Showing posts with label Chinese proverb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese proverb. Show all posts

Monday, 26 April 2010

More random ramblings



The "Green Chilli" Indian Takeaway has been relaunched! I know this because their menu has come through the letterbox. "Where is it?" you may ask. And that's the problem, although it's a takeaway, the menu doesn't actually give you their address!

But they do deliver and they list the seven local areas they cover. A pity they spell three of them wrongly! Come on! Employ an English proofreader!

But they do have a web site and you can find out their address there. And people have rated their service very well! Someone from Basildon gives them maximum points for Quality, Delivery time and Service. She says,

very freindly and polite staff ill definatly be back.

Maybe forget about the proofreader!

Oh, and we think that "Smothies" are not designed to asphyxiate but are "Smoothies".





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We went into Basildon on Friday evening to the theatre and found that they have finished the improvements to the town centre. The new clock tower is there -- but the clock was half an hour slow!



And the new lighting is there. There are groups of six lights (see picture) and other lights, all painted purple. Except that, when we came out of the theatre and it was dark, the lighting wasn't working!




But never mind, when we went into the town centre this morning at 10.30 am, they were working (and the clock was still half an hour slow)!

Sunday, 27 January 2008

A Chinese Proverb, or so they say!

Someone sent us an email with a PowerPoint attachment. Below is the wording from some of the slides:

CHINESE PROVERB ABOUT MONEY

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY A HOUSE BUT NOT A HOME

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY A CLOCK BUT NOT TIME

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY A BOOK, BUT NOT KNOWLEDGE

WITH MONEY YOU CAN BUY A POSITION BUT NOT RESPECT

THIS CHINESE PROVERB BRINGS LUCK IT ORIGINATED FROM THE NETHERLANDS

THIS PROVERB HAS GONE 8 TIMES AROUND THE WORLD,
NOW IT IS YOUR TURN TO HAVE GOOD LUCK ONCE YOU HAVE RECEIVED IT.

HERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE THAT GOT LUCK AFTER RECEIVING THE PROVERB:

CONSTANTIN, GOT HIS FIRST IN 1953, HE ASKED HIS SECRETARY TO MAKE 20 COPIES.NINE HOURS LATER HE WON 99MILLION IN THE LOTTERY IN HIS COUNTRY.

One incongruous thing about the above is that it purports to be a Chinese proverb, but originated in The Netherlands! The other incongruous thing is that it implies money can’t buy the things that matter and then tells you how someone won the lottery after passing the email on!

So, being convinced that money can’t buy the important things in life, I’m not sending it to 20 other people as per instructions.

There again, who was it who said, “Money can’t buy happiness, but at least you can be miserable in comfort”?