Sunday, July 26, 2009

Condos and HDB buildings can have strange names. We drove past 1 called Linear Green last week and I told Yiling that I wanted to build a condo with triangular shaped buildings on a square piece of land and call it Pythagoras Square.

I don't want to be a loser and explain my own joke but I should probably risk it here coz this was 1 of the rare times even Yiling did not get the whole meaning of my nonsense.

Square has a double meaning. Square as in the maths square coz it is a square plot of land (and the irony of it being a square when it should be a triangle coz it is pythagoras) and square as in traflagar square leicester square and city square. And Pythagoras sounds funny. Especially when you pronounce it like Mr Hia: Py-tah-gor-rahs. Ok now I have effectively made it not funny.

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