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Guess what they named them?
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Sinkapore or Sinka pore?
Less than an hour ago I got this irritating e-mail.
What say you? Who you think you are? To my fellow friends and readers in Singapore, PLEASE DO NOT JOIN THIS COMMUNITY, I strongly discourage by the way they promoted it.
P/S: Do not ever use Singapore Goverment to threaten me for you 'fun' online community, I will report this up to who it may concern if you try to mess up with my already miserable life in Singapore.
SINKAPORE.COM
Whatever Lah { Just Talk Lah } Pull out a chair, order some kopi, scratch your armpit – Let's Talk! @#$%^&*()
Singapore's Newly Launched Online Community. Come join us and have fun today!
Note: Now that you've read this message, you need to foward it to at least 5 people in your contacts. This email message will be tracked, and if you choose to ignore or delete it, the Singapore Government will come hard after you!
What say you? Who you think you are? To my fellow friends and readers in Singapore, PLEASE DO NOT JOIN THIS COMMUNITY, I strongly discourage by the way they promoted it.
P/S: Do not ever use Singapore Goverment to threaten me for you 'fun' online community, I will report this up to who it may concern if you try to mess up with my already miserable life in Singapore.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
The Right Brain vs Left Brain test
Nikita saw her spinning both sides. What do you say?
I personally saw clockwise first, which means my brain is more towards...
Try out this BRAIN TEST if you have time and share what did you really see :)
I personally saw clockwise first, which means my brain is more towards...
Try out this BRAIN TEST if you have time and share what did you really see :)
Friday, March 27, 2009
Friendship - Who Is A True Friend
We all have friends. A lot gets talked about friendships. Everyone wants a true friend, and many of us believe that we have a friend who can be called a true friend. What kind of relations do friends share? When can we call a friend a true friend, and when can our friends take us as their true friend. After a romantic relationship, friendships are the most important relationships we can have. Though all of us have family and distant family, most of us rely on friends for advice, comfort and inspiration. How do we define a relation that can be called as one of true friendship?
The very first sign of a very good friend, not necessarily a true friend is that we are not worried about courtesies. You will call your friend at any hour and talk without any thought of time in your mind. Similarly, whenever you need support, you will call a very good friend and ask him/her to help you out. They expect the same from you. Another important trait of such relations is that we are not much worried about exposing ourselves. We speak about everything in our mind without worrying about what our friends will think. We are sure that they will take our talk in the spirit it was made. We are unguarded and open with friends in our talk.
A true friend is a little more than a very good friend. A true friend will support you even if it hurts his/her own interest. A true friend will understand your motives and needs and will be with you without any analysis or criticism. A true friend will come forward to help without any request and be with us in need without showing it or expecting anything in return. With a true friend, you can be sure that you will get help to the extent possible by him/her. Nothing will remain unturned. A mother is a true friend of her children. If we share such relations with an adult we can say that we are true friends.
A true friend makes no excuses of having work or appointments or anything but will be with you whenever you need him/her. In your hour of desperation, a true friend will support you even if the whole world opposes you. A true friend is not an opportunist. A true friend means to have someone who is like mother, as I said earlier. Instead of having hundreds of good friends, if you have a true friend, treat yourself lucky. If you can also become a true friend of someone, you will be blessed, because it is much easier for all of us to expect but very difficult to give. Be a true friend yourself first.
The very first sign of a very good friend, not necessarily a true friend is that we are not worried about courtesies. You will call your friend at any hour and talk without any thought of time in your mind. Similarly, whenever you need support, you will call a very good friend and ask him/her to help you out. They expect the same from you. Another important trait of such relations is that we are not much worried about exposing ourselves. We speak about everything in our mind without worrying about what our friends will think. We are sure that they will take our talk in the spirit it was made. We are unguarded and open with friends in our talk.
A true friend is a little more than a very good friend. A true friend will support you even if it hurts his/her own interest. A true friend will understand your motives and needs and will be with you without any analysis or criticism. A true friend will come forward to help without any request and be with us in need without showing it or expecting anything in return. With a true friend, you can be sure that you will get help to the extent possible by him/her. Nothing will remain unturned. A mother is a true friend of her children. If we share such relations with an adult we can say that we are true friends.
A true friend makes no excuses of having work or appointments or anything but will be with you whenever you need him/her. In your hour of desperation, a true friend will support you even if the whole world opposes you. A true friend is not an opportunist. A true friend means to have someone who is like mother, as I said earlier. Instead of having hundreds of good friends, if you have a true friend, treat yourself lucky. If you can also become a true friend of someone, you will be blessed, because it is much easier for all of us to expect but very difficult to give. Be a true friend yourself first.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Which type of friend are you to me?
