On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:34 PM, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 " <enming...@vfemail.net> wrote:
> I was misconstrued as having insulted Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. My > words were twisted and misinterpreted and I feel that there is a need to > explain myself and set the record straight. > > [b]What really happened[/b] > > It was sometime in Aug/Sep in the year 2009. The setting was in the > Tampines Central office of Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. I was having a > ***verbal*** conversation with Melvin Lee, my new I.T. department manager, > when he challenged me to complete an I.T. assignment within a specified > period of time. In response to his challenge, I replied in Mandarin: "If I > cannot complete the I.T. assignment within a specified period of time, then > Lee Kuan Yew is wang ba dan". I used to be fond of using other people's > names to "bet" with people but now no more. The Minister Mentor's name came > into my mind spontaneously and I used it to "bet" with my I.T. department > manager. > > [b]Explanations[/b] > > 1. It was not my intention to insult the Minister Mentor at that time. > Please note the use of the IF... THEN... statement in my verbal > conversation. > > 2. I did not know wang ba dan [hanyu pinyin] means bastard at all until I > consulted Goh Meng Seng much later. > > I would like to apologize to the Minister Mentor and the Prime Minister of > Singapore if I have offended them in any way. I swear it was not my > intention to insult the Minister Mentor. Please forgive me for using your > name carelessly to "bet" with my former I.T. department manager. > > > Yours sincerely, > > Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip BEng(Hons) > Alma Maters: > (1) Singapore Polytechnic > (2) National University of Singapore > > ------------------------------------------------- > This message sent via VFEmail.net > http://www.vfemail.net > $14.95 Lifetime accounts! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbb753a.40...@vfemail.net > > this is so far off topic and its not the first time, enough already
