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Hi, I'm Angela Evangeline Kwan, more affectionately known as gel and lala. I was born on 27th February 1991. My hobbies include playing the piano, singing, songwriting, baking and shopping. My dream? To start a family, be a loving and understanding wife, an inspiring and authoritative mother, a filial and obedient daughter. Oh, and perhaps to sing the songs that I've written or maybe start some bakery cafe.
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Beware of your email account ☆ 2012/01/26 This is just to warn those who read my blog about their email accounts as my dad has recently fallen prey to individual/s with ulterior motives, who either think that hacking email accounts is an achievement of sorts or have a misinterpretation of right and wrong. So, do take note of these people with ulterior motives. As much as I wish to believe that all people are good, kind, caring and all, reality hurts as people who are not, unfortunately, exist on Earth. While you do become more cautious about these group/s of individuals, allow me to correct all typos and grammatical errors found in the fabricated email. The linguistics part of me got the better of me.--- The email. Everything in brackets and red are my interpretation of how it should be grammatically --- I'm sorry for this odd request because it might get to you too urgent but it's because of the situation of things right now. (This sentence is too long. Hello? How can you have so many conjunctions in one sentence. Moreover, you had 2 'because' and 1 'but'. Would be better to shortened it to two sentence and not be overly ambitious. Besides, "it's because of the situation of things right now" is not grammatically correct. It should either be "it's because of the way things are right now" or "it's because of the situation now". Grr.. It irritates me that people can't be linguistically correct!) I’m with family on vacation in Philippine, I know I didn't mention anything about it to you but we are in trouble,we got mugged last night in an alley by a gang of thugs on our way back from shopping,one of them had a knife poking my neck for almost two minutes and everything we had on us including my cell phone, credit cards were all stolen,quite honestly it was beyond a dreadful experience for us but looking on the bright side we weren't seriously hurt or injured and we are still alive so that is whats important. (Hello?!?! How can you have this sentence which is this long, connected by numerous commas and merely 1 fullstop? Change every comma to a fullstop! Moreover, "we got" is so singlish and grammatically incorrect. It should be "we were". Also, "knife poking my neck" just sounds weird. Please change it to "knife at my neck". "including my cellphone, credit cards" should be changed to "including my cellphone and credit cards". By the way, locals here rarely use mobile or cellphones. The common word now is handphone or iphone. "quite honestly" is grammatically wrong too as "quite" is redundant. "we are still alive" is also redundant. "whats" should be "what's". Where's your aprostrophe?) I've reported to the cops here and canceled all our cards,it appeared I had acted quickly enough or they almost would have succeeded in cleaning out my bank account. I'm really having some difficulties clearing our hotel bills and also need to pick up a voucher ticket at the counter for us to catch a flight back home as soon as possible. (Culturally-challenged person... We rarely use "cops" here and the more commonly used word is "police". Besides, "cops" is so informal!. "canceled" should be spelt "cancelled". "it appeared I" should be "it appeared that I". Besides, who in the right frame of mind would use "it appeared"? "it seems" is the more commonly used one here. "almost would have" should be "would have". There's a missing "in" between "difficulties" and "clearing". "clearing our hotel bills" is not the commonly used phrase here. It should be "paying for hotel bills". "pick up" sounds too casual to me. It's like going to to grocer or supermarket as we call it here, to get some groceries. "get" would be more acceptable to me.) All we need right now is $1850.00, but anything you can spare pending when we get things straighten out will be appreciated and I promise to refund as soon as we arrive home safely. (People here are not to fluent in using "spare pending..". The usual choice of words would be "spare while we..") --- End of email --- Now for my concluding comments, *drum rolls* The group of linguistically and culturally challenged people! Please be more conscious of your target profile! Imagine sending an email in English when your target is monolingual and doesn't speak English at all! バカだと思ういます！
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