The simians are plotting something

World domination..

Youth is wasted on the young

Sitting around doing nothing.

Valuable Sociolinguistic Case Studies: More Shameless Self Promotion

Here is a report I did for a Sociolinguistics assignment.

Here are the reasons why you must read this report;

1. You are extremely bored and you have absolutely nothing else to do
2. You have interest in the situation of code switching in Brunei and is looking for free documents online written by intelligent and beautiful women doing ESL degrees
3. Voyeurism
4. You have no life
   
5. You are curious of my family situation
6. You are an ex-employee of my father and is now considerably interested in his daughter
7. It is 4am and you still can't get yourself to sleep
   
8. You are a sociolinguist particularly interested in code switching, its relation to basic human institutions and the sociocultural implications it has on the individual
9. You like to read anything about Brunei published online
   
10. You read my last article entitled Green Sea and Brown Mud and would like to read more of my beautiful writings
    

This is the Abstract:

This is a brief report on a comparative study on members of my family. It looks at the distinct differences in speech patterns between me and my family members. There is a specific emphasis on when, where and why there is code switching between the languages Malay, English and Danau. In this report I also found the special use of third person pronouns which is an uncommon feature of speech in the Brunei Malay community, a unique way of intonation, and differences of accents in speech.

It might just resonate with your own family situations. Interested readers can download the .pdf document by clicking here.

Births and Days

Fortified chocolate drink!

It has begun.
Days of hyper idleness and extreme unproductivity.

Treasures from the Pearly Heavens

THAT is a an extremely beautiful handmade treasure chest.
My enormously talented other half surprised me with this gift this afternoon.


This is an extremely blurry picture of the elegantly done engraving of my name which was also manually carved with the help of a knife and hammer.

If you have magic eyes, you can also make out the very beautiful antique lock set.


This is the amazing period piece handle fixed on the side. Bought at an antiquarian. It is supposed to be a door knob apparently, but now has been modified to suit treasure-chest-making purposes.

I hate the lighting.

The chest is gorgeous.

Sexuality is empowering

[L1] Malay: Bida jua eh laki-laki yang hosting Miss World Vote Me atu eh. Bida banar-banar!

[L2] English: That man hosting the Miss World Vote Me program looks absolutely horrendous. Seriously.

[L3] Danau: Andi munchoi agak oo miyanai hosting Miss World ino. Matai ko.

Nasty. Yuck.

Thurber, I want to write like you

One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl did come along and she was carrying a basket of food. "Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?", asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she was. So the wolf asked her where her grandmother lived and the little girl told him and he disappeared into the wood.

When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother's house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and a nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look anymore like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead.

Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.

James Thurber, Fables of Our Time

If You Hate Me

These people are to blame.
They are also responsible for three more of my kind.

Plato and Prada meets there

Oh how nice! Almost Girl has tagged me.

Thousands of hits and new readers later Black Friday Blogging is now officially over! Except that it isn’t! The dialogue continues! New Fashion Blog Verbal Croquis gets in on the action with a discussion of fashion’s reflection of our political climate and new trends in buying. And Satire is Dead who is sad to be late to the party but wants to join in with snide remarks and some depressing insights is here to take advantage of the possible traffic it will generate! Whatever the motivation I am still glad to have the posts up! Maurina also late to the game has a post as well!

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