Wednesday, September 30, 2009
power of language
Got this from an email, quite cool!
ONLY THE ENGLISH COULD HAVE INVENTED THIS LANGUAGE-
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England ..
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends
and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
While a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
In which your house can burn up as it burns down,
In which you fill in a form by filling it out,
And in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT IF PEOPLE FROM POLAND ARE CALLED POLES THEN PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND SHOULD BE HOLES AND THE GERMANS GERMS!!!
Most of all we're very suspicious of anything foreign.
More than that, only in Britain can you get a pizza quicker than an ambulance; only in Britain do banks leave both doors open, but chain the pens to the counter; only in Britain do supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the store to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can get their fags at the front.
We might be British, but you can't deny that we're bloody funny.
ONLY THE ENGLISH COULD HAVE INVENTED THIS LANGUAGE-
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England ..
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends
and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
While a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
In which your house can burn up as it burns down,
In which you fill in a form by filling it out,
And in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT IF PEOPLE FROM POLAND ARE CALLED POLES THEN PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND SHOULD BE HOLES AND THE GERMANS GERMS!!!
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Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub where we drink a Belgian beer. On the way home we pick up an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab. Then we sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.Most of all we're very suspicious of anything foreign.
More than that, only in Britain can you get a pizza quicker than an ambulance; only in Britain do banks leave both doors open, but chain the pens to the counter; only in Britain do supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the store to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can get their fags at the front.
We might be British, but you can't deny that we're bloody funny.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
when it's time
Life has been, perhaps, as usual. Went to watch 'Why Not Dance?' on the 19 Sept; the rest of the week was a normal one.
Skyped with my eldest brother (who's in China) last night and he dyed his entire head blonde- tsk tsk LOL.
F1 race just ended, Lewis Hamilton won! Yay :}
OK bye. Everybody good luck for EOYs!
Skyped with my eldest brother (who's in China) last night and he dyed his entire head blonde- tsk tsk LOL.
F1 race just ended, Lewis Hamilton won! Yay :}
OK bye. Everybody good luck for EOYs!
Monday, September 21, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
forever is over
TGIF! Was zombie-ing around for the past week, finally the weekend is here -.-
Anyway today after school stayed back for awhile then went to eat lunch/dinner at 4 plus 5 plus pm with R, BK, LH and JW. We went to Pizza Hut, LOL.
Later on went shopping, then came home. Feeling super blurry now.
Love Drunk - Boys Like Girls
Top down in the summer sun
The day we met was like a hit and run
And I still taste it on my tongue
(Taste it on my tongue)
The sky was burning up like fireworks
You made me want you, oh, so bad it hurt
But girl, in case you haven't heard
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, forever is over
We used to kiss all night, now it's just a bar fight
So don't call me crying, say hello then goodbye
There's just one thing would make me say
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, but now it's over
Hot sweat and blurry eyes
We're spinning on a roller coaster ride
The world stuck in black and white
(Stuck in black and white)
You drove me crazy every time we touched
Now I'm so broken that I can't get up
Oh girl, you make me such a lush
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, forever is over
We used to kiss all night, now it's just a bar fight
So don't call me crying, say hello then goodbye
There's just one thing would make me say
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, but now it's over
All the time I wasted on you
All the bullshit you put me through
I'm checking into rehab 'cause everything that we had
Didn't mean a thing to you
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, but now I'm sober
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, forever is over
We used to kiss all night, now it's just a bar fight
So don't call me crying, say hello then goodbye
There's just one thing would make me say
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, but now it's over
(Now it's over, I still taste it on my tongue)
(Now it's over)
Anyway today after school stayed back for awhile then went to eat lunch/dinner at 4 plus 5 plus pm with R, BK, LH and JW. We went to Pizza Hut, LOL.
Later on went shopping, then came home. Feeling super blurry now.
Love Drunk - Boys Like Girls
Top down in the summer sun
The day we met was like a hit and run
And I still taste it on my tongue
(Taste it on my tongue)
The sky was burning up like fireworks
You made me want you, oh, so bad it hurt
But girl, in case you haven't heard
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, forever is over
We used to kiss all night, now it's just a bar fight
So don't call me crying, say hello then goodbye
There's just one thing would make me say
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, but now it's over
Hot sweat and blurry eyes
We're spinning on a roller coaster ride
The world stuck in black and white
(Stuck in black and white)
You drove me crazy every time we touched
Now I'm so broken that I can't get up
Oh girl, you make me such a lush
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, forever is over
We used to kiss all night, now it's just a bar fight
So don't call me crying, say hello then goodbye
There's just one thing would make me say
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, but now it's over
All the time I wasted on you
All the bullshit you put me through
I'm checking into rehab 'cause everything that we had
Didn't mean a thing to you
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, but now I'm sober
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, forever is over
We used to kiss all night, now it's just a bar fight
So don't call me crying, say hello then goodbye
There's just one thing would make me say
I used to be love drunk, but now I'm hungover
I love you forever, but now it's over
(Now it's over, I still taste it on my tongue)
(Now it's over)
Thursday, September 17, 2009
i used to be love drunk
Back to school this week. Late nights and satisfaction kind of make me happy (:
Tired, though.
