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Weeee~ Super bored today. I was so bored that i played Need For Speed – Pro Street, Heroes of Might and Magic V, Hitman - blood money and a match of DotA for today. Went out at 2.10pm today and met yee meng, jonathan and lester for a mini chicken rice and small gathering session. Serious. We went to eat the chicken rice at block 900++(925 i think), behind/beside the yishun bus interchange. We chatted and chilled for awhile. Talked about going to ubin, the dragon boat incident and i can’t remember what else.

Went home to play more games and watched a short section of Batman before a gun shot could be heard. It was SO stentorian that i flew off my chair. SOMEONE JUST FIRED A SHOT!!!! WHO DIED??? Well, no one died except for a bird or two. For those living in yishun should know that there’s an annual bird shooting event. Something annoying about it is that they never giving warning and just shoot. Oh, i remember an incident where i was cycling home 1 to 2 years ago, they had the shooting done at a cross junction beside the chong pang CC. I was waiting for the green lights and they fired a shot. You can see birds flying around and one of them “chua sai” (got frightened and poo-ed) and kanna me. Like wth. I cycled home and and throw away my shirt straight. Oops. Gtg. I hear someone calling my name. Bye!!

Don’t think i will forget the word of the day and upload videos. Heh.

recumbent \rih-KUM-bunt\, adjective:

1. Reclining; lying down.
2. Resting; inactive; idle.

While the lovers’ intricately carved tombs — with their host of angels surrounding the recumbent figures of the deceased — draw crowds, the soaring space of the Gothic cathedral and the peaceful abbey cloisters seem to swallow and silence the busloads of visitors.
– Jill Knight Weinberger, “Monuments To Love’s Labors”, New York Times, August 15, 1999

Winser was still recumbent but in his frenzy he was trying to writhe his way back onto his knees, kicking and twisting like a felled animal, struggling to wedge his heels under him, half rising, only to topple back again onto his side.
– John le Carré, Single & Single

Mr. Bloom, semi-recumbent on a reclining chair, speaks in long sentences, interrupting himself with long parenthetical remarks that contain parentheses of their own.
– Richard Bernstein, “A Perennial Scrapper Takes On God and the Bible”, New York Times, October 24, 1990

Recumbent comes from the present participle of Latin recumbere, “lie back, to recline,” from re-, “back” + -cumbere “to lie.”

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Here’s a video before i go. Enjoy!

Wait. I decided to put 1 more. Lol.

It’s been awhile since i last blogged. We had a presentation by a group of Japanese people talking about their country and festivals. It was pretty interesting as they try their best to speak english. There’s something that i never knew about japan until now. So did you know that the Japanese people alight the bus at the front and they get on the bus at the back? Oh, i heard that their cab fare rate goes by distance and the starting price is around 7 to 8 singapore dollars. And and their bathtub has a controller to control the temperature of the water. The best part about the bathroom is the toilet bowl. It has the ability to warm the seats and helps you wash your ass. Isn’t cool? Below are some of the pictures to make things clearer.

The above picture is the controller for temperature.

That’s their bathtub with the controller on the wall. Below is the toilet bowl.

That’s about it. Now for the word of the day.

extirpate\EK-stur-payt\, transitive verb:

1. To pull up by the stem or root.
2. To destroy completely.
3. To remove by surgery.

A plant growing where it shouldn’t is a weed. An object for which you have no need or sentimental attachment is garbage. Extirpate the one, toss the other.
– Philip Kennicott, “The Symphony’s Misbegotten ‘Moon’”, Washington Post, January 14, 2000

There had been no great missionary impulse in the Turkish incursions, no urge to extirpate the old ways.
– Fouad Ajami, “The Glory Days of the Grand Turk”, New York Times, May 2, 1999

If Soviet espionage or capitalist plots against the Soviet Union are malignant growths, it requires a professional to extirpate them by methods as unkind to random bystanders as radiation may be to healthy tissue.
– Robert Leachman, “Super Thrillers and Super Powers”, New York Times, February 19, 1984

Extirpate derives from Latin ex(s)tirpare, “to tear up by the root, hence to root out, to extirpate,” from ex-, “from” + stirps, “the stalk or stem or a tree or other plant, with the roots.”

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wiseacre\WY-zay-kuhr\, noun:

One who pretends to knowledge or cleverness; a would-be wise person; a smart aleck.

All across the United States, journalists and other wiseacres would soon have a field day with the popular mayor’s personal problems and public trials.
– Herbert Mitgang, Once Upon a Time in New York

A wiseacreon the Oakland to Los Angeles shuttle this week said the next technological leap would be implanting cell phones into people’s heads. He was kidding — we think.
– Chuck Raasch, “California is November prize for candidates”, USA Today, August 24, 2000

Wiseacre comes from Middle Dutch wijssegger, “a soothsayer,” from Old High German wissago, alteration of wizago, “a prophet.”

