Singapore's Natural Education (SNE06)
Today, waking up at 9.30 a.m. to go to school (and actually reaching there by 10! Amazing!), I have learnt that:
1. Jap language is actually quite interesting. Their onomatopoeia is one of a kind =D
2. Japs have no problem about borrowing syllables, words, anything at all. Piang eh. It's amazing how much they can borrow.
3. An example is the word "strike". When transliterated into Jap, it is pronounced as 'su to ra i ku'.
4. Not bad huh. Maybe, for a start, they should plug in to their national heritage and BORROW some foreign talent and capital to kickstart their ailing economy.
5. Talking about borrowing, that means that certain Singaporean words can be imported into Japanese too:
"paiseh" = pu ai se!
"shiok" = su ho i o ku
"piang eh" = pu i a ne gu- e
"wah lau eh" = wa ra u- e! (see? Japanese and Singaporean phonetics can match man.)
"KNN" = *censored*
6. I'd like to borrow a nice Jap girl too. :) And borrow her forever. =P
7. My "picture-perfect" girl, who's in JS too, is taken. Ah darn. =) But I feel happy for her la. Heh. Bet she's happy *wink*
8. That when your project mates ask you to come to a morning group discussion, and you say Yes, what you really mean is Yes, but xiong1 duo1 ji2 shao3.
9. That on a morning meant for project discussion, when Dan says
"I'll be a bit late", he means "I'll be VERY LATE"
"I was stuck in a jam", he means "I was stuck in a jam. In bed."
"It's quite difficult to make it at that time", he means "It's quite difficult for me to make it that time, given that I'll still be rolling around with Pooh in bed". (Ok, I know that sounds so wrong. Be innocent in mind, people! Tsk. =)
10. Today, for one of the rare moments in history, I prayed to God about a significant other. And God broke "radio silence" today about the girl issue. Amazing how God speaks, even in a Jap lecture (anathema to me, but never mind). And the qtn was, how long do I want to wait, given that I'm so busy and preoccupied with many things nowadays? So I told him, 2 more months.
1. Jap language is actually quite interesting. Their onomatopoeia is one of a kind =D
2. Japs have no problem about borrowing syllables, words, anything at all. Piang eh. It's amazing how much they can borrow.
3. An example is the word "strike". When transliterated into Jap, it is pronounced as 'su to ra i ku'.
4. Not bad huh. Maybe, for a start, they should plug in to their national heritage and BORROW some foreign talent and capital to kickstart their ailing economy.
5. Talking about borrowing, that means that certain Singaporean words can be imported into Japanese too:
"paiseh" = pu ai se!
"shiok" = su ho i o ku
"piang eh" = pu i a ne gu- e
"wah lau eh" = wa ra u- e! (see? Japanese and Singaporean phonetics can match man.)
"KNN" = *censored*
6. I'd like to borrow a nice Jap girl too. :) And borrow her forever. =P
7. My "picture-perfect" girl, who's in JS too, is taken. Ah darn. =) But I feel happy for her la. Heh. Bet she's happy *wink*
8. That when your project mates ask you to come to a morning group discussion, and you say Yes, what you really mean is Yes, but xiong1 duo1 ji2 shao3.
9. That on a morning meant for project discussion, when Dan says
"I'll be a bit late", he means "I'll be VERY LATE"
"I was stuck in a jam", he means "I was stuck in a jam. In bed."
"It's quite difficult to make it at that time", he means "It's quite difficult for me to make it that time, given that I'll still be rolling around with Pooh in bed". (Ok, I know that sounds so wrong. Be innocent in mind, people! Tsk. =)
10. Today, for one of the rare moments in history, I prayed to God about a significant other. And God broke "radio silence" today about the girl issue. Amazing how God speaks, even in a Jap lecture (anathema to me, but never mind). And the qtn was, how long do I want to wait, given that I'm so busy and preoccupied with many things nowadays? So I told him, 2 more months.
posted by theChosenCan at 3/31/2005 10:56:00 am
2 Comments:
Japanese for "Burger King", no kidding, is "Be-ru-ge-ru King-u".
love it.
ha. who's u bro/sis? as the chinese kongfu serial pple would say, "ni3 shi4 he2 ren2? liu2 xia4 xing4 ming2!"
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