Zelma’s Trip

This title may actually be something of a misnomer as there may be other translations below which are not from Thailand.  I thought I was really clever when I came up with the “Thinglish” description and rather less so when I later found out that Singlish (from Singapore) is practically a recognised language.  The following are quoted as written and any apparent mistakes be them grammatical, spelling or punctuation are not mine….for once.

A sign on a toilet door in Phuket airport:

“On the mend”.

A sign on a tour company in Bangkok:

“We are never close”.

Here’s thinking that the omission of that D didn’t really encapsulate their point.

As you may know by now I have developed a bit of a thing for comedy slogan t-shirts and the following being sported by a man on a train in Patthalung was no exception:

“Whoever invented work, didn’t know how to fish.”

One of the standard signs you would see in Thailand was a fixed sign which read, “accident ahead”.  Now, although by no means inconceivable given Thailand’s roads and drivers, I don’t think that such signs were alerting you to continuous accidents but rather slightly tricky stretches of road.  As always though the Thinglish was rather nice.

A tour company leaflet for boat trips to Koh Tao and Koh Nangyuan had rather nice descriptions of the days out they offered:

“Koh Nangyuan:

Koh Nangyuan is Said to be one of the world’s most beautiful  islands.  If you look in map Koh Nangyuan is a tiny island gattached to Koh Tao like a tail of  tortoise.

As seen in the picture, Koh Nangyuan consists of a large  mountain  and  two  smaller  ones , it is this spectacular view that known to  the world.

Koh Tao:

Koh Tao is an  island  with the most  beautiful shallow – water coral reef in the Gulf of  Thailand.  With  the shape concaved like mung bean that makes bays and beaches all over.The bay  lines serves as shelter against

Koh Tao  is the heaven for both skin and scuba divers, with beautiful landscape , popular among local and overseas tourists.”

Now with all that on offer there is just one choice you need to make which is listed on the itinery on the back of the leaflet:

“Morning Meel / Life Breckfast”.

The odd thing about this leaflet is that, if you didn’t read it, it appeared to be very professionally done.

To finish is perhaps my favourite t-shirt thus far, this time from Southern Malaysia:

“Don’t cry because it is over smile because it happened.”