I just had french class on Monday, and my VERY "lovable" teacher told our class some things to remember when going ANYWHERE in France.
- Learn this: Je suis désolé (Zheu-swee-deu-so-lee)
It means I'm sorry. You always have to say sorry, even when just buying a metro ticket because because of you, you're making them work more and waste more time on you... (Very weird, I KNOW)
- Learn this: excusez-moi (euk-scoo-zee-mua)
It means excuse me. Use it whenever you need to... :)
- Always stand on the right hand side of the elevators or else some people will push you away
- Don't talk very loudly on the phone in the metro or even the restaurant because someone would tell you to get out because they wouldn't want to hear all about your life
Remember these points and you'll have a fantastic trip to France :) Have a nice day!
There's a catchy little song that's been going around lately...you've got it right! It's the Cup Song by Anna Kendrick! I was a little annoyed (well, not a little, but TOTALLY) in the beginning when everyone started doing it in class, so I absolutely REFUSED to learn it.
During my vacation to Malaysia with my friends, my BFF told me that it is a really great song and that I'd love it once I've learned it, so I decided to give it a try.
It took SECONDS (literally) for me to learn the song and I was TOTALLY ADDICTED to it!
I was doing it on the bus, the plane, cafeteria, with my hands, in a restaurant, anything you can think of!
The Cup Song is actually a normal song with lyrics (obviously) that uses a cup to make rhythms that accompany the song!
The Cup Song, otherwise known as "When I'm Gone" which is the song's name, was originally performed by Anna Kendrick in the movie "Pitch Perfect". I've heard that Pitch Perfect is a really great movie and is kind of like Glee. I haven't watched it before, but I would like to try it out sometime in the future!
For those of you out there who HAVE heard or learned the song before (which is probably a lot), please comment what you think about the song!
This is the music video of Anna Kendrick's "When I'm Gone". Hope you enjoy it!
My favorite movie before was the Twilight Series, but now, life changes. It's "The Host"!!!
Ok, so this movie is about aliens that take over the minds of human bodies. This movie is about the "soul" (alien) Wanderer. Wanderer was put inside Melanie Stryder's body in order to find the last humans surviving, so they can invade the bodies of those bodies too.
When a soul is inserted into a body, the human that was on earth before should fade away and let the soul control his/her body forever. However, Melanie is very strong and protective of her family, so she refuses to go away and instead, becomes stronger and stronger rather than the other way around.
Melanie leads Wanderer to a desert for a few days, just to make sure that if she really brought Wanderer to her family, it wouldn't cause her family any danger.
Uncle Jeb, Melanie's favorite uncle, finds them in the desert. He still treats Wanderer like she's still Melanie because he still thinks that it's his niece's body, though she's not human anymore.
Uncle Jeb lives in a cave in the desert with all the other human survivors that he knows. He brings Wanderer to the cave.
Once all the other people know that one of their enemies are living with them, they are very angry and many of them even hate Wanderer. Not for her personality though, but because she's a soul.
Once Jamie (Melanie's brother) and Uncle Jeb know that Melanie is still alive and well inside of Wanderer, they begin to like and protect her.
This movie was originally an 800 page novel by Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight Series. I'm reading the book now, so I was thinking maybe you should try it out as well! For those of you out there who have watched the movie, read the book, or even both, please comment what you think about it! I would be delighted to hear your thoughts!
I've already started my summer holiday, so I decided to do some baking! Baking can be lots of fun, so let me take you on my baking journey!
Baking is not really popular in Asia, so I don't have ALL the tools I need including a stand/hand mixer, vanilla extract, loaf pans, measuring spoons/cups, electric scale, etc.
Scones were my first "bake-it-myself" recipe that I did. Scones are an English afternoon snack that most British people serve with tea. It should have a crispy surface and soft bread-like inside.
I bet you would laugh at this, but I accidentally added an egg into the dough, so the dough became very sticky and wet. Eventually, I had to grab the sticky dough with my hands and plop them onto the baking sheet instead of cutting them out with a cookie cutter...
The second recipe, which is the one I've baked with my best friend and was baked most recently, is the chewy chocolate chip cookie! Everyone likes easy recipes that produce great food, so if you are that kind of person, this is the perfect recipe for you!
This is the link to the recipe that I used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PszBtsAL-w8. This recipe shows you how to make M&M cookies, but my friend and I thought that this recipe might make a good chewy cookie, so we used chocolate chips instead of M&M's.
Joy of Baking is a great YouTube channel that demonstrates a lot of different recipes for those of you out there that love to bake too! I've been watching this channel's videos for forever and they never bore me down!
I love ballet. Ballet is my life. I've been dancing since I was 3 years old!
Though I know I'm not the sort of person that is really flexible and would be a successful ballerina, I try to be better than anyone in my ballet class. I try to be a better ballet dancer!
I've been stretching more than usual lately. In fact, a lot more. I get most inspiration from ballet dancers who upload photos of themselves stretching onto Instagram or just from the internet.
My favorite stretch is the scorpion and the needle pose. This stretch requires a high level of flexibility, so I haven't really mastered it yet, though I could kind of do it. However, I could get the scorpion pose! (Left - scorpion / Middle - needle / Right - Me doing scorpion)
Sorry it's twisted
For those of you out there who dance ballet too, please begin to acknowledge this, stretching today is better than tomorrow. I believe that stretching is really difficult for me because (1) I'm not naturally flexible and (2) I wasn't willing to stretch when I was young, so it's harder for me to now.
I try my best in everything that links with ballet, including exams. I get distinctions in every ballet exam.
Ballet is a life-long experience of pain, beauty, and enjoyment. You can't just stop all of a sudden and decide to quit! Ballet takes a long time to master successfully, but would let you know what real happiness and gracefulness is.
Warm bodies is a movie about the romance of R (Nicholas Hoult), a brain-eating zombie, and Julie (Teresa Palmer).
An apocalypse has turned the world upside down. The disease has transformed many humans into terrible zombies that eat people. If you get bitten by a zombie, you become one.
When R and other zombies rush into a science lab to eat people, he sees Julie, and immediately falls in love with he.
R brings Julie back "home" which is basically the local airport, and keeps her with him. As both fall in love, R's heart starts up again...
Their love has affected the other zombie's, starting their dead hearts again too and turning them from zombies, back to human again!
The amazing journey of their unconditional love for each other is absolutely fascinating. It has been rated with 4 stars! I would totally recommend it. (By the way, I've watched it again and again for like 5 times and I don't even get bored...)
Remember, everything starts out a little scary...
"You've started something, and it's affecting the others too..."(Warm Bodies)
Ok, so you would think this is really weird but I've finished another book again...I just love to read!
This book is called Radiance by Alyson Noel. It is a 200 page fiction novel that talks about a twelve-year-old girl called Riley Bloom that has, unfortunately, died in a car accident.
Riley crosses the bridge to afterlife with her mom and dad. However, her sister, Ever, has survived, leaving Ever as an orphan in the earth plane.
Everyone in Here & Now(Here- place where Riley lives after she is dead / Now- when you ask people of Here what time it is, they'll answer, "Now.") has a personal guide, a person who bosses you around and tells you what to do. Riley's guide is Bodhi, a nerdy, possibly cute guy (without his glasses) that has died of bone cancer.
As Riley complete's her mission as a Soul Catcher with Bodhi, she finally discovers who she really is, but will she change her mind about wanting to be human again...
This book would suit teenager readers that would love to discover what authors write about afterlife. Actually, no, it would suit everyone, because it is an amazing book!
