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09 May 2007

Short Talk:

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Wages

Who said Malaysia has a graduate unemployment problem?

Imagine if you're broke and unemployed.

You walked into this restaurant, opened up the menu and noticed that they serve wages on the menu.

WAGES!

Ok, I'm sure they meant "wedges"! Which is totally different thing altogether.

But how cool is it if you can just walk into a restaurant and ask them to pay you wages?

No word on whether or not they also serve you celery salary.


:: Posted by Kenny at 10:32 PM | Link | Facebook It
:: Categorised as 'Engrish'

102 Comments:

fly lice maybe?

Posted by: leo-chan [TypeKey Profile Page] at 09 May 2007 10:33 PM | Link to comment

cool...let me be 2nd person to comment....you rock kenny...and wages it is!!

Posted by: Myst3 at 09 May 2007 10:36 PM | Link to comment

Kenny,

You sometimes amaze me with your eye for such 'interesting' facts!!

My first time commenting though I have been reading your blogs regularly since 2007.

Keep it up!!

Posted by: Karen at 09 May 2007 10:38 PM | Link to comment

dumb

Posted by: you at 09 May 2007 10:39 PM | Link to comment

Wages? LOL

Posted by: James at 09 May 2007 10:41 PM | Link to comment

haha.. funny! Can't believe you always wana correct persons' english!

Posted by: johnson at 09 May 2007 10:51 PM | Link to comment

LOL this post is Categorised as 'Engrish'

Posted by: Engrish at 09 May 2007 10:51 PM | Link to comment

A kUching Cafe near Ban Hock Road
haha..right?

Posted by: nini at 09 May 2007 10:54 PM | Link to comment

wah! top ten!!

Posted by: Arth at 09 May 2007 10:58 PM | Link to comment

Haha! Why do we have to pay $4.50 for wages!! The wages are worth less than nuggets somemore...

Posted by: hanqing at 09 May 2007 11:02 PM | Link to comment

de crimson?

Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 09 May 2007 11:13 PM | Link to comment

LOLZ, im sensitive with spelling too!

Posted by: Sop at 09 May 2007 11:34 PM | Link to comment

Haha..

Funny. I guess they knew of it and didn't wanna spend money on reprints so they just didn't bothered to change it.

That shows how stupid some people can be. Oppss... Just my two cent. ;)

Posted by: maggot at 09 May 2007 11:54 PM | Link to comment

wages? is that mean if i go there to eat they will pay me wages??? haha.. or i have to pay for wages? in that case i prefer wedges...=p

kenny, can u pls write other type of entry that is more controversial,or more of ur trip to egypt. enough of spelling mistake entry,can?
=) cant wait for ur next entry....

Posted by: lala at 10 May 2007 12:02 AM | Link to comment

haha.. mistakes are always clear in the menu.. isn't it embarrassing when the tauke finds out..?

Posted by: Yurneric at 10 May 2007 12:05 AM | Link to comment

where is the restaurant? I want to go there and have some "wages"....hahaha...

Posted by: ting at 10 May 2007 12:18 AM | Link to comment

hahaha Wages... and salary... we'd be rich in no time!

Posted by: Juls at 10 May 2007 12:30 AM | Link to comment

haha...farny

Posted by: nAoKi at 10 May 2007 12:36 AM | Link to comment

this is cool...

Posted by: sebastian at 10 May 2007 1:10 AM | Link to comment

why am i banned from cbox? =(((

Posted by: naeboo at 10 May 2007 1:17 AM | Link to comment

wow...pls serve me the money!!!

Posted by: Sasuke at 10 May 2007 1:20 AM | Link to comment

Haha. Well I always have typo mistakes on my blog from spellings to grammers. But I think I can still able to spot the mistake immediately which over all, completely different in meaning.

Posted by: shally at 10 May 2007 1:29 AM | Link to comment

meant potatoes wages rite??

Posted by: B3NJ@M!N at 10 May 2007 1:45 AM | Link to comment

if only wages really could be on the menu
...
then we can all sit on our bum and order "wages" and increase the market demand which they will then raise its price. YAY!!! more "wages" then!
...
this is lame shit

Posted by: sarah at 10 May 2007 3:17 AM | Link to comment

it was lame, but it was funny... it made me laughed heartedly for the first time after a long while...thanks!

Posted by: trav at 10 May 2007 4:36 AM | Link to comment

damn u really getting lamer n lamer....

Posted by: wtf at 10 May 2007 6:32 AM | Link to comment

lame la...

Posted by: subeng at 10 May 2007 7:15 AM | Link to comment

Haha. Salary.

What's with the contemporary decorations of the cafe/restaurant and the well designed menu, yet they can't google "Wedges" before they print their menu?

