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HI!!!!!!! HAPPY BELATED HALLOWEEN!!! Didn’t had time to blog about it yesterday.. Before i start talking about yesterday, i want to thank melissa and her family for the party yesterday.. THANKS!! It was a great party though it ended early.. So we (jonathan, ridwan, jia zheng, michelle, yee meng and I) met at admirity and we went to melissa’s party.. All of us were like wearing going out clothes except for jon, he came as a ninja (at least he tried his best).. We reached the place and janedoe’s (melissa) friends were all geared up for the party.. There’s like little red riding hood, witch, picaso and i can’t remember the rest.. Ling xuan, nadira and lester came after we reached and settled.. So, we had games and had dinner.. We left the place at 10pm after helping out in cleaning the place.. Nadira was complaining that it ended early and wanted to party somemore.. But in the end she ended up going home after the party.. After lester sent nadira home and we( jz, jon and I) sent ling xuan home, we went to mac to chill abit.. Wait, where are the rest of the people? Yee meng, michelle and ridwan went home early. They had lots of things to do. Reach home around 11.30pm and had a short game of DotA with jz.. I ended up sleeping halfway through the game.. lol.. That ended the whole of yesterday’s after school activity.. I just realised i have been short changed.. The word of the day is not up to date!!
Now for the word of the day for 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.”
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.”
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