English ABC~

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.


Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain..
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific..
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven..
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

another wednesday

I'm back mapling. hahah! but surprisingly this time i'm towallie not addicted to it..well i just play so that i can waste my time...so i'm not really into the leveling and all plus i only play when i have friends with me. hahah! paying alone sucks... BIG TIME.

really wanna go see my cousins new pup =( and i wont be taking my computer, law test tomorrow and instead has been changed to thursday. no space =( sooo yea~~~~~~ its all good tho cause i dont think i'm very prepared to take the test. ahahhaha! and i hope more plp can on9 in the morning seriously so damn boring and today maple's having server check soo i cant play..meh =/

decided not to let plp guess the lyrics cause it seems so l-a-m-e, so ima prolly still gonna put lyrics or quotes from books, and if u guys wanna know where i get those quotes/lyrics from just ask me. oh and btw~ nickt got it right, kris allen-live like we're dying. he sounds awfully like the script, actually i did thought it was the script =/ hahha~

just realise that talking lawyer style is so hard! like seriously whats with all the lawyer term and all, sounds pretty cool tho ;) and i refuse to :3 nickt! i shall =3 to everyone in the world but nick! hahahahh!!! =P

Waking up I see that everything is ok
The first time in my life and now it's so great
Slowing down I look around and I am so amazed
I think about the little things that make life great
I wouldn't change a thing about it

the bulb just lighted!

to those who still not get what i'm trying to say, to put it in other way its "i've just got an idea!"

i've decided that for every post ima gonna put like part of the lyrics there for my fellow readers to guess :) it could be songs from any language but i'll try to get like translation if it is a song from another language than english. =.= nvm i think you guys will understand it soon. then i'm gonna post the answer as in the "artist and song name" on my following post ;) anyways~

i would wanna say good luck to those who are working on their "problems faced by youth" essay. and hope u guys can pass it up by tomorrow ;) and at last going for that driving class (law) need to sit through that boring god knows how many hours but oh well! as long as i get my license. dude! i somewhat sacrificed another brunei plan fot this class..then today lydia told me she thought its on sunday so she cant go with me tomorrow =( oh well~ i guess i am after all FATED to go there alone. i'm gonna make sure my handphone is full of battery and sms whoever is my pitiful victim that is gonna keep me company. any VOLUNTEERS? =P

this is gonna be a pretty easy one =)
lyrics:~
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to
turn it all around or throw it all away
we gotta tell 'em that we love 'em
while we got the chance to say

does not! does to, does not! does to

my post will have nothing to do with the title~ hahah! the title just reminded me of how i usually argue with people on some certain issue =3

have u ever thought about where will u be a year from now? i mean~ seems so far right? a YEAR from now? you'll be surprise how time flies. anyways~ take it from a-just-graduated-from high school-and-now-waiting- for-my-SPM-result, me, enjoy ur form 5. its your last year in high school and regardless on how shit-ass and sucky that high school is. YOU are graduating from there and trust me, unless u plan to repeat another year. enjoy every seconds and happenings there.

another day in the office, again very bored. boring. freakin' bores the crap out of me but what the hell. i somewhat wish i could be in school with my buddies now..missing them a lot~ its so weird to not being able to walk in the corridors. laugh like crazy because of the most stupidest/retardest thing (yes, those two words are without the -est) see at least I'm not getting dumber. actually i think i am..i was fb-ing with this friend(simmy) then i wanted to say table salt in chemistry style...then i was like sodium nitrate, then i was like..wait i don't think its sodium nitrate..so i just said it out loud like "what's table salt in chem style?" then my dad was like sodium chloride..i'm like..rights....seriously man, just a few months of no school and i already cant remember sodium chloride??! dude, that's like 2 years off hard work down the drains!! and my dad havent touch chem in like 20 years. what does that says about me? you know what! dont even bother answering that question. T_T

if this goes on in a month time I'll be asking my sis how to spell February, but no worries, u'll never know i cant spell February cause this is the 21st century we have what we call the Internet. a spell checker. see~ i can check my spelling and towallie correct it, so yea.u wont even know that i cant spell february.which is towallie just stupeed cause of course i can spell february..damn~ i crap a lot, dont i? i can already write a whole not-less-than-120-words essay on february! hahaha~ well yea, i mean..its a know fact since the day i DESCENDED(god, i love this word) from heaven in my momma's belly (womb) to earth. oh yea, fall out boys old songs/albums are awesome...i'm re-adicted to it again :D

thank you for wasting a few minutes(depending on how fast u can read) of your precious time from today to read my blog~ :) i know, i know. a very sudden and random penutup =P

new year :D

well i guess you can say its been a REALLY long time since u last heard from me. so i guess I'm gonna start blogging again (wonder how long THIS time will last) haha~ the reason why I've decided to start blogging is because i just realised that most of my friends from the winter-camp is blogging so yea :)

speaking of which i went to this root seeking winter camp in china last year 22 dec 09 till 2 jan 2010 (12 days). sooo yea, i think its the 1st time my sis and I went to a camp out of KK, MALAYSIA, with a bunch of teens to another country without parents supervision :D the camp was awesome..i'm so glad i made the right choice to go. no regrets at all. okay, may be a little but not on going to the camp, just didnt manage to take pictures with a couple of plp =(