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deipnosophist\dyp-NOS-uh-fist\, noun:

Someone who is skilled in table talk.

At the age of six his future as a deipnosophist seemed certain. Guzzling filched apples he loved to prattle. Hogging the pie he invariably piped up and rattled on.
– Ellis Sharp, “The Bloating of Nellcock”

Deipnosophistcomes from the title of a work written by the Greek Athenaeus in about 228 AD, Deipnosophistai, in which a number of wise men sit at a dinner table and discuss a wide range of topics. It is derived from deipnon, “dinner” + sophistas, “a clever or wise man.”

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postprandial\post-PRAN-dee-uhl\, adjective:

Happening or done after a meal.

A gourmand who zealously avoids all exercise as “seriously damaging to one’s health,” he had caviar for breakfast and was now having oysters for lunch, whetted with wine, as he fueled himself for a postprandialreading at the Montauk Club in Brooklyn.
– Mel Gussow, “The Man Who Put Horace Rumpole on the Case”, New York Times, April 12, 1995

When I wake up in the morning, I can have my usual breakfast — a slightly bizarre concoction of three kinds of cold cereal topped with grapes and a cup of decaf — and then stagger back to bed for a postprandial snooze.
– Sylvan Fox, “It’s Less Hectic Staying Put In One Place”, Newsday, April 3, 1994

Postprandial is from post- + prandial, from Latin prandium, “a late breakfast or lunch.”

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Want to watch some videos? Here’s two choices.

That’s for car lovers. Now for those who likes comedy. (contains vulgarities and racism)

Weee~ Went for secondary school band camp yesterday. The great thing about it is that i slept at 2+ 3am the day before the camp and i woke up at 7am yesterday to go for the camp. Left secondary school at 12pm for my  CATS lesson. Even though i took a cab down to school, i was still late for 10mins.. After CATS was SnW. We didn’t do much for SnW for it rained hard at around 1pm. After that, i went home and shower and stuff.

Went back to secondary school at around 8++ because of a traffic congestion due to a crash accident at a junction after mandai road. It was so~ cool to see a van with the 4 wheels off the ground. Btw, it’s  3 cars and a van crashing at an area. The front of the 3 cars was badly damaged. It’s like what you watched in shows, the hood flew off and you can literally see the engines of the cars. coool~

Alright, back to the camp. When i reached, they just finished their night trail and was preparing for the night movie. They watched “remember the titans” at the commerce room while chistina, tomimiiiiiii(can’t remember how many “i”s he had) and me were at the band room with the air con watching “stomp the yard”. Didn’t want to stay in school but after the movie, it was already 12 midnight. So we 3 decided to stay in school and sleep in the bunks. Didn’t really get a good sleep, waking up after a few minutes of sleep. Woke up at 5.30am and left the school. Wanted to  sleep after i reached home. So guess what, after i bathed i was so awake that here i am blogging. wee~ Oh, now’s 7.25am and i have lesson at 10am. So, i gtg to prepare myself for the day. And don’t worry, i’m going to sentosa later to have more fun at the camp!!! I’m sooo~ going to die due to lack of sleep….

Now for the word of the day before i go.

comport\kum-PORT\, transitive verb:

1. To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner.
2. To be fitting; to accord; to agree — usually followed by ‘with’.

Considered friendly and funny in private, the queen has a formal, remote air in public that some people attribute to shyness and others say is a reflection of her belief that, as monarch, she should comport herself with dignity and restraint.
– Sarah Lyall, “Tradition and Personality Keep Elizabeth Far From Her Subjects”, New York Times, September 5, 1997

Her aides comport themselves like members of a cult, their faces a jittery mix of adoration and fear.
– Maureen Dowd, “Siamese Senators”, New York Times, May 26, 1999

It comports with the clear meaning of the U.S. Constitution.
– “Making War the Legal Way”, Denver Rocky Mountain News, March 26, 1998

Fairchild says he decides cases “to comport with previous law and also with justice.”
– Cary Segall, “Fairchild Keeps on Judgin’”, Wisconsin State Journal, August 1, 1999

Comport comes from Medieval French comporter, “to conduct,” from Latin comportare, “to carry, to bring together,” from com-, “with, together” + portare, “to carry.”

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flout\FLOWT\, transitive verb:

1. To treat with contempt and disregard; to show contempt for.
2. To mock, to scoff.
3. Mockery, scoffing.

The thorough training in the fine points of lyric writing that he has received from Hammerstein has made Sondheim highly critical of those lyricists who flout the basic techniques of the craft.
– “Sondheim: Lyricist and Composer”, New York Times, March 6, 1966

Seth and Dorothy were completely mystified by Janis’s determination to flout as many social conventions as she could.
– Alice Echols, Scars of Sweet Paradise

Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn
By dressing it in rags.
– Tennyson, Idylls of the King

Flout comes from Middle English flouten, “to play the flute.”

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Now for a cool video on how to charge an ipod without using the wall charger and your computer. Enjoy!