We be linguists

Hi to all!

2008-03-10T20:40:00.000-07:00

Hey guys great to hear from u again! As usual, I got lost and too busy with sickening papers, presentations blah blah blah... so I shall take the opportunity to reply all of u at one go! Here goes..

To Shao: I'm suuuuuper happy to hear from u too!! Yes I do agree Gim Yong has humility issues...perhaps we should follow his example and become more 'humble' ourselves..haha! But it wasn't his humility that gave me the crazy urge to hit my head against the wall (repeatedly) last semester, it was my complete inability to distinguish between his nonsensical 'facts' and his 'real real facts' (which dun happen very often I might add)... so I do empathise with you :) Isn't Rachel taking any mods with you? To like balance out your sanity? heheheh....

To Rachel: haha..too late Janine is already wearing specs!! She has slight astig ...boh bian...now look like little harry potter...but I am not very worried abt this lah..look what a beauty you & Kuan turned out! Got contacts, lasik, cool cool specs... Wish it was due to her over-reading though...But am glad we found out the real cause of why she kept looking sideways whenever she watched tv. When we first suspected she got autism..doctor said autistic kids have a tendency to see things like that...wah piang ackcherlly she got astig lah....

To Yun Kuan: Wuhoo!! U're at yahoo!! Way to go girl!!! Hope u're feeling better now..and yes, it's always good to know what u are taking (even though it's doctor's advice!) This John always say doctors are merely doing guesswork and all u can do is hope that they "hum tum" correctly. Not that I want to parrot him but abit true leh..there was once I went to 2 different doctors and they give me two different diagnosis..one say I have abit of sore throat but think it's more likely to be UTI (urinary tract infection) the other say I could have UTI but more likely it's my tonsils. Hey both at opposite ends of my body k, so what will the ending be?! (no pun intended). What the heck just whack both lah...so I took a strong course of antibotics for the tonsils (which reminded me just how bad my first trimester was cos all my taste buds literally shrivelled up and died due to the antibotics) and a course of meds for my UTI (and ended up with disgusting orange pee..but still smelled like roses of course). In the end, it was my tonsils lah..hope my kidney's still ok man...

Just a side note: ever noticed how some noodles have very strong smell of ammonia too? Or was it just me? Next time before u shove the noodles in ur mouth, smell it with your nose first and let me know what u think ok? I can't ask John cos he has very little scent and taste detectors ( one of my wifely duties is to 'save' him from eating soured curries). All food he tastes will register as either 'ok' (which ranges from the truly delectable to barely palatable food) or the more dangerous category 'interesting' (which means the food has either turned really really bad or it was cooked by a monkey posing as a chef).

Ok...better stop here.. (was taking a breather from my essay writing) Missed u guys lots and wishing all of u good health, good spirits and good grades!

EEWWWW EEEE YUCKS and general disgustingness

2008-03-09T10:55:00.000-07:00

i am full of phlegm!

so i have a blocked nose and a cough. boohoo.

i went to the doctor and got some medicine.

that day, i drank 10ml of cough syrup as instructed.

after i swallowed it, a disgusting, stinky smell rose up from the depths of my throat.

it stank to high heavens. it was superbly, supremely, stupendously stinky lar!

it was also a familiar kind of stink. but i couldnt quite place it.

curious, i read the label.

it says:

" every 5ml contains:

- 10mg of diphenhydramine HCL
- 125mg of AMMONIUM chloride (caps are my own, for emphasis)
- 50mg of sodium citrate"

AMMONIUM chloride. AMMONIUM chloride!! i've been drinking ammonia??!!

i wonder. how can stomach juice (HCL) and a component of my urine cure me????

so i asked my friend who is currently in sydney u studying pharmacy.

she said that ammonium chloride and sodium citrate are commonly used together in cough medication to help in the expulsion of phlegm. but there is no real evidence of this.

and when they say no real evidence, they basically mean that probably, animal testing has been done with the drugs but nothing else.

these drugs are still used because there has been a long tradition of success and nobody has died from it yet.

i find many things wrong with this!! long TRADITION? ahem. i'm consuming a medication based on tradition?

that sounds like a kind of old wives' tale! u know, like in some tribes living in the forest, they have a tradition of eating tree roots to cure infertility or something.

i suffer from ammonium fumes every night because of an old wives' tale!

so. i've been drinking ammonia for 4 nights already.

p.s i swear, the ammonia smell is familiar because it brings me back to my upper sec/JC 1st year days when i had to suffer chem lab. it is not familiar because i smell it everyday in my pee. my pee smells like roses.

