lost in translation

i came across this purchase request the other day. i guess we're purchasing '3 dozen different types of women', oh and '5 dozen different types of women jugs'. :) talk about double entendre!

conversations in the field

one evening i found myself having a conversation with a grasshopper that was climbing up the side of the cooker while i was cooking (er, if you can call making ramen noodles cooking, i guess). it went a little something like this-

me: (pointing a damning finger at the darn g'hopper) you! go away.

g'hopper: ....

me: i mean it, go away!

g'hopper: (still slowly but surely climbing up the side of the cooker) ....

me: come on now!

g'hopper: ....

me: fine!! don't go away but don't jump in my food!!

i did think i was going a little bit crazy until later that evening i heard my friend talking to a frog.

friend: you, frog! don't go in there!

frog: plop plop plop

friend: no, no, no! get out of there right now! go go go!

i later witnessed the same friend talking to a cat: you idiot monkey, get out of here! 

there's actually sanity in there somewhere.

old school

a colleague wrapped up a discussion we were having on a (not very good & rather old) engineer that is working for us thus: "the problem is, he is 1960s series."

one of life's more difficult dilemmas

i'm still trying to decide whether this was an insult or a compliment: 

one day, our driver was trying to open the plastic packaging of a torch that he had just bought. so i took it from him, whipped out my leatherman (which sounds vaguely dirty i know), and knifed it open. 

so he turns, and says to the finance assistant who was sitting under the tree with us (life is hard, isn't it?), 'i just need 10 women like her'. i was like, 'err...' because i couldn't decide then and i still can't decide now whether it was a compliment or an insult!

irony at its best

this is what i get for making fun of other people's english. 'deep friend & minced' indeed!!