2010年10月18日星期一
2010年8月1日星期日
Movie - Inception
STOP
READING IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE MOVIE!
Levels
of
Dreamhttp://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/film/5-levels-inception-infographic.html
I personally don't think we have levels of dream. The levels of dream in the movie give me a sense of entering hell, especially when the ultimate level is called "limbo". We do have different phases of sleep. We also have levels of consciousness. The levels of dream in Inception are like call-forwarding. I wouldn't say it's getting deeper anywhere. It's just going from room one to room two until room five.
I personally don't think we have levels of dream. The levels of dream in the movie give me a sense of entering hell, especially when the ultimate level is called "limbo". We do have different phases of sleep. We also have levels of consciousness. The levels of dream in Inception are like call-forwarding. I wouldn't say it's getting deeper anywhere. It's just going from room one to room two until room five.
You can find a lot of explanation about Inception here:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Inception-Explained-Unraveling-The-Dream-Within-The-Dream-19615.html
But I'm more like this guy:
http://frontalot.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=2991&sid=4b0e0937a803df520a3b561192f77d8e
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So far, I had taken full control of a dream twice.
The first time, the dream is so scary I tried to figure out how I got myself into such situation. Things were so illogical I found out that I must be dreaming. I manipulated it for a while and I woke up. Guess designing your own dream is no fun.
The
second time, I woke up from a bad dream. I wanted to alter it into a
good ending. I planned the ending, went back to sleep, accomplished
the mission. This happened only once because usually during a bad
dream, your body will create adrenaline (putting you into a flight or
fight condition) and you will sweat quite a lot. When you wake up,
it's too excited to get back to sleep immediately.
2010年7月4日星期日
IKEA - English or Swedish
A
Hong Kong IKEA commercial is driving me crazy. The kid pronounces it
'it-key-ah'. If you want to pronounce it in English, it should rhyme
with "idea"; i.e. 'eye-key-ah'. If you want to pronounce it in Swedish,
it sounds like 'ee-care'.
2010年6月18日星期五
Dr Qooble is a Secret Agent!
I pick this pamphlet from my mailbox today. OMG! I must be an old-English teacher because the English here is very odd to me.
Grammar, syntax, vocabulary, usage, or expression, No question too simple? Can you find any verb in this ...er... line? Every sentence must have a verb. A lot of Chinese students have the same mistake - skipping the linking verb. Try say this in Chinese "She is very beautiful". No verb eh? That's why. Then, a very good use of commas until the capital N screws it.
Write an essay an assignment submitted to Dr Qooble, He will proofread and mark your writings, give you comment and positive advices..Is it some new font which a full stop/period looks exactly the same as a comma? If it's a list of action, there should be a comma between "an essay" and "an assignment":
--> "Write an essay, write an assignment, submit to Dr Qooble and he will..."
If "submitted" is the verb, there's no subject. A writing cannot 'submit' itself.
--> "Write an essay or an assignment and submit it to Dr Qooble..."
OOOH!!! --- "submitted" sounds like "submit it" --- OMG (oh my gosh)Last "advice" is uncountable.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?lextype=3&search=advices
http://www.iciba.com/advices/Either Dr Qooble is far from HK or he's disclosing us some top secret!
Last 2 full stops. Is it Dr Qooble, his assistant or the typist?
Wanna take a look at the back of the pamplet or visit the website?
First of all English question is not the same as question about English. It has something to do with the UK's politics.
A noun before another noun, the first noun acts as an adjective. For example, carrot juice is juice with the taste of carrot; a vegetable person is a person who is like a vegetable (probably in coma).
A noun before another noun, the first noun acts as an adjective. For example, carrot juice is juice with the taste of carrot; a vegetable person is a person who is like a vegetable (probably in coma).
Grammar, syntax, vocabulary, usage, or expression, No question too simple? Can you find any verb in this ...er... line? Every sentence must have a verb. A lot of Chinese students have the same mistake - skipping the linking verb. Try say this in Chinese "She is very beautiful". No verb eh? That's why. Then, a very good use of commas until the capital N screws it.
