If you are Hungarian don't read on. Simply look at the picture and solve the easy puzzle.
If you don't speak Hungarian here is the story:
Somebody scratched off the first part of this street name so that it means: 'we' street. I guess he just wanted to emphasize that this was the place where they lived. Okay, okay, but it seemed a bit selfish. Somebody solved the problem with a good deal of creativity and easy-goingness. He replaced the original "hal" letters with a fish, because that's what it means in Hungarian. So the original "Halmi" street had been restored. Cool.
An AT AT imperial walker has been on your wishlist for ages and you think you'll never ever get it and it is time to grow up and now you'll give in and ask for a stupid laptop or something? Just watch this :D
When I was a kid, about 7 or 8 years old, I started to play the cello. My mum wanted me to learn music and the head of the music school, a well-known conductor and musician, suggested the cello. He said "the kid's ears look like cello-ears". Nobody had the faintest idea what the hell the guy meant but it would have been impolite to ask so we all accepted the fact that I was cut out to be a cellist. After all this my mum made me go to lessons and practise the instrument every single Saturday and Sunday morning for about an hour and a half, while the other kids were busy fishing or playing football outside. I clearly remember two incidents about my cello-learning years.
The first one happened at school. We were playing football in the afternoon and I had put the instrument under the teacher's desk, which seemed the only really safe place. However, somebody(everybody thought it was me, of course) must have still found a way to kick it good and hard, because later that evening when I unpacked it from its linen cover me and my cello teacher were astonished to see that its neck had been broken. I didn't have to practise for a couple of weeks but then the misery started anew.
The other one happened one morning when I couldn't get on the tram with the wretched beast and I made such a scene that my mum, with a sunken heart of someone who has just realised that her son would not be the next Perényi or Casals after all, decided to talk to the school to end my lessons.
It wasn't until much later, when I was starting to learn the guitar chords that I could feel grateful for those lessons and for my mum's endurance. My hands were more adapted to this kind of struggle than those of my peers so I learned the guitar chords much quicker than they.
So, each time I see this scene from the film 'Take the money and run', I feel a bit nostalgic(besides laughing myself to bits, of course:)
Last Sunday I went fishing to Bay Háros. Normally I don't go fishing from November till April because I can't stand the cold. But the weather was so beautiful, mild and sunny that I just felt that I had to make an exception. I had expected the day's fishing to be pretty uneventful and quiet but strangely enough, I caught about a dozen perches, some of them quite big (at least compared to the average perch in Hungarian waters). I also caught two little ides. I used maggots and earthworms for bait. All the fish were released immediately after they were caught. It was great to switch off for a while and do nothing but wait and watch the float.
A picture of one of the perches that I caught. They all looked a bit darker than in summer but they had nice strong colours.
And this one was the fattest:) You can see the hook with the maggots still in its mouth. At first, I believed it to be a lot bigger than what it actually turned out to be.
This week has been tough. Loads of work, hurrying to all sorts of places, worrying about sick relatives and all the rest of it but now it's Friday and time to let out some of the steam and go out to a pub with friends and maybe, just maybe turn into a banana tree. Wouldn't that be fun? It finally happened...
Lyrics:
When the outside temperature rises
And the meaning is oh so clear
One thousand and one yellow daffodils
Begin to dance in front of you - oh dear
Are they trying to tell you something
You're missing that one final screw
You're simply not in the pink my dear
To be honest you haven't got a clue
I'm going slightly mad
I'm going slightly mad
It finally happened - happened
It finally happened - ooh oh
It finally happened - I'm slightly mad
Oh dear
I'm one card short of a full deck
I'm not quite the shilling
One wave short of a shipwreck
I'm not my usual top billing
I'm coming down with a fever
I'm really out to sea
This kettle is boiling over
I think I'm a banana tree
Oh dear
I'm going slightly mad
I'm going slightly mad
It finally happened - happened
It finally happened - uh huh
It finally happened - I'm slightly mad - oh dear
I'm knitting with only one needle
Unraveling fast its true
I'm driving only three wheels these days
But my dear how about you
I'm going slightly mad
I'm going slightly mad
It finally happened
It finally happened - oh yes
It finally happened
I'm slightly mad
The poet's birthday was four days ago, but I would like to stay with his poetry for just a little while. Today(November 1st) is All Saints' Day and this day in many parts of the world is celebrated as the Day of the Dead. The following poem is about death and rebirth and consists of a very unique and strong imagery. Listen to the poet reading his work and read the poem below.
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And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
Dylan Thomas would be 96 today. Let's celebrate the anniversary with one of his most exquisitely written poems, In My Craft of Sullen Art, recited by the poet himself.
There is a cafe in Manhattan, which has a great design. It has been designed to look like a library that has been tipped over to its side. According to this article, the cafe is near the New York Public Library and it has recently moved to its new location.
