tired

sooooooo tired... rushing from work to skool... from skool to work... bloody tiring... gosh... missed dinner for 2 days... onli just manage to have my dinner at 12midnite... haiz... WHY?!?! gotta skip work tml to go clear cupboard at NYH... haiz... opportunity cost of clearing cupboard = $64... haiz... wat to do... anyway... below is another email sent by my aunt... this time... it's on ENGLISH... ever wondered why we studied so hard for our english papers? hehe... ================================================== Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn: > The bandage was wound around the wound. > The farm was used to produce produce. > The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. > We must polish the Polish furniture. > He could lead if he would get the lead out. > The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. > Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. > A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. > When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. > I did not object to the object. > The insurance was invalid for the invalid. > There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. > They were too close to the door to close it. > The buck does funny things when the does are present. > A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. > To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. > The wind was too strong to wind the sail. > After a number of injections my jaw go! t number. > Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. > I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. > How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? > PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick" > Let's face it - English is a crazy language: > There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger > Neither apple nor pine in pineapple. > English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. > Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. > We take English for granted. > But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. >And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? > If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? > One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? > Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. > If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? > If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? > If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? > > Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. > In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? > Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? > Have noses that run and feet that smell? > How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? > > You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. > > English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. > > That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. ==================================================