Posted in Sense on January 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Imagine you are eavesdropping on a telephone conversation between your spouse and an unknown caller. And within the conversation, your spouse mentions one or two of these words (or maybe ALL of them). What do you think is going on? Could they be talking about their next move in bed?
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Or could they just be talking about their last badminton game?
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Posted in Abang on January 5, 2011| 1 Comment »
Apasal susah sangat nak call Ida ni haa?
Eh, ye ke? Phone Ida okay je.
Dah tu, asek tak dapat. Manjang masuk peti suara.
Mana Ida tau.
Malas dah Abang nak call Ida.
Dah tu Abang call saper bila tak dapat call Ida?
Abang call lah girlfriend.
Oh eh? Elok jugak tu.
Hah?
Ye la. Tak lah Ida rasa bersalah gayut dengan boyfriend.
Hampeh! Bak sini phone, Abang ganti kan dengan phone baru.
Yay! I love you too!
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Posted in Grammaticalizationism on January 5, 2011| 3 Comments »
This is no English tutorial. But I would just like to post a little reminder to myself and to those who find English Grammar difficult. Well, tell you what? It is challenging. But we are doing not too bad actually. Okay ladies and gentlemen, here’s the gentle reminder:
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DO QUESTIONS are those that use ‘do’, ‘does’ and ‘did’, such as:
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If you noticed, all the underlined words are in the base form. And that’s the way they should be. “Do Questions” do come with another verb that should remain in its base form – not past tense, not present singular, not participle or progressive tenses.
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But how many of us do this:
2. Does she really changes / changed / changing her Facebook status every half an hour?
3. Did you saw Tron with your kids last Sunday?
5. Where does she gets /got / getting his supply of keropok every month?
6. How did you two met ?
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Well, now that you know you shouldn’t be changing the verbs in ‘Do Questions’, it is up to you to be grammatical or non. I still catch myself making mistakes. And that is before YOU catch me. And if you can catch me, catch me gently ya? Hehehehe 🙂
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Posted in Sense on January 4, 2011| 1 Comment »
Posted in Inside Enida on January 4, 2011| 1 Comment »
I was fastening the cuffs of my shirt the other day when I had this near-morbid thought. I was imagining and asking myself… if I were to lose a hand, how would I get by? So I first tried fastening the cuffs of my Eddie Bauer shirt with one hand, lips, teeth and even my chin. Oh yeah, my chin would sure come in handy if I were one hand less.
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Happy to report, I was successful in fastening the cuffs of my shirt. But it was, I must admit, the farthest end of easy. In fact, it was not easy at all. And in all honesty, I actually cheated. 🙂 Since in my imagination I was missing the right hand (to make it harder since I am right-handed), I fastened the right cuff with my left hand. But to fasten the left cuff, I took off the shirt, fastened the cuff and put the shirt back on!
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And then when the shirt was on, I buttoned it up with my left hand, no problem. It was slow, but I did it. I was all sweaty, but with confidence I put my shirt on single-handedly. And I knew for sure, if I were to lose an arm for whatever reason, I could still don a shirt with cuffs and perhaps cufflinks.
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The only downside of having just one hand, I imagined, was that I would have to wake up earlier than usual. As every single thing would take twice as long to accomplish, I could see that I would probably experience sleep deprivation. But that was not too mind-boggling to overcome. I should be okay being Enida The One Un-Armed Woman. I was grinning with the I-be-rite-mate grin.
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It was when I had that satisfactory sneer on my face that Monchies came rushing into my room for their morning hugs. And it was then, when I was hugging them tightly with both arms, that my grin faded away. I suddenly realized that I have never in my life thanked God for giving me two good hands. How dare I imagined living with only one! Ungrateful little Enida!
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As soon as me Monchies had enough of my smothering and my smoochering, I locked myself in my room to throw all my pride and worries away, to put my hands up, to break down, to cry and to pray. In my humility, all I could ask Him then was…
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Tuhan, jaga lah tanganku ini.
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Glossary for Neil:
Tuhan = God
jaga lah = please protect/please save
tanganku = my hands
ini = this/these/here
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Posted in Sense, Write On, tagged Facebook on January 3, 2011|
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