Today's Bio test made my brain feel like the glomerulus. One entire mesh -_-
I wonder how do you feel
Tired, though.
Today's Bio test made my brain feel like the glomerulus. One entire mesh -_-
Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love loveI'm Yours — Jason Mraz
Saturday, September 12, 2009
i'm not gonna write you a love song
Hello hello I just realised how long it was since I last updated properly -.- Have been trying to recall fully what happened the last few weeks but to no avail so sorry if I miss anything out OK!
So my eldest brother left for Wuhan on the 29th.. And then there was the Teacher's Day performance on the 31st! Haha, I kind of don't know how to comment on the performance. At least it was fun while it lasted, yeah?
After the celebration, lunch-ed at Harbourfront with Weiling, Rachel, Boonkee, Jieru, Gladys, Liheng and Junweng. After that went to Yuching's house with Weiling and Rachel. Some 2E guys were there, plus Lizhen. LOL everybody was totally awesome we had so much fun haha. Rachel ended up with some dirty sock that wasn't hers lol! Dad came to fetch me and Weiling back at around 8 plus pm, was dead tired.
Anyway before that Weiling and I were contemplating if we should've gone back RVPS to see the rest. Oh well, didn't go in the end, 'cause we just didn't feel like it -_-
1st Sept - Tuesday, school holiday! I'm still quite surprised when I found out that there was a school holiday for Teacher's Day o_O Anyway went out with Rachel, Boonkee, Junweng and Liheng to go study LOL. Went to AMK library, only did one morning of work, then we chiong-ed through our lunch and rushed to AMK Hub to watch Turning Point!
Lol the movie was sort of cool and I kinda liked the actors but somehow halfway through the movies there were so many flashbacks I was lost =.= But it was still nice, just that why did everybody have to die at the end?! Overheard also, is this some kind of trend or something with Hong Kong movies? So morbid zzz.
After the movie we headed to Junweng's house to slack. After that bus-ed home.
2nd Sept - Wednesday, had to go back to school, boring. The next few days were just blah-ing. CCA sessions are getting more hiong, though. Nice ^^
5th Sept - Saturday, can't really remember what I did. At night went to some Jumbo Seafood restaurant to celebrate some relative's birthday. If I remember correctly it was my grandfather's older sister's birthday. There was so many relatives around zzz I didn't realise my extended family was that huge =.= I think they played the Birthday song 8 times, in different languages, though there were some repeats. 1 song for each decade? The food was fabulous but it was quite boring actually.
Sunday 6th Sept was a usual Sunday but went for the Yellow Ribbon Prison Run in the morning.
It was quite fun and the weather was quite cooling but my eldest brother wasn't around to run with me zzz. The organisation of the run was quite good, though.
Had 2 hours of drums in the afternoon. Super shiok. LOL. Have to start practising my piano often T.T
7th Sept Monday had CCA, ultra hiong. Morning had some relatively less slack PT in Dance Studio, then Sulao arrived and we had endurance PT LOL. He seriously has the handbook for "1001 Ways In Torturing Students", I guess. But nevermind it was quite a fruitful PT session :D Lunch-ed at Anchorpoint with the girls, then chiong-ed back - really chiong-ed back to Dance Studio but in the end the teachers were half an hour late -.- Anyway we did some "challenging" stuffs in the afternoon LOL.
After CCA, went out with Rachel, Liheng and Junweng. Boonkee was supposed to come but she ended up sleeping at home LOL. Anyway we went to Vivo and watched G-Force!
Great show, lol. Damn cute ^_^
8th Sept Tuesday - CCA was sort of cool, in a way. Went to Hort Park for treetop walk. Saw monkeys! Anyway we had to reflect about our surroundings and I realised there were many things at the back of my mind, just that I didn't allow myself some time to think about it, to write about it. This time Sulao gave us ample time to reflect about everything, pen our thoughts down, presented my stuff, and then we did some fun activity. LOL. Relatively slack. Oh ya they sort of changed some Comm people. Haiz. Everybody jiayous bah lol.
