꽃보다·남자
The last tenant moved out few days ago. Din imagine him to be terribly messy and dirty. He threw all the beer cans, left over food, dirty clothes, even "guy things" blah all at one corner of the rm leh! Stinking man! Dad and mom had to tidy up the rm for him last min... cos he actualli told my parents his dad and him would be here ysd to clear up... but they din come in the end, worse still... din even inform us. What the!? We waited for them the whole day eh! Today they came, 我爸爸脾气比较“冲”, so I tried talking to them. But yet that stupid old uncle didn't even want to hear my pt of explanation... all he blabbered on n on was his view. So wat if u had a lot of experience in renting houses? This is SG... I'm nt interested in how u guys rent rms in Egypt k?! Juz nw, I ran thru the contract carefully... yeah if u move in on the 4th of a certain mth, u have to move out by the 3rd! He kept on insisting tat as long as his son still held the key, we hav to wait for them to clear first. Yeah, uncle did thanked us for helping him tidy up, but they din pay for the damages his son did to the rm tiles! Still said "... he used to be very hygienic... 1st time like tat." Oh pls: 江山易改、本性难移! *遇到这种“假斯文人”，我们真是吃大亏啊!*
Anyway, new tenant moved in today. He was irked by the last tenant's hygiene too lol.
YB showed me sth interesting juz nw. Ppl. Try readin the long chunk below... if u can do it fluently~ congrats!
[If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.]
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
-- B. Shaw
PS: I gave up after reading like 10++ lines haha.
Finally, using my "tortoise speed" in watching drama serials... I finished watching the 3rd Korean drama serial in my life: "꽃보다·남자"! *CLAPS~* "My Girl" was the 1st Korean drama that I bothered to watch from "head to tail" (dun count the umpteen times that I fast forward in watching shows... cos I skip away parts I nt interested in hehe), and "Snow Flower" starring Ki Bum, was the 2nd one ba. That one... I agree that Go Ara's super pretty... but storyline wise... nt very attractive la lol.
I dun exactly like the ending of the show. I'd describe it as... like in a car race. This car has already gone thru many high and low... bumps here and there, driver missed "death's gate" and still, when the car's near the finishing line already, (when u think heaven's gonna be a bit more impartial to the poor driver) little probs like the tyre had to fly out, sky has to rain, and oil has to run low... make the "driver" panic. Of course, I meant audience... us. We're already so tired watching the "3 days, 3 nights" tournament, and the scriptwriters seem like they still wanna make us "jump" towards the end... yet I'm already too worn out lol... lost interest somehow. Wanna leave the spectators' crowd liao lol... cos sick of so many obstacles.
Everything seemed too rush. They macham take some details from Taiwan's version and then add inside here... and everything happened too fast... I'm referring to the short term memory loss Jun Pyo had... too short le ba? I prefer MGII one lol... more elaborated.
I think I really dislike this couple. Why can't Jun Pyo and Jan Di "behave" properly leh? One min Jan Di's giving up on Jun Pyo; the nex second Jun Pyo打死不认Jan Di~ *这对鸳鸯的相爱过程感觉比“梁祝”的还惨啦!* Okie I noe maybe it's due to the Manga la... filming according to the original mah lol.
Ji Ho and Jan Di... 智厚的肩旁真的随时为丝草准备着啊~ This guy's my fav character in "Flower Boys". I admire his courage... to continue supporting, as a true friend, for someone whom he loves... always by her side somehow. 他的伟大，是我做不到的。Hyun Joong's getting thinner towards the end... even cutting his hair short can't hide the fact. In my opinion, he's a "more feeling" HZL as compared to Vic's version ba. Can't really compare though... Vic tat time juz debut eh haha.
Ki Bum's role... I prefer to see him flirting ard with gals leh LOL! Cos towards the end, he gets all emotional and I juz can't stand it... after seeing so many emo scenes from Jun Pyo and Jan Di. 但我真的为他不能和青梅竹马的女生在一起感到可惜... tat scene when he saw the sunset and cried: "Restart... again~" was rather heart-breaking.
Woo Bin mah... I realise his charm only towards the end. 一个那么挺朋友的人, sadly he wasn't paired up with anyone haha.
Hye Sun wasn't as gd as Barbie, but she's definitely cuter haha. I like夏景too... she's like e female version of Ji Ho... juz tat she learnt to let Jun Pyo go.
Anyway, new tenant moved in today. He was irked by the last tenant's hygiene too lol.
YB showed me sth interesting juz nw. Ppl. Try readin the long chunk below... if u can do it fluently~ congrats!
[If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.]
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
-- B. Shaw
PS: I gave up after reading like 10++ lines haha.
Finally, using my "tortoise speed" in watching drama serials... I finished watching the 3rd Korean drama serial in my life: "꽃보다·남자"! *CLAPS~* "My Girl" was the 1st Korean drama that I bothered to watch from "head to tail" (dun count the umpteen times that I fast forward in watching shows... cos I skip away parts I nt interested in hehe), and "Snow Flower" starring Ki Bum, was the 2nd one ba. That one... I agree that Go Ara's super pretty... but storyline wise... nt very attractive la lol.
I dun exactly like the ending of the show. I'd describe it as... like in a car race. This car has already gone thru many high and low... bumps here and there, driver missed "death's gate" and still, when the car's near the finishing line already, (when u think heaven's gonna be a bit more impartial to the poor driver) little probs like the tyre had to fly out, sky has to rain, and oil has to run low... make the "driver" panic. Of course, I meant audience... us. We're already so tired watching the "3 days, 3 nights" tournament, and the scriptwriters seem like they still wanna make us "jump" towards the end... yet I'm already too worn out lol... lost interest somehow. Wanna leave the spectators' crowd liao lol... cos sick of so many obstacles.Everything seemed too rush. They macham take some details from Taiwan's version and then add inside here... and everything happened too fast... I'm referring to the short term memory loss Jun Pyo had... too short le ba? I prefer MGII one lol... more elaborated.
I think I really dislike this couple. Why can't Jun Pyo and Jan Di "behave" properly leh? One min Jan Di's giving up on Jun Pyo; the nex second Jun Pyo打死不认Jan Di~ *这对鸳鸯的相爱过程感觉比“梁祝”的还惨啦!* Okie I noe maybe it's due to the Manga la... filming according to the original mah lol.
Ji Ho and Jan Di... 智厚的肩旁真的随时为丝草准备着啊~ This guy's my fav character in "Flower Boys". I admire his courage... to continue supporting, as a true friend, for someone whom he loves... always by her side somehow. 他的伟大，是我做不到的。Hyun Joong's getting thinner towards the end... even cutting his hair short can't hide the fact. In my opinion, he's a "more feeling" HZL as compared to Vic's version ba. Can't really compare though... Vic tat time juz debut eh haha.
Ki Bum's role... I prefer to see him flirting ard with gals leh LOL! Cos towards the end, he gets all emotional and I juz can't stand it... after seeing so many emo scenes from Jun Pyo and Jan Di. 但我真的为他不能和青梅竹马的女生在一起感到可惜... tat scene when he saw the sunset and cried: "Restart... again~" was rather heart-breaking.
Woo Bin mah... I realise his charm only towards the end. 一个那么挺朋友的人, sadly he wasn't paired up with anyone haha.
Hye Sun wasn't as gd as Barbie, but she's definitely cuter haha. I like夏景too... she's like e female version of Ji Ho... juz tat she learnt to let Jun Pyo go.
Rating: 3.5/5
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