Don’t think much

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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