10.8.11

How to Insult Like Shakespeare

This is a useful post for variety of insults. It's more interesting than
"You are a(n) " + [some usual, boring insulting words]

"You are a dork" ---> lameeeeeee

You can be creative in combining words to the point that the person being insulted won't get what you mean until much later LOL. Plus, you may look soooo intelligent to know words from Elizabethan era!

Remember this was a time when the average person did not read, and other forms of entertainment were not readily available, but good conversation acted as a substitute.

Here it goes :
Just say "Thou art a(n)" + [choose one word from each column]
Example : "Thou art a churlish, dismal-dreaming fustilarian."
COOL, huh?

Try combining more words from column 1 and column 2 for more interesting insult :
"Thou art an artless, crook-pated, fawning, mewling, elf-skinned puttock."



FEEL FREE !!



1

2

3
Artless
Base-court
Apple-john
Bawdy
Bat-fowling
Baggage
Beslubbering
Beef-witted
Barnacle
Bootless
Beetle-headed
Bladder
Churlish
Boil-brained
Boar-pig
Cockered
Clapper-clawed
Bugbear
Clouted
Clay-brained
Bum-bailey
Craven
Common-kissing
Canker-blossom
Currish
Crook-pated
Clack-dish
Dankish
Dismal-dreaming
Clot-pole
Dissembling
Dizzy-eyed
Coxcomb
Droning
Dog-hearted
Codpiece
Errant
Dread-bolted
Death-token
Fawning
Earth-vexing
Dewberry
Fobbing
Elf-skinned
Flap-dragon
Froward
Fat-kidneyed
Flax-wench
Frothy
Fen-sucked
Flirt-gill
Gleeking
Flap-mouthed
Foot-licker
Goatish
Fly-bitten
Fustilarian
Gorbellied
Folly-fallen
Giglet
Impertinent
Fool-born
Gudgeon
Infectious
Full-gorged
Haggard
Jarring
Guts-griping
Harpy
Loggerheaded
Half-faced
Hedge-pig
Lumpish
Hasty-witted
Horn-beast
Mammering
Hedge-born
Huggermugger
Mangled
Hell-hated
Jolt-head
Mewling
Idle-headed
Lewdster
Paunchy
Ill-breeding
Lout
Pribbling
Ill-nurtured
Maggot-pie
Puking
Knotty-pated
Malt-worm
Puny
Milk-livered
Mammet
Quailing
Motley-minded
Measle
Rank
Onion-eyed
Minnow
Reeky
Plume-plucked
Miscreant
Roguish
Pottle-deep
Mold-warp
Ruttish
Pox-marked
Mumble-news
Saucy
Reeling-ripe
Nut-hook
Spleeny
Rough-hewn
Pigeon-egg
Spongy
Rude-growing
Pignut
Surly
Rump-fed
Puttock
Tottering
Shard-borne
Pumpion
Unmuzzled
Sheep-biting
Rats-bane
Vain
Spur-galled
Scut
Venomed
Swag-bellied
Skains-mate
Villainous
Tardy-gaited
Strumpet
Warped
Tickle-brained
Varlot
Wayward
Toad-spotted
Vassal
Weedy
Unchin-snouted
Whey-face
Yeasty
Weather-bitten
Wagtail


7.8.11

Vocabulary : Similar Words, Different Meanings

There are similar words in English having different meanings :

Homonyms
Homonyms are words that have the same spellings and the same pronunciation but different meanings.
Please read the previous post I've published for example.
It's a poem using tons of homonyms. Read the poem to find out more.

To understand the correct meaning of a homonym , we need to look at the context in which it appears - that is, the words in the sentence or the surrounding sentences.
The prince held a ball. All the lords and ladies attended it.
The prince held a ball. It was smooth and shiny.





Homographs
Homographs are words that have the same spellings but have different meanings and are pronounced differently.
Take a look at the examples below :

Look at him tear up the pages of the book!
She saw a tear roll down the old man's cheek.
Shall I bring present for Jo?
Mr. Tan will present the prize for the winner.
Let's conduct the experiment tomorrow.
Lucas was given a prize for his good conduct.




Homophones
Homophones are words that sound alike but have different spellings and have different meanings.

"Mine is a long and sad tale, " said the Mouse, turning to Alice, sighing.
"'It is a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad?'"
(Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

I found a funny story cleverly told by Mrs. E. T. Corbett that was widely reprinted under various titles, and often without attribution.
A prolific writer of poems and essays for children and adults, Elizabeth T. Corbett is best remembered today for her nonsense poem "Three Wise Old Women" (reprinted by Dutton Juvenile in 2004). Let's take a look at it :


A Misspelled Tail
by Elizabeth T. Corbett

A little buoy said: "Mother, deer,
May I go out too play?
The son is bright, the heir is clear;
Owe, mother, don't say neigh!"