Oh my how i've missed you all

2008-03-06T09:25:00.001-08:00

I just finished writing a paper for my geography project and my members are nothing like the loving, warm, gentle, beautiful and kind-hearted people like you guys. Oh my heart bleeds at this agony of missing all of you! *bleeds*
Come back into my arms, all of you! We shall endure wind and rain and walk the path of everlasting glory!!!

2008-02-24T17:20:00.000-08:00

Hey hey guys! At loooong last...through sheer grit and unwavering perseverence...I the techno idiot & blogging twit, managed to
1) find my own blog which Kuan helped me to set up eons ago and thereafter left shamefully neglected (I forgot my blog name, id..whatever u called it,
2) Recall my password (thanks to the 3mths passwords changing at NUS, my bank, email, facebook, MSN & a godzillion of other accounts. I recently locked myself out of my Singpass. I'm faced with a very difficult dilemma. I can no longer trust my poor brain to remember the passwords but I also cannot write down such important information lest it falls into the hands of unscrupulous criminals. What to do?!)
3) Navigate through the treacherous blogging landscape to...

POST THIS BLOG! At this point, I'm so tired that I can barely continue on...but I shall press on...

HOw are all of you guys? Missed u all lots. Not taking any English mods this sem cos I've finished but I do miss this part of my studies. Give me a quick update leh...like ur health, studies, love life..anything lah.. I'm ok...just getting stressed trying to prepare Janine for P1. Was reading through the parenting forum and super stress lah. Some parents sent their 1 year olds to enrichment, flash cards at them every single freakin day, kids can read at 30 months (not words hor...but whole books ok) ..now learning to writing ...probably publishing her first book by age 5. Scary thing is....this is the NORM now...arrgh!!!! Can someone tell me where's the nearest hole I can find to crawl inside and hide?!!

Oops sorry..got abit agitated there...I'm ok, really...Arggh..I mean haha.. Tell me how's things at your side yah? In the meantime, take care & God bless!

Love.
Lynn

2008-02-05T06:58:00.000-08:00

Okay peeps next Tuesday or Thursday! At 7pm? At Orchard. Pick one and the majority vote wins!

2008-02-02T19:58:00.000-08:00

My dear lovelies,

it is time for all of us to watch Sweeney Todd together or our lives will not be complete. Join me in my glorious search for everlasting Johnny Deppness!!!! So please be leaving your available dates in the comment box so that you can all see my lovely visage in the week to come.

P.S I know you guys miss me.

P.S.S It's so obvious that it's embarrassing.

P.S.S.S One of the professors in ELang has an asymmetrical face.

lousypoks

2008-01-24T06:42:00.001-08:00

i cannot believe you guys threw away your notes when i needed them! if we didn't have lynn what would i do huhhhhh

lauyapoks, all of you

AAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

2008-01-17T09:03:00.001-08:00

GOSH!!!! Joseph Park is taking me for one of my modules la... I am so dead.. I wanted to at least go on time to create a better impression but din managed to man.. I think he still remembers me and I know he hates me... If I had known that he is taking the module, I wouldn't have taken it la.. It is really a challenge to keep awake during his class and I hope I will be able to attend more of his classes than last sem..

Anw.. dint see any of u all in class.. I am taking this level 4000 mod and everyone inside is like rachel and shao's best friends that kind la.. dun really know the pple and i am forced to form a group..

