Category: Funny
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Akhir Pekan dan Pasar
Sedang mengikuti twit Gunawan Muhammad tentang “pekan”. Menurutnya, kata pekan dalam “akhir pekan” lebih tepat menggambarkan durasi, compared to “1 minggu” yang sebenernya bermakna sama, tetapi kata yang dipakai agak beda. Minggu bisa berarti nama hari.
Intinya, week vs Sunday is pekan vs Minggu. Satu minggu lebih tepat satu pekan.
Kemudian, disinggung juga bahwa “pekan” juga berarti “pasar. Nah, bicara soal pasar, saya jadi ingat Pekanbaru. Bisa dikatakan Pekanbaru ini asal katanya adalah Pasar Baru. “Feeling” dan “dugaan” saya, dulu di dekat-dekat sana ada sebuah pasar yang baru berkembang, mungkin waktu itu ada perdagangan di pinggiran sungai Siak. Bisa saja Pasar Bawah itulah yang dimaksud sebagai area dagang baru yang ramai.
Mungkin 😀
Kemudian, gara-gara mikir tentang pasar, saya jadi ingat salah satu kelas bahasa inggris yg pernah saya ikuti pas SMA. (Paling malas yg namanya les, kayanya ngga ada satu les pun yang saya bisa tahan lebih dari 5 kelas).
Nah, di salah satu kelas tersebut, pada saat kelas pertama, kami diminta mengenalkan diri dalam bahasa inggris (maklum, ini kelas intermediate). 😀
Ada 1 cewe, mid 20’s probably 25-27. Dia mengenalkan nama dan kemudian mengatakan “I work under market.”. Hmmm.. Kami semua heran, is she an intel agent, or an undercover economist, or hmmm?
Guru penasaran: “pardon me, under market?”
Murid: “Yes, I work under market.”
Guru: “What is that and where is the office?”
Murid: “Pasar Bawah, Sir.”
Semuanya melongo.
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House MD
Used to think that House is CSI-alike, where they try to solve one issue/case at a time. Ike is an addict, back then. And, hmmm last week I borrow the Season 1 dvd from Dennis, and love at first sight 😀 I love the pilot and yeah, I am now finishing the season, probably this weekend! :p What impressed me the most is the interesting statements! The conversations are always interesting. Like the one I posted in my facebook status, or this:
House: “I am not in pain management, I am in pain” (note: House is consuming Vicodine, sort of pain killer).
Patient: “Who’s not?”
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Do You Trust the Chinese?
Overheard in a lift in Pacific Place. 🙂 Interesting conversation. Looks like 1 China nationality, and 2 indonesians with frequent visit to China (yeah, probably their business partner. Who’s not?). We’re going down in a tube-a-like lift, from 5th floor.
A (Indo): I once took a higher than this, probably five times! You know 5 times, and it was windy. Quite scary, you know.
B (Chinese): Where? Here?
A: No, not here. Europe! But, yeah I trust European lah. I trust their engineers. :p
C: Will you take it in China? 😀
A: No! I would not. I don’t know what exactly they do with the lift. Not sure! If i have to, I will buy insurance immediately!
B: so you trust China’s insurance company lah?
A: No! I would buy AIG’s one.
LOL. I leave them and go straight to a meet up point: urban kitchen.
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Chat with Ronald
Had a conversation with Ronald in Fitness First Pacific Place. He then told me an interesting story about how Fitness First does not consider contact number information of their customer as something confidential and private. And the result is someone texted him. Something like this.
Someone: “Hi, Ronald, i see you today in Fitness First, and I think you are very cute!”
Ronald: “Hi, where do you get my number? Do you get it from Fitness First’s sales officer?”
Someone: “Yes, i asked the sales officer for your number.”Ronald: “I see. Who are you?”
Someone: “Budi”LOL!