Saturday, September 17

argh... so throw face yesterday... when ut to fetched my grams home to stay with us so took mrt there... who knows while alighting i too bz playing tertis le din notice my toopid lanyard going to drop out of my toopid pocket end up my ko lian plus important de lanyard drop onto the track... >.< who come n help me... haiz... end up go find the smrt de ppl... they're my heroes... ^.^

got no mood to study for maths oso... die le... tis sem how to pass... muz pass de... *pray pray pray..*

[if anyone read the newspaper n read the letters section, mayb u will know wat i'm rambling about...]

'get on the bus' or 'get in the bus'; 'pitch dark' or 'pitch black' o...

its started on thurs lah.. there was tis letter frm a parent (i think is a mum) she wrote to say tat her kid had a piece of work n one of the qns was to choose which multiple choice was right. 2 of the choices were 'get on the bus' n 'get in the bus'... she told her kid tat the ans was 'get in the bus' but the teacher marked it wrong n said tat the ans was 'get on the bus'.. parent asked around n most of them say 'get in', one of her friends told her it mostly was 'get on' but she felt 'get in' was the right english as 'get on' literally means to get on top of the bus 0.0... n asked moe to set a standard instructions for the teachers... after finish reading tis article, i ask my mum about it.. 'get in' or 'get on' she told me it was 'get on' n amazingly... so did my bro.. hahahaha... we had a "violent" argument on the 'in n on' but set it on another topic... the chair... 'sit on the chair' or 'sit in the chair'... for me, i tot both were right.. but they tot otherwise, they rather preferred 'sit on'.. duh humbug... ah... now i tot of another 'joke'.. 'get in the cab or 'get on the cab'?

next was the 'pitch dark' n 'pitch black' controversy...
one letter on fri's newspaper caught my attention too... another parent wrote in conjunction to thurs's article. it says something like a couple of years ago his kid oso face the same thing... qn was, "the night was ___ outside." choices included 'pitch dark' and 'pitch black'. kid picked 'pitch black' but it was marked wrong. personally i feel tat the ans was 'pitch dark' n the feeling was unanimous... my mum n bro agree that it was 'pitch dark'... but further tots... mayb both are correct... or mayb my english is lousy... hahaha...

but personally, i felt that its onli a figure of speech... depends on how u interpret i guess... i use both juz in the same way at different times.. so to me they are correct... whether its bcuz i have lousy understanding of english or watever... hahaha.. its dumb... watever... go figure... ah... gonna go study maths le... darn it... till then... ciao... like i say.. its all rambling rubbish... XD meh~~~
Ðelphine @ 12:06