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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
well, i rillly miss dubai! so to help keep the blog alive and share somemore photos of our trip... here i go!
 a nice candy shop with all the nuts and goodies in there! walking into a traditional souk  the sean kingston lookalike  burj al arab behind us!  and someone commented this is a nice photo ;D thats why its up here! by the way, mr najib suggested dinner after papers on wednesday! anybody game for it? or shall we postpone it to thursday afternoon, thursday night... or something. since we dont have science papers. hehe. please tag your choice! seeya friends! study hard, all the best for CT2! Saturday, June 14, 2008
Even Nick can't beat this..........
An introduction to Englasian
How to order fast food in Asia By Nury Vittachi MY FRIEND’S DAUGHTER works in a fast food shop in Hong Kong. I watched her and her friends in action the other day. The weird thing is that the staff can communicate perfectly well in English with anyone from Hong Kong, South Asia, East Asia, or pretty much any other part of the region. But when a fresh-off-the-boat tourist enters the restaurant, communication gets difficult. Monolingual English speakers from America, for example, “hear” Asian-English words differently. Fast food server: Harlowelcumkaneye L. pyoo? Customer: What? Fast food server: Harlowelcumkaneye L. pyoo? Customer: Er, yes, I’d like one cheeseburger please. Fast food server: Dull Swiss wit Baygon? Customer: Excuse me? Fast food server: Dull Swiss wit Baygon? Customer: Oh, no, I don’t want a double-Swiss with Baygon, I mean bacon. I just want a normal cheeseburger. Fast food server: Humbugger wit jees. Setter Al Eckart? Customer: Pardon me? Fast food server: Setter Al Eckart? Customer: Ah, got it. A La carte, please. Fast food server: One-for-rice wee tat? Customer: No, I don’t want rice, thank you very much. Fast food server: One-for-rice wee tat! Customer: Oh, yes, please, I want fries with that. Fast food server: Smormy dyumludj? Customer: I’m sorry, would you mind…? Fast food server: Smormy dyumludj. U juan smor, me, dyum, ludj? Customer: Medium. Fast food server: Ad too duller soup a size. Customer: What? Fast food server: Ad too duller soup a size. Customer: Not supersized, thanks. I’m fat enough already, ha ha! Fast food server: Wad rink u juan? Customer: Fresh orange juice, please. Fast food server: Fray soringe ad too duller. Chippa u buy set. Customer: Okay, gimme a set. Fast food server: Wit set you juan? Customer: Cheeseburger. Fast food server: Dull Swiss wit Baygon set? Customer: Excuse me? Fast food server: You juan dull Swiss wit Baygon set? Customer: No, I don’t want – actually, maybe I do want Baygon. At least it would kill my appetite. How come Asians can communicate with other Asians using this bare-bones English, while tourists struggle with it? Because English is really a whole group of languages. A tourist who speaks only “the Queen’s English” limits himself to communicating with speakers of that dialect. But if you speak Asian English—which I propose we call Englasian—you end up with a language the majority of people on Earth can understand. In fact, I reckon we should train the Queen of England to speak it. I can just picture her on her next tour of Asia stepping off the Royal yacht and saying: “We are most amused to be here. My husband and I would like to say harlowelkumkanwee L. pyoo.” Saturday, June 7, 2008
Here's what you guys missed in Beijing
    
Thursday, June 5, 2008
as salaam alaikum!
 hello you people! long time no see long time no hear. so i decided to give a little peek at what our trip was like. yes it was an econs trip, but we learnt a lot more things relevant to other stuff too! like how the arabs are such great hosts...  we learnt a bit about geog too! about traffic problems in the city...  and a bit about gated communities like the palm jumeirah!  but being dubai, they couldn't just stop at ONE palm. so here's the plan of how they're gonna expand their coastline even further! with two more palms PLUS the world (and in the not so distant future, the Universe)  and erm on a more random note, we saw this and thought about lit too...  so learning more about the people and the country itself, it kinda made us crazy how their lives seem so good... so what better thing to do than to do a little camwhoring!  here with the burj al arab in the back..  and another random one on the streets  will try to show you more next time. if not bug either chia, dennis or yinling for more explanations!
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