English vs Mandarin

Which language do you think is more important in our society?

English or Mandarin?

Before moving further, I would like to say that I'm not insulting any of these languages in any way, I'm just justifying their importance in my opinion. =)

Back to the main topic,

Did you know that Mandarin is actually the world's most spoken language?

This is due to the fact that population of Chinese makes up of 1/6 of the total world population.

Mandarin is said to have the most native speakers of 873 million

(meaning : the first language a person learns first) while

English have only have 341 native speakers.

However, 1.5 billion or 1 out of every 5 people knows English.

Now, the reason why I am writing this post is because I don't really know how to speak in Mandarin (I do know how to listen and speak basic Mandarin though) so I do get frustrated when I see people don't know English.

For example, this :

Okay, until now, I still don't know what did that guy said. Haha.

Can somebody translate that to me?

I know I sounded like a hypocrite because I'm not very good in Mandarin and other people don't know English but I get frustrated when they don't.

This is because I think English is a really easy language to learn and it is also very important as a language worldwide.

Besides that, it is also one of Malaysia's most spoken language so I find it a bit embarrassing for Malaysians who do not know BASIC English.

Some of the funny signboards regarding poor English usage mostly in China :

Whatt??

I didn't realize moles need rests too!

After "dying"... Haha!

Notice that the vegetable dish on bottom right is written "Black Mushroom RAPE".

Which "come" you are talking about? Haha!

Come on, so many people there but they didn't know it's wrong?

Although Mandarin has the most native speakers, it only has official status in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Singapore.

Meanwhile, English has official status in AT LEAST 30 countries.

Btw, having official status does not mean that it is the sole language in the country.

Furthermore, more than 80% of the pages on the Web are in English.

With the Internet era where Internet is the source of most FREE information,

not knowing English would be a pity.

That being said, I did learnt Mandarin in kindergarten and took extra classes in Standard 1 and 2.

However, I don't know what happened to the extra classes after that and I forgot how to use it. Haha!

I think schools should actually continue giving these extra classes because knowing an extra language is beneficial.

To be honest, I find our government's move to change Mathematics and Science from English back to Bahasa Malaysia is also questionable.

All subjects (except languages subjects) are taught in English when the students move up to college and university levels.

I studied Accounting in Bahasa Malaysia in secondary school and when I reached college, it was obviously taught in English and I had a bit of a difficulty learning it.

How about Science? Wouldn't it be worst with all those scientific terms?

Excelling in secondary schools does not mean a thing because you can't be a doctor by completing SPM or STPM.

I think there are many other alternatives to popularize Bahasa Malaysia besides this.

Okay, back to the original question,

which language do you think is more important?

A somewhat funny and irritating video for you guys to watch. =)

Enjoy!

Have a great day! =)

Sources :

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Tumblr

When I first heard about Tumblr, I thought it is a bottle tumblEr.

Seriously.

Haha!

Tumblr is actually a blogging platform, just like Blogspot, Wordpress etc.

However, I actually preferred using Tumblr more than Blogspot.

(Opps, I really shouldn't write this since I'm using Blogspot here? Haha.)

The reasons :

1. Tumblr is more user-friendly.

As you can see in the picture,

I can choose how I want to blog.

Different format gives you different layouts.

However, that also depends on how you customised your blog. =)

2. License to copy.

While all of us bloggers hate copycats,

In Tumblr, you are FREE to copy anyone's post by "REBLOG".

With this function, you can copy and acknowledge the original blogger.

People actually love it when you reblogged them because it is like free publicity.

For people who loves pictures like me, Tumblr is perfect.

My Tumblr is full of the pictures I reblogged from others.

By clicking on the circled button in blue, I can view the history of this picture until back to who originally posted it.

3. Convenient.

Similar to Blogspot, you can "Follow" people and receives their updates at the dashboard.

The best part is, at the dashboard itself, you can "Like", "Reblog" or "Reply" ("Reply" only works for "Text" posts I think) there and then.

4. Plenty of pages.

In Tumblr, I can follow the pages full of pictures of the celebrities I love such as Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen, Britney Spears, Gossip Girls, Victoria's Secret Angels, blah blah blah... you name it.

There are also pages devoted to fashion (with all the nice clothings), architecture, animals etc.

