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22.08.2012 | 四字標題

[Volume 7 Issue 8, #1514]
我呢個blog其實係以中文開始, 2008年6月尾先開始有兩種語文, 不過標題都仲係中文.. 如果你有留意, 我啲標題都係同一個格式, 先係日期, 然之後在2008年6月之後, 全部統一用四個字.. 除咗雙語之外, 四字標題可算係我呢個blog嘅小小個人特色.. 有人曾經問我, 寫兩種語言會唔會難?? 唔難, 我都係寫好其中一個, 然後再直接翻譯成另外一個.. 雖然好多人都話, 中文嘅寫得比較生動, 哈哈!! 不過我要強調, 有時後要諗個貼切嘅四字標題出嚟, 仲難過寫內容囉~~ :p
i started my blog with posts in chinese, only after late june 2008 that i started to write in two languages, but the post titles are still in chinese.. if you are observant, you'll notice my post titles use a common format, starting with the date, and since june 2008 i standardized to use four chinese words as the title.. besides bilingual, i think 4-word title is a little signature attribute of my blog.. some asked if it's tough to write in two languages?? definitely not, because i usually finished writing either one, and then right away translate to the other.. though some have commented that the chinese version is more fun to read, haha!! anyway, i want to stress that sometimes it's even tougher to think of a meaningful 4-word title than writing the contents~~ :p

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  1. Good morning, SK, everyone!

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  2. Happy Surfer, morning, how you did that? I was refreshing SK website for N times in 1 minute. Still couldn't be th first one here.

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    1. yah le ..
      she is really the stalker in SK?
      I saw that it was 1 min updated in my blog list..
      bang .. HS is there the first commenter

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    2. The name is HS and always surfing 24/7. HS only enjoys being the first and not the champion. Maybe SK should give her a medal.

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    3. Good morning everyone :)

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    4. I agree. SJ should gi e HS a medal or maybe put one more prize for being the most frequent first commenter.

      very seldom see HS not the first commenter

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    5. Morning everyone!!!!

      You all still on Raya break or back to work already?

      All up so early one? xD

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    6. wah, so nice. All of you have raya break except me. But I get to read SK's post every morning before I go to work.
      But why SK suddenly started to write in two languages in 2008.

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    7. this is because he started to know Kamala in 2008.. kamala don't know chinese and SK that time doesn't know tamil.. so English is the language that connect..
      soon they start talking in body language.. ahem there ahem here.. and then will be grrr grrr grrr .. all the machine sounds talk..

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    8. a medal for being first then SK will have to start thinking and working what to make with his delicate fingers.. kakakaka..
      maybe next time Sk will start sewing something for us.. kakakakakaka

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    9. SP, Uiks...i thought you guys said SK kahwin with Kamala since 5 yrs old geh?


      Ya lor, SK. What inspired you to blog in dual language ah? Not Kamala is it? come out, tell us the story why suddeny bi-lingua

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    10. You are wrong SP....That Thambee SK started in English but Kamala only reads Chinese, so he had to post in Chinese. Ask SK to post Kamala's photo to show everyone his well kept secret.

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    11. show kamala show kamala show kamala show kamala show kamala show kanala show kamala show kamala

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    12. LOL on all your comments. No medal needed, thank you. Just happy to be here.

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    13. Yan, nothing to it. I type fast. You wanna be first commenter tomorrow? I'll let you be - (LOL, as if I have a say!!)

      You'll have to be on time though, otherwise you'll be holding up the queue. haha..

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    14. SP, me the stalker? Isn't everyone here?! :p

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    15. Good afternoon! 100+ comments by this time, wow~~

      Bilingual post is very interesting, only for those who know both languages. Not me though. I heard Yan said, Cantonese version is funnier.

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    16. Good evening, I couldn't make it to come back by noon. The girls wanted me to accompany them for a nap.
      Now I want to sing this song
      "黎明不要来."
      Anyone know why I wanted to sing this song. SP and SK may properly know the answer.

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    17. ah hua .. I am back...
      so now i am gonna spam SK blog kau kau...

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  3. happy morning.. HS you are really quick..
    today is my first day of work after a long holiday break..

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    1. Wah!!! SP early early already here! How come you haven't commented in my blog leh? You memang eyes one big, one small one lah....

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    2. lol .. STP..
      I am eyeing on the first spot..
      but some ppl are quicker than me..

