just me myself and i: March 2006

Lisa gets the cut

Lisa's out! Her performance yst was really terrible - her worst by far. She has been at the bottom three for as long as i can remember. But she's still young with lots of potential, i believe she'll have an album one day.

Katherine got the second least votes - that really came as a surprise. What happened??! Ace got all the votes for being so-called cute??! Get real lar. Katherine's so much more deserving. Hope the voters will wise up next time.

My vote's for Elliot

Most of them were disappointing. Ace was crappy. Bucky was so-so. Got bored with Chris already. Mandisa was ok. Kellie chose a boring song. Taylor was quite good. Katherine - the judges said that she was almost as good as christina aguilera - couldn't agree more. And I thought Paris was excellent. But the best performance has got to be Elliot - he did a gavin degraw but rearranged the song.. superb!!

Cool language

English is such a beautiful language. Play around with the words in a sentence and you'll end up with a completely different meaning. Say it this way and it'll sound rude, but articulate it carefully and it'll sound pleasant.
Got this email before the existence of blogs. And now receiving it again - definitely deserves a spot here! hehe.. Here goes.. the Queen's language at it's playful best!

The Absurdity of English

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
but though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly,
boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns down,
in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
So if Father is Pop, how come Mother isn't Mop

As ridiculous as it may sound, it is that absurdity that contributes to its uniqueness.

Cornershop's Brimful of Asha

My one hit wonder compilation has led me to search this particular lyric. Cute.

Brimful of Asha - Cornershop

There's dancing behind movie scenes
Behind the movie scenes
Sadi Rani, she's the one that keeps the dream alive,
From the morning, past the evening,
Until the end of the light

Chorus:
Brimful of Asha on the forty-five
Well, it's a Brimful of Asha on the forty-five
Brimful of Asha on the forty-five
Well, it's a Brimful of Asha on the forty-five

And singing, illuminate the main streets and the cinema aisles
We don't care about no government warning
About that promotion of the simple life
And the dams they're building

Repeat Chorus
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom(Repeat 2x)
Mine's on the forty-five

Mohammed Ruffi (forty-five)
Lata Mangeshka (forty-five)
Solid state radio (forty-five)
Ferguson mono (forty-five)
Mon public (forty-five)
Jacques Dutronc and the Bolan Boogies
The Heavy Hitters and the chi chi music
All Indian radio (forty-five)
two in ones (forty-five)
ovvo records (forty-five)
trojan records (forty-five)

Repeat Chorus
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom(Repeat 5x)
Mine's on the forty-five

7-7,000 piece orchestra set

Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Mine's on the RPM

Repeat Chorus to fade

One hit wonders

Mix fm's morning crew is now doing some major compilation of one hit wonders. This got me into the mood of compiling my own list - err.. as if i got nothing better to do! hehe..

lemon tree (fool's garden)
breakfast at tiffany's (deep blue something)
your woman (white town)
brimful of asha (cornershop)
the one and only (chesney hawkes)
dying inside to hold you (timmy thomas)
macarena (los del rio)
the right kind of love (jeremy jordan)
unbelievable (emf)
ice ice baby (vanilla ice)
i'm gonna be 500 miles (the proclaimers)
i'm a bitch (meredith brooks)
more than words (extreme)
i'd do anything for love (but i won't do that) (meatloaf)
mouth (merril bainbridge)
return to innocence (enigma)

Hhmmm.. that's all i can think of at this moment. I'm sure there are many more. Anyway I better save my brain juice for something more useful! hehe..

Ta-ta chicken little

Arrghh... Kevin is out of American Idol! :<
He has such a wonderful and strong voice - he did a josh groban beautifully in the initial audition. Sigh.. was actually hoping Ace to leave this week.

Occupational hazard

My work hazard...

Unwanted tan.

Skin cancer.. Touch wood!

Chronic venous disease.

Piles.

Road mishaps. Touch wood!

Shoulder and body ache!

Amazing kid's proverbs

Received this forwarded mail. Cute ;p

Amazing kid's proverbs
A grade one teacher collected well known proverbs. She gave each child in her class (grade one kids or 6 yr olds) the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb...

Strike while the ..........................insect is close.
Never underestimate the power of............ants.
Don't bite the hand that....................looks dirty.
Better to be safe than......................punch a grade 7 boy.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll...........stink in the morning.
It's always darkest before..................DaylightSaving Time.
You can lead a horse to water but...........how?
No news is..................................impossible.
A miss is as good as a......................Mr.
You can't teach an old dog new..............maths.
Love all, trust.............................me.
The pen is mightier than the................pigs.
An idle mind is.............................the best way to relax.
Where there's smoke there's.................pollution.
Happy the bride who.........................gets all the presents.
A penny saved is............................not much.
Two's company, three's......................the Musketeers.
Don't put off till tomorrow what............you put on to go to bed.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you,
cry and.....................................you have to blow your nose.
There are none so blind as..................Stevie Wonder.
Children should be seen and not.............smacked or grounded.
If at first you don't succeed...............get new batteries.
You get out of something only what you......see in the picture on the box.
When the blind leadeth the blind............get out of the way.
And the favorite: Better late than............pregnant!

God is Great!

Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.

"Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened for you. Everyone who asks will receive. Everyone who searches will find. And the door will be opened for everyone who knocks."

Matthew 7:7-8

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it!

Idol-land!

American Idol is back.. yippee!!

Heaved a sigh of relief when loud-mouthed Brenna left, but didn't expect Ayla and certainly not Gedeon to be out last Friday!

And now it's down to the final 12, and they will be doing stevie wonder this wed. The past three weeks had seen them doing what they were most comfortable with, so this will be quite interesting, esp to get something different out of Chris, Bucky, Kellie...

I'm rooting for...
Katharine - reminds me of joss stone
Paris - cute girl, excellent singer & performer
Kellie - dejavu.. think carrie underwood
Elliott - didn't like him initially (due to his laziness), but he can really sing lar
Taylor - quirky but loveable
Kevin - has a good voice

Missing in action??

Weeks out of the blogging scene (both posting and reading included) has left me almost forgetting how to post my stories.

And Sexy Siren has loads of 'new' postings that i have yet to read! ;p

Hhmmm... and there goes in my archive section.. "December", "January",.... oopps no february, and on with "March"!! Sigh...