Write an essay an assignment submitted to Dr Qooble, He will proofread and mark your writings, give you comment and positive advices..Is it some new font which a full stop/period looks exactly the same as a comma? If it's a list of action, there should be a comma between "an essay" and "an assignment":
--> "Write an essay, write an assignment, submit to Dr Qooble and he will..."
If "submitted" is the verb, there's no subject. A writing cannot 'submit' itself.
--> "Write an essay or an assignment and submit it to Dr Qooble..."
OOOH!!! --- "submitted" sounds like "submit it" --- OMG (oh my gosh)Last "advice" is uncountable.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?lextype=3&search=advices
http://www.iciba.com/advices/Either Dr Qooble is far from HK or he's disclosing us some top secret!
Last 2 full stops. Is it Dr Qooble, his assistant or the typist?
Wanna take a look at the back of the pamplet or visit the website?
2010年6月12日星期六
2010-06 海南*三亞之旅 (road trip) - 風景
Along the road ...
Vehicles and our car getting on the boat ...
2010年5月18日星期二
Go Banana = becomes crazy; Go Toilet ???
"to"
gives readers a sense of action done towards a place. Here, "go" is an
intransitive verb (i.e. no object; nothing to accept/receive the
action). One can make a toilet, break a toilet, flush the toilet (all transitive verbs) but 'go a toilet' doesn't make any sense. So one has to say "I go to school by bus."
Another meaning of "go" is "to be". For example: "go bananas" means "go crazy", i.e. to become crazy. I don't think your teachers would want to know if you want to be a toilet.
Sometimes, we go shopping, we go swimming ... Here, shopping and swimming are activities. Toilet is a thing. So you should say "Teacher, may I go wee wee/poo poo?" which is like in Chinese 先生, 我想痾屎!
2010年5月10日星期一
Are You Finished?
I tend to ask students if they 'are finished'. But they laugh as if I'm asking if they're dead.
Alternatives:
Are you done?
Are you through?
To or not to. That's the questions.
Student's
sentence: "We should help our parents to clean the house." Her teacher
crossed her 'to'. "To or not to. That's the question."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv226.shtml
2010年4月26日星期一
Here Comes the Tenses! - 6 Present Perfect
-
about a period of time which is continuing; for unfinished actions and events; time stated is not finished (with since, for, still, yet)
I've practised my piano since 4 o'clock. (it's 4:15)
I've lived there for 4 years. (still living there)
I still haven't finished my homework.
Mum hasn't prepared dinner yet.
The builder have started working on the kitchen this week.
-
express recent event (often with just); to focus on the results of an activity or event which is complete
Jack has just been to the bank.
I've mentioned the car. (= I've just finished so we can go out in it now)
- unspecified past even or time is irrelevant; talk about how many times something has happened (with adverbs like already, before, ever and never; after a superlative)
I've lost my new camera. (it's irrelevant when)
Pete has been to New York 3 times.
I've met her before somewhere.
It's the biggest dog I've seen.
2010年4月21日星期三
2010年4月19日星期一
Here Comes the Tenses! - 3 Present Continuous
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present moment; temporary action with now, at the moment, at present, or just
I'm wearing a pair of old jeans.They're eating lunch at the moment.
-
current projectWe're working on our geography project this month.
-
changing or developing situations with always or continually
You're always buying new video games! (you buy too many) -
unexpected things happens several times
I'm always meeting my neighbour John near the station. -
arranged plansJanice is meeting Frank tomorrow at 2 in the coffee shop.
Here Comes the Tenses! - 2 Simple Present
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happen regularly & habits
Jason takes the bus to work every day. -
general truth
The moon goes round the earth. -
permanent situations
I work in Central. -
to describe the plots of books and films
The story begins and ends in Spain. The year is 1937. -
for scheduled events with a future meaning
timetables - My plane arrives Hong Kong on Saturday at 14:30.
programmes - The meeting starts on Wednesday at 9:30.
plans - The speaker arrives on Tuesday afternoon.