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    3. Happy morning everyone. hmmm...back to work already n everyone is so earlier punch card here lol

      guess sk will have to think hard what four letter blog title to put on

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    4. I punch card lambat today here.

      Spend two hours like a mad woman pusing-pusing carpark today. kekeke

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    5. lina- wow 2 hours pusing pusing carpark?
      mana pergi?

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    6. Lina

      TWO hours? that bad ah? everyone goes shopping today ka? Pengsan. You started working today?

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    7. Not in car lah... on feet. Pusing pusing my own apartment punya car park. I don't go jogging to nice parks mcm KLCC like SP tau! kekeke

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    8. ooo lari pusing pusing kat car park..
      is it good? nanti inhale all those C02... not good not good...

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    9. open carpark. OK lah... not a lot of traffic too. I slot in my runs anywhere I can. Cannot be fussy about it, otherwise sure got a lot of excuses not to do them!

      Plus, at least at car park, no need to think about stray dogs. Pet dogs too. There are way too many pet dogs left unleashed and roaming the streets at my neighbourhood. :(

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    10. 3rd day of raya and Lina resumed her running already? So fast? Is it to burn all the fat consumed durin these few days? Kekeke!

      Happy is always the first commenter, regardless weekday or weekend or public holidays. Out of 10 times, she's 9.5 times early. I can't catch up with her although I raised this matter before.

      SK, you really should come up with something for her ;)

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  4. Morning everybody. I purposely delay my cooking of breakfast just to be the first. I need to go to masak masak already. My girls are waking anytime now.

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    1. Yan, we will be never get the chance to be first commenter . only get chance if HS happens to give us chance.

      masak what today?

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    2. Wah!

      Yan - cooking western breakfast today? :)

      Aiyoh. I haven't had my breakfast yet. Balik from lari, drink then immediately park my butt in front of notebook. kekeke

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    3. Oppss...looks like y question above is rwdundant.

      Ya lo...me come 9.04 am but the traffic in this blog very heavy. had to keep refreshing. cannot login at all. Looks like everyonme is back to spamming kao kao today before a long weekend ahead.,

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    4. Everyone is back feeling all refreshed and hands all itchy to spam after a bit of break during the weekend. hehehe

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    5. yes everyone is back and ready to spam kau kau..
      it is fresh after the long holiday break but a bit lazy now.. that is why I don't like long holiday break..

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    6. Woah, yannie was storming in her kitchen this morning. I was doing more spring clean durin the long holidays. I only cook some sausages for my kids to go with their milk. Weird combination, eh?

      Do you cook breakfast every morning? What a great mom! We went out for breakfast the last 3 mornings. Don't want to make my kitchen oily and dirty after hard work of cleaning ;p

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    7. Out of 5 days, I only cooked breakfast twice. Yes, I cooked western breakfast. Mostly eggs, because my girls need protein to let them more active in their ping pong training.

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    8. I also did a lot of spring cleaning. I housekept toy cabinet, book shelves, CD cabinet, the girls' wardrobe and my wardrobe. I went for exercise for 5 days too.

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    9. Y&Y .. tommorow welcome back to work..
      your bosses sure misses you all very much.. kakakakaka...

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    10. Yan - why don't you get them some protein drink? My friends is taking the amway brand.. quite good.....

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    11. Those protein drink is a commercialize product. I rather do more healthy home cook food for my family.

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  5. Good morning Yan, Ahem Chai and HS. What a cool morning here... Nice!

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    1. happy morning annay TM, Yan & HS and other who come in later...
      cool morning? why so cool?

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    2. Cool meh? U in Cameron or Genting ah? Down here hot weather leh

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    3. Yesterday was nice and cool lah...

      Today sun was up at 8.00am already. *pant pant*

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    4. yes yesterday was so nice and cool..
      but i got diarrhea yesterday.. and i stay home and sleep..
      now my back pain coz of sleep too much..

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    5. aiyo...this month very "black"

      SK foot become BIGFOOT
      SP diarrhea
      me fluish

      who else next ah???


      makes me wanna scold four letters words jor

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    6. Adui... banyaknya "mishap"

      SK's bigfoot all better kah? He's pretty quiet about it.

      SP - you go eat where got diarrohea one? @.@

      Meow - take care. Makan Vit C manyak-manyak. Got see doctor already kah?

