Monday, April 18, 2005
my english no-good meh?
so i met laura for dinner yesterday. she flew in from bkk for an interview with db and wld only be in for a night. cldn't get the car to pick her up at the airport, so i met her at conrad instead.
it was nice to get out of my house, considering i've been cooped up almost the whole week studying. yes, it was nice to get out and do some shopping and catching up with her.
i wonder whether pple find us an odd pair as we tong through the streets of orchard and chinatown. for one, she's 30+ and i'm 20+, that's a whole 10 years or so age difference btw us. so that's wat's visually uncompatible.
as for those that didn't see us, i'm sure some heard us. if i have a loud voice, laura has a mega microphone voice. not that it's bad, but i'm sure u can imagine the damage we cld do if we combine our powers together.
growing up in ny, laura has a typical american accent, not the hill billy kind, but the true newyorker accent. and u know that this is real, cos she grew up there, unlike some of my other friends who after a holiday comes back speaking with some psudo accent. ex-a-cly
now, i'm all for speaking good proper english, and i admit that when i was in uk last year, i did start speaking like them to the locals, cos, they'll never understand u otherwise! maybe it's the intonation, or the slang, but i did make a conscious effort to cut out my meh/lar/lor/huh
but when u're back here in s'pore, i can't stant those pple who still talk like that! urgh, the national language here is singlish ok. don't believe, go newton and talk with ur funny accent and see whether they charge u $35 for sting ray
so anyway, while i was with laura for the better part of sunday, i had to make an effort to make sure that she understood wat the hell i was talking about.
i guess it's much better than the first time we met, cos she wld just stare blankly at me. now, we're ok.
we speak the common language of shoes, clothes and good food.
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it's monday and my first paper is at 9am on fri. that leaves me around 3.5 days to study for the paper, and i hope that's enough, considering i've not touched soci at all.
got the readings to tackle, textbook, and tutorial notes. urgh.
time to start cracking.
