Competing With The Chinese

The last few days have been great.

Since Mae and I returned from our holiday, I have had some good thrills. I am reading a book called "2 States" by Chetan Bhagat (kindly given to me by Pankaj Arora, our colleague and THE MAN in Vietnam), and I'm enjoying every page. Infact I did precious little in Saigon and Vung Tau (Vietnam), other than having a short meeting, giving a bossy lecture on what we should be doing for the next quarter, eating lots of food, drinking plenty of Hieneken with our managers and reading the book. I did find some time to see Rocket Singh on my portable VCD player.

Then a friend sent me this joke which had me in stitches for 2 days. I share it with you now:

You might like this. It's so hilarious... ..even an Englishman could not construct sentences using numeric, which is exclusive only to Malaysians and Singaporeans. Here it goes...

Ah Lek was asked to make a sentence using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10. Not only did he do it 1 to 10, he did it again from 10 back to 1.This is what he came up with.....

"1 day I go 2 climb a 3 outside a house to peep. But the couple saw me, so I panic and 4 down.The man rushed out and wanted to 5 with me. I ran until I fell 6 and threw up. So I go into 7-eleven and grabbed some 8 to throw at him. Then I took a 9 and try to stab at him. 10 God he run away. 10 I put the 9 back and pay for the 8 and left 7-eleven. Next day I called my boss and told him I was 6. He said 5 , tomorrow also no need to come back 4 work. He also ask me to go climb a 3 and jump down! I don't understand. I am so nice 2 him but I don't know what he 1."

There you are... You want to compete with the Chinese??

Forget it! I have a thoroughbred at home. I gave up 20 something years ago.