My parents and their friends usually organize get-togethers, especially my mom and her friends from her uk university days, just to keep in touch with what's happening in their lives.
Naturally, my sister and i have to tag along, which isn't a bad thing in fact, because we usually get good food to eat:)
One thing i love about my parents' friends is that they never treated us like kids and excluded us out of their conversations. Besides asking us on the usual like how's school, they would listen to our take on certain current issues and we would launch into a chain of fiery discussions.
Most of my parents' friends have established careers and it's really hard to imagine them as being once poor during their childhood days. Their secret to success is no secret to anyone, i guess: but just plain perserverance and a stroke of luck.
Which is something relevant to me at this point of time because i'm starting to map out the path that i want to take on.
As i was browsing through my phone, i found this photo i took during our tempura feast which i really wanted to blog about but later forgot to due to my forgetfulness.
Prepare to salivate!!
Haha.
Just caught this commercial by shiseido on our cable network as i was scrolling down the japanese local channels.
It's a series of CMs of the uno FOG BAR under shiseido, featuring miura haruma, eita, tsumabuki satoshi and oguri shun.
Watching this cm is like savouring my all-time favourite special pizza combo from pizza hut that has four different cheese toppings.
Yummy.
Are you a short-text person or a long-text person? In other words, do you text to people in short and sweet sentences with lots of abbreviations like lol, or do you text in full sentences? I belong to the latter, because i honestly believe that abbreviations kill grammer.
Which probably explains why i sound like a long-winded granny whenever people receive text messages from me because i rarely use short-forms unless i run out of space.
An example will be: Hi xxx, about our lunch next week, how does thursday sound?
I'm sure most of us, especially singaporeans who simple love short texts, will type something like this: Hey, lunch on thurs can?
Apart from saving on those six extra words, the same meaning is compacted into a short and readable sentence. BUT BUT BUT i just simply refuse to text like that, because i don't want to be so used to writing in this truncated manner, until it affects the way i speak and write in other situations like when i'm writing a report. It may sound a little exaggerated here, but having abbreviations (along with singlish) take over my daily conversations and writing is the last thing i want.
I recall a very common discussion topic i usually have with my non-Singaporean classmates on singlish and how it is so nicely compacted into short sentences but never fails to deliver to entire message. I love using singlish when i'm with my singaporean counterparts, because there's a sense of belonging and comfort associated with the slang. But i will try not to overuse it, so that my mediocre command of english doesn't worsen any further.
Talking about my command of the language, it has definitely worsened since i was in junior college, and i am trying all means to work on it. Text-messaging or even emailing in proper english is something i have started. That doesn't mean i condemn the use of singlish, but it's more of knowing when to use it.
So are you more of a long-text person or a short-text person?
p.s. to add on another point, i always felt that longer text messages mostly seem to have some sort of a sincerity in them, whereas short texts feel a little cold to me.
Several people have re-entered my life recently.
And honestly, i'm not sure how i'm going to handle all these sudden transitions.