"Go fourth, my sun," the mother said.
The ant said, "Take ewer slay,
Your gneiss knew sled awl painted read,
But dew not lose your weigh."

"Ah, know," he cried, and sought the street
With hart sew full of glee--
The weather changed--and snow and sleet
And reign, fell steadily.

Threw snowdrifts grate, threw watery pool,
He flue with mite and mane--
Said he, "Though I wood walk by rule,
I am not rite, 't is plane."

"I'd like to meat sum kindly sole,
For hear gnu dangers weight,
And yonder stairs a treacherous whole--
Two sloe has been my gate.

"A peace of bred, a nice hot stake,
I'd chews if I were home,
This crewel fete my hart will brake,
Eye love knot thus to roam.

"I'm week and pail, I've mist my rode,"
But here a carte came past,
He and his sled were safely toad
Back two his home at last.


Funny, isn't it?
I hope this post would be helpful. Thank's for reading ! :)

The English Language

Some words have different meanings,
and yet they’re spelt the same.
A cricket is an insect,
to play it — it’s a game.

On every hand, in every land,
it’s thoroughly agreed,
the English language to explain
is very hard indeed.

Some people say that you’re a dear,
yet dear is far from cheap.
A jumper is a thing you wear,
yet a jumper has to leap.

It’s very clear, it’s very queer,
and pray who is to blame
for different meanings to some words,
pronounced and spelt, the same?

A little journey is a trip,
a trip is when you fall.
It doesn’t mean you have to dance
whene’er you hold a ball.

Now here’s a thing that puzzles me:
musicians of good taste
will very often form a band —
I’ve one around my waist!

You spin a top, go for a spin,
or spin a yarn may be —
yet every spin’s a different spin,
as you can plainly see.

Now here’s a most peculiar thing —
’twas told me as a joke —
a dumb man wouldn’t speak a word,
yet seized a wheel and spoke.

A door may often be ajar,
but give the door a slam,
and then your nerves receive a jar —
and then there’s jars of jam.

You’ve heard, of course, of traffic jams,
and jams you give your thumbs.
And adders, too, one is a snake,
the other adds up sums.

A policeman is a copper,
it’s a nickname (impolite!)
yet a copper in the kitchen
is an article you light.

On every hand, in every land,
it’s thoroughly agreed —
the English language to explain
is very hard indeed!


This poem written by Harry Hemsley inspires me a lot that I think writing poem is fun. :)






29.7.11

Icip-icip Mr. Pancake

Minggu ini gw dan Kris berniat pergi ke Setiabudi One, udah lama ga kesitu, padahal dulu bisa dibilang lumayan sering. Tujuan utamanya adalah nongkrong di Mr. Pancake. Karna dulu gw ga kos, ke Setiabudi One lancar2 aja, kan belum kerja juga jadi biasa berangkat pagi/siang.


Namun karna sekarang gw kos di daerah Binus, wah macetnya ga ketolongan lagi. Belum lagi ada kegiatan byk, ada proyek juga. akhirnya baru bisa brangkat jam 4 lewat. Di tengah jalan ampun2an keselnya, karena mengejar waktu biar ga kena 3in1, jadi buru2. Tapi macet luar biasa, dan banyak yg nyetirnya oon, takut2. Mau belok kiri di perempatan harusnya langsung aja, eh malah nunggu lampu merah. Ada angkot di depan masih kisaran 1,5 meter udah ngerem, haduh. Jalan juga di tengah2, padahal itu jalannya buat 2 lane, jadi kita ga bisa mendahului. Greget bgt, pas diliat yg nyetir cewe. Pantes aja, udah pengalaman banyak kalo cewe emang nyetir nya bego. (cewe ngatain cewe hahahaha)


Akhirnya kena 3in1 dan terpaksa sewa joki berupa sebuah ibu2. Jadi ga asik ngobrol deh -___-



Di Mr. Pancake Setiabudi One, kita pesan 3 menu dan 1 minuman, tapi menunya bukan main course ya.
Kalo mau main course ada spaghetti dan lain-lain tapi belum pernah coba juga.


1. Chocoholic Lovers Pancake (semua menu pancake bisa diganti waffle) +/- 27rb
Caption di menunya : Original Pancake, served with Belgium Chocolate Sauce, Premium Chocolate Ice Cream and sprinkled with crushed Oreo.
Di gambar mungkin terlihat kecil, tapi aslinya gede kok diameter nya, karena ukuran piringnya juga jumbo ga kaya piring biasa. Gw pribadi sih kenyang makannya. Wah ini recommended BGT deh, bner2 enak bgt. dan memang kerasa kalo coklatnya premium, ga terlalu berminyak dan ga terlalu manis, bittersweet. Adonan pancake nya sendiri sejauh ini yang paling enak yang pernah gw makan. Ga terasa kering dan ga berasa tepung, lembut bgt dan empuk. Kuning telurnya lebih banyak, jadi premium dan lembut. Dan lagi masih berasa anget. TOP DEH. Kalo ke Mr. Pancake this is the first menu to order!