Posted by: Keith at 10 May 2007 8:09 AM | Link to comment

okay... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT "brown sauce" that is served with mashed potatoes??!!
Er-lack!

oh.. they meant gravy.. i hope they meant gravy...
but what more do you expect from the people who came up with "wages" as wedges huh?

Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 10 May 2007 8:37 AM | Link to comment

okay... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT "brown sauce" that is served with mashed potatoes??!!
Er-lack!

oh.. they meant gravy.. i hope they meant gravy...
but what more do you expect from the people who came up with "wages" as wedges huh?

Posted by: rachel at 10 May 2007 8:37 AM | Link to comment

Hey dude, brilliant punch line.

Posted by: e at 10 May 2007 8:47 AM | Link to comment

where is the place?
i want to get a free meal too !

Posted by: benjamin and yus at 10 May 2007 8:51 AM | Link to comment

WHAT FOOD IS THAT???

Posted by: HORNY ANG MOH at 10 May 2007 8:53 AM | Link to comment

YUPPO if they serve Wages & Salary I would definately go there to get 5 meals a day.......hey you get free food and you get paid...........who needs a job?? now you can just do your usual stuff that is eat and drink and be jolly and still get wages and salary.......Cheers to that............. >.

Posted by: Alexia at 10 May 2007 9:07 AM | Link to comment

LOL the taukeh's London damn powderful!

Posted by: Darren at 10 May 2007 9:12 AM | Link to comment

I would like to have wages for lunch because I'm broke. I remembered I was at Elephant one time, they do serve bean CULT instead of bean curd. Check it out.

Posted by: LoveKennyBlog at 10 May 2007 9:43 AM | Link to comment

LAME!

Posted by: Dax at 10 May 2007 11:40 AM | Link to comment

wah.. veli keng wor u Kenny, so sharp ur eyes can c the spellin mistake :P
check out this funny direct translation of chinese food name into english. keke.. http://www.pjlighthouse.com/2006/09/18/chinglish-menu/

Posted by: maverick at 10 May 2007 11:41 AM | Link to comment

COOL SEH. pay 4.50 only. engrish.

Posted by: Salamahafifi at 10 May 2007 11:46 AM | Link to comment

Even if you did pay for the "wages" that cost Rm4.50, you would still end up losing money because wages are only bout Rm3.50 to Rm4 per hour or in this case "serving". You'd be a fool mwahahaha.

Posted by: cbljkkj at 10 May 2007 11:54 AM | Link to comment

The best spelling error i found was at a cafe right beside the arcade in sungei wang/bb plaza. I think they wanted to say coffee - rm1.80 but instead used cafe - rm1.80.

I actually asked the owner if i could purchase the entire outlet lol. For those not in the know, coffee is sometimes pronounced as kah - fei which in this case was spelt as "cafe"

Posted by: cbljkkj at 10 May 2007 11:57 AM | Link to comment

cbljkkj,

café is coffee in French ;)

Posted by: ija at 10 May 2007 12:50 PM | Link to comment

Speaking of ENGRISH........ not made up but its kinda lame... few weeks ago while i was doing my stuff in the computer lab....when two girls were entering the computer lab and trying to slip into the inner row of the tables... One of them said " Cannot go in.... Got HUMAN"...
Just incase you are still wondering why it should be hilarious... i translate it for you in mandarin: " bu ke yi jing qu... you ren!"
Gosh.... You wont know how hard it was to hold back my laughter...

Posted by: Firefly [TypeKey Profile Page] at 10 May 2007 12:53 PM | Link to comment

I know this place! De Crimson, right? went there on my last visit to Kuching. cosy place, it is.

Posted by: AM at 10 May 2007 2:37 PM | Link to comment

I know this place! De Crimson, right? went there on my last visit to Kuching. cosy place, it is.

Posted by: AM at 10 May 2007 2:37 PM | Link to comment

Lame! They don't actually do that? I totally woulda come in and ordered it. Fifty times.

Posted by: Andrew at 10 May 2007 3:04 PM | Link to comment

Quite the pundit, you are.

Posted by: Visitor at 10 May 2007 3:26 PM | Link to comment

its just a typo. what's the big deal? sigh.

Posted by: screwu at 10 May 2007 4:12 PM | Link to comment

:D

i wanna order the 'wages'!!

Posted by: sun at 10 May 2007 4:37 PM | Link to comment

dot dot dot

your posts 2 years ago are way better.

*reads kennysia's archives*

Posted by: Yi Ling at 10 May 2007 4:38 PM | Link to comment

HA HA Ha.

Posted by: 12345 at 10 May 2007 4:46 PM | Link to comment

wat the...

Posted by: jean at 10 May 2007 5:54 PM | Link to comment

Wow kenny, i cannot believe how childish you are....... you took this as a joke? There's more so-called funny menus in other parts of the world mainly countries that have english as their second language...... Don't poke fun at yourself man.......

