Posts Tagged ‘English’
Hi :D
Posted by findergm in Marvellous Misadventures Saturday, 19 September 2009 22:25 4 Comments
Hey readers, I was bored and decided to post some boring crap about me 
So bear with it and if your don’t feel like reading anymore, then ALT+F4 is always there for a reason.
My name is Theodore, if you havent already noticed in some of the posts made earlier by Ian/MrSaints. Though many people in my school call me Teddy for some reason… Dunno why though. I’m cute? Ok, I live in Singapore a.k.a, Little Red Dot, Lion City and am currently studying in Victoria School. I’m 14, and in Secondary 2. Which is probably America/Canada’s equivalent of High School or grade 10 or something.
In my free time I enjoy reading , writing, blogging (here only), learning how to code, playing Team Fortress 2 and GMod. I first noticed Ian when I saw his awesome proness in PHP/HTML coding. Not to mention JavaScript and Java. And so I got to know him, and here I am today due to his generosity . I also like Warez , and am currently double booting Vista and Windows 7, after a few days of trying to partition and almost losing everything in my computer.
My mother is an English teacher, explaining my love of reading and writing. My father works in the company that organises the bi-annual (me thinks) Motorshow in Singapore. So be sure to catch it. I’ll get you free passes xD
Hopefully, this has given you a short glipmse into my life, and I hope to hear from you guys soon.
Add me on MSN, Facebook and Twitter!
prince_theodore@hotmail.com (Please state who you are or I won’t know if some terrorist is adding me)
Some updates!
Posted by MrSaints in Marvellous Misadventures Saturday, 13 June 2009 01:01 2 Comments
It had been a while since I blogged much about nearly everything.
And as for everything, there is always a rational explanation! My computer was busted (:
Yes indeed. The motherboard malfunctioned so the display was blank and practically all other peripheral devices didn’t seem to work. Despite this unfortunate incident, its irrelevant to the lost of any particular data. Its just that I can’t access them.
So for a while, I couldn’t access much of my cPanel, WHM, Wordpress and nearly every other accounts besides networking accounts. That was because I saved all my passwords (which is different for each unique account – that isn’t related to networking!) into notepad. Thats why it took me kind of a while to recover, some of you would know that if you been following my Twitter.
Its finally the weekends and I slept for nearly the whole day on Friday after school; I was really tired. For the weekends… It might be quite heptic. I need to finish my English coursework by Tuesday and get a whole lot of web designing and graphics related work finished around the course of next week. But thats going to be an issue too, since its all on the other PC which is inaccessible (sent for repairs!).
Apart from that, I would just like to tell people, I’m no longer accepting anymore free designing requests. For one, I’m fed up of being taken advantage of (e.g. They hire me, design, kick me – without a logical explanation); I know I do this for most of my friends, but as friends you guys need to know your friends’ limits too. So after I finish all the current projects, I will not do anymore for anyone. Nope, it ain’t worth it. In fact, I might just deny some requests now.
I do however acknowledge Fung, Gerald, Jose and Kyle (: After all, you guys didn’t take advantage of me.
Also, I will be adding a new Wordpress and maybe… WHMCS template soon; its just that right now, my stupid FTP doesn’t seem to be working! ARGH. #$%^&*((*&^%@#$%^&!
I forgotten to mention… Anyone want to DJ on the Radio? I don’t have much time to manage it anyways. So feel free to tell me. You need WINAMP or something to broadcast music with. The rest of it, is up to you.
Sorry this post is lacking pictures, i’m using my labtop And its lagging.
If my FTP was working, I would had updated to 2.8 WP on this website, but at least I can try it on localhost 
Its awesome as usual.
Does blogging improve your English?
Posted by MrSaints in Marvellous Misadventures Wednesday, 3 June 2009 03:59 7 Comments
Well I’m not sure or bothered if there has been another post similiar to this before somewhere in the World Wide Web. But recently some of my friends from a forum asked me, “Does blogging improve your English?”.
This was nonsense to me when I thought of it first, but then I reconsidered.
Why I reconsidered?
Well for starters, when you blog, the blogger tends to worry about the viewers reading his/her posts.
