The clock doesn't stop. It ticks on. Another eventful year passes by. 2009, for me, started on the wrong note, but ended on an excellent one. I thank the following entities for making my 2009 rock!
(I'll be generic here :) )
1. God. The real meaning of multitasking - God knows! Pun intended. :)
2. My family. For all the love and care.
3. My friends. For being there. Love them, hate them, can't live without them.
4. My colleagues. For all the support and learning opportunities.
5. My vehicle. For taking me places.
6. My mobile phone. For helping me create contacts.
7. My wallet. For...well. Self explanatory. :)
8. My computer. For making MY world a global world.
9. My comb. For making me look right.
10. My jacket. For keeping the coldness away.
The list goes on. I stopped at 10 for 2010. :) Sorry to other important or mundane things I left out of the list.
Have an excellent year people. Love your pets. Be good. And slap yourself if you use excess plastic.
Cheers!
Friday, January 1, 2010
Thursday, November 19, 2009
le or la?
French gender is a constant headache for many students of French. Why is manteau masculine and montre feminine, when both men and women wear both of them? Le is for masculine nouns and la is for feminine nouns.
Why is it la beard? La beard is usually on le boys. Usually. It doesn't make sense that the beard gets a female gender.
Why is it le baby? If someone is having a baby, how do we know its already le and not la? Unless of course, you get an ultrasound and get to know beforehand.
Why is it le vegetables? Why are vegetables masculine? A bitter gourd definitely doesn't look male to me. Heck, none of the vegetables look masculine to me. They're just vegetables.
Here's a question: What would "the blog" be? Google Translator says its le blog. Well. I would like to call my blog la blog. Thank you very much. Call me feminist. Whatever.
Imagine if english had genders for non-living things as well...
I went to the market today. He was very crowded. I had to buy some vegetables. I bought some carrots, to try a new dish with her in it. He came out very well. After dinner, we sat and watched TV. She had become very old. We needed to get her exchanged in the market. But since he was crowded, we decided we'll keep her anyway. Tomorrow is a brand new day. I hope he will be good. He who? He, the day!
PS. I found the Gender Genie. Check it out. Its fun.
Why is it la beard? La beard is usually on le boys. Usually. It doesn't make sense that the beard gets a female gender.
Why is it le baby? If someone is having a baby, how do we know its already le and not la? Unless of course, you get an ultrasound and get to know beforehand.
Why is it le vegetables? Why are vegetables masculine? A bitter gourd definitely doesn't look male to me. Heck, none of the vegetables look masculine to me. They're just vegetables.
Here's a question: What would "the blog" be? Google Translator says its le blog. Well. I would like to call my blog la blog. Thank you very much. Call me feminist. Whatever.
Imagine if english had genders for non-living things as well...
I went to the market today. He was very crowded. I had to buy some vegetables. I bought some carrots, to try a new dish with her in it. He came out very well. After dinner, we sat and watched TV. She had become very old. We needed to get her exchanged in the market. But since he was crowded, we decided we'll keep her anyway. Tomorrow is a brand new day. I hope he will be good. He who? He, the day!
PS. I found the Gender Genie. Check it out. Its fun.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Story telling.
For our English writing competitions, we used to have a story telling part, where the stories used to be given in bits, and we had to form the full sentences. Following that pattern, here's my post...
On bike-pillion rider-message on cell phone-check-phone falls-on road-yell-bike stop-turn around-stranger picks up phone-boards bus-vanishes-I panic-lots of contacts on cell-no back up-call up my number-stranger picks-hello-I WANT MY PHONE BACK-Come to the next bus stop-Ok-hurry-got phone-Phew!
Have to board a bus-to go 20 km destination-bus not frequent-walking to bus stop-bus comes-and leaves-I panic-what to do-brilliant plan strikes-caught an autorickshaw-chased the bus-tell auto driver-Please overtake the bus-driver speeds-rash driving-again I panic-driver succeeds in overtaking bus-I jump from the autorickshaw-run and catch the bus-Phew!
At home-relaxed-1 year old cousin comes home-cute-playing with him-house maid comes-sweeps the floor-starts swobbing the floor-I pick up kid cousin-start running around house-puddle of water-did not see-slipped-with 1 year old cousin-cousin falls-starts crying-yells if shoulder is touched-I panic-rush to pediatric-after examination-shoulder fracture-minor-arm in sling-15 days-slowly cured-Phew!
On bike-pillion rider-message on cell phone-check-phone falls-on road-yell-bike stop-turn around-stranger picks up phone-boards bus-vanishes-I panic-lots of contacts on cell-no back up-call up my number-stranger picks-hello-I WANT MY PHONE BACK-Come to the next bus stop-Ok-hurry-got phone-Phew!
Have to board a bus-to go 20 km destination-bus not frequent-walking to bus stop-bus comes-and leaves-I panic-what to do-brilliant plan strikes-caught an autorickshaw-chased the bus-tell auto driver-Please overtake the bus-driver speeds-rash driving-again I panic-driver succeeds in overtaking bus-I jump from the autorickshaw-run and catch the bus-Phew!
At home-relaxed-1 year old cousin comes home-cute-playing with him-house maid comes-sweeps the floor-starts swobbing the floor-I pick up kid cousin-start running around house-puddle of water-did not see-slipped-with 1 year old cousin-cousin falls-starts crying-yells if shoulder is touched-I panic-rush to pediatric-after examination-shoulder fracture-minor-arm in sling-15 days-slowly cured-Phew!
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