"If you're going through Hell, keep going.": 33

About Me.

Background

My name is Michael Rivera and I am a Filipino-Chinese, 18-year-old student living in Canterbury, but originally from Hong Kong. My parents divorced when I was two, and when I grew up, there were two sides of me: the wild, outdoorsy, gutsy side, and the conservative, intellectual, scholarly side. I spent two years living beside a beach in the countryside. It was then that I learned how to swim, how to fish and how to ride a bike. I love the outdoors, especially when having barbecues and hiking. Outside of that time, my more studious side of me reads, writes, and has a great interest in a broad range of subjects including: television and film, travel, anthropology, human cultures, linguistics, food and drink, psychology, philosophy, literature, forensics, Greco-Roman mythology, European history and politics, South American culture and geology. My deepest love goes to, well, my best friend. But the love that exists just a tiny fraction below that amount of love goes to television series, beautiful beaches, lime margaritas, and books considered classics.

Feel free to e-mail me if you have anything you want to share, suggest, criticize, inquire or comment on! :D

E-mail: scylla.michael.charybdis@gmail.com

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Sunday, January 4, 2009

33 - More Chinglish.

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Cuiture?

This small error is like a stake in my heart.

It is made worse because the mistakes are mass-produced.

Lifec ycle of si lk wrom. :D

Not-recyclable. The hyphen is not right.
What is more amusing is the symbol underneath. I did not know there was a symbol for the opposite of recycling.

lol.

Courageous use of the semi-colon.

It's so civilized, indeed.

How do omnivores usually throw away their rubbish?

Alright. I'll climb over the fence.

This made me feel so clever.

10 comments:

cavaan said...: do you know how much i love chinglish? i seriously would go to china just to take photos of bad english, they just make laugh. and laughing is nearly always good.

i don't actually live in hong kong, i'm not even from there =] i just love the districts there and for some reason the name "mong kok" always makes me laugh.

in the story i went to this place up north... wait this is going to get complicated, just wait a sec.; January 4, 2009 at 6:26 AM
Michael said...: Aimée: I always look forward to that whenever I go up into the mainland.

Hong Kong is really where I belong. I'm not quite sure how I'm ever going to leave it...; January 4, 2009 at 6:41 AM
Anonymous said...: noo~ unfortunately :( i don't speak canto-- but i've been trying to learn for ages!

(wait.. i can speak a tiny bit; "ngo mm sek gong, but goh sek tang siew siew gong dong wah" lol)

i'm going to hong kong end of 2009! i can't wait :D

taa~

rokes; January 4, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Douglas said...: About the "omnivorously" sign... Do herbivores not throw anything away? Or do they always miss, unlike the omnivores?

Second question, do translations ever goof the other way? As I recall, the famous quote of JFK at the Berlin Wall actually translated to something that meant "I am a pastry!" because a Berliner was some kind of jelly donut.; January 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM
jiggins said...: These are great man. I have always heard about the misinterpretation of signs and words in Chinglish as one follower called it. good stuff :); January 4, 2009 at 3:38 PM
J.J. in L.A. said...: I love Chinglish! It's always good for a laugh. I wonder if it works the other way around (English to Chinese)?

And those typos were killing me! lol!; January 4, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Genevieve said...: omg i love the reverse recycling symbol! that is hilarious.; January 4, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Robot Nine said...: Very good post. You know it's right up my Robot Nine alley! I also love the reverse recycling symbol. I so wanted to take a photo of a sign inside a local dry cleaner that was rife with errors, never got around to it, and now it is gone.
Alan; January 5, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Linda S. Socha said...: Michael

I have laughed and laughed.I feel I should pay you a fee as a comedian! You are such a performer~! I sincerely hope you are taking some theater courses?
WONDERFUL
LINDA; January 5, 2009 at 4:11 AM
Michael said...: Rachel May: That's cool. Close to the date, I will recommend a few places to go, if you don't mind.

Douglas: The names for basketball players, Disney characters and hit movies are ridiculous sometimes in Chinese.

Jiggins: Thanks, man.

J.J.: Refer to my comment to Douglas.

Genevieve: I know! I didn't believe it was a real symbol. And it turns out it isn't. How weird are we Chinese?...

Alan: They're rare in your English-speaking country! Take the photo!

Linda: I love drama. I will pursue it in the future as one of my hobbies.; January 5, 2009 at 5:28 AM