Why is English so hard to learn?

Here's something to light up your gloomy day..

Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22. There is no egg in eggplant , nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
23. English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France (Surprise!).
24. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
25. Quicksand works slowly.
26. Boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
27. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
28. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth?
29. One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?
30. Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
31. If you have a bunch of odds and ends, and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?
32. If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
33. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
34. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
35. Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
36. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
37. 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.
38. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.
39. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
    
    P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

ROTFL!

Unusual Birthday

It was 2 weeks ago. Kind of like a special one for me. This year was pretty "quiet". Been out with my friend's friends for movie and then dinner. Yeah, I'm an introvert. I know. I guess they were not aware that it was my birthday actually and I was not expecting them to know anyway. But somehow, they knew. Dinner at Wong Kok (SS2) and they ordered that super-duper big HK-styled tea. Damn, you know how big that was? It's enough for 12 persons! Well, it's not like we're all gonna drink from that BIG glass and take a shot or something.

During the dinner, one of the friends managed to get a slice of erm.. blueberry cheese (??) cake for me from the nearby Coffee Bean. I was so damn full then. I'm not sure if I did hurt anyone's feeling, without noticing it. I said I will definitely finish that slice of cake that night or the morning after that. xD

Anyway, that was quite a memorable and different birthday.

Thank you to you-know-who!

After I reached home, my cousin, WL called and the other one, John, SMS'ed me, asking if I want to join them to Genting along with his wife. All of us went into the casino. Me and WL just look-see only while John and his wife, Shennie played roulette. After staying for some time, me and WL went out and had a walk before deciding to get a cuppa from Starbuck but WTH! It was closing. So early. Erm, it was 5 AM then. Heh. At 6 something, we headed back home.

LOL.. tired!

Burnt Out!

Can't believe that I left my office at 23:00 last night!

No one was in the office anymore except my friend+colleague. My mom called me at 10 plus and got a little bit of nagging. She starts to complaining about me going home late everyday.. except Saturday and Sunday, of course. Although the working hour from 09:00 until 18:00, it's a very rare occasion to knock off from work at 18:00. It is consider lucky if I get to go back at 18:30 or 19:00.

Anyway, by the time I reach home, it would be almost 00:00 the next day and no dinner. So, might as well have my dinner while on the way home. Went to a McD nearby my friend house for our dinner+supper. Hit home at 00:00. Lucky mom went to bed, minus a lot of nagging but too bad dad is still around. Asked why I'm back so late. Automatically switch to Answering Machine Mode, "a lot of works and rush", I answered. Straight threw myself onto the bed without taking my bath. Yeah, I know, I know. It's very dirty but what the hell... I AM GOD DAMN TIRED!

No complaining here. Just want to share my days. What a 'wonderful' day~

TMNut’s Technicals Just Don’t Like To Listen..

Since the first day I had my Streamyx (a.k.a. Screamyx), I had made countless of complaint calls to their Technical. I’m paying RM 88 for a 300+ kilobits per second of download. We don’t need a calculator to realised that I’m overpaying for the service I’m getting. Just for your information to those who don’t know; RM 77/66/44 (USD 21/18/12) for 512 kbps, RM 20+ (USD 5.50+) for 384 kbps. RM 44 with first 60 hours of usage, additional usage at 1 cents per minute afterward and RM 20 for first 10 hours and 5 cents per minute. What the fxck@? I’m supposed to get 1024 kbps of download. I don’t mind if you give me less than that but 300 kbps?!?!?

Well, that was August last year. Recently, I noticed my downloads are crawling instead of usual “jogging” (our broadband’s not yet a “sprinting” or “running” yet, mind you!). Just an hour ago, I’ve made a call (again?) to them, reporting this. After those previous countless of calls, I’m smarter. Did every troubleshooting that they might ask me to do. After that, as usual, gave this girl my ID, name, phone number, etc. then tell her my problem. Just before she ask me about the troubleshooting, I quickly shoot, “I’ve done all the necessary troubleshooting” and she thought I was bluffing her! “What troubleshooting that you did?” Told her loh.. Off modem, unplug cable, power, plug it back, switch on then make a direct connection.

…

I’m so, so, so pissed off but I felt like laughing.. XD

She directed to Start > Control Panel > bla, bla, bla to make a new manual dialer. I told her that I already had one and she just continued, “Choose the first one, click Next…”

Bleh~ I just followed lah. Malas..

30 minutes later, after all those ridiculous and she-thought-I-don’t-know troubleshooting, the most exciting part………………………… I’m still getting 340 kbps of download! I really wanna LOL~

See, told you.. They just don’t like to listen…

Haih~ God bless..

