nicthegeek

overheard on taiwanese radio:  避孕廣告
子宮内什麽什麽什麽，如果常常忘記吃避孕藥，這是最好的方法。。。  

Orz

overheard at lunch 1
阿伯 1 正準備出國，啊，不是，是回國。
阿伯 2 問：從那一庁出境。
阿伯 1 回答：老的老的。
阿伯 1 和阿伯 3 開始
我 （吃飯中頓了一下）心理OS: 阿伯，你是在指家裏那位‘老的‘ 嗎？囧

overheard at lunch 2:
man: you (referring to female colleague) have a cheeky smile
female colleauge: ya! everytime I smile like that, people always tell me i have something up ON my sleeve
me: 囧 + ”’

overheard at lunch # 1 brings me to last week’s encounter…
我下了班后，不是很餓，所以就繞道去mr bean買豆奶當晚餐，店員都是大陸同胞。
我 （聽者耳機）：豆花水，熱的，一杯
店員：（愣了兩秒鐘，盯住我看）
我：（啊，可能因爲聼耳機，講話太小聲） 熱的，一杯 （指了她旁邊一大通的豆奶）
店員： （又愣了兩秒鐘）
我：（有點不耐煩了， 把耳機抓了出來）：豆奶，熱的，一杯！
店員：（愣了半秒鐘）：噢！ 燒的！
我：囧，是的，燒的。

這是文化在鬧小革命嗎？

Looking around for ways to finish up my bottle of citron vodka, and this seems the most yummy way, considering the heat we’ve I’ve been enduring.

Ingredients:
7 c. water
2 c. sugar
12 oz. can frozen Orange juice
12 oz. can frozen Lemon Aid
3 c. Vodka
4 Green tea bags made up with 2 c. water
(9 c. of water all together)

Directions:
1. Boil 7 c. water and sugar till sugar melts.
2. Make Green Tea up with the other 2 c. of water.
3. Mix Tea water into the sugar water.
4. Add in the Lemon Aid, Orange Juice and Vodka.
5. Put all into a large plastic container and Freeze.
6. When frozen, it will only be to a Slush stage due to the Vodka, spoon Slush into tall glasses and pour in 7-UP, Sprite, Squirt or any other clear soda pop of your choice.
7. Can garnish as desired with mint leaves, Lemon or Lime slices.

smoking, spacing out and sweltering in the hot sun this morning (the sacrifices i make!), a colleague passed me by and asked what was I thinking about so hard?

actually at that very moment, I was thinking wouldn’t it be nice to take a day off and go nua at sentosa with iced lemon tea, dark sunnies, suntan lotion and a good book.

snuck this link off Tym: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/2008_olympics_opening_ceremony.html

no matter how much i want to boycott this year’s event, I have to say the opening ceremony was IMPRESSIVE. I didn’t watch the whole shebang, just a little bit when shir and I were eating dinner. the performers were dressed circa i dunno which dynasty…just think 赤壁. I did remark to shir, 他們會不會重演中國五千年歷史? she thought about it for a split second before telling me 哇，降ceremony到明天還沒有表演完耶.

Because I tend to lose things when I bury them deep deep deep in my bookmarks, here’s a copy off about.com posing as a blog post:

Ten Quick Tips to Improve Your Writing
By Richard Nordquist, About.com
Filed In: Composing Essays

Whether we’re composing a blog or a business letter, an email or an essay, our goal should be to respond clearly and directly to the needs and interests of our readers. These ten tips should help us to improve our writing whenever we set out to inform or persuade.

Lead with your main idea.
As a general rule, state the main idea of a paragraph in the first sentence–the topic sentence. Don’t keep your readers guessing.
See Practice in Composing Topic Sentences.

Vary the length of your sentences.
In general, use short sentences to emphasize ideas. Use longer sentences to explain, define, or illustrate ideas.
See Sentence Variety in Thurber’s “Life and Hard Times.”

Put key words and ideas at the beginning or end of a sentence.
Don’t bury a main point in the middle of a long sentence. To emphasize key words, place them at the beginning or (better yet) at the end.
See E.B. White’s New York in the 1940s.

Vary sentence types and structures.
Vary sentence types by including occasional questions and commands. Vary sentence structures by blending simple, compound, and complex sentences.
See Basic Sentence Structures.

Use active verbs.
Don’t overwork the passive voice or forms of the verb “to be.” Instead, use active verbs in the active voice.
See F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New York in the 1920s.

Use specific nouns and verbs.
To convey your message clearly and keep your readers engaged, use concrete and specific words that show what you mean.
See Descriptive Details in Wallace Stegner’s “Town Dump.“

Cut the clutter.
When revising your work, eliminate unnecessary words.
See Practice in Cutting the Clutter.

Read aloud when you revise.
When revising, you may hear problems (of tone, emphasis, word choice, and syntax) that you can’t see. So listen up!
See On Reading Aloud.

Actively edit and proofread.
It’s easy to overlook errors when merely looking over your work. So be on the lookout for common trouble spots when studying your final draft.
See Revision Checklist and Editing Checklist.

Use a dictionary.
When proofreading, don’t trust your spell checker: it can tell you only if a word is a word, not if it’s the right word.
See Commonly Confused Words and Fifteen Common Errors.

We’ll close with a cautionary note borrowed from George Orwell’s Rules for Writers: “Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”

竟然被打綠的演唱會打敗。。。可是，我有理由：昨晚財睡了5個鐘頭！ 是地，我的理由也是多過肉油！

我的天，我真的是阿宅，以下的22個特鎮，我大概持有17各以上！！！！！！ oh my godddddddd 應該高興嗎？

1．痴迷于某事物如动漫、电玩、书籍；某人，如歌星、网络名人；某事情如手工制作、烹调等等，此种痴迷也允许是突发性的，突然间迷恋上，不能自拔。
2．需要依赖电脑，长时间不能用电脑将会很要命，甚至陷入抓狂状态。
3．依赖网络，干什么都想上网，即使上网觉得没事做，也要经常挂在网上。
4．有时候会对上班/上学，产生累的想法，想逃避，但却没有办法。
5．作息时间不稳定，不太愿意遵守一个死板的规整作息时间。
6．极少出门，与其出门，不如呆在家里，总之就是懒得动。即使是接到朋友的出门邀请，也会花些时间考虑要不要去。
7．不喜欢接触陌生人，在现实生活中，如果没有摸清对方的脾气和个性，就不太愿意与他做深入的交流，频繁接触陌生人会有不自然的感觉。
8．性格多少有两面性，在不喜欢的事情面前，会掩饰自己内心想法，得过且过，有时候感觉自己有双重性格。
9．有收藏癖，最少喜欢收藏一种或者多种物品，并乐此不疲。
10．体型相对标准型而言偏胖或是偏瘦。
11．是独行侠或单身贵族。
12．喜欢写日志或日记，或用相片记录自己的生活。
13．有喜欢上虚拟人物的倾向，例如漫画里面的角色，书本里面的角色等非现实生活中的人物。
14．或多或少都会被人评论自己有点闷骚。
15．追求懒散闲适生活
16.不管额头有多高，在家里会把头发夹起
17.随便站在厨房吃东西
18.最近只有爬楼梯让自己心跳
19.忘记东西不脱鞋而直接以脚尖踩地到房间拿
20.假日不化妆也不穿胸罩
21.一个人也敢上热闹的餐厅吃饭
22.认为在家看漫画也比跟男人谈恋爱有趣