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ER…

If you live in Toronto and you don’t sit at home all day long, you’d see these random er ad campaigns all over the city (the subway station yonge and bloor is pretty much covered in them):


I’m not sure if others are as curious as me, but it’s still got people talking. So in terms of stirring up a conversation, it might’ve succeeded, but in terms of advertising whichever company, it’s not doing any good. Especially when I finally figured out which company was behind it and what the actual ads are supposed to be. I’m pretty much disappointed:


Seriously, I don’t see the association with “er” and Bell??? Er.. Bell just got dumber? Despite the idiotic stealth attempt, neither does the blue type font make me feel Bell is any more superior than Apple, if anything, it’s saying they’re a copycat..

 

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读大白字儿

是只有我读错这些字儿么？谁也来试试看能不能拼写出这些字来。
括弧里的是我会读成的拼音，当然也是不正确的读法。下面的都是我已经把自己纠正过来后才能够写下来的。肯定还有不少是我仍然在读大白字儿而没有发觉的在逍遥法外。

削苹果 (xiao1 ping2 guo3)
聒噪 (kua4 zao4)
短暂 (duan3 zhan4)
木讷 (mu4 na4)
哭泣 (ku1 li4)
发酵 (fa1 xiao4)
枭雄 (diao3 xiong2) – 很多人都错读成鸟熊，但是我比较有创意一点。

小时候比较夸张的一些大白字儿：
尴尬 (gan4 lan2)
杳无音信 (niao3 wu2 yin1 xin4) – 我实在不知道为什么会读成鸟的。。
不屑一顾 (bu2 xue4 yi2 gu4)

一些我向来都知道是错误的，但是寡不敌众所以就将错就错的大白字儿：
膝盖 (qi1 gai4) 应该是 xi1 gai4
机械 (ji1 jie4) 应该是 ji1 xie4
天秤座 (tian1 ping2 zuo4) 应该是 tian1 cheng4 zuo4

这是几个我听说过不应该如此读，但是就连字典跟打字拼写都已经是错误的字儿：
胖 – 应该是 pan2 （但是我没有认识任何人是这么去读的，我唯一看过这么读是有一次读古文看到音译这么写）
岛屿 – 应该是 xu4 （很夸张吧？明明就是yu3嘛。。谁没事儿读成xu4啊？）
呆板 – 呆这个字在这里应该是 ai2。如果你用搜狗拼音输入的话，拼写ai ban它会纠正你说这个词组是dai ban。搜狗是错误的说。。我在辞海里查到的说。。。

既然都扯了这么多了，我再加几个我比较喜欢的词吧，跟题目已然不沾边儿了：
温文尔雅 – 很多英文、德文翻译过来的小说中常常用到的词。不知道为什么就是很喜欢用。
莞尔 – 第一次看到是在读金庸写的射雕英雄传中形容南帝（那个大理和尚）。
晶莹剔透 – 嗯，不知道，每次读到就会想到很漂亮的东西，所以很喜欢吧。
小兽 – 安妮宝贝创造出来的一个词。其实不是很喜欢读她写的书，不过她那么出名，不读读看好像说不过去呢。

好了，先叨叨这么多吧。等想到其他的了再补上。

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I got hit on by a middle school boy..

There is a middle school 2 bus stops away from where I live. Every morning I need to squeeze on the bus at my stop and wait for them to get off afterwards so that I can get a seat. It’s quite annoying really. And I’m somewhat jealous of their life, so carefree, no responsibilities. I hear random chit chats here and there. The boys talk about how they hate some teacher and the girls talk about how they hate some boy in class.. it’s amusing.. brings back fond memories of my high school life. (I’ve never been to middle school. In Vancouver, elementary school runs till Grade 7, then it’s straight to secondary school which is Grade 8 to 12.. I completed Grade 8 there and then came to Toronto.)

One of the benefits of working at an IT place is that you get to wear casual clothes. Most of the days I go to work wearing T-shirts. I guess.. I guess I look young.. just didn’t know exactly HOW young I look like in others eyes. So today.. on the bus.. I was standing beside this group of boys. I can sense that they’re whispering about me, but I wasn’t paying too much attention. (I normally eavesdrop but today I was too sleepy.) I can feel that the other boys are trying to get this one Asian boy to do something, but he’s being kind of shy about it. Just before they’re getting off the shy boy poked me and asked, “Do you wanna go to class together? Erm, can I get your MSN?”

Erm..

