tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74862522024-03-13T12:46:20.769+08:00Nineteen97Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-61238810655220819322010-10-09T03:37:00.001+08:002010-10-09T03:40:55.699+08:00Donch anyhow laugh me okay?!My "設計對白" in 2004 when blogging was catching on..Ah beng : aye, ah lian, u know now a day peepur very feyshun this thing call BLOG leh! you have or not?Ah lian: si mi si BLOG? u mean like my hdb block 1, block 2 like that issit?Ah beng: no lah! blog is hor, you write your fee lings and let peepur read and they pass konmen on your fee lings lor. Macam let other peepur read your dailee but now theyLegendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-11348605020053148952007-10-10T22:18:00.000+08:002007-10-10T23:01:41.366+08:00FitnessDear King of Kennedy TownMay I present my innovative ideas- that will help the fat distribution challenged citizens of your kingdom:Wear a tea leaves strainer over y mouth. This encourages the dieter to eat only fluids or any food which can pass through the mesh of the strainer.Fitness with a mobile monitor screen. Unplug the monitor from your desk and carry it with you each time you leave yourLegendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1141008409522408282006-02-27T10:08:00.000+08:002006-02-27T10:47:07.050+08:00Latest Discovery - librarians have a sense of humorWho says we don't have a sense of humour? Of course we do, librarians have a better sense of humour than a lampshade. A columnist has defined humour as "a measurement of the extent to which we realise that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.”Apparently, many librarians do not realise that it’s possible to Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1092125346201768072004-08-10T14:03:00.000+08:002004-08-10T16:09:06.200+08:00The time has comeMy anonymity and disguise as "Gahgah" (the other main man in my workplace cleverly pointed out that Gahgah is Haghag spelt backwards) has succeeded as much as a purple hippopotamus in dark glasses who tried to get into a 'Pink Flamingos Only' polo club.
Inevitably, after a night of rumination, histrionics and hysteria, I reached the only conclusion that could be reached - I have to leave this Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1091760769857053932004-08-06T10:21:00.001+08:002010-10-09T03:34:48.352+08:00Cantonglish vs SinglishHKSAR 's biliterate (English and Chinese)and trilingual (English, Cantonese and Putonghua) language policy 两文三语 has caused confusion among the Hong Kong people. There are many Hong Kong Chinese who can speak VERY Good english and there are many more who speak Very BAD English. There are so many forms of English spoken by non native speakers - english spoken by Philippinos, thais, malaysians, Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1091502418920278932004-08-03T10:42:00.000+08:002006-11-09T22:49:21.563+08:00To kill a roachRoaches. Lovely things to look at, a joy to crush. I am the official roach and critters crusher in my family. Even the men I know would squirm shamelessly. Of course a few of them would salvag their ego by telling me that they were not afraid of roaches, just could NOT tolerate the smell of them or some stoopid lame reason.. like I am a vegan. I kill them not eat them!I am also the roach buster Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1091067357558455682004-07-29T09:39:00.001+08:002009-02-01T20:00:58.078+08:00The greatest FCUK in the worldDear NiRvanA7 years ago, I decided to give up swear words that enquire about each other's parents, ancestors and other relations and any swearing that requires specific reference to any other anatomical parts of homosapiens or animals. I am not holier than thou, I am definitely not moralising the issue. Many a man's use of profanity has saved him from a nervous breakdown. I grew up around Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1091000045605600742004-07-28T15:05:00.000+08:002004-07-28T19:26:26.236+08:00Compos Mentis (Of Sound Mind)LKY "I am still compos mentis" ST 7/28/2004. Compos mentis is latin for sound mind. Punctuating your sentences with latin phrases is voque, sensu lato (broadly speaking).
I love to argue. I always assume what I 'claim to be proving' and assume that the other person is begging the question.
Here is a simple trick to have the last say in a fallacious argument.