I wanna take this opportunity to declare that I am the most hardworking student of NUS this sem because I am taking 6 MODULES!!! (but i still have a 3 day week, which shows how good a planner I am.)

*remember the most hardworking student of NUS's maxim - if u fail to plan, u plan to fail.

2008-01-04T10:14:00.000-08:00

Happy new year people!

Thanks my DARLING kuan for the lovely fairy wishes. Unfortch, I insist that i already have FLAWLESS WHITE skin and beautiful BIG MANGA eyes so your wishes are obselete. HAHAHAHAHAHA WTF. But yes, I do agree that the previous sem was beautiful because you guys were around. awwwwww. So mushy.

I'm doing Child Language and Language Planning and Policy! What about you guys? Kuan, we will miss you, but I bet you'll miss me more. You'll miss me when you're working at Yahoo! halfway, and suddenly the thought of me and my beauty will hit you hard and fast, and then you'll weep tears of overwhelming loneliness. Mark my words.

Rach, GY, Lynn, see you guys soon!

feel the love

2008-01-02T23:40:00.000-08:00

haha. I note that the most lasting impression I managed to give was that I own [or used to own] a terribly artistic waterbottle named egbert nalgene the second. well I do still have him but he doesn't look so terribly artistic now. sigh. but yes, I concur that it was a good sem with us guys. :) and by the way, anyone taking cinematic discourse?

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY DEAREST MORTAL FRIENDS!

2008-01-02T06:48:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time, there was a fairy named kuan.

on every new year, she will give wishes to those sweet people who have given her laughter and happiness in the previous year.

the common practice, as in all fairy tales, is to give 3 wishes.

However, due to the existence of Santa Claus, the invention of ang pows and the advent of the consumer culture, shopping malls and factories that mass produce tons of pretty goods that go into pretty wrappers to make pretty presents, kuan fairy has some competition. and that is a severe understatement.

in order to make her good old fashion fairy wishes more attractive, kuan fairy is having a promotion. she will give 4 wishes instead of the usual 3 this year.

so onto her great, wonderful, kind and splendid module mates she bestowed these wishes.

wish #1: goes to Lynn. ur kids will grow to be happy, healthy, beautiful and filial to their forever wrinkle free mum!

wish #2: goes to rachel. all ur belongings will have no stains, unpeeled stickers or scratches eeeever!

wish #3: goes to shao. u can choose between: super snow white flawless skin OR big pretty manga-like eyes OR a lifetime supply of that history-less, personality-less, ugly, mute and probably deaf (because i see no ears) banana thingy OR a lifetime supply of 4inch diamond studded heels that sound veeeery expensive OR 12cm more of height (and no more. because u shall never ever be taller than your wonderful friend yunkuan) make ur choice!

wish #4: goes to gy. u shall have unlimited discount coupons from topshop and wherever else u buy ur countless bermudas.

having thus granted all her wonderful friends' deepest, most fervent wishes, kuan fairy flew off with a graceful flutter of her purple with green polka dots wings towards the full round moon.

and they all live happily ever after.

i had a really wonderful sem because of u guys! thank you and muacks muacks muacks muacks!

a tall story

2007-12-15T10:43:00.001-08:00

because nobody's updating, i shall update.

i have a new soulmate and it is..........

zebra prints!

yeah!

anyway, let me tell u guys a TALL story just to be irritating. and because, i need some content for my post.

gy smsed u guys to ask if u wanna go to his church's xmas musical right? and i replied asking if he is playing the angel.

and he didnt reply!

so silence means consent/agreement

so gy is an angel! ooo

the very thought is scary and the very image seems wrong.

end of the tall story told by a tall girl.

OMG GUYSSS

2007-12-04T09:44:00.000-08:00

Guess who sent me an email wishing me a Happy Birthday?! You'll never guess!!!!! Or maybe you will, but nevermind wtf I shall just tell you guys anyway.