2. Durian Pancake +/- 32rb

Caption di menu :
Original pancake with homemade durian sauce, premium vanilla ice cream, sprinkled with sliced almond and granished with fresh strawberry.
Gw sih emang ga suka duren. Ini punya si Kris, cium baunya aja ud enek bgt kalo gw. Cuman si kris emang ahli duren bgt, kalo ke Honeymoon Dessert juga pesennya durian pancake mulu. Kalo menurut dia sih, ini enak dan recommended juga bagi pecinta durian hehe.


3. Potato Wedges +/- 18rb
Untuk potato wedgesnya memang agak mahal sih, isinya sekitar 7 wedges/ porsi. Cuma enak kok, saosnya juga enak. Ga nyesel.


Untuk minuman gw pesen Lychee ice tea (es teh dengan 4 buah leci + ekstrak leci) +/- 23 rb
Kris pesen Green Peach Punch (soda peach) +/- 24rb

Jadi total ngemil 134rb di bon.

Overall, Mr. Pancake oke bgt, rasanya enak. dan emang udah byk review kalo dy ini the best pancake in town. Walaupun ga setebel P*ncious, tapi harga jauh miring. Recommended deh. Untuk liat menu lengkapnya bisa klik link ini (+ harga)
menu 1 

Kalo diliat dari rasa, emang resto ini juara, tapi ada beberapa teman yang bilang kalo spaghetti disini agak kurang enak, makanya gw ga pesen spaghettinya, tapi untuk rasa pancakenya sungguh juara! Recommended deh buat dtg ke sini, tempatnya juga cozy dan feels like home bgt.

Untuk melihat dimana aja outletnya, dtg langsung aja ke official websitenya , klik lgsg aja di judul post ini. Happy eating :) 

18.3.11

Sherly and The Cheesecake Factory

This is not a sequel of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, teehee.
Few days ago, I went to The Cheesecake Factory (I'll call it CCF from now on) at Tomang, West Jakarta with my boyfriend.

Since I've visited CCF web here, I always daydream about its products, haha. The soft texture, sweetness, and creamy look of its cake and French pastries seem like heaven to me. They are pictured as the most tempting dessert in my mind, just as pictured on the web.


I wanna share my *memorable* experience in CCF.




THE ATMOSPHERE
==============
i like the atmosphere. warm and elegant.








THE FRENCH PASTRIES
===================



Triple Cheese Cake (Rp 17.000,00/slice)


Tiramisu (Rp 17.000,00/cup)


Triple Chocolate Cheese (Rp 17.000,00/slice)


I ate tiramisu first. I always love tiramisu, that's why it becomes my order. So classic, so old, so ordinary, but i like it. haha.

First bite : I think this is creamy. 
Second bite : No, this is so greasy. 
Third bite : Too greasy, actually. 
Fourth bite : is this really tiramisu? I only taste its greasiness in my mouth. Where's the sweetness and all?
Fifth bite : My stomach's full
Sixth bite : I wanna puke. I feel like eating fat.
Seventh bite : I don't think i can make it. I really need to puke.

Last bite : I promise myself not to eat THIS STUFF again, ever.
I've never eaten any tiramisu that's as bad as CCF's.

I also try a bit of two other pastries and my opinion is still the same. I feel like eating fat. It makes you full just by eating some small spoon of it. It makes you want to puke, so much. The cake doesn't taste sweet and puffy. I don't know how to describe it. It makes your stomach full in a bad way.

I don't like any of them, AT ALL. Maybe i'm just not meant to be their loyal customer. I think they have quite many customers though, because they are opening their branches just like everywhere.

I just don't go with the mainstream, maybe. I wanna know others' opinion about CCF pastries, do you think it's good?




THE DRINK
==========

Pina Colada (Rp 30.000) : Can I switch this with mineral water please?
Honeydew Smoothies  (Rp 30.000) : Better, but still....

Well, I bought 2 jars of cookies from CCF. I think it's quite good. You better try the cookies than the pastries. 

Snowy Almond (Rp 45.000)


Crunchy Vanilla (Rp 35.000)


I recommend CRUNCHY VANILLA (Flour, Icing Sugar, Butter, Vanilla essence, Cornflakes). It tastes both sweet and a bit salty. I like it.  :)

I've once tried A La Carte at FX Lifestyle Center, Senayan. It serves the same type of products as CCF, but in a better way. The cheesecake is heaven. The drinks are better.
The price range is the same.


