What a blast!

Here are some highlights of my week...

I am so down that I can't think of anythingt productive to do in the office. So I spent my time watching a movie online, I watched Love Me Not. It's really great, watch it too...

Last night as I take my seat in the LRT an old man suddenly approached me and asked... "wer is santa cuz?" Whoa!sino ka?(sabi ko sa isip ko). Then I found out that he is a Singaporean and he's just here to visit a sister-in-law. Going back to his question, he is looking for Sta. Cruz and he is holding a paper with Carriedo Station written on it. I was hesitant to help him thinking a Bitoy's camera is around at baka mayari ako but in a short while I found myself enjoying the conversation with him. We could have talked about many things but his English is limited and his voice is too low. But I did enjoy our talk. Siguro kung naging mas bata sya ng konti baka natanong ko sya pati sa educational system ng Singapore o kaya ano tingin nya sa educational systam ng Pilipinas, hehehehe. Muntik pa nga ako balak isama pababa ng istasyon pero siguro nung malapit na naiisip nya na kaya nya na, gusto pa sana kasi nya makipag kwentuhan.

Balik pa tayo ng konti...
Nung Lunes paguwi ko nag aya ng basketball si Jason (kapitbahay namin), hindi ko alam ano pumasok sa isip nya bat nya ko inaya eh hindi naman ako naglalaro o lumalabas sa lugar namin at ang isa pang malupitna katotohanan ay hindi ako marunong maglaro ng basketball! I suddenly remebered the Goverment program of Japan that I watched maybe three years ago (yung pag wala ka na magawa tapos wala din ibang labas sa tv). They have this program on appreciation, an adult program for sports, music and other interest to make the adults and the old people be active in their lives. Sana meron dito nun para makapag enrol ako.

teka, eto naman...

What are the plurals of 'octopus', 'hippopotamus', 'syllabus'?

English words of Latin or Greek origin have rather unpredictable plurals, and each one usually depends on how well established that particular word is. It may also depend on whether the Latin or Greek form of the plural is either easily recognizable or pleasant to the speaker of English.

Although it is often supposed that octopi is the 'correct' plural of octopus, and it has been in use for longer than the usual Anglicized plural octopuses, it in fact originates as an error. Octopus is not a simple Latin word of the second declension, but a Latinized form of the Greek word oktopous, and its 'correct' plural would logically be octopodes.

Other words ending in -us show a very varied pattern. Like octopi, the plural hippopotami is now generally taken to be either funny or absurdly pedantic, and the usual plural is hippopotamuses. Common usage appears to indicate a slight preference for termini rather than terminuses, but syllabuses rather than syllabi. Other usual forms include cacti and gladioli, and our files at the dictionary department show scarcely any examples of nucleuses or funguses. (Omnibi is simply a joke, and quite ungrammatical in Latin!)

Among words ending in -um it seems worth drawing attention to the word curricula, plural of curriculum, and warning against confusion with the adjective curricular (as in extra-curricular).