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13 Comments » Most of you have probably read about this: McDonald’s left the pig out of its currently-selling zodiac doraemon series, out of respect for Muslims.
Based on that reasoning, the Goonfather pointed out, the dragon should also be omitted out of respect for Christians because dragons are identifed with Satan.
Why can I never get a straight answer from a man? We’re planning a trip to Guernsey (an island) dead early tomorrow morning, so I need to know what time we have to leave so I can set my alarm.
Me: What time do we have to leave home?
Piers: No earlier than an hour before the time we have to be there – which is an hour before we sail (6 am).
Took me 11 minutes of questioning, during which time I got more riddles, before I received the answer: 4 am.
Piers “invented” a really delicious Asian snack combo: Prawn crackers with hoisin sauce! So proud of him!
I also found this awesome lemongrass-flavoured prawn crackers at Tesco. From Netherlands, but makers were Indoneisan settlers. Tastes so great when you dip into hoisin sauce (sparingly)!
Yeah I know my photos are missing from my blog header. Looks very funny, doesn’t it?
Nanny Wen (aka Buggy Wen aka Davienne) says it reminds her of Harry Potter’s moving picture people.
Guess my photos are taking a break. They’ve gone into hiding because it’s been raining a lot in England and the weather forecast says it’s going to hail tomorrow.
IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER!
Crazy or not.
I thought I’d be in discomfort for a year because I was finding it impossible to get used to Invisalign in my mouth. But just 11 days into it, I hardly feel it anymore.
Was playing on my iPad before bed last night when I suddenly couldn’t feel plastic in my mouth and for one horrifying moment, thought that I had forgotten to put my aligners back on after dinner, which was ages ago.
Turned out it’s just my mouth has started to adapt.
Quote of the day
Me: I want a pet duckling!
Piers: LOL why!!!
Me: Cos they’re so cute.
Piers: All baby things are cute! Except babies.
A transport provider in the UK just sent me an e-mail asking me to take part in an online survey to help improve services.
So I go there and answer two questions (age and last time I used the service) and they say:
“Thank you for your time. Unfortunately, you do not qualify for the survey as this time around we are looking to survey our more senior customers (over 60) only.”
WTF fail.
Was googling the difference between biscuits and cookies and got linked to a Yahoo! Answers page. This guy’s answer made me LOL.
“The difference between the biscuit and the cookie is the Atlantic.
Plus, American biscuit more like a savory scone
Plus English biscuit is an American cookie.
Plus English or American cookie is in your computer to do stuff that no one really understands.”
Being too ambitious (or greedy). Two heaped bowls of ricotta and spinach tortelloni in bolognese sauce, with six sausages and three baby zucchinis thrown into the mix. A roll of garlic bread and a bottle of wine. Delicious!
Yay I got white tulips! My favouritest flowers. :)
England has the most beautiful flowers. Tulips and roses in white with pale pink. Gerberas in strawberry milk pink. Makes me happy!
Just read in detail about foot binding in ancient China. I always thought they just wrapped up the feet during infancy to stop them from growing.
But, no! They wait till the girl is 4-7 years old, then break her toes and arch bones so that the toes can curl under the sole. Without anaesthesia.
After wrapping the monstrous creation tightly, the girl is then forced to walk on her broken feet so her weight can help crush them into shape. The feet are crushed and rebound daily for like two years! WTF is wrong with people?!
And cow should be omited coz buddhist don’t eat cow.
and rats to cos its dirty.. :P
then shld omit everything out of respect for other races coz they dont believe animal zodiacs
hahaha I agree with naeboo!
besides, what’s so disrespectful about doraemon in a pig costume? is doraemon muslim?????
What about being respectful to everyone (Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans, etc) who observe the Lunar calendar? Figure there’s more of us then them…
Think McD’s should bring the McRib over to SG to be respectful of those of us who eat pork!
Then there should be one doramon covered in leaves…in respect for vegetarians…the current ones are all meat!! Haha
Haha….. many good points here. :P
I figure also that by trying to be respectful to Muslims, McD’s might be inadvertently disrespectful because it’s implying that Muslims are more sensitive than other people.
How about closing down the McD’s becasue it’s very existance offends Muslims, Jews, Christians and people with eating disorders?
I assure you our daughter will not be eating there :P
I’m pretty sure they won’t give a rat’s ass about the pig being in there if not for the fact that they are certified halal
oh. i didnt knw having a pig doll toy that supposed to be part of thousand-year-old zodiac would make their food not halal. is it edible??
Haha naeboo, my thoughts exactly. Really don’t understand what’s so non-halal about a soft toy.
methinks it’s a case of being more Muslim than the Muslims, just like some Malays are being more Arab than the Arabs and some Singaporeans are being more Ang Mo than the Ang Mos. Say, did anyone tell McD that Islam also forbids the consumption of Rat meat, Tiger meat, Snake meat, Dragon meat…..
Wow, really that? I didn’t know. But, um… dragon meat?? Why forbid people from eating something that doesn’t exist in the first place? O_o