Busy Beijing -changing Chinglish to English

The Beijing olympics is scheduled to begin on 8 th August ,2008 .Authorities are busy changing sign boards, sign posts ,restaurant menus ,placards etc from Chinglish to English . Chinglish is a commonly used term for English from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Chinglish is known for its mistranslated sign boards and products. Chinglish can be quite entertaining and evoke instant laughter.Obvioulsy China does not want to become the laughing stock before visiting dignitaries and sportpersons from all over the world. Of cource English is a foreign language and mastering it is difficult . Countries under the former colonial imperialism , speak comparatively good English. Even in such countries this is restricted to metro cities where the imperialists ruled . Even the current statistics, reveal native speakers of the English Language is a negligible 15 % . Out of the estimated 2 billion people using the language, majority of them use it as a common link language. China always had a paucity of native English teachers . With 300 million chinese trying to speak English, English will become more like chinese.

Some chinglish sign boards to entertain you

• If you are stolen, call the police at once .

• please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can.

• deformed man lavatory.

• The stairs and Pu Jiang Hotel of the carving arm-rest is like the long history
  (on a wall next to a staircase in a hotel)

intended to convey "This staircase with carved banister has a history as old as that of the Pujiang Hotel."

• Those who suffer from high blood pressure, mental disease, horrifying of highness and liquor heads are refused.

(notice at the entrance to a ride in an entertainment park)

The four letter F*** word is used in the context of " to do " in some Chinglish boards !!!

• No tresspassing, violators will be shot survivors will be shot again
  

• Be dangerous we are insured

• Danger if you fall in the pond you will be boiled

• Smoking/naked light is prohibited within the petrol filling station

• Welcome to come again

• No photoing no smoking

• your careful steps keeps tiny grass invariably green

• please do not spilt everywhere and liter up .The violators will be amerced with in range of 20 to 50 yuan.

A sign board at world famous Great wall of China

welcome you to visit Mutiyanu great wall.For you and others security please attention to following items

1.please don't carve arbitrarily on the great wall .protect one brick and stone consciously

2.for your safety .please don't climb crelenated wall.

3.please walk carefully on abrupt slope and dangerous way.Dont run and pushes to pash violently and the laugh and frolic

4.please pay attemtion to your safety in the rain and snow weather.

5.old people and children must have been accompanied and leaded by their family members when climbing the great wall .

6.The fire is forbidden here .Please don't take the tinder.

7.When you have a problem please call the alarm tel 61626683

We can find equally funny sign boards in India. Neverthless , one can not understand how such a board can be displayed near the Great wall of China.The Language Police of China is all out to make the boards comprehensible . Let us wish them all the best.

The Sri Lankan Battlers

Murali and Mendis have spun out the famed Indian batting line up to a disastrous start of the Sri Lankan tour. Obvioulsy the Lankan team is on a high after the Asia cup win. The old guard's return to the Test side has not helped the Indian team . Of late one gets the feeling, only we Indians keep on saying that we have one of the worlds best batting line up .We also claim Indian batsmen are better players of spin. Kumble and Gary has lot to do and salvage the pride of Indian cricket in the next two tests .Hope the stalwarts would live up to their reputation and redeem the teams as well as their reputation .

Polarisation of Indian Politics

The leftists were running the government by proxy.But it seems on the Indo-US nuclear deal,they have rubbed the congress on the wrong side. Even an accomodative PM like Manmohan Singh finally decided to take on the lefts opportunistic withdrawal of support and challenge them on the floor of the house. The left pushed the PM too far on the nuclear deal issue. PM has rightly said that it was a 'mis judgement' on the part of Prakash Karat. The government has got a lease of life .But the next general elections are not far off.