Stayed back after CCA with Rachel, Liheng and Junweng to do work lol. In the end I was super tired and kinda stressed so I ended up not doing any work LOL.
On the way home this weird man asked me to do some stupid survey and because I had alot of things on my mind I didn't know how to react properly and I ended up doing the survey but while I was doing he kept trying to talk about my school, uniform and everything then when I passed him back the survey form he still kept yapping away, chatting about how stressful it is in RV and all that. Super scary omg LOL. OK probably I'm too paranoid because I just finished reading Criminal Invent recently and he kind of resembled those bad guys who used survey stuffs to cheat people or something LOL. Told my mom then she just told me next time "don't talk to strangers" zzz =.=
At night went to watch The Proposal!
It was cool, in a way. Like all other romance flicks. LOL. The humour was quite good, though. And it kind of reminded me of 《命中注定我爱你》. The grandmother, the man who was very rich, the rushed marriage, and all. Well I shan't be a spoiler :)
9th Sept Wednesday - went out with Rachel, Boonkee, Junweng and Liheng again LOL. Met for lunch then we went to AMK area for Kbox! Quite fun LOL. Good way to de-stress -.-" But it was super super cold, had to step outside to defrost for awhile, lol. Was bombarded by Chinese songs zzz but they were all very nice so it was OK.
Chiong-ed to tuition at night, I owe the teacher alot of undone essays LOL.
10 Sept Thursday - I rotted at home, spent my entire day watching 《命中注定我爱你》 LOL. Yes Imma sucker for romance lah OK! =.= The miscarriage episode super sad, cried like mad lol! But overall the show is fantastic with good humour, touching scenes, etc. OK I'm not going to do Lang Arts TV show review lah zz.
OK I attempted doing some work yesterday but I still ended up watching the show instead of doing work LOL. At least I finally finished watching it this morning! Today my parents went for Batam tour so I'm at home with my second brother only, lol. So sian.
Yay I'm done updating OK GOODBYE!
PS I miss my eldest brother alot alot T.T
So my eldest brother left for Wuhan on the 29th.. And then there was the Teacher's Day performance on the 31st! Haha, I kind of don't know how to comment on the performance. At least it was fun while it lasted, yeah?
After the celebration, lunch-ed at Harbourfront with Weiling, Rachel, Boonkee, Jieru, Gladys, Liheng and Junweng. After that went to Yuching's house with Weiling and Rachel. Some 2E guys were there, plus Lizhen. LOL everybody was totally awesome we had so much fun haha. Rachel ended up with some dirty sock that wasn't hers lol! Dad came to fetch me and Weiling back at around 8 plus pm, was dead tired.
Anyway before that Weiling and I were contemplating if we should've gone back RVPS to see the rest. Oh well, didn't go in the end, 'cause we just didn't feel like it -_-
1st Sept - Tuesday, school holiday! I'm still quite surprised when I found out that there was a school holiday for Teacher's Day o_O Anyway went out with Rachel, Boonkee, Junweng and Liheng to go study LOL. Went to AMK library, only did one morning of work, then we chiong-ed through our lunch and rushed to AMK Hub to watch Turning Point!
Lol the movie was sort of cool and I kinda liked the actors but somehow halfway through the movies there were so many flashbacks I was lost =.= But it was still nice, just that why did everybody have to die at the end?! Overheard also, is this some kind of trend or something with Hong Kong movies? So morbid zzz.
After the movie we headed to Junweng's house to slack. After that bus-ed home.
2nd Sept - Wednesday, had to go back to school, boring. The next few days were just blah-ing. CCA sessions are getting more hiong, though. Nice ^^
5th Sept - Saturday, can't really remember what I did. At night went to some Jumbo Seafood restaurant to celebrate some relative's birthday. If I remember correctly it was my grandfather's older sister's birthday. There was so many relatives around zzz I didn't realise my extended family was that huge =.= I think they played the Birthday song 8 times, in different languages, though there were some repeats. 1 song for each decade? The food was fabulous but it was quite boring actually.
Sunday 6th Sept was a usual Sunday but went for the Yellow Ribbon Prison Run in the morning.
It was quite fun and the weather was quite cooling but my eldest brother wasn't around to run with me zzz. The organisation of the run was quite good, though.
Had 2 hours of drums in the afternoon. Super shiok. LOL. Have to start practising my piano often T.T
7th Sept Monday had CCA, ultra hiong. Morning had some relatively less slack PT in Dance Studio, then Sulao arrived and we had endurance PT LOL. He seriously has the handbook for "1001 Ways In Torturing Students", I guess. But nevermind it was quite a fruitful PT session :D Lunch-ed at Anchorpoint with the girls, then chiong-ed back - really chiong-ed back to Dance Studio but in the end the teachers were half an hour late -.- Anyway we did some "challenging" stuffs in the afternoon LOL.
