Great Interviewee

photo: chrisfloyd

MICHELLE YEOH. Oh, she speaks with sense and you barely hear total guff from this Malaysian actress.
I was looking for some Aung San Suu Kyi article/video and, well, in the process, found Michelle Yeoh's interview with some Thai gab host. 
The actress plays Aung San Suu Kyi in the film, The Lady.
If you want to improve your English communication skills, then by all means, gather all Michelle Yeoh's guestings and mouth-off engagements! Please.
And that's no guff!!!

Celebrating Birthdays Without Our Parents

He is surprised. I can sense his happiness via his vocal inflection. The roast pig is the additive factor. His daughters have given him some birthday party surps [ shorts for surprise, bimby] (note: since everyone is into shortcuts nowadays! as in, traffic becomes trafs; ballpen becomes ballps!)

Happy Birthday, my dear brother!

With all these colorful cake, oily but yum-yum dishes, and the roast pig and some more dishes, out of this gathering and birthday bash, I have one big fat realization: That my nieces---his daughters---are a bunch of thoughtful persons. 

Oh, there is another One bold act of thoughfulness: some portable KTV! Pass the mike, Cookie!!!!

movie line for today

Do you know how to read?** - mean mother-in-law to Vilma*

* movie, Paano Ba Ang Mangarap?

**in Filipino--------------Marunong ka bang bumasa???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YH7MnqZVrE

For the first 20 minutes: I'd like to tell to Lisa (main character)'s mother that: Lisa is lying. Your balae or your in-laws, especially the mom, hasnt accepted Lisa. Ask the other katulong [help]

big-adjective-implanted typhoon in the philippines

Yolanda is so cocky about her speed and intensity since " there is no MOUNTAIN to deflect its power." Ah, so...bukid-bukid diay na! Since the money coming from the taxes is either being magic or in Napoles' fat bank account; why not the government make MOUNTAINS! Yes, every centavo will go to this ambitious project and bang! the next time that the Philippines will have a Category 5 Typhoon: just press the button and the Napoles-made este man-made mountains will appear before our very eyes, with matching gigantic and metallic trees to make sure that the powerful winds and whales (knock on wood) from the Pacific will be sliced into bits!

tasks

1. make action plan
2. NCBTS
3. teacher's portfolio---2 clearbooks
4.DLL
5.Reading Inventory
6. SBM

commandment for today

WRITE your name at the upper left corner

let's be instrumental

great title

from the movie, the sapphires

commandment (movie) for today

"Come inside." - Madame to Tommy and Kathy

film, NEVER LET ME GO

setting

hailsham, 1978*


*never let me go, andrew garfield, carey mulligan & keira knightly

WHEN YOU USE: SOMETIMES

sometimes connotes habitual and factual action so you must use this: simple present tense. just like the lyrics of this haunting song.

word today

outlier.

from mozardien.com =  http://www.mozardien.com/halls/2012/05/27/why-everybody-lies/   

except for a few outliers at the top and bottom....

helpful site about vocabulary

wordsmith.org

I was reading this blog and the blogger used AU CONTRAIRE then I wanted to get the meaning although when you examine the phrase, the meaning is quite obvious, but still, I was adamant.

then I clicked that site from google search engine.

blog for today

mozardien.com

i like its informative loaded content: from culture to music to -- deep--psychology.

first stop: why everybody lies (under psychology)

i havent ended reading it; i am reading it now.

sarcasm for today

What’s the point of commissioning artwork, then 

printing it too small for people to enjoy?

[ peter viney, nov 2010 @ his eponymous blog]

blog for today

judebgallery.wordpress.com

if you love images--huge images and telling pictures--then this blog is for you.

i saw governor imee marcos and her son, borgy, over that site: she was promoting her movie, pintakasi. She is the 'produ' ( read: producer) of that urban-reality movie.

compliments for......

bongmendoza.blogspot


planetphilippines.com



flickriver.com

Gov. IMEE MARCOS. 
She inherited her Mom Imelda Romualdez-Marcos' artistic side and temper, while she was endowed with her late Dad and former President Ferdinand Edrolin Marcos' political savvy and zeal to serve his countrymen.

[text by Arlene Foz @ Traveltalks, TRAVEL PLUS, MARCH-MAY 2011]

repose (atta vision!) for today

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=526937034006634&set=pb.147482268618781.-2207520000.1366957000.&type=3&theater

relative pronoun: THAT

always take note: relative pronoun is a bridge between a NOUN and a VERB and...THAT verb should agree its tense with the number of the noun. thus, singular noun + relative pronoun + verb [with S]

FOR advanced lesson: click this http://web.ku.edu/~edit/which.html

word : repose

1xrun.com
meaning # 1*  @ repose 1


tqarts.blogspot.com
meaning # 1 * @ repose 1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

meaning # 3 *  @repose 2 


flickr.com

surfingrainbow/facebook


 enjoyed the repose of a serene summer evening


*       http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repose                                                           

BLOG FOR TODAY

biznology.com


PETERVINEY.WORDPRESS.COM

i love his article about student time in the classroom.

old man and human

we went to a cemetery because today is the death anniversary of my aunt. the taxi had a tasteful playlist: price tag, you'll be (phil collins), forgotten the rest, but STILL under the general heading of tasteful, classy, melodic, great.


moniteau.net

[NOT the actual cemetery]


photo.massal.net


[NOT the actual cemetery]

Page Connors (just an alias, Page Connors is actually this stratagem-packed character from the film, Heartbreakers) lit the vortex candles ( is this the right term for those short, stubby white candles?) using this 2-peso priced stick matches. anyhoot, we brought these beautiful vase of flowers (roses, what are the names of the other two?)