But i still wanna go back there sometime, i haven't tried this :

Grilled Chicken Breast

I will, soon.








25.2.11

My opinion : Hollywood Movies are about to be withdrawn from Indonesia

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is withdrawing Hollywood films from the Indonesian market -- a reaction to sudden tax increases.

In the past, the MPAA paid only $20 per meter of film but now that’s increased to $43 a meter, as well as 24% import duty tax and an income tax of 10-15% of profits.


Here is the complete story :

Lately in Indonesian newspapers, the government said that they will overlook about this tax increase and negotiate with MPAA. But The government has denied reports that it plans to 
introduce a new tax on royalties obtained from the distribution of foreign films.


WONDERFUL, DUH! -.-


My opinion?
All cinemas in Indonesia will be led into bankruptcy. seriously.
As far as i know, me, and my friends, and the majority of Indonesian citizens rarely watch Indonesian movies in Cinemas. For myself, I haven't watch ANY of them in cinema.
Why? To be honest, Indonesian movies are poor. pathetic if i may say. 
They are only about sex, horror, and cheap comedy. Only few Indonesian movies categorized as AVERAGE, not above average, such as Laskar Pelangi, etc.


In comparison to Hollywood movies, duh, i don't have to explain. They say don't judge the book by its cover, but in this term, if you see Indonesian movie posters and then you compare it to Hollywood movie posters, you may judge them directly. 


If they say this fool tax increase will help promoting Indonesian movies, THEY ARE SO WRONG. What they did is destroying the cinema and movie industry. Seriously, as i have seen on TV many people would better not coming to watch anything in cinema instead of spending money for Indonesian movies.


And that's including ME. Government PLEASE THINK!! You think only about how much money you can get from corrupting the tax!!! 


they are SO L.A.M.E.
enuff said

Winner Never Quits

Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasters post 
since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. 
He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name,
 
he would never be famous. He is 
Amitabh Bachchan.
 
------------------------------------------- 
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition 
for the executives of the Decca Recording Company. 
The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, 

one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are
 
on the way out." 
The group was called 
The Beatles. 

-------------------------------------------- 
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency 
told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, 
"You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married". 
She went on and became 
Marilyn Monroe. 

---------------------------------------------- 
In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, 

fired a singer after one performance. He told him, 
"You ain't goin' nowhere son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck". 
He went on to become 
Elvis Presley. 

-- - -------------------------------------------- 
A small boy--the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, 

was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. 
He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by
 
religion and rockets.
 
The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed 
multiple times
 
and he was made a butt of ridicule. 
He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India 
single-handedly. He is 
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
 President of India. 

------------------------------------------- 
When 
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, 
it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers.
 
After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, 

"That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?" 

------------------------------------------- 
When 
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, 
he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. 
A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. 
He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. 
It just happened to be a 2000-step process". 

------------------------------------------- 
In the 1940s, another young inventor named 
Chester Carlson 
took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in 

the country.
 
They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, 
he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company, 
to purchase the rights to his invention--an electrostatic
 
paper-copying process.
 

Haloid became 
Xerox Corporation. 

------------------------
------------------ 
A little girl--the 20th of 22 children, 
was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, 
she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, 
which left her with aparalyzed left leg. 


At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on 
and began to 
walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, 
which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner.
 
She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every 
race she entered, 
she came in last. 


Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running.  One day she 

actually won a race. 

And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. 
Eventually this little girl-- 
Wilma Rudolph,  went on to win three Olympic gold medals. 

---------------------------------------- 
A schoolteacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics 
and for not being able to solve simple problems. 
She told him that you would not become anybody in life. 
The boy was 
Albert Einstein
 

So Funny : Wrong E-Mail to Wrong Woman


A man checked into a hotel.There was a computer in his room,so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife.
However, he accidentally typed a wrong e-mail address,  and without realizing his error, he sent the e-mail.
Meanwhile....
Somewhere in Houston ,a widow had just returned from her husband's funeral.The widow decided to check her e-mail,expecting condolence messages from relatives and friends.
After reading the 1st message, she fainted.
The widow's son rushed into the room found his mother on the floorand saw the computer screen which read: **
 To: My Loving Wife 
 Subject: I've reached
 Date: January 31, 2004





 I know you're surprised to hear from me.
 They have computers here;
 we are allowed to send e-mails to loved ones.
 I've just reached and have been checked in.
 I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
 Looking forward to seeing you TOMORROW!** **
 Yours
 Loving Hubby.....