Twilight Part 2

I’m now a few chapters into the book, Twilight . So far the story hasn’t quite taken off yet. As at this point, Bella has been a damsel in distress twice and Edward has come to her rescue on both occasions. The usual teenage drama unfolds as we meet the rest of her classmates and it goes something like this: A likes B but B is very quiet and mysterious and keeps away. C and D both like A. C is very persistent for A’s attention and has been hanging around A a lot. D is jealous of C but is not so persistent with A. Then comes E who likes C and is jealous of A because of the E can’t get C’s attention. A knows this and tries to keep away from C and D because A is thinking of B only. Then comes F who is contemptuous of A and B for reasons that we still don’t know of at this point in the story. Perhaps if I am a few years younger, this part of the story would appeal to me. I’m so way over all this ABCDE stuff now. But then again, these are high school kids that we’re talking about so we can’t possibility expect these kids to be like 20 year olds. (Yawn) I can’t wait for the vampires and werewolves to make their appearances into the story. I’m going to read on until the action starts. Hang on until my next review. This is Fluffy the Cub reporter signing off as guest blogger for Fragments. Ciaoz!

Movie Review : You Again.

Hi there, this is Cuchee the Couch Potato and I’m a guest blogger for Fragments. I’m back today with an extra article on….a movie review.

Yesterday I watched the movie “You Again”. Actually I think the movie has a good plot but it could have ended in a better way. In a nutshell, this story is about a nerd who suffered badly in high school because a bully who is very pretty and influential got her friends to make this nerd’s life miserable throughout her high school years. Years later, the nerd is a successful executive in a PR firm and she is flying home to attend her brother’s wedding. To her utmost horror, his bride turns out to be …yes, you’ve guessed it, the school bully! You can imagine what will come next as she schemes to break her brother and the bride up. (Does this remind you a little of Julia Roberts in “My best friend’s wedding”?) After she succeeds in breaking them up, she realizes that the bully is no longer the bad person she was so they make up and she helps her brother reconcile with the ex-bully. The story was going so well up to that point until we got to the tree house scene. While the happy couple is up in the tree house kissing and making up, the tree house collapses and they both end up in hospital with broken bones. So the wedding takes place at the hospital with all the patients as guests. You’ll get to see people in casts and clutches dancing in the background as they party. It was funny but the ending just didn’t have that good feeling, know what I mean? My best friend’s wedding ended with a lingering feeling, it was a different note.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to watching “The Deathly Hallows Part 1” (what a pity they are splitting the last story into 2 parts!) and “Narnia” which will be coming soon in 1-2 months time. Look out for my review in the near future. Till then, this is Cuchee signing off.

Twilight Part 1

Hi, this is Fluffy the Cub reporter. I’m a guest blogger for Fragments and I’m here to do a book review of the much talked about “Twilight (The Twilight Saga)” by Stephanie Myer. I’ve not watched the movie or read any of the books before. Basically I want to know why there is so much hype about this story among my friends so I decided to put this next on my reading list. After much delay, I finally went to the store to get the book yesterday. And guess what, I was so surprised to learn that this book is classified as a teenage novel. What? Isn’t this the story that lots of women (those in the office as well) were going gaga about because of the movie? The guy who plays Edward Cullen, Robert Pattinson was also another reason why my friends were watching the movie. Even those in their 30s and 40s. :-0!

Anyway, last night I read the first two chapters of the book. So far the story was just okay… It begins with how and why Isabelle Swan, aka Bella decides to move to Forks and live with her father. And on her first day of school, she meets the guy who is destined to become the love of her life, Edward Cullen. Now we all know that they will fall in love and eventually get married. So at their very first meeting ….well, it wasn’t so much of love at first sight with angels chorusing in the background. It was more like…some sort of culture shock?

When we first meet Edward Cullen in the book, we learn that he is a very good looking dude who comes from a family who are all equally good looking people but he is also a very weird guy. He doesn’t even bother to introduce himself to Bella. He actually sniffs at her and recoils making Bella upset. (!!!) And the following week, he suddenly becomes very friendly with her. At this point, we all know that Bella is attracted to him because she seems nervous in front of him. Bu he, on the other hand, seems to be mocking at her as she drives out of the school’s parking lot. So does he like her at all? Is he pretending that he doesn’t like her? When is he going to bare his fangs to reveal his true identity? Will his family plan their next meal with Bella in their menu? What sort of herbs and spices will go along with their meal? (Twilight Zone music). Of course, you do know that I’m only exaggerating right? Ok that’s as far as I went in the book. I’ll have to continue the review in part 2 as I read more…till then tune in to my next blog review. This is Fluffy signing off as guest blogger. Adios.

Learning Italian Language with SEM3 – part 3

Today I will continue with my revision of some of the basic Italian language using the SEM3 aka self enhanced memory matrix method from Tony Buzan’s Master Your Memory. The stuff below might seem a little Greek to you if you’re not familiar with the SEM3. Check out the book if you can. By the way, we’re encouraged to be as bizarre as possible with our imagination because we can remember things better. The ones below can be really absurd.