Our lovely Prof from cda!! That's awesome and I'm overwhelmed =D

neh neh ni poo poo

2007-11-27T07:30:00.001-08:00

I have only two exams too! and I end on thursday! which is the day after today! And since today is 2330hrs, I practically end TOMORROW!

Remember everybody, SEA tmrw at NINE O CLOCK.
I think there's some poetic justice in the time, seeing how we very happily spent an entire sem making a name for ourselves as a group. hahaha.
Or maybe prof p knew it all along.....

eh. about CDA. Anyone knows what the average mark was?

okay i'm off to bed. goodnight loves. [including the one with very pure, pale, elegant flawless arms and i forgot the rest of that description]

yay.. exams are over soon

2007-11-26T05:01:00.000-08:00

gosh...

so many posts here since i last visited.. seriously this skin looks much better than the previous sickly pink. how are u all doing with SEA? today i started looking through the notes (the remnants of wad i had, short of a few i suppose) and they all seem rather crappy to me leh....

did she say anything abt wads the focus gonna be? got choice or no choice? and the other pple's projects need to study or not? i mean the whole chunk of BYOCs on ivle...

i feel especially hardworking today and its actually quite novel to feel like a student again. i think one of the greatest beauty of exams is that it reminds me that i m a student. everytime i think of exams i have this urge to reiterate that i only have 2!!!
Hey pple... i only have 2 exams!! hope u all can draw some motivation from this...

gonna be over soon yea?? yay!!!!

Weeeee!

2007-11-26T04:52:00.000-08:00

I'm writing this here because I attempted to call Yun Kuan three times but all I got was the answering machine.

I bought new liquid foundatiooooooonnnnnn! Yay!! YAY!!!! It's Diorskin's Extreme Fit. Tell me if I look any better on Wednesday, 'k, my lovelies?

AND GUYS! I found a place where I can buy my lovely Banana handphone straps for only 3 dollars! It's at Wheelock place, outside the toy shop, in one of those Krak-krak machines and it's lovely. All I want for Christmas is that entire machine.

Ok, Prof Pakir's readings are calling out to me. Unlike YK, I don't have to hide in an alley to escape from them. I battle my demons down to the mud okay. With my strong, yet elegant, and very pale, flawless arms.

i have a soulmate. do you? (and that's a plural 'you' ok)

2007-11-22T09:43:00.000-08:00

south east asia is boooooorrrrrriiiinnnngggg. and im an escapist. so i escaped from my books and am hiding out here, away from them.

last week, i went shopping with lynn cos she wanted to get dresses for her sister's wedding. and on that shopping trip, i found my soulmate. we have sooooo much in common, its scary. but thats why we can be soulmates.

let me describe my soulmate.

she is tall and extremely skinny. in fact, she is skinnier than me. she has no curves, is full of angles and is dressed completely in my favourite leopard animal prints. she doesnt say much, and so i take it that she agrees with everything i say. how agreeable. so pleasant. we will never argue and the soulmateship can last forever. she also allows me to completely mistreat her and step all over her.

oh! we have so much in common looks wise and taste wise! i know she fully understands me despite her silence! and i know she truly loves me despite my tyrannical behaviour! she fully understands my LOVE for leopard prints! that just says it aaaaaall!

my soulmate has a three inch tall heel, and a super skinny stiletto one cm in diameter. is reaaaaaaally sharp, angular and super pointy in the front, and is in full leopard prints.

she is gorgeous. and i love love love her so veeeerry much!

she resides in tangs and i will seriously consider asking her to come live with me if she doesnt cost $79.90

oh i gushed about my soulmate too loudly and my books found me. they are now dragging me awaayayayay... *echos bounced off the narrow walls of the dark alley where i was hidden*

2007-11-21T20:01:00.000-08:00

haha shao i LOVE the new template!

HAHA i know you can cook for us! YES!

ATTENTION EVERYBODY
SHAO'S COOKING DINNERRRR

no violent objections? good. bring it on. :D

p.s yk your babies post is hilarious.

LOOK ME! LOOK ME!