ooowh, did i forget to mention it was the 1st time spending new years and Christmas and Chinese's ping an ye and dong jie without family~ for some reason i feel that 2010 will hold lots of firsts for me :) looking forward to it ;) hehehe~ unfortunately the stupeed camera died on me on the 2nd day i was in china, tried to charge it but then prolly due to the voltage difference or whatevers i cant seem to charge so the end to that =.= so for that whole trip i basically depended on other plp's camera T_T sad eh? so people out there who has my pictures. CAN U PLEASE SEND IT TO ME?! thank you :D

ima gonna try to upload pictures, but no promises. heheh~ laziness gets the better of me, but u guys can always visit my facebook~ there's like tons of pics there :) and m sooo used to having lyd by my side taking picture than i feel so diff when m the 1 holding the cam~so yeaaa =)

eh~ that's all for now~ gonna tell u my adventures(as nickt says it) in my next post or something :)

just cause i'm bored.

Copy and paste this. Then bold the truths.

happy lydia?

I miss somebody right now. I don't watch TV these days. I wear glasses or contact lenses. I love to play video games. I’ve tried marijuana. I have been in a threesome. I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. I believe honesty is usually the best policy. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. I’m TOTALLY smart. I’ve broken someone’s bones. I’m paranoid sometimes. I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.

I need money right now. I LOVE sushi. I talk really, really fast. I have long hair. I have lost money in Las Vegas. I have at least one sibling. I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past. I couldn’t survive without Caller ID.

I like the way I look. I am usually pessimistic. I have a lot of mood swings. I have a hidden talent. I’m always hyper no matter how much sugar I have. I have a lot of friends. I am currently single. I have pecked someone of the same sex. I enjoy talking on the phone. I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants. I love to shop. Enjoy window shopping. I would rather shop than eat.

I don’t hate anyone. I’m a pretty good dancer. I’m completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother. I have a cell phone. I believe in God. I watch MTV on a daily basis. I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months. I’ve rejected someone before.

I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to have children in the future. I have changed a diaper before. I’ve called the cops on a friend before. I’m not allergic to anything. I have a lot to learn. I like a friends ex.

I have been with someone at least 10 years older or younger. I am shy around the opposite sex. I have tried alcohol before. I have made a move on a friend’s significant other or crush in the past. I own the “South Park” movie.

I would die for my best true friends. I think that Pizza Hut has the best pizza. I have used my sexuality to advance my career. I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all. Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.

I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it. I am happy at this moment. I’m obsessed with guys. I study for tests most of the time. I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I’ve ever met. I am comfortable with who I am right now.

I have more than just my ears pierced. I walk barefoot wherever I can. I have jumped off a bridge. I love sea turtles. I spend ridiculous money on makeup. Plan on achieving a major goal/dream. I’m proficient in a musical instrument.

I worked at McDonald’s restaurant. I hate office jobs. I love sci-fi movies. I think water rules. I want to go to college out of state. I like sausages. I love kisses. I usually like covers better than originals. I can pick up things with my toes. I can’t whistle. I can move my tongue in waves, much like a snakes slither.

I have ridden/owned a horse. I still have every journal I’ve ever written in. I talk in my sleep. I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions. Climbing trees is a brilliant past-time. I have jazz in my blood.

I wear a toe ring. I have a tattoo. I can’t stand at LEAST one person that I work with. I am a caffeine junkie. I cosplay or know what cosplaying is. I have been to over 15 conventions. I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical the better.

I’m an artist. I only clean my room when necessary. I like a person of the same sex. I love being happy. I am an adrenaline junkie.I am in love. I have been hearbroken. My relationship sucks.

I hate my life. I can't live without him/her. I dont like my friends. There's more to me than you think. I am two-faced. I have stolen something before. I think I am perfect.

Happy Birthday lyddd~

ur turning 17, u stop growing, ur getting old and before you know it you may start having wrinkles!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY my awesomely retarded friend who is nowhere as retarded as me =)
seriously you should put up this pic instead of the others, i say this is like one of the best pic u have ever taken~ i agree ur talented but onlee when you, urself is the model ;P *cheers* hahaha

as much as i hate you, i love you a lot, ok may be i love you more than i hate you but whatever~ so yea, you SERIOUSLY should have confidence in yourself and start sleeping~ u like pandas? u might turn into one someday and stop squawking and squeking. T_T hahah~ so sad, its your birthday and u somewhat lost your voice. xP

stop arguing about money so much and you should just let someone spend you when they want to, seirously pissing people off lar. its like ur rezeki you know, you so shudnt reject it..k! make it a resolution or something~

hahah~ yeah taking this opportunity to write whatever i want bout you, once a year huh..chances are hard to come by~ whatever that means, as long as you get it.hahahah. so yea~ all the best to you darls and just say things when you want, you know i'm pretty immuned to watever u say. be it good or bad. hahahah!~

lastly, thanks for being my friend =) i mean the patience and all, i know its not easy so yea. really grateful and happy birthtday =) *hugs* OMG! I JUST REMEMBERED I DIDNT HUG U TODAY!!! SHYTTT~ >.< oh, and that imaginary friend, i am so getting you one.

lots of love.
From,
the 1 and onlee
chewy =)

p/s~ child get terharu m suppose to be studying!