So because of that, they will have a tendency to check through for any mistakes and typos. This is not the case for people like me however. So thanks for asking if you were about to
Another reason why I thought this might be the case is because, most blogs I’ve seen (mostly review-like blogs), will always make use of technical terms, whether its talking about FTP (File Transfer Protocols) or the Ida (missing link). So by blogging you basically do a bit of research, thus broadening your knownledge or understanding on a certain issue.
Spellcheckers… This is not always the case, but there are plugins for Wordpress, or even your browser to ensure what your typing isn’t grammatically incorrect or badly phrased. Because of these annoying checkers, you have a tendency to make less mistake overtime to avoid correcting them. Its like getting burnt by a fire and realizing it huts a lot so you shouldn’t touch it.
However, in the case of you actually reading a blog, I suppose you can improve your English by finding new words in the users’ blog or perhaps his/her structure. Now as I would say again, this is not always the case, as we have many random and low standard blogs out there, full with grammatical and phrasing errors (it deserves all the red and green underlines!). However if its a typo, I guess thats excusable, so long as its understandable.
For video logs however, I don’t really know how it would help your English. After all, if the users’ make use of a complicated word with their awesome vocabulary, without the knownledge of how to spell it, you can’t find the meaning of it, savvy?
I don’t exactly find this blog of use, but hope it answered your question (you know who you are!).
Other than that, I don’t garauntee blogging help improve any specific language.
Well, not to an extent like reading a book or going for a crash course on English language.
To some extent it may help the literature side though? What do you think…?
Fossil… Family, Literature :D
Posted by MrSaints in Marvellous Misadventures Monday, 18 May 2009 14:26 1 Comment
Well I just got back from my English Literature exam today, it was… tough.
I have no words to describe how it was apart from the fact I stared blank on the question sheet for almost 5~10 minutes without a reason. All I could hear was echos of Mr.Beattie saying, “EXPLAIN THE EFFECT”, “THATS WHERE ALL THE MARKS ALL”. Well congrats to him in getting that stuck in my head, if Seok Won was reading this, I bet you’ll laughing right now.
Anyways, I managed to complete everything, Oh! I also realized I prefer essay based questions rather than passage based analysis. Doesn’t matter now, failed my last question on Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather, I think. And that on the right is the so-call “King Richard III” literature play we had to study, Richard is quite a retard I must say.
So yea, 2 and a quarter hours and I was finally out. What I day, slept late, woke up early, revised, exam, back home Relaxing… Though tomorrow is going to be a long day, it’ll be Physics, English paper 2 and History. Oh joy! More writing in History. Back to what happened, since I haven’t finish explaining what happened… okay thats confusing, anyways, after the exams, it was the same old habits, walking up to your friends and going “SHIT! SHIT! I’M GONNA’ FAIL!” with probably some sense of sarcasm? Then it was study leave! And Gloria Jeans coffee.
Since it was around 12.30pm, McDonald’s was the a good choice I could get a decent lunch in for 6RM, lol. So yea, in the car my mom was talking about what happened last night on Sunday, some Mother’s Day event or something organized by the Church. I didn’t go, I wanted to stay home and revise, my brother stayed home too. So whilst I was eating my mom was talking to me about how Happy my grandmother and father was that night cause the MC told all the sons and daughters to get up and hug their parents 
Awhh how HAPPY?
See, I don’t really have a sinister side, people just see me WRONG.
Back in the car after lunch, my mom was talking to me about how the MC was describing kids.
“Oh back then when you were still babies, your parents teach you ABC and 123, now when kids grow up, their parents want to learn about computers, kids say, GO AWAY! You Noob! You Stupid!”, Lol this kinda’ reminded me of myself. Ouchh… Anyways I think thats true 
I wasn’t really paying attention, just tried to remember what happened last night and today, food, food, food.
And Lol! I wanted to talk about Fossil Fuel on this blog, but I lost my train of thought and its getting a bit long and boring. Screw that, save it for the other blog post. For those that are interested, I’m not Christian, neither am I a non-believer, I prefer having faith in what I desire.
Lalalalalala… This is a useless post