Thank You!
I feel very happy. BlogExplosion has definitely opened up the world for me. But first of all, I want to thank Chia for helping me add a calendar to my blog. She did a wonderful job in housekeeping my blog too. Thank you, Chia :-)
Next, I want to thank all the bloggers who visited my blog. I understand that my little world may not be of interest to most but I'm still very happy that there are a few who like my little world. Thank you again. When I'm referred by BE to your blogs, I'll definitely remember to leave a mark there.
Traffic to my blog exploded but what I hope for in joining BlogExplosion is to know the world and to share my little world with the huge big world. I'm happy to read about the lives and thoughts of people from every parts of the world. We have different cultures and we will be able to understand different cultures better.
My daddy was very worried when I told him that I joined BE. But last night, he gave me all the encouragements after monitoring my blog. He was worried that there will be abusive people and I won't be able to handle. But thankfully, all who commented in my blog are nice people, especially Mr Howie Hammer of Dad of Twins. Gennie of Dizzy Girl gives me more encouragement to want to improve on my blog.
Surfing, I see many blogs talk about the US Presidential Election. I have no interests in politics and am too young to be interested. The only time I get 'involved' in US politics is when I play Presidential Knockout, an online game.
These are the blogs that I cannot wait for the 30 seconds to move to the next blog. I'm sorry about that. But because my daddy has been involved in local politics here, I know a little bit about politics. Recently, I saw daddy's article posted in Chia's blog. Daddy can write articles in good humour and I always enjoy reading his articles. I have his permission to post one of his articles here. He wrote this in March this year, before the General Elections in Malaysia. Maybe people will get a glimpse of election in Malaysia. I hope you enjoy his article.
Election or Erection?
About some 20 years ago when I had interests in becoming a lawyer, I spent a lot of my free time at a legal firm. My childhood friend was reading law while his elder brother was already a practising lawyer.
It was a time when the government was taking actions against illegal settlements and every other day, the mainstream medias would headlined demolitions of squatter houses and owners of illegal structures were charged in court.
But where was the fun in reading those headlines? Splashed across the frontpage in bold, "Man charged for Illegal Erection". What? Illegal erection? For a layman who would just define the words in simple English, what would it be? Did the editor thought it proper to use Legal Terms as headlines then?
Fine then, one can be charged for illegal erection!
Then I was shown a letter by my lawyer friend. He had received a letter from the Malaysian Bar Council. Apparently some typo mistake, somewhere in the content of the letter, it said "Malaysian Bra Council".
And if they were funny enough to cause us rolling on the floor laughing, the lawyer told us another joke about a court proceedings. It was about a certain case that had a court interpreter. This interpreter was a Bhai and Bhai jokes are abundant.
The prosecutor charged, "I put it to you, you were lying down on bed". The Bhai interpreter interpreted it as, "Saya taruh sama awak, awak atas katil". And the statement was made in a Bhai tone. "Saya taruh sama awak"???
If laughters for the day were not enough, we were soon entertained by Samy Vellu. In the evening news, RTM aired a clip of a blood donation drive. Samy Vellu was giving his speech, or speec? As it was, Samy's Indian slange was all too powering. He swallowed every 'h'. In the highlighted clip, guess what did Samy say?
"Saya tidak suka orang yang hisap dada. Saya suka orang yang derma dara." (Translated: I don't like people who suck breasts. I love people who donate virgins) Holy smoke! Read that in Samy's Indian slange and you will be rolling down on the floor laughing too.
Now, who has the most problem in pronouncing the letter 'r'? It is the Chinese who are educated in Mandarin of course. When I sent my kids to school this morning, I took the trouble to ask a few of their friends to pronounce the word 'erection'. No prize for guessing, all of them read it as 'e-lec-tion'.
Parliament is dissolved today. What's ahead? General Election or General Erection?
Whatever the pronunciations, my only definition is to vote the OPPOSITION!
Next, I want to thank all the bloggers who visited my blog. I understand that my little world may not be of interest to most but I'm still very happy that there are a few who like my little world. Thank you again. When I'm referred by BE to your blogs, I'll definitely remember to leave a mark there.
Traffic to my blog exploded but what I hope for in joining BlogExplosion is to know the world and to share my little world with the huge big world. I'm happy to read about the lives and thoughts of people from every parts of the world. We have different cultures and we will be able to understand different cultures better.
My daddy was very worried when I told him that I joined BE. But last night, he gave me all the encouragements after monitoring my blog. He was worried that there will be abusive people and I won't be able to handle. But thankfully, all who commented in my blog are nice people, especially Mr Howie Hammer of Dad of Twins. Gennie of Dizzy Girl gives me more encouragement to want to improve on my blog.
Surfing, I see many blogs talk about the US Presidential Election. I have no interests in politics and am too young to be interested. The only time I get 'involved' in US politics is when I play Presidential Knockout, an online game.
These are the blogs that I cannot wait for the 30 seconds to move to the next blog. I'm sorry about that. But because my daddy has been involved in local politics here, I know a little bit about politics. Recently, I saw daddy's article posted in Chia's blog. Daddy can write articles in good humour and I always enjoy reading his articles. I have his permission to post one of his articles here. He wrote this in March this year, before the General Elections in Malaysia. Maybe people will get a glimpse of election in Malaysia. I hope you enjoy his article.
Election or Erection?
About some 20 years ago when I had interests in becoming a lawyer, I spent a lot of my free time at a legal firm. My childhood friend was reading law while his elder brother was already a practising lawyer.
It was a time when the government was taking actions against illegal settlements and every other day, the mainstream medias would headlined demolitions of squatter houses and owners of illegal structures were charged in court.
But where was the fun in reading those headlines? Splashed across the frontpage in bold, "Man charged for Illegal Erection". What? Illegal erection? For a layman who would just define the words in simple English, what would it be? Did the editor thought it proper to use Legal Terms as headlines then?
Fine then, one can be charged for illegal erection!
Then I was shown a letter by my lawyer friend. He had received a letter from the Malaysian Bar Council. Apparently some typo mistake, somewhere in the content of the letter, it said "Malaysian Bra Council".
And if they were funny enough to cause us rolling on the floor laughing, the lawyer told us another joke about a court proceedings. It was about a certain case that had a court interpreter. This interpreter was a Bhai and Bhai jokes are abundant.
The prosecutor charged, "I put it to you, you were lying down on bed". The Bhai interpreter interpreted it as, "Saya taruh sama awak, awak atas katil". And the statement was made in a Bhai tone. "Saya taruh sama awak"???
If laughters for the day were not enough, we were soon entertained by Samy Vellu. In the evening news, RTM aired a clip of a blood donation drive. Samy Vellu was giving his speech, or speec? As it was, Samy's Indian slange was all too powering. He swallowed every 'h'. In the highlighted clip, guess what did Samy say?
"Saya tidak suka orang yang hisap dada. Saya suka orang yang derma dara." (Translated: I don't like people who suck breasts. I love people who donate virgins) Holy smoke! Read that in Samy's Indian slange and you will be rolling down on the floor laughing too.
Now, who has the most problem in pronouncing the letter 'r'? It is the Chinese who are educated in Mandarin of course. When I sent my kids to school this morning, I took the trouble to ask a few of their friends to pronounce the word 'erection'. No prize for guessing, all of them read it as 'e-lec-tion'.
Parliament is dissolved today. What's ahead? General Election or General Erection?
Whatever the pronunciations, my only definition is to vote the OPPOSITION!
