Did you know that the sentence "She had divorced him because he had had numerous affairs" is correct while the sentence " Who are you going to marry?" is not?
After blowing my sentence correction scores on a GMAT practice test , I decided to re-educate myself on English grammer and discovered such stimulating concepts as subjunctive mood infinitive verb form usages ,indefinite pronoun subject verb agreements and modifiers with relative pronouns. Learning English grammer has been un-learning English all over again:).
What a start to the weekend. Well, gots to go and unlearn some more .(Yes, yes I know " gots to go" and "un-learning all over again" are incorrect usages. Obviously, I need to study more)
Hope the rest of y'all are having more fun than me.
Peace!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
A Little Prayer
The D-day for my GMAT is March 1st.Here's my lil prayer hoping for some good things :
God , if there is a God ,
Here's my lil prayer if you do listen to prayers,
Please let me know all the right answers.
If not, then let me be a really good guesser.
And if I can't be a good guesser, let those be the non-scoring questions!
Incase this post hasn't clued you in yet , I sway between agnostic on good days to atheist on bad days . Obviously today is good ... on a relative scale. And Oh yeah , Happy Valentine's ( not that I believe in that either).
And Scheibs , if you are reading this... Many many happy returns of the day!
Peace!
God , if there is a God ,
Here's my lil prayer if you do listen to prayers,
Please let me know all the right answers.
If not, then let me be a really good guesser.
And if I can't be a good guesser, let those be the non-scoring questions!
Incase this post hasn't clued you in yet , I sway between agnostic on good days to atheist on bad days . Obviously today is good ... on a relative scale. And Oh yeah , Happy Valentine's ( not that I believe in that either).
And Scheibs , if you are reading this... Many many happy returns of the day!
Peace!
Sunday, February 3, 2008
How a flea market and fried coke changed my luck
"A market, usually held outdoors, where antiques, used household goods, and curios are sold" is the definition of a Flea Market. The one in Canton which we went to yesterday barely squeaked in to meet this definition. Firstly, other than some rather charming red glass candle holders from I-don't-know-when and an impressively large number of well preserved love letters from World War II most of the used stuff was really just junk. I mean people broken china with deposits of unknown origin do not make for exciting buys. More importantly , most of the market indoors in sturdy metal stalls was really focused on hawking new wares so I have issues with this being called a Flea market. Other than the fact that it was called a flea market when it really was not , I had no issues with the event quite the contrary in fact. Just read on for the exciting things that happened to me there and why I shall continue to hold this event close to my heart.
Since I've already covered the exciting options in the flea section, lets move on to the food .Of course all the food was Texas sized to no one's amazement ; 4 hungry adults barely managed to make a dent in one serving of Tornado taters so that should tell you something. But surprisingly , I found myself non-liquid , non-chip vegetarian options for lunch in this event in the heart of Bush Country. Only a person trying to be a vegetarian in any part of Bush Country can truly appreciate this remarkable event. I for one was so bamboozled, I almost eat fried coke( I said almost ).Yes ,America needs just this kind of innovative spirit where people can take an empty calorie filled, corn syrup addled drink and make it more unhealthy by deep frying it and then coating it with refined sugar. All, I can is that am impressed by what the human mind can think up.
The best part of the day came when we attended a cooking show on using the waterless cooking cookery. The dude who was giving the demo announced some door prizes for the audience and usually I tend to take tickets for these kinds of events and drop it into trash coz frankly I have never ever been good at winning these things. If the odds of winning something in a lottery were 99.99% then I would be sure to hit the 0.01 % probability option and not win. But not this day... this day was going to be different and my luck seemed to have changed coz guess what the first ticket drawn for mine and I won a door prize .... a spice jar. I'm telling you this is HUGE! Not the spice jar but the fact that I won something.... kept me smiling the rest of the day.
Anyhoo folks, I gots to go and pick a team to root for in the super bowl. Happy Weekending !
Since I've already covered the exciting options in the flea section, lets move on to the food .Of course all the food was Texas sized to no one's amazement ; 4 hungry adults barely managed to make a dent in one serving of Tornado taters so that should tell you something. But surprisingly , I found myself non-liquid , non-chip vegetarian options for lunch in this event in the heart of Bush Country. Only a person trying to be a vegetarian in any part of Bush Country can truly appreciate this remarkable event. I for one was so bamboozled, I almost eat fried coke( I said almost ).Yes ,America needs just this kind of innovative spirit where people can take an empty calorie filled, corn syrup addled drink and make it more unhealthy by deep frying it and then coating it with refined sugar. All, I can is that am impressed by what the human mind can think up.
The best part of the day came when we attended a cooking show on using the waterless cooking cookery. The dude who was giving the demo announced some door prizes for the audience and usually I tend to take tickets for these kinds of events and drop it into trash coz frankly I have never ever been good at winning these things. If the odds of winning something in a lottery were 99.99% then I would be sure to hit the 0.01 % probability option and not win. But not this day... this day was going to be different and my luck seemed to have changed coz guess what the first ticket drawn for mine and I won a door prize .... a spice jar. I'm telling you this is HUGE! Not the spice jar but the fact that I won something.... kept me smiling the rest of the day.
Anyhoo folks, I gots to go and pick a team to root for in the super bowl. Happy Weekending !
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