I was doing my visiting of other blogs, - sometimes I do so without leaving a message, just to assist others in getting traffic, and to see what they are up to, check out if my list of linked friends are leading to blogs that are still there, etc etc.

Anyway, I found this below in a post at the blog of Amy - you will find her link below, and might need to use it, because I have left the last three of these 'Chinese' translations out of my list, so you can check it out at her blog.

Now, bear in mind I am not trying to make fun of Chinese people to be nasty, after all, I am a Limey, and so it might be like throwing stones in a glass house, hehehe, but I have to say, if you pronounce the words below using a high pitched Chinese accent, they will sound even funnier.

From http://pinay-at-heart.blogspot.com/

For most of us, Chinese is a very difficult language to learn or understand. Hopefully, these simplifications will help you understand the Chinese language just a bit better! lol*

Ai Bang Mai Ne - I bumped into the coffee table
Chin Tu Fat - You need a face lift
Dum Gai - A stupid person
Gun Pao Der - An ancient Chinese invention
Hu Flung Dung - Which one of you fertilized the field?
Hu Yu Hai Ding - We have reason to believe you are harboring a fugutive.
Jan Ne Ka Sun - A former late night talk show host
Kum Hia - Approach me
Lao Ze Sho - Dawson's Creek
Lao Zi - Not very good
Lin Ching - An illegal execution
Moon Lan Ding - A great achievement of the American space program
Ne Ahn - A lighting fixture used in advertising signs
Shai Gai - A bashful person
Tai Ne Bae Be - A premature infant
Tai Ne Po Ne - A small horse
Ten Ding Ba - Serving drinks to people
Wan Bum Lung - A person with T.B.
Yu Mai Te Tan - Your vacation in Hawaii agrees with you

And for the extra last three of these, which are really funny, you will have to visit Amy's blog: Amy

The Filipino product consuming trick might not actually be the fault of the Filipino, but I am happy to make the assumption that it is, just so that I can make fun of my Missus and her sister.

Most products that are consumable, such as dishwasher soap, clothes washing soap/detergent, that sort of thing, have instructions on how much to use.

Now, nine times out of ten, if the product is a liquid, the amount will be less than a full measuring cap. The manufacturers do this, because they know that if the instructions are not looked at, then a full cap will be used, equal to a fresh purchase sooner, and more profit.

The Filipina, in her quest for an even cleaner than clean lifestyle, will always add a little to what is needed. If a full cup is need, she will use a cup and a half or two. If half a cup is needed, she will use a full one - and so it is with the measuring caps on liquid products. But, I have a plan, hehehe it is called dilution!!! hehehe!

A Happy Mothers Day to all you Mothers out there, in fact, a happy day to all you chicks, Mothers or not. May you all have a great day, looking hot and working it, baby, working it!

An especially happy day to all you Mothers who wear tight clothing, because it is ALWAYS appropriate. Actually I am lying.

But, wear it anyway, you know it will keep your hubby or boyfriend happy, - it will even keep someone else's hubby happy, if that is what you are doing with your life, despite there probably being no real future in it!

I think that by now we are all probably aware of Wikipedia, where the entries to a dictionary online are made by the public, and added to or corrected by the public as well.

Someone just had a great idea that runs almost the same way. Shopwiki.com scans the internet and gathers information about products without the advertisers having to do anything other than have their products listed on a webpage. Then the details are entered into a directory at Shopwiki.com making for an overall amount of products that far exceeds any listed by regular retail websites.

There is a good search feature, and the items are listed by category, anyway. For instance, say you are wanting to compare prices on Playstation then you would click on video games on the homepage, and then the Sony Playstation, to look at the specifications, then just click on search at the top window and as the name is already in there, it will take you to the listings of everything that is Playstation related, including games, and the actual game console unit itself and the suppliers offering it as well as the prices.

 A wealth of information. Or, from the specification page you can get more details about any of the linked words, such as Blu-ray player Blu-ray player there! See how easy it is to find stuff for great comparison shopping? Lets, just for giggles, try another link, say, Xbox 360 and we end up with the sales listings for Xbox 360 then we can go even further, such as hovering our mouse over, say, the Xbox360 Thermostatic Cooling System, we get a list of suppliers and prices for that particular product.

Right now Shopwiki claim to list "245,398,189 products from every store", and I see no reason why, with the system that they have to obtain listings, it shouldn't be double that figure by the end of the year, or even sooner.

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