Sweet Revenge

There's a husband who is known to have a bad temper and often lets it out on his wife.
And every time, the wife puts her calm face and stays silent as the husband takes his sweet time raising his voice around the house.

All the neighbors know about this situation, and their sympathy all goes to the wife.

One day, the neighbors mentions to the husband, how they are amazed on how patient his wife is.
They go on and on complimenting his wife and advise him to learn to control his temper.

The neighbors' speeches stuck in the husband's mind until he is home.
He tries hard to remember if his wife ever talks back at him, and he remembers none.

So when he reaches home, he comes to his wife and asks: "Dear, why do you never get angry when I have such bad temper and always let it out on you? How come you are very patient with me?"

The wife looks at him and says: "Dear, did you notice how your toothbrush tastes weird sometimes?"

The husband nods his head and doesn't understand what his toothbrush has anything to do with his question.

The wife smiles at him lovingly, then continues: "It's because every time you raises your voice at me, I use your toothbrush to clean the toilet."

A Morning Person... Not!

So I spent my year-end vacation in my dearest hometown, and I find myself successfully waking up all fresh and chirpie before 7 AM everyday. For a self-confessed non-morning person, I find that remarkable, really.

I would spend my morning drinking coffee with some morning snack, enjoying a nice chit chat with my mom, and then I continue with a yoga session or if I had some errands to run, then off to shower and get on with the day.

Then, being all hyped up and motivated after being a morning person for 2 weeks, I just thought, hmm, this shall continue when I'm back in Singapore... What a resolution, right?

But... the past 2 weeks I have been dragging myself out of bed at around 730AM on weekdays, and woke up even latter - around 9AM-ish - on weekends!

And to think that oh I opened my eyes and thought I woke myself pretty early, and when I looked at my clock, it was already 9-bloody-AM!

Sigh...

It's not good, is it?

This morning, while going through my Sunday morning pretty slowly, I looked at the window, and thought, hmm... it is past 10AM, why does it feel like it was only 9AM?

Out of curiosity I googled sunrise time in Singapore and my hometown, and voila! I got my answer...

How can I expect to be up and chirpie by 7AM in Singapore, when it would feel like it was barely 6AM in Indonesia? I guess my body refuses to wake up when the day is still dark... -_-'

Well, I guess, it would be very challenging for me to be a morning person in Singapore.
Should I take the challenge?

Sharing: 45 ways to avoid using the word 'very'

Few weeks ago, I've come across an interesting article that I would like to share here.

*note: there is a possibility that the article interests me more since I am a non-native English speaker though... 

You may find the original article here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1xuHX5

I shall paste the article here just in case the original article disappear...

45 ways to avoid using the word 'very'

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~Mark Twain

'Very' is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. ~Florence King

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays. ~N.H. Kleinbaum

Transformers: Age of Extinction or Age of Tacky Product Placements?

Let's start with the definition of "Product Placement" according to Business Dictionary:

Product Placement - an advertising technique used by companies to subtly promote their products through a non-traditional advertising technique, usually through appearances in film, television, or other media

As one of the most profitable business in the world, it is very understandable that movies are impossible to be made free of product placements - except for indie movies perhaps.
However as a rule of thumb, I would expect that it is to be done subtly and even in a way that would pique viewers interests to try a certain product. All in all, if viewers' curiosities are tickled without even realizing that it is a product placement, I would consider the product placement a success!

Transformers: Age of Extinction should not be made - that was my opinion when I first heard of another Transformers movie being made - and I was right. The last movie (Transformers: Dark of The Moon) was already hard to watch and the producers should stop just right there. However as money is the root of all evil, it trumps all logic in the world and we got another Transformers movie.

I will not elaborate how predictable the plot was and how the cast (and their messy acting) was painful to watch...
Butch and bulky Mark Wahlberg as a robot nerd? Really?
Dark-haired Nicola Peltz transformed to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley copy, down to the white blazer and tight pants??

Sigh...

Still, what annoys me the most is how tacky product placements are in this movie. They are not placed in a "classy" way per se, but rather as distracting signboards at the background, or actual shots of the product without any relevance to the scene.
Here they are in chronological order:

Bud Light

Good Year

Shuhua Milk

Lukfook

It's a combo! Emporio Armani, Armani Jeans and Budweiser

Victoria's Secret

Palace Hotel - is a hotel considered "product"?

Tom Ford

Looking at how un-classy the product placements in this movie, does it go to prove that the producers were all about money and didn't care about the movie quality anymore?

PS: there were also plenty of product placements of cars, but since all robots transform to cars, I had expected to see car brand logos all over the movie.