A word of caution about the word cafe (or café): In the US, it is a place where you can have meals or ready-made sandwiches, while in other places it mostly refers to a place where you can get coffee, much like in an American coffeehouse.
This looks like something in a lucid dream, don't you think so? :-)
Spelling has never been one of my strong points. With the built-in spelling check it's easier, of course. The first part of the following standup comedy performance has some hilarious moments when Eddie Izzard explains some of the pronunciation and spelling differences between British and American English. I especially like the part when he speaks in favour of the alternative 'thru' spelling of the word 'through'.
If you would like to watch the first part with subtitles you can do it here, thanks to Tünde, a colleague of mine at dover-elearning.
This episode of Fawlty Towers happens to be my favourite as well. Maybe it is the best. I especially like the inspector's monologue from 0:45. What a mixture of foodstuff and bureaucracy and black humour! I just love it.
This the longer post on blues that I promised a few days ago. At first, I wanted to write about the origins and the brief history of blues but soon it became clear that such a thing as a 'brief history' in this case is simply non-existent. The blues is immense and its mere roots are so long and winding that they would crawl out of the thickest of books.
After all that struggle and wikipedia-browsing, I decided to write about what kind of blues songs I like and why.
So, to begin at the beginning, I like Delta blues. It's traditional and simple and deep and I wouldn't be able to resist any music with slide guitar in it, anyway.
Then I like jazz songs that do not have the typical twelve-bar pattern blues pattern but the feel is blues, definitely. The sound isn't so raw because the chords are richer and the rhythm can change too. If you watch this Louis Armstrong concert video you'll see and hear what this sort of freedom can add to the blues. The thing starts in a slow and melancholy way, forlorn as a funeral march, then the musicians shake themselves and with all that extra bounce and swing the whole thing starts to shine.
Then there is the Chicago Blues with harmonica. Check out this one. How can he get those cries out of that little box with all those holes? (Sorry, harmonica players, but I'm just so perplexed and astounded by this.)
And here is a jumpier one with the coolest call and response vocals I have ever heard. But come to that, everything and everybody is just great in this one. This is a very uplifting sort of blues music, the kind which you would actually dance to and not just nod into your beer.
In Hendrix's hands the blues got a badass psychedelic streak that I just love. This version is a mixture of traditional cool blues and mellow jazziness. Enjoy!
And finally, let's get back to the roots! This is also a Robert Johnson song (just like the first one in this post), but played by Eric Clapton, who can blend his own virtuosity with great authenticity. Malted milk, malted milk, keep rushing to my head...
Get yourself a stiff drink and sit down comfortably numb. Make sure you get over the first minute of this youtube video. The rest will take care of itself, 'cos its on of the the grooviest blues songs ever recorded. A longer post on blues music is yet to come.
I saw 'Inception' a couple of weeks ago and it turned me back to my long-neglected and almost forgotten habit: lucid dreaming. It is a method and state of mind that helps you realize that you are asleep without waking up. If you practice it patiently, sooner or later you will have the ability to control your dreams and you can do things that you are not able to do when you are awake. You can fly, swim down to the bottom of the sea, go through walls and other such things. You can also communicate with your dream characters(all of them a part of you:) and through this, you can gain insight into deeper levels of your consciousness.
If you would like to try lucid dreaming here are the steps you should take always baring in mind that sometimes it takes months to have your first lucid dream and forcing it doesn't help the process at all:
- Start a dream diary. When you wake up in the morning write down your dream or what you remember of it. It doesn't matter if you don't remember too much at first. As time goes by, you will become more aware of your dreams and you'll remember more and more details.
- If you see something strange or bizarre you should seriously ask yourself if this is a dream or you are awake. If it's a dream, you probably cannot remember what you did the previous day so this is a good question to ask yourself. If you turn around quickly in a wake state (and you're not under the influence of drugs or alcohol!) the world stops spinning when you have stopped to turn. In a dream, however, the world usually keeps on spinning. Another technique is to look at your hands. If they don't look like your hands, they are big, or the lines are different, it's a sign too. There are also some other reality tests that you can do. Always do some serious reality check before you do any flying and start your flying exercises with the good-old 'jump up and flap your hand' routine.
- If you do realize that you are dreaming try to do something extraordinary. See if you can walk through a wall or jump up in the air and see if you can make your fall very slow and soft. Try not to stare at a point fixedly as it will wake you up. Slowly you'll be able to control your dreams, but go step by step, because very sudden and forced changes are bound to wake you up too.
- If you experience fear or you start to have a nightmare you can always wake yourself up by staring at something for a few seconds. Later you will have enough control to change these dreams but at first it can be reassuring that you can wake up any time at all.
- Have fun and don't get upset if you don't have a lucid dream at once. Some people start to have lucid dreams after days some much later but with practice you lucid dreams will happen.
