My friend, Rebecca, shared this video on her Facebook some time back: “Malaysian English: The Most Colourful English in the World”. It is funny and peppered with lots of localized English. After watching it, I was inspired to write something [… more]
I was mopping the floor and was thinking about stuff to take boredom away from this household chore. Couldn’t help it but think of my recent post on upside-down Chinese and an idea for Chinese shorthand. And then it struck: [… more]
Jan 26 2013
Wow, Chinese New Year is fast approaching, with just 2 weeks to go. I remember last year we had fun parodying CNY songs on our WittyCulus Fan Page (facebook.com/WittyCulus), the likes of “Gong Xi Gong Xi” () and “Cai Shen [… more]
Dec 26 2012
I’m sure you’ve seen companies with signboards in both the English and Chinese languages, in bi-lingual Singapore. Or watched their Chinese ads on TV. Funny thing though, some companies choose the Chinese words to mimic the sound of their English [… more]
Dec 12 2012
Did you see this on your digital clock about an hour ago? The time 12:12:12 has come and gone on this special day 12/12/12 that is today. Another rare moment, much like the one on 11/11/11 at 11:11:11, which we [… more]
Aug 23 2012
Step aside, waxing! Make way for a revolutionary method to get rid of “excessive” hair. How? With air, that’s how! Is this just some hot air about great ideas still being cooked in the lab? Or is this for real? [… more]
A few days back, my son’s English teacher asked the class to each write an acrostic poem for the toy boat project they did. I remember asking my boy: “Acrostic poem? What’s that?” He told me the poem has to [… more]
Mar 12 2012
It’s been nearly two months since I last posted, but not because there was a drought; rather I had been kinda lazy to write. At around our Chinese New Year (late January), I did mull over and wrote a couple [… more]
Jan 14 2012
If you’ve been following WittyCulus.com, or have just searched for something witty or amusing and came visiting, chances are you could do with regular doses of chuckles, much as I am wont to do. And if it’s them tickles that [… more]
