lol. came across my old sec 4 worksheet and thought i might just post some of it here, because its just soooo amusing ^^;;

EXAMPLES OF BAD TRANSLATIONS

• "Ladies are not allowed to have children in the bar " - notice at Hotel bar in Japan
  
• "Please do not walk around the corridors in boots of ascension during the hours of repose." -notice at a hotel in Japan
  
• "All services stated here are provided. Complaints are expected at the main office between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m" - sign at a hotel in Paris
  
• "Free drinks for ladies with nuts only. "- sing at a bar in Tokyo
  
• "Drop your pants here for best results." -sign at a dry cleaning store in Tokyo
• "We take your bags and send them in all directions."-sign at a Scandinavian airport
• "Ladies may have a fit upstairs." -sign at a dry cleaning store in Bangkok
• "Please leave your values at the front desk." -sign in a hotel in Paris.
• "Here speeching American." -sign in a Moroccan shop.
• "No smoothen the lion." -sign in a zoo in the Czech Republic.
• "The lift is being fixed. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable." -sign in Bucharest hotel lobby
• "Teeth extracted by latest methodists." -sign in Hong Kong dentist's office.
• "STOP! Drive Sideways." -detour sign in Japan.
• "Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time." -sign in a Rome laundry.
• "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." -sign in an Athens hotel.
• "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for." -on the menu of a Swiss restaurant
• "It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man." -in a Bangkok temple
• "Fur coats made for ladies from their own skin." -window of a Swedish furrier
• "Specialist in women and other diseases." -doctor's office in Rome
• "When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor." -car rental brochure in Tokyo

Lol. after a while. I start getting grateful that we don't communicate like that on a day to day basis. if not, i'd have to be stitched up from laughing to death.
~* sometimes language is just plain..... amazing.

engrishhh

stole this frm Jeremy's blog^^;;. hope he doesn't mind *grin*
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Larissa
2. Lari
3. Lala (specific entitlement only)

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:(but i change all the time!!!! )
1. Lari
2. ermm... can't remember
3. really can't remember

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. smile
2. eyes
3. weight^^

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. hair! *wails* i shld never have cut it!
2. height *grin* no. still not happy with being vertically challenged
3. my fats!!! *tries to hide behind something*

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. China Chinese (gramps was frm China)
2. Generosity in terms of love ( we're a pretty warm bunch)
3. many years of pple that talk really loudly. and i mean. really loudly.

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. mucking up A's
2. strange/wierd pple , esp at nite
3. thrill rides that have to do with height. *shudders*

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. chocolate
2. Phone!
3. hugz(virtually/actuallly/ whatever)

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. T-shirt
2. My lucky shorts^^
3. ermmm.... a butterfly hair pin?

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:
1. Carpenters
2. The Corrs
3. Sun Yan Zi

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS:
1. Don't say you love me - The Corrs
2. Hotel California - The Eagles
3. Time of your life - Greenday

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Love that is unconditional (hopefully)
2. Happiness
3. a special connection

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order):
1. I ate a lizard when i was young by accident
2. I walked into a pillar before
3. i hate chocolate cream

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Smile
2. Eyes
3. Smell ( well, sorta. i like things that smell good generally)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Talking with friends
2. shopping ( when i have the money)
3. travelling

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Be prepared for my coming exams
2. sleep under a star filled night sky
3. Say everything i want to say to someone ( i can't really)

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING/YOU'VE CONSIDERED:
1. journalism
2. diplomat(if i'm ever lucky enough)
3. teaching

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Backpack across USA
2. Backpack across Europe
3. Antarctica

THREE KID'S NAMES YOU LIKE:
1. Vianne
2. Michael
3. Arianne

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. travel the world
2. Rear sheep in New zealand
3. have a tiger cub for a pet

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY:
1. I hate excessive expression of emotion e,g. she is like a god (like that really is true)
2. I like to take things apart and then put them back together again
3. I like fast cars, esp convertibles (dunno why)

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A GIRL:
1. motormouth (i can sit down and rant/bitch/gossip/talk crap for hours and hours and houra)
2. like shopping
3. Can't stand bugs. any kind of bug.

