Cimetidine

And SO I needed to buy Cimetidine. At the counter...

Me : Excuse me, do you have See-mi-din?

Dispenser : See-mi-din??

Me : Ya ya... See-mi-din!!!

Dispenser : English name??

Hahahaha! And so the correct pronunciation sounds like Se-me-de-din. ^_-)

Annoy You

And so I received a random sms that was clearly send wrongly to Moi.... and before I could reply that sms that was send to me by the unknown number... I received...

The earlier sms was send wrongly. Please annoy the message.

Yup yup..please teach me how to ANNOY you. =P

Lost in Translation

Though it's becoming more and more convenience to use those online translators to help check out some words but to literally use what is being churn out for correspondence is really really very WRONG.

Moi received an email from a friend in the land of the little red dot in red... based on the email, I tried to deduce the Japanese translation of it and what it should have been in green

Is it Twin 1 energy?
ツィン 1 , 元気ですか。
How are you, Twin 1?

Entering in September, I began work in the about a moon 8 or 10 day in National Theater.
9 月に入って、国民劇場で毎月8〜１０日間働き始めた。
In early September, I started working at the national theatre for 8-10 days per month.

They will be about 4 and a thing of about 5 hours for one day.
私は1 日につき4 - 5 時間を働かせる。
I work about 4-5 hours per day.

* faint *

Don't trust Machines.

REVERT

I wonder if you tend to send out memo, faxes, emails and business correspondences asking for revertion? Asking the other party to revert on some issues? REVERT is a highly mis-used word in office... at least for Moi lah. =P Got "CORRECTED" Just... so here's the correct meaning from dictionary.com

re·vert
–verb (used without object)
1.to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.: They reverted to the ways of their forefathers.
2.Law. to go back to or return to the former owner or to his or her heirs.
3.Biology. to return to an earlier or primitive type.
4.to go back in thought or discussion: He constantly reverted to his childhood.
–noun
5.a person or thing that reverts.
6.Law. a reversion.

Jap-rish

Boss : Can you check the English name for Gangoroushido?

Me : Har? Come again?

Boss : GAN-GO-LO-SHI-DO.

Me : Hai! GAN-GO-RO-U-SHI-DO ne.

Minutes later....

Me : Boss, it's ganglioside.

Boss : Eh? GAN-RI-O-SHI-DO.

Me : Yup. It's G-A-N-G-L-I-O-S-I-D-E. Like Gan + Lee + o + see.

It's interesting to work with a Japanese Boss whose Engrish requires a little creativity to understand at times. For example,

Disneyland will always be Di-zu-ni-ran-do..

Raffles Hotel will always be La-fu-ru ho-te-ru..

Fullerton will always be flat-ton..

Chijmes will always be chi-chi-mi.

So maybe that's why he never really get to where he wants to go har. =P

Well, Moi also found a funny Japanese learning Engrish video, it's a real TV english-learning programme, and I can still catch it everynight on NHK for about 10-15mins but a slightly different version one. You'll be amazed how the Japanese love to learn.

Harmful Insecticide on SALE

Sometimes you just couldn't help to be amazed or amused by the English used by non-natives... Spot this at http://www.daimarukogyo.co.jp/en/products/chemicals.html

_ / _ _ Unique Experience

Someone asked me this....So what should it be? "A Unique Experience" or "An Unique Experience"?

If the object is "Unique", then it should be "A Unique Experience" cause before words starting with u and eu that sound like 'you', "A" is affixed in front. E.g. A european, A university, A unit. But if it's referring to "Experience", then it should be "An Unique Experience"....

GRRR!!! What should it be?? ANYONE???