Im at the ticket counter, wondering which bus to take.
Decided to try Nice 2, being a fan of Nice, figured the additional RM7 was fair enough.
Theres also something romantic about double decker busses...cant put my finger on it yet tho...
Off i went...
Just when we were flyin over Penang Bridge, the 'in transit' entertainment system kicked in...
Kinna like a stewardess pre-flight address then giving details about...Nice+(NicePlus), not Nice 2!...
Not sure if it was by accident, but felt kinda crappy when it went "you are now aboard Nice+" then they showed the features of Nice+ with personal screens per seat, and 4 movie channel viewing choices and airplane like seats etc etc...suddenly Nice2 (granted was pretty comfy) suddenly felt like a budget bus express :(
Anyways, then the "in flight" movies kicked in...first up!... "They Nest!"...
Aside from being totally crappy and almost B grade, which bloody transit movie shows a thriller about cockroaches?!...but heck, it was something to watch anyways...and i DID purposely choose the seat right smack in front of the display unit...furk...no point regretting now...
Then, amazingly, the DVD pauses every 20 mins or so for an "Advertisement" break...first promoting itself "bla bla Transit Vision bla bla to a Captive Audience bla bla"...and then showing the same 5 or so adverts for hiring at ParkMay, a word about littering and some music CDs...over and over again...
And WOW!! no shit!...never has a phrase been so appropriately used...i mean shit...the movie WAS bad enough for me to consider jumpin off the bloody rig going at 100kmph down the North-South....bloody driver wouldnt open the door tho....Captive Audience indeed...
Then They Nest finally ended and we were in midpoint break...off for a ciggy break :) needed one.
Journey continued, movie 2 was....."Final Destination"...no complaints about that show...but not for a transit movie right??? I mean, it bloody starts off with a plane in transit blowing up!!! lols...the folks in the seats behind me were noticeably bothered...
All in all, the bus was impressive tho...top deck for passengers, a lower deck lounge to lepak with a central table...damn comfy...
Would reccoment it over Nice Express, but please...try to talk to the person choosing the movies before departure...
Friday, September 23, 2005
Saturday, September 17, 2005
of sounds and syllables
We think in our primary language, no doubt about that. I was thinking recently on how such things would affect the different languages of thought and reflect on how we develop based on how we think.
I can barely think of any words that can be said in Bahasa Malaysia that has fewer syllables than its meaning in English or Chinese. Im not saying its not a beautiful language in itself, but what im looking at is efficiency...
Why would something like this matter? well, imagine a 100 lap run around the track of your school. At say, 200 meters a lap, that would add up to a 20KM run. Now say we add a pimple to the circular track, adding maybe 2 meters to a lap. 1% more aint that bad right? well, tell it to the guy that loses the run because he had to run an additional lap in total distance.
The number of syllables may not seem like much, but added up i think it would make a difference to the efficiency of how we input, document and process our thoughts and writings...
Take the way the chinese have developed their language...choosing to ignore multi-syllalble words. Is there a single syllable in spoken chinese that does not have one or more meanings to it? The way these are combined to for larger words are amazing as well, but i think the restriction may come down to documenting and decrypting written chinese, as some thought and context may need to be drawn for each character for the whole to make sense.
Im not saying everyone is affected by this syllable thingy, as i have met many, many intellectual folks who are obviously from a BM background, but on the overall, these are still a minority when compared with the general population here.
The chinese language on ther hand, is fairly interesting when viewed from a spoken point of view. I can see why math is their forte when it comes to comparing the chinese vs the other languages of thought on how we learn math.
The best example would be the multiplication table. The way we were thought in english was to pronounce every number and factor as well as the multiplication itself...
Remember "two times one equals two, two times two equals four" or "dua kali satu sama dua, dua kali dua sama empat"...
Again, syllable count comes into play, the chinese school of thought also used the multiplication table as a base, and the way they memorized it was far far more efficient...Taking this table as a primary table and not repeating unnecessaries like the multiplier function or "times" sped things up and made it so much smoother and easier to digest. I dont know how to type it out, but essentially, for anyone that has heard it, would recognize it like "2,1,2 - 2,2,4 - 2,3,6 - 2,4,8" and so on, and they coulod cover the entire table in a fraction of the time it takes the rest of us.
Its not that other languages could'nt do this, but we just didnt...but even if we did, syllable pronunciation factor again would give the chinese language an advantage here...
Upon hearing it being recited for me, i couldt but help think how smooth it sounded and not as draggy as the other methods used to teach us in our primary schoolyears. May not be a big deal now, since we are all familiar with our tables, but imagine the advantage of learning this way all the way back then...its a headstart for sure.
There are many other factors as well in determining the development of people from certain backgrounds, and im not saying anything above is 100% proof of advantages/disadvantages of a language, just what seems to me as plausible, so im praying noone takes any offense to anything said...and also apologies if i did offend anyone, its just one of those days that my brain decides to lau sai out things like this...
Just my RM0.02 for today...
Cheers,
-the ed-
I can barely think of any words that can be said in Bahasa Malaysia that has fewer syllables than its meaning in English or Chinese. Im not saying its not a beautiful language in itself, but what im looking at is efficiency...
Why would something like this matter? well, imagine a 100 lap run around the track of your school. At say, 200 meters a lap, that would add up to a 20KM run. Now say we add a pimple to the circular track, adding maybe 2 meters to a lap. 1% more aint that bad right? well, tell it to the guy that loses the run because he had to run an additional lap in total distance.
The number of syllables may not seem like much, but added up i think it would make a difference to the efficiency of how we input, document and process our thoughts and writings...
