Fishdog vs. Fishman

In a collection of illustrated hybrid animals by our college barkada, one of my friends (Jemuel) drew a disturbing "fishdog". Though the name is soooo creative unlike gagamboar (gagamba and boar), or garapante (garapata and elepante), we laughed our hearts out because of the weird illustration.

However, just when I thought fishdog was the shiznit, I met another kind of fish. On the first day of our DVBS at church with a water theme, the kids welcomed "Flounder" with so much enthusiasm. I love the Little Mermaid but seeing Flounder in this state is totally...different. :)

Fishdog or fishman? :)

A Political Apparition

I was traveling from Mantrade to PRC when suddenly, an apparition struck me.


The headlights of the car behind the jeep I was riding shone a bright ray to this very interesting trash can.

The driver must be a big fan! :)

Another Confusing Sign: Back to Original?

I don't know why....

Something just came upon me and made me click that button on my camera phone...

Just to take this picture of a confusing sign posted on the door of this tailor shop along San Andres St...




Perhaps I am hoping that one day, I would be able to understand what that sign is trying to tell me... Especially the phrase---BACK TO ORIGINAL. :)

Thank You Doctor, Can I Smoke Now?

As I was enjoying drinking tea with my bestfriend tonight, he showed me this uber-duper cool cigarette case. You may think that this is just an ordinary cigarette case that you usually see in Greenhills.... BUT NO! It is actually a giveaway from Bangkok Hospital so its patients can moderate their number of cigarette sticks per day.

Doctor: Congratulations! You're cured! Here's a cool cigarette case for you! Remember, just smoke 10 sticks a day!

Patient: I promise doctor! Thank you soooo much!

:)

The Joiner

I just can't help but laugh whenever I look at this photo:



Hahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha!


My day's complete! :)

Shameless English!

Ever since elementary, I have been encouraged to speak in English. During grade school, whenever one is caught speaking in Tagalog, she has to wear the huge nametag which says: NOT SPEAKING IN ENGLISH. (Class officers then seem to take joy in other people's despair)

During college, right at the gate of our school was a huge sign which says: THIS IS AN ENGLISH SPEAKING CAMPUS. (They really tried to convince themselves that it was)

Perhaps we could give the credit to these efforts of our school authorities why Filipinos are good in speaking English, which makes us a really cool Asian country for tourists. Some of us could even speak with twang (Yeah! Ah yeah! Yeah yeah yeah!). But perhaps this is also the reason why most Filipinos find it hard to speak in pure Filipino when conversing with others. such as:

"Pare, go lang ako sa CR"
"Join ako, Pare"
"Hihihi... ok."

I guess asking students to speak in English is already a part of our culture, of our education system. And in a school somewhere in Pangasinan, a friend of mine took a photo of this very interesting sign to encourage students to speak in English.

Fearless! Guiltless! Shameless! :)

The letter "Q"

Queue - pronounced as "kyu"
- one of the most asked words to be spelled in spelling competitions.
- defined as waiting line

I seldom use the word queue in conversations or articles. In the Philippines, you could always say "Please fall in line" and everybody will understand you. However, in Singapore, they found a way to use queue in a simple, extremely easy to spell way:

Then I realized that Filipinos also use the letter Q in a variety of interesting ways, such as, Banana-Q, Bar-B-Q, and Wer na u? And2 na q!