Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Loose vs Lose / Prrinciple vs Principal

I was waiting for an important work call at the office which was stressing me out. To take my mind off the shit, I was blog surfing - clicking from blog to blog via their links. I noticed that age of the blog writers got younger and younger until I was literally looking at some angsty writings from some 7 year-old bloggers. I really think anyone under the age of 15 shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a blog. The ONLY exception I would give is if the kid is Anne Frank who wrote about her struggles under the Nazi occupation during WWII ("Dairy of a Young Girl").

Why are all the 7-12 years old kids in Singapore so angsty about? It is not as if they have to work for a living, scourge around for food, live in a Nazi concentration camp, watch their parents get executed by Nazis or suffer from scabies like Anne Frank. Everyday, they go to school to study, talk during class, visit McDonalds with their friends, take bo liao photos with their friends at equally bo liao photo booths, nerd bitch about Pokemon/Naruto/Gundam, makes a nuisance of themselves at the arcade playing Tekken 5, then go home to their parents and have dinner. Watch TV, do homework, sleep. Everyday is the same. Boo hoo, my father cannot afford to buy me a new watch to match my school bag. Awww, really? How about a sidekick to your throat to go with your bag? All these emo and angsty kids should have their hands cut off the minute they start wandering near the computer keyboard. Blogspot should have a special security feature that does the following:

7 yr-old dumbass (7yod) : I should now register a blog to bore everyone to death by blogging about my colourful pencil box, my hatred towards my father for not letting me go to Jane's birthday party simply because I funked Chinese (he is so mean!) as well as my worthless opinions on Pokemon and Naruto.

Blogspot : Before we could process your registration, please answer the following question. Naruto's good friend Sakura Haruno was sensitive about something during her early days in the ninja academy. What was it?

7yod : Easy. She was sensitive about her large forehead.

Blogspot : Correct. It proves that you are below 12 yrs old. Please go away (emit electrical shock to the keyboard).

7yod : AAAAARGGGGHG . . . . . . . .

If they want to bitch, at least spell some shit correctly. Like if you want to bitch about your principal as a mean old hag, don't mispell it as "principle".

Principal = the head honcho in a school e.g. mean old hag which you want to bitch about.

Principle = a rule or law about something e.g. against my principles to be nice to kids.

I have lost count about the number of people who kept spelling these two words wrongly. To add injury to insult, they also managed to get "loose"/"lose" mixed up. I think they should have a new rule. Any one who can get "loose"/"lose" mixed up e.g. Liverpool "loose" to Arsenal last night, should lose their hands instead.

1 Comments:

Blogger vanilla said...

Ho Ho Ho, I have to read 40 of such essay...

8:51 AM  

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