For e.g (Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1090901626860252152004-07-27T12:12:00.000+08:002004-07-27T12:25:08.733+08:00老花眼An open letter to a fellow "old flower eyer":
Hi Aniram,
Long sightedness (or farsightedness) AND "old flower" both have the same outcome, meaning people with LS or OF have difficulty seeing up close.
In both instances, the light falls behind the retina due to the shorter eyeball.
However, the CAUSE of LS and OF is different.
In optical terms:
Long or Far sightness is HYPEROPIA
Old Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1090898505244284672004-07-27T11:09:00.000+08:002004-07-27T11:29:31.190+08:00Beng GoI normally check my inactive yahoo email once a month to delete bulk emails and to read any genuine ones. I was annoyed by several emails in the regular IN box encouraging me to PRAY BENG-GO (Singaporeans: please decrypt, PRAY as in Phua Chu Kang's Don't Pray Pray).
Why did I not use the correct English words instead of Pray Beng-go? Well, I have a nagging suspicion that someone Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1090569990916719552004-07-23T16:06:00.000+08:002004-07-23T16:35:54.970+08:00"And goD saw the blog, that it was good: and goD divided the blog from the forums, discussion lists, mailing list, instant messaging etc."Blogging is good, it unleashes wit, sacarsm, humor and emotional chaos remembered in a state of restlessness.
This post "isn't about writing book reviews" (phrase hijacked from Raw Notes). Just a few titles from my fragments of what I can remember or care to remember:
The year preceding the title, indicates the year I started reading the book..
1992- Final Exit (known Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1090477126717180622004-07-22T14:08:00.000+08:002004-07-22T14:56:04.043+08:00Dear Long JohnDear Long John *
You wrote "Actually even for me, I still don't have a mental picture of what you are really like now. Either time or HK* has tamed you.
And frankly speaking, I enjoy what you were at that time. Ha :-)
John *"
Yup, i was like a wild child. My motto was "do one thing daily that scares me"Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1090298956236239912004-07-20T12:48:00.000+08:002004-07-23T14:33:36.010+08:00Disco LabI am not blogging about more discotheques. "Discolab" is the name of a network centric computing laboratory. A stab in the dark guess why it is named Discolab : Dis (distributed systems) Co (computing, convergence). Innit cool?
[post 19/1997]
Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1090298842930103242004-07-20T12:00:00.000+08:002004-07-23T14:34:38.733+08:00我爱 (邓)小平 A tasteless bad pun on Deng's name "Xiao Ping". Each time I tell my friends I am going to Deng XIaoping, they know what I am referring to - shopping (siow pin, get it?).
Ivan has a blog on the books he has read or reading. I find it a great way to keep a "I read therefore I am" log. That gave me an idea - how to create the scariest blog on this planet - a shopping blog. &Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1090211211588648072004-07-18T23:41:00.000+08:002004-07-23T14:35:28.256+08:00Insomniacs in a Discotheken Insomnia, an aptly named opened for 22-hours dance club. Open 8 AM - 6 AM, meaning you need to go find somewhere else to hang out from 6 AM - 8 AM.
I arrived at the club at Lan Kwai Fong just slightly before midnite - a Philippino gig. Saving grace was that the DJ spinned great 70s, 80s, 90s dance tracks. I left the club at 6 AM. A line of cabs were in waiting.
Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1090037181378841032004-07-17T11:17:00.000+08:002004-07-23T14:36:08.900+08:00Kompasu 圆规 (Typhoon: tropical cyclone; foong kow (wind-ball))
Kompasu skirted HK (Sai Kong) yesterday. Kompasu - my 4th severe troical cyclones, with signals up to no. 9, since I arrived in HK 2 years ago. We are allowed to leave our workplace when typhoon signal no. 8 is announced. I was specifically grateful for Kompasu cos I was having a head splitting hangover andLegendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1090033703045524632004-07-17T10:11:00.000+08:002004-07-17T11:11:12.846+08:00Your Current Position is 6I am elated. The automated voice on the other end of the phone says "Your current position is 30". I was the 30th person on hold to speak to the enquiry hotline office of the HK Immigration Dept. As I am typing this, my current position is 3. OK, HOLD THE BLOG. I need to speak to the officer soon.
