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Even worse, here in Anglophone Southeast Asia, "blur" means "stupid" or "confused".

Animal Sperm Collector: http://www.talkingcock.com/html/article.php?sid=22 5 Choice Quote: "I never thought I'd be giving an orangutan a hand job every morning," he said somewhat ruefully. "And Ah Meng is the worst. He expects to be kissed first."

Actually, I bet that the "topless beaches in France" would become an immensely popular search...

You'd be wrong.

How well can someone with English as primary language navigate?

Quite easy - almost everyone speaks English in that part of town. Malaysia is made of three primary ethnic groups - Malay, Chinese, and Indian. Many Malays in their 20s and 30s didn't learn English in school due to a temporary nationalist policy of teaching Malay language only in public schools. But the Chinese and Indian schools kept teaching English. And now all the schools do again. Most of the people working and shopping in and around Low Yat are Chinese and fluent or near-fluent in English.

The hardest part is recognizing that people are speaking English! Since the language has been mixing with Chinese and Malay and Tamil for such a long time here, there's a thick accent and a lot of foreign words and structures. Many people call the language spoken here Manglish. It's pretty similar to the better-documented Singlish, as spoken in neighboring Singapore which has a similar ethnic mix (but different distributions).

The good news is that thanks to TV and movies, they can understand you even if it takes you a while to understand them.

Wireless blogging is going to be a way to get around many restrictions. Of course this doesn't help if they are blocking the servers. Fortunately these days there are a vast number of hosting companies which provide blog hosting. And wireless net is huge in China, with hundreds of millions of WAP-enabled phones. I think that the government will at some point just give up on this and realize that free expression is not that much of a threat. They should look over at the example of Singapore, where the government is very strict, but it tolerates a little joking commentary. The PRC will realize that people complaining is not the same thing as a real challenge.

I think you meant:

http://www.talkingcock.com

Thank god no one has put up what one would expect at the URL you gave.

Here's a Google search on Singlish. My personal favourite is the Coxford Singlish Dictionary.