Weird Jewish Naming

I realized one day that many English proper names of today were once derived from very traditional Jewish names.

Few examples below:

Daniel
Esther
Hannah
Nathan
Josh
Samuel
Simon
Peter
David

On the same day, I asked myself the question: would Jewish people find it weird that a significant number of people in western civilizations are giving their kids Jewish names (rather than a name like as Frank, Clive or Melvin)?

I didn't really find it weird, until I imagined an American couple naming their first child Confucius (a Chinese derivative). Now that would be weird (!!)

I assume that you are Chinese, if you're reading this post.

Cricket Cricket

I was inspired by something that a friend said in a train conversation about cricket coaching for year 7s and 8s at Wesley College.

He said: "Cricket coaching is great. But i'm like the worst coach ever. Every single time, at the end of the trainings, i would be like: OK BOYS. IT'S MY TURN." (Referring to: 'my turn to bat')

Hahahaha.

Inspirational.

You Need Trace Minerals

A quick one today.

"Intensive Salad"... !

Some more crazy cuts. This time, with Jine, Otis, and Bigi.

At this shop, you get tariffed for taking on "Ear-picking Services"

And lastly, you need trace minerals! Roommate very excited about trace minerals

Headaches No More Over Allocation of House Chores

Because boys are generally bad with doing house chores, but still need to do house chores, we have come up with a new system for house chore allocations. View in picture below.

As you can see, it's a chore matrix. Nicely hand drawn.

And then we paper-scissors-rock off every box. Hahaha. Like this.

My mum was getting very worried at one stage that one of us was going to get all the chores for the month.

Abe told my mum to let probability handle everything.

Abe gets good allocations, so the reverse for me.

And it (probability) did it for him! (A very happy Abe)

Helps keep things (and the chores) exciting every week.

To Maximize Utility

Define: utility
In economics, utility is a measure of the relative satisfaction from, or desirability of, consumption of various goods and services.

1. You have two peaches in your lunch box.
2. You plan to eat both of them one after the other.
3. One of which is sweet and one of which is not so sweet.
4. But pretend that you didn't know that - you have no idea whether each individual peach is sweet or not.

Question:
By eating which peach first, will you maximize utility?

My personal answer is:
The sweeter peach first.
Because while eating the first sweet peach, i will be thinking about the sweetness of the second peach. Mmm...

And that to me, is value.

The Days After the Chinese Revolution

The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" (2004) was such a success that it was translated into many other languages - with one of the other languages as Chinese.

Here is the poster you would see in Taiwan.


The movie title is translated into "明天過後", which literally means: 'after tomorrow is past', which makes a lot of sense.

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And here is the poster you would see in China.

"后天" ??!!
Hahahahahahaha. That's so weak (and funny)!!!

p.s. sorry to those who don't understand Chinese. Also, I don't mean to offend the readers from mainland China (edit: who would be reading this after migrating out of mainland China).

Add NT$5 For Bubbles

Food manicure! And the 'Ear Plug' service gives some unpleasant imagery =]

No thank you, don't have the time!

Incredible web URL! Tremendously disadvantaged business!

"Add NT.5 for Bubbles"! Hahaha. Why would you want bubbles??

Two months in Taiwan seemed like a lonnnggggg dream. Alongside with all the people i met. They seemed fictional.

I'll be back.