Guessing

Anyone can guess what I want to show in this picture? I took it in the subway. :P

学习中文

学了12年的中文，有时还是无法正常跟中国同事沟通，还被批烂华语，惭愧。
有些音调，文字讲法，我还真的须要时间学习。

不讲“公司”，说“单位”；不叫“上司或boss”，称“领导”；
“generate report”, 是“倒报表”；
“去想想，给ideal”,要说 “思路，思路一下”；
“print out”是打印，“e-mail给你”是发了给你；
复杂要说 “fu3za2";

讲话时，要尽量用完整的中文，不能加入不惯用的英文或我们马来西亚的leh, neh，偶尔的alamak, kanasai都会被增大的眼睛瞪，似说 lu kong mai kai !

有时回家，会觉得舌头有点打结，卷在一起的感觉。哈！

小桥。流水。人家。

那天，和家人去了同里，是中国魅力名镇,小桥流水人家,典型的江南水乡，而且也是世界文化遗产之一。

之前，看了北京这么多宫，去了苏州水乡，不知道是不是看了太多的中国式庭院和水乡，有点反胃了，我都没有那种哇，哦的感觉。可能这些水乡都变了旅游景点，太 commercialize 了。

同样的小桥，流水，人家， 为什么在 Amsterdam 会想要在那里终老呢，有很舒服的感觉，而这里，还是免了罢。是从洋，还是外国的月亮比较圆？不过，中国风，还真的不适合我。

图片 ：上 - 同里， 下 - Amsterdam by Beh Kim

豆沙包一个

Bravo Beh Kim ! You are CORRECT !

猜一猜

哈，猜一猜这是什么东东？

猜中我请小笼包。 不可以 google 啊！

Another round of blocking

Just heard from Chew Chin, China is blocking the facebook. Yeah, no blogger, no twitter, no wordpress and now NO FACEBOOK !!!!!! I really hope that by the time I got back, I still can access to facebook and blogger through the VPN.

Pray hard, pray very very hard.

绑手绑脚

三个星期前，中国又决定 block 了 blogspot。无所事事的我，读博客，写博客已是我每天的工作，真的是晴天霹雳。还好，贵人 - 晓慧相助，让我重见天日。
这三个星期，上网好像被绑手绑脚，除了 facebook 和 e-mail， 哪里也不能去，非常懊恼！！
原来人失去自由，是非常痛苦。 原来人做错事，囚禁应该是最好的处罚。

I want silver, don't want gold

I need to go HEALTH

Hiccups before departure

My flight to Beijing was delayed due to foggy weather. Some flights were canceled on the previous night and when we reached the airport the following morning around 7.30am, the departure hall was full of people and all flights had been delayed to further notice. The arrival hall was totally cleared as no landing flights at all for about 3-4 hours as well as departure flights.

Our flight had been delayed about 7 hours. I guess that day Pudong Airport was in havoc because they need to re-arrange the delayed flights and also the normal scheduled flights.

First hiccup : Barriers in zigzag line can be break though. One zigzag line in queue can actually split into various lines and line directly to the counters. Brrhhhh TIC ----> This is China.

Second hiccup : Our same gate "partner", Wenzhou flight was landed in Hongjiao Airport and passengers were asked to go there by bus provided by airline. People started to questioning:

我们人在这里，为什么飞机去虹矫? (All passangers are here, why the plane went to Hongjiao?) - They really don't understand why the plane cannot board or just don't want to understand??!!??

叫你们的领导来，你不能做主，你给我滚！(Ask your management to come, if you can't have a say, just go!) *经理来了* 你能不能做主，如果不能，也给我滚！(*The manager came* If you can't have a say, you also GO! I want to see your top management) - speechless

飞机是死的，人是活的，就不能安排飞机过来，为什么我们要过去？(Literally saying, plane is dead object, human is active, you can make arrangement, why we have to go?) - even speechless
Third hiccup : Finally, we got in our plane, however still need to wait for our time slot to fly. People get frustrated and started to stand up and scold. The pilot actually had to come out and talked to those people. Some good ones that commented by those people:

为什么要等这样久？都已经好了，还不能飞？（Why we can't fly now since we already ready?) - Again, they don't understand and just simply don't want to understand why the plane needs to wait !

这样久，我不要飞了，我要退票，退票！！！ (I don't want to wait anymore, I don't want to fly, I want refund, I want to get down!!!!) - huh, you are already on board

It's a true experience to see how these people scolding and beyond words to describe it. You need a very high EQ to handle those locals. Really tough to answer those questions and seriously need you to think OUT of the box.

词不达意

Dare to Eat?

Look at the last row of English description. Do you dare to order if you don't know Mandarin?

无喱头 - II

不对，可是又不是完全错， 懊恼。。。 懊恼。。。

无喱头