Not quite (birthday) celebration-outing

軽食が欲しい〜
けいしょくがほしい〜
Keishoku ga hoshii~
(I) want snacks~
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Us uni clique had a gathering/outing yesterday after class because M.Yi, thesuperette and William's birthdays fell in the past two weeks.

Oh, digressing a bit, my Magazine Journalism lecturer is so bloody archaic it's not even cute. He disapproves of using 'one' in phrases like, "One has to first marvel at how the human ear can endure the volume of the music." and the words 'albeit' and 'ponder' because 'one' is a very old way of addressing one's self, 'albeit' supposedly went obsolete in the 1600s - and why are we even using it? - and 'ponder' is a Singaporean expression.

WHAT?

'One' is a perfectly good and neutral way to address a person or entity in formal writings, and 'ponder' is an English word, no? What in the world made it Singaporean? It's not even Singlish! AND I LIKE USING 'ALBEIT'. It shows that I know my vocabulary, it makes me feel more intellectual, and words going obsolete is a very very sad thing, if you ask me. 'Albeit' has its uses, which is more than I can say for so many weird words that can be substituted with simpler words that mean the same thing. And people do still use 'albeit'! Stop being so stiff about language when we're not writing formal stuff and wake up and smell the 21^st century. Seriously.

( As I was saying )

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以上、Chii です。