Sunday, March 13, 2005

Never saw Dan Brown's writings being criticised till such an extent as this writer below...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html

haha very interesting analysis of the author's "curious writings styles" and grammatical errors... but i beg to differ to a certain extent with her/his (it sounded quite like a female) analysis. its really a waste of time to examine pieces on its grammatical accuracy along... the words are not an end inself, its a medium to a greater end, a picture that the author wants to paint in our mind. the words brings the scene to life.

Not that i'm a advocate for bad grammar or atrocious spellings n description styles, but her/his often-too-narrow analysis of the writings ocnsisted of tearing every single words apart and checking against a list of "corrects" n "wrongs". i doubt its a recommended way for a reader to enjoy a good book.

either that or my english is jus plain lousy.
whatever. thats jus my 5 cents worth.



as ofr today, decided to go for a quick dip in the pool early morn to kick start my day, after a crazy 12 hr sleep from yest 8pm onwards

bad choice.

if i was looking forward to a empty pool with a couple of other folks taking their morning swims at 8am... a pool filled with children lessons, coaches bringing their little groups of 10 kids around the pool, each "chopping" a section of the pool as their own, floating around with with floats. not to mention some pyjamas and underwears that came of some poor kid that must hv dived without holding on to his pants...

if driving through a 6pm traffic on th CTE is bad, try swimming 15 decent laps through these kids... and u dun really wanna even get ur legs onto them n injure them while kicking in the water man... think i've almost kicked a couple of them young kids by accident while i was navigating through the mass. too bad man...

anyway, there goes my morning in the pool, left the pool at about 11am, had a good tan though, n those ugly tan lines formed under the sembawang wharves sun have "merged" successfully with my new tan :) *grinz*

moving on, in other news it was an all day gaming session today at home. managed to complete one of my games at last :)
to keep up with my already lagging schedule to be fit in time fo the singaproe biathlon, went for a 6.5 km run from my house till NTU!!! took about 33 mins to complete the distance, decided against going up to find some of those frens living in the ntu hostels, cos it was the weekends n they must be still at home or out somewhere else. so walked back home and relaxed the nite through...

listening to some realy great music, managed to d/l them through a new software intro-ed by xinyi. THANKS!!! it rocks man!!

k then.. post getting too lengthy again, lets hope tml will be a great day for everybody ya??

somebody mentioned they'll be there for the singapore biathlon if i joined it... i wonder if it will actually happen? haha

Chill dudes.
ghimz posted at 11:37 PM
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