Some people will ask me what is my right to find a friend after what I've said recently. Well, I'm not sure about you but you might get my answers if you understand this simple differences that I share in here.
Simple vs Real
A simple friend identifies himself when he calls. A real Wicfriend doesn't have to.
A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life.
A real friend says, "What's new with you?"
A simple friend thinks the problems you whine about are recent.
A real friend says, "You've been whining about the same thing for 14 years. Get off your duff and do something about it."
A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.
A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.
A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed. A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.
A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems. A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.
A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.
A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.
A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.
A simple friend expects you to always be there for them. A real friend expects to always be there for you!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Ah Pek and Ah Ma
Ah Pek and Ah Ma in Their Golden Years
Ah Pek and Ah Ma were lying in bed one night.
The husband was falling asleep but the wife felt romantic and wanted to talk.
She said, "You used to hold my hand when we were courting."
Wearily, he reached across, held her hand for a second and tried to get back to sleep.
A few moments later she said, "Then, you used to kiss me."
Mildly irritated, he reached across, gave her a peck on the cheek and settled down to sleep.
Thirty seconds later she said, "Then, you used to bite my neck."
Angrily, he threw back the bed covers, got out of bed and walk away.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"To get my teeth lah!"
She said, "You used to hold my hand when we were courting."
Wearily, he reached across, held her hand for a second and tried to get back to sleep.
A few moments later she said, "Then, you used to kiss me."
Mildly irritated, he reached across, gave her a peck on the cheek and settled down to sleep.
Thirty seconds later she said, "Then, you used to bite my neck."
Angrily, he threw back the bed covers, got out of bed and walk away.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"To get my teeth lah!"
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
I can't speak Hokkien, so I'm learning Swahili
Originally from The Electric New Paper
I can't speak Hokkien, so I'm learning Swahili
HABARI za asubuhi, babu, wariye?
By Ng Tze Yong
22 March 2009
HABARI za asubuhi, babu, wariye?
Before you hit 'send' on a complaint e-mail, be assured that's not a keyboard error.
It's Swahili for: 'Good morning, ah kong, eat already or not?'
If you're still in school, picture the day you become an 'ah kong' (grandfather in Chinese).
When your grandkids come bouncing along to visit you as you lounge in your wheelchair, what language will they use?
It may be English or Mandarin or, who knows, perhaps Swahili.
That's right. Swahili - one of Africa's mother tongues.
Economies can rise and fall in a single generation. For all we know, business or cultural opportunities might spring up in Africa.
It's got people (almost a billion of them). It's got resources (it's where those blood diamonds came from). So, despite its current woes, let's not rule out Africa in the 22nd century.
If this comes to pass, we'll probably embrace Swahili because Singaporeans know very well that for a small country to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world, we must go with the linguistic flow.
So say 'jambo' (hello in Swahili).
(It's actually easier than Mandarin!)
Appreciating language as culture
Together with the pragmatic learners of language (those who embrace its utilitarian value), hopefully there will also be those who seek out new languages out of a broad appreciation of different cultures.
All languages have stories to tell. And many are going extinct.
As a French academic noted, 'half of the 6,000 or so languages in the world today are spoken by fewer than 10,000 people and a quarter by less than 1,000. Only a score are spoken by hundreds of millions of people.'
So, many cultures will disappear without leaving any trace as languages die. At least 30,000 have already vanished.
'Languages usually have a relatively short life span as well as a very high death rate. Only a few, including Basque, Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit and Tamil, have lasted more than 2,000 years,' says Mr Ranka Bjeljac-Babic, from the University of Poitiers.
So, how would I feel if my grandkids come up to me spouting a new language?
I'd feel what my own ah kong feels now - resignation, that his own grandson can't speak Hokkien to save his life.
But just as he tries to keep up with the times - the one and only English word he knows is 'good' - I'll try too.
'Nzuri,' I'll say.
Good that the young are reaching out to other languages and cultures.
Good that the stories embedded in languages are being kept alive.
But not so good if our own stories wither away due to the neglect of the languages we grew up with.
If only we could all learn three or more languages. But unfortunately for most people, the human brain is not wired to learn so many.
Now, what's the word for 'pity' in Swahili?
I can't speak Hokkien, so I'm learning Swahili
HABARI za asubuhi, babu, wariye?
By Ng Tze Yong
22 March 2009
HABARI za asubuhi, babu, wariye?
