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The cute Lin Ketong in pink: Lin Ketong endorsing soccer:

Some few more shorts. Two men jogging together Guy 1: I'm a doctor. I jog because I'm HEALTH conscious Guy 2: I'm a thief, I'm WEALTH conscious Sex Object guy 1: You know, my new wife is a sex object! guy 2: Wow! You must have a gorgeous wife! guy 1: Not really, but everytime I wanted sex, she would always object. Canine Police: Why do we call big dogs K-9? Supt: Because if you call them K-10, they wouldn't be dogs anymore Police: what would they be? Supt: A small cat. Heaven and Hell Daughter: Mom, my boyfriend doesn't believe in Heaven or Hell. Mother: Don't worry, marry him and let him taste heaven, leave hell to me. A Husband asked his wife, "Honey, what do you like most in me, my handsome face or my sexy body?" The wife looked at him from head to toe and replied, "honey, I like your sense of humor" A guy picks up a girl for a date Guy: Why are you wearing your belt around your knee? Girl: I promised my Mom that I wouldn't let you touch me below my belt.

That sounds awfully familiar. Didn't I post that in some other thread? hehehe. I intended it to be humorous, who knew that it would be thought provoking.

Although it may not be my place to judge people on how they spell, but I absolutely hate wrong spelling and grammar. On a casual conversation like this, I may be tolerant but on formal conversation I absolutely abhore it. Sure changing light into lite are acceptable vernacular to other people, but not for me. I have a full set of keyboard and I intend to fully utilize it. Using laziness or ease to spell words are absolutely unforgiveable. This is usually the start of degradation. It may be logical to understand why people who have english as their second language are better at speaking them, mainly because they learn the language with a solid foundation using the most correct terms, spelling and grammar. Colloquial terms or "slang" are usually learned later when they already have a firmer grasp of the language. Instant Messaging and Text Message adds to the degradation of the language. With the current trend of how younglings speak, I fear the day that no adult would be able to spell correctly or use the correct grammar. Again, I will not condem the incorrect usage of English while we are discussing things here mainly because we are speaking casually. xep wen u spik lyk dis, then that's a completely different matter. I am merely pointing out that correct English usage should always be used during formal conversation. Just imagine when you are in a job interview and you spell words using slang, what kind of impression do you think this will give the employers? Absolute unprofessionalism.

Based on my observation, American English tends to be more lax in terms of spelling. They use the term donuts more mainly because it is easier to spell. Since it is made of dough, I would say that the correct term is doughnut, but "donut" is also an accepted vernacular with the popularity of Dunkin' Donuts. The spelling "doughnut" is more widely used outside the US. Oh great. Now I'm craving donuts.

Not many people are aware that "ghoti" may be pronounced as "fish". I myself has never heard of it before my high school teacher played us with it during class. This word may not sound like "fish", but its somewhat difficult to say 10 times fast: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Well, I'm done uploading all the new images for the Zaonoid page. Most of these came from the VDF and the other from the japanese raw that I previously acquired.

Sometimes I find it difficult to understand other people due to their accent. Although I understand what they are saying, it takes me a moment to analyze what they were saying. I myself don't have an accent, even when I speak other languages, so it's not difficult for me to speak other languages. My Japanese instructor even commended me that I speak like a Japanese.

Just a thought, I happen to find it amusing that the language is called English in general, but in the UK, it is what some people would call British English, when in fact, when you say English, you are denoting a Gentleman from England, which is ironically a part of the UK. Should there be then such a language that should be called Americanish? Also, when you name a certain language, you simply put -ese at the end the country's name? Like Chinese, Japanese, Porteugese, etc, why not Englese?

Actually oriental language almost have the same grammar. Cantonese, Fookien and Mandarin all have the same grammar and only differ in pronunciation. Japanese sentence structure is also similar to them. So it is fairly easy for oriental people to learn of thier other counterparts language. Example, "my name": Ngo ge Meng - cantonese Wo de ming - mandarin Gwa eh mya - fookien Ore no Namae - Japanese see the pattern? But when it comes to learning english, they would have to reverse the way they construct sentences. This is mostly the predicament of most non-english speaking countries. But like Ryuki mentioned, there are some non-native english speakers that speak fluent english and is able to manipulate words. I think the reason for this is that they really study the language and how sentences are properly formed. Unlike for native speakers, they learn the language mostly by ear and sometimes accept colloquial phrases as the correct vernacular. And lastly, I also wonder how some people couldn't distinguish the usage of "its" and "it's".

