Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Yawn..Huh?!
Yeah..the title aptly describes my status! Mix some sleep and some stress, a bit of cold and cough with a dash of confusion toppled with insane PJs and garnished with some silly smiles. Result : Me as on a never-to-come-again lousy lame morning of 30.06.2010! A time where I should be blogging on some good food for thought but here I am, all clueless as to why did I click on the 'New Post' link?! Hahaha (there goes a lame one!)
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
vocab for the week 52
What is the difference between "disposed of" and "disposed off"?
When you get rid of someone or something, you normally say "disposed of", not "disposed off". "Disposed off" is unacceptable.
* I want to know how the murderer disposed of the bodies.
In informal contexts, when you say that you disposed of someone, what you mean is that you killed him. Perhaps you hired someone to do the killing.
* The don asked his hit man to dispose of his former accountant.
When you get rid of someone or something, you normally say "disposed of", not "disposed off". "Disposed off" is unacceptable.
* I want to know how the murderer disposed of the bodies.
In informal contexts, when you say that you disposed of someone, what you mean is that you killed him. Perhaps you hired someone to do the killing.
* The don asked his hit man to dispose of his former accountant.
vocab for the week 51
What is the difference between "blue collar worker" and "pink collar worker"?
A "blue collar worker" works in an industry and is always involved in manual labour. You will find this individual in factories sweating it out on the shop floor. You won't find him sitting behind a huge desk in an office. Nowadays, the term can be applied to both men and women. "Pink collar workers", on the other hand, are always women. Low paid jobs available in offices and restaurants are usually referred to "pink collar jobs".
A "blue collar worker" works in an industry and is always involved in manual labour. You will find this individual in factories sweating it out on the shop floor. You won't find him sitting behind a huge desk in an office. Nowadays, the term can be applied to both men and women. "Pink collar workers", on the other hand, are always women. Low paid jobs available in offices and restaurants are usually referred to "pink collar jobs".
Monday, 14 June 2010
Canine Talk
Wrote the following last night. Hope you patient enough to read till the end! :p
It was hardly a few seconds that I had just stretched my limbs for my siesta. No sooner did I put on my thinkin’ cap that the white spotless SUV, the only one in this town, zoomed down the lane where it looked horribly out of place. How miserly is the owner to squeeze such a beauty in this filthy ol’ lane – I wondered. I bet on my shiny black skin that he will spend a bomb if the white beauty dashes some tenement on its way! Sigh..these humans..how silly their brains work at times! Oh, as I rest, I must make a respectable mention of the ol’ woman kind enough not to shoo me away from the footpath before her single room ‘den’. Of course, she needn’t to since I display with all my ‘art n mind, the best canine behaviour when it comes to good ol’ humans. One sniff of my nasty nose and I can tell ya if you’re a good ol’ human or the opposite. If you good, I smile (which you won’t realize) and if you bad, I bark duh! As a matter o’ fact, I would like to mention that there has not been a single robbery in my territory that stretches from the kind ol’ woman’s den to the rusty ol’ meat shop 200 metres away. Well, I have no clue as to what these 200 metres are but the pale ol’ red rascals’ (read: municipal men) board near the meat shop says so. Hope you’re intelligent enough to what that means. The meat shop is a busy place and the most famous among my fellow friends for its stinkin’ leftovers on which these fellows hog on. I prefer having some bread at the nearby bakery followed by munching on some wild leaves along the century ol’ chawl that can crumble down if we fellows bark our lungs out! And I wash all down with a dash of borewell water off the li’l puddle below the chawl’s common tap. It serves as my bath tub during the monsoons. You might laugh or wonder why am I so conscious or crazy but dont’chya like to eat good, feel good and be merry?? That’s the way I feel too. Oh, and I’m proud of my shiny black armour too apart from my fellow beings except for their indescribable and at times stupid way to live. But they have true canine hearts and that’s what maters to mark our presence in the midst of these humans as well as retain our territories! We, five to be precise, have fun at the evenings near the nukkad. We’ve marked it as our own by our muddy paws. The point of debate and discussion now-a-days is the latest howl created by a crazy fellow. I suggest you too should try it. Here’s how – inhale deep and howl in a thinner tone that usual and bark a bit in between. Crazy. Yeah, just like the crazy fellow. And this is followed by my very one bark-pop song. Oh hang on! The ground seems much cooler and the nasty ol’ sun doesn’t seem interested to linger any more. And that indicates I need to sneak out form here to the nukkad! Here’s what I’ll be barkin’ off in some time. Till then, bow-vye!
