Friday, November 7, 2008

Hanyu pinyin in MSN

I like to use hanyu pinyin occasionally when I'm chatting on msn as this helps to refresh my dying memory of chinese idioms usage.. But sometimes the use of pinyin without the tones can be quite misleading... There was this funny incident when I was chatting with Terry the other day...

He was complaining about his workload and the irresponsible pple... Empathised with him but there's nothing I can do as this happens everywhere in almost every company... So I told him to start looking elsewhere but he said the nice colleagues are the main reason that he's staying. And here comes my chance to use hanyu pinyin.. "ok la, since u hv nice colleagues then that shld compensate e grudges against those black sheeps... la chang bu duan ma"

Being a very very witty him, his immediate response was "good.. will never go hungry cos chinese sausage in abundance.." and I don't mean that way lor, he really made me speechless with his fast and yet funny reply... and it's also because of this, i've decided to type in Chinese characters if needed in future....