Before you hit 'send' on a complaint e-mail, be assured that's not a keyboard error.
It's Swahili for: 'Good morning, ah kong, eat already or not?'
If you're still in school, picture the day you become an 'ah kong' (grandfather in Chinese).
When your grandkids come bouncing along to visit you as you lounge in your wheelchair, what language will they use?
It may be English or Mandarin or, who knows, perhaps Swahili.
That's right. Swahili - one of Africa's mother tongues.
Economies can rise and fall in a single generation. For all we know, business or cultural opportunities might spring up in Africa.
It's got people (almost a billion of them). It's got resources (it's where those blood diamonds came from). So, despite its current woes, let's not rule out Africa in the 22nd century.
If this comes to pass, we'll probably embrace Swahili because Singaporeans know very well that for a small country to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world, we must go with the linguistic flow.
So say 'jambo' (hello in Swahili).
(It's actually easier than Mandarin!)
Appreciating language as culture
Together with the pragmatic learners of language (those who embrace its utilitarian value), hopefully there will also be those who seek out new languages out of a broad appreciation of different cultures.
All languages have stories to tell. And many are going extinct.
As a French academic noted, 'half of the 6,000 or so languages in the world today are spoken by fewer than 10,000 people and a quarter by less than 1,000. Only a score are spoken by hundreds of millions of people.'
So, many cultures will disappear without leaving any trace as languages die. At least 30,000 have already vanished.
'Languages usually have a relatively short life span as well as a very high death rate. Only a few, including Basque, Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit and Tamil, have lasted more than 2,000 years,' says Mr Ranka Bjeljac-Babic, from the University of Poitiers.
So, how would I feel if my grandkids come up to me spouting a new language?
I'd feel what my own ah kong feels now - resignation, that his own grandson can't speak Hokkien to save his life.
But just as he tries to keep up with the times - the one and only English word he knows is 'good' - I'll try too.
'Nzuri,' I'll say.
Good that the young are reaching out to other languages and cultures.
Good that the stories embedded in languages are being kept alive.
But not so good if our own stories wither away due to the neglect of the languages we grew up with.
If only we could all learn three or more languages. But unfortunately for most people, the human brain is not wired to learn so many.
Now, what's the word for 'pity' in Swahili?
Monday, March 23, 2009
Osama To Bush
Osama Bin Laden heard that Bush was wondering whether he was still alive..
He decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game.
Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a single line of coded message: 370HSSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI.
No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, then to the NASA.
With no clue as to its meaning they eventually asked Britain's MI-6 for help.
Within a minute MI-6 cabled the White House with this reply......
"Tell the President he's holding the message upside down."
He decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game.
Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a single line of coded message: 370HSSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI.
No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, then to the NASA.
With no clue as to its meaning they eventually asked Britain's MI-6 for help.
Within a minute MI-6 cabled the White House with this reply......
"Tell the President he's holding the message upside down."
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Erotic Jewelry
To all the Horny ones: Photos of a collection of erotic jewelry. Would you want to buy anything?
Friday, March 20, 2009
Chinese S’poreans should focus on learning Mandarin well, says MM Lee
The trend of Chinese dialects dying out in Singapore is irreversible, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, who urged Singaporeans to focus more energy on learning Mandarin instead.
Speaking at the 30th anniversary of the Speak Mandarin Campaign on Tuesday, Mr Lee said the key challenge is no longer about Mandarin versus dialects, but about getting more Chinese Singaporeans to speak Mandarin to their children.
Mastering both English and Mandarin is not an easy task for most children, including the minister mentor’s grandchildren. He said among the seven of them, only one prefers to use Mandarin, whereas the rest often answer in English when he asks them questions in Mandarin.
Mr Lee urged parents to help their children master the language at home. "If both (parents) can speak Mandarin, don’t speak to your child in English, or one in English and one in Chinese. Speak to them in Mandarin, leave their English alone — they will master it," he said.
Research has shown that it is difficult for most children to cope with two languages which are as diverse as English and Mandarin.
According to a study done by Cornelius Kubler, an American professor who teaches Mandarin to US foreign service officers, it takes four times as long to train someone to a level where they can function professionally in Mandarin, compared to other languages like French, German and Spanish.
That is why Mr Lee said there is a need to build a strong Mandarin foundation in children.
On learning dialects, the minister mentor said it causes negative interferences with the learning of Mandarin and English because dialects have different vocabulary, phonetics and syntax.