THREE CELEB CRUSHES:( not a common thing... hmmmm...)
1. Wolverine in X-men
2. erm.... ^^;; not that i can remember
3. nada.

THREE PEOPLE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW:
1. Daph. i've got the strangest feeling i'll keel over after that/
2. Len. cos his blog has NOT moved at all.
3. *grin* Adri. cos well, yeah, she has not done a single quiz on hers.

bored quiz

The flower sits and waits
silently watching
whilst the bee buzzes lazily by
wondering
' will it ever be my turn? '

oh well. I've kept too many secrets within me. That i suffer thus is probably the product of playing dumb and keeping mum. so yeah. i can't really complain. if i didn't face things then, then i can't expect them not to catch up with me and torment me now. I'll will it to be over if i have to. (don't worry if you don't know what i'm talking about. its the self-psyching process here)

Anyway its pretty amusing i guess, how life just turns u around and around and leaves you back to square one. How it makes sure u can't run away from things for too long. It'll always always make sure u plant ur feet on the ground. when you start to float off, you get the definate reality check. and bam. ur back where u started. on the ground. good thing no? keeps pple like me who have their head in the clouds a lil too often in this planet and not in another*grin*

i applaud my own acting skills, really, cos i think this person didn't even get a whiff of what i really feel. which is good, cos right now i think the opportunity cost is too heavy a price to pay for what i've kept mum about.

it feels good to have a secret sometimes, but other times really, it becomes a burden u want to will to disappear.

~* secrecy is one card i like to play a little too often

buzzz

I HATE HATE HATE HATE econs. really. i don't have to inclination for it, and i don't think i ever will. That's why studying it becomes such a chore. i actually did math over econs, and felt happy doing it! I need MAJOR guidance. Like a hell load and more. urgh
someone has to chain me to my study table for this subject . its come to a point where i actly reject ir looking at my notes. bleargh.

looming

oooh.... went with Thel to wild wild wet today. had lots and lots of fun

only thing is, now i'm peeling (product of tanning in Malaysia). feel like an orange....

hmmm... was looking out at the water the other day when i managed to squeeze sometime to get to the beach(sun). Everything seemed so perfect and tranquil - the sun in the sky, a gentle breeze blowing in the wind, and the glistening waves echoing in the background. And all of a sudden. this question popped into my head - 'How long is this going to last? '

It seems that nothing stays the same for long. pple change, places change, time sets its mark on everything. we never ever live the same day twice, see the same thing in the exact same why twice. Different perspectives, different angles, various changes. They'd always always make things different. And that's why i suddenly realised each experience, any experience within one day, is always so precious. Because even if u do the same thing over and over again, it will always be different. routine will have subtle differences, dissimilarities in action, And when u look out for these small subtle differences, life just gets that much more interesting

don't you think?

~* each time you look back, you realise, then, something's different.

sunkissed

i cannot believe the nerve of some of my fellow country folk.

Really. if u want to criticise, criticise with a heart, and look at yourself first. Everyone has a tendency to see flaws in others, and don't look and see that their practising it too. urgh.

Why I can not stand belonging to this country
1. Pple here cannot keep their mouth shut. they will always be criticising, gossiping, talking.

2. When in a buffet, i seriously don't understand why they don't go for more rounds with less food on their plates so they can finish everything instead of piling everything on and lbehaving like they've been starved for months, but still don't finish the food

3. They join queues for the most senseless of reasons (e.g. when there's a queue, it means there's smthg good)

4. They don't understand the value of speaking good english. (La's and mah's are liveable. but speaking like this: 'uncle, why you so giam siap( stingy) one?' is just jarring on the ears.)