Posted by: mR CoOL at 10 May 2007 7:03 PM | Link to comment

Menu errors usually irk me. Seeing they probably had a few people checking it and none noticed the mistake... It's annoying, enough said!

Posted by: Kelly at 10 May 2007 7:27 PM | Link to comment

what type of puki you are always want to correct people mistake you better become a english teacher and dont be a IT manager

Posted by: pa at at 10 May 2007 8:14 PM | Link to comment

Haha. Another classic. Only on KENNY SIA

Posted by: Sara at 10 May 2007 8:31 PM | Link to comment

classic lameness

Posted by: 12345 at 10 May 2007 8:56 PM | Link to comment

LOL... one entry on Engrish and you tio flamed until like that.. pity you..

Posted by: Fish at 10 May 2007 9:16 PM | Link to comment

There never border to use the sperr cheker one...anyhow must let sam-one with good engrish to chek for them...so ashaming us to those engrish man that come here to play...

Posted by: fei at 10 May 2007 9:25 PM | Link to comment

kenny i know you are under pressure to produce regular updates but blogging about a typo? you're gonna lose your older viewing audience. and you did it at the expense of a cafe's reputation...thats kind of pathetic

Posted by: sigh at 10 May 2007 11:09 PM | Link to comment

You should post this in the Star. They might publish it and let everyone else have a good laugh at it. Or learn better grammar.

Posted by: Marius at 10 May 2007 11:16 PM | Link to comment

just a damn typo... is this even a joke ?? -_- thanks for destroying my day with ur lame joke... ill go do something more useful like bang my head on a wall... stupidass

Posted by: mikey at 11 May 2007 1:48 AM | Link to comment

i dun understand wtf y ppl like to make stupid comment on kenny's blog......

if u all that think that it's wrong to comment on someone english, then what make u think u are right to comment on SOMEONE else blog??? It's his blog....

if u all think his entries are getting bad, and what the hell are u all coming back day after day?? just to make negetive comment???

if u think his entries are "boring", "childish" etc...pls get a life and do something more meaningful. Stop coming back, he dun need u all

And how to write good blog, when day in day out keep reading all the discouraging comment.
Remember, hee dun get paid to entertain u all, and be glad that he did.
I think kenny did a good job...keep it up

Posted by: Wei Howe at 11 May 2007 1:48 AM | Link to comment

i cant forget what a fucked up joke this is i came back for a double post... this post sucks BIG time

Posted by: mikey at 11 May 2007 1:50 AM | Link to comment

oh what a suckup wei howe... is kenny sucking u off now ?

Posted by: mikey at 11 May 2007 1:51 AM | Link to comment

oh and btw... kenny does get benefits of people viewing his blog if u dont know... all the free shit and adverts... man wei howe come out of ur damn hole and embrace the 21st century... no one does ANYTHING for free

Posted by: mikey at 11 May 2007 1:53 AM | Link to comment

im just gonn flame wei howe to the max cos of his stupid suckup comment... RAGE FLAME !!!~

Posted by: mikey at 11 May 2007 1:54 AM | Link to comment

whats wages or wedges???

Posted by: khoo at 11 May 2007 2:05 AM | Link to comment

haha.....then flame me all u can

Posted by: Wei Howe at 11 May 2007 4:01 AM | Link to comment

hahahaa... mikey is just being a real loser. awesome one kenny! lol

Posted by: rav at 11 May 2007 5:23 AM | Link to comment

ija:

I know that cafe is coffee in french but the place that i went to was a chinese coffee shop. Im not doubting their knowledge of foreign languages but for starters, they are not a french for sure and the menu was in chinese and broken english.

Posted by: cbljkkj at 11 May 2007 5:59 AM | Link to comment

typo above "they are not a french cafe"

Posted by: cbljkkj at 11 May 2007 6:00 AM | Link to comment

You are serving their wages, not them...

imagine, you pay them rm4.50.
they pay you a few slices of potatoes.

who is serving whose' wages? =P

Posted by: steveVAI at 11 May 2007 11:51 AM | Link to comment

Technically speaking, you'll still have to pay them in exchange for some 'wages'!

Posted by: Lynn L at 11 May 2007 5:19 PM | Link to comment

kenny, keep it up. i think xiaxue once said something like, great people will get halangan one. if you get halangan from these airheads, that means you're great liao la! right?
:P

Posted by: rojakmaumau at 11 May 2007 6:18 PM | Link to comment

LOlz~~

Posted by: LWJ at 11 May 2007 8:24 PM | Link to comment

Can't believe Xiaxue is quoted here.

Sometimes reading the comments can elicit more laughing time than the post itself. Which really wasn't that funny. Honestly. This is Malaysia where we see mistakes like this on a daily basis.Still very kind of Kenny to highlight it though, publicity+heads up on correcting their menu.


