Monday, April 30, 2007

Wikipedia and its close ties to my life in Europe

As of now, i've already been in Europe for 2.5 months. In this 2.5 months, i've realised how much i DIDN'T know about Europe and the rest of the world. Maybe because I've always been so comfortable in Singapore that i do not bother to check or maybe my friends here just study different stuff from me.

Anyway, Wikipedia has been my best friend here in Europe. So far, i've referred to it for information about Austria, Vienna, Greek related stuff (cos of Evie) and also other random stuff that my friends might have mentioned. I'm sure it has helped my other friends in one way or another as well. Lol~ Andreas apparently went to read up about Singapore after he got to know me, Evie has used it to look up about Singapore food (she's madly in love with Asian food and swears that she will get a scholarship to come visit me next year) and Taina recently got a shock when she discovered that Singapore still has capital punishment.

But of cos, they didn't need it as much as i do. I've referred to Wikipedia for Hundretwasser, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Secession, Otto Wagner, Klosterneuberg, Baden, Cyprus, Greek Mythology, 7 years in Tibet and countless other stuff. Just today, i spent 3 hours reading on Wikipedia. Lol~ Every minute spent with Wikipedia is a minute spent learning more about things you didn't know and that was quite cool for me.

Anyway, today i discovered the cutest article in Wikipedia i've read so far. Nothing i've read even comes near to this. Go check it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish
And even though it was about Singlish, something i should be rather familiar with, i was still amused by how little i know about Singlish. Did u know that there is a structure to Singlish and people have attempted to analyse it as they would do for another language?

Lol~ Okok... it's now like 2.30am le... I should go to bed. Gute nacht~

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