It took me quite some seconds to realize he’s talking to me. And then it took a bit more seconds to process what he had just asked me. The bus doesn’t wait for people though, just as I stare at him blankly it was time for them to get off. I saw his face filled with hope and I felt pretty damn bad for the guy, I said, “Sorry, I’m going to work right now. I think I’m much older than you..” And then I saw the awkward expression on his face just before the bus door shut in front of my eyes. Immediately afterwards, I could’ve swore I heard a giggle behind me. But by then I was too ashamed to turn back and check. I just felt the whole bus was watching me.

What the hell man, I know I look young. But being mistaken by a middle school boy on the bus is too much. Not to mention he’s freaking Asian as well! Grrr.. grrrrrr….. GRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

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尴尬

刚刚在随便阅览一些无聊的漫画。发现一部叫做“变身男孩”的，标为18禁。有点儿小好奇地去看了一下，发现其实就只是些微的BL而已。然后尴尬了一下，不知道为什么现在都20了，哦不，快21了，仍然会觉得18禁的书是禁书？

看来还是没有长大的自觉啊。仍然活在18岁以前的境界里。啊~

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My new pet: Jim

Me: Jim, can we have a dog and two cats when we grow up?

Jim: …

Me: Jim, can we have a dog, two cats, and a rabbit when we grow up?

Jim: Only if you can take care of them, I’m only responsible for playing with them! *evil grin*

Me: *multiple smack attacks on Jim’s face*

Jim: Why don’t you just take care of me instead. I can be a pet. If you give me treats, I’ll do tricks for you.

Me: *thinking to myself that I’m gonna have one Jim, one dog, two cats, and a rabbit when I grow up*

 

 

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Weird Encounter on the Street

So I’m walking Benben around my neighborhood after work. It’s a hot sunny day: the first 27C this summer. I’m wearing a relatively tight t-shirt with knee length shorts. Seriously, nothing revealing. As I walk down the road, I see a guy walking towards me with each of his hands holding on to a kid. One boy, one girl. “Aww, so adorable” I thought to myself while holding Benben back afraid that the kids will be scared of dogs.

As I’m passing him, he commented “Nice Dog.”

I followed by “Thanks.”

“But not as nice as you.”

“Thanks…”

So now I’m thinking in my head.. I should have instead said something like “Cute kids, but not as cute as you.” What was he thinking?? You don’t hit on random girls on the street while walking your kids!

Grrr.. out of all of the weird guys hitting on me on the street, this has got to be one of the top idiots..

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on my way back to loo with mom..

白痴话题一

me: 妈妈，你看，limo耶
mom:  哦，好像大白虫子哟
me: 。。。
mom: （*突然超车*） 啊，看看虫子里面有没有人
me: （*看limo里面*) 嗯，好像没有
mom: （*超车*） 好的，我们跑到虫子前面了

白痴话题二

mom: 我的老板好像越来越喜欢我了，怎么办呀？
me: 凉拌
mom: 凉拌能拌出什么名堂出来啊？
me: 能拌出螳螂来
mom: 哦

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my “first” retarded day at loo this term..

I went to my first period – painting class thinking to myself that I’ll need to go home afterwards to load my usb drive with the stuff I worked on last night for my second period – electronic imaging so that I can continue working on it during class time. So I left the class a bit early, got home, and filled up the memory stick with the stuff. I went to my second period, realized that I had left the stick at home, felt pretty stupid and started redoing what I had already done last night. After class, I left a bit earlier again because my third period – art history is all the way in EIT, a building I’m not so familiar with. I got lost on my way there, and felt stupid a bit more. When I arrived, I found out that the door is locked. Thinking to myself, what the heck?! I saw the clock on the wall and it points to 3:30, so I definitely made it on time.. then what the heck?! After a few seconds of swearing I realized that I only have that course on Mondays. So now I totally felt stupid and ashamed of myself, but you know, stuff like that happens in real life.. >_> I turned around and realized that I don’t really know how to get out of here.. I came in followed a map and was in a hurry. I called up Jenny while looking blankly outside the glass door asking for directions. I got my directions and started walking home once again feeling quite stupid. On my way home, I saw Lu, but I can’t seem to remember his name. So I stood in the middle of the street, watching him walking out of UWP, covering my face, trying really really really hard to remember his name. Ok, I know it rhymes with Vu (another friend’s name), so it’s gotta be.. it’s gotta be.. Urgh, nevermind. Just when I turned around and started walking, this thought went through my head: OMFG, IT’S LU!!

I continued walking thinking to myself how stupid I am.. Today is the third day of class, first day I left stuff at home, first day I got lost on campus, first day I can’t remember someone’s name.. I hope I’ll get better.. =(