02-07-2014, 07:47 PM
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Samster
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Re: PRC in (Pasar Road) (Pudu K.L)
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Originally Posted by pomrakthai
When that learned professor was alive and kicking, he was not only a good cheongster, but a good teacher. He used to tell me a lot of stories about Chinese culture and history. One of the stories that I could remember was that the idiom "water quiet river fly" was a distortion of the original proverb "water quiet geese flew" (something like: the water was calm due to the geese, which used to swim and play in the river, had flown off) that is why it sounded weird that "river can fly"
He also gave me a link : http://baike.baidu.com/view/1263092.htm [in Chinese]
His ghost is still hanging around in ACE ...next time if I meet his ghost, I will ask for 4 ekor links not links to stupid Chinese idioms  |
share share with me ah if the dead professor give you 4 digit number
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