Engrish 2025: Lostbelong in Laos

Here is some Engrish from Laos which is dedicated to Racel, because she's a linguist.

The favourite shirt we didn't buy is Office Romance Photographer. Kinda creepy.

They ruined this one with the last bit.

This shirt, too small for most of my friends, uses cookies.

Someone's Yum, like delicious food was a bit warm for the weather. Crogs were better.

Below says Mou get what you mork for for, make it happen everyone, sometimes silence is answer, make it happen to s.lee. Now since this is Laos, I am sure this refers to Sunisa Lee, them most famous gymnast of Lao descent.

There were Chritin Dior pjs.

And Smells good polo

Barry bought this one but don't worry, I think there might be a typo.

We didn't buy the Petroit Pistons World Champs Motop City Bad Gipl shirt, because wrong vibe.

We didn't buy MeoMalr Militly either.

But we sure bought Wait!

In fact, at the low low price of $2, we updated some wardrobes. Hello Avocado. I'm in my coquette era. Brunch. A key that won't open, the door.

Sadly this didn't fit Barry.

My best purchase was this bag.

And finally: fgiveness. Living in the same envsionhen the dividing line between the strong and the weaklies on who can change it. Truth, weaklies.

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Festive Vibes with Snowblowers and Cookies

 

We went to Canada via Germany to stock up on festive vibes. 

Hot mulled vibes.

In Heidelberg, the road crossing dude is unusually short, so he has to hurry to cross the street in time.

When we got to Canada, it looked like this.

But it felt a bit more like this. It's good to give the immune system something to work on.

If you're ever trying to feel more Canadian, you should take a photoshoot at Canadian tire.

For clarity, our outdoor recreation does NOT involve bears or wolves. But red plaid is suitable for any type of work or leisure.

Buying the right snowblower can be hard. It costs more to have cool green handles.

This tire is figure flattering.

It was windy at the lake. I should have expected that.

For Christmas, my mom bakes many very delicious things. But I was too busy eating, so I only photographed the cookie plate.

I, on the other hand, made 1 pie which I spilled a little in a taxi.

Barry made a pie AND managed to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew, so he is a winner.

Finally, Canadian kitties can be a bit bigger than Singaporean ones, but I think they still like me.

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Splendid Achievements and Munch's-Dog!

Work brought me back to Shanghai, where I learnt about fire escape masks that I've been missing my whole life!

They probably mention it in Glorious Voyage: The Splendid Achievements of the People's Republic of China in it's 75 years. Or in Chinese: A Prosperous Era.

Speaking of prosperous, let's go back to Singapore's grocery store ad. Here are things to NOT eat during a (Christmas) picnic: Roasted turkey with fixings, shrimps with cocktail sauce, scalloped potatoes, an entire ham, and mac and cheese.

In fact, I've found some great marketing in Singapore lately. Supreme Fishballs are so good, so enjoy!

Oceanlink missed an opportunity to say "Sea our Finn-esse".

Your laundry. We care.

Air. Water. Body. How can this be a slogan for an office chair? Don't get water on the fancy chair, kid.

Anyway, let's go back overseas to Japan, where people overused the label maker.

Japanese Hot Dogs: Now in Mrs Meat, Hi!Cheese!, and Munch's-Dog!

Let's end with some deep thoughts: He is as wise as an owl; He does not escape any prey. Deep? Error? Both!

And finally, what is the cause of our splendid and prosperous fats?

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Shinjuku, Godzilla and Statistics!

Shinjuku's "East Exit Cat" says hello, and is cheaper than a movie. She is near Godzilla, shown here.

Did you know that Godzilla was 70? Scary! Barry bought a T-shirt about that.

We found some new sites to see in Tokyo. First, we went to the statistics museum.

At first they thought we were in the wrong place, but we wanted to see this statistic machines.

Look: Statisticians!

Census marketing!

Population curves are quite interesting, and we played with the interactive display.

We followed this with the origami museum.

It was not as much fun as statistics.

After that, we had some okonomiyaki. This picture looks sideways no matter which way I rotate it.

And we made our own takoyaki.

Great spherification.

There is lots to do in Tokyo, but we didn't see the horsemen.

There are always fun things to try.

And a lot of things that we didn't try.

We went to the plastic food stores to see what was new in plastic food.

And we saw Barry's dream meal.

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