Experience sharing

I am an advocate of experience-sharing. That way we can all learn from one another and not to make the same stupid mistakes we all have gone through. One learns best through his own mistakes, however, and here are my reflections..

The Renovation
In one of my weekly visits to my grandma's, i found a notice pasted next to the lift on the ground floor. i glanced through it and the gist of the notice was to announce that re-screeding works (whatever that was..) were to commence on 5th june, lasting about two weeks.

and all that yada yada, sorry for the inconvenience caused, etc. BUT right at the bottom, someone scrawled "請用華語" exactly as it is here, in 繁體字.

i realised he/she made a good point, for there was no chinese version of the letter. so being a good bilingual samaritan, i took out my pilot pen and started scribbling out a brief translation.

i was about to complete the first sentence when a lady appeared behind me, looking disgusted. bet she thought i was some vandal. and the lift arrived so i stopped what i was doing and went in. she continued to stare at me.

lesson learnt: 好心沒好報

which naturally leads to 別多管閒事

The Strategy
I have a friend S who is a soccer connoisseur. Actually, we both are. This means we appreciate watching football matches and considering their outcomes. we enjoy debating over the possibilities of win, lose and draw.

after some thorough research, the draw rate was found to be around 28% (go calculate it yourself if you don't believe me). this means 3 draws out of every 10 matches. i gingerly placed a bet for 10 matches, and none of them ended up in a draw.

lesson learnt: SOCCER IS NOT MATHEMATICS

..and i'm going hungry for the next few days hahaha.