4 May 2005

Diet

From www.webster.com

Diet: (noun) 1 a : food and drink regularly provided or consumed
b : habitual nourishment
c : the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for
a special reason
(verb) to cause to eat and drink sparingly or according to prescribed rules

Once, during my secondary school days, I used the above word in the following sentence,
" ... the diet of the golden hawk eagle...",
the word diet was circled in red ink after my oh so competent E Lang teacher at that time marked it. I figured that she probably never encountered the word diet in a context other than as a meal plan designed to lose weight. I hated her ever since then, since she has always stuck me as being too eeriely cheerful and pretentious, and it didn't help that she practised favoritism.

Her surname was Tang, I think, i hope she now knows that diet can be used in the above manner.

I'm writing this down as a highlight to how much I've changed over the years. If this was to happened to the present me, I would look up the dictionary to make sure that my answers are correct and then I'll confront her.

The me at that point in time just said nevermind, eventhough I was sure that I was right.

Sigh, how much a person changes.

Wished that I'd been more outspoken when I was younger, it would have been a lot more fun for me.

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