Chinglish lesson of the day: The equipment is repairing. Please forgive

Today’s tech is wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots…

Sleeping passenger wakes up in hangar 90 minutes after the plane lands!

The Airliner Blog has recently noted an odd story of a sleeping passenger who woke up in the aircraft hanger 90 minutes after the plane had landed! Apparently, the “heavy sleeping” passenger was in the backseat and no one noticed he was still there after all the other passengers disembarked (a hangar mechanic found him). You can read more about the incident on the Airliner Blog. Mizozo.com or in the Montreal Gazette.

Chinglish lesson of the day: Don'T Stretch Avoided Biting

 

Public etiquette in Dubai

If you plan to visit Dubai soon, it would be a good idea to know what the rules are for public behavior there. Hence, a recent Christian Science Monitor article entitled: “In Dubai, public kissing can land you in jail” -  is well worth reading along with an additional article (“What are the rules for public behavior in Dubai?”) that covers public etiquette. In other words, when in Dubai, do as the Dubaians would.

If only tea party rallies were this exciting…

Breitbart.tv recently posted an interesting video entitled: “Off-the-Hook Hypocrisy: Rep. Waters Used to Love ‘Vulgar’ & ‘Outlandish’ Protest Rallies” Now, if only tea party rallies could get this exciting!

Chinglish lesson of the day: Mobilephone electrizing

Chinglish lesson of the day: No smocking in the Palace Museum

The Lunatic Express

If you think airline travel has gotten bad, read The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman. According to a Wall Street Journal book review about the book (“Planes, Trains And Miseries: Planes, The hugger-mugger squalor endured by the planet's traveling billions"), Hoffman will show you what travel is like for the Planet’s poor:

“…which means the vast majority of humanity—the simple business of getting from place to place is almost invariably a savage and insufferable nightmare, unsafe and unsanitary, run by incompetents and regulated by crooks.”

After reading the book, you will never again complain about Amtrak or budget airlines!

Chinglish lesson of the day: Relic protected, no scratch

I am (still) famous… in Australia

In case you found that much of Australia is still in a 1980s time warp, a recent article in the Asia Wall Street Journal ('I Am Big in Australia') will confirm your suspicions as it noted an interesting phenomena of stars long past their prime who are still big in the land down under. These stars include Whitney Houston, Leo Sayer, Deep Purple and the list goes on and on…. So in case you missed the 1980s or simply can’t get enough 80s music, go to the land down under!

Floating loans from a boat on the Amazon River

The Asian Wall Street Journal recently had an interesting article (“A Banker Wades Into New Markets by Floating Loans From a Boat”) about a banker who floats loans from a boat that plies the Amazon River. However, I think we can assume that the only bailout this banker may need would be to occasionally bail water! The article is definitely an interesting read.

Chinglish lesson of the day: Handbasin for child only do not beat

Airline employees buy their competitor’s cheap tickets so that passengers could not

Talk about unfriendly competition, the Airline Reporter blog is reporting that when Norwegian Air Shuttle offered US$.19 fares to celebrate a new route between Copenhagen and Karup, the employees of Danish airline Cimber Sterling bought more than 650 tickets with one employee purchasing 458 tickets and two board members purchasing 18. The CEO of Cimber Sterling later called the CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle to apologize...

Chinglish lesson of the day: A pan bone soup

Sounds delicious….