Here Comes the Tenses! - 5 Past Continuous
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for interrupted action
They were eating dinner when he arrived home
-
2 things happening at the same time
He was buying a burger and all the crowds were walking past.
-
for exact time in the past
I was reading last night at 9:30 p.m.
Here Comes the Tenses! - 4 Simple Past
-
for completed actions and events in the past
We caught the bus.
-
time stated is finished (time stated is not finished, use present perfect)
I spent this morning studying maths. (it's now afternoon)
-
past period of time with for or ago
I lived there for four years.
I finished it half an hour ago.
-
at a particular time in the past
Flight 206 landed at one o'clock.
2010年4月17日星期六
HPV – LLETZ
一切從檢出「非典型鱗狀細胞」開始。再用 DNA 檢出 HPV33，屬高危。
Wednesday 入養和。普通病房 (只得 3 張床) 窗口位。望住馬場。比我屋企重好 view。可惜呢晚無馬跑。有個包包，內裡有梳，牙擦，牙膏，膠杯，棉花棒，2 個 Seba 番梘，毛巾仔一條。有獨立電視 (其實系laptop) 睇。我自備睡衣。因有花粉敏感，所以手帶系紅色。抽咗血，12 點後禁食。雖然瞓得著，但床墊唔夠 support，被又有啲焗。
Thursday 早上 6 點，姑娘比衫我叫我 7 點換。跟住麻醉師見我，醫生見我。姑娘推張輪椅入嚟，用布張我包到得翻個頭。然後一值有人不停問我個名，邊個醫生，有冇敏感，有冇傷風感冒，知唔知自己做咩手術。手術其實叫 Colposcopy and Large Loop Excision Biopsy of Transformation Zone of Cervix。簡稱 LLETZ (美國叫 LEEP)。
推到手術嘅地方，嘟吓手帶確認就入去轉上床。又包到坎。推嚟推去推咗去 8 號手術房。都等咗一陣先有房。入到去見到兩盞大小雞蛋仔咁嘅手術燈。房好大，又凍。一個 15 分 鐘嘅手術居然有咁多人响入面準備。重聽到啲工具『傾傾』聲。轉到手術床，腳掌伸咗出嚟。用安全帶梆住左手同腰。除晒啲褲，但係依然包到坎。先吸氧氣，好大 陣膠味。然後打麻醉針。麻醉師話會感到有啲麻麻哋，不過我感覺唔到喎。因為同時又唔知比啲咩我吸，好似霉咗嘅木，好臭，臭到咳。醫生話係有啲味，係會咳。再比我吸，咳多吓就瞓咗嘞。
「起身喇！起身喇！」咁就醒嘞。已經離開咗手術房。開眼望住天花：太好喇！終於做完喇！姑娘叫深呼吸。幾分鐘後，醫生同我講一大堆嘢：會「乸乸」哋；之後要覆診，覆診時又要比佢填埋張保檢；記得比錢時 make sure 醫院响張保檢 form 到級印；4-6 個禮拜唔好做運動，游水，或者做瑜珈；比我睇嗰兩個切咗出嚟嘅粉紅色物體，話眼睇好正常，但都要拎去化檢，大慨星期一知道 O 唔 OK；會比 3 種藥我，止痛，消炎同胃葯 ......
