mood: pretty good
music: collin raye - i volunteer
Well, the most remarkable thing just happened. Through the wonder that is Friendster, I've just found a long lost friend: Daryl Chew, my primary classmate whom I had totally lost contact with. Word. ^^
So if you haven't yet tried it out, why not give it a shot? You just might find some long lost buddies, too! ;)
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Monday, September 29, 2003
So, where has Gav been, exactly?
mood: pretty good
music: bon jovi - thank you for loving me
Sorry I haven't updated for such a long time (2 months and a bit :P ); I've been really busy since uni started. We had the Singapore Ball, and I went rock climbing and watched movies and did other stuff that uni students do. I also ran for the MUISS Exco elections with a bunch of friends, but we lost, which was kinda expected. I was actually kinda hoping we wouldn't win, cuz we were just running to make a point. I'm pretty tired now after running things for so many years, so it's nice to take a break from extra-curricular stuff for a year and see what happens after. :) I also handed over SAM to the new committee, so that's a load off my mind. It's the mid-sem break now so I've got more time, though I really should be studying for the exams, which are in 4 weeks. Ah well. *shrugz*
Oh yeah, I recently joined the Friendster thing, so if anyone's also on it, feel free to add me using my email addy: gav@lightingthedark.org
Which kinda reminds me I gotta get 'round to doing a new website. Hopefully I'll have more time after the exams. :-/
Oh yeah, Evelyn's grandparents are in town for a week so I've been to the casino a bit lately. Won $250 on Friday night and lost $150 on Saturday. Well, it's still a profit, I guess. Will try not to get invited along too many times before they leave on Thursday.
Oh yeah, found out a bunch of us have birthdays pretty close. Evelyn's was on the 17th, mine on the 19th, Alex's the 20th and Paul's the 24th. Pretty cool. :)
Yeah, guess that's about it. Hope I'll have time to write again soon. ;)
music: bon jovi - thank you for loving me
Sorry I haven't updated for such a long time (2 months and a bit :P ); I've been really busy since uni started. We had the Singapore Ball, and I went rock climbing and watched movies and did other stuff that uni students do. I also ran for the MUISS Exco elections with a bunch of friends, but we lost, which was kinda expected. I was actually kinda hoping we wouldn't win, cuz we were just running to make a point. I'm pretty tired now after running things for so many years, so it's nice to take a break from extra-curricular stuff for a year and see what happens after. :) I also handed over SAM to the new committee, so that's a load off my mind. It's the mid-sem break now so I've got more time, though I really should be studying for the exams, which are in 4 weeks. Ah well. *shrugz*
Oh yeah, I recently joined the Friendster thing, so if anyone's also on it, feel free to add me using my email addy: gav@lightingthedark.org
Which kinda reminds me I gotta get 'round to doing a new website. Hopefully I'll have more time after the exams. :-/
Oh yeah, Evelyn's grandparents are in town for a week so I've been to the casino a bit lately. Won $250 on Friday night and lost $150 on Saturday. Well, it's still a profit, I guess. Will try not to get invited along too many times before they leave on Thursday.
Oh yeah, found out a bunch of us have birthdays pretty close. Evelyn's was on the 17th, mine on the 19th, Alex's the 20th and Paul's the 24th. Pretty cool. :)
Yeah, guess that's about it. Hope I'll have time to write again soon. ;)
Sunday, July 27, 2003
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
An interesting article in today's straits times interactive:
English up with which I will not put
It discusses the eternal question: What, exactly, is "proper" English?
An excerpt from the sidebar:
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; and neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught? And if Dad is Pop, how come Mom isn't Mop?
The plural of box is boxes, but the plural of ox is 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 men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be pen? If I spoke 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 beeth?
We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren. If the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, why aren't the feminine she, shis and shim?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you can comb through annals of history but not a single annal?
Sometimes, I think all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. What other reason could there be for saying that people recite at a play and play at a recital? Or ship cargo by truck and send cargo by ship? Or have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Or met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are indeed spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?
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. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
English up with which I will not put
It discusses the eternal question: What, exactly, is "proper" English?
An excerpt from the sidebar:
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; and neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught? And if Dad is Pop, how come Mom isn't Mop?
The plural of box is boxes, but the plural of ox is 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 men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be pen? If I spoke 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 beeth?
We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren. If the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, why aren't the feminine she, shis and shim?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you can comb through annals of history but not a single annal?
Sometimes, I think all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. What other reason could there be for saying that people recite at a play and play at a recital? Or ship cargo by truck and send cargo by ship? Or have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Or met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are indeed spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?
