Janice's interview

(1) At the start of her AMusic career in the early Noughties, ...
What is Noughties?

That is likely a typo. It probably should say "Nineties", which is in reference to the 1990s.

(2) "You know Hong Kong is so anal," laughs Janice. "Hong Kong does not like bad girls.

Haha! "So anal" is just short for anal retentive or extremely picky [The annoying type]...unwilling to accept alternatives

[1. (精神分析)表現精細,貪婪,固執等個性特徵的].



Here's the WIKI definition:
The term anal-retentive (or anally retentive, anal retentive), commonly abbreviated to "anal", is used conversationally to describe a person with such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, and can be carried out to the detriment of the anal-retentive person. The term derives from Freudian psychoanalysis.


Origins

In the psychology of Freud, the anal stage is said to follow the oral stage of infant/early-childhood development. This is a time when an infant's attention moves from oral stimulation to anal stimulation (usually the bowels but occasionally the bladder), usually synchronous with learning to control their excretory functions, a time of toilet training. Freud theorized that children who experience conflicts during this period of time may develop "anal" personality traits, namely those associated with a child's efforts at excretory control: orderliness, stubbornness, a compulsion for control, as well as a generalized interest in collecting, possessing, and retaining objects. Those whose anal characteristics continue into later life are said to be "anal retentive", or conversely, those who reject anal characteristics are said to have "anal expulsive" personality types. Some[who?] believe this to be a mild expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal-retentive


2009-03-25 04:11:20 補充：
Corretion! Noughties actually mean 2000-2009.
noughties (plural only; not used in singular form)

1. A proposed, slightly humorous, name for the decade from 2000 to 2009.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noughties

2009-03-25 04:15:14 補充：
You probably noticed by now that I'm not that anal about having perfect grammar and spelling when I do these casual responses... :)