Sign of a Happy Dog

Is the old 555 notebook or the new IPad better?

Is the old 555 notebook or the new IPad better?

After 8 years, my dog is going for its 1st surgical operation.

All Joy and No Fun

All Joy and No Fun

An Update of My Status Quo

Studies around the world confirm that passion usually ends.

Am I taking on this path?

I can't answer at the moment. If you take a gander at my blog, it has all the preliminary signs that my passion of writing blog is tapering.

May be, I should keep my nose to the grindstone, so wish me luck.

Stay tuned.

Life is based on Papers

Very good, very, true, very meaningful !!!

出生一張紙，開始一輩子；
畢業一張紙，奮鬥一輩子；
婚姻一張紙，折磨一輩子；
做官一張紙，鬥爭一輩子；
金錢一張紙，辛苦一輩子；
榮譽一張紙，虛名一輩子；
看病一張紙，痛苦一輩子；
悼詞一張紙，了結一輩子；
淡化這些紙，明白一輩子；
忘了這些紙，快樂一輩子 !

這週是世界好友週，如果你願意，
請把這條資訊發給你所有的好朋友 。

也包括我 ⋯⋯ 看有多少人會回發給你。

當大部分人都在關注你飛得高不高時，
只有少部分人關心你飛得累不累，
這就是 友情。

再忙，也要照顧好自己，
朋 友 雖不常聯繫，卻一直 惦念。

天涼時記著多穿衣！

世界好 友周快樂！

少喝奶茶、不吃剛烤好的麵包，
遠離正在充電的電源。

白天多喝水，晚上少喝，
一天不喝多於兩杯的咖啡。

少吃油多的食物，
最佳睡眠為晚上十點至早上六點

晚上五點後少吃大餐，
每天喝酒不超過一杯。

不用冷水服膠囊，
睡前半小時服藥忌立刻躺下。

睡眠不足八小時人會變笨，
有午睡習慣的人不易老。

手機電池剩一格時不要打電話，
剩一格時輻射是平時的一千倍。

Why English Is Such A Difficult Language to Master?

Without prejudice.

I received this email from a friend. Please take a look.

Subject: RE: xxxxx Nite 2010
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:07:57 +0800

Hi there,

Good day.

Thank for your attention and interest.

I regret for my late inform, which about the dateline of registration. The registration has already closed, due to there was a dateline for us to finalize the number of table.

Anyway, i was glad to heard from you with the replied, thank you. we shall arrange another dinner to involve all of u, perhaps it will be next xxxx Nite, will inform u guys earlier.

Thank you, and have a prosperous tiger year~^^

Regards,

xxxx

Reputedly, this email was written by a profession graduated from University of Malaya. I think it is best that I keep silence on his profession lest I might offend his fraternity. Maybe, we have a simplified English in Malaysia. Don't forget that language is a living thing and it can evolve.

This is another written work of Y.B. Teresa Kok which appeared in her facebook.

Visited snatch thief victim and family in Salak South for second time

Yesterday (18 March 2010), I went to visit snatch thief victim 18-year old Chong Chooi Yoon at her home in Salak South area which is part of my Seputeh constituency. You might have read in the papers that she was a victim of snatch thief just a few days before Chinese New Year. It was…

Any comment on her writing?

Did she go to two places, namely the victim and another family?

I wonder why she wrote “ I went to visit” instead of “ I visited”, was it a translation from Chinese language?

“Go to” is always followed by “someone” or “ something”.

Example:-

i. I went to her for advice. – someone

ii. I go to the bank. – something.

Maybe, Y.B. is correct and I'm just ignorant of the inflected usage of "go to".

The private secretary to the late Tunku Abdul Rahman once told me that he used to vet the latter's written works in "The Star". He was not allowed to change the style of writing but only allowed to correct glaring grammatical errors. If Tunku could make grammatical error, so were we.

I do not profess to be an expert in English language. It does take a toll on one's effort and time in order to achieve high level of proficiency. It is best illustrated by the graph shown below. Time is on the x-axis and y-axis represents level of proficiency. You could put in a lot of effort and time, however the return on the proficiency is negligible. So, what is the solution? I leave it to the readers.

Time ( in arbitrary unit )