Spelilng weos

Is it just myself, or does everyone have to do a silent recital of "I before E, except after C" before you spell words like yield and field?

Then you get to words like neighbour, and you get really, really mixed-up.

Of course, you eventually learn that the whole things goes like this:

I before E, except after C
Or when sounding like A, as in neighbour and weigh




Is it just myself, or does everyone have to stop and think before they spell words like except and exercise?

I mean, where should the C go? Excercise looks about correct, right?





Do people still get confused whether the last vowel of independent is an A or an E?

Do they have to recall what their Biology lecturers said about incorrect spellings every time they write independent variables?

Once, Yee Wan was asked to stand up and spell independent, and she spelt it i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-t.

I was practically shouting inside, No! It's i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-A-n-t!

Split second later, Ms. Param went, "Correct. But SOME people spell it with an A."

And it was like being told, um, my natural hair colour isn't black, or something, because all the while the only independent I've known is with an A.




Does everyone feel triumphant once they can spell necessary and cigarette correctly the first try, without needing to cross it out and respell?




And during high school English essay exams, instead of your question paper being written on with rough outlines and tentative points, you pretty much fill it up with spelling try-outs, sometimes going up to 5 various spellings of the same word?




And while I'm typing this, Answers.com is on the next tab, proving itself to be very useful.

Do the right thing. Use your blainn.

Back, blogging, and wondering why I am this free during weekdays.

Stark contrast to when I have to skip lunch and forgo sleep, just to get things done in time.


So what've I been up to?

For starters, finished my Investigative Study presentation today!

Lingghesh did his presentation (on whether hormonal contraceptive should be used on sex offenders), and he brought up points that got all the females in the room (grand total of four) rebutting him during the discussion part.

According to the guy -
Rapists should not be blamed.
Just give them hormonal contraceptive, lower their sex drive, that'll solve the problem.
Being raped makes women more motivated to succeed.
Oprah Winfrey was raped, look how she bounced back.


For the record, methinks one-time rapists should serve time in jail, and serial rapists should just get the death sentence.

What, your dunno-how-many-gigabyte worth of porn, your Playboy mags stashed under your bed, your hours of self-pleasure, all not enough for you?

(I remember Andrew boasting about having 4 gigs worth of porn. I can hardly imagine filling an entire 4-gig Nano with nothing but movies of naked women who've not learned to respect themselves.)

Keep whatever sexual fantasies you have in your bedroom. Keep them to yourself, or share them with whichever obliging partner of yours.

Spare everyone else.


Anyway.

Having read up on defamation laws for my report, it occurred to me that there's always a way of getting around the law.

If you defamed a person (for example, you publicly accuse him of being a potential rapist), and you damaged his reputation, and he takes court action against you, what are your defences?

Just say it was your honest opinion, that you really think he's a potential rapist.

Or say that everyone thinks he's a potential rapist, that it's common conception. That's your bullet right there.

That's your claim to innocence.

See, as long as you've got a good lawyer, you can always spin webs of untruths (not exactly lies, but more like skewed truths) to get yourself free.

To any of you taking up law, make sure you represent the right people, okay?

Whatever money you earn is not worth the risk of setting a criminal out in the streets again, unsupervised.

Do the right thing.


I'm in a bit of a lecture-mode here. Sorry!


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Unrelated to the above - actually, kind of related to my presentation attire.

This volunteer for a kidney foundation that approached me while I was coming out of the bank thought I was a 20-something working adult!

For once, I actually look Old Enough!

*This is especially for Li-Ann, whom, like me, is always being subjected to the "Hah? You're 18 already?!" and the "I thought you were younger!" from people with no tact.*

*I hope she's got enough break from her hostel full of similar scholars like her to read this.*

A far cry from when girls as young as my sister refused to believed we were older than them. Sad-nya.

It's funny. If SAM people see you dressed up like this, they'd all ask the same thing - "Presenting today ah?"

And the A-level counterparts would ask - "Why you wear like that?"

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Must. NOT. Let. Blog. Die.