有时需要看整体6个字给的意思/印象，然后靠感觉猜。而不是一个一个去搭配。
字虽容易，但陷阱多多。
懂些方言也有好处。
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Friday, April 01, 2011
If it's free, why not?
Never had luck in winning freebies from radio stations before. Probably because I'm listening to one of the most popular radio stations in SG, where the hotline is forever scorching hot, and SMS flows like tap water. Due to this reason, I also don't bother to try.
After witnessing so many success cases recently, I had the urge to try my luck for once. After all most of the time I knew the answers to the questions that the DJ posed.
Well, it was indeed a pleasant surprise, when I heard my name and NRIC being announced over the radio. =)
And thus I won a pair of tickets to:
Tanya & the Cities 2011 Live Concert
蔡健雅 Tanya & the Cities 亚洲巡迴演唱会
9 Apr 2011
Sat, 8.00PM
Pretty shocking right haha, considering I'm not a Tanya fan. Then again, as I start to ponder why I could get those tickets so easily, probably it's really true that Tanya's popularity in SG cannot be compared to other local singers like JJ and Stefanie. Fewer people were competing for the tickets, so yeah... Just like how tickets for concerts by non-mainstream singers such as Cheer Chen are easier to win. Sad reality.
This is Tanya's first large-scale concert in SG, despite being in the industry for more than 10 years and having obtained several awards both locally and internationally (Taiwan). Not really sure how well the tickets are selling.
I know quite a few songs from her, mainly album hits played in radio. Hence I don't think I'll feel 'lost' during the concert, though her 'serene' style of singing doesn't really strike a chord in me (oops). But anyway she definitely has the caliber and it's worth listening to her sing.
So, anyone willing to watch her concert with me? =)
After witnessing so many success cases recently, I had the urge to try my luck for once. After all most of the time I knew the answers to the questions that the DJ posed.
Well, it was indeed a pleasant surprise, when I heard my name and NRIC being announced over the radio. =)
And thus I won a pair of tickets to:
Tanya & the Cities 2011 Live Concert
蔡健雅 Tanya & the Cities 亚洲巡迴演唱会
9 Apr 2011
Sat, 8.00PM
Pretty shocking right haha, considering I'm not a Tanya fan. Then again, as I start to ponder why I could get those tickets so easily, probably it's really true that Tanya's popularity in SG cannot be compared to other local singers like JJ and Stefanie. Fewer people were competing for the tickets, so yeah... Just like how tickets for concerts by non-mainstream singers such as Cheer Chen are easier to win. Sad reality.
This is Tanya's first large-scale concert in SG, despite being in the industry for more than 10 years and having obtained several awards both locally and internationally (Taiwan). Not really sure how well the tickets are selling.
I know quite a few songs from her, mainly album hits played in radio. Hence I don't think I'll feel 'lost' during the concert, though her 'serene' style of singing doesn't really strike a chord in me (oops). But anyway she definitely has the caliber and it's worth listening to her sing.
So, anyone willing to watch her concert with me? =)
Friday, March 25, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
The Good and the Ugly
This article is so graphic...
Those who could, ran
Published in The Straits Times, Mar 16, 2011
Bodies found in villages mostly of old folk who couldn't outrun tsunami
NATORI (MIYAGI): Septuagenarian Hirosato Wako stared at the ruins of her small fishing hamlet: skeletons of shattered buildings, twisted lengths of corrugated steel, corpses with their hands twisted into claws. Only once before had she seen anything like it: World War II.
'I lived through the Sendai air raids,' Ms Wako, 75, said, referring to the Allied bombings of the north-east's largest city. 'But this is much worse.'
For the elderly who live in the villages along Japan's north-eastern coast, it is a return to a past of privation that their children have never known.
As in so much of the Japanese countryside, young people have largely fled, looking for work in the city. The elderly who remained are facing devastation and possible radiation contamination, a challenge equal only to the task this generation faced when its defeated, despairing nation had to rebuild from the rubble of World War II.
In this hamlet of Yuriage, the search for survivors was turning into a search for bodies. And most of those bodies were old - too old to have outrun the tsunami.
Mr Yuta Saga, 21, was picking up broken cups after the earthquake when he heard sirens and screams of 'tsunami!'. He grabbed his mother by the arm and ran to the junior high school, the tallest building around.
Traffic snarled the streets as panicked drivers crashed into one another. When they reached the school, mother and son found the stairs to the roof clogged with older people who appeared unable to muster the strength to climb them. Some were just sitting or lying on the steps. As the bottom floor filled with fleeing residents, the wave hit.
