Monday, February 11, 2008
Ah Meng To All That
This blog cannot allow the death of this very special orangutan to go unmarked. A Special Tourism Ambassador for Singapore, she 'could drink tea from a teacup and looked good for an ape,' we are told - which is more than can be said for some of our fellow humans. The poor thing seems to have suffered a major existential crisis in 1982, when she climbed a tree and refused to come down (then fell out), and became involved in a trans-species love triangle in 1992. Perhaps as a result of this, she is reported to have given birth to 'five children'. What a tale she could have told, if only she'd done a Cheeta. Now we'll never know the full story... RIP Ah Meng - you're probably better out of it.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
so what does it mean, ''ah meng''?
ReplyDeleteI read a book at the airport which the herb we know as thyme was translated from chinese characters literally as 'one hundred miles fragrant' - which is probably perfectly rational to them but poetic nevertheless.
I honestly thought this was about that very old man who used to be leader of the Liberal party till I looked at the links... still not sure..
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