2007-11-21T01:09:00.000-08:00

Yes I am so bored that I went to change the blog template. I am awesome. Just as I am cute. Oh I am so cute. Adore me!

BOREDDD

2007-11-21T00:23:00.000-08:00

Omg guys you have NO IDEA how completely BORED I am. I spent the entire of yesterday and most of today walking back and forth in my living room, doing absolutely nothing. Then I went to chop some onions and garlic for my dad. HOW BORING IS THIS OMG I CAN DIE. Can we go out and get some food sometime soon dyyinnnng of boredom wtf.

the innermost thoughts of a very proud mother of 4400 babies

2007-11-19T11:10:00.000-08:00

i was caught up in an agonising 36hour labour last night. i gave birth to 4400 babies. one. by. one.

they didnt need a father. they just split from my brain and came onto Earth. i think i have become an amoeba. babies just kept splitting and splitting and splitting from my brain during the labour....

my babies are pretty cute. they are so obedient, they don't cry or make a fuss at all. they line up in neat rows on Ms Word. awwwwww good babies. good good babies.

i have spotted alot of twins.... no. triplets.... no. i think they are hundredlets... i think there are about a hundred of them and they all look identical. they look like this: "the".

after i finished giving birth to my dear sweet babies today, i realise i cannot afford to support all 4400 of them.

so i've carted them off to prof chng. i hope she loves them as much as i do. it took alot of effort to get them into this existence on Earth.

CDA IS OVERRRRRRRRRRRRR

2007-11-19T00:59:00.000-08:00

okay. gim yong i hope you'll reach school soooon.

it was so drama. last night when i blogged and i said i hadn't started, i really hadn't. and then i was so tired from zouk's flea and easy i slept at elevenish. [i swear zouk is germ infested]

then i woke up... TODAY. with ZERO WORDS.

dodododododooddodododdododo

just done. Completed it at 415 and then guess what.
INTERNET CONNECTION FAILED.

i panicked my backside off.

so gim to the rescue. he's going to invade/access/enter [lexicon choice! hahaha] my hotmail account and print my notes out!

only thing is, it's 1703 hours and

OH OH.

my inbox says 15 unread msgs now.
Down from 16!
I thin gim has reached school!

I hope chh is LATTTEEEE. i hope she's sleeping at her desk now. too tired to wake up. may she wake up at 2359 hours so that all who are in the pitiable state of being students HAVE A CHANCE.

i'm drained man.

NO MORE CDA.

okay people, we need to go out and celebrate. much much love.

whenwhenwhen?

love,
the senser of co-relations

p.s is sea morning or afternoon? is it open booked?? :D

2007-11-18T13:48:00.000-08:00

LOL @ Rach. Yeah I realised that we tend to blog when we are all rushing for our deadlines at the last minute TOGETHER. HAHAHAHAHA. We are the laziest group of so-called Linguists, EVA.

And I'm worst than Gim yong okay. I'm not even at 1.8k worth of words. Dammit. SAVVEEEEEE MEEEEEE. The worst thing is I keep going online and looking at random videos. Argh.

i sense a direct relation between essays and blogging

2007-11-18T06:36:00.000-08:00

the paper is due tomorrow and I HAVEN'T STARTED.

shoot me now.

what time is sea?

halliday helliday

2007-11-18T01:30:00.000-08:00

haha GY, sea is on the 28th and discourse structure is on the 3rd of dec. check your nus email! they should have sent you an email with a link where you can check out the exam times and your seat number!

and. i'm dying too. i'm not just dying a death. i'm dying a horrible death. i'm slowly suffocating in pages and pages of halliday hell.

because i thought since fairclough based his framework on halliday and since fairclough is an obscure fellow, going to the 'root' aka big grandpa halliday will help. so i borrowed the halliday book she recommended from the national library - last copy! and i realise... it doesnt help at all.

