Coffee's Not My Cup o' Tea http://operalover.wordpress.com Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:38:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/218176643a4019198b199c8c0a10c3c1?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Coffee's Not My Cup o' Tea http://operalover.wordpress.com http://operalover.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/21/ http://operalover.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/21/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:38:43 +0000 Mo http://operalover.wordpress.com/?p=21 ]]>

Buh-bye WordPress!

]]> http://operalover.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/21/feed/ 4 Mo Je suis un polyglotte http://operalover.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/je-suis-un-polyglotte/ http://operalover.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/je-suis-un-polyglotte/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:33:25 +0000 Mo http://operalover.wordpress.com/?p=11 ]]>

I’m losing my proficiency in my languages. I realised that I have to think a bit harder when reaching for a complex Swahili word nowadays and, as for Somali, that is 30% gone. Four years in a strange place does that to you. My English has also been affected; somewhere along the way, I gave up and began freely speaking the local variety they speak here and, somehow, the fine line between my spoken Manglish grammar and English grammar got significantly blurred. Oh they’re going to hate me when I go to London…

On a related note, I decided that I was going to learn German and Italian!

As soon as I first get around to opening that Arabic phrasebook I bought two years ago…

]]> http://operalover.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/je-suis-un-polyglotte/feed/ 9 Mo There exists one perfectly good excuse for having 11,000 applications on your Facebook… http://operalover.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/there-exists-one-perfectly-good-excuse-for-having-11000-applications-on-your-facebook/ http://operalover.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/there-exists-one-perfectly-good-excuse-for-having-11000-applications-on-your-facebook/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:47:04 +0000 Mo http://operalover.wordpress.com/?p=6 ]]>

It’s called being five.

Now – for the sake of the rest of us that aren’t interested in throwing sheep at each other, biting your friends and graduating to different levels of zombies and vampires (that smacks of living in your mum’s basement) or needing a box on our profile to know that we are your top friends (us and half your friends’ list)…etc – please streamline those profiles or at the very least, make use of the Show Less/More Profile Boxes option.

Do you guys realise how difficult you make facebook-stalking what with waiting for all those apps and the page to load? ;)

(p.s. Buh-bye blogger)

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