      Hopefully, I can stay healthy this month and the next. Especially next month lah... got so many activities line up. o.O

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    7. yah le .. I teruk le..
      yesterday whole day on the bed feeling so bad..
      I didn't go out so much....
      don't know what I had eaten .. coz my wife has no problem and she eat exactly the same food as I had..

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    8. You still dunno why??... Your mind was so bloody dirty and polluted till your whole body system kena virus!!

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    9. Aiks, SP got backache because sleep too much? Not ahem ahem too much ka? Sprained your back is it? Tsk, tsk, control your lust and don't get so wild at night.

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    10. aiyo now control my lust?
      aiye wait till i need to take blue pills only control le .. kakakaka

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    11. Anyway, I don't think men at your age need any pill. Don't make me laugh. You won't be on pill for another 30 years.

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  6. Just read the content, yeah! I like the Chinese version one more now. Very humor and lively. Keep it up, SK. Come back again this afternoon.

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    1. Hot Mama still on holiday? So shiok la... See you in the afternoon.
      You should spam here in 2 languages to earn double points!!

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    2. Sigh...how nice to be able to read two language.

      even if write in two language, there will always be something lost in translation. so pieces of joke or what won't be as funny.

      ya wor sk. if spam in two languages will get double points ka

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    3. well so nice hot mama still in holiday?
      so please enjoy as much as possible .. as tommorow start back to work?
      today is rather slow at my place.. nothing much happen... coz everyone still on holiday

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    4. so today I just eat soup noodles and bread. try to eat something simple and give a break to my tummy...

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    5. Wakakaka, TM is so creative to suggest to spam in 2 languages.

      I would love to earn extra points too, but I can't write in Chinese so I will spam in BM and English. Okay, mou?

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    6. I love this holiday to bits, because I am so relaxed. I don't feel like going back to work at all. Sob....sob... reality is cruel.

      Spamming in 2 languages, but my pinyin is so bad. I have returned all my pinyin to my Chinese teacher. I can read, but I can't write. I will try when time permits.

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    7. I am so lazy now..
      today I start work and and it is rather slow .. because a lot of people still having holiday

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  7. Yeah, noticed those standard four words. Was wondering whether the title in Chinese has an impact on your posts on the search engines in the English language.

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    1. true, most people search in English. If SK can also put a 4 or more English words for his title, that would be much beneficial for himself too.

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    2. I noticed too of the four letters titles.

      I wonder if I can throw in extra by requesting SK to put in four letter English title too for the post title.

      give sk more challenge mah. after all he give us more challenge by havin more guidelines in commenting. *evil grins"

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    3. Yes, that would be nice for SK to write the title in English too. That would give us the gist of the post already.

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    4. actually yes it really bring a big impact.
      like last time i put a post on 我放半粒
      it was a great hit...

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    5. Oh, I didn't think about the search engine, too. Most ppl search using English words, unless those from chinese language country.

      Meow, I agree with you. SK must figure out the equivalent 4 English words.

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  8. True! My post titles are all songs...and sometimes it is hard to think of a title that fits the post...and some I've used before and I do not want to use again...

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    1. Yes u noticed too your titles are special though I didn't notice its song titles . am not good with song titles la.

      both yours n sk blog is special in terms of title n contents. both also very daring in criticize wrong doings.

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    2. wah small kucing you so positive thinking..
      so your car number plate must be AAA4444
      you sure have all the 7 DAPATS & NAIK...

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    3. Too bad am not rich enough to "Pau" those umbers leh. Have to pay extra duno how many thousand to get those number wor.

      Usual "avoid" number in car plate already charged RM100 jor

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    4. Criticise? Who? Me/ No leh...I'm so sweet, so nice one... Right or not, SP? Wink! Wink! LOL!!!

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    5. lol on STP .. yes you are indeed nice and sweet.. psst (cover my heart and talk)..
      how much you wanna give me for saying that? kakakaka

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    6. I never know that all stp titles are all songs.. are those OLD ones? kakakaka..
      then I don't know le..

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    7. Blog post title is very important, it can help attract traffics. I also have a hard time to think a proper subject sometimes. Use a lot of brain juice to think of blog title.

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    8. yan - wah you need to use a lot of brain juice to write blog? don't do that.. later you get older.. and will have more white hair..
      then no more sexy hot mama already

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  9. 4? I thought Chinese people do not like 4....???

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    1. 4 in Chinese could means good also leh. Apart from sounding like "sei" (die) it can say sound like "sing"(naik) ahem ahem ...that is good right?

