Wednesday, 11 July 2012

The ABC of Kiasu-ism

- Always must win
- Borrow but never return
- Cheap is good
- Don't trust anyone
- Everything also must grab!
- Free! Free! Free!
- Grab first talk later
- Help yourself to everything
- I first, I want, I everything
- Jump queue
- Keep coming back for more
- Look for discount
- Must not lose face
- Never mind what they think
- Outdo everyone you know
- Pay only when necessary
- Quit while you are ahead
- Rushing and pushing wins the race
- Sample are always welcome
- Take but don't give
- Unless it's free forget it
- Vow to be number one
- Winner takes it ALL! ALL! ALL!
- Yell if necessary to get what you want
- Zebras are kiasu because they want to be both  
  black and white at the same time

Saturday, 7 July 2012

I thought I knew everything .... I was wrong


Stewardesses is the longest word
typed with only the left hand.


And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed
with your right hand.




No word in the English language rhymes with
month , orange, silver, or purple.

' Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.


our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears

never stop growing.

The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps

over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the

alphabet.


The words 'racecar,' 'kayak'

and 'level' are the

same whether they are read left to right or

right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English

language which end in 'dous':

tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and

hazardous.


There are two words in the English language

that have all five vowels in order:

'abstemious' and 'facetious.' 

TYPEWRITER
     is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.  

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
. 
 

  
 A goldfish    has a memory span of three seconds 

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A shark    is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

A snail    can sleep for three years.   Almonds are a member of the peach    family. 


An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
 Babies are born without kneecaps.  

They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. 

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. If the population of China walked past you, 8 people wide, 
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
 
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors 

Peanuts    are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
 

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 



 
 The cruise liner, QE 2,moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns..
The microwave    was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.  
 
 
The winter of 1932 was so cold that  Niagara Falls      
froze completely solid .
There are more chickens than people in the world.  
         

Winston Churchill
 
was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
 Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 

 
The Rain-Thomas Kinkade 

This is a Thomas Kinkade painting It's rumored to carry a miracle! 
They say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle.