Happy or sad??
This few days i have been quite busy. OK. Not really busy, and I’m free most of the time. Sunday was a dunno-what-to-do day and i basically slacked all day.
Yesterday was a ****ed up day. I had lessons starting at 1pm. That’s good for a start. So, i woke up early to prepare myself and went down to buy a budgetted shoe for my sports and wellness. Wanted to take a passport photo but the shop isn’t open. Till now, in fact, even after school it was like a normal routine. I heard that my sister’s phone was sent for repair or checking and i was able to collect it. Hearing that, i thought it’s time for me to change to my sister’s current phone. From there, i took the initiative to go to causeway point to collect the phone. I was happily thinking that i could finally change into a new phone. Reached there at around 7pm and collected my queue number. I then smsed my sis to tell her that i’m collecting the phone and from there onwards, my mood changes. Alot of sms-ings and calls went on in 30mins. I decided to ask the service counter and they told me that the phone was beyond economical repair. Called my mum to tell her about it and she asked me to just pass them the letter and asked cindy (dunno who also) to call her.. And i basically wasted my time there looking like an idiot not knowing the situation in hand. To conclude, i didn’t get a new phone and i wasted around 1 1/2 hrs on a hungry stomach.
Today i had a make-up lesson which starts at 8am. I ended up doing nothing for i wasn’t even listening to what the lecturer as to say. Wee~ wasted my time again. After lunch was another perfecto lesson. Didn’t even know what lesson it was. I just went in to class and chat with my friends. Great, i wasted my time again. After lessons, i went to have my dinner which cost me a bomb. Ate yong tao hu (assorted ingredients and a bowl of noodles). I merely ordered some measly ingredients and laksa (curry noodles) and it cost me 4 bloody bucks. It practically burn a hole in my pocket. After complaining for so long, i went for my cca, RC. Ended quite late and someone in the club burnt a battery charger which cost 150 bucks. Woohoo!
oh, sorry for cramming up what happened into a post. So here’s 3 word of the day and many videos!!
Word of the Day for Sunday, November 4, 2007
sciolism \SY-uh-liz-uhm\, noun:
Superficial knowledge; a superficial show of learning.
Religion was mostly superstition, science for the most part sciolism, popular education merely a means of forcing the stupid and repressing the bright, so that all the youth of the rising generation might conform to the same dull, dead level of democratic mediocrity.
– Charles Waddell Chesnut, Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
American classics teachers’ choice in the early national period to focus on gammer rather than other aspects of the classical inheritance resulted from their primary pedagogical goals: to mold gentlemen who navigated between sciolism and pedantry, ministers who could intelligently read the Bible, and citizens who were moral and dutiful.
– Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism
Sciolism comes from Late Latin sciolus, “a smatterer,” from diminutive of Latin scius, “knowing,” from scire, “to know.” One who has only superficial knowledge is a sciolist.
Word of the Day for Monday, November 5, 2007
woolgathering \WOOL-gath-(uh)-ring\, noun:
Indulgence in idle daydreaming.
Similarly, in the meadow, if you laze too late into the fall, woolgathering, snow could fill your mouth.
– Edward Hoagland, “Earth’s eye”, Sierra, May 1999
It would be easy to slip off into woolgathering and miss a deadline.
– Jeraldine Saunders, Washington Post, March 4, 2004
Plagued by guilt, they took refuge in wine, women, and woolgathering.
– Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust
The soprano roused Fergus from his woolgathering.
– Sandra Brown, Where There’s Smoke
Woolgathering derives from the literal sense, “gathering fragments of wool.”
Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 6, 2007
bete noire \bet-NWAHR\, noun:
Something or someone particularly detested or avoided; a bugbear.
Even more regrettable, as far as Dame Edna is concerned, is the presence of her old bete noire, the extravagantly disgusting Sir Les Patterson.
– “The Dame’s New Man”, Daily Telegraph, April 18, 1998
Never an exceptional student, Andrews somehow managed to navigate the academy’s rigorous courses with satisfactory grades, though all forms of mathematics were agonizing to him, remaining what he called his “bete noire” throughout life.
– Charles Gallenkamp, Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions
Bête noire is French for “black beast.”
V-v-v-v-Videos!!!!!
Something familiar?
Some of you might have watched the below clip before.. But wth, you can always watch it again. ;p
One of my favourite when i was young