At first, the doors held. Then water began to pour through the seams and flow into the room. In a panic to reach the roof, younger residents began pushing and yelling, 'Hurry!' and 'Out of the way!' They climbed over those who were not moving or elbowed them aside.
'I couldn't believe it,' Mr Saga said. 'They were even shoving old people out of the way. The old people couldn't save themselves.'
Then the doors burst open, and the water rushed in. It was quickly waist level. Mr Saga saw one older woman, without the strength or will to stand, sitting in water that rose to her nose. He said he rushed behind her, grabbed her under the arms and hoisted her up the stairs.
Another person on the stairs grabbed her and lifted her up to another person. The men formed a human chain, lifting the elderly and some children to the top.
'I saw the ugly side of people, and then I saw the good side,' he said. 'Some people thought only of themselves. Others stopped to help.'
One woman handed him her infant.
'Please, at least save the baby!' she pleaded as water rose above his chest.
Mr Saga said he grabbed the baby and ran up the stairs. Many of those still at the foot of the stairs were washed away.
He joined about 200 people on the second floor of the building. The baby's mother rushed upstairs, and he put the baby into her arms.
From the windows, they watched uprooted homes and cars flowing by. People did not speak, he said. They just cried and moaned, a collective 'Ahhhh!' as they watched the destruction unfold.
He saw one of his classmates, whose parents had gone back home to get something as the wave came and did not make it to the school. His friend sat on the floor, in tears.
Ms Hisako Tanno, 50, was working at a warehouse when the quake struck. She rushed home to get her 77-year-old father. As she parked in front of her home, she heard screams. She looked down the street to see a 'mountain of garbage' moving down the street at her. It was the wave.
Her neighbours called to her from their home, and she ran up to their second floor. Then she remembered she had left her father.
She could see her house from the window. When the wave hit, it smashed the sliding doors. Then, to her horror, she saw her father swept outside. The water was by now the height of a one-storey building. She saw him grab the ironwork on her home's second-storey balcony and hold on.
'He was trying to pull himself up, but he has a bad leg,' she said.
As the water surged, her father was able to somehow hoist himself over the metal railing and onto the balcony. There he held on for dear life.
'I didn't know he had it in him,' she said. 'He wanted so badly to live that he found that last burst of strength.'
After the earthquake, Mr Jun Kikuchi, 33, who owns a local taxi company, drove to the homes of a half-dozen residents aged 70 or older to ask if he could take them to higher ground. They refused, saying that there was no tsunami alert, so they would stay home.
The next morning, he found out that the homes of all six of the older residents were washed away.
'The elderly can't take care of themselves in a disaster like this,' he said. 'They didn't stand a chance.'
NEW YORK TIMES
---
Another upsetting thing is that some countries and media are spreading unfounded rumours like no one's business. Creating panic among masses? Or just trying to sensationalize the whole incident?
Those who could, ran
Published in The Straits Times, Mar 16, 2011
Bodies found in villages mostly of old folk who couldn't outrun tsunami
NATORI (MIYAGI): Septuagenarian Hirosato Wako stared at the ruins of her small fishing hamlet: skeletons of shattered buildings, twisted lengths of corrugated steel, corpses with their hands twisted into claws. Only once before had she seen anything like it: World War II.
'I lived through the Sendai air raids,' Ms Wako, 75, said, referring to the Allied bombings of the north-east's largest city. 'But this is much worse.'
For the elderly who live in the villages along Japan's north-eastern coast, it is a return to a past of privation that their children have never known.
As in so much of the Japanese countryside, young people have largely fled, looking for work in the city. The elderly who remained are facing devastation and possible radiation contamination, a challenge equal only to the task this generation faced when its defeated, despairing nation had to rebuild from the rubble of World War II.
In this hamlet of Yuriage, the search for survivors was turning into a search for bodies. And most of those bodies were old - too old to have outrun the tsunami.
Mr Yuta Saga, 21, was picking up broken cups after the earthquake when he heard sirens and screams of 'tsunami!'. He grabbed his mother by the arm and ran to the junior high school, the tallest building around.
Traffic snarled the streets as panicked drivers crashed into one another. When they reached the school, mother and son found the stairs to the roof clogged with older people who appeared unable to muster the strength to climb them. Some were just sitting or lying on the steps. As the bottom floor filled with fleeing residents, the wave hit.
At first, the doors held. Then water began to pour through the seams and flow into the room. In a panic to reach the roof, younger residents began pushing and yelling, 'Hurry!' and 'Out of the way!' They climbed over those who were not moving or elbowed them aside.
'I couldn't believe it,' Mr Saga said. 'They were even shoving old people out of the way. The old people couldn't save themselves.'
