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?!
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where my candy? XD
my most hated still has to be “no offence, but….”
so many levels of WTF right there
I find it rather polite though. Whenever I use the phrase, I don’t expect the person to help but would appreciate lots if he/she does. As for ‘please’, it’s a more polite way of telling a person you need to get this done…. at least I see it that way. :p
I think if someone takes the effort to be polite/civil, regardless of their delivery of methods, taking into consideration their INTEND to be nice and polite, it should be appluaded and appreciated.
i have met too many people who simply do not have the basic manners to take the extra effort to add such phrases to their wants/needs and assume that the world revolves around them.
one word, 2 words or a whole sentences, as long as the intend is right, i say .. kudos, let’s do what we can to make the world a better place.
*faints
i’m guessing it’s a direct translation of the chinese “麻烦你(insert verb)”. could be wrong, not sure if i’ve ever heard native english say that, or how we cross influence
my european colleagues like to write in emails “would you please be so kind to help do…” and i always think in my head, “no i’m not so kind”. haha
but i still like polite emails to curt ones. agree with ZhiX there
@naeboo LOL so many levels of wtf did you just make that up lol
Feels like a Seinfeld moment – of course you may trouble me. It is no trouble at all!
haha… sheylara… i Agree with u…
i think it sounded abit “Luo Shuo” lor…. Long winded.. beating ard the bush.
anyway .. long time no see.. hope ya doing fine n u look good in ur picture! :)
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nothing wrong with the phrase. no need to get so worked up by it
@Sheylara: Hehe, been a while since we had a rant post:) No trouble at all, just like those dream Danish cookies…
I am troubled. Now say please =))
Wow. Thanks for all your comments!! :) I shall agree that it’s always better for people to be excessively polite than rude! :P
@kate – That’s a good point! I’m quite sure you’re right, come to think of it, since many of our english phrases come from being directly translated from chinese, heh.
You know what’s condescending? You having your own website to blah blah blah because you are having trouble keeping your small thoughts to yourself.