she told me that she had a feeling looking at direct and indirect quotes will give a fruitful analysis. i have been staring at them for half a day and for the life of me i dont see how they can enlighten me. i mean they are just quotes right. u say this i say that and blah blah. so i dunno. arrrrrgggghhhhhh

i wonder if i dun do direct indirect quotes, will she comment and say "didnt i say direct indirect quotes will yield a fruitful analysis, why didnt u look at that! look at the pathetically superficial analysis u have here u moron"?

boohoo

oo anyway, i found the antidote to halliday poisoning, CDA overdosage and all that horribly fatal things that's why i am still alive (albeit barely) and typing this entry - this webbie

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar

its useful and cute. like... now i know an interesting titbit: the inventor of the semicolon and the italic typeface is aldus manutius. he looks fierce.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeee. go if u think it will help u.

i nv realise how much i dunno till i started doing this.

When are the exams?

2007-11-17T07:58:00.000-08:00

Hey pple...

I think many of u are bz doing the CDA final analysis, which i am currently at 1.8k words.... but i need help here...
HHHHHHHEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP....

i dunno when is our exams...

when is the SEA exam?
when is discourse struc?

someone pls help.......... wah lau.. i cant find it on ivle...

mostly to GY!

2007-11-08T08:13:00.000-08:00

haha! preggers = pregnant, gy. and i thought u were smart.

this proves that pink only works for girls and is toxic to guys! that's OUR colour.

anyway, shao, he might very well be lying again cos he's up and about today. certainly not sick.

today, he smsed me saying topshop has guy scarves. and then, he asked me about the tweed skirt.

what are u doing in topshop? AGAAAAIN? sometimes i really wonder if you are a real guy.

you're not metro.

you're not gay.

but you shop more than us girls!

but you're not a girl!

so.

what are u?

and the worse thing is, you don't even look like u shop that much! you wear the same thing to school everyday. can u show off a little so we know your shopping trips aren't futile? starting next week, you are gonna show off ok? every tuesday and wednesday is gy fashion parade.

set. i'm sooooo looking forward to it.

damn the pink pills

2007-11-07T07:49:00.000-08:00

i took a pink pill today
and now on my bed i lay
round and round
my head spins like a merry-go-round

damn the pink pills.

essays are bitches and i'm a duracell bunny.

2007-11-06T09:25:00.000-08:00

i think we are very stressed linguists tonight. or at least i am.

those emails going back and forth non-stop, flooding my mailbox. it's overwhelming! every time one of us sees the work, we have something to add. the final version is never really the final version!

and tml, class starts at 8.30 am again. thaaaaaat fiend! who said "come on people, half an hour only. it's just half an hour less sleep." in that snotty tone too. eurghhhhh

does he know that in half an hour, i can complete that veeeeerrrryy yummy dream where i'm hugging david beckham? in half an hour, i will be able to not only hug david beckham, i can also play with his blond hair, admire his abs, have a good convo with him and give victoria the evil eye like ten times.

that's precious time that i'll have to waste smelling B.O on the MRT u know. all thanks to thaaaaaaat guuuuuuuy.

shao still could go watch stardust today. boo.

there's fruitcake in the kitchen. must eat now.

and if some chocolates will somehow materialise right in front of me, i will really appreciate it.

i want to watch the uncensored version of lust caution!

hurhur

2007-11-04T03:20:00.000-08:00

both a pain and pleasure. i don't get why they have those han yu pin yin things though.

i love crabs. let's go eat prawns soon. then crabs. then ice cream

2007-11-01T05:12:00.000-07:00

talking about funny people on friendster, here's a winner. he messaged me this:

Hi there
Did come across your profile, and you have piqued
my interest,
would sincerely love to get
to know u..so perhaps i could start the ball rolling
with a simple brief self intro...by telling u a little more
abt myslf so that u would have an idea of the person
whom u are
corresponding with..,am just a
simple ,softspoken, sporty , nature loving guy, 179 tall
abt 74kg,into
swimming, beach lazing, nature, boating, snokeling,
ice cream (infact any desserts!), cars, jogging, book
store browsing, football, music, roller coaster, funfare
rides! etc. i enjoy psychological thriller movies too,
appreciate
nature, and am fascinated with pets...and keep a planted aquarium with fishes.
love travelling to
beach resorts too..was at koh samui abt a month
ago...beautiful offshore islands there..
What abt yourslf?what do u like? what men attract u?
what are ur dreams?....
i graduated from nus bizad , am currently workin in
the
administrative service. Would really love to hear from
you soon!
Thks so much..

