Thursday, August 21, 2014

Kar Kia

An angmo customer recently asked me what's the Singlish term for female subordinate, which I told him it should be "Kar Kia / Kha Kia". I think it literally means the son of the leg?? He asked me for the spelling which I have no idea, as I've never seen the term in writing. Singlish is still a very young language so there's no standardized spelling. Then his female colleague started to complain that she's not a Kar Kia, it's a guy term...probably need to add a "Siu" infront for Siu Ze (cantonese for lady). Haha, which I don't think cantonese will mix with hokkien, but well singlish is a very versatile language...she could had said swee kar kia (beautiful sidekick)...

Anyway we tried to google for the word which I then realised there's no entry for Kar Kia in the Coxford Singlish dictionary...there's pai kia for bad boy, so I guess the hokkien spelling for boy is kia...

Let me try to explain
Kar Kia
(Car kee-ah)
Hokkien phrase for subordinate staff, underling or sidekick.
"Why you do this yourself? Get your kar kia to do lar."

Am I right, my kar kia??

Friday, August 15, 2014

What does it means to be Normal...


Get a name called Norman, move to Normandy, then get everyone else to be called Norman. Yeah, that's Normal..

Normal means to be ordinary. To be extraordinary, means to be abnormal...

I don't believe in God...not that I don't believe that there's a super root user up in the Heavens... but the term God that Christians claim to belong solely to them...
Any person or religion that believe only their belief is supreme, is normal, so they will normally try to convince others to their norm.

Not everyone are made the same.
Whatever made man, made man similarly,  yet differently...
Any animal of the same spieces will have a normal look, that's why they are normally categorized into the same spieces.

Who are we to judge what is Normal? Even if we can judge what is normal, why should we judge what is Normal? Is it right to stop someone from deviating from a normal path? Many many important discoveries, inventions, artworks happened due to a deviation from the Normal folks and paths!

Post note:
I wrote this sometime back, hidden in my Evernote note...I can barely remember I wrote it, or perhaps I copied it from somewhere that I can't recall...getting senile...anyway I found a blogger app from playstore that makes blogging easier than before haha, so only uploading now.

New view (my view changes from time to time...): Normal is good. It takes extra to be extraordinary...just be yourself, if you know yourself.