Bow-wow-wo! Oh the sun drowns down,
Here comes High Five geddin’ rid o’ the frown:
This is Spotty – pale ol’ dots outta in
Then there is Yo! – with all that bling
Lo! Here’s Barky – with a supa voice to sing
Dances Dr. Dre – this brainy li’l thing
Last but not the least to complete the stack,
Shiny n savvy – I’m Sirius Black.
It was hardly a few seconds that I had just stretched my limbs for my siesta. No sooner did I put on my thinkin’ cap that the white spotless SUV, the only one in this town, zoomed down the lane where it looked horribly out of place. How miserly is the owner to squeeze such a beauty in this filthy ol’ lane – I wondered. I bet on my shiny black skin that he will spend a bomb if the white beauty dashes some tenement on its way! Sigh..these humans..how silly their brains work at times! Oh, as I rest, I must make a respectable mention of the ol’ woman kind enough not to shoo me away from the footpath before her single room ‘den’. Of course, she needn’t to since I display with all my ‘art n mind, the best canine behaviour when it comes to good ol’ humans. One sniff of my nasty nose and I can tell ya if you’re a good ol’ human or the opposite. If you good, I smile (which you won’t realize) and if you bad, I bark duh! As a matter o’ fact, I would like to mention that there has not been a single robbery in my territory that stretches from the kind ol’ woman’s den to the rusty ol’ meat shop 200 metres away. Well, I have no clue as to what these 200 metres are but the pale ol’ red rascals’ (read: municipal men) board near the meat shop says so. Hope you’re intelligent enough to what that means. The meat shop is a busy place and the most famous among my fellow friends for its stinkin’ leftovers on which these fellows hog on. I prefer having some bread at the nearby bakery followed by munching on some wild leaves along the century ol’ chawl that can crumble down if we fellows bark our lungs out! And I wash all down with a dash of borewell water off the li’l puddle below the chawl’s common tap. It serves as my bath tub during the monsoons. You might laugh or wonder why am I so conscious or crazy but dont’chya like to eat good, feel good and be merry?? That’s the way I feel too. Oh, and I’m proud of my shiny black armour too apart from my fellow beings except for their indescribable and at times stupid way to live. But they have true canine hearts and that’s what maters to mark our presence in the midst of these humans as well as retain our territories! We, five to be precise, have fun at the evenings near the nukkad. We’ve marked it as our own by our muddy paws. The point of debate and discussion now-a-days is the latest howl created by a crazy fellow. I suggest you too should try it. Here’s how – inhale deep and howl in a thinner tone that usual and bark a bit in between. Crazy. Yeah, just like the crazy fellow. And this is followed by my very one bark-pop song. Oh hang on! The ground seems much cooler and the nasty ol’ sun doesn’t seem interested to linger any more. And that indicates I need to sneak out form here to the nukkad! Here’s what I’ll be barkin’ off in some time. Till then, bow-vye!
Bow-wow-wo! Oh the sun drowns down,
Here comes High Five geddin’ rid o’ the frown:
This is Spotty – pale ol’ dots outta in
Then there is Yo! – with all that bling
Lo! Here’s Barky – with a supa voice to sing
Dances Dr. Dre – this brainy li’l thing
Last but not the least to complete the stack,
Shiny n savvy – I’m Sirius Black.
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Vocab for the week 50
What is the difference between "impassive" and "impassioned"?
When something bad happens and you remain "impassive" what you are doing is keeping a wooden face. You are not displaying an emotion of any kind. It could be you do not feel any emotion, or you have chosen to hide it. The heroes in many of our movies remain impassive in all situations. They are the strong silent men who remain unmoved.
*After killing the man with his knife, the hero looked on impassively at the sea.
"Impassioned", on the other hand, means someone who is "full of passion", an individual who displays intense feeling about something or someone.
*The impassioned speech by the Vice-Chancellor brought the audience to its feet.