My mom sat on the grass. I, too. and surveyed the serene environment. There were two horses; children goofing around....

Then, the old man nearby (a widower) offered a chair for my mom. It is so heartwarming to experience when people are nice, compassionate. I was in utter awe of that widower. A little note: he visits the grave of his late wife EVERY DAY!

commandment (movie) for today

1. untie me - dean (ray liotta)   heartbreakers

2. no more conning. no more

what is a caper? stratagem? ruse?

en.wikipedia.org

1.a caper-romantic

now what is a caper?

2. he discovered the ruse

3. stratagem

inflection

"A gift?" (English inflection*) then... "A gift?" (Russian inflection*) - Sigourney Weaver, actress from the comedy movie, heartbreakers

1. The act of inflecting or the state of being inflected.

2. Alteration in pitch or tone of the voice.

3. Grammar

a. An alteration of the form of a word by the addition of an affix, as in English dogs from dog, or by changing the form of a base, as in English spoke from speak, that indicates grammatical features such as number, person, mood, or tense.

b. An affix indicating such a grammatical feature, as the -s in the English third person singular verb form speaks.

c. The paradigm of a word.

d. A pattern of forming paradigms, such as noun inflection or verb inflection.

4. A turning or bending away from a course or position of alignment.    [freedictionary.com]

WITHOUT AND WITH APOSTROPHES

brand names that have no apostrophes:

1. Starbucks
2. Watsons
3. Debenhams  [see http://peterviney.wordpress.com/about/elt-articles/apostrophes/]
4. Harrods
5. Boots

...has apostrophes

1. McDonald's
2. TGIF's

PERFECT TENSES

i have no idea

I GOT this from...during the one-on-one interview with the principal and the word is: fastidious....naah, i am just joking.
The word, er, the phrase is: document remediation. She wrote that somewhere at the remarks entry.

commandment (movie) for today

foto: google

1. everyone, gird your loins NOW! -nigel

lyrics that wisdomify me

from the song HUMAN by Jon McLaughlin

Hurt instead of healing

how to say it right

i am totally,like the video is staggering, because it is not just an audio on pronunciation BUT there is this --it is coupled with phonetic respelling (note: that IPA inside these two slashes!)

theme: " sun"

#1 Here comes the SUN by hit the boom

          #2  Here comes the SUN by Nina Simone

    #3 Brighter Than the SUN  by colbie caillat

a yielding of poetry

SUMMER 2013

sun-bleached rooftop
a sun-kissed bench
a sun-drenched road

it reminds me to be sunny

parallelism for today

you'll about to begin the physically-grueling, mentally-draining, life-changing adventure!
-phil keoghan, host @ amazing race, season 20, episode 1

cool address for today: #1 and #2

1. Papeete, Tahiti


2. Bora bora, French Polynesia

commandment (amazing race) for today

looneyplanet.net

1. Partner Up with the Travelocity Roaming Gnome and traverse the North Face of the Eiger!

[season 22, episode 8, road block, switzerland]


2. Travel by river taxi to Eden Beach on Motu Piti A'au. Once there, follow the marked path along the shore until you find your next clue.


[season 22, episode 1, Bora bora, French Polynesia]


3. Fly to Santa Barbara! ( in Argentina, yes?)
    To begin your journey, choose one of the Ford Tauruses in the winery.

[season 20, episode 1, California]

scientific street

action for today: raspberry tongue

foto: raspberrycats.wordpress

raspberry from a cat!


razblint.com

raspberry from a puppet!


http://persephonebustersblog.blogspot.com

raspberry from an icon [ albert einstein!]


zazzle.com

raspberry from Mickey Mouse!

summer 2013 theme song # 5 and #6

#5

#6

big educ question for today

is there an apostrophe in " Starbucks" ?

or none?

answer: wala, zero, none! Thus, STARBUCKS.

ex. We went to Starbucks and I made some major debacle in the restroom!

LEARN AND LISTENING ENGLISH FROM THE BEST for today

the icon BOB DYLAN

versions : BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO

#1

#2

#3

commandment(movie) for today

foto: steamboatfriday

movie: high fidelity

1.  Now, get your patchouli stink out of my store!

2. Leave the country!

                               -John Cusack to Tim Robbins

part of speech: YET

1.I HAVEN'T DONE YET. 

2.THE PROJECT IS EXPENSIVE YET BENEFICIAL TO THE DWELLERS.

Yet can either be: an ADVERB (1) or a CONJUNCTION (2)

word for today

Debacle. I got this while watching the storytelling type of a movie, HIGH FIDELITY, which is topbilled by my fave thespian in the person of John Cusack (his sister, Joan, who is a thespian too, is part of the flick too!). Debacle. John's character spoke about debacle on his latest girlfriend.

debacle. di bah kuhl. an ignominous--i mean--a sudden and ignominious failure (Google's pop-up meaning window) or it would also mean a fiasco. Spell fiasco. utter silence!

LOL for today

Jack Black in High Fidelty.
The Turn it Off Barry scene

question

movie: LONDON

" How exactly do you deal with it?" - Bateman (Jason Statham)

" You don't deal with it..... It deals with you." -Syd (Chris Evans)

what's up there in your mind?

One of the hardest things when writing a review is doing our best not to be influenced by others' opinions, especially when we know something is amiss.
    -Precious Lee Cundangan

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