Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XXXIX!

• sbst275

  24 Jul 07, 19:32

  CASE went to mention abt housebrand being cheaper
  
  Isn't it been the case... But let's say, we add in quality
• the Bear

  24 Jul 07, 19:37

  
  
  cheaper also want to complain?
  
  CASE? more like basketCASE
• sbst275

  24 Jul 07, 19:37

  Stella
  
  How do you explain I saw Ngee Ann Poly Open Hse on TVMobile bef? Those cost a bomb you know
• sbst275

  24 Jul 07, 19:38

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  
  cheaper also want to complain?
  
  CASE? more like basketCASE

  I mean isn't it understood
  
  But seriously it seems more like to market housebrand... But seriously I go for quality
• Lin Yu

  24 Jul 07, 19:44

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  
  cheaper also want to complain?
  
  CASE? more like basketCASE

  stupid...trying to fool the public. why don;t take on the bigger muscles
  
• honeymouse

  24 Jul 07, 19:50

  Good evening....
• the Bear

  24 Jul 07, 19:51

  my back is aching.. and i'm getting sick of having to rub the stuff on it every night
• honeymouse

  24 Jul 07, 19:52

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  my back is aching.. and i'm getting sick of having to rub the stuff on it every night

  You poor thing. Does physio help?
• the Bear

  24 Jul 07, 19:53

  nah.. i'm not going for any physio.. just letting it heal.. then i'll start on my exercises again
• av98m

  24 Jul 07, 19:53

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  let's take this apart...
  
  Workers are super important to Singapore. After all we are a city hub where people come for business. It is the centre of South East Asia so to a great extent, many people come through, tourists for example. It's very important for our GDP as well.
  
  It's really just being conscious. Listening to good music, reading good books, listening to how good English is spoken. That will come across and then it will become automatic after that.
  
  if she wanted it in proper and coherent English, should be:
  
  Workers are very important to Singapore as we are a city where people come to do business. It is the centre of South-East Asia and to a great extent, many people, like tourists, come through. It is an important component of our GDP.
  
  In order to speak proper English, you have to be conscious about listening to "good music", reading "good books" and listening to how proper English is spoken. In time, proper English will then become second nature to you.
  
  (frankly, that woman is totally incoherent and what she says doesn't add up at all)
  
  p.s. i had to change a lot of the initial stuff she said because it's just plain wrong

  She really should have left out that line about the GDP.
  Its obvious no one taught her PR and communication skills.
  
  And it'd have been better to just say music and books. leave out the good which is very subjective.
  
  And really, WTF? super important?
• the Bear

  24 Jul 07, 19:55

  bet you, they don't know the first thing about anything except... uhhh.. nevermind
  
  heck! i had to teach a few people in my division about not pissing people off with their statements!!
  
  and i thought corporate communications was all about using common horse sense?
  
  

  Originally posted by av98m:

  She really should have left out that line about the GDP.
  Its obvious no one taught her PR and communication skills.

• honeymouse

  24 Jul 07, 19:57

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  nah.. i'm not going for any physio.. just letting it heal.. then i'll start on my exercises again

  Usually the physiotherapist can recommend some exercise that are good for your back.... it might be worth going than just to sit there and let it heal by itself.
  
  It's not too good for your back either when you don't move it for a while.
• the Bear

  24 Jul 07, 19:58

  ahh... i know the exercises..
  
  now, i'm not just sitting around.. i'm doing my reservist stint and i get up to walk around some
  
  

  Originally posted by honeymouse:

  Usually the physiotherapist can recommend some exercise that are good for your back.... it might be worth going than just to sit there and let it heal by itself.
  
  It's not too good for your back either when you don't move it for a while.

• av98m

  24 Jul 07, 19:59

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  bet you, they don't know the first thing about anything except... uhhh.. nevermind
  
  heck! i had to teach a few people in my division about not pissing people off with their statements!!
  
  and i thought corporate communications was all about using common horse sense?
  
  

  that one line about GDP will end up being talked about and create additional cynicism with regards to gahmen campaigns.
  
  I still haven't forgotten the last one, using rap and hip hop to teach good english bwahahahahaa
  
  And here's the thing, I don't even like the term good english. Can't we have a Speak English Well campaign instead?
• laurence82

  24 Jul 07, 19:59

  hand some colleagues from all over the region came to sg
  
  and the australian chap goes on about visiting only singaporean places, not touristy places, and eating singaporean food
  
  
  
  we told him about night safari though, and my boss stopped him from latching onto my evil idea (climbing bukit timah hill)
  
  
  
  he heard about the old buangkok kampung and wanted to visit it
• honeymouse

  24 Jul 07, 20:01

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  ahh... i know the exercises..
  
  now, i'm not just sitting around.. i'm doing my reservist stint and i get up to walk around some
  
  

  That's good. You need to have some movement otherwise your back will get stiff and you'll lose your mobilisation eventually. Guess you know all about it since you hurt your back so badly. Just take good care of yourself eh!
• the Bear

  24 Jul 07, 20:02

  everything the gabrament does is to.. generate money..
  
  it sucks..
  
  i guess that's why everyone is cynical and why the laurence is doing what he does
• laurence82

  24 Jul 07, 20:03

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  everything the gabrament does is to.. generate money..
  
  it sucks..
  
  i guess that's why everyone is cynical and why the laurence is doing what he does

  wey wey
  
  what it got to do with me?
  
  
• av98m

  24 Jul 07, 20:04

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  everything the gabrament does is to.. generate money..
  
  it sucks..
  
  i guess that's why everyone is cynical and why the laurence is doing what he does

  
• the Bear

  24 Jul 07, 20:04

  i will
  
  althought i will have to visit IKEA soon.. one of the wooden thingies which hold up the mattress has broken.. i don't know how
  
  

  Originally posted by honeymouse:

  That's good. You need to have some movement otherwise your back will get stiff and you'll lose your mobilisation eventually. Guess you know all about it since you hurt your back so badly. Just take good care of yourself eh!

• Keii

  24 Jul 07, 20:04

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  everything the gabrament does is to.. generate money..
  
  it sucks..
  
  i guess that's why everyone is cynical and why the laurence is doing what he does

  
  
  Had your dinner guys?
  
  Anyways, I'm back from WoW. What's brewing?
• the Bear

  24 Jul 07, 20:05

  you're part of the big fat temple which worships the false god called Dollar
  
  

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  wey wey
  
  what it got to do with me?
  
  

• laurence82

  24 Jul 07, 20:05

  should i have s3x with keii tonight, or stella?
• the Bear

  24 Jul 07, 20:06

  i wish i worked for Guinness and can say "Black Velvety Gold"
  
  

  Originally posted by Keii:

  
  
  Had your dinner guys?
  
  Anyways, I'm back from WoW. What's brewing?

• laurence82

  24 Jul 07, 20:07

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  you're part of the big fat temple which worships the false god called Dollar
  
  

  who say so?
  
  coz i work in a bank issit?
  
  yalar yalar
  
  i helped bush and saddam transfer their funds ok
  
  but that is so nice, compared to the nasi lemak stall uncle who put chicken wings on my nasi lemak