great gatsby

movie THE GREAT GATSBY. di caprio and maguire. i like the movie because it's a...movie. i am infatuated bigtime with the concept done by the movie team. the movie that is set in the golden era, where parties were bigger, more lavish, and grander. the camera movement is just so remarkable. vintage cars, vintage wines, Leonardo di Caprio in vintage costumes and hairstyle, vintage expression ("old sport", "the party is swell", etc) and vintage love pangs, pains, and protocol.


more quotes from the novel go to: 

http://www.shmoop.com/great-gatsby/nick-carraway-quotes-20.html

noncount nouns

The Noncount Noun

Recognize a noncount noun when you see one.

Nouns name people, places, and things. Many nouns have both a singular and plural form: a surfer/surfers, a restaurant/restaurants, a pickle/pickles. Some nouns, however, have only a singular form; you cannot add a number to the front or an s to the end of these words. This group of nouns is called noncount.

Read the following examples:

After two months of rainstorms, Fred carries his umbrella everywhere in anticipation of more bad weather.

Rainstorms = count noun; weather = noncount noun.

Because Big Toe Joe has ripped all four chairs with his claws, Diane wants to buy new furniture and find the cat another home.

Chairs = count noun; furniture = noncount noun.

When Mrs. Russell postponed the date of the research paper, smiles lit up the faces of her students, filling the room with happiness.

Smiles = count noun; happiness = noncount noun.

Because the beautiful Josephine will help Pablo with his calculus assignments, he never minds the homework from Dr. Ribley's class.

Assignments = count noun; homework = noncount noun.

Know the different categories of noncount nouns.

The chart below illustrates the different types of noncount nouns. Remember that these categories include other nouns that are count. For example, lightning, a natural event [one of the categories], is noncount, but hurricane, a different natural event, is a count noun. When you don't know what type of noun you have, consult a dictionary that provides such information.

Category	Examples
Abstractions	advice, courage, enjoyment, fun, help, honesty, information, intelligence, knowledge, patience, etc.
Activities	chess, homework, housework, music, reading, singing, sleeping, soccer, tennis, work, etc.
Food	beef, bread, butter, fish, macaroni, meat, popcorn, pork, poultry, toast, etc.
Gases	air, exhaust, helium, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, pollution, smog, smoke, steam, etc.
Groups of Similar Items	baggage, clothing, furniture, hardware, luggage, equipment, mail, money, software, vocabulary, etc.
Liquids	blood, coffee, gasoline, milk, oil, soup, syrup, tea, water, wine, etc.
Natural Events	electricity, gravity, heat, humidity, moonlight, rain, snow, sunshine, thunder, weather, etc.
Materials	aluminum, asphalt, chalk, cloth, concrete, cotton, glue, lumber, wood, wool, etc.
Particles or Grains	corn, dirt, dust, flour, hair, pepper, rice, salt, sugar, wheat, etc.

Know how to indicate number with noncount nouns.

Thunder, a noncount noun, cannot have an s added at the end. You can, however, lie awake in bed counting the number of times you hear thunder boom during a storm.

When you want to indicate number with a noncount word, you have two options. First, you can putof in front of the noncount word—for example, of thunder—and then attach the resultingprepositional phrase to an appropriate count word.

Kristina heard seven claps of thunder.

A second option is to make the noncount noun an adjective that you place before a count noun. Then you could write a sentence like this:

Thunderheads filled the sky.

Here are some more examples:

Noncount Noun	Countable Version
advice	pieces of advice
homework	homework assignments
bread	loaves of bread, slices of bread
smoke	puffs of smoke, plumes of smoke
software	software applications
wine	bottles of wine, glasses of wine
snow	snow storms, snowflakes, snow drifts
cloth	bolts of cloth, yards of cloth
dirt	piles of dirt, truckloads of dirt

Understand that some nouns are both noncount and count.

Sometimes a word that means one thing as a noncount noun has a slightly different meaning if it also has a countable version. Remember, then, that the classifications count and noncount are not absolute.

Time is a good example. When you use this word to mean the unceasing flow of experience that includes past, present, and future, with no distinct beginning or end, then time is a noncount noun. Read this example:

Time dragged as Simon sat through yet another boring chick flick with his girlfriend Roseanne.

Time = noncount because it has no specific beginning and, for poor Simon, no foreseeable end.

When time refers to a specific experience which starts at a certain moment and ends after a number of countable units [minutes, hours, days, etc.], then the noun is count. Here is an example:

On his last to Disney World, Joe rode Space Mountain twenty-seven times.