5. you buy things you don't need because its at half-price, and u throw it away anyway

6. On holiday, they just complain and compare with conditions at home. really really loudly. ( and then u start wondering why they bothered to venture out to begin with if home's so wonderful)

7. They are just plain apathetic.

8. They think everyone else owes them a living (heaven knows why) and behave that way.

~*how dost thee embarass thysellf? let me count the ways

pshaw!

i stand at the corner of the street
looking at the brightly lit lampost
grinning embarassedly at me
in the middle of the day

Aside from that utterly random quote, i felt slightly happier today, well, sorta. had a good time yakking and then waltzing around borders, and the highlight of the day was bumping into Xuannie later and then literally Bouncing across Borders after that in my joy, before, in absolutely thirsty desperation, forking out $3 for an overpriced but much needed orange juice to quench my dying throat.

seriously speaking, almost everything in Orchard is severely over-priced. i see no point in paying like extra, for something i can always get cheaper elsewhere. seriously. like hello. No point. unless, u are, like me, in total desperation (or more likely, negated to see price and had to pay anyway)

Sometimes i wonder why people react so strongly when i fall into my occasional lapses of silence. really, i don't necessarily believe i'm such a constant motormouth, that when i lapse into quiet moments it becomes an issue of 'What's wrong?' (although i do admit that it is when smthg is wrong that i do keep mum too.) a girl can be quiet when she wants to. i have academy award winning performances at keeping mum in the presence of pple for one reason or another. So there. =p

Oh, and horror story of the day: I had to be FORCE-FED chocolate today.Someone actly had to shove choc into my mouth. I declined chocolate (pdt of a really full lunch). I can't believe i declined chocolate. *shakes head*

something is obviously wrong with me

amusingly, i'm rambling without direction, and i suddenly realised how narcisstic this entry is. but hey, who cares. i can't sink into wierd ponderings all the time.I think i'll drive u guys crazy. Assuming obviously, that people read this thing.

I had a nice de-stress dayyyy!!!!! *bounce bounce* wheee....


~* The mirror reflects but one thing

amused

its funny, how life suddenly just spins out of ur control and you find yourself swept away by the waves faster than you can say 'AAHHHHH'. Now i'm washed up on a shore of an unknown island and expected to survive, and i don't even know how i got there.

But then again, i guess that's not what's important, that the things life dishes out are not always the sweetest, or the best- it never will be always like that. You'd not want to be alone, but then again you realise that bridges you thought u have built with people actually have been built out of thin air. You're just left to figure out what to do with the shattered pieces, and you don't even know why it shattered to begin with.. And sometimes, you just wonder why u keep hurting the people around u, why you always get hurt yourself. is there something seriously wrong with you, that others just detest or get annoyed with?

Sometimes you feel so tired, when everything just falls on your shoulders altogether, and you can't breathe under the pressure. you feel like you are on the verge of collapsing, nothing seems going in the right direction, nothing seems to fit. You've lost ur capacity to feel, your heart just feels splintered into a million billion pieces, and somehow, you realise, that you're alone. and you don't know why.

so very alone.

i realise that i haven't had a happy entry in weeks, but that's just true. its been a long while since i genuinely felt buoyant. And now, i just realised, it seems so much longer, when you are depressed.
~* sometimes you'd wish you could yell STOP to the world

twiddledum

I have no idea why you're mad at me, at least, it never struck me as such at 9:25 am when i got ur msg. I dunno who you mean by 'them' neither do i know what ur referring to as my mum being pissed. And u claim that i've let you down twice and taht ur feeling taken for granted.

I don't think its very fair for me to base why things are as such on assumptions, but given the fact that all i got was taht and no other reply, you've really left me to do nothing else as such. The only link i can draw is that u think that the person i'm talking about is you in my blog entries (those taht have been ranting abt second best etc etc etc. ) (ok, this part is the clear up my blame section, apology is next para) These come from a different source, not from you, and if u do think that they are, they are not. I haven't been able to speak to u much, given u and pre-u sem and dance concert trainings, and i've largely been busy with Debate camp. and NOT, as u'd like to presume, on my social life, especially since the 2 u know i am more caught up with are generally busy ( one is overseas and the other, you know where) so i really don't know where the reference in going out with 'them' can lead me to that much trouble, since i've not been traisping around more often out more than once a week, and also since Mummy was just PMS-sy last week.)

