The perils of English - A collection of howlers...
In a Bangkok temple:
"IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER,
IF DRESSED
AS A MAN."
Cocktail lounge, Norway:
"LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE
BAR."
Doctors' office, Rome:
"SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES"
Dry cleaners, Bangkok:
"DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS"
In a Nairobi restaurant:
"CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE
THE MANAGER"
On a River/highway crossing:
"TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD
IS
IMPASSABLE."
On a poster at an educational institution:
"ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO, WE CAN HELP
YOU"
In a City restaurant:
"OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS"
A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer:
"DO NOT ACTIVATE WITH WET HANDS"
In a cemetery:
"PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY
BUT THEIR
OWN GRAVES"
Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations:
"GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE OR DO OTHER
DISGUSTING
BEHAVIORS IN BED"
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
"OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR."
In a Tokyo bar:
"SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS"
Hotel, Yugoslavia:
"THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR WITH PLEASURE IS THE JOB
OF THE
CHAMBERMAID"
Hotel, Japan:
"YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE
CHAMBERMAID."
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across a monastery:
"YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY WHERE FAMOUS
RUSSIAN AND
SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS, AND WRITERS ARE BURIED
DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY"
A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:
"IT IS STR ICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR BLACK FOREST CAMPING
SITE THAT
PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SEX, FOR INSTANCE, MEN AND WOMEN,
LIVE
TOGETHER IN ONE TENT UNLESS THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH
OTHER FOR
THIS PURPOSE"
Hotel, Zurich:
"BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF
THE
OPPOSITE SEX IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE
LOBBY BE
USED FOR THIS PURPOSE"
Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand:
"WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?"
The box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong:
"GUARANTEED TO WORK
THROUGHOUT ITS USEFUL LIFE"
In a Swiss mountain inn:
"SPECIAL TODAY - NO ICE-CREAM"
Airline ticket office, Copenhagen:
"WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS."
A laundry in Rome:
"LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND SPEND THE
AFTERNOON HAVING A
GOOD TIME."
Friday, May 3, 2013
Man jailed 5 years over RM6 million study loan scam
Man jailed 5 years for $2.5 million study loan scam
Published on Feb 16, 2012
Between 2006 and 2009, Go Boon Chai, 38, went on to cheat three banks of a total of $2.5 million. The former education agent was jailed five years for cheating. He had pleaded guilty two weeks ago. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
He went to take up a business management course at Brookes Business School but learnt how to obtain fraudulent study loans. Between 2006 and 2009, Go Boon Chai, 38, went on to cheat three banks of a total of $2.5 million.
It was payback time on Thursday. The former education agent was jailed five years for cheating. He had pleaded guilty two weeks ago.
A district court then heard that sometime before November 2006, the advertising assistant went to sign up for a business management course at Brookes. Go asked to pay the fees in instalments and the school's principal then, Benny Yap Chee Mun, 41, is said to have suggested he apply for a study loan instead. Court documents also state that Yap provided him with documents that inflated his course fees.
Go applied for two $20,500 study loans and was able to get $12,000 from RHB Bank and $15,500 from Citibank. These were paid to Brookes. Yap kept $9,000 and gave $18,500 to Go. It is not known if there was any payment of course fees.
Yap and Go then hatched a plan to apply for more study loans.
In late 2007, Go split from Yap over doubts about the legitimacy of some of the courses at Brookes.
Yap is claiming trial to cheating charges and his case will be heard in the months ahead : The Straits Times/Asia News Network
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Tabung
Joel Ryan Lee
I remember when I was studying at SMK Damansara Utama as a student. The passing of a student's parent was not a common occurrence. When it did happen, a little 'tabung' would go around the school to collect funds for the students' family.
However, very few would actually chip in unless they knew the deceased's family (the student). I myself didn't really chip in much during my five years at DU for the 'tabung' unless I knew the student myself.
Over here at SMKPR, Bukit Mertajam, I've only been here for 4 months but quite a few of our kids' parents here have passed away already. The 'tabung' has entered my classes a few times throughout for different families.