Then the doors burst open, and the water rushed in. It was quickly waist level. Mr Saga saw one older woman, without the strength or will to stand, sitting in water that rose to her nose. He said he rushed behind her, grabbed her under the arms and hoisted her up the stairs.
Another person on the stairs grabbed her and lifted her up to another person. The men formed a human chain, lifting the elderly and some children to the top.
'I saw the ugly side of people, and then I saw the good side,' he said. 'Some people thought only of themselves. Others stopped to help.'
One woman handed him her infant.
'Please, at least save the baby!' she pleaded as water rose above his chest.
Mr Saga said he grabbed the baby and ran up the stairs. Many of those still at the foot of the stairs were washed away.
He joined about 200 people on the second floor of the building. The baby's mother rushed upstairs, and he put the baby into her arms.
From the windows, they watched uprooted homes and cars flowing by. People did not speak, he said. They just cried and moaned, a collective 'Ahhhh!' as they watched the destruction unfold.
He saw one of his classmates, whose parents had gone back home to get something as the wave came and did not make it to the school. His friend sat on the floor, in tears.
Ms Hisako Tanno, 50, was working at a warehouse when the quake struck. She rushed home to get her 77-year-old father. As she parked in front of her home, she heard screams. She looked down the street to see a 'mountain of garbage' moving down the street at her. It was the wave.
Her neighbours called to her from their home, and she ran up to their second floor. Then she remembered she had left her father.
She could see her house from the window. When the wave hit, it smashed the sliding doors. Then, to her horror, she saw her father swept outside. The water was by now the height of a one-storey building. She saw him grab the ironwork on her home's second-storey balcony and hold on.
'He was trying to pull himself up, but he has a bad leg,' she said.
As the water surged, her father was able to somehow hoist himself over the metal railing and onto the balcony. There he held on for dear life.
'I didn't know he had it in him,' she said. 'He wanted so badly to live that he found that last burst of strength.'
After the earthquake, Mr Jun Kikuchi, 33, who owns a local taxi company, drove to the homes of a half-dozen residents aged 70 or older to ask if he could take them to higher ground. They refused, saying that there was no tsunami alert, so they would stay home.
The next morning, he found out that the homes of all six of the older residents were washed away.
'The elderly can't take care of themselves in a disaster like this,' he said. 'They didn't stand a chance.'
NEW YORK TIMES
---
Another upsetting thing is that some countries and media are spreading unfounded rumours like no one's business. Creating panic among masses? Or just trying to sensationalize the whole incident?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Forces of Nature
This town, Kamaishi, in Iwate prefecture, held the record of having the deepest breakwater in the world to shield from tsunami strike, but...
Pay attention to the 0:40 part. Did that person manage to escape??
And this person (shooting the footage) was pretty brave. I probably won't do that if I were him/her. But this video indeed shows the extent of destruction that tsunami can cause, from ground-zero POV.
When one problem triggers another...sigh.
Pay attention to the 0:40 part. Did that person manage to escape??
And this person (shooting the footage) was pretty brave. I probably won't do that if I were him/her. But this video indeed shows the extent of destruction that tsunami can cause, from ground-zero POV.
When one problem triggers another...sigh.
Friday, March 11, 2011
华文智多星（第四集）
只要有恒心（和时间），答案其实可以从网上或字典搜得到。。。
我懂你们在想什么。‘燕’不是一个正确答案。
接下来的问题，主持人说答案简单，不用想得太难。这样反而给我造成压力，就想不出来了。
读音一样，意思也相似，烦死人了。
我对本地的慈善家不是很了解。
多亏曾经看过一部多年前的本地连续剧（郑惠玉主演），才懂这些仆人叫什么。
我懂英文路名，只是不懂它的华文翻译，因为不常用。这题没人抢答。
这题也没人抢答。我对花不是很有研究，更何况是它们的华文名称。
真的不习惯以拼音解读句子。
‘participate’ 太长了。用华语表达比较顺口。
提示：跟赌博有关
想出那关键的四个字就能概括全部意思。这是胜出的不二法门。
我懂你们在想什么。‘燕’不是一个正确答案。
接下来的问题，主持人说答案简单，不用想得太难。这样反而给我造成压力，就想不出来了。
读音一样，意思也相似，烦死人了。
我对本地的慈善家不是很了解。
多亏曾经看过一部多年前的本地连续剧（郑惠玉主演），才懂这些仆人叫什么。
我懂英文路名，只是不懂它的华文翻译，因为不常用。这题没人抢答。
这题也没人抢答。我对花不是很有研究，更何况是它们的华文名称。
真的不习惯以拼音解读句子。
‘participate’ 太长了。用华语表达比较顺口。
提示：跟赌博有关
想出那关键的四个字就能概括全部意思。这是胜出的不二法门。
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