Okok...I know it's been a long time since I updated...not that I've got 10k hits a day or something..I'd be lucky to have 2 people stumble onto my blog a day....make that a week.

Well, I'm taking time off from writing my essays..2 down, 2 to go. The 3rd one is 90% done..and the 4th..yeah..haven't started that one yet. Bite me.

It's not that cold yet, but I'm sitting here with a double layer of clothes. They don't activate the heaters in the room until nearing winter...and it's like 13degrees at night. Right now, at 1500hrs Gripe Time..it's a balmy 22 Degrees. My toes feel like little ice cubes...At least I am dry with a two nice thermos flasks of hot water to make nice cups of green tea. ANTIOXIDANTS!!!

Uni life has been pretty good for the past month. A total change from the way Singapore does things. In SG your spoon fed.. Here it's.."Ok, here's my material, do what you will with it" and sometimes, after I leave the lecture..I go.."what??" or "who can I see to get that hour of my life back?" Tutorials are fine...Oh, in case you (the unfortunate person who stumbled here), I'm taking
Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Identities, Creative Writing.
Of which totals up to a grand: 12hr week!!! I get Wednesdays and Fridays off.

I tried writing this for my friendster profile, using things from my Linguistics class:

I do hope you get my semantics by my pragmatics, and there is no syntax error along the way. Pardon me if it seems very arbitrary. It's very locutionary without any illocutionary meanings. But I do hope the perlocutionary is a positive one. Pardon my declaratives. They aren't meant to be imperatives. But if you do have any interrogatives, please go ahead. But I hope my commissives does have a positive outcome, because my expressives seem to be very out of place. It might be however symbolic in such a way of my mental state, but I cannot find anything iconic about it. Maybe everything is just indexical to you. So what am I violating for flouting to you? Am I doing the maxim of Relation, Quantity, Quality or Manner?

Oh right..anyway, I was looking up some stuff on the net for my 'Asian' essay and I kept found that I have another thing that irritates me...you know how some people try to 'act cute' by coming up with a 'cute' mail account?

Here's a few:
naughtyxxxxx@hotmail.com
babyxxxxxx@hotmail.com
littlexxxxx@hotmail.com
cutiepiexxxxxx@hotmail.com

And some of them post pictures up with em hoping to attract flies. Some camera whoring is fine, but when it's profile pic after profile pic after profile pic after profile pic after profile pic, it tends to get very very very very very anoying. If your cute/pretty (I would put handsome, but I'm sure as hell not a faggot) I'd be all for it. Talk about a biased point of view..Guys..don't give me the crap about "it's the personality that counts". We're talking about email adds and pics. You can't tell jack from a photo. I'm inclined to go with Russell Peters on this one when he said: "One of the ugliest girls I've met was called pretty" She came up and said "Hi, I'm Pretty" and Russell goes something like "Not unless you put Nasty at the end"

Ok, I needta get back to my essays. I've written quite a wee bit here today. Drop me a tag, but if you insult me...I'll track you down and spay you.

Posted on 3/28/2007 by <$The One$>