valentine

I guess I had been so busy juggling so many things that was sort of, well...out of it. Someone significant is here, or was here. Maybe. And I didn't even know.

missing N

I remember writing a blog about using alanga naman, instead of alangaN naman for the longest time. Which quite frankly was stupid, as there is no such word as alanga in Tagalog. Alangan on the other hand means not quite right, awkward or not without doubt, depending on how it is used.

Why am I writing about this? Because a certain someone reminded me that I used to say it wrong and that it seems like that entry is lost. I wanted to say "ALANGAN naman na-erase by itself?", but I have reached that point wherein I choose my battles.

follow up

P: How did you pronounce "punong braso" before today?
T: I've always pronounced it the same. POO-NONG BRAH-SOH.
P: So you now that you know the correct term, how do you pronounce it?
T: The same, but with a B. BOO-NONG BRAH-SOH.
P: You got it wrong. It should be BOON-ONG BRAH-SOH. It isn't a long O.

(I refuse to write any more about this)

full arms?

I was talking to someone about project prioritisation wherein I made a comment about the business having to somewhat 'metrically' arm wrestle to get mandays allocated to their initiatives. For emphasis, I said "PUNONG BRASO talaga".

I was corrected.

BUNONG braso.

Buno = Wrestle

Braso = Arm

Just great. I had been saying it wrong my whole life.

tongue twister

I was telling a friend that a certain view was no longer visible to me because I have already minimized the window. And it proved to be a very challenging task (the telling my friend part).

Dude, minimimize...minimi...miniminize...wait, dapat yun minimize lalagan ng in sa gitna diba? Okay...mI-Ni-ni-mize ko na yun window.

Whew.

(Btw, isn't TONGUE spelled funny?)

Something Stupid

I received an invite to a meeting for this afternoon.

I replied with "Okay. I have booked the conference room at 230 THESE afternoon.".

And it is not like my name starts with A and I am clueless about grammar!

Kill me. Kill me now.