Don’t think much

As read from the title, it’s my class’s weekly journaling.. WOOHOO!! Time to slack work! Ah shit. It’s suppose to be yesterday’s post. Oh well~ It doesn’t matter right? So, like what the title said, there’s many kinds of barriers we will faced in life. Some of us will approach the barrier and try to break it down while some are just not bothered by it. Which one are you? I’m the second one XD. Back to the topic. Now, we are asked to eleborate on why we are avoiding it and not at least try to look at it. Well, i will take the politics as my example. Why am i not bothered to read what’s happening to our world? Well~ To me, I feel like it doesn’t really bother me and no point knowing what happen. So for once, i shall at least take a look at the politics world. A chinese politics to be exact. It’s about the election of a new chief Hu Jintao. So he got elected after a few rounds of elimination ( i think. XD) So.. Ya, he is the new CCP chief and his aim is to create a communist world (like duh~) Only thing he had difficulty in is to bring the separated parties together.. That’s all i know.. XD

 Yesterday was a Fu** up day. Had soccer for sports and wellness. Had some warm up and the sole of my shoes came off. To think it’s bad enough, i knocked against someone big and my specs bent. In the end i had to go home without wearing specs. Don’t wish to say anymore. Anyways, thanks mel for inviting me to your party!

Anyways, here’s Word of the Day for Sunday, October 28, 2007

valetudinarian \val-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un; -tyoo-\, noun:

1. A weak or sickly person, especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health.
2. Sickly; weak; infirm.
3. Morbidly concerned with one’s health.

He is the querulous bedridden valetudinarian complaining of his asthma or his hay fever, remarking with characteristic hyperbole that “every speck of dust suffocates me.”
– Oliver Conant, review of Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: Volume Two 1904-1909, edited by Philip Kolb, translated by Terrence Kilmartin, New York Times, December 17, 1989

All this from a wasted valetudinarian, who . . . once referred to “this long convalescence which is my life.”
– Michael Dirda, “Devil or Angel”, Washington Post, March 31, 1996

Other than the Holy Scripture, he cared for no book as well as the book of decay, its truths written in the furrows scored on the brows of old men and women; in the sagging timbers of decrepit barns; in the lichenous masonry of derelict buildings; in the mangy fur of a valetudinarian lion.
– Simon Schama, Rembrandt’s Eyes

Valetudinarian derives from Latin valetudinarius, “sickly; an invalid,” from valetudo, “state of health (good or ill),” from valere, “to be strong or well.”

And Word of the Day for Monday October 29, 2007

terminus \TUR-muh-nuhs\, noun:

1. The finishing point; the end.
2. A boundary; a border; a limit.
3. A post or stone marking a boundary.
4. Either end of a railroad or other transportation line; also, the station house, town, or city at that place.

Rather their train would come up from Southampton to Paddington railway station, the terminus for Queen Victoria’s special train whenever she traveled to London from Windsor.
– Jonathan Schneer, London 1900

Roth had reached a kind of terminus — the end of the beginning, as it were.
– Jason Cowley, “The Nihilist”, The Atlantic, May 2001

Terminus is from the Latin word meaning “limit or boundary.” It is related to term, “a limited period of time,” and terminate, “to bring to an end.”

videos, videos, videos! Enjoy!

I met up with ridwan in the afternoon at sunplaza mac.. Don’t ask me why out of so many places we chose to meet there but ya, we met there.. lol.. Had a difficult time finding a good spot to sit down since the mac is SO packed.. So, we took out our laptops after we found a seat near the door.. We “traded” items and my full batt went down to around 40% in a short time.. wow! Since we couldn’t find a spot where the sockets are, we decided to try our luck at the library above.. Meh.. It was crowded too! we then found a cosy corner and settled down for about 5mins before getting chased by the people there cause we are sitting next to the janitor’s room.. We didn’t even want to find another spot inside there since the whole of sunplaza is flooding with people.. Battery running out and no place to surf the net.. What can we do? We have no choice but to go to my house where it’s not crowded and the sockets can be found everywhere.. Had some fun in the house and i learned that there’s a cool website ( merriam webster) which is similar to the dictionary website, but only it’s better for we don’t have to sucribe to get the full features.. A good place to get your pronunciation right for free.. We went off at around 8pm.. Yes.. It’s WE.. i went to my aunt’s house while he said he wanted to go to causeway point to scale down the size of the score sheet.. So we parted at the bus stop.. So basically, today’s a “trading” and catching up session.. So night!