A Different Perspective

I used to dislike Lee Kuan Yew. Only him, nothing to do with Singapore. Why? Because he had used the independence of Malaysia to get his own (and left us behind. XD). Get what I mean? After these Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Tan Cheng Lock and Tun V. T. Sambathan (I had tried so hard to remember his name…) gained the independence from the British and two years later, Lee tried to get his own for Singapore.

Just finished watching the documentary on Discovery Channel titled “History of Singapore: An Accidental Nation” and realised stories told by the elders are not necessary true and that includes our Sejarah textbook as well…

Tunku Abdul Rahman mooted the idea of forming “Malaysia” with a merger of Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo (Sabah) and Brunei. Somehow, I don’t understand why Indonesia and Philliphines were against the idea. None of their business. Anyway, Sultan of Brunei liked the idea but not his people who staged an armed revolt. On Singapore side, Lee Kuan Yew supported the merger too but his opponents (the Singaporean Socialist Front) strongly opposed it. Anyhow, Malaysia was formed on August 31, 1963 which consisted of Singapore, Sabah and SarawakNow, this is the interesting part. After the merger, Lee from being the first became second after Tunku (Prime Minister of Malaysia). Minor problem. Then one day, Tunku visited a tyre factory and saw how hardworking those Chinese workers were and started to worries about his people back in the Peninsular. Before Malaysia, 70% of the total Singapre’s population were Chinese. After the merger, Tunku started to worried that Malays will soon become a minority in the country. Then he proposed and drafted a constitution for Malaysia which included the privileges of the Malays or Bumiputras.

“At the time of independence in 1957, the Malays were 55% of the population, the Chinese 35% and the Indians 10%. This equation was upset by the inclusion of Singapore, which increased the Chinese proportion to close to 40%.“

After that, there was a race riot between the Chinese and the Malays which provoked Tunku to demand that Singapore to withdraw from Malaysia. Parties argued among parties, this party challenged that party and soon Tunku called for a vote to expel Singapore from Malaysia. Lee Kuan Yew tried many attempts to keep Singapore in the union but on August 9, 1965, the Parliament of Malaysia voted 126-0. On that day, a tearful Lee Kuan Yew, announced that Singapore was a sovereign, independent nation and assumed the role of prime minister of the new nation. In his speech, he also said:

“For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I have believed in merger and unity of the two territories.“

There was a few minutes of silence as he was trying to get hold of himself, wiping tears.

Anyway, Singaporeans are very fortunate that Lee Kuan Yew did not insist any more to stay in the union. Otherwise, Singapore will not be the Singapore as today.

*Notes*
Above entry does not carry any mean of racist elements or whatsoever. It’s a part of the history. XD

Hard Rock.. Rocks!

Came back home from dinner at Hard Rock Cafe next to Concorde Hotel, KL. It was on my boss' treat. There were a lot of ang mo's around actually. Nice view (duh~). I had a 'Hickory Barberque *something* Chicken. I was like.. bladdy full after eating the whole plate of chicken. It was almost like a HALF chick, ya know, with lotsa meat. Apart from a farewell party, we actually celebrated one of the colleague's belated birthday. She was made to stood up on the chair while our lawyer friend stood along next to her while holding her slice of cake and the whole Hard Rock was singing birthday song to her. So sweet.. well, embarrassing as well.

We waited so long for our foods to be served but well, it's forgivable because they actually served ALL of our foods at the same time except for Jax's. His was the last one to be served while we had already sticking our forks and knifes onto our chickens, beefs and whatever.

Overall, it's okay. It's kinda different from Hard Rock in Surfers Paradise, Australia anyway. xD

Resurrected..

It had been a long, long time since the last present in this space. As the matter of fact, initially, I have no intention of keeping this space anyway because I planned to get my own domain and maintain on my own. Let's wait until my boss give me a discount on hosting first, k? *LOL*

Just for a quick update.

Previously, I was doing a MCSE certification course under our "Boleh" government scheme and now, I am doing a 2-month practical training under this scheme with a local IT company (consider an IT company-lah). Its main activities are actually developing website for clients and also maintain those have hosting service by us. It is rather a small company with a boss, five employees and five trainees. The boss is friendly and has a great sense of humor, we'll never be bored (provided the clients are not giving him a head-spin on that particular day).

In short, it is a good place to work.. minimum level of stress - minus those deadline-meeting moments; got to know a new bunch of fellow 'slaves'!

Tonight, we'll be having the farewall dinner for two trainees who, one had already left and the other one due to leave end of this week; at Hard Rock Cafe (beside Concorde Hotel). *pst* I'm gonna start planning where do I want to get mine! *LOL*

Nitey nites!!