Times = count because a ride on Space Mountain is a measurable unit of experience, one that you can clock with a stopwatch.

credits: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/noncountnoun.htm

Countable and uncountable nouns

Countable and uncountable nouns

word today

1. irresistible

It's perfect.....your perfect and irresistible imagination." - Daisy, the great gatsby

2. romp

...romp like God's mind ... - Nick Carraway, ibid

Oprah Winfrey´s Soul Series with Eckhart Tolle (part 1)

Henry Cavill interview on The Project (2013) - Man of Steel - Superman

man of steel

in the first 17 minutes, there are a lot of happenings goin on: the war, the break-in, the fight scene, the deep sea shot, the take-off escape, the death of russell crowe, and the judgment

quote

1. Theres a bucket in the corner. -officer to lois lane (off " What if I need to tinkle?")
2. THE ENTIRE world is being threatened HERE! - lawrence fishburne to amy adams


commandment

1. [to ka-lil] surrender within 24 hours - man on tv

what i like about the treatment of the latest Superman is this: that of about Control, Right Timing, The power of Silence and Shushing and just blend in with Closed Mouth. 

watching side by side: great gatsby and man of steel

all my emotions are drained.

simile from the great gatsby

Gatsby [the single most hopeful person ive ever met] is one of those who are ...sensitivity.... he's like those machines that register earthquake 10, 000 miles away
(spoken by nick carraway)

"The Bourne Ultimatum" Soundtrack - Extreme Ways by Moby

My infatuation to anything Moby is refelt via this composition of his. I love you, Moby!

kiss-ass 2

the movie starts with this view of urban structures from a distance. then two teens in a gravel-laden space.
one holding a gun and the other one holding on to dear life!

LOL dialogue and quotes in the film:

1. WHAT happend 2 ur face? - father  ---- "Nothing!"
2.

about emma roberts then become love life then youtube after e

clickin the e! online for my daily doze of English words off my English obsession self.

there: emma roberts' video, first page. click then becomes ... engaged....dazzled!

clickin a lot of vids of emma and evan.

adult world. watch this later

i remember

I am watching this whodunnit mystery thriller billed the girl with the dragon tattoo. there is this scene where Daniel craig is slightly shot THEN roony mara is installing some CCTV's. i remember some CCTV-themed big news about Vhong navarro

interview

movie: the girl with the dragon tattoo

I like the movie (my yeas and nays): the foreign-sounding names like Blomkvist. I like the posh modern home of Martin. Forget the basement. I like the photos: the clues of the unsolved-til-now crime.

My heart is pounding. My thought is racing. I am so still like a threatened squirrel.

I like the film because Joely Richardson is there. European weather is there. A touch of history is part of the flavor and my history teacher back in high school taught skillfully. I was his favorite student. Most of my classmates scoffed at the realism of it!

commandment collection

1. No paprika.  movie THE HELP emma watson, allison janey, etc
2. Shut the damn door.   ibid
3. shut the door. it s quite windy - martin to mikael, girl with the dragon tattoo
4. get in the cab. the meter is running - minnie, kick-ass 2
5. I request that you submit him to my custody - MAN OF STEEL

movie: The Help

ohmygod. I like the movie because Emma Stone is there...is...part of the cast---one of the cast!

i like the questions, too:
     1. what does it feel like to raise a white child...when your own child's at home being looked after by somebody else?

    2. does this dress look homemade?

    3. AM I gonna believe....all them bad things them fools say about me? -Constantine to Eugenia "Skeeter"

this while I was walking beating the time, Candice and Nahid (are you listening, Bahir, too?)

Route B tickles my rogue bones. In fairness, the drivers having route B direction or liner or whatever are careful drivers

OST for today

Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn't know
I broke everything new again
Everything that I'd owned
I threw it out the window, came along
Extreme ways I know will part
The colors of my sea
Some perfect colored sea

Extreme ways that help me
They help me out late at night
Extreme places I had gone
That never seen any light
Dirty basements, dirty noise
Dirty places coming home
Extreme worlds alone
Did you ever like it then?