I am back.
It took only a jiffy 10 minutes to climb from 30th to 3rd, Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1089887588544528892004-07-15T18:07:00.000+08:002004-07-15T18:33:08.543+08:00Courses for BloggersBlogging Course Titles
1. Blog is a many splendid thing
2. Blog lifts us up where we belong
3. All you need is Blog
4. Blog: would there be any other name that smells as sweet?
5. I'm OK, You're OK, Blog's OK
6. She blog, He blog, a We blog
7. The Zen and the Art of Blogging
8. The Sun-zi Art of Blog
9. Yoga for Bloggers
10. Fighting Blog Addiction (special rates for those who have completed Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1089875962689361542004-07-15T15:05:00.001+08:002004-07-15T16:01:22.570+08:00From the mouth of babes ヤバイ !Act 1 Scene 1
Nephew, age 3: "Look, that man is fat"
Nephew's mum (my sis): "It is impolite to call someone fat. That man is not fat, he is muscular".
Act 1 Scene 2
Nephew, his mum and a neighbour entered elevator.
Nephew said to neighbour: "Wah, auntie, you are very muscular!"
Act 2
Sis fainted.
[post 14/1997]Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1089858100963859972004-07-15T09:53:00.000+08:002004-07-15T15:27:30.610+08:00For whom the bid tollsMy first internet purchase : 1995.
Before I made that brave click - I called up my credit card company and asked them to lower my credit limit to US$400. They were puzzled.
Ok, I was a wee bit paranoid but I NEED TO BUY. Otherwise how could I face my class of matured adult learners aka MBA students (I co-teach) of the Internet Commerce course? I thought if there was any security loophole and Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1089801104246828862004-07-14T17:26:00.000+08:002004-07-14T20:10:27.670+08:00Gas what?Reinventing. Re-engineering. Think out of the box. Unfair advantage. TownGas did all that.
Towngas in HK is what PUB is in Singapore. Many of my HK tai tai friends have enrolled their domestic helpers in Towngas classes. No, they were not sent there to learn gas safety or energy saving measures. They were enrolled in cookery classes conducted by HK culinary experts in their Cooking Centre.
Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1089780359707770652004-07-14T12:43:00.000+08:002004-07-14T12:45:59.706+08:00Mike, the bouncer at The LibraryYear - late 80s. I was darn proud to be a librarian. When asked "so, where do you work?" "The Library". "Wah! Cool! The Library - nice disco!". Dont get the twist? Mandarin Hotel used to have a basement pub named "The Library", now renamed "The Boiler".
[post 11/1997]
Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1089780086014930962004-07-14T12:27:00.000+08:002004-07-14T12:49:47.743+08:00なんなの 怎么搞的I was a newbie branch library librarian. One of my senior colleagues one day called me while I was at the reference desk, totally baskin in full glory as a new LYE_BEAR_RIAN (i hate it when they drop the "R")
SC: "harlo, can you check for me if we have the book, call no R658.6589123how and if have, is it on the shelf?"
Me, without any nanoseconds pause, talked into the handset: "No idea" and I Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1089779154619511592004-07-14T12:16:00.000+08:002004-07-14T12:55:06.196+08:00Las Tres PreguntasIvan asked if I was ever with NRL. (national reference library). Maybe he was not aware that, in those days, there was a stringent selection of the highest order to ordain these special (civil) servants as reference librarians. A disguised supervisor lurked around and count the number of readers who have approached you with these three questions:
1. Where is the toilet?
2. Where is the male Legendary Pinkdothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321313572915782491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486252.post-1089711577437731472004-07-13T17:38:00.000+08:002004-07-13T17:40:04.816+08:00business of a blogger``To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar.''
Samuel Johnson Chapter VIII The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
[post 8/1997]
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