Posted by: thesadking at 11 May 2007 10:41 PM | Link to comment

Yo,Kenny!

Good Job! :)

Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 12 May 2007 12:05 AM | Link to comment

classic suck ups... if a post is bad have the balls to say it bitches... stop being lap dogs ur not gonna get anything in return...

Posted by: mikey at 12 May 2007 12:06 AM | Link to comment

ahahah, good one kenny, and mikey u dumbfuck go get urself a fuckin life u retarded bitch

Posted by: benny at 12 May 2007 1:04 AM | Link to comment

Muahahaha...... we need the wages.... are u sill being bugged by the FIRST commentor? I found out how he actually looks like here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciG-Xs7mBwU

Wierd guy :)

Posted by: Deejay at 12 May 2007 3:50 AM | Link to comment

need to pay RM4.50 for them to pay you "wages" and they didnt promise how much ah! that's a trap!!

Posted by: sugar at 12 May 2007 6:09 AM | Link to comment

where's this restaurant? what's the name?

Posted by: oddity at 12 May 2007 7:03 AM | Link to comment

You always come up with interesting things.... can't wait till I go to asia in a few weeks! woot hooT! your site makes me miss it so much!

Posted by: Devon at 12 May 2007 8:04 AM | Link to comment

I saw in a cafe in Japan outlet promoting Pizza as Triangle Hat.

Posted by: elisezzuk at 12 May 2007 12:46 PM | Link to comment

isn't that Ah-Ha kuching?

Posted by: Elie at 12 May 2007 12:52 PM | Link to comment

Hahahhaa interesting, You pay to get wages!! Hahahahahahhaa!!

Posted by: Drubilee at 12 May 2007 1:19 PM | Link to comment

Kenny...you are really observant in the "bad Eglish" wor. Did you get them to alter their English or you just left it there for others to pay RM4.50 for the "wages"?? :P

Posted by: Criz Lai at 12 May 2007 2:41 PM | Link to comment

Some one here said he saw funnier thing in other place and Kenny's not funny at all. ******* Well, wtf? Blog and let others read your *** funny *** stuff lah! This kind of "I can do better than you" people really get on my nerve! Kenny is kind enough to share his laughter with the rest of the world, and what have you been doing for the world?????

Posted by: Hee at 12 May 2007 5:51 PM | Link to comment

Who can blame us when you have a national language that ressemble so close to english. I am very confused sometimes myself. talking about confusion, our government is best at it. The government talk about wage increase for umpteen months it takes the private without notice to increase the prices together. I don't know if the government is acting in cohort with the traders or they already know something is 'cooking' with the traders. Or the traders take lead from the government on wage increase. I am damn!!

Posted by: william wang at 12 May 2007 7:58 PM | Link to comment

what a good way to laugh at all malaysians... thanks kenny, you did malaysia a favour by telling the world how stupid we are...

Posted by: boo at 12 May 2007 10:30 PM | Link to comment

Not sure if you've realize, that the Chinese translation is also wrong. It's translated to potato chips. Broken English is all over the place now... However, everyone makes mistakes. The point is, we should find our mistakes, make corrections and learn from them.

Posted by: rave at 13 May 2007 3:02 AM | Link to comment

complete rubbish.

Posted by: bob at 13 May 2007 4:08 AM | Link to comment

i think what you wrote was actually mentioned in today's borneo post...haha...something about how the writer received a text message from a friend showing the menu that you posted

Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 13 May 2007 9:51 AM | Link to comment

This place looks remotely familiar. It's very similar to a place in Petaling Street area. Can't quite remember the name of the place, but they sell home decor stuff and it had it's own cafe.

Posted by: nawooz at 13 May 2007 10:41 AM | Link to comment

shhh.... ahaha...

Posted by: catherine at 13 May 2007 12:07 PM | Link to comment

is that a-ha.. i thought it had closed down already?

Posted by: fishy at 13 May 2007 9:44 PM | Link to comment

Interesting site =) Love your style

Posted by: Jillian at 16 May 2007 1:38 PM | Link to comment

oo i know this place.... Ban Hock Road de arX?

Posted by: lala at 28 May 2007 4:51 PM | Link to comment

HAHAHA..... crack me up why don't you.... funnneeeee

Posted by: Shalina at 14 June 2007 3:00 AM | Link to comment

all you jealous, no sense of humour, mother fuckers should just fuck off. it's just some harmless goofy silly joke. i say, take that stick out of your asses but something tells me you people really like it up there. shame shame...

Posted by: whatever at 14 June 2007 3:04 AM | Link to comment

Hayooo!!!? Whey is my WAGES????
Can anybody take my WAGES order!!?

Posted by: Percy at 15 July 2008 9:54 AM | Link to comment

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