Today’s word of the day is:

impecunious \im-pih-KYOO-nee-uhs\, adjective:

Not having money; habitually without money; poor.

Her father, Bronson, was a respected but impecunious New England transcendentalist who had ‘no gift for money making’, according to [Louisa May] Alcott’s journal.’
– “Blood and Thunder in Concord”, New York Times, September 10, 1995

He had gotten to know Garibaldi during the impecunious soldier’s last years and would send him woolen socks, underwear, and money.
– Tag Gallagher, The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini

It may be urged that an impecunious defendant would be unable to bear the expense of an appeal and would have to let it go by default.
– Charles C. Nott Jr., “Coddling the Criminal”, The Atlantic, February 1911

Impecunious is derived from Latin im-, in-, “not” + pecuniosus, “rich,” from pecunia, “property in cattle, hence money,” from pecu, “livestock.”

Hope u learn something useful today~ Now for some chilling time..Ex-canberran, look carefully at the videos to find someone familiar..

Woohoo!! Had a long day today.. Was in front of the laptop almost the whole day.. I think i might go blind any time soon XD. I have been thinking on whether to buy the toolbox.. It cost S$109.. Bloody expensive.. Don even know got what.. Only know have a DMM(digital multimeter) which cost around 60 to 80 bucks..

Went to Tsubasa club after lunch and we watched 2 animes which i can’t remember what name.. Only remember 1 of anime called ?? of the himiko.. The story plot for first episode makes no sense at all.. lol.. The second anime is about a guy being saved by a mermaid and was asked to marry the mermaid called seito (i think).. It was a very comical anime that made everyone laughed till they “peng”(fall)..

About the title.. It’s the new broadband that we have subcribed.. Finally~ It’s mio.. Don’t even know if it’s good.. Still testing it out.. Only know that i have to becareful with what i’m dling.. Heard that singnet is strict on certain downloads.. So to all singnet users.. DOWNLOAD WITH CARE XD.. Oh.. Waiting for my sis’s phone to get repaired so that her current phone will be mine.. woohoo!! Can’t wait to change my phone ever since the news of iphone came out.. So now i shall proceed to the word of the day.. cya!

bravado \bruh-VAH-doh\, noun;
plural bravados or bravadoes \bruh-VAH-dohz\:

A real or pretended show of courage or boldness.

While the popular mood in Belgrade remains defiant, unease beneath the bravado is growing.
– “No end in sight”, The Economist, April 15, 1999

His guerrilla operations, near Kabul, were known for their bravado and a level of organization unusual among the rather haphazard mujahedeen.
– Lisa Schiffren, “Remembering Abdul Haq: The Taliban executes an Afghan patriot”, The Weekly Standard, November 12, 2001

The company’s culture of swashbuckling bravado encouraged risk taking without accountability.
– Ram Charan and Jerry Useem, “Why Companies Fail”, Fortune, May 27, 2002

His mom was a nurse, incredulous at his bravado. “Why would anybody want to go to war?” she asked.
– Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

The students often compared public schools to prisons, with fear in their voices mixing with bravado.
– Alissa Quart, “Classroom Consciousness”, The Nation, June 10, 2002

Bravado derives from Spanish bravada and French bravade, “swagger, bravery,” and is related to brave, “bold, courageous,” bravura, “a brilliant style or performance,” and the Italian interjections bravo! and brava! used when expressing approval of male and female performers respectively.

wee!! Another new word learnt, not that i have used them before.. lol.. Whatever.. Now for some entertainment..

(WARNING!! ABUSING OF VULGARITIES)