Hey me! Talk to me!
Hey, Tang!
It’s “… FEEL 得到既潔淨…” as in “EEL” not “… FEW 得到既潔淨…”.
Hey, Karena! (very disappointed in you)
It’s “SUISSE Program” as in “sue-is” not “SWISS Program”.
Hey, Cheng!
It’s “CANON camera” as in “can-on” not “CANNON”; it shoots pictures, not cannonballs.
“Have to learn English la…”
It’s astronaut, not “estranod”, alright?!
While websurfing this morning, I stumbled upon the following…
…but really, who uses e-mail anymore when you could 1) use the P-H-O-N-E, or 2) Hello? Instant Messenger?!?
Elementary! My dear What神s. Phone is much more invasive (get this into ur peabrains, u telemarketites). IM is for something quick that could be handled in a jiffy. Email is for something that might take a little more time or thoughts to look after; which today’s kids don’t seem to have a grasp on.
So the next time you want a favor, don’t call me nor IM me during month-end; or it would just be deliberately ignored.
Sa-xo-phone, not phonesex sexphone.
Swa-Rov-Ski. Not swarsiki.
Interesting advice; however,
“After 10 minutes of listening at 2-4x, try going back to listen at 1x or even 1.4x. It will seem incredibly slow because your mind will have adapted to the faster input rate.”
… it might also be a perfect way to make yourself fall asleep much more easily at the lecture hall though.
in a speech, don’t read what it has been written (by anyone).
I have been to enough events where hosts and guests would have speeches and most of them would simply read out their speeches directly from chits. 100% of the time, 95% of the audience would not care to listen. A complete waste of time for saying nothing at all to no one.
Last Sunday in a public ceremony for celebrating 5/4, our ex-Secretary for Justice, Elsie Leung gave a speech where she read out word for word directly off a chit. At the beginning, while she was addressing the guests I suppose, the microphones were off. With her head down watching the words, she kept reading even when the microphones were eventually turned on afterward as everyone then finally hear her continued in her usual boring monotone sticky tongue voice as if everything were normal all along! Her entire speech conveyed only one message to me - she’s a moron.
One should prepare a speech with something that one wanted to say from the bottom of one’s heart and then say it like one is talking as a person with flesh and blood who truly believes in his words to the audience also with flesh and blood rather than reading like a bot to a brick wall. If you can’t say what you have to say, sit down and shut up. Quit wasting everyone’s precious time. Any 7 year old kid could read off a chit. Hack! A speech synthesizer could have done that! Imagine if Steve Jobs read off a chit during his keynote presentations instead. Who would care to buy his products after that?!
As usual, a few of us gathered for a dinner near the Hong Kong Rugby 7s weekend. Other than Mr. Steve Housser, there is no other guests from the school this time around, so we decided to have a small group quiet dinner instead. Being a Monday night, originally, we were going to take a stroll up to SOHO and pick out a restaurant; however, the weather report in the morning said there would be a thunderstorm in the evening. So we changed the plan and made reservation at a restaurant nearby the Causeway Bay MTR station instead so that we wouldn’t get too wet. Although in the end, the thunderstorm came early in the afternoon and it was relatively dry by the evening, we all enjoyed the nice food and had a good chat.
We would like to thank Steve for all the souvenirs, and thank Edmund for recommending a great restaurant and delicious food.
More photos here.
From this evening…
- “Febury” as in “February”, by my niece
- London National “Gary” as in “Gallery”, by Professor Man Kit-wah
- “definnation” as in “definition” by local fashion designer William Tat-chi Tang
How does one spell correctly without knowing the proper pronunciation? One does what local does best - by brute force memorization. Perhaps we have “Spelling Elephants” rather than “Spelling Bees”.
WhaUSay?!