It kinda makes you wonder... why is this seemingly more common in a community of poor socioeconomic backgrounds? Is it due to the lack of medical amenities? Is it due to a lack of awareness of prevention of diseases? Very possible.
Yesterday I was talking to my collab Muhamad Nadzmi Dzulkifli about one of his student's mother who has breast cancer which made him very quiet and withdrawn in class.
This reality is very sad, you guys.
But this post isn't a sob story. In fact it's quite the opposite.
Something happened today and it really lifted me, almost making clouds form in my eyes. It happened in the weakest Form 4 class; my 4 AKh, where 28 out of the 16/17 year old 33 students are boys and all very rowdy/noisy/disruptive/uninterested in class.
These guys have very little on them.
With a reported household median income of about RM700, they kind of exemplify the group that is always hungry. Once, I brought in my tin of just plain Jacob's into the class as part of my lesson demonstration and everybody was staring at it hungrily; I know a few of them don't eat during recess at all because they don't have enough money. So I shared that tin out.
Yes, a lot of them are really poor.
But when the prefects knocked on my classroom door with the 'tabung' and I let them in, more than three quarters of them started taking out coins from their pockets to put in the 'tabung'. I asked them whether they knew the kid (who was Form 2) but nobody did.
They just gave, you guys.
Even though they didn't know who the deceased's family was.
Why? Simply because they understand. They know how much pain is involved when a loved one is lost. They know that even just a few cents can really help the grieving family.
They care.
Society calls them stupid because the majority of them still cannot form a single grammatically correct 4-word English sentences on their own. Society calls them hopeless because they sleep/talk in every other teacher's class (mine too sometimes ish). Society deems them to have 'no future' because some of them are illiterate/almost illiterate.
But you cannot deny these guys have good hearts. They are my heroes and even though I'm the teacher, I learn stuff from them all the time.
As what Charis Ding said of her kids, I feel the same as well.
"Some of the best people I've ever met."
However, very few would actually chip in unless they knew the deceased's family (the student). I myself didn't really chip in much during my five years at DU for the 'tabung' unless I knew the student myself.
Over here at SMKPR, Bukit Mertajam, I've only been here for 4 months but quite a few of our kids' parents here have passed away already. The 'tabung' has entered my classes a few times throughout for different families.
It kinda makes you wonder... why is this seemingly more common in a community of poor socioeconomic backgrounds? Is it due to the lack of medical amenities? Is it due to a lack of awareness of prevention of diseases? Very possible.
Yesterday I was talking to my collab Muhamad Nadzmi Dzulkifli about one of his student's mother who has breast cancer which made him very quiet and withdrawn in class.
This reality is very sad, you guys.
But this post isn't a sob story. In fact it's quite the opposite.
Something happened today and it really lifted me, almost making clouds form in my eyes. It happened in the weakest Form 4 class; my 4 AKh, where 28 out of the 16/17 year old 33 students are boys and all very rowdy/noisy/disruptive/uninterested in class.
These guys have very little on them.
With a reported household median income of about RM700, they kind of exemplify the group that is always hungry. Once, I brought in my tin of just plain Jacob's into the class as part of my lesson demonstration and everybody was staring at it hungrily; I know a few of them don't eat during recess at all because they don't have enough money. So I shared that tin out.
Yes, a lot of them are really poor.
But when the prefects knocked on my classroom door with the 'tabung' and I let them in, more than three quarters of them started taking out coins from their pockets to put in the 'tabung'. I asked them whether they knew the kid (who was Form 2) but nobody did.
They just gave, you guys.
Even though they didn't know who the deceased's family was.
Why? Simply because they understand. They know how much pain is involved when a loved one is lost. They know that even just a few cents can really help the grieving family.
They care.
Society calls them stupid because the majority of them still cannot form a single grammatically correct 4-word English sentences on their own. Society calls them hopeless because they sleep/talk in every other teacher's class (mine too sometimes ish). Society deems them to have 'no future' because some of them are illiterate/almost illiterate.
But you cannot deny these guys have good hearts. They are my heroes and even though I'm the teacher, I learn stuff from them all the time.
As what Charis Ding said of her kids, I feel the same as well.
"Some of the best people I've ever met."
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