The rise of a third front has become real now and is almost inevitable. Parties like Ajit singh's Lok Dal and Deve Gowda's JD(s) have fallen a prey to the baits offered by another power monger Mayawati.With Mulayams SP aligning with the congress, naturally Mayawati's BSP got a hearty welcome in the UNPA. Regional parties like TDP, Biju's JD,Chautala's Lokdal and JD(u) have welcomed the leftists joining with them as it would strengthen the third front.
All the more the leftists also had no other go. Having come out of the UPA, they can not obviously join with the NDA .They need to support the formation of an alternate third front at least for their own survival in the ensuing polls.The only other regional party worth its salt that is out of all the three fronts is Jayalalitha's AIADMK.Since AIADMK has no MP's in the current LOk sabha, understandably she has been keeeping a low profile. Had AIADMK a couple of MPs's in the current Lok sabha,she would also have jumped in to the fray. She is playing a waiting game.She is currently undecided on her possible allies at the state level. That makes her keep her cards close to her chest. In all likelyhood the congress DMK alliance may continue.That means the PMK may have to find another alliance partner.There is the likelyhood of a third front in TN also. With Vijaykant's DMDK and Sarat Kumars SMMK trying to form a third front with them in the lead. The left may have two options in TN.They can either align with the proposed third front or with Jaya's AIADMK front. But joining the AIADMK would mean that she will not have any truck with BJP in the state and central elections. This remains to be seen. All this points to one thing that is certain. The coming state elections in TN and the next Lok sabha polls would be fought between three fronts.The congress led UPA, BJP led NDA and a third front including leftists and fringe parties. All said and done the leftists have committed an 'historical blunder' by withdrawing support to the UPA. Mr. Jyoti Basu of CPM said some time back, by refusing to allow him become the PM long time back, the CPM commited an 'historical blunder'.This time the CPM has committed the same 'historical blunder' courtesy Prakash Karat.

If the leftists get a major chunk of the seats in WB,Kerala and Tripura,with a sizeable win for BSP in UP,TDP in AP along with few fringe parties support the third front will be a major force to reckon with and the leftists will again call the shots .They will not obvioulsy join the government,but would enjoy power by proxy.The coalition politics is here to stay.Hence with the national interest in mind the indian electorates would do well to give a decsive mandate in future polls so that we may not have to witness the ugly horse trading once again and bring the nation to shame in the eyes of the international community.

Homage to a fellow blogger

Understand worlds oldest blogger Olive Riley,at the age of 108 passed away on July 12th peacefully in Australian nursing Home . She did make her last posting about singing a "happy song" in the nursing Home in her blog .

In her final post on June 26, she wrote: "I can't believe I've been here in this nursing home for more than a week.

"How the days have flown, even though I've been in bed most of the time. I still feel weak, and can't shake off that bad cough.

"Penny, who's in the next bed to mine, had a visit one day this week from her daughter, who's a professional singer. Guess what happened! She and I sang a happy song, as I do every day, and before long we were joined by several nurses, who sang along too. It was quite a concert!"

(http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com). All her internet friends will surely miss her.

As a fellow blogger, I pay my homage to her .

Asia cup debacle

It is unfortunate India had no answers to the spin magic of Asantha Mendis. The Lankans have a found a worthy successor to the spin wizard Muthiah Muralitharan. Though it is too early to judge Mendis, he has proved himself beyond any doubts in the Asia cup.

Are the Indians back to their famous jinx in the finals? .This is the second time we are losing a match in the final in recent times .Both times the loss was to another Asian giant. Or is it Dhoni's magic touch is on the wane? As captain Dhoni has faced three successive failures in the finals.Once in the IPL , then in the Tri series at Bangladesh and now in the Asia cup.

It was the familiar and pathetic sight of a losing Indian captain talking about the positives after a defeat. But the fact is that the so called strong batting line up did not apply itself .Gary kristen also needs to do some plain talking. This is the second consecutive defeat in the finals after he took over the reins.

Moral of the story is don't rest on the past glories of the T20 world cup win and the victory down under. Let us hope Dhoni and his men will prove to be lucky atleast in the forthcoming Sri Lanka tour.