You don’t find many good TV commercials but this is definitely a good one
Isn’t Mercedes supposed to be an innovator. Why is there presence of the Audi LED lights then? Nothing compares to the original though.
Browsing Junkgirl™ blog archives for September, 2010.
is Hokkien for bamboo leaf wrapped glutinous rice. In Mandarin, it’s Zhong zi. It is traditionally prepared and consumed on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. However, as we progress through time, it is now available 365 or 366 days a year. It can now even be found in the chinese grocer in Melbourne. This one cost 3.80.
This is what i’ve learnt (with my own interpretation fo the pronunciation) after weeks of numbers in French..
Un-male (an) / Une-female (ewn) – One
Deux (duh) – Two
Trois (trwah) – Three
Quatre (cat-r) -Four
Cinq (sank) – Five
Six (sees) – Six
Sept (set) – Seven
Huit (weet) – Eight
Neuf (nef) – Nine
Dix (dis) – Ten
Eleven to Sixteen has words of their own whilst Seventeen to Nineteen is just ten plus seven, eight and nine respectively.
Onze (onz) – Eleven
Douze (doohz) -Twelve
Treize (treiz) – Thirteen
I find the following two a little harder to remember but the pronunciation sounded like ‘cattles’ and ‘cows’ to me so i used that to help me remember
Quatorze (cat-tohrz) – Fourteen
Quinze (kehnz) – Fifteen
Seize (sez) – Sixteen
Dix-sept (dis-set) – Seventeen
Dix-huit (di-zweet) – Eighteen
Dix-neuf (diz-nuf) – Nineteen
Twenty to Sixty isn’t that hard but Seventy to Ninety can be rather confusing
Vingt (vah) – Twenty
Trente (trengt) – Thirty
Quarante (keh-ranght) – Fourty
Cinquante (senk-kont) – Fifty
Soixante (sueh-sawn) – Sixty
Trente et un (trent-e-an) – Thirty-One
This is where is gets a little confusing but once you get the idea, it isn’t too hard to understand…
Soixante-dix (sueh-sawn-dis) – Seventy (is actually sixty-ten)
Quatre-vingt (cat-r-vah) – Eighty (is actually four-twenty)
Quatre-vingt-dis (cat-r-vah-dis) – Ninety (is actually four-twenty-ten)
And this is where is gets even more confusing, at first…
Soixante-douze (sueh-sawn-doohz) – Seventy-two (is actually sixty-twelve)
Soixante-dix-neuf (sueh-sawn-dis-nef) – Seventy nine (is actually sixty-nineteen)
Quatre-vingt-quatre (cat-r-vah-cat-r) – Eighty-four (is actually four-twenty-four)
Quatre-vingt-treize (cat-r-vah-treze) – Ninety-three (is actually four-twenty-thirteen)
Quatre-vingt-dix-sept (cat-r-vah-dis-set) – Ninety-seven (is actually four-twenty-seventeen)
and
Cent (sank) – Hundred
On a side note, if someone as dumb as me can learn the above, everyone who belittles me shouldn’t have the slightest problem, correct? Yes, I can’t drive, I don’t how to check car fluids and tyre pressure, I can’t prepare soup, I don’t know how to park a car, I can’t cook rice, I can’t make decent dishes, I am technology illiterate, I don’t know anything, I can’t do anything. That is what the world sees and tt’s great to be underestimated. Just like the Chinese saying ‘The silent dog is the one that bites the human to death’.
Mr You-think-you-are-so-cool, you are doing nothing but embarrassing yourself, your people and your country. Your verbal assault doesn’t even come close to a bee’s sting. Is that all you can say? Suck banana? How are you any different from the people you think you are criticizing. I don’t even get the point you are trying to get across, if there is one. If you can’t be more be more articulate or give more constructive criticism, then please keep your trap shut. The least you can do is to get the names right. It’s Siti Nurhaliza, not Siti Nurhariza.
If this is the generation you represent, the country is going to be doomed. People should stop pointing fingers at the other races and the government. They should take a good, hard look at their sons and daughters instead. If Namewee gets deported from the country, I’ll be the first to pop a bottle of champagne. One less person to ridicule the country and cause more tensions. We don’t need you, Mr You-think-you-are-so-cool. You do more damage than good.
A little note i left for Ming Zhi on his burogu…
for breakfast, at Gloria Jeans. Another Thursday morning.
with a song playing in the background. The singer sounded familiar so I SoundHound-ed. I was right. It is…
Selecting seats on flights form part of the planning and preparation for travelling as well. And with the amazing internet, it isn’t difficult at all to know which exact seats are preferred, which exact seats to request, if one has the initiative. Some may have the attitude of ‘I’ll take whatever seats is given to me”…the whatever attitude. No. You paid a good price for your seats and so should make the effort to select your preferred seats. Or at least try to request for your preferred seats. We should have a certain level of requirement. People with the ‘Anything will do’ attitude just doesn’t take much interest in things or their lives.
I prefer to have information in front of me when discussing, negotiating or requesting. A reference. For the 4 legs of the trip, which are rather long-haul, I tried to request for seats in the 57-59 rows. I was offered seats in row 61 for one of the legs. If i didn’t have the above reference in front of me, I wouldn’t know that those were not so ideal seats. Seats 70-73 are rather good too but just too far back. I never quite fancy the last rows on transportation. I find myself more prone to motion sickness sitting that far back. My preferred choice is the window seat, of course. But DT prefers the aisle seat. So if it is 3 seater, it has to be one or the other. Otherwise, we will end up with a stranger sitting in between.
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