I've decided against re-designing a template for this blog - this goes quite well in turqouise. And it's quite peaceful. Ahhh... Maybe next time if I was give free time with a computer that has internet capabilities and equipped with photoshop.
Anyway I'm home as i was given half day off - for helping/volunteering to help with the red cross home. I still have no idea what prompted me to shoot my hand up when volunteers were being called - it's not a usual habit of mine... perhaps because i'm a bit on the impersonal side, for some reason.. Anyway I was quite happy that by singing/trying to sing and play guitar for them they got quite happy, especially at my turn-John-Denver*-in-his-grave rendition of "Country Roads". But heck, its like almost the only song i can play by heart (try to play) with a guitar. Yet, it remains my opinion that these folks love country music. Still, it WOULD hv been quite cool and easier if they had offered me a piano/keyboard/organ to play...
Still, maybe i'll try to volunteer more - think its actually quite fun. think la..
Anw i think it definitely beats Singapore Idol (not that I feel the need to join that craze), as I think its nicer to sing for pple who'd appreciate it.
But tonight still have to book in again, 2230. But still enough time to go for church (Ascension Day) and still relax quite comfortably - and its only today that I realise that Ascension is unique to Catholics.. hmmm.. Or maybe its just that some Christian Churches don't celebrate it. hmm.. correct me if I need to be corrected, please..
To continue on my reading cum learn malayalam spree, to keep my mind active so as to ensure it doesn't rot in these few days of freedom. weeks, rather. I've finished Sue Townsend's No.10 and I agree with the critic's view that its definitely her best novel since adrian mole. Innit jus saying that well, it still can't be compared to adrian mole?? which is true lah. Still i think its an overly political book - British shouldn't complain about their government before looking at others'. I'm sure all forms of government have too many flaws. And I still believe that uncontrolled democracy is anarchy. And Anarchy is True "power-to-the-people". And that people should nvr be trusted to hv power.
And yes. Stop trying to figure out my political ideology.
And don't bother asking me why I agree with Singapore's political system, or why I would enjoy living in a sub-totalitarian state. Its Healthy.
And please don't accuse me of improper and excessive use of the word "And" to begin sentences. I'm feeling particularly rebellious today, and rebelling against the laws of grammar is probably the wisest means of rebelling one could do working in the Singapore Armed Forces. Or in Singapore for that matter.
Malayalam-learning is well, reasonably disastrous. The book sucks. Either that or its impossible/ unheard of to learn your true Mother Tongue from a book.
But i still maintain the book sucks. It can hardly serve to teach me, with rudimentary-squared knowledge of the language; how in all that's good can it help teach Malayalam through English to AngMoh-ly educated ones?
And furthermore how is it humanly** possible to learn the language in 30 days? True, reasonably enough, they offer a glossary of 900 words. For those not so mathematically inclined, that's 30 words per day (and that's reasonable). But I'm definitely sure there's more than 900 words in the language.
So perhaps more accurately it's possible to learn 900-words of the language in 30 days, rather than learn the language in thirty days..
Or learn N% of the language in 30 days (where N is the frequency percentage the words come out in everyday speech). Aye, that would sell.
Ok i should stop wasting my precious free time blogging. Out!
*John Denver is the singer for the song Country Roads. He's also famous for many many more songs. All country.
**'Human' is used figuratively. While acknowledge that there are some homosapiens who CAN learn a language in 30days, these I seldom refer to as "human". They have some divine gift bestowed upon them that others don't. *Cough*Y.T.H.*Cough*
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