Monday, June 06, 2005 . 4:59 PM
* I'm being praised*
It is time for mi to HAOLIAN that i've been praised, not once, but twice, not by locals but by mainland chinese that..I SPEAK GOOD MANDARIN, and in their exact words it's pu(2) tong(1)hua(4)!! Now how can i not haolian abt it rite?!!
In a more humble note, they must have met a big bunch of locals who can't speak mandarin properly..not that i'm THAT good but i'm not too bad. omg i'm high up in the sky.
1st guy who told mi that i was quite surprised. So being polite n alittle shy, i thanked him and said,' no lar, it's my mom who taught me well.' Wat a classic line. But it's the absolute truth.
Besides grooming herself to be a future wonder-woman, my mom has also found time to learn mandarin, and thus passing her wonderful mandarin to her daughter. The thing is mom never learnt nor spoke mandarin till she was in her secondary school? At home she communicated in Fuzhou. Government schools then taught everything in malay. But she was very interested so she went on to learn chinese on herself, taught herself how to read even. And her mandarin is perfect. You won't know that she taught herself the language. Years later she even had to taught her daughter how to write chinese in pri sch when she herself couldn't write but able to recognise words. I think my mom is really amazing. Back from where i came from, Kuching that is, the mandarin pple spoke are not very heavily accented, unlike their western msian counterparts.
So now comes the haolian part. Since i've been speaking mandarin n mandarin everyday bcos of the huge no of mainland chinese that i entertain..i've learnt a number of cool words, i'll put them up for entertaining purposes..cos i was quite amused back then when i learnt the words too.
Liquid nitrogen : Ye (4) Dan (4) / and i would have said..liquid nitrogen as liquid nitrogen
(Tissue fell off the slide) : Tuo(1) Pian(4)/ and i would have said..diao(4) le(4)( drop off ah!)
Tissue: zu(3) zhi (1)
Flourescence: Ying(3) guan(1)
Steel or watever metal: Jin(1) Shu(3) / i think ur shd know lar..
If i rem i'll put more up next time for educational purposes :p. It's not enuff to know some things, u muz know how to speak like them, express things the way they do. Next time if i have the time i'll type it out for ur.
Oh btw i managed to catch Kingdom of heaven yesterday......at home.......from deying's pirated dvd. Quality not bad ah. As for the film itself. I was quite disappointed that it was not as gd as i tot. And i was so confused cos i didn't know the history behind it. Seldom u hear mi talk abt being disappointed when it comes to ancient history warfare. But yeah i was. So sad!
Since someone has aldy gave a very gd critic of the show i shall cut n paste his blog entry here to save the trouble of mi trying to use my limited vocab to describe how i feel abt the show. ANd everything he wrote was wat i felt was true. I hope he won't mind me doing this... His blog is http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=ne0mesis
And since i'm at the topic of the big screen, I finally caught my long overdue Kingdom of heaven last sat. now there's something call delay gratification and I surmised I would come out from the cinema totally sastified after such a long wait to catch the show. after two and half hours, I came out from the threatre entertained nevertheless but with bagfuls of disappointment too; not at all eager to galvanize a fight against the ah-mats. perhaps the only saving grace for the show i can give is the sincere warfare scott put up. Character development was just really really poor. i didn't know a blacksmith can wield a sword as good as he is with his hammer and horse-rings and that liam neeson's high-guard and low guard difference makes him an ultimate muslim killer. The movie was decent long for an epoch but many things left unexplained and seemingly too fast-forwarded. a good part should explain how bloom buttress the almost impeneratable fortess and his brillant strategies. if that had to be left out, then they really should not bother to explain that the city's defence "had been done as good as it is". totally placid attempt to explain how they erected the catapults overnight. i'm not quite confident of the accuracy of measurements back in 1811 but quasi-admiral bloom's screaming the contact distance of the marching armada really sounded like I'm watching some surmarine warfare show. and finally, somebody please feel sorry for the little boy who got slapped out of so many who kneeled before bloom.
bottom line? ask me anytime which epic shows that will have me picking up a sword and shield? Bring me Gladiator and Troy. Kingdom of heaven, except for the entertaining bloody war fight that we have put up since Mel Gibson's Braveheart, Ridley Scott barely excaped scott free.
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