I’m the king!!
Cigarettes and alcohol anyone?.. Lol.. Today’s a big day for me! woohoo!!! Going to bbdc (bukit batok driving centre) on saturday to enrol for theory lessons.. WOOT!!! Can’t wait!! Hope today’s a good day to start with though it rained just now.. Oops~ I gtg.. Lesson starting now and i’m still not in class.. Will blog soon~ Bye-bi!!!!
amity \AM-uh-tee\, noun:
Friendship; friendly relations, especially between nations.
For at least the first two years of the war, as a Confederate soldier and writer, John Esten Cooke, phrased it, there were “pitched battles once or twice a year,” in which the two sides spent all day killing each other, “and then relapsed into gentlemanly repose and amity.”
– Stephen W. Sears, “Valor Couldn’t Save Them”, New York Times, July 5, 1987
The precise nature of their relationship cannot now be uncovered, and might well have resisted analysis at the time; it remained a matter of mutual services and obligations, the filaments of which over the years created a network of amity and trust.
– Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More
He regards Cordell Hull as the bright particular star of the Roosevelt Administration and heartily approves the Secretary of State’s efforts to promote international amity and reciprocal trade.
– Cleveland Rodgers, “Robert Moses”, The Atlantic, February 1939
Amity comes from Old French-Medieval French amistié, amisté, ultimately from Latin amicus, “friendly, a friend,” from amare, “to love.”
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benefaction \BEN-uh-fak-shuhn; ben-uh-FAK-shuhn\, noun:
1. The act of conferring a benefit.
2. A benefit conferred; especially, a charitable donation.
Rockefeller’s taxable income was then $33,000,000 and that his total fortune was probably more than $800,000,000. At that time he had distributed about $500,000,000 in public benefactions.
– “Financier’s Fortune in Oil Amassed in Industrial Era of ‘Rugged Individualism’”, New York Times, May 24, 1937
It may be, as some social psychologists argue, that the competitive urge to gain more is in time replaced by an equally competitive urge to win fame and favor through public benefactions.
– Robin W. Winks, Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation
Benefaction is from Late Latin benefactio, from Latin benefacere, “to do well, to do good to,” from bene, “well” + facere, “to do.”
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hermitage \HUHR-muh-tij\, noun:
1. The habitation of a hermit or group of hermits.
2. A monastery or abbey.
3. A secluded residence; a retreat; a hideaway.
4. (Capitalized) A palace in St. Petersburg, now an art museum.
She had left her father’s surviving subjects to manage as best they could and climbed even higher in search of the lonely sanctity she had always craved. Now Rose requested her to keep an eye open for the twins who would pass within a few miles of her abandoned hermitage.
– Alice Thomas Ellis, The Sin Eater
When it grows cold, we return to the hermitage where I am ending my days.
– Christophe Bataille, Hourmaster (translated by Richard Howard)
Your oath I will not trust, but go with speed
To some forlorn and naked hermitage,
Remote from all the pleasures of the world.
– Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.
– Richard Lovelace, “To Althea from Prison”
Hermitage is from Old French hermitage, from heremite, “hermit,” ultimately from Greek eremites, “dwelling in the desert,” from eremia, “desert,” from eremos, “solitary; desolate.”
Yippeee~
Weeee!!!! A new year is here and this means I’m a year older soon!!! Woot~ Can’t wait to be 18 fast. License license license.. Oh, although it’s abit late but I want to thank all those who had organise outings and parties last few years. I realise that although the outings most of the time end up in don’t what to do, but isn’t it all fun at the end of the day?
Woot~ Today no CATS lesson for the lecturer is on MC. Hope she get well soon. Well, this also means that i no need to go to school till 3pm!! Oh, I have to thank someone for telling me that just before i leave the house. Thanks Yuit Yeng!! Talking about school, A week has passed since school started. Time sure fly past us real fast. This also means that our exams are creeping up real fast and so is our coming holiday!! Haiz.. Holiday holiday holiday.. While everyone can relax or work for money, I will be spending my time in Hue, Vietnam, building toilet, painting house and much more. A fifteen day trip which starts on 9th march.
Oh, this few nights have been really weird. It always happen before i sleep. I kept thinking about a life and death incident at sentosa’s siloso beach where i almost drowned. All thanks to Jonathan and wen jun that i’m still here typing. I don’t know why it keep popping out of my head everytime i put my head on the pillow. What is it trying to tell me? Why does the thought cut at where jonathan was swimming back to save me? Oh well, I’m sure I know what the dream meant when the time is right. Ok, I shall end off here. By the way, today’s guo rong’s birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUO RONG!! I’m sure he doesn’t read my blog but wth, it’s the thought that counts. Oh, if anyone of you happen to know any good animes that is available online for me to watch, please tell be about it. Thanks!
A safety bike or a very cool stun? You decide.
I dare you to take a ride with that taxi driver.
I shall not cramp all the new words that i have missed in a post. So here’s 3 for you to learn!!
tocsin \TOCK-sin\, noun:
1. An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
2. A warning.
Some of the allegations put round are so frenzied, however, that some caution should be exercised before the tocsin is rung too loudly.
– “New President of the NUS”, Times (London), April 10, 1969
The first atomic bomb fell and its radioactive cloud became a tocsin for mankind.
– Herbert Mitgang, “The Bomb as Horror and Warning”, New York Times, August 1, 1990
But Mr. Beckett is wise in choosing the form of the myth in which to sound his tocsin on the condition of human society.
– Brooks Atkinson, “Beckett’s ‘Endgame’”, New York Times, January 29, 1958
Tocsin derives from Medieval French touquesain, from Old Provençal tocasenh, from tocar, “to touch, to strike, to ring a bell” + senh, “church bell,” ultimately from Latin signum, “sign, signal.”
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finical \FIN-ih-kuhl\, adjective:
Extremely or unduly particular in standards or taste; fastidious; finicky.
The paintings incorporate the random and arbitrary . . . within a practice that nonetheless requires finical accuracy; there is a degree of almost mindless repetition and filling in involved, but the resulting forms are unpredictable and uncategorizable.
– Barry Schwabsky, “Ingrid Calame: James Cohan Gallery”, Artforum, February 1, 2004
That the director, who is known for his finical selection of stars, has zeroed in on Aamir says a great deal about his faith in the actor.
– “Images: Movie Matters”, News India, November 15, 1996
Finical yet never fussy, thorough but not obsessive, Westermann the woodworker is a joy to behold.
– Mario Naves, “H. C. Westermann”, New Criterion, May 1, 2002
Finical is probably derived from fine.
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calumny \KAL-uhm-nee\, noun:
1. False accusation of a crime or offense, intended to injure another’s reputation.
2. Malicious misrepresentation; slander.
They would see to it that every suspicious whisper and outright calumny would be repeated in print, breathing fire into the growing spirit of faction.
– William Safire, Scandalmonger
They protest to him against the universal order, and then reward his kind words by calumny and accusations of . . . inhumanity and cruelty.
– Paola Capriolo, Floria Tosca
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
– Shakespeare, Hamlet
Calumny comes, via Middle French, from Latin calumnia, from calvi, “to form intrigues, to deceive.” The adjective form is calumnious.
