[opensuse] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore
I was misconstrued as having insulted Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. My words were twisted and misinterpreted and I feel that there is a need to explain myself and set the record straight. [b]What really happened[/b] It was sometime in Aug/Sep in the year 2009. The setting was in the Tampines Central office of Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. I was having a ***verbal*** conversation with Melvin Lee, my new I.T. department manager, when he challenged me to complete an I.T. assignment within a specified period of time. In response to his challenge, I replied in Mandarin: "If I cannot complete the I.T. assignment within a specified period of time, then Lee Kuan Yew is wang ba dan". I used to be fond of using other people's names to "bet" with people but now no more. The Minister Mentor's name came into my mind spontaneously and I used it to "bet" with my I.T. department manager. [b]Explanations[/b] 1. It was not my intention to insult the Minister Mentor at that time. Please note the use of the IF... THEN... statement in my verbal conversation. 2. I did not know wang ba dan [hanyu pinyin] means bastard at all until I consulted Goh Meng Seng much later. I would like to apologize to the Minister Mentor and the Prime Minister of Singapore if I have offended them in any way. I swear it was not my intention to insult the Minister Mentor. Please forgive me for using your name carelessly to "bet" with my former I.T. department manager. Yours sincerely, Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip BEng(Hons) Alma Maters: (1) Singapore Polytechnic (2) National University of Singapore ------------------------------------------------- This message sent via VFEmail.net http://www.vfemail.net $14.95 Lifetime accounts! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 4/29/2011 7:26 AM, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 " wrote:
It was sometime in Aug/Sep in the year 2009. The setting was in the Tampines Central office of Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. I was having a ***verbal*** conversation with Melvin Lee, my new I.T. department manager, when he challenged me to complete an I.T. assignment within a specified period of time. In response to his challenge, I replied in Mandarin: "If I cannot complete the I.T. assignment within a specified period of time, then Lee Kuan Yew is wang ba dan". I used to be fond of using other people's names to "bet" with people but now no more. The Minister Mentor's name came into my mind spontaneously and I used it to "bet" with my I.T. department manager.
Is this for real, or just another piece of list spam? A private conversation with this Mr. Melvin Lee (he of the big mouth), somehow gets inflated to a point where a world wide apology is demanded, but in the process those making the demand make themselves even more ridiculous. My son's favorite utterance of dis-belief goes something like this: "If this sort of thing belongs on this list, my name is George Bush!". -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:25:49 -0700
John Andersen
On 4/29/2011 7:26 AM, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 " wrote:
It was sometime in Aug/Sep in the year 2009. The setting was in the Tampines Central office of Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. I was having a ***verbal*** conversation with Melvin Lee, my new I.T. department manager, when he challenged me to complete an I.T. assignment within a specified period of time. In response to his challenge, I replied in Mandarin: "If I cannot complete the I.T. assignment within a specified period of time, then Lee Kuan Yew is wang ba dan". I used to be fond of using other people's names to "bet" with people but now no more. The Minister Mentor's name came into my mind spontaneously and I used it to "bet" with my I.T. department manager.
Is this for real, or just another piece of list spam?
A private conversation with this Mr. Melvin Lee (he of the big mouth), somehow gets inflated to a point where a world wide apology is demanded, but in the process those making the demand make themselves even more ridiculous.
My son's favorite utterance of dis-belief goes something like this: "If this sort of thing belongs on this list, my name is George Bush!".
FYI, he posted this crap on every list I'm subscribed to : debian, fedora, *BSD, lkml... -- Rares Aioanei -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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"Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang E nming) 张恩鸣 " -
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Rares Aioanei