Its been a long week.

Comparisons, comparisons.

One looks back and thinks: sure I had to work for thankless bosses, crap pay and put up with the scum of today's youth. But at least back then I had a definite number of hours to work, fixed off days, and overtime pay. Was it really so bad?

Yes. Yes it was. Dead end job, possibility of me snapping and taking a chair to one of the kids, and lastly, I wouldn't have been able to bring you this breaking news.

English is supposed to be your second language if you're anything other than Caucasian. Bit different here, where the ones that go to school learn English on a first-ish basis. And a good lot of us go to school, no?

Most do alright in the language. They come out of school with a good working knowledge of the language. Yes, "working knowledge", though many, and I do not exclude myself, think they know English.

Oh, and our official National Language is Malay.

We get along well enough. Not too many Yeats, Dickens or Austens around, but we get along.

Now, it may be presumptuous of me, but I would like to think if you're a qualified doctor, a politician, and hold numerous positions of authority - the standards have to be ever so slightly higher.

We're not asking him to pen sonnets to the Merlion. Just to know the difference between "its" and "it's".

A fair number of people make the same mistake. Most think the two are interchangeable. On an unrelated note, most are high school students.

I wouldn't be bringing this up, but for that the person in question once reviewed a piece of copy both Mr Ancob and I wrote, edited and proofread the hell out of. He put in, let's call them "questionable" changes. He also told us what a bad job we did - that we had poor grammar and sentence structure - and made a note for future submissions to be better efforts.

Yes sir, we will improve. Thank you for you're invaluable feedback.

If I don't say anything in two weeks, BadAss man's got me.