The Long and Short about "Siol"

Just a few seconds ago, my sister asked my sister, "What is 'siol'?"

And in that instant, I had a mild case of dejavu.

A few months back, I was baffled when I encountered this seemingly innocent... 'expression' in a sms from a friend. I was silently thinking to myself, "What the hell is a siol?!?!"

And my sis who was sitting right beside me answered "I also dunno". (That was also when I realised that I wasn't thinking very silently -.-) I suspected that it was "sia" misspelt though.

When I got home, I asked my sis (another one) what a siol was. Apparently, it has no meaning at all -- it's a redundant-but-fun-to-say add-on at the end of every sentence, which sounds like this lah.

From what I understand from thy sis's (some what futile) attempt to unravel the mystery behind the concept of "siol", siol is sia's cousin (yes that's the only point I caught -.-)

So lame sia. So lame siol. (?!)

But till this very day, I am still unable to pronounce siol with as much accuracy as I would with sia. Siol is so hard to pronounce sia! :( And till this very day, I haven't heard anyone say "siol" yet -- I have only seen siol(s) appearing in text. Which makes me doubt its authenticity as a proper slang (yay i think i just used an oxymoron) even more.

I am confused at why people would seek to make their lives harder (and those of the people whom they use it on) by using siol when they can easily use (and pronounce) sia. That is purely my own opinion though.

But well, be it siol or sia, lah or leh, mah or meh, it all boils down to personal preference. And it is not very nice to comment on people's personal preference (although I think I may have done it along the way while typing this post).

No no, don't get me wrong. I am not ostracising people who use siol instead of sia (what kind of ostracism is this anyway -.-) -- I am just frustrated at my disability to pronounce siol and hence the failure to grasp the whole concept behind it.

Anyway, I think this post is heading nowhere so let's just call it a day here. Congratulations for making it through this messy and nonsensical post, siol! ;)

Oh my I've been typing emails and making calls and texting since I woke up -- which means that I've been doing that for close to 3 hours already.

(if you havent realised, this is a complain post. haha)

January and Febuary are going (or already so, since January has already started) to be the busiest months of my 2010. Aside from A levels preps, that is.

My non-academic commitments for these 2 months include BSP Orientation, CNY celebrations, Guzheng Concert -- and im in the organising comm for all of them -.-

Oh darn, i just realised theres left over work from the BSP immersion trip. Brb.

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Back. Oh, and my brain is working really fast now! I think I just got an adrenline rush. Haha. Oh oh oh and I desperately need a planner.

Its a good thing that I got all my CNY stuff already so I dont have to worry about finding time for last-min shopping trips. Haha. But I do need to find time to do my last-min work though -.- lol

On a happier note, there's a primary school BBQ gathering later in the evening!!! :)))) hohohohoho.

As for now, I need to bathe and feed myself. Bb everyone!! :)))) (what a crappy post >_>)

the five people you meet in heaven [49]

"Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know."

Shuan

《拴》-- 梁文福

天空纵容着鸟的翅膀
远方牵扯着眼的眺望
窗框死捉住一方风景
门扉轻闩上半生流浪

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Tanya's 思念 is really therapeutic.

I just checked 4 books out of the library today.

And I can feel happy hormones surging through my body at the thought of reading them. Whee hee hee hee!!

I'm just hoping that I can finish them before heading for China on Saturday.

p.s. i'm not supposed to be blogging here. mayping, if you happen to visit this site, please pretend you never see anything. heh :P

The word "sobfest" randomly popped into my head and I am currently trying to figure out 2 things:

i) what the word means;
ii) is it even a proper word in the first place??

The results thrown up by the Google search engine wasn't particularly insightful. Probably only AE (approaching expectations) for A&E and GOI.

Recently, random words have been appearing in my head, asking for definitions. Words like morbid, and... I forgot the rest. Never mind.

Basically words that you are acquainted with but only have a rough idea of what it actually means (which may be entirely irrelevant to the word). The dictionary would be of great help, if only I could overcome my laziness to hack through the jungle of frivolous definitions. If only.

Speaking of dictionaries, Priscilla was saying that Oxford is not as "good" as Harvard and Cambridge. Oxford is only good at printing dictionaries. Ha ha.

Anyway, back to what I was saying, the closest explanation I could get for the word "sobfest" was... a sobbing festival (with my mind involuntarily conjuring an image of party-girls clad in swimwear dancing and weeping to classical music amongst foam-spitting machines in celebration of Sob Fest '09).

A pretty superficial definition but well, that was the furthest my limited vocabulary could get me to. Pardon me while I laugh to myself.

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Anyway, Blogger's spell check says that "sobfest" should be two separate words i.e. "sob fest". Which makes my suggestion even more plausible -- reminder to self: check out the meaning of "plausible" (im using it here because it sounds similar to "possible") -- since it appears to be the condensed version of "sobbing festival", which are two seperate words.

I'll make an accusation during my next turn after I consult thy Oxford dictionary. Okay next Player's turn to roll.

p.s. I realised that my patience runs out easily when playing strategical and intellectually-stimulating boardgames like Cluedo. No-brainers like Monopoly are much more straightforward -- roll, transact, or go to jail. Depending on your luck (or rather, the lack of).

mehhh~

(yes i just felt the urge to mehhh~ here 怎样要打架啊？？*turn and walk away smugly*)