Ah i had this note simmering in my phone memory since damn long ago, and had intended to post it as a post-MMI post, but i keep forgetting. Now seems like a good time.

Quotable quotes/Hilarious happenings

Dalong - "If you're zai and you're number one, you're Zaiyi!"
and another variation, "If you're zai and there's only 1 of you, you're also Zaiyi!"

background info: Zaiyi is a very zai and cute girl who's currently doing her PhD in Computer Engineering in NUS/NTU (shit, i cant remember), she works for MMI out of office, and she's the infallible computer systems/IT support pillar of MMI.

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Dalong - "Alex is a scientist. He always 烟酒 烟酒 (研究 研究)"

HAHAHAHAHAHA ACTUALLY I THOUGHT THIS WAS EXTREMELY FUNNY AND SMART.

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During discussion of laying internet cables/telephone lines under the tables when we were doing the rearrangement of office,
Mr Ng: Get someone to pull the wires! Pull the wires under the table...
Mr Ng: Dalong!
Dalong: ... I dunno how to pull wires leh, i only know how to pull strings...

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HAHAHA OMG THIS IS ONE OF MY ULTIMATE FAVOURITE,
SECOND TO WHERE'S MYSELF?!

One fine day Ms Khoo and Mr Ng went out for some meeting and they tarpao-ed afternoon tea back. They bought like tau huay and you tiao and this strange 豆沙-filled 水晶包 thing which i personally haven seen before. They were arranged in a ring of 5 水晶包s, in a circular plastic container.

So Liyan and i were eating our tau hauy and then Mr Ng came along into the pantry, opened that container, and totally just coo-ed (REALLY) "AAAAAAH THIS IS THE CUTEST THING! :3"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA omg ok it is probably totally un-funny now, but that had me laughing for almost a week!?

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Alex and his Anomalous Analogies - "You know when elephant hit elephant, then the deer die in the middle? - Dalong hit Dalong, small long die in the middle..."
Parable: Collateral damage... Sigh.

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During the period where Alex was totally 无所事事-ing the whole day, and since he sits right in front of the printer/fax/scan/all-in-1, when a print/fax comes in, he will intercept it, read it for fun, and then put it back.

so on a quiet no-emails/faxes morning, he lamented, "This office needs more fax!"

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Over MSN,
Alex: Sian...
Dalong: Damn sian...
Patrick: -suddenly, out of nowhere- Play with BH.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I BURST OUT LAUGHING. In the silence of the office and pseudo-important-&-serious typing. And it was quite amazing how the 2 of them can NOT laugh, maybe coz they were stunned beyond response. HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA i am preserving the original content (I QUOTE EXACTLY THOSE 3 WORDS), but ok bg info, BH are initials of a person, and obviously not 3 of them, and it's not a female staff.

Wah hahaha that must be the funniest joke i've heard from Patrick.

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Alex likes to say weird words like "Forjet" (like in "Aiya, sorry i forjet!") and "Correcto!"
Me: Why do you always say that??
Alex: Ok it's just a stupid slang.

HAHAHAHA!?

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Ok this reminds me of his Top 3 Most-Dreaded-To-Hear-Because-It-Means-You-Just-Kena-Arrowed Phrases

"你行的!"
"你是最好的!"
"我们全靠你了!"

And because Patrick started taking Conversation Chinese classes (HAHA SERIOUSLY! At the CC near his house) so we also taught him, sorta negatively, those 3 phrases. HAHA! Like,
Alex: Patrick, next time got any trouble, you just remember the 3 phrases, and tell them to Dalong!

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One random day, Dalong was recounting some random army story. So they were trekking or hiking somewhere, and they picked some coconuts from some trees.

Dalong: ... So ah, when we open the coconut and drink ah, wah, the coconut taste damn funky one!
Me and Liyan: O.O FUNKY COCONUTS?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!

I have no idea how funky is supposed to taste like, but amazingly, after he used that word, plus the peripheral story and descriptions, i actually kinda have an idea. HAH!

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The day where Alex had a hangover and was slumped on his desk like that.

Dalong: *to me and Liyan* Quick, take a photo and send to M.O.M. (he said the letters)!
Me: *after a while*... OMG, GOOD PUN!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA dunno if you would get it.

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A long long time ago, Zi said this to us in passing, sorta, "Eh you all must come work for AOGS ok, then we can kuku together! :)"

Ah how drastically things have changed. :S

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Ok last one.

From Liyan. Damn random, but damn funny.

"近墨者黑， 近猪者得 swine flu."

HAAHAHAHAHAHA PLEASE IMAGINE HER STRAIGHT YET OMG-ROLLS-EYES FACE WHEN SHE SAID THAT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA!!

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Yesterday at AOGS prep room, we sorta had a brief serious talk with Dalong.

Talking about datamining,
Me: Omg. Datamining. IT WAS SIAN TO THE MAX!!
Dalong: ... O.O *bursts out laughing*
Dalong: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Sian, i know. But your "to the max" SEEMS TO PERSONAL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!

Sigh. It's true, datamining can be done by ANYONE. It's completely brainless and mundane.

And we just found out that 3 new interns are coming in to MMI AND THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE UP DATAMINING.

Omggg i wonder if they truly know what they're in for. It's almost zero learning value, seriously. Maybe learn more keyboard shortcuts and Excel shortcuts. Zzz poor guys.

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Anyway yesterday evening Dalong's wife + son came down to Suntec, to sorta wait for him and also walkwalk maybe. So we went over to say hi to (as Liyan very affectionately nicknamed) Long-嫂 and 小-Long. HAHAHAHA his son is about... 1.5 years old? But wah very cute. :)

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And, 2 pictures.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA DO YOU RECOGNIZE HIM!??!!

After we found out (though a few months after we first started) that this calefare-always-act-as-bad-guy uncle owns the provision shop opposite office, we've been making trips to "see" him and finally one random day on impulse after daring each other endlessly (STILL NO ACTION) i just asked him for a photo. HAHA and he was like "你们不怕(我) meh? *gruff evil laugh* HURHUR"

The 4 Temps! Sock Ching, Kexin, Liyan. Woohoo we should go down in MMI's history, man. :)

Photo kindly taken by Xuanlin (the Zaiyi No.2 HAHA she's a nice PRC lady who's came in about 2 weeks before i left)

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Ok that's all. Alright, in loving memory of MMI...