Broad definitions

Some words in the English language can be use to define a full range of activities or entities that differ significantly in scope and application. It is interesting how the same word has so many usage that leaves the reader baffled when it comes up. Sounds like I am babbling? Please read on:

1) Work

Now this is an all-encompassing term, used in our modern day to entail all activities you engage in that ultimately contributes to your paycheck. Depending on your actual job scope, the phrase "I am working now" can cover the following activities:

i) Slogging in front of the PC frantically doing endless reports or replying a never-ending stream of questions
ii) Playing golf
iii) Drinking coffee and talking about golf
iv) Eating lunch or dinner and talking about golf
v) Having a beer and talking about golf
vi) Soaking in the hot pool and talking about golf
vii) Calling a client while shopping for golf accessories
viii) Going to a client's office to talk about golf
ix) Taking golf lessons
x) Seated in front of your PC and thinking about golf


2) Busy
Usually used in conjunction with the phrase "Don't disturb me now, I am......"
Its coverage is even greater than 1) as it encompasses but is not limited to the usage above. Other common use in additional to 1) includes
i) Gossiping with colleagues
ii) Bearing the brunt of your boss' nonsense, frequently after he is a recipient of the same from his boss
iii) Watching TV/movies/the spider crawling on the ceiling
iv) Admiring (read:oogling at) girls/cars
v) Shopping although this is the exclusive right of the fairer sex
vi) Accompanying/talking to Gxxxx (okay, only one person uses this definition)
vii) Manicure/pedicure/skin-kena-cure(d)
viii) blogging (hahahahaha)
ix) shading 4-D tickets

3) Urgent
As this term can by no means be treated exhaustively in my non-Encyclopedia Britannia rivaling entry, usage here refers to circumstances that pertain to your female friends's usage in activities that require your immediate attention. In case you missed that out, its IMMEDIATE attention
i) Anything to do with them
ii) nothing else

4) For your own good
This phrase has been used by everyone from your mother to your colleague who refused to give you a hand. I have learnt in twenty something years in life that it could refer to one of the following:
i) eating horrendous vegetables that taste like grass that has just been organically fertilized
ii) complaining to your boss that you ignored their trivial enquiry
iii) forcing you to walk under the hot sun at a time when you are supposed to be in bed
iv) humiliation

5) Friends
Ah, what a wonderful word that encompasses such a broad range! That wonderful catch-all word that seems to explain a relationship completely, look what it encompasses:
i) People whom you encounter in your job whom you can approach for assistance either directly or indirectly
ii) People who are mysteriously in your contact list but you have not the foggiest idea whom they are
iii) Colleagues who call you that when they need a favor from you
iv) People whom you share every minute detail of your banal existence with
v) That person who occupies your every pleasant thought every waking moment for the past years