      As for bahasa Malaysia, 4 sound empat sounds like "dapat". That is good also.

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  10. I think it is time SK blogs in 3 languages now. You have so many Indian readers who prefer Tamil. Yengga Poreng Ngehh?

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    1. you forget the kote mamak le?
      Sk should write 4 language..
      english, chinese, tamil & BM....

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    2. then SK will be 1 Malaysia blog.....
      or later he could get some dato ship for foster good relation among all the malaysian ppl..
      Dato SK.. lol

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    3. True, it would be perfect if SK could write in Malay or Tamil too. Sure all the readers would love him more.

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    4. Yes yes great suggestion, TM!!!

      By the way, what does yengga poreng geh means? I heard it in Ah Niu song but do know the meaning.

      one Malaysia blog...maybe SK will win award for being a truly one Malaysia blog ...kekeke....then he can belanja us maka big time year end. maybe even rm130 per head buffet dinner in some prestigious hotel. *super evil grin*

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    5. Meow,
      How come you don't know apa itu yennga poreng geh? kakaka

      My son goes to school in Brickfields. I need to learn Tamil from SK & TM because son is learning it from his school friends there. wakaka

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    6. lina - no kidding your son really goes to brickfield?
      wow.. so want to fight with SK to get his kamala? kakakaka

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    7. Yengga poreng Ngeh means "Where Are you going?"...

      SK always teased me "Wande twilight bulan neh?"... I really dunno WTF he said. I just laughed. LOL

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    8. OOo itu macam ah? Really I did not know what that eans till you tell me LOL

      Saw Ah Niu music video very funny mah. Too bad some people got offended by his vidoe.

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    9. Yup, my son goes to school in Brickfields. His father's old school. There got a lot of school lah... La Salle, MGS, Chinese school, private school, SRK, Tamil school... ;p

      A bit mah fan to hantar him to Bukit Bandaraya school and Jalan Bangsar school has way too many students. xD

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    10. lina - i thought you stay near the jusco cheras selatan?
      then it will be quite far to send your kid there.. I always go to brickfield during wesak day...

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    11. FIL stays in Bangsar. I work at Mid Valley. Hubby works near KLCC.

      Son goes back to FIL's house after school before going to Sekolah Agama. So going to a school nearby FIL & our workplace is the best choice. If anything on at school, no need to take leave, just go there for a few minutes only. Easier than going to school in Balakong, right? ;p

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    12. lol! Wande twilight bulan neh???

      Wande - Tamil
      Twilight - English
      Bulan - Malay.

      What deos that mean? SK can think of this statement. I salute him.

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  11. yes it is correct..
    it is difficult to convert to the english...
    sometime the original meaning will run out..

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    1. Don't do direct translation. Understand the paragraph as a whole and then translate it. That's what I always told my students.

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    2. But even if think and translate will still loose some meaning in translation.

      however, its still hard work la. need a lot of brain juice to translate.

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    3. yes it correct.. sometime there is a joke in the Chinese phrases and it is difficult to translate it in English..
      like a proverb in chinese ....

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    4. That's why lor SP

      Regret that I did not work on my Chinese when I was in school. Those national school, we still had chinese class ut I did not concentrate. My friend who concentrated, sh knows how to read Chinese now.

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    5. pussy cat.. that is why le .. when ppl study you go yieerrrr yieerrrrr meowwww yieerrrrr ...
      must concentrate on study mah... cannot play play ..

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  12. Yup i realized that too! hahaa! but i guess it's very hard to think of 4 words for title aight. >.<

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  13. i enjoy read the chinese one, easy to learn the cantonese! :p hahaha

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    1. If SK's blog is only in Chinese, I don't think I would follow as I don't understand it at all. It's troublesome to google and translate it on our own.

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    2. well very simple..
      get some ppl that could read chinese and ask the person to translate to you.. :)

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    3. well, both my girl and boy could read Chinese but they refuse to read for me even a simple sentence. Very troublesome to depend on people to read. SK's post is the best with two languages.

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    4. wenn why you kids like that? must teach mummy mah...
      I got a relative who deoesn't know chinese...
      last time there is a hit korean series on the making the bread.. it was korean and has chinese subtitle.. and she still could understand the whole show..
      keng..

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  14. LOL~ Direct translate only? :p

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  15. ahahaha i get it right! 4 word title is hard! ;p

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    1. Hard? 4-word or 4-letter? Muahahahahahahaha!!!!

