powderful england?

hmmm... seems like i am updating my blog more often nowadays... is it a good thing? i seriously have no idea.. cuz for me it can go either way... i can practice more on my lousy writing or i can improve my writing... i didn't have problems in writing since primary school.. writing just comes so easy for me back then.. well... things started to take a wrong direction when i was in poly... i didnt have to write in good english all i had to do is to do mathematics -- engineering maths.. thermo-dynamics... dun have to understand the theory, i just had be good in memorising the equations....

the next thing i know, i am suffering from the i-can-neither-write-nor-spell-without-my-word-processor syndrome... i began to create my own lingo.... and my writing became terrible by chatting online with instant messengers, emails and irc... i practically write as i would talk and talk as i would write.... things were starting to pick up slowly when i quited poly and went to a college... i was not exactly comfortable with writing anymore... but i was starting to write properly, using clear, concised and simple english.. and had no problems in topping the class in communication skills and study skills... or was it because i was the teacher's pet? hmmm.....

i was reading my friend's blog today... she's an english teacher... and i was like oh my god... not only the language used was confusing.. she used bombastic words in wrong context... i remembered my teachers saying the more you read the better your writing will become... but what if i am reading the wrong stuff? take my friend for example.. if the materials i have been reading is written by people who write like her, wouldnt i be writing like her as well? forums are another source of bad reading material... if i am out to look for good academic writing i will be looking at a wrong source, wouldnt i? good to fish out information like car stuff and beauty salons, good hairstylist.. good bargains... but academic writing... something to ponder about. so for now i need to write properly for my writing unit. just praying hard that i would not come out with something like "i have no jurisdiction over my pimples"