All I have to do it search for Tumblr + ___ (Whatever you want) in Google.

5. Connected.

I am actually more connected around the world with Tumblr, not Facebook, not Blogspot.

This is because, Tumblr actually records the activities of a post such as who "Liked" it, who "Reblogged" it and so forth.

Then I can click on their pages and "Follow" them. =)

6. Themes

There are plenty of themes to be chose from.

When I just started Tumblr, I can spent hours on choosing the themes because I was spoilt with choices!!!

Each theme have different customization - Some allowed more, some allowed less.

But mainly it was on colours.

HOWEVER,

Tumblr has its disadvantages too :

1. I'm not sure if ads could be placed in Tumblr. =(

2. You can't really comment on other people's posts except their "Text".

Furthermore, the person who posted the "Text" can't reply you.

(It doesn't really work like Facebook)

3. Not all themes look good with a Chatbox in it.

Anyhow, I still love Tumblr. =)

Check mine out :

*click me*

Have a nice day!

=)

Funny Scenes in Ugly Betty

As you know, I'm pretty addicted to "Ugly Betty" now. HAHA!

Anyway, here's some of the funny things that I like about this show :

1. The guy singing in this video is called Jesse.

He was in a date with Betty (Betty actually likes him a lot) but he just kept talking about himself, so here's the song "Me".

The lyrics :

Yeah, it's me me me me, me me me me,

me me me, me me,

Not you, just me,

Yes me, not you,

What rhymes with me?

I know!

It's ME!

Yours truly, me, myself and I.

2. "Gene Simmons is my daddy" by Amanda again.

There was special guest star appearance by Gene Simmons also.

I know her singing is really bad but that's why it's so funny.

HAHA.

3. The cheerleading song that I've mentioned last week.

Marc and Amanda at time 1:15 until 1:30.

The lines for the cheer :

*click me*

I think they are both my favorite characters in the movie although they are not the main characters.

In the same video, Naomi Campbell also appeared.

It was especially funny when she took out her phone and everyone was so scared.

You did heard about the news on her throwing her cell phone on her assistant or something right?

If you didn't, here it is :

*click me*

That scene starts at 4:49 until 5:28.

Enjoy!

=)

My Favourite Radio Station

Remember the song "Tik Tok" by Ke$ha in Hitz.fm where "beer" became "berry"?

*click me*

Well, I've just listened to the clubbing remix of it in Hitz.fm just now (about 1 am) and they didn't censor it!

Maybe because they know Saturday night is a clubbing night and people will be drinking beers already so no point censoring it. XP

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Okay, moving on to another topic.

If you listen to Hitz.fm, you would notice that they have celebrities saying things like :

"Hi, I'm Taylor Sweep. I sweep floors all the time as a charity work to make the world a cleaner place. This is Taylor Sweep and together with Hitz.fm, we care about you and your cleanliness blah blah blah."

*I typed "Taylor Swift sweeping floor" in Yahoo! Image and they gave me this pic of her in this gorgeous long gown. Haha.*

Anyway, Adam Lambert said something like :

"Hi, this is Adam Lambert. After American Idol, my life has changed

360 degrees...."

Okay, I bet he failed his math class.

360 degrees.

That's back at 0 degree.

Means there wasn't any changes!!!!!

FAIL!

I think what he wanted to say was 180 degrees instead.

Haha.

Disclaimer : I have nothing against Taylor Swift, Adam Lambert or Hitz.fm.

In fact, I'm quite a loyal listener of Hitz.fm. XP

Cheer

I've been watching "Ugly Betty" a lot lately. Haha.

Anyway, there was this funny cheer that I must share with you guys about.

"Mode" and "Elle" are competing magazines and this cheer was during a sports event.

The cheer :

We're "Mode", We're cool

We'll take your team to school

You're "Elle", You smell

Your team can go to hell!

HAHAHAHA!

God, that's hilarious!

Ahh.... Miss my old cheer-leading days.

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

I never liked ANY of U2's songs but I think this song is amazing.

First heard it while watching "Ugly Betty".

HAHA!

I think the studio version is better than this live one though. =)

Anyway, enjoy!

=)

Boners in the Morning

As promised to Ieka, Susan, Hui Yin, Janice and David, I would research on this topic and blog about it to clear the air once and for all. HAHA!