5270 – Such – Italian guy is nuzzling a case. As you look at the case a little closer, it is actually a SATChi (such) handbag. In it are receipts and accounting books that he needs to tally (Tale) the figures with.

5271 – Italian Cat is nuzzling an Italian Raccoon and he is saying “Yo Raccoon-do!” ( Lo Racconto)

5272 – Italian man is on the street begging. He is nuzzling a can and somebody puts some money in the can and he says “Grazie” (Thank You)

5273 – Italian guy nuzzles a comb and combs his dad’s (That) hair. His dad thinks he is queer and LOWly. (quello)

5274 – Italian guy is driving his car and nuzzling his steering wheel. The song ella (II, La) is playing in the background. And this chinese lady next to him says “Wo De (THE) che”

5275 – Italian guy is nuzzling his phone and he is making a call to say “I dare(their) you, El Laura (II Loro).

5260 – Italian guy nuzzling some cheese that is soaked with mini Gentle (gente) people. There are tiny people floating in his cheese.

5261 – A crazy Italian guy is nuzzling a pile of shit in a brightly lit PLACE. And he telling people to go away “You all go (luogo) away!”

5262 – Italian guy holds up his hands and beckons to some chains and says “Per favore” (Please) indicating that he wants to be tied up with chains.

5263 – Italian guy goes to Chimes and nuzzles a waitress at one of the restaurants. Then he says” Its been a mad day, SAME old one”. (Medesimo)

5264 –Italian guy is nuzzling a chair that JLo is sitting on. Because he doesn’t speak good English, he says “Yo Vay-doh!” (Lo vedo)

5265 – Italian guy is in a jail nuzzling the bars of the jail. Behind him are 6 christmas trees and he is singing, SHE has 6 pieces of layins (Lei)

5266 –Italian guy is nuzzling with a cha-cha dancer and he is getting cozy (Cosi) with her as she is helping him to sew (SO) him an outfit.

5267 – Italian guy is wearing some wet shoes and his shoes are making squelching (QUALCHE) noises as he walks. He is also nuzzling a cheque because he is going to get SOME inheritance from his long lost great grand aunt.

52668 – Italian guy is a chef and he is nuzzling with his utensils. A creature who is half man and half voda phone walks into the café. A customer points at the creature and looks at the chef, “What a TALL VODA phone (TALVOLTA). Does he always come in here?” And the chef answers “SOMETIMES.”

52679 – Italian guy is nuzzling the anchor of a ship. His ship is out in the Ankara (ANCORA) sea and the waters are very STILL

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Learning Italian Language with SEM3 – part 2

And now continuing with learning the Italian language using the SEM3 aka Self enhanced memory matrix from Tony Buzan’s Master Your Memory. Yesterday I did words from no. 86 to 100. As you can see, I’m trying to work backwards. So let me start with 76 to 85 for now. As you can see, it’s hard to be imaginative with the abstract words. Sometimes I’m forced to think dirty or yucky just to get an image out.

5276 – Them – Lile, Loro – I see a cage floating in DAM (them) and the famous Italian guy is nuzzling the cage as it floats on the dam. Inside the cage, is Eric Clapton playing a song called “Lyle (LEE LAY) LAURA” (Lile, Loro)

5277 – On the top of a gigantic piece of chocolate cake, a lion emerges from the Den (then) with an Italian guy nuzzling his back. He looks up and shouts “ALLOha LauRA!” (ALLORA). Gosh, it’s so hard to come up with images for abstract words!!!

5278 – I picture an Italian waitress working in a café. She’s nuzzling a model of a church with a sauna room that is on the counter and she’s is dancing and singing “There is/are Churchy Sona” (ce, ci sona) to a customer who had just come from church.

5279 – Italian guy is nuzzling a cab and he’s singing “Tell LAURA (Loro) I love her.” Laura will be coming home the next day (THEY).

5280 – Italian guy is nuzzling the face of a monster from the movie “The THING”. (The one with the human head and 8 eight legs like a spider). When he pulls his face away he says “It’s like a ghost ah!” (COSA).

5281 –A fat Italian guy is nuzzling a pair of old pants. It has a hole in it and it needs to be mended. He says to his fat wife who has a huge brain and light bulb sticking out of her skull. (Think) “OLD PANTS SEW!” (Lo penso)

5282 – Italian guy nuzzles a plug and then he switches on the fan. The fan has some computer disks (This) attached to each of its blades. As the fan rotates, little question (questo) marks fly out of the fan.

5283 – Italian guy nuzzles with Death in the bathtub and he is covered with foam. Death pulls out an hour glass (Time) and observes as an Aura (ora) forms around the Italian guy’s head. His time is running out…

5284 – Italian guy goes TO the fair nuzzling a pear (per) .

5285 – Italian guy is nuzzling a file and UNDER his chair, is a gigantic PURE BATHSOAP (piu basso).

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