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. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
The Truman Dark|ighter Show
mood: not half bad
music: hanson - i will come to you (acappela version)
last time on thetruman dark|ighter show, we saw gav hard at work on the new sam website while also helping out with the new semester's orientation programme. join us now, as we look into the life of our valiant hero after one week of the new term...
well, orientation's come and gone. pretty much without a hitch, which is obviously good. a lot less organised this time, though the new intake was a lot smaller than first semester too (250+ compared to 800++). so anyway, it was a fun week of boring administrative duties mixed with other, less boring duties like scavenger hunt and the city trip. oh yeah, and all the returners are back, which is both good and bad, if you catch my meaning. ;) (yes, i'm talking about you)
so...one week into uni and the workload ain't letting up none. got my results back, and wasn't too happy about it. one near-pass, 3 passes, 2 distinctions and a high-d. really crappy, considering what i got last year, but i guess i'm lucky i "passed" everything (we're allowed one near-pass in second year).
so, after that fiasco which was the examinations, i decided i'd really better start studying early this sem. like now. so far, i'm a wee bit behind, but i guess that's what sundays were meant for. :)
in other news, we're trying desperately to sell tickets for the singapore ball. so far we've sold around 15 tickets, largely thanks to the good people at muiss. thanks guys! : ) only another 5 tables to go. *sighz*
in related news, the club is off skiing at falls creek for the weekend. they left on thurs night, and should be back tomorrow night. i was supposed to have gone with them, but i find out on wednesday that my design tute on friday was worth 5% of the subject grade that would be lost by default in the event of absence. that was a really tough decision: skiing vs 5%. but design I was the unit i near-passed last sem, and design II is supposed to be even more difficult, so there wasn't much choice, really; i need all the marks i can get. so i just lost $420. dammit.
a relatively good weekend (so far) compensated for it, though. we celebrated allan's birthday on friday night at brian's place over in glen waverly, and that was definitely a blast even though no one remembered to bring alcohol. ;) and i went and got a new mobile with edwin today. it's on the new three thing, and after playing with the handest for a few many hours like a kid with a new fisherprice, i have to say it's pretty nifty. the wonders of technology these days. :) only negative: there went the study plans for tonight. ::)
so....yep, guess that's pretty much what i've been up to lately. will honestly try to update more frequently, when i can. off to evelyn's place to study tomorrow, then back to uni on monday. ::)
(p/s: if you're anywhere near melbourne, come for the kriffing ball!!! ;) )
tune in next time for more misadventures of a curious character...
music: hanson - i will come to you (acappela version)
last time on the
well, orientation's come and gone. pretty much without a hitch, which is obviously good. a lot less organised this time, though the new intake was a lot smaller than first semester too (250+ compared to 800++). so anyway, it was a fun week of boring administrative duties mixed with other, less boring duties like scavenger hunt and the city trip. oh yeah, and all the returners are back, which is both good and bad, if you catch my meaning. ;) (yes, i'm talking about you)
so...one week into uni and the workload ain't letting up none. got my results back, and wasn't too happy about it. one near-pass, 3 passes, 2 distinctions and a high-d. really crappy, considering what i got last year, but i guess i'm lucky i "passed" everything (we're allowed one near-pass in second year).
so, after that fiasco which was the examinations, i decided i'd really better start studying early this sem. like now. so far, i'm a wee bit behind, but i guess that's what sundays were meant for. :)
in other news, we're trying desperately to sell tickets for the singapore ball. so far we've sold around 15 tickets, largely thanks to the good people at muiss. thanks guys! : ) only another 5 tables to go. *sighz*
in related news, the club is off skiing at falls creek for the weekend. they left on thurs night, and should be back tomorrow night. i was supposed to have gone with them, but i find out on wednesday that my design tute on friday was worth 5% of the subject grade that would be lost by default in the event of absence. that was a really tough decision: skiing vs 5%. but design I was the unit i near-passed last sem, and design II is supposed to be even more difficult, so there wasn't much choice, really; i need all the marks i can get. so i just lost $420. dammit.
a relatively good weekend (so far) compensated for it, though. we celebrated allan's birthday on friday night at brian's place over in glen waverly, and that was definitely a blast even though no one remembered to bring alcohol. ;) and i went and got a new mobile with edwin today. it's on the new three thing, and after playing with the handest for a few many hours like a kid with a new fisherprice, i have to say it's pretty nifty. the wonders of technology these days. :) only negative: there went the study plans for tonight. ::)
so....yep, guess that's pretty much what i've been up to lately. will honestly try to update more frequently, when i can. off to evelyn's place to study tomorrow, then back to uni on monday. ::)
(p/s: if you're anywhere near melbourne, come for the kriffing ball!!! ;) )
tune in next time for more misadventures of a curious character...
Saturday, July 12, 2003
Quick Update
Hey everyone-who's-interested,
Part of the new Sam website is up. Go to http://sam.lightingthedark.org to check it out and let me know what you think. :)
I know it looks a little plain at the moment; hopefully I'll have time later to do up some banners of some sort for the different sections etc.
Oh yeah, and I changed my email addy to gav@lightingthedark.org, just so you know. :)
Part of the new Sam website is up. Go to http://sam.lightingthedark.org to check it out and let me know what you think. :)
I know it looks a little plain at the moment; hopefully I'll have time later to do up some banners of some sort for the different sections etc.
Oh yeah, and I changed my email addy to gav@lightingthedark.org, just so you know. :)
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