I really don't know why ur mad, or if its because i haven't been giving u much attention. I won't specify who i'm talking to ( habitually ambigious as usual) but i think u shld know who u are. I really am sorry if i made u feel that way - its really because in between everything else and studying i really barely have any time for anything else. I don't take u for granted, really, i don't. Just give me some time to try and cope with everything k? i know ur busy too, and that's prolly why there's barely any time for each other, but i really really don't mean to neglect u. If i am, this way isn't going to help the situation either. Happy concert training. I'll see u around my dear

i'm sorry, and don't forget, i love you loads

What i really want in life is just someone to love me for who i am, and be there for me no matter what. That person doesn't have to be a guy or a boyfriend. He/She can be my best friend( my personal preference). i just want to feel like i'm top on their priority list for once, not like midway or worse, last resort. I want to be able to know that there's always that someone who will be there for me, who will understand me and lend me a shoulder to cry on, a tiny corner that we 2 share that no one else can intrude. A person that's mine and mine alone as a best friend( spoilt, i know, but hey, after being second best and spare tyre for 50% of ur life, that's what u get i guess)

I think this poem encapsulates it all, and i have produced it before, but hey, who cares?



~* Let me be selfish, please?

Wild

Sometimes, you really wish that ur not the pushover that you know you are. A lot of times, you wish that you can actually assert urself and be selfish and not want to help others even though u know u would be perfectly happy helping them, so they sop taking u for a doormat. And now, when u do do that, u realise, that ur heart feels guilty, GUILTY for doing something your brain tells u is perfectly reasonable.

It usually takes a hell lot for me to get ruffled, my guess being accumulated grievances. After a while, u just get tired of being picked up only when ur needed and expected to fulfil whatever is asked of u, and then left to dry up in the sun after that. I'm bloody tired of feeling like a second class citizen in someone's life, a last resort, not first choice, on their social priority list. I'm freaking tired of it. Sometimes, i really feel that you don't care for me, just appearing here and there when u finally decide that u really don't have anyone else to talk to. i'm tired of being ur backup, sick of having to clean up ur shit for u. I really am tired of it.

Honestly, tell me, what the hell am i taken for, the way pple push and roll me over and take me for a being without feelings. I love being able to give whatever i can generously - it makes me happy to see others smile, but i never seem to get that effort from other pple. They all just manipulate me and hang me up in the sun after that, forgotten and left to be scorched by its unfeeling heat. Sometimes i wonder if people think i'm just that person that they can utilise. because i'm nice and easy to placate and all that. In actual truth, i am not. i nurse hurts and grievances behind the curtain of a smile. I don't let others see the true degree of hurt they have inflicted upon me, nor tell them how easily their actions reopen wounds.

A lot ask me " why do you get so much shit like that from people". Few would realise, that's a question i've always been asking myself too.

~* did you see the wound that has been bleading since the day u inflicted it in my heart?

suffocated

We are the worst of our kind
Turning away from the windows
of the world.
Dollar signs wallpaper our surroundings

We are the worst of our kind
seeing not the pain and sorrow of
mankind.
seeing not the faces tainted with the
blood of disease, of poverty

We are the worst of our kind
Leaving the hungry man dying against the
wall
Leaving others suffering whilst we play the
games of the rich

We are, the worst of our kind

~* those innocent eyes of suffering

Worst of our kind

whee... just went running ... now feeling super tired. My body is super wierd.. its like,some days i come back adn i'm springing with life and energy after running. Sometimes i just feel like rolling on the ground and dying... *flops like a half flown flag*

wheee.... super happy with my iPod... felt like bouncing down the escalater when i got it... but then again, the look on leonard's face if i do go bouncing down the escalater would prolly be enough to kill allthe air in me^^:; as would anyone else's probably.

Mmmmm.. mommmy seems grumpy these few days, as if i can't help irritating her or smthg >.<
oh well, guess one day she'll have me happily cooking in a pot stewing or smthg, and carve me up for dinner. All are welcome to have a piece of me. ^^

on my way to starving myself for famine camp this weekend (which is pretty hard, given my stomach is one of my top priorities) Which obviously means the next week will be spent pigging out after that ^^V not that i truly mind. really.

oomph