In this case, it would be much better if you can watch it yourself. But I will try to convey to you what happened. Although my description would contain events not necessarily neutral but based on how I see it. The event started out with the guy praying over another person. With a crowd slowly gathering in this guy, a few people approached and asked questions. Of course, the guy answered in return. The most notable question that I can remember is one boy asked why is "Christian better than muslim", and he asked this with a smirk on his face. And the question and answer continued with the people asking question in a sarcastic way. Minutes later, a few police officers arrived, asked the guy to come with him and handcuffs him. All of this happend in a casual way, no shouting, no violence, no sharp reaction. Only notable points about this is the hidden contempt on the faces of the crowd. Just to add my two cents, if the crowd was trully interested in learning what was being preached, they wouldn't have that scornful smile on their faces.

Hell knows why indeed. The file size was a mere 214kb, practically the same size as that of Kabrals. I guess it was the software not being able to handle a wider resolution.

Almost everyone who speaks the english language has only a grasp of the surface. If English is such an easy language, there wouldn't be such profession as an English professor. For every language, there are levels of complication. Language is not only limited to grammar, but also vocabulary and articulation. I'm afraid that colloquialism has far buried the intricacies and complexity of the english language. Using the sample of lend and borrow, lend is used when the owner initiates the action of lending, while borrow is used when the borrower wishes the owner to lend his property. But I'm sure many will not notice the difference of these words. Sad to say, the current usage of english can be compared to how the net uses leet speak. It is especially annoying wen u spk lyk dis. This is mostly common on mobile phone text message. I'm afraid with the advent of wireless and online communication, peoples ability to express themselves have made them lazy in using much more complicated terms, and only concern themselves in the expression using much simpler dialog. I would also admit that without this board, my ability to speak in english might be hampered, as english is not widely used in a daily conversation from where I come from.

I've re-uploaded the image in the office since I have a much stronger connection. But it looks like the results were the same. All it showed was a blank white page. So I was thinking it was probably the size and resolution. Since I reduced the image size by 25%, it worked. May I inquire as to what is the maximum size or resolution the wiki allows? The original image I tried to upload had a resolution of 1154 x 1938 versus the 866 x 1454 that I just uploaded.

Thanks for that. I think it was during the upload the caused the file to be corrupt. I'll fix this later when I'm sure my connection is stable.

Ryuki, could you check the latest changes I've made in the guyver page? I've moved the "Guyver Gigantic" page to "Gigantic", so that I could use that page for the template of Sho's gigantic. However, my connection is very screwy at the moment and I can't view the wiki page. When I try to load the "Guyver Systems" only a white page appears. I'm not sure if the image I uploaded of the guyver gigantic is the cause of it, because it happened after I uploaded the image. That's also the reason why I uploaded the image twice. I was trying to make it similar to Gigantic Dark. Thanks.

True. But I don't believe what you call the "big 3" as the only propagator in conflicts. Perhaps that is what many think mainly because they are mostly covered by the news and a majority thus the frequent attention. I'm not even sure what your "big 3" is. What you refer to as those who become self-centered due to their beliefs are what you call fanatics. And we all know what happens to fanatics driven on the wrong direction. It's usually personal attacks and they are using religion as their justification for doing such. I won't argue about the sports/religion issue since it is not relevant. And believe me, religion has caused far more stupidity than the one posted in this topic. Remember the crusades?

Like I always say, there is no point in posting things in a public forum if you intend to keep it private.

I don't think it's religion that divides the people but rather the self-centerness of individuals who insists their beliefs into others. This issue is the prime example, that Christian guy was insisting his beliefs to a muslim community. Religion is not what people are arguing about, but rather who has the best religion. it's the age old vice of all men, trying to see who can piss the farthest. With the current issue at hand, I can simply substitue religion with a local sports team and you will still get the same result. Heck, I've seen a more violent reaction on a sporting event.

Don't you think it would be redundant to link the zoaform page from the main guyver page seeing that the page itself is already incorporated into it's own page? In any case, I've moved all the info of the zoaforms in the main page to the zoaform page, and used it as a template on the main guyver page.

Done. Re-uploaded the image. This time I didn't use the magic wand tool. Hopefully this would be better.

Yup, I get the images from the VDF and edit them. At first I edit them using the magic wand tool in Photoshop, but I found that the edges doesn't quite look right if I did that. But on the most recent images (zoanoids), I manually edit the edges. And usually, the images I upload are larger than the ones that I replaced. Is there a specific image that you want redone? Perhaps an example so that I won't repeat them later on.

Totally agree. But then, if we do that, should we remove the link for the zoaform in the navbox since it's already part of the main guyver page?