MPCC Batch'85

Fire Power

Mikergee — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:02:44 GMT

Fire Power

When Freddie Roach boldly announced several weeks back that Manny Pacquiao is going to knock Miguel Cotto out in the first round of their scheduled showdown for the world welterweight crown, it is safe to say that the famed American trainer was either just declaring his honest prediction of the fight, or is simply trying to get under the Puerto Rican's skin. Whatever, Roach's warning precipitated a mind game between him and the camp of Cotto that raised the ante of the November 14 ring battle dubbed "Firepower" at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ondoy's Trail of Fury

Mikergee — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:48:31 GMT

Ondoy's Trail of Fury

our weather is changing and we can't deny it. its time to take your part to stop the climate change.

English Language

Mikergee — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:37:24 GMT

There is no egg in the eggplant,
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England,
French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that:
Quicksand takes you down slowly,
Boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing?
If the plural of tooth is teeth,
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?
If the teacher taught,
Why hasn't the preacher praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
What the heck does a humanitarian eat?
Why do people recite at a play,
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways?
How can the weather be as hot as hell on one day
And as cold as hell on another?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down,
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!

English was invented by people, not computers,
And it reflects the creativity of the human race
(Which of course isn't a race at all.)

That is why:
When the stars are out they are visible,
But when the lights are out they are invisible.
And why it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts,
But when I wind up this poem
It ends.