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  16. Good morning, everyone! How I wish I understand Mandarin! Anyway, reading your English version is fun enough.

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    1. Good morning Wenn
      u also same as me ah? Does not read Chinese?

      Ya at least we get to read the English post. hv to be thankful for that

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    2. Even though I know some basic Chinese, I don't like to read in Chinese. So I just go directly to the English version. I even omit those blogs that only post in Chinese. Sorry about that.

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    3. Good morning, Small Kucing. I though you know some Chinese. Yes, it's great that we get to read SK's post in English. SK is so hardworking as he's able to write in two languages without fail everyday. Bravo!

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    4. Wenn

      Know the simple words la. But cant read wholse sentence. If needed had to use google translator but as you know that one cannot harap punya. It translate directly and sometimes no meaning at all

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  17. I especially envy those who could write the Chinese characters beautifully. Those professionals could even write them in cursive form.

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    1. It's great that your blog even caters for those who prefer to read in Mandarin. And SK is smart in coming out with a four-letter characters for each title.

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    2. Not easy to keep on thinking of four letters titles , right.


      Even my blog sometimes i also pening what title to put on the post. Really...

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  18. 我一直以嚟都喺讀你中文嗰part,可能習慣咗囖。不過雙語都幾好啊,好似電視咁可以轉換語言,嘻嘻~~~

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  19. Yeah...it is good that your blog is in bilingual. Haha :D So more people can read.

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    1. But, it is a tough job for SK to compose in 2 languages. Not many can do that. This is the uniqueness of SK's blog.

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    2. It is sap sap water for SK to post them in 2 or 3 languages as he only compose in short paragraphs with mostly 1 photo only.

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    3. However it is not easy to be so determined and disciplined like SK to do it everyday without fail....!!! His willpower is the issue that prompted me to spam till got the crown just to test my own willpower! I made it dei...

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    4. You and me know how great SK is, to entertain us and still give out hand made prizes! Why we never offered SK any prize too? We should pass the hats around to collect funds from the rich men like Simple Person and Suituapui. We can buy him air ticket for vacation to Madras or a full day spa package with massage and hair cut at Celebs!

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    5. My 4 words title is - Let's Collect Funds Now!

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    6. TM, see, talk about fund, no one response already. So realistic ho? Hehehehe!

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    7. Yes, I agree it isn't easy to compose in both languages. I am a Chinese educated person, but I am so poor in typing Chinese. I have given all my Chinese pinyin back to my teachers.

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  20. Then again...I only read your english version because I don't think I will understand the other language. :p

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    1. But I thought you could understand mandarin very well? Anyway, guess reading in English is so much easier.

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    2. You know what? I have been following SK's blog for quite some time. I only read his English version until recently. I tried to read the Chinese one only. I find it is so funny.

      So now I will read the Chinese one first.

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    3. i thought you all spam SK by happy morning then only read the contents?

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  21. Really? Sometimes it is even harder to think of the title? Haha :D

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  22. I didn't notice that all your titles are 4-letter words until now! One suggestion - can you provide a translation to your title as well? Haha coz I can't read the words!

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    1. Hahahahaha!!!! 4-word titles eh? Not 4-letter words!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!

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    2. I notice that long long time already. 4 words title in Chinese only.

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  23. to bad i cant read chinese

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  24. i also had an idea to do that

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  25. there was apoint that i would like to write my blog in two languages

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  26. tagalog(filipino language) and english the only languages i can so far

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  27. but im just kinda lazy haha and beside most filipinos can understand english

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  28. well im glad that your blog has two languages if not i dont know how to do this spamming

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  29. but still i think in my case its pretty tough to do as you do

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  30. Oh how i wish i could ready chinese :P

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  31. Nowadays I am getting more and more "wordless"... lesser words more pictures... hahaha... u are still doing great..can write in two languages some more.. *salute*

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  32. 四字标题,你不说我还真的没注意到勒paiseh~~~ :P

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  33. Finally my house internet is back!

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  34. Yes I noticed this 4 letters title since some times ago....

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  35. lol I didnt realize 4 letter words . . . pro la u, pandai abang SK ini LOL

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    1. u must be brainstorming so much about ur blogpost and title, 辛苦你拉

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    2. or u sometimes got study / read about chinese simpulan bahasa is it? :P

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    3. dual language post is slightly hard to write, and I need to thinks lot of things and get stress lol

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