I would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this

Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart

Extreme sounds that told me
They held me down every night
I didn't have much to say
I didn't give up the light
I closed my eyes and closed myself
And closed my world and never open up to anything
That could get me at all

I had to close down everything
I had to close down my mind
Too many things could cut me
Too much can make me blind
I've seen so much in so many places
So many heartaches, so many faces
So many dirty things
You couldn't even believe

I would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this

Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart

Oh, oh babe
And soon it was
So again
When you know it can
When you know it can

Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart

Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does

homograph for today: ROGUE

rogue.

rogue cop, rogue weather, rogue

"SHE prevented the agency from shutting down a ROGUE operation..." (Bourne Legacy)

what s true: rogue Vhong or rogue Denice ?  

i like comments

i  like infinitely the movie (BL*) because Philippines is in it....the whole creating team has shortlisted The Philippines as one of the places to be featured in their film...I mean it is a plane away from where I breathe, but still, the thought of my country where the actors truly were here for the shoot is just happiness times ten!



*BL  Bourne Legacy

quotations from bourne legacy

BOURNE LEGACY

1.  I want to know about anybody who talked to anybody about anything at any time. - Norton

2. They parse the signal now.

3. We are morally indefensible.... -Edward Norton

4. She aided and abetted an international fugitive...

5. I was kind of hoping we were lost. - Marta [ Rachel Weisz]

location of the traveller-wannabe

RESTON, VIRGINIA*


*got it from the movie, Bourne Legacy

commandment

from the movie, bourne legacy

you are the __________________________, for christ's sake. act like it.

as pure as driven snow: I face the foe-like shart-messup furniture upstairs, Guido

Finally, I have decided to clean my office table. I have this infinite vacant time--free time!--to be THAT god of cleanliness, clutter-free, and crap-free possession! 

 The weather is trying to darken the room; Mr. Guido, where's my umbrella, but the heavyset, white, dirt-of-all-sort-blemished ( compare: "the merest blemish on a Rolls Royce might render it unsalable" ) table is my sole image, or the mental snapshot.

  There are some grand changes of the ballpens' location, the post-it's placement, and some school supplies which have been laid upon in an inappropriate box compartment!

   The Queen of my drawer is dusty; my last semester's....acquisition: the red puncher! I remember how students asked my permission to use that errr to face...The Queen. She has been punching ream upon ream of sheet (A4, legal, tissue paper, Scotch tape, and wanton wrapper!)

   

movie

about life turning around, just like Charlie's fave aunt. i like the movie and its xmas setting and its characters' thoughtfulness in secret santa. i like the movie because it shoves me to remember my old typewriter. how....portably heavy it was with a boxy nature and i was gripping its metallic handle just to bring it.

plus i like the english teacher's quiz about charlie dickens and the box office, actually a trivia, so to speak!                    

website of the day

THIS STARTS when I watched the tennis movie WIMBLEDON. I tried to look for this music score. because it was so beautiful and grand to my ears.

theost.com gives you the soundtrack of your fave films.

like this one

http://www.theost.com/2012/the_perks_of_being_a_wallflower.html

double R like..or..is it a typo?

author george r r  martin.

a friend of mine shared that name. then a friend informed his great book. then google too.

my name is george. nice to meet you.

linking verbs

Other common linking verbs:

APPEAR, BECOME, FEEL, GET, GROW, SIT, LOOK, PROVE, REMAIN, SEEM, SMELL, SOUND, TASTE, TURN.

vavavoom of the verb

whether it is linking or not, whether transitive or intransitive, whether in the simple past or past participle.

http://www.grammaruntied.com/blog/?p=483

grammar questions

"EVERY GREAT THING STARTS OUT A LITTLE SCARY, ______________ IT? " (off the film, WARM BODIES)

       a.  is
       b. isn't
       c. does
       d. doesn't

fave movie: before midnight

movie line for today: JOHN MALCOVICH

THEY are not becoming vegan. Okay? They don't eat broccoli."
        -John Malcovich to his anxious daughter, Julie

movie: Warm Bodies  

AS GORGEOUS AS YOU

simile, simile, simile.

as sweet as a pie.....

as tough as nails....as good as gold....as high as a kite...


as keen as mustard

jumpfrompaper bags and zuriick shoes

How I wish I could have one of these grand bags from jumpfrompaper. A company from Taiwan. It befits my personality, point of view-ish, and pulchritude! I discovered it from a blog (triciagosingtian) and then, without drama and pause, I found myself clicking ebay!

ZURIICK SHOE. what about it? if that officious guard in Warm Bodies commands R to "say something human" I dare say and command you to go to zuriick's website and check its collection and "gallery".

verb

4th year classroom-goers:

verb, BITE. bite (present) bit (past) bitten (past participle)

R has bitten Julie's boyfriend. 
The puppy bites the toy every Tuesday.
10 minutes ago, the Xerox machine bit hundreds of paper!