how timely! just after sheepman's post, i found this in my inbox. it's a memo from an associate prof. at SMU to his students, reminding us why it's so useful to be bilingual in english and mandarin !

" Good morning my dearest students,

Over the weekend and up until this morning 10.00am I have the opportunity to review and comment on several students draft submission of assignment 3. I am very sorry to inform you that there are still room for improvement on the spreadsheet engineering aspect. Please kindly refer to the model answer provided. I am not try to "dick bones out of an egg" - a Chinese proverb, meaning that I looking for impossible. Together with this e-mail, I also enclosed two examples for your perusal. There are more examples in assignment 2.

Comply to specifications or requirements of your clients are very important in the real world practice. I am not going to be regretted if you angry with me or even graded me as a poor instructor if I marked you down. I have given students enough model answers and examples to refer to. You just need to change the can't be borded as long as my answer is correct attitude and be more careful on the requirements. It is not too difficult to comply. PLEASE! "

remember when il papa said that thing about the prophet mohammed that made everyone angry? and i mentioned something about his red prada shoes? anyway then i told zoot how funny it was that there's a movie called the devil wears prada and there is the pope wearing prada. and then zoot said how cool would it be if it were on a t-shirt. so then i wondered why i didn't think of doing this earlier.

i dont know why i can't embed youtube vids anymore. but anyhoo ...

a couple of weeks back, fortycalibernap sent me this link to a swedish chef video. some clever youtube-ing later, and i discover this guy's 14-minute swedish chef extravaganza !! it is amazing. børk! børk! børk!!

stoo just reminded me of this show we used to watch called the storm rages twice. it's set in lebanon and is quite arguably the worst soapie i've ever watched. and just so you know i'm not shitting you, here's some proof it exists !!

why do i bring this up? because stoo is currently watching the turkish version of the nanny called dadi, which he says is re-created pretty well except everything looks cheap. and mr. omer (aka mr. sheffield) has moobs.

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marie was right! hugh jackman was hot enough to warm up burswood dome! no jackets required, ladies. so hot! so ambiguous !!

anyway if anybody wants to watch some more hugh "tasty" jackman goodness, check him out on enough rope with andrew denton re-telling his most hugh-miliating story and coming off looking great.

ok i'm over it. i swear.