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Monday, June 04, 2007

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:02:00 GMT

Steven-Chow-Style Classical Music

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:09:04 GMT

I bet that you didn't know Classical music could be this funny. Igudesman & Joo are two hard-core musicians, who succesfully blended humor with classical music. Their show, "A Little NIGHTMARE Music", starts off with a seemingly normal concert. When a cell phone starts to ring, the nightmare at the concert begins... The piano is locked up, and asks the user to insert a credit card; the violinist (Igudesman) music turns Irish tone, which turns him and the pianist (Joo) into "Riverdancers"; the violinist losts his bow in a vacuum; and the pianist had to play the piano upside down...

I couldn't stop laughing when I saw their show clips on YouTube. Out of these nightmares, I gave the most laughs to the Piano Lesson clip.

【Piano Lesson】

I love this clip, too. Joo and Igudesman work great together. I'd love to have this wood tools for playing piano... :P

【Rachmaninov Had Big Hands】

Dictionary.com Words of the Year 2006

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:05:32 GMT

Do you know what are the words of the year? (yes, I borrowed them from dictionary.com)

Top 10 Looked-up Words

1. love	2. affect	3. effect
4. good	5. beautiful	6. metaphor
7. integrity	8. experience	9.irony
10. happy

no big surprises, right? What about these words? Do you know what they mean??

Top Voted-on Words

truthiness* - this should be a noun, right??
lincolnish* - "You're lincolnish!" You mean like the President or the car?
Wikiality* - The Chinese version of this word could be... 三人成虎? If it's Wikiality, we should accept it?
it-getter* - anybody help???
grinchitude* - I don't like your grinchitude. Just get me my gift and sing me x'mas songs!
factinista*-
superstantial* - I'm getting my curvy underlines in word... how do I use this word again?
love
sex
defenestrate
antidisestablishmentarianism
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
ubiquitous
juxtapose- "you can't juxtapose apples and oranges..."
Google
pneumonoultramicroscopic silicovolcanoconiosis
serendipity

*s are too new to be in the dictionary.... OrZ

do you know what THESE mean? Can you make a sentence with each of these words?

Top 10 Looked-up New Words

Well, here's my example...

Wait a minute barista, I want a hot chocolate in lieu of an iced latte!

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:00:24 GMT

haha, who cares.

Monday, December 25, 2006

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:46:48 GMT

I had the worst hot-pot dinner last night. Sitting with a whole table of strangers was a disaster. They were three Chinese/Canto-speaking families, who were friends of my uncle. I could only hear Cantonese shouting across the table, with the Chinese style "did you eat this?", "eat more, eat more", "help yourself , help yourself". The funny part is, these people weren't even the host, but they all acted like they were the host. One woman was particularly great at this, she constantly scooped fish-balls/shrimps/whatever out of the hot pot and served to EVERYBODY near her. I don't think I can survive through another dinner like this. "Chinese" people are scary!!　

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:16:39 GMT

This is a conversation between two smart CMU alums.

Y: Are we leaving on the 20th or the 21st?
Z: I don't know. Probably the Wednesday or the Thursday. What day is the 21st?
Y: I don't know, but I know 20th is a Wednesday; 21st is probably a Thursday.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:13:23 GMT

Miss you all.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:57:20 GMT

dears,
1 more week, then I'll be in Pittsburgh. See ya'll.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:38:50 GMT

ㄕˇ。

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:28:51 GMT

6 weird habits/things of itings:

itings giggles when she sleeps.
itings often sleeps on a bed without sheets and a pillow without a pillow case.
itings must put everything, from hair-clips to underwears, in clean ziplock bags.
itings rather fights with 5 guys for bathroom than having her own private bathroom.
itings rarely talks about people's gossip, but she knows all about YOU!
itings asked ME to be her roomie!

Anyway, did you know that cats can talk?