"Today’s Zaobao had a whole series of middle aged and older generation saying we must have dialects. If you’ve got 100 gigabytes here, then you can put it in. But you haven’t got 100 gigabytes...
"And the more you use dialects, the less you will use your Mandarin. Your Mandarin will go down, your English will not go down because you have to use it," Mr Lee said.
He added that if the government had left language habits to evolve undirected, Chinese Singaporeans would be speaking an adulterated Hokkien—Teochew dialect.
Mr Lee also said the value of a language is its usefulness. If one speaks Hokkien or Cantonese, one could only reach some 60 million people in Fujian and Taiwan, or about 100 million in Guangdong and Hong Kong. With Mandarin, one can reach 1.3 billion Chinese from all provinces in China.
Statistics from the Education Ministry showed that the proportion of Chinese families in Singapore who speak dialects at home has dropped significantly in the past 30 years.
It fell below 10 per cent in 1988 and continued on a downward trend. Since 2001, less than 2 per cent of Chinese students in each cohort have come from dialect—speaking homes, demonstrating that the majority of parents prefer their children to focus on learning English and Mandarin well.
"Did you watch the Beijing Olympics Opening? I was there. I was watching the reactions of the foreign leaders and I knew that they knew this is a country that is going to rise," Mr Lee added.
He said Singapore is useful to China because we have access to the English—speaking world and have developed links with them due to our language policy. At the same time, Singaporeans are fluent in Mandarin; hence we can communicate with those in China and help them understand the West.
As part of this year’s Speak Mandarin Campaign, the Promote Mandarin Council will launch a challenge in two weeks to encourage Chinese Singaporeans to embrace Chinese language and culture.
Originally taken from Channel News Asia
Speaking at the 30th anniversary of the Speak Mandarin Campaign on Tuesday, Mr Lee said the key challenge is no longer about Mandarin versus dialects, but about getting more Chinese Singaporeans to speak Mandarin to their children.
Mastering both English and Mandarin is not an easy task for most children, including the minister mentor’s grandchildren. He said among the seven of them, only one prefers to use Mandarin, whereas the rest often answer in English when he asks them questions in Mandarin.
Mr Lee urged parents to help their children master the language at home. "If both (parents) can speak Mandarin, don’t speak to your child in English, or one in English and one in Chinese. Speak to them in Mandarin, leave their English alone — they will master it," he said.
Research has shown that it is difficult for most children to cope with two languages which are as diverse as English and Mandarin.
According to a study done by Cornelius Kubler, an American professor who teaches Mandarin to US foreign service officers, it takes four times as long to train someone to a level where they can function professionally in Mandarin, compared to other languages like French, German and Spanish.
That is why Mr Lee said there is a need to build a strong Mandarin foundation in children.
On learning dialects, the minister mentor said it causes negative interferences with the learning of Mandarin and English because dialects have different vocabulary, phonetics and syntax.
"Today’s Zaobao had a whole series of middle aged and older generation saying we must have dialects. If you’ve got 100 gigabytes here, then you can put it in. But you haven’t got 100 gigabytes...
"And the more you use dialects, the less you will use your Mandarin. Your Mandarin will go down, your English will not go down because you have to use it," Mr Lee said.
He added that if the government had left language habits to evolve undirected, Chinese Singaporeans would be speaking an adulterated Hokkien—Teochew dialect.
Mr Lee also said the value of a language is its usefulness. If one speaks Hokkien or Cantonese, one could only reach some 60 million people in Fujian and Taiwan, or about 100 million in Guangdong and Hong Kong. With Mandarin, one can reach 1.3 billion Chinese from all provinces in China.
Statistics from the Education Ministry showed that the proportion of Chinese families in Singapore who speak dialects at home has dropped significantly in the past 30 years.
It fell below 10 per cent in 1988 and continued on a downward trend. Since 2001, less than 2 per cent of Chinese students in each cohort have come from dialect—speaking homes, demonstrating that the majority of parents prefer their children to focus on learning English and Mandarin well.
"Did you watch the Beijing Olympics Opening? I was there. I was watching the reactions of the foreign leaders and I knew that they knew this is a country that is going to rise," Mr Lee added.
He said Singapore is useful to China because we have access to the English—speaking world and have developed links with them due to our language policy. At the same time, Singaporeans are fluent in Mandarin; hence we can communicate with those in China and help them understand the West.
As part of this year’s Speak Mandarin Campaign, the Promote Mandarin Council will launch a challenge in two weeks to encourage Chinese Singaporeans to embrace Chinese language and culture.
Originally taken from Channel News Asia
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