After CCA, went out with Rachel, Liheng and Junweng. Boonkee was supposed to come but she ended up sleeping at home LOL. Anyway we went to Vivo and watched G-Force!
Great show, lol. Damn cute ^_^
8th Sept Tuesday - CCA was sort of cool, in a way. Went to Hort Park for treetop walk. Saw monkeys! Anyway we had to reflect about our surroundings and I realised there were many things at the back of my mind, just that I didn't allow myself some time to think about it, to write about it. This time Sulao gave us ample time to reflect about everything, pen our thoughts down, presented my stuff, and then we did some fun activity. LOL. Relatively slack. Oh ya they sort of changed some Comm people. Haiz. Everybody jiayous bah lol.
Stayed back after CCA with Rachel, Liheng and Junweng to do work lol. In the end I was super tired and kinda stressed so I ended up not doing any work LOL.
On the way home this weird man asked me to do some stupid survey and because I had alot of things on my mind I didn't know how to react properly and I ended up doing the survey but while I was doing he kept trying to talk about my school, uniform and everything then when I passed him back the survey form he still kept yapping away, chatting about how stressful it is in RV and all that. Super scary omg LOL. OK probably I'm too paranoid because I just finished reading Criminal Invent recently and he kind of resembled those bad guys who used survey stuffs to cheat people or something LOL. Told my mom then she just told me next time "don't talk to strangers" zzz =.=
At night went to watch The Proposal!
It was cool, in a way. Like all other romance flicks. LOL. The humour was quite good, though. And it kind of reminded me of 《命中注定我爱你》. The grandmother, the man who was very rich, the rushed marriage, and all. Well I shan't be a spoiler :)
9th Sept Wednesday - went out with Rachel, Boonkee, Junweng and Liheng again LOL. Met for lunch then we went to AMK area for Kbox! Quite fun LOL. Good way to de-stress -.-" But it was super super cold, had to step outside to defrost for awhile, lol. Was bombarded by Chinese songs zzz but they were all very nice so it was OK.
Chiong-ed to tuition at night, I owe the teacher alot of undone essays LOL.
10 Sept Thursday - I rotted at home, spent my entire day watching 《命中注定我爱你》 LOL. Yes Imma sucker for romance lah OK! =.= The miscarriage episode super sad, cried like mad lol! But overall the show is fantastic with good humour, touching scenes, etc. OK I'm not going to do Lang Arts TV show review lah zz.
OK I attempted doing some work yesterday but I still ended up watching the show instead of doing work LOL. At least I finally finished watching it this morning! Today my parents went for Batam tour so I'm at home with my second brother only, lol. So sian.
Yay I'm done updating OK GOODBYE!
PS I miss my eldest brother alot alot T.T
Sunday, September 6, 2009
another way of looking at things
Have been busy. Will update soon. In the meantime, here's a very innocent song. Really. Lily Allen does wonders.
Fuck You - Lily Allen
Look inside,
Look inside your tiny mind
Then look a bit harder
Cos we're so uninspired
So sick and tired
Of all the hatred you harbour
So you say
It's not okay to be gay
Well I think you're just evil
You're just some racist
Who can't tie my laces
You're point of view is medieval
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
Cos we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
'Cos your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch
Do you get
Do you get a little kick
Out of being small minded
You want to be like your father
His approval you're after
Well that's not how you'll find it
Do you
Do you really enjoy
Living a life that's so hateful
'Cos there's a hole where your soul should be
You're losing control of it
And it's really distasteful
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
Cos we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
'Cos your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch
~
You say
You think we need to go to war
Well you're already in one
'Cos its people like you
Who need to get slew
No one wants your opinion
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
Cos we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
'Cos your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck You - Lily Allen
Look inside,
Look inside your tiny mind
Then look a bit harder
Cos we're so uninspired
So sick and tired
Of all the hatred you harbour
So you say
It's not okay to be gay
Well I think you're just evil
You're just some racist
Who can't tie my laces
You're point of view is medieval
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
Cos we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
'Cos your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch
Do you get
Do you get a little kick
Out of being small minded
You want to be like your father
His approval you're after
Well that's not how you'll find it
Do you
Do you really enjoy
Living a life that's so hateful
'Cos there's a hole where your soul should be
You're losing control of it
And it's really distasteful
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
Cos we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
'Cos your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch
~
You say
You think we need to go to war
Well you're already in one
'Cos its people like you
Who need to get slew
No one wants your opinion
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
Cos we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
'Cos your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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