Two weeks from tomorrow morning I get on a plane for Hong Kong, there to join my room-mate, whom I have never met, to fly with her to Singapore. The weather this week in Singapore is about 32 degrees Celsius. I'm going to pack my extra luggage this weekend, to be picked up and shipped to my shipboard cabin. I'll send my clothes ahead. I'm taking my papers and projected work with me in my carry-on. I'd sooner lose clothes than my papers and thoughts. They're not deathless but they're mine. They're not even irreplaceable, but they're mine. I will take one good outfit with me because as near as I can figure out the time, I will be going to high tea at Raffles Hotel in Singapore before I reach my clothes. I have a date with Somerset Maugham and Noel Coward and I wouldn't want to be turned away for lack of a decent appearance.

It's finally going to happen. Well, as they say, I won't hold my breath, but I am getting breathless.

This will be the beginning of my travelblog. Wow.

Is anyone old enough to remember that line, supposed to be a witty riposte to the grammar pedant who stated that you should never end a sentence with a preposition? That's how I remember what a preposition is:

"a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for?”"

And yes, the online Dictionary confirmed my memory and yes, it was Winston Churchil, as I had suspected, who objected to the rule (originally derived from Latin grammar), by saying, "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put."

I've already complained about what I perceive to be incorrect prepositions, like bored of, instead of with. Here are a few more. Tell me what you think:

"oblivious of", not to

"immune to", not from

"wean off", not from

and "wean on" not to

"annoyed with" a person

"annoyed at" being stung/bitten by a mosquito?

Do mosquitoes sting or bite?