You know what I do when I don’t have mood to blog long strories? I do top ten lists!
Top Ten Things I Learnt This Chinese New Year
- I can eat 4 mandarin oranges in a row before my pee starts to smell orange-y.
- Malaysia’s best tasting snack food, nga ku chips, is called ‘arrowhead root’ in English.
- Jackie Chan’s last few HK movies are getting progressively worse to embarassing (I watched 3 of his movies over the holidays).
- There’s normal yee sang, then there’s good yee sang. Then there’s yee sang where you can’t even find the salmon with a magnifying glass.
- There are A LOT more foreign workers in Malaysia you think. Just go to the shopping mall on the first 2 days of New Year and you’ll see what i mean.
- When someone gives my company a CNY hamper, the bottle of liquor at the top will be the first item to mysteriously disappear after the first day. Next is the box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates.
- Mickey mouse is Chinese.
- US subprime market and recession crisis has also affected the going rate for Malaysian ang pows for children.
- I finally got to see who how my MP looks like – There’s a huge CNY poster of him along the LDP. Too bad he put up the poster BEFORE he found out he was dropped from contesting…
- i also learnt who the hell Edison Chen is.
8 Comments
sasha
ah how u know it takes more than 4 oranges to make yr pee smell like orangie?
Only edison chen meh? the girls leh? hehehe
clement
you learnt only 10? i never had any chance to have yeesang, dad said its only for the cantonese.
giddy tiger
What a coincidence! Most of those things were the stuff I learnt too…hehehe
Shan
LOL hilarious. Hope you had a great chinese new year Simon 🙂
simon
sasha – because i did a test! 🙂
clement – because its a nice number.
giddy tiger – and who says holidays aren’t educational?
shan – thanks! have a drink on me, then.
kucheng – is your site down?
vincent
Did you also see his face being painted over with paint? And in an efficient manner, the banner was replaced shortly after.
simon
i missed that. but saw it in a blog. someone actually climbed all the way up there to do it. wow.
Moomykin
I like the “Mickey Mouse is Chinese”! LOL!!