The question :

Why do guys have boners in the morning?

This is also termed as "morning wood" or "morning tent".

Before moving on, do you know what's a "boner"?

Boner is a slang term for an erected penis. XP

So back to the original question, before I did my research, I was told that guys get boners in the morning because they want to pee.

Guess what, that's a MYTH!

The boner and the need to pee are coincidental.

If guys really do get boners because they want to pee, we would be seeing erected dicks everywhere everyday!!!!!!!

(So Janice was right about this one. HAHA!)

Oh by the way, having morning wood and wanting to pee is called "Pee Horn".

LMAO!

Morning woods are not necessarily caused by dirty thoughts.

Did you watch "The Proposal" acted by Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds?

(If you didn't, go watch it! It's quite a nice movie!)

Anyway, there was a scene where Ryan's family member wanted to come into their room in the morning.

They were pretending to be a couple getting married. Ryan was actually sleeping on the floor while Sandra was on the bed.

So, Ryan quickly rushed to the bed pretending all lovey dovey with Sandra.

Then probably Sandra felt his "morning wood" and gave Ryan a disgusted look thinking that he was excited from all that close proximity.

Then he answered something about it was morning time.

Anyway, based on Answer.com, there are several reasons for "morning wood".

1. Result of deep relaxation.

This is due experienced in deep sleep called REM (rapid eye movement).

REM is a complicated topic (I've presented it in class once, haha).

All you've gotta know is that there are 5 dream stages, first four are non-REM while the last one is REM.

REM is the stage where most vivid dreams will occur.

2. The male testosterone level is at its highest in the early morning during restful sleep, usually built up during the night and at its highest around 4-6 a.m.

3. Boners are considered as a source of increased blood supply to the penis.

Thus, the male body will have several erections at night, just to keep the penis healthy. HAHA!

So, guys...

Go have boners for a healthier life! XP

ps, A totally different topic, while I was researching for this thing,

I saw "Death erection".

Death erection is a post-mortem erection, observed in corpses of human males who have been executed, particularly by hanging.

No offence to the dead but can you imagine a dead body with a boner??

Okay, I'm gonna end it at that. Haha.

Have a nice day!

=)

Clash of the Titans

I just watched this movie with my boyfriend yesterday.

We purposely waited for this movie until 12.05am because the slots before that are full in the cinema.

It was so not worth it.

This movie sucks!

This movie is mainly about the Greek Gods and the people created by them.

Why it sucked:

1. The graphics.

This guy is Sam Worthington.

He acted in as the main character in Avatar as Jake Sully and also this movie as Perseus.

The difference is, the graphics in Avatar was superb.

The graphics in this movie sucks and it was fake as hell.

To portray a God, they make them have this blurred shiny armor that looks like your TV is not working :

WTF???

I'd rather have the gold ring on top of the head. Haha.

(Ken Yang said it is called as a "Halo".)

2. People always said that Avatar is not original blah blah blah.

Clash of the Titans is much worst than that!

This movie is a total copycat!!

It contains a lil' bit of Transformer,

*I can't find a better picture than this but this THING over here looks like a robot when it removes its cloth.*

Harry Potter,

Star Wars,

Anastasia (the Disney cartoon),

Percy Jackson and the Olympians : Lightning Thief

*Medusa with the snake hair.*

...and "God" knows what else.

3. There wasn't a single kiss in the movie.

I mean, I know it is PG13 but...

Hello? Don't you know sex sells????

And a lil' kiss wouldn't harm any 13 year old kid.

4. The whole movie's mission was to kill Kraken, some big sea-monster.

However, the final battle was kinda short and it looked so easy to defeat it.

That's Kraken.

5. Same thing when it comes to defeating this guy from Hell :

6. There were more than 1 monster that have pointy tails.

Can't they get a lil' more creative?

7. They said this woman is the prettiest one in the world blah blah blah.

*The one on the right side of the picture*

*Even having the badass guy from James Bond wouldn't help this movie.*

The woman from point number 3 is wayyy better than her.

8. Basically, the whole story doesn't make sense at all (to me).

My rating for this movie is only 3 out of 10.

Ken Yang even slept halfway of the movie. HAHA!

If you really wanna watch it, please don't waste your money on the 3-D.

Have a nice weekend!

=)