Sunday, January 25, 2009

Brit-speak to Ameri-speak

JOLLY OLD ENGLAND U.S.A

biscuits = cookies
brill = brilliant
brolly = umbrella
dustbin = trash can
flat = apartment
football = soccer
knackered = tired
knickers = underwear
lift = elevator
loo = rest room
Nosy Parker = busybody
ring = to call on the phone
rubbish = trash
telly = television
trainers = sneakers
tube = subway

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Air and Angels by John Donne

Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee,
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame
Angels affect us oft, and worshipp'd be;
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
But since my soul, whose child love is,
Takes limbs of flesh, and else could nothing do,
More subtle than the parent is
Love must not be, but take a body too;
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid Love ask, and now
That it assume thy body, I allow,
And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow.

Whilst thus to ballast love I thought,
And so more steadily to have gone,
With wares which would sink admiration,
I saw I had love's pinnace overfraught;
Ev'ry thy hair for love to work upon
Is much too much, some fitter must be sought;
For, nor in nothing, nor in things
Extreme, and scatt'ring bright, can love inhere;
Then, as an angel, face, and wings
Of air, not pure as it, yet pure, doth wear,
So thy love may be my love's sphere;
Just such disparity
As is 'twixt air and angels' purity,
'Twixt women's love, and men's, will ever be.

Monday, August 4, 2008

My experience of being a UiTMT student for approximately one month...

Well...my 1st week in UiTMT was very boring and stressfully....its MMS week...
i need to wake up at 4.30 a.m. every morning and joined all the activities that have been set up for us..it was really tired and i felt sleepy all the time when we're in Dewan Aspirasi..
after MMS week,everythings was changed..there's no hard rules to follow...i'm just need to go to class and study..i also felt more enjoyable and happy now...!!!!!!!