When something bad happens and you remain "impassive" what you are doing is keeping a wooden face. You are not displaying an emotion of any kind. It could be you do not feel any emotion, or you have chosen to hide it. The heroes in many of our movies remain impassive in all situations. They are the strong silent men who remain unmoved.
*After killing the man with his knife, the hero looked on impassively at the sea.
"Impassioned", on the other hand, means someone who is "full of passion", an individual who displays intense feeling about something or someone.
*The impassioned speech by the Vice-Chancellor brought the audience to its feet.
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
What NOT to do at Coaching Classes Contd..
Here is the second part of the above title. The Disclaimer for the first part is applicable over here too.
SITUATION III : URGE TO GOSSIP/TELL-A-FACT TO YOUR CLASSMATE
STUFF ON THE SIDE : The piece of information/gossip/joke/or anything blunt!
HOW TO GO ABOUT IT : I assume here that the classmate sits right beside you and not metres away, else no use following this! Try using minimum number of words. The use of code language will be an excellent option, provided you share a good chemistry with your classmate. Voice modulation and decibel level should be kept to the bare minimum necessity of letting the classmate receive your message.
SITUATION IV : EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Eg. Playing X-O, Word Building Sudoku
STUFF ON THE SIDE : Anything to write on and to write with, A classmate (the assumption of Situation III applies here too), Printed material as per the activity (Eg Sudoku)
HOW TO GO ABOUT IT : If your classmate is willing to participate in the extra-curricular activity, kindly enter the activity details on your own writing base with your own writing material and ask your classmate to follow the same in the same steps in a way that when compiled, the activity should be complete in the true sense of the term. For eg. While playing X-O, you enter X on your writing base and the corresponding space for X on your classmate's writing base should be empty.
SITUATION V : TEXTING/ATTENDING A CALL ON THE MOBILE PHONE
STUFF ON THE SIDE : Without a doubt, a mobile phone with a message/call waiting to be attended to AND its an emergency.
HOW TO GO ABOUT IT : Well, I'll leave this to the personal experiences and styles of the reader to attend to!!
Now that you've gone through the whole kind-of-a-ready-reckoner, I would like to suggest to pay more attention to the lecture rather that the stuff posted here! The lecture is important over and above of these not-to-be-done-things. The true purpose of attending coaching classes should be served right! Keep smiling :)
SITUATION III : URGE TO GOSSIP/TELL-A-FACT TO YOUR CLASSMATE
STUFF ON THE SIDE : The piece of information/gossip/joke/or anything blunt!
HOW TO GO ABOUT IT : I assume here that the classmate sits right beside you and not metres away, else no use following this! Try using minimum number of words. The use of code language will be an excellent option, provided you share a good chemistry with your classmate. Voice modulation and decibel level should be kept to the bare minimum necessity of letting the classmate receive your message.
SITUATION IV : EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Eg. Playing X-O, Word Building Sudoku
STUFF ON THE SIDE : Anything to write on and to write with, A classmate (the assumption of Situation III applies here too), Printed material as per the activity (Eg Sudoku)
HOW TO GO ABOUT IT : If your classmate is willing to participate in the extra-curricular activity, kindly enter the activity details on your own writing base with your own writing material and ask your classmate to follow the same in the same steps in a way that when compiled, the activity should be complete in the true sense of the term. For eg. While playing X-O, you enter X on your writing base and the corresponding space for X on your classmate's writing base should be empty.
SITUATION V : TEXTING/ATTENDING A CALL ON THE MOBILE PHONE
STUFF ON THE SIDE : Without a doubt, a mobile phone with a message/call waiting to be attended to AND its an emergency.
HOW TO GO ABOUT IT : Well, I'll leave this to the personal experiences and styles of the reader to attend to!!
Now that you've gone through the whole kind-of-a-ready-reckoner, I would like to suggest to pay more attention to the lecture rather that the stuff posted here! The lecture is important over and above of these not-to-be-done-things. The true purpose of attending coaching classes should be served right! Keep smiling :)
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Teen Tigaada!
Circa June 1, 2007. Nothing noteworthy for you, but my blog turned 3 today! Wanted to point that out and that's it! Now you can get back to your work, you've already wasted 10 seconds or more reading this! :P Cheerzz! Hic! :p
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