Signboard

• Visit Malaysia Year 2007 - Special Signboard

  2007-05-28 10:27:00

  For those tourist who are kambing to Malaysia for Visit Malaysia 2007, please take note that we Malaysia peeple are still very civilized and educated and the following words that you might find in certain signboards will mean no harm to you, your gf, your marder, or even your whole family!!If you are traveling and carrying your laptop along with you, it's advisable that you carry it really along with you all the time!! Bahasa Melayu is the National Language of Malaysia and for laptop, we called it RIBA.Budden hor if you happen to be visiting Low Yat Plaza which's the heaven of cheap IT stuff and you wanna buy cheap laptop please tell the salesperson you are looking for laptop in inggerish!! (We Malaysia peeple 90% get used to this word laptop and lim peh until today only know the existence of RIBA!!)If you eat too much Sambal or ABC and you are having toothache, please dun feel ashame to visit this dentist should you know the meaning of "Mahai" > (source: Urban Dictionary ->mother's cu
• Strange Signboard Syndrome

  2006-11-06 16:25:00

  I was under the impression strange signboards were ‘native’ to the scholarly city of Pune. The signs found in and around Pune are a topic of great intrigue; they range from downright inane to brilliant to plain rude, sarcastic or scornful. (Spotted outside a Pune home: “We are vegetarian but our dog is not.”) However traces of the ‘strange signboard syndrome’ can be found everywhere in the world including Mumbai. Read on.· At the nursing home located opposite the mosque in Bandra:An assortment of signboards bearing the names and visiting hours of various medicos has been put up above the façade. One of them reads:Dr. D. K. SinghPHYSIO THE RAPIST Really. No cattle excreta. The painter clearly reads too many SMS jokes.· Last week I was at the Examination building in the University. At the entrance stood a blackboard announcing the retirement of three of its officials. It further read:“May their remaining life be full of happiness and prosperity.”“Remaining” life!!