The meaning of 666

In terms of Chinese, 666 is an internet slang that means something along the lines of "good job", "well done".

In most parts of China, “溜”, pronounced "liu", means "good at doing something", and the number 6 is also pronounced "liu" in Chinese, and that's how it came about.

This slang was first used in online games, likely MMORPG games, before it became widely used. Which is logical when you think on it, as those who do play online games would know that typing fast often saves lives. Typing "666" is definitely faster than typing the same in Chinese using the QWERTY keyboard - imagine wasting time choosing the correct word in the midst of battle!

Increasing the number of sixes, I guess, would mean deepening the degree of the praise, similar to "!" versus "!!!!".

AA制, AB制, and AO制

Remember the AA post previously?

Apparently it's also used in China to mean going Dutch. They call it "AA制" or "AA treat", where "AA" means "Algebraic Average".

From this comes another one: "AB制", or "AB treat".

This has become a fad among young people, where males would choose to pay a bigger slice of the bill, and the remainder would be paid by the females dining with them.

What about the male paying all for the female?

Yup, that would be the "AO制". The "O" here stands for zero, because the female basically paid zero cents.

床前没有光

上个礼拜的某一天, 经过睡觉前好多, 好多分钟和隔天约莫半天的细心教导、解释、甚至画画! 外加不少的软磨硬泡，哄骗的给了他多五分钟的iPad时间后，终于，终于! 教侄儿背了《静夜思》。。。的第一句。

汗颜。

但当他举一反三地把 "床前明月光" 故意说成 "床前没有光" 时，我是欣慰的，因为这证明他是了解那句的意思的。

今天已经教了他第三句。

可是他在学校不知怎么学了这句： “你妈妈没有毛，你爸爸没有毛”，而在念诗时，总是把这句有毛没毛的加进去。

哎哟，好头痛。

Kids these days

The Nephew called the Dad the other day and reported his overall exam results. Apparently it was better than expected (the Dad heard from the Bro some days before about the test results). Dad, although very happy, couldn't fathom how that could happen, and called up the Bro.

A few minutes after the Dad hung up the call with the Bro, the Bro called back.

Because the Bro was surprised, cos 1, the Nephew didn't tell HIM, and 2, there was no school that day, so how would the Nephew suddenly know his results? - he called the Nephew up.

And what did the Nephew say when the Bro asked how he knew?

"I guessed one."

*facepalm

We were all stupefied how the Nephew can just call and reported his exam results without really knowing, and not mentioning that he only actually guessed the results.

The kids these days.

*thumbs up

2 quotes from Dean Koontz's Odd Interlude #1

Was tidying up one of my hard drives and saw 2 quotes that I jolted down last time from Dean Koontz's Odd Interlude #1.

Quote 1:
Because I so love this wondrous world, I am by nature optimistic and of good humor. My friend and mentor Ozzie Boone says buoyancy is one of my better qualities. However, as though to warn that excess buoyancy might lead to carelessness, he sometimes reminds me that shit, too, floats.

Quote 2:
The gun once belonged to the wife of a minister in Magic Beach. Her husband, the reverend, had shot her to death before she could shoot him. In their particular denomination of Christianity, the faithful are evidently too impatient to wait for prayer to solve their problems.


Hurhur. There's always more than one way to view things, isn't there.