Me encanta Koda Kumi pero….XDD

*Inscription on box, Chinese-restaurant wall-scroll calendar, c. late 1990s

From Offensive Michelle Obama image removed:

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 25 (UPI) — A blog that ran a photograph of U.S. first lady Michelle Obama altered to make her appear ape-like removed the image Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The distorted image created an international furor after it appeared on Google image searches, but the search engine had refused to remove it from its index due to free-speech concerns, the newspaper said.

The authors of the blog site “Hot Girls,” which had posted the image, reportedly removed it Wednesday, inserting an apology written in Chinese and in broken English.

“I am very sorry for this article, and that this is the program automatically issued a document from the article,” the Times quoted the English version as reading. “Do not the subject of race and politics make the discussion too radical and sincere hope that the world is very peaceful.”….

I hear the removal of bowels (disemboweling) can be painful, but now I can see how easy it is with paste on my tummy for only 10 hours a day.

Ryan found this book in the library today and it’s an interesting one. In fact, VERY interesting one.

 Written by P.C.T’UNG & D.E.POLLARD, first published in 1982.

The thing is I am not sure if this book is for the Chinese to learn English or the other way round but it really cracked us up. Click the image to enlarge it.

 What is that (M) for!?

And finally, my all time favorite!….

 It doesn’t even make any sense!!!!

Hope you guys enjoyed that!

cheers!

Among its many fine qualities, I think I like this packaging’s enthusiasm the most:

Taken at face value, “Easy & Surprise” will no doubt both prove to be extremely accurate.

google translate and yahoo’s babel fish both have good intentions.  they want to help in translating foreign texts into your native language, and while the idea is good, the execution….well, here’s a sample.  i copied a text from a korean website and pasted it on google and yahoo.

here’s google’s translation:

Residential streets and apartment complexes around the chassineun kids out there, “causing a fuss and bluster Children pushchair is best,” he said.

and yahoo’s:

while google talks about bluster children, apparently, yahoo thinks that those same bluster children will burn.

my parents recently came back from a trip to china and they brought me back some amazingly delicious tea leaves.

the engrish on the side is amazing, so i have to share:

Litchi black tea cooperate with litchi quintessence modulate with high-quality black tea, fragrant to assail the nostrils fruit have, tea bad smell strong, enter the mouth thin to slip,its appearance piece Suo form detailed and straight closely, the color and luster is dark and moist, interior quality fragrance is fragrant, flavour is fresh and comfortable and fragrant and sweet, being color red and on, soup there is flavor of litchies, help digest, clear up stomach and wake up brain refreshing efficiency.

oh yeah, got this from china too.  it’s AWESOME:

Sunrise in Makuhari, Japan, right along the Tokyo bay. Again, much better than the other convention center towns like Las Vegas or Orlando.

Unlike Orlando’s convention center, the food here doesn’t suck, but I’m not quite sure about this ‘sarad’.

A shabu-shabu restaurant in the area had a neato shoe locker for the patron’s footwear. The keys were made from rectangular wooden blocks. My Australian Blundstones barely fit inside. Good thing I didn’t bring my Justin Ropers.

A tech journalist I have been seeing year after year is still wielding his dual Nikon D70 and D100 bodies. These are ancient in the digital camera world but the image quality are constant reminder of what made these machines great in the first place.

The D70, my first Nikon body, doesn’t jump through hoops, trigger multiple flash groups and make me coffee like my D90 does, but darned if some of my favorite photos didn’t come out of that thing.

A tempting job offer in beautiful Engrish. Do you think they misunderstood the term ‘member of staff’?

Japanese game show – if they laugh, they get spanked:

So soft and juicy, I want a hamburg Steak right now. Which should shut up the taste of beef! Deliciously Engrish!

Asia in general is known for its… amusing… ways of translating things into English. Store names, product slogans, t-shirts… you name it. I’ve been trying to document all the “Engrish” I’ve seen in Taiwan for my own amusement, but it occurs to me that you, the good strong reader, might want to be amused as well. And so this is a semi-regular installment here on Nick in Asia – not to poke fun, mind you, but belly laughing a few times is always good for the soul.

In Part 6a of this ongoing and award-winning Engrish series, we looked at several hats I saw while spending a weekend in Kenting. As I’ve mentioned before, these adorable yet horribly wrong attempts at English are all over the place here, and I’m going to try to take more pictures of it. But it’s hard to be inconspicuous as a white person in an Asian land when you’re taking pictures of things written in English while laughing hysterically. Especially when those things are written on someone’s chest, or their head. Ahhh well. I do it for you.

One thing that I had not seen prior to arriving in Kenting, though, is what we’ll be focusing on today. Remember, I said last time that 6a would focus more on the Engrish, while 6b would have more of a Chinese Insanity flavor. Well, here we are. As I told you, the couple of main streets in Kenting had all sorts of clothing shops for the beach-goer in you (flip flops, board shorts, t-shirts) or for the Asian beach-goer (big sunhats, long-sleeve jackets, and SPF 14,500 sunscreen).

Well, quite a few of these shops had mannequins proudly displaying their ware. Now, I’ve always found mannequins a bit unnerving, what with the impeccable fashion sense, the dismissive attitudes, and the vacant stares. But let me tell you, the simple mannequins of the West have nothing on their counterparts here. These mannequins were some of the creepiest things I have ever seen with my own two eyes. They had personalities and life sculpted into and painted onto their faces. I suppose they’re made this way to appear more lifelike and make Johnny Consumer more inclined to buy the clothes hanging from them. But I fear it has the opposite effect. We were all too busy recoiling in horror from the crazed stares these mannequins were giving us that we never even much looked at the merchandise.

And they all looked different, too! It was like the proprietors of these stores had killed a band of gypsies, taxidermied them, and then dressed them each in a different shirt/shorts combo along the street. Truly disturbing.

So there’s some Chinese insanity for ya. Enjoy the mannequins after the jump. Do not look them in the eyes.

My girlfriend’s youngest daughter had a birthday recently and she received some clothes with English phrases from her (non-English speaking) grandmother in Japan. They reminded me of the Engrish.com site, which collects poorly translated and rather comical examples of English, mostly from Asian countries. In Japan it’s quite common to use English words and phrases on clothing, and it’s just as common for them not to make any sense.

We all had a good chuckle at what the shirts said, although the first one here, as you will see,  was kind of disturbing. Hopefully when she wears it to school we won’t get a call from her teacher…

Romantic sentiment or premature burial?

And here is the other:

Umm..yeah...

They have some other, older shirts that are pretty funny as well, I’ll add them when I get around to it.

When Babelfish happens to good Japanese people….

Engrish. You are my first language, not my mother(’s) tongue.

A very funny sign taken by my husband at Cerza Zoo in Lisieux, France.

Valerie 

Heyy!!

Oooo I come back carrying a mash up for you!! After spending 5 hours drowing in heartbreak whilst reading some old stuff and laughing my head off at some hilarious engrish, I decided to make my first song and music video mash up!

In the end, I chose Crazily Pretty by DNT and Chu by F(x). Watch it below and remember to comment/rate, I need feedback from you guys!

Hope you liked that! Chu~<3

~ataerublue~

[Recommended Song of the Day: Crazily Pretty by DNT]

it flies, I guess…