Welcome to.........

suddenly, i have a thought of transforming my house into a hotel...or haotel as pronounced by my ah gong...

HAOTEL HAODEBUDELIAO

Welcome, welcome! We at Haotel Haodebudeliao are pleased to serve you, our valued customer!

At Haotel Haodebudeliao, you will have the opportunity to stay in our one-of-a-kind PRESIDENTIAL suite that is so exclusive, that it is the only room in our famous Haotel. Our amiable and EVER READY staff are capable of providing the highest quality service and their potential can reach even greater heights upon seeing this sign: $. Bored? No problem. You will be entertained by our wide variety of facilities that will keep you ccupied for the whole day.

Now for a brief introduction to our staff and facilities (part I):

Service Department

Housekeeping & Meals:

The head of our housekeeping and meals departments is MAMA KWAN, who also happens (is by coincidence you know) to be the only staff in those departments. A caring and kind lady, her promotion was quick (and by default) because of her special powers, "Kuan Shou Kuan Jiao". With that extraordinary ability, she has cliched the prestigious awards of "The Fastest Ironer/Mopper/Sweeper" in the annual Tri-housework-athalon. There is no doubt regarding her ability. The Haotel is kept spick and span and all the staff is stuffed with food. So much so that 1/3 of the staff is overweight and half is obese. On top of the great housekeeping and culinary skills, MAMA KWAN is also known as the self-medicate expert. Should you fall sick (touch wood), you can trust that you will be in good hands. Herbal tea, po chai pills, panadol, ointments, creams and other bitter chinese medicine is in abundance#.

Purchase and transport department

Have a craving? Yearning for rock melon or grouper? Our purchase department will take care of it. Going somewhere? Need a lift? Our transport department will send you there. GONG GONG AH GONG, our ever reliable purchase and transport manager will answer your every need. Having 50 years of driving experience and uncountable number of years of marketing (going to the market) experience, GG AH GONG is our oldest staff at the age of 73. Once you have informed him your personal preference for certain food, you can expect to get it immediately the next day, and everyday for the rest of the week until you are sick of it. GG AH GONG will stop at nothing to provide great service, even to the extend of spending every last penny in his pocket. And he will be pleased to buy you I-K KLEAM (meaning ice cream) too!


#Please remember to check the expiry date before using, we are not liable for any health problem arising from eating or applying expired medication.

-end of part I-

the AH family...

daddy: ah hong
mommy: ah kwan
aunty: ah gek
2nd uncle: ah thong (who oso called himself robert thong, even though his surname is yar)
3rd uncle: ah yam ( but i call him sua gu)
grandpa: ah gong (yar ah gong)
grandma: ah ma ( i call po po coz is maternal side)
cousin 1: ah di
cousin 2: ah ming
cousin 3: ah bee (short form of babeeee)
cousin 4: ah ti (as in pig in hokkien)
me: ah mei
my bro: ah bui

the exception: deh gu (as in field frog in hokkien)

tada...that's the ah ah ah.......tschoo!!

the sad stuff...

after 17 years, after repeating it for 1786 times, my mum still talks about it.
about him in actual fact. about her brother. about the lost sheep of the family.

17 years after my uncle has committed suicide, my mum still hates his secondary school principal. the one who expelled him over some minor offence and indirectly caused his downfall. and that happened 30 years ago. a very long grudge indeed.

but mainly, i think my mum hates the white powder the most, that sinful stuff that put my uncle behind bars and forced him to take a road of no return.

she never fails to describe how he looked and acted after taking the drugs and when the withdrawal symptoms kicked in. or that he was actually a very filial son and kind person, just that he could not resist the devilish temptation. and even though he was addicted to the drug, he did not steal from the family or take drugs at home, but he broke the hearts of many anyway.

i still remembered the white pills he took from the drawer and the tattoos on his body. other than the songs and lessons he taught me, he left me something else too. a scar on my forehead. i tripped over a drain outside changi prison after visiting him and had bout 4 stitches. i was 2 then, but the scar is still visible now.

looking at my family now, i could have never imagined that we had such a history before. not just taking of drugs, but also being bookies and money lenders. but that are all in the past and i'm glad that my cousins, brother and i have turned out to be fine.

Spanish tags

After replying that i'm not a hello kitty fan, i got a few more tags...in Spanish!!!

so i have to take the trouble to go to altavista babel to translate them. i realised that these free translation websites are not dat great, coz the translations turned out to be funny.

all courtesy of Juan Rubiano.

a) Hola Amiguitos, estoy muy feliz, porque tengo a Hello Kitty cerca de mi. Mis baticas rosadas y mis moños son parte de mi todos los dás. Hello Kitty gracias por ser mi mejor amiga.

translating: Hello Amiguitos, I am very happy, because I have to Hello Kitty near my. My pink baticas and my moños are part of my all dás. Hello Kitty thanks to be my better friend.

b) Amiguitos, estoy triste porque han perdido el interes en esta página, debemos compartir nuestro amor por Hello Kitty, espero compartir con ustedes mis aventuras con Hello Kitty

this translates to: Amiguitos, I am sad because there are lost the interest in this page, we must share our love by Hello Kitty, I hope to share with you my adventures with Hello Kitty

c) Hello Kitty, nunca me alejare de ti, siempre podrás contar conmigo, porqeu que estaremos simpre juntos.

and this means: Hello Kitty, never will move away to me of you, always you will be able to have me, porqeu that we will be simpre together.

d) Hello Kitty, Gracias por existir, me encanta ponerme mi batica rosada y mi moño

this says: Hello Kitty, Thanks to exist, enchant to me to put to me my batica and my pink moño

e) solo quiero saludar a todos mis amigos y en especial a mi mejor amiga HOLA HELLO KITTY!!!!!

meaning: single I want to greet to all my friends and in special my better friend HELLO HELLO KITTY!!!!!


after spending 10 mins to translate the tags, cut and paste the translations here, i would like to express my thanks to Juan Rubiano for writing the tags, so that there is no lack of activity even though the owner of this page hasn't written for a month. and also for making my blog more colourful with Spanish.

but may i request that only english, chinese and german tags are accepted. ok, hokkien also can. plus singlish too. it's quite mafan (translates to troublesome) for me to go translate the tags...and i don't think i wan to learn Spanish now...

and y do i have the feeling from the last tag, that my blog has become a gathering for hello kitty fans, that Juan Rubiano is saying hi to her frens thru my blog. did i get the meaning wrong or is the translation bad?

and i'll like to reiterate that i am not a hello kitty fan. the hello kitty club from nus german class is made up of pple by the names of najib, clarence and uncle gin. i tink siwei is in too. is a DIFFERENT HELLO KITTY CLUB!!!

Again i would like to say: No soy realmente un ventilador de Hello Kitty.

for the benefit of those who dunno Spanish, that means: I am really not a fan of Hello Kitty.
courtesy of Altavista Babel...