Rocket from a sardine can

I would love to know what on earth this means.

Kompas tiger cartoon

I don't know about you, but my mind added a sound track to the tiger on the microphone. It goes a bit like:
"Rrrrrrrraaaaaaaaoooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww!"

Square melons

Vocabulary

Clearly I shouldn't be allowed two blogs. I did warn you it was going to slow, OK?
Here are some gloriously random vocabulary selections from a Thai (or maybe Cambodian?) newspaper - Chinese to Thai to English.