Office Blogger 1 asks: Is radiation from printers harmful? … I realize we have printers very near to us. Is radiation from printers harmful? … Wondering who designed the office layout to have huge printers right next to someone’s workstation. Not only is it noisy, it may actually be harmful to health.

Office Blogger 2 replies: I thought there was some talk about very fine ink spray from printers being harmful, but never heard about radiation being harmful.  

Office Blogger 3 replies: what wavelength of the em spectrum are you concerned about specifically? visible light (ie. laser) or radio frequency or the alpha-beta-gamma kind?

Office Blogger 4 replies: I’m sitting not to far away from the printers : (  They do produce unpleasant smell during continuous printing..  Some think is bad to inhale and consider it an occupational health harzard  (hazard)

Chief Banana thinks that the question and the replies are actually quite funny!…  lol

Update:

New Replies by Office Blogger 5: Most (if not all) printer/scanner/copiers go through some  EMC tests and such, and other types of weird endurance tests.. to ensure they’re of a certain level of standard in terms of the acceptable emission level.. during product development phase. Unless you’re using some crap printers from some Durian Company, chances are they don’t usually emit potentially harmful radiations.

Chief Banana: Do they also make the printers run on a “thread”mill and make them run and then measure their electronic pulses to see if they pass through the endurance tests??? 

The conversation started nose-diving in quality from the moment Victoria Secretes was mentioned. We ended up dipping our seafood platter in “Victoria Secretes Secret Sauce” (which was pink in color, by  the way). For all you dirty folks out there – no there is no “Victoria Secretes Secret Sauce” being served at that resaurant, but any requests can be certainly entertained and fulfilled Although, you might not really want to know what “Victoria Secretes Secret Sauce” really is, but if you’re interested, we can always arrange something…

“I nailed who you did last summer” had its fans and a new franchise outlet to be called “I nailed who you did last summer, too”

Burnt Banana Girl 1… this means a banana war – you know that right?  And Chief Banana didn’t even do anything to deserve this. *pout pout pout*

Let the Banana wars began… go my banana warriors, and make sure you succeed in your mission and DON’T “SLIP” up!…

Banana Caller :  Have you tried Chicken Feet before? It’s really good…

Image taken from www.Alibaba.com

Banana Radio DJ: No way.. that’s disgusting. Just imagine where and on what the chickens have been stepping on. And the nails… goodness knows what’s in the nails. I’ll never eat chicken feet if the chickens haven’t done their pedicure yet…

Chief Banana thinks this may be a viable business opportunity – looking for investors now … who’s in?

In an effort to go back to his Chinese roots, Chief Banana will now start practicing how to blog in Chinese. Please bear with Chief Banana while he improves in the meantime.

*A Disclaimer because the way Chinese is used here on this blog should be taken as correct. Chief Banana’s chinese is really bad, so most of the things Chief Banana puts here in probably not the correct way to write it in Chinese!

从今天起 大橡胶 会用华文 来放在这个 不咯个（blog)。 这个是因为 大橡胶 的花纹 不是 很好 所以他要多联系。谢谢。

The place that we were headed was known for it’s tonkatsu, amongst other things. And the pork they use is not just any pork, mind you. Supposedly, the pork comes from pigs that are stress free, and they come from a particular breed of pigs (the Black Pig). The following is taken from the restaurant’s web page.

From Tamworthpig.com,

“Naturally Tastier.

Berkshire matures into delicious, juicy cuts and steaks.

Numbering from the 100′s on the low end to the 1,000′s on the high end—worldwide-the breed is quite rare. Yet thanks to the efforts of farmers loyal to the Berkshire’s strong reputation for superior quality, the population is growing.

We ensure a stress-free lifestyle—imagine if we were to tell Lord Rannoch (our prized Highland breeding steer) that the daily massage is off the menu! [Are you serious? Do you know how much we Bananas have to pay to get our massages??? Seriously though, I wonder if these pigs can get like Shoulder and Neck Massages, or maybe opt for Shiatsu massages, or the Swedish kinds... Although the hot stones massage treatment will probably mean something very different for them ]

But the food was good – the tonkatsu that I had was juicy and tender.

Chief Banana Concludes – massages indeed make for very delicious pork. Bananas on the other hand, don’t like to be massaged… It would be a very messy affair.