Take the way the chinese have developed their language...choosing to ignore multi-syllalble words. Is there a single syllable in spoken chinese that does not have one or more meanings to it? The way these are combined to for larger words are amazing as well, but i think the restriction may come down to documenting and decrypting written chinese, as some thought and context may need to be drawn for each character for the whole to make sense.
Im not saying everyone is affected by this syllable thingy, as i have met many, many intellectual folks who are obviously from a BM background, but on the overall, these are still a minority when compared with the general population here.
The chinese language on ther hand, is fairly interesting when viewed from a spoken point of view. I can see why math is their forte when it comes to comparing the chinese vs the other languages of thought on how we learn math.
The best example would be the multiplication table. The way we were thought in english was to pronounce every number and factor as well as the multiplication itself...
Remember "two times one equals two, two times two equals four" or "dua kali satu sama dua, dua kali dua sama empat"...
Again, syllable count comes into play, the chinese school of thought also used the multiplication table as a base, and the way they memorized it was far far more efficient...Taking this table as a primary table and not repeating unnecessaries like the multiplier function or "times" sped things up and made it so much smoother and easier to digest. I dont know how to type it out, but essentially, for anyone that has heard it, would recognize it like "2,1,2 - 2,2,4 - 2,3,6 - 2,4,8" and so on, and they coulod cover the entire table in a fraction of the time it takes the rest of us.
Its not that other languages could'nt do this, but we just didnt...but even if we did, syllable pronunciation factor again would give the chinese language an advantage here...
Upon hearing it being recited for me, i couldt but help think how smooth it sounded and not as draggy as the other methods used to teach us in our primary schoolyears. May not be a big deal now, since we are all familiar with our tables, but imagine the advantage of learning this way all the way back then...its a headstart for sure.
There are many other factors as well in determining the development of people from certain backgrounds, and im not saying anything above is 100% proof of advantages/disadvantages of a language, just what seems to me as plausible, so im praying noone takes any offense to anything said...and also apologies if i did offend anyone, its just one of those days that my brain decides to lau sai out things like this...
Just my RM0.02 for today...
Cheers,
-the ed-
Monday, September 12, 2005
Shit go shot! :(
I wanna go for stomp! :(
Everyone i know whos goin is goin on 24th nite, but i had to pull out cos of a friends weddin in KL, so im gonna go on the 23rd nite instead, but i dont wanna go alone!!! :(
This post is a last minute pathetic attemp to find out if anyone would so happen to be going on the 23rd nite show, and wouldnt mind a hopelessly lost soul - me! - taggin along with them!
AIEEEEEE!
-THE sEsat-
Everyone i know whos goin is goin on 24th nite, but i had to pull out cos of a friends weddin in KL, so im gonna go on the 23rd nite instead, but i dont wanna go alone!!! :(
This post is a last minute pathetic attemp to find out if anyone would so happen to be going on the 23rd nite show, and wouldnt mind a hopelessly lost soul - me! - taggin along with them!
AIEEEEEE!
-THE sEsat-
The infamous eagle joke
An nice joke i got a few years ago, but just learned that its used to see how you think :)
It goes:
There were a pair of climbers climbing roped together in the Scottish highlands. One of them, seeing a pair of eagles got overexited and slipped, sending both of them plunging to their deaths.
As their souls left their bodies and ascended into Heaven, they saw the eagles again, and one of them cried out "Ah! Eagles!"
But the eagles, being quite polite, said nothing.
:D
-e-
It goes:
There were a pair of climbers climbing roped together in the Scottish highlands. One of them, seeing a pair of eagles got overexited and slipped, sending both of them plunging to their deaths.
As their souls left their bodies and ascended into Heaven, they saw the eagles again, and one of them cried out "Ah! Eagles!"
But the eagles, being quite polite, said nothing.
:D
-e-
Friday, September 09, 2005
Chinkybonics
A list of things i learned from my mechanic, with some clues to what they mean
Drebshap
"Wah, ur car drebshap making noise..."
Aysorpar
"Your car vely vely bumpy leh kos ur aysorpar spring spoil dee"
Poyek
"That car where got wan poin six? That wan is a Proton Wahjia wan poyek"
Spagroo (my personal favourite)
"That vakoom hose cannot take out lar, they stick it with spagroo oredi!"
Could you get them all? more to come!
:D
-e-
Drebshap
"Wah, ur car drebshap making noise..."
Aysorpar
"Your car vely vely bumpy leh kos ur aysorpar spring spoil dee"
Poyek
"That car where got wan poin six? That wan is a Proton Wahjia wan poyek"
Spagroo (my personal favourite)
"That vakoom hose cannot take out lar, they stick it with spagroo oredi!"
Could you get them all? more to come!
:D
-e-
Somebody kill me please!
I was feeling a little buzzed from the coffee i forced into my system halfway thru our meet. Lack of sleep calls for such crude remedies...
Didnt know how bad it was till i made the biggest foux pass possible in a meeting...
At 12.10 he mentions, u can go for lunch now and apologised for dragging it beyond 12.oo
In my blurness, i just blurted something about lunch being at 12.30-2.30...cos the schedule was changed yesterday...
Man, i feel really bad for nearly killing a windfall like that... Thank god he let us go anyways.
Still, the daggers in my neck from the glares around the room kinna hurt.
Didnt know how bad it was till i made the biggest foux pass possible in a meeting...
At 12.10 he mentions, u can go for lunch now and apologised for dragging it beyond 12.oo
In my blurness, i just blurted something about lunch being at 12.30-2.30...cos the schedule was changed yesterday...
Man, i feel really bad for nearly killing a windfall like that... Thank god he let us go anyways.
Still, the daggers in my neck from the glares around the room kinna hurt.
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