Rgds damien

WOW damien! such a sincere message! but what's snokeling? what's funfare and what's a planted aquarium? you're into ice cream? how are you into ice cream? u live in it? u go into a big tub of ice cream once in a while? u bury yourself in it?

humans are social beings but you have no friends on your friendster. i'm touched to be your one and only girl. however, i suspect you're a hermit crab. i love to eat crabs. and you look meaty.

yum yum.

but your profile says you're 31. do crabs live till 31? do old crabs have tougher meat? i prefer my crab meat tender. or are you a mutant crab? what kind of crab grows to 179?

nah. i don't like old mutant hermit crabs with tough meat.

i think i shall stay away.

p.s. but i must say, damien, you're really smart for a crab. you learnt english! and you learnt to use the computer!

A post!

2007-10-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

Today's post is:

How to impress a girl on Facebook/Friendster

Here's what not to do:

From: sunshine
Date: Thursday, 4 October, 2007 8:08 PM
Subject: =)
Message: care 2b frien

I will only care 2b frien if you show your love for proper sentence structure. DD=

From: John
Date: Sunday, 21 October, 2007 5:50 AM
Subject: Hello!
Message: Hi, care to be friend mah? No utter motive. Treat it as just want to broaden friends circle ba.

NEVER! Back, fiend! I can smell your utter motive from here!

Anyway, this next one is my personal favorite.

From: Robin
Date: Monday, 15 October, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: Hi Shao
Message: Hows your weekend been? Did something exciting? I saw your profile so thought of dropping a note to you.

As for me, my usual weekend activities are jogging, gardening, movies/dinner/coffee with friends. Like to cook and bake but can’t do that often, as that’s invading my mum private space...haha. She doesn’t like me mesh up the kitchen :)

Anyhow, what kind of flowers do you like? I got a couple of different ones at home like roses, orchids, jasmine, sunflowers, lavenders, and some spice plants too… still trying to master how to keep them well. I just bought some English and French lavenders this friday. Have u seen a bed of lavender field?

How about you? How do you usually spend your weekend?

Thanks Robin for your loving message. Apart from the fact that I have never seen you in my life, I do love flowers. They bring me such joy and happiness that I burst into song in joy and fart to the tune of Under the Sea. You know, the song the crab and the other fishes sing to that stupid mermaid who used shells to support her boobs. Under the sea, under the sea, fart fart oops i think something came out.

2007-10-29T08:50:00.000-07:00

My beautiful ladies (and gim yong)

Pink is a beautiful colour. It rejuvenates the eyes! I feel so relaxed! Never felt any better. Mmmm.
And by the way, if Yunkuan manages to get the eyelashes out with a tweezer that'll be perfect!

I think hanging out with you guys have brought out the bimbo in me, I swear. I used to be such an intelligent person. I MOURN FOR THE LOSS OF MY BRAIN.

....

Oh look cookies in the kitchen! *runs off to eat them*

we are linguists. we are hilarious. we are hilarious linguists.

2007-10-28T20:33:00.000-07:00

haha I was reading your post in class and hullo my dear friend you are so funny.

And I Do think that pink kills brain cells. Or eyesight cells. Assuming eyeball cells are called eyeball cells. Anyway. Each time I read I have to squint because It's So Pink. Pink is the new sunlight. and "i'm pretty sure purple with white polka dots will encourage brain cells to grow better than pink does"?? coughBIMBOcough.
But yes, I'd vastly prefer purple with white polka dots than sunlight pink. gah.

and YES I get that all the time too! ohmygosh the whole english-is-for-teaching. I quote my gp tutor: The only occupations I cannot do as an arts student are a] doctor b] dentist c] bridge builder.

