hanifhamzah

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England ..
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends
and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns
down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?

I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT IF PEOPLE FROM POLAND ARE CALLED POLES THEN

PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND SHOULD BE HOLES AND THE GERMANS GERMS!!!

The earthquake that hit West Sumatra more than two weeks ago has made 80 per cent of the houses there unsafe to live in.

Villagers in Sikucur Pariaman are slowly picking up the pieces in the aftermath of the devastation.

Some are cleaning up the mess left behind by the earthquake while others have resumed business.

Authorities are trying to convince affected villagers to move to safer ground, to prevent further casualties in the event of another catastrophe.

But many are reluctant to leave the place that has been their home for most of their lives.

Wife is like TV,
girlfriend is like Hand phone (HP)
At home watch TV
Go out bring HP.
No money, sell TV.
Got money change HP.
Sometimes enjoy TV
But most of the time play with HP.
TV free for life
HP, if you don't pay, services terminated
TV is big, bulky and most of the time old
HP is cute, slim, curvy, portable at any time.
Operational cost for TV is often acceptable
HP is high and often demanding,
Most Important......
TV got remote.. HP don't have..

Last but not least..........

TV never get virus, but HP yes........... have VIRUS................ aids ..... so better choose wisely

So far so good....a perfect phrase to desrcibe my life in IIUM...frankly speaking, life in university is far different from what I've once experienced during my school time....why? because........

10 main reasons which makes college's life to be an ultimate enjoyment of studies :

1. no need to wake up early and rush for assembly as there is no such thing here.

2. no need to rush for the morning class as sometimes the earlisest class starts at 2pm.

3. no need to afraid of warden chasing after squatters as they(wardens) can only be seen at the hostel once in a blue moon.

4. no need to wear uniforms to attend the classes.

5. no need to beg for money from others as the allowance is always there when we need it.

7. no need to pass up homeworks as the lecturers won't ask you to do so.

8. no need to afraid of the seniors as they can't really differentiate which one is the senior and which one is not (everyone is same in size).

9. no need to be afraid of being scolded by lecturers for not attending their class as they won't do so.

10. no need to be at school before 6pm after outing as there is no such thing in university.

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TEHRAN, Iran – An American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the U.S. was on her fifth day of a hunger strike Saturday and does not plan to stop until she is freed, her father said.Roxana Saberi, a dual American-Iranian citizen who will turn 32 on Sunday, was convicted more than a week ago and sentenced to eight years in prison after a swift, one-day trial behind closed doors. She began her hunger strike Tuesday to protest her imprisonment, her father said."She said that she has started a hunger strike and this is the fifth day and that she will continue until she is free. I tried to tell her that this can be dangerous, but she didn't give me any time to protest," her father, Reza Saberi, told The Associated Press.

The case has been a source of tension between the United States and Iran at a time when the Obama administration has said it wants to engage its longtime adversary. The U.S. has called the accusations against Saberi baseless and demanded her release.Saberi's father said her lawyer appealed the court's ruling on Saturday — less than a week after Iran's judiciary spokesman said an Iranian appeals court would reconsider her verdict, an indication her sentence could be commuted.Iran's judiciary chief has ordered a full investigation into the case, andPresident Ahmadinejad urged Tehran's chief prosecutor to ensure Saberi be allowed a full defense during her appeal.

Saberi was arrested in late January and initially accused of working without press credentials. But earlier this month, an Iranian judge leveled the far more serious allegation of espionage.Saberi, who was born in the United States and grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, moved to Iran six years ago and worked as a freelance journalist for news organizations including National Public RadioBritish Broadcasting Corp. She received Iranian citizenship because her father was born in Iran.Saberi's parents have traveled to Iran from their home in Fargo in a bid to help win their daughter's release. Her father has said his daughter, who was Miss North Dakota in 1997, had been working on a book about the culture and people of Iran, and hoped to finish it and return to the United States this year.Reza Saberi said he hoped to see his daughter in prison on Monday and was concerned about her health."After five days, I am pretty certain that she must be very weak now, because we know she is already frail," he said.

Iran has released few details about the charges against Saberi, but Iran's Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi said Tuesday that the initial investigation of Saberi was done by an expert on security and counterespionage at the Intelligence Ministry before her case was referred to the court.An Iranian investigative judge involved in the case also alleged that Saberi was passing classified information to U.S. intelligence services.The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution and the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by hard-line Iranian students. The Obama administration has said it is working with Swiss intermediaries who represent U.S. interests in Iran to secure her release.