to kill right before it rang, and once again it got away. After screaming a few obscenities, David answered the phone:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHello?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDavid. It\u2019s me, Santa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a short pause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u2026Who?\u201d Said David.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s Santa Claus. You know\u2026Kris Kringle? Jolly Old Saint Nick? &#8230;The guy with the huge belly and excessively long white beard that goes around and brings gifts to children on Christmas&#8230;\u201d Said Santa as convincingly as he could.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u2026This is a joke, right?\u201d Asked David.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNo\u2026I\u2019ll prove it. This Christmas, you wrote down that you wanted a Limited Edition Nes Classic Game Console signed by Charles Martinet; the voice actor of the videogame character, Mario. Does that sound familiar?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After almost peeing his pants, David cleared his throat and with a raspy tone said, \u201c\u2026Santa\u2026?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYes. Now let\u2019s get down to business.\u201d Santa answered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After explaining the dilemma he was in and promising David that he wouldn\u2019t tell anyone that a 34-year-old man still writes a Christmas list and sends it to the North Pole\u2014the call ended. About an hour later, just as Santa had promised, he showed up at the office of 1-StopAsia in his sleigh to pick up David to take him back to the North Pole with him. An hour later, they had finally arrived, and after Santa had introduced David to Mrs. Claus, all of the Little Helpers, and Jin-woo, they immediately got to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santa grabbed the list and gave it to David. David grabbed his phone and took hundreds of photos of the humongous list and then forwarded it to a group of Korean translators at 1-StopAsia\u2014who thought David was playing a joke on them until they found their names on Santa\u2019s list, which stated what they wanted for Christmas. After finally believing him and David\u2019s celebration of finding out that he wasn\u2019t the only adult who wrote out a Christmas list and sent it to Santa, the translators got to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few days later, after the translators had finished and returned the newly translated list back to David\u2014Santa handed it over to Jin-Woo, and Jin-woo and his little helpers\u2014oh yeah\u2026I forgot to mention\u2026 the agreement was\u2026 if Jin-woo was to do this favor for Santa, he had to agree to allow Jin-woo to bring his own little helpers\u2014who also only spoke Korean. So\u2026that\u2019s that\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyways\u2026back to the story\u2014<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jin-woo and his Little Helpers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> got to work, and after four days of non-stop packing and gift wrapping, they were finally finished\u2014which was perfect timing because it was now Christmas Eve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After packing the sleigh with all of the gifts and eating a few Christmas cookies baked by Mrs. Claus herself\u2014Jin-woo &amp; David mounted the sleigh. Jin-woo\u2019s job was to deliver the gifts and David\u2019s job was to speak to the reindeer, because they only understood English. One by one, David called out the names of every reindeer, and the sleigh began to float in the air, and then they took off on their journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After delivering every gift to every home in the entire world, David and Jin-woo returned back to the North Pole. As they were exiting the sleigh, a movement from inside of Santa\u2019s red bag had caught their attention. They were a little puzzled because they were sure that they had delivered all of the gifts and that nothing had been forgotten. A moment later, the little mouse from 1-StopAsia\u2019s office came crawling out of the bag. Upon seeing it, David\u2019s eyes began to widen, his face turned red, and steam began to blow out of his ears. 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