And who wants to build bridges anyway.

anyhow, I think we make perfect sense. We are such sensible people. We are hilarious people who are sensible too. :D
although I'm not quite sure how shao feels about wearing someone else's bloody eyelashes with bits of flesh dripping off it

haha I just left our link on my previous blog too! and if we get more and more entertaining...
FACEBOOK. haha.
and again, we don't sound crazy. Refer to above paragraph.

okay I'm hungry.

pink is good. polka dots are better

2007-10-28T09:36:00.000-07:00

judging by the previous entries, i think we are entertaining when we are stressed. haha

no rachel. pink does not kill brain cells. how could u say that??!! i asked shao to make it this pink. if only to torture gim. since he's the only guy u know. and he tortures us everyday with stupid mumblings.

but i'm pretty sure purple with white polka dots will encourage brain cells to grow better than pink does. so if i can, i shall change this background to purple with polka dots. maybe i can do it in time for our 5000 word essay submission. and then u guys can all thank me and my polka dots if u get As.

getting on rachel's topic of what it's like to be an english major, do u guys get this?

some random person: what are u majoring in?
me: english
the random person: oh so u r gonna teach?

who says what we are doing has no practical application in the real world outside of the classroom?? i swear the next time i get that, i will kick that person with my pointy shoes. in the crotch. and if that person happens to be a girl, i will pull out all her eyelashes and give it to u shao, for eyelash transplant. people who do hair extensions say real hair works better than synthetic ones. im sure it applies to eyelashes too.

anyway, i shall publicise us at my personal blog. so if we add a tagboard, we shall soon have people telling us how crazy we all sound.

SUBMITTED

2007-10-26T23:23:00.000-07:00

all of you. had the scheme. arrrgh.

did i mention arrrrrrrrgh.

yes a big dinner sounds good.

I SUBMITTED!!

2007-10-25T11:38:00.001-07:00

hah... i cant be bothered already.. quite tired and dun wanna write anymore.. so i just submitted wadever i had.... all of u shld do the same too!!! looking at the guidelines she sent us, i dun even think we are supposed to write so much lor.... i jus gave her like the bare minimum man... and i wrote abt 600 words crapping abt why i chose the text, my method of analysis and the aim etc...

i m gonna be quite screwed....

2007-10-25T06:58:00.000-07:00

It's 10 pm now and I'm starting to get bored looking at my stupid assignment analysis thing. Which hasn't increased a single bit in the word count thingy and I'm afraid I'll never finish it ever. How frightening.

It's a 2000 word assignment but I'm only at 600 words! Help! I want ice cream too! And cake! And prawns.

When this is all over let's have dinner. I want big fat prawns.

ICE CREAM. NOW.

2007-10-25T02:13:00.001-07:00

I just realised. that 5000 words is FREAKING long.

It's even longer than 12 pages.
[The longest paper I did was in year1sem1 and it was 12 pages and word count: 3 600+]

So... 3600 divided by 12 is... um. 300 words per page, if I got it right.
So um. 5 000 divided by 300 is um. 50 divided by 3 which is uh. 16 pages.

AHHHHH.

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panic aside, gim you should try writing here. might be quite interesting. hah.

and and and. shao, pink is too bright. i feel my brain cells dying.

still in class

2007-10-24T00:09:00.000-07:00

we could use this to educate people on what being an english major really means. you know how like when you tell someone yr an english major it becomes,

us: i'm an english major
bloke: har? [puzzled look]. oh, like literature?
us: no, like linguistics
bloke: ooohhh...

but you know they don't actually know, not really anyway.

Introduction

2007-10-23T23:55:00.000-07:00

We are linguists and we are awesome. Yes we are.

We are also very lazy.

"We" are

Lynn

Gim Yong

Rachel

Shao

Yun Kuan

and we are awesome.

But you already know that already. Yayness.