it has been a while... but yes, the sleepy spells are back... especially after lunch even though lunch wasn't heavy. zzzzz....
save me from the z-monster!! coffee time...
does anyone have tips to share on how to stay awake during office hours and concentrate doing work that has been piling up? people get bored with no work... but i think there's also another group of people who gets bored of doing work coz it's just never ending.... oh well...
{ Tuesday, September 26 }
i remember reading this many years ago in an 8days magazine and i totally laughed my head off. chanced upon it again and thought it'd be nice to put it somewhere (ie, here) where i can come back to it often enough to laugh at it again. i think some of you would have heard some, if not all, of them already. whatever the case, hope you'll enjoy this one... ;)
Ah Beng's Medical DictionaryANTIBODY - against everyone
ARTERY - the study of fine paitings
BACTERIA - the back door of a cafeteria
BENIGN - what you'll be after you 'be eight'
BOWEL - the letters A, E, I, O and U
CAESAREAN SECTION - a district in Rome
CARDIOLOGY - advanced study of poker
CAT SCAN - the search for a lost kitty
CAUTERIZE - made eye contact with her
COMA - a punctuation mark
CORTIZONE - the local courthouse
D&C - where Washington is
DILATE - live longer
ENEMA - foe
ER - the thing on your head you use to hear with
GENES - blue denim slacks
HAEMORRHOID - a male from outer space
IMPOTENT - distinguished, well-known
LABOUR PAIN - hurt from work
ORGAN TRANSPLANT - what you do to your piano when you move
PATHOLOGICAL - a reasonable way to go
PHARMACIST - a person in the agricultural line
PROTEIN - in favour of young people
RED BLOOD COUNT - dracula
SECRETION - hiding something
TABLET - a small table
TERMINAL ILLNESS - getting sick at the airport
TUMOR - an extra pair
URINE - opposite of 'you're out'
VARICOSE - very close
VEIN - conceited
ok don't ask me what is it with me with definitions. haha. realised this is my 2nd post in a row defining something. i promise some thoughts on the next one (which is actually on my drafts list but this came and so it came out first). these things are just so funny... hard to let them slip by. =P God bless.
{ Thursday, September 21 }
for the benefit of those who do not live in singapore or those who do not frequently order tea and coffee at 'kopi tiam's and were wondering what in the world 'teh kosong' mean, here's a list of words used to order hot coffee and tea at our local coffee shop (aka kopi tiam, which literally means coffee shop). =)
root wordsteh (pronounced as it is) - tea with condensed milk
kopi (pronounced as
koh-pee) - coffee with condensed milk
add-ons after root wordsO (pronounced as it is) - black
si (pronounced as
see) - evaporated milk with sugar
gao (pronounced as it is) - thick
boh (pronounced as it is) - thin
siu dai (pronounced as
see-u tie) - less sugar
kosong (pronounced as
koh-song) - no sugar
peng (pronounced as like a ping with the 'i' replaced with 'eh') - cold [literally means ice]
the add-ons are listed in order of arrangement after the root word...
for example, if i say i want teh-si, i'm ordering tea without condensed milk but with evaporated milk and sugar instead. i guess that's supposed to be the healthier alternative to teh.
then if i order teh-si siu dai or teh-si kosong, means i'm ordering tea with evaporated milk with less sugar or no sugar respectively.
and teh-si gao kosong peng would be think tea with evaporated milk without sugar with ice, ie, cold. hehe. complicated order ay...
the same works with teh-o or kopi-o or kopi-si.
so as you can see that siu dai and kosong is used when there's a sugar component in the drink. teh and kopi is sweet because of the condensed milk and not because there was any sugar added into the drink. and so when anyone orders teh kosong... can you imagine what should be served? =P
anyway, short and sweet. hope you guys get a clearer idea. =)
oooo.. and i just discovered this recently... if you hear the drinks uncle go 'sua' eg. teh-o sua... it just means two cups. ;)
to order milo you could say 'kick ball' in hokkein.. coz the milo tin container always has the picture of someone kicking soccer (and so would the advertisements 10 yrs ago)
and to order chinese tea you could say 'fishing' in hokkein... coz they'll give you a chinese tea bag in hot water and you'd have to dip the tea bag up and down to get the tea diffused... haha
so the next time you come to singapore, you could use these terms to order your tea and coffee at the coffee shop next door ;)
{ Monday, September 18 }
must so share this phrase that i heard yesterday.
customer: "uncle, teh kosong!"
the drinks uncle standing beside the customer gave a really puzzled look (actually i wasn't too sure if he was puzzled or amused. haha)
uncle: "huh? teh kosong? soli hor, we don't do."
LOL!! think abt it. how would you make teh kosong? would you serve teh-o kosong? (then the customer should have just ordered teh-o kosong.. like doh..) or maybe you would serve just condensed milk?? which would be like really weird... coz i don't think condensed milk can be considered a beverage.
LOL! in any case, i think it's hilarious!
customer: "soli unker, i want teh-si kosong"
hahaha. teh-si kosong saves the day. =)
{ Friday, September 8 }
got this from my cell budd =) thought some of the one-liners were pretty kewl. enjoy...
1) Give God what's right, not what's left
2) Man's way leads to a hopeless end
God's way leads to an endless hope
3) He who kneels before God, stands before anyone
4) We don't change God's message, His message changes us
5) When God ordains, He sustains
6) WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning
7) Plan ahead.
It wasn't raining when Noah built his ark
8) Exercise daily.
Walk with the Lord
9) Never give the devil a ride.
He will always want to drive.
10) Nothing else ruins the truth than stretching it
11) Compassion is difficult to give away... because it keeps coming back
12) He who angers you controls you
13) Worry is the darkroom where negatives can be developed
14) Be ye fishers of men.
You catch them, He'll clean them.
15) God doesn't call the qualifed.
He qualifies the called.
hope you've been blessed. =) it's monday! praise the Lord! because it's a choice to praise and that's why there's this phrase "bringing a sacrifice of praise" ;)
{ Monday, September 4 }