Archive - Thu, 26 Feb 2009
It’s kinda sian (dreary?) for me because the afternoon rains always seem to come just as I’m about to head back home. So I’ve been stuck at work until 5+pm for the last few days. As productive as I try to be, sometimes, there’s only so much a person can do before s/he has to take a break and recharge.
I hope the weather gets better over the next few days or something, but then again, maybe I should be finding alternative ways of getting home/going to school instead of letting the gloom get to me.
put up (verb phrase)
to accommodate; lodge.
e.g. Where are you putting up now?
Someone asked me this today, and it was all I could do to stop myself from smiling. Why? Because I was reminded of a discussion some of us had during a workshopping session a month or so back, about ‘archaic’ phrases that people from our parents’ generation use, and how extremely out the place the phrases are. But because they’re so incongruent especially in our age, they’re kinda cute, in a retro sort of way. Other examples of cute archaic phrases: taking your breakfast/lunch/dinner in lieu of eating.
Any other examples you can think of?
Yi-Sheng says:
To herald the new and bid farewell to the old, I’ve drawn up a list of artsy people based in and/or from Singapore, singling them out for being interesting, independent and (thus far) a little unrecognised.
It’s a personal response to the front-page article of Straits Times Life! at the end of last year (“FEEL THE POWER”, Thursday, 4 December 2008).
I like it because it presents an alternative, which is what I think we need more of.
