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Month: January 2008

  • “Espire” already, are you sure can use?

    Unfortunate name for a condom, given the local variation in pronouncing certain words: Technorati Tags: condom, name, engrish, singlish, singapore, 7-11, it’s a store and more, branding

  • Highway codes

    Photo by ohad* The other day while driving home, Naomi asked me what the universal sign for “your headlights are not on, please turn them on because it’s nighttime and you’re being a complete idiot if you don’t turn them on right away”? was. I told Naomi that I didn’t know, but that I had…

  • The lengths some go to get their ang pow

    Photo by @Dmateur Chinese New Year must be near if “Boy falls while performing lion dance on poles“. I laughed out loud, and kept laughing until I stopped. OK, I know it’s bad to laugh at the misfortune of others, but a headline like that is funny in so many ways. Not least, because it’s…

  • Battling the news

    I don’t know what a “laissez-faire attitude towards weight” means. Does it mean the government doesn’t care whether you’re fat or not? Or does it mean that you shouldn’t interfere with the weight of others? These are the first of the difficult issues of the new year one finds in one’s nation’s premier news media…

  • With a bang (and a slight dent)

    I wished a total stranger Happy New Year in Mandarin, even though he had just crashed into the front passenger door of my car right after he rode his bicycle on the pavement against the flow of traffic that was on the road outside the entrance to my apartment blocks. In response, he said, “対不起対不起対不起対不起新年快乐対不起対不起対不起対不起対不起対不起対不起“…