Wednesday 入養和。普通病房 (只得 3 張床) 窗口位。望住馬場。比我屋企重好 view。可惜呢晚無馬跑。有個包包，內裡有梳，牙擦，牙膏，膠杯，棉花棒，2 個 Seba 番梘，毛巾仔一條。有獨立電視 (其實系laptop) 睇。我自備睡衣。因有花粉敏感，所以手帶系紅色。抽咗血，12 點後禁食。雖然瞓得著，但床墊唔夠 support，被又有啲焗。
Thursday 早上 6 點，姑娘比衫我叫我 7 點換。跟住麻醉師見我，醫生見我。姑娘推張輪椅入嚟，用布張我包到得翻個頭。然後一值有人不停問我個名，邊個醫生，有冇敏感，有冇傷風感冒，知唔知自己做咩手術。手術其實叫 Colposcopy and Large Loop Excision Biopsy of Transformation Zone of Cervix。簡稱 LLETZ (美國叫 LEEP)。
推到手術嘅地方，嘟吓手帶確認就入去轉上床。又包到坎。推嚟推去推咗去 8 號手術房。都等咗一陣先有房。入到去見到兩盞大小雞蛋仔咁嘅手術燈。房好大，又凍。一個 15 分 鐘嘅手術居然有咁多人响入面準備。重聽到啲工具『傾傾』聲。轉到手術床，腳掌伸咗出嚟。用安全帶梆住左手同腰。除晒啲褲，但係依然包到坎。先吸氧氣，好大 陣膠味。然後打麻醉針。麻醉師話會感到有啲麻麻哋，不過我感覺唔到喎。因為同時又唔知比啲咩我吸，好似霉咗嘅木，好臭，臭到咳。醫生話係有啲味，係會咳。再比我吸，咳多吓就瞓咗嘞。
「起身喇！起身喇！」咁就醒嘞。已經離開咗手術房。開眼望住天花：太好喇！終於做完喇！姑娘叫深呼吸。幾分鐘後，醫生同我講一大堆嘢：會「乸乸」哋；之後要覆診，覆診時又要比佢填埋張保檢；記得比錢時 make sure 醫院响張保檢 form 到級印；4-6 個禮拜唔好做運動，游水，或者做瑜珈；比我睇嗰兩個切咗出嚟嘅粉紅色物體，話眼睇好正常，但都要拎去化檢，大慨星期一知道 O 唔 OK；會比 3 種藥我，止痛，消炎同胃葯 ......
嘟吓手帶離開，但今次係成張床唔系輪椅。姑娘幫我轉床，又幫我叫定嘢食。一直到 1 點先准食野同飲水。每個鐘頭檢體温同血壓。想瞓，但系 1 我卧瞓系瞓唔到，2 我懷疑係止痛藥令我覺得心跳好強烈 (應該係血糖低)。不過姑娘幫我量又無事。但系就感覺到某啲位「噗噗•噗噗」咁。由手術到走得需要 6 個鐘。
埋單要$25,xxx.。最主要系 operation fee $10,000，手術室材料費 $5,xxx，麻醉師 $3,xxx，手術室費 $2,xxx。
*** 記得帶衛生巾！
2010年3月6日星期六
How to Store Leftovers Reusing Containers
Put
the leftovers in a container (from the lasagna* I love) in a bowl of
cold water t cool it down quickly. Since the container store heavily
stained tomato sauce, I assume it is stainproof. But you can't really
tell since it's black. Also, it is microwavable; hence, will be easy to
use microwave to defrost. Cover with a little piece of aluminum foil.
Write down the type of food on a little piece of paper and store
together in a ziplock bag. The bag can then be reused without cleaning.
Store in freezer.
*Keep
the paper package like this lasagna. Can be reused for cutting
vegetables over a chopping board to prevent cutting the board.
Homemade Preserved Chopped Garlic
First seperate into cloves and chop the head off.
The skin will automatically be seperated with the flesh.
Remove the sprout inside.
Chop with a chopper (around $100 in Wing On Department Store or Japan Home).To remove the odor, rub fingers with a stainless steel spoon with detergent for 1 minute.
Mix
the chopped garlic with olive oil and jar them in a reused container
from Amoy or Lee Kum Kee. Keep in a fridge and can store up to a month!
What you see in the picture contains 2 heads of garlic.
2010年2月26日星期五
2010年2月17日星期三
Superhot - Death - Armageddon!
) You got a deal on Tuesday night (from CAD20 to CAD10 a combo: 20 wings + pop + salad thing and fries).Ding, ding, ding, ding! -- Someone orders Armageddon. Get ambulance ready!
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