May Day! May Day!

Wah, I slept at 10.30pm last night! First time in 1 year or more I think. Was trapped in slumberland for a good 8 hours, before I succumbed to re-enter it again. Was a good rest nonetheless, now to fight hard with my life for my last paper!

It's the May Day holiday now by the way, everyone's on holidays, except for poor folks who have to study for examinations. The shops are closed and I'll probably have to eat grass today. Was helping Yingying with some 25 questions of National Education nonsense last night, and one of the questions required us to do some research on the presidents of Singapore. I chanced upon President Wee Kim Wee's profile and I thought to myself,"Oh yeah, he had passed away already." And I found out just moments ago that he had just past away. Oooops, not my fault right? Sorry Mr President. In another question, it asked which were the official languages of Singapore. Found an interesting excerpt on English, the official language of Europe in 5 years time.

"The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been
reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
Communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased
plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly,
sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will
be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but
typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like
fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.Governments
will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a
deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is
disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
by z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining
ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of
leters.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German ze vey ve vunted in ze forst
plas."