Tuesday, June 30, 2009
woke up n decided to take a peek at the newspapers.. found it quite an enjoyable read.. I guess there is realli lots to take out from the newspapers.. though i just skip past the articles on how the H1N1 thg is progressing.. cuz seriously.. life has to go on.. n i realli dun care tta much how it is spreading.. cuz when action focused coping does not improve the situation, emotional focused coping.. ignoring abt the thg in my case, is the best bet to feeling good n coping well with the situation as my psyche texts have taught, haha
aniwaes read about this contract for differences thg.. which is a high risk investment for stocks.. damn interesting.. then again.. im not sure if I will dabble with stocks even if I have the money.. guess my mum has had great influence to me in terms of educating the concept of "gambling is bad".. plus my dad kindof ignored me quite often when i went home cuz he was mahjonging with his frens.. so.. guess i wun be a stocks person la.. tho i wldnt mind tryg out the lower risk kindof stocks..
read that the term 大耳隆, aka loansharks came about after a series of evolution after mixing with the different languages in different countries.. these thgs abt language fascinate me alot.. cuz "gostan" (U-turning) for example, came from "goes a turn" and evolved to wad it is now after localised mis-pronounciation.. so pple have speculated two origins for the "daerlong" term, which for convenience i will call as DEL.. 1st, the early Indians who were legal moneylenders in singapore (chattiers if im nt wrong) always wore huge earrings, giving rise to the name DEL.. another speculation is that because the early loansharks have the habit of of putting a coin in their ear.. so as time went by their ear holes enlarged, giving rise to DEL.. this was refuted however because in older times, a dollar coin for example could buy one a meal and a reasonable amount of thgs when we are on the streets.. so many singaporeans and not onli the loansharks, have the habit of putting a coin in their ears..
so actualli, the term DEL kindof originated from America.. people who were aggressive and used unscrupulous means to achieve their ends are often called "sharks" by the americans.. so when the moneylenders started to use violence and other unreasonable means to collect their debts, the term "loan shark" came about.. which then spread to hongkong.. where these people were call "sha1 yu2 loan" (shark in cantonese combined with "loan" in english).. which then evolved to (dai3 yi long1) somehow.. and finally, singapore created the short form of "ah long" which is onli used locally or in malaysia and not in places like china or hongkong.. i think its dammmmnnn interesting man.. wad abt u? haha
weilie * 8:44 PM 0 rocked with me
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