Hi All

Hmm.. did not update my blog yesterday.. Found it quite difficult to stay at home with all the “noise pollution” from drilling and dragging of equipments from the roof of my block.  Yeah.. my block’s undergoing some repainting works and will only be completed towards the end of June

This morning, I was surfing the net for some course info and happened to stumble upon some interesting knowledge..

Apparently, I have been misusing 2 words (and God only knows how many more will I discover down the road) ”revert” and “kindly” in written correspondences such as emails or notices to clients and colleagues.

Well, in my previous employments, it is not uncommon finding me using sentence such as ” please revert soonest possible” freely..  However, to my surprise.. I got to know from that particular website dat I had been using the term ”revert” wrongly.   Revert as it means “return to its previous state or condition”.. All along, I had been using revert in place of “reply”.. well.. its kinda late for me to realise this mistake but on the other hand, glad dat I manage to correct myself so dat it will not be repeated in future.

The other word is “kindly”… Sample sentences are  ”kindly send me the cheque by this week” and “kindly pay at the cashier”  Sound harmless eh? Well, at least to me it did.  However, to my horror, the source went further to explain dat “when u use the word kindly, it often means dat u r annoyed with the person u r writing to” .. Thus it would be better to use the word “PLEASE”.

Guess it’s time for me to take up some courses to polish my English.