KTV is Dirty, Karaoke is not

For some reason, Burnt Banana Girl 1 had the impression that KTV (vs Karaoke places, but they actually refer to the same place) referred to Karaoke places that were “dirty” [meaning that there were women available at those places as "personal hostess" and there was probably more touching than there was singing]. Therefore, to her, places like “Party World KTV” was not suitable for wholesome singing fun, but “Kbox Karaoke” is – (Chief Banana: that is absolutely not true, and Chief Banana has gone his way to correct Burnt Banana’s Girl impressions.. He cannot vouch for KTV places with names like “Lulu’s KTV”, or “Candy KTV Bar”…

Blackberry = Tamagotchi

One of the Banana Friends noticed that Short Banana was pretty much addicted to his Blackberry. Short Banana was asked if he also used his Blackberry in the elevator, because “he probably just like, checked his email in the office just seconds before he left his cubicle… and you need to check your email again???” Chief Banana, who was one of those that does exactly that, offered his defence of that action

Chief Banana: It’s necessary to be productive, even when you’re just waiting for the lift. Besides, it’s an excellent way to look busy and important. Plus, it’s a great accessory to avoid ackward silences when you’re in the lift (going down 36 floors) with someone that you vaguely know but not enough to strike a conversation

 The bunch of Bananas around Chief Banana also made the observation that Blackberrys was like playing your tamagotchis… just like the tamagotchis need attention, you need to quickly attend to your Blackberry whenver the red light indicator (that an email has arrived) lights up. Nothing else on earth warrants attention so much so like the Blackberry e.g. whenever a fire alarm sounds in the office, any banana would “continue on this call until some seconds later and they will think to themselves  “so noisy – someone please turn it off”  as opposed to “Ï gotta haul my banana ass out of here fast!” But with a blackberry, the slightest vibration and a bit of red flashes, and the hand flashes out and starts fondling the blackberry with the most intense focus that a person could offer! 

Another Banana friend gets named

Another Banana friend gets named… BaXX [snazzier version of Banana XX which has simply no meaning whatsoever]

So me and Short Banana offered other names for him to consider. Well, actually, he wanted Long Banana, but we weren’t sure if it descibed any of his physical attributes. Anyways, here goes

1. Rotten Banana
2. Firm Banana
3. Turgid Banana
4. Spinning Banana?? (why did we put this ah?)
5. Chopped Banana (Small Banana’s suggestion – obviously he knew something we didn’t?)
6. Flaccid Banana (as opposed to firm Banana)
7. Copycat Banana

As the list went on, it become obvious that nothing was as suitable as Small Banana. It was a waste of good Banana time. As a result, I was very inclined to name him a wasted Banana, but I’m kind. I’m saving that one up for someone else who truely deserves it, otherwise, giving that name to him would be a good waste of banana (Banana dude, that’s a complement lah)

Updates:. I’m changing Banana Girl 1′s name to Burnt Banana Girl 1 – only because she gets sun burnt a lot…She first appeared in this post

- $5 to wear a full banana suit and run through Orchard Road. Tall Banana offered to pay for the cost of the banana suit.

Chief Banana wasn’t impressed. Short Banana countered

- $10 to wear a full Banana suit + Pajamas and run around Orchard Road

Chief Banana still wasn’t impressed. Along the way back to office, we met small Banana and Burnt Banana Girl 1. We shared the challenge with them. Small Banana thought out loud “why do I need to pay Chief Banana to make a Banana out of himself when he’s doing a fine job as he is already…” [Chief Banana: Small Banana is an Idiot]

Anyway, short Banana made one last counter…

- Banana Suit + Pajamas in Orchard Road Doing splits….

Chief Banana did not ask how much short Banana wanted to pay for me doing that…

[Chief Banana's notes: for some of you that may not know, a lot of references here were made to Bananas in Pajamas, an Australian children's television shown sometime from 1992.]

Chief Banana (to Chicken Rice Seller): Uncle, Chicken Rice for 2 ok? Boneless chicken meat only hor.

Chicken Rice Seller: Our chicken rice all boneless one. Don’t worry

Chief Banana and Tall Banana then got seated, and started eating. Tall Banana notices that I don’t eat some of the chicken and asks Chief Banana why?

Tall Banana: oei, how come you don’t want to eat any more chicken

Chief Banana: Those chicken not completely white one [I was referring to chicken meat that had no blood left on them]

Tall Banana: Wah, you racist …

Idiot….

Chief Banana was out for lunch with 2 other Banana friends. It was a slightly rainy day, and the floors were wet. Big Banana (Banana Friend 1) said he didn’t want to get wet. Being the Bananas that we were, there were all sorts of dirty jokes about being wet and all that sort. Small Banana (Banana Friend 2) somehow talked about a 1990′s chinese R-Rated movie where a man’s head transformed into a dick, thus the term “dickhead”. (If someone can tell me the name of that movie please!).

It kinda ended with comments on fisting and prostate examination [from menshealth.about.com "The man is advised that a finger needs to be inserted into their rectum in order to examine the prostate gland."] ouch!

Chinese Sausages

Small Banana had started talking about somebody we banana people knew. In fact Chief Banana and other Banana friends had previously given this person a nickname – Lup Cheong (Chinese Sausage) because of how his lips looked like it. Before you knew it, we had gone down the slippery path and compared the Chinese Sausages to something else, and references to fingers were involved. (Those of you who know, don’t pretend you don’t…)

How to name a nail parlour

The lunch time Bananas decided to start coming up with Banana names for a nail parlour. Those that made the list include

Along the other words that we would play with using the word nails include

Bananas!