Here are a few images that you are more likely to see in dreams than when you're awake.
This man is flying like a duck. I would do a reality check if I saw this:) (picture source)
It is a flying house. No big deal if you're watching a remake of "The Wizard of Oz". In most other cases it should cause some raised eyebrow movement (REM:) (picture source)
Lost doggy is yearningly looking at a giant cat. VERY suspicious! (source)
And finally, two images that show you how very tricky reality can be.
Stairs leading absolutely nowhere with spooky little figures wandering all about the place. You'd think you're dreaming, wouldn't you? No, mate. Just take a good look around. You're in a museum! (source)
A green goat. Or more like a green-headed grinning goat. Hmmm. You should do some more checks, it is for real. They marked it with a crayon for some odd reason(lack of paper??) Anyway, if you see this, you may or may not be sleeping, but more likely that you are awake. Further tests and a beer are needed. (source)
Recently I had another 'fly in the soup of my happiness' (copyright P. G. Wodehouse) so this video just found me at the right time. Wooster(Hugh Laurie) is practising Minnie the Moocher and Jeeves(Stephen Fry) is landing him a hand with the call and response part (hodee-hodee-ho, sir:). After the grand rehearsal Jeeves advises Wooster not to perform the piece to Lady Glossop. It's a pity, I would have liked to see her face as she listens to this masterpiece.
It seems that young and curious eyes can see things that more experienced ones cannot. A group of students from California discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars. Experts think the hole could be the skylight of a large lava tube. The students were developing a research project using an image taken by the camera of the Mars Odyssey orbiter when they found the round black spot on the surface. You can read more about the discovery here.
Another news about Martian exploration is that the Phoenix Mars lander doesn't seem to have survived the harsh winter conditions. (Earlier about the Phoenix on lucidenglish) According to this article, the lander's solar panels were severely damaged by the accumulated ice. At least, that's what the images taken by the Mars Odyssey orbiter suggest.
You can download a fill-in the gap exercise for the simplified version of the text here.
Space probe Hayabusa returning to Earth (picture from here)
Last week, the Japanese probe Hayabusa returned to Earth and landed in a remote part of Southern Australia. The probe touched down on an asteroid in 2005 and it is believed to have collected samples there. If it had managed to bring these samples back successfully, this is the first time when a probe got into physical contact with an asteroid and then returned to Earth. Although the probe itself was damaged on entering the Earth's atmosphere, the capsule that carried the samples is expected to have parachuted safely in the desert. Scientists are eager to recover and examine the samples. They believe that new details about the evolution of the solar system are to be revealed. You can read more about this scientific breakthrough here.
These are the words that the spell check suggests that I use instead: "vulgarize, vulcanize, Venezuela, fuselage(?!?), vivisect". Can you guess the word?
This week, I have had the same pronunciation issue in three different groups. The students in these groups were mispronouncing words like 'publish', 'publication' and 'publicity'. They said it with either an /u:/ or an /u/ sound instead of the standard /ʌ/. I told them to think of public as the word origin for all of these words. Well, that didn't seem to help much. Then I told them to think of 'pub'. That did the trick! No more 'u' mistakes were made:) I can only hope that they will not come across words like 'puberty' or 'pubic hair' as those would undoubtedly mess up things a good deal.
A bit more detailed list about the pronunciation of the letter 'u' in different words can be found here.
You don't know how? According to this site, you just have to say out loud "How to recognize speech?" with an American accent. (You'll need to scroll down the page to see the chart.)
If you are more interested in listening to people with all sorts of British accents I suggest that you pay a visit here. (If you cannot arrange a trip to the UK just now:)
Currently, I am totally working my butt off developing and editing a language school's e-learning site (more on that later after the go-live). So, every once in a while I need to release the tension and jump around the room a bit. This video is perfect for that. Good song, great singer, sunshine, dancing, lots of partying people and one of the funkiest bass runs in pop history. Enjoy!
I seem to have found the best operation system for my computer. Needless to say, it's Lucid with a capital L. How come? There is such an operation system. It is the latest LTS (long-term-support) release of Ubuntu, an open source and free operation system. This linux distribution comes out with a new release every 6 months and they give strange animal names to the new baby. The latest one is called Lucid Lynx and earlier releases had fascinating names too: Feisty Fawn, Gutsy Gibbon, Jaunty Jackalope, Intrepid Ibex... just to mention a few. It took some time to install L.L. , but thanks to my linux expert friend, Tibi, now it seems to be working as a charm. It is much faster, more stable and easier to use than my old system (which was also Ubuntu, but an older release). If you like trying out new things and you are not afraid of technological adventures why not give this operation system a try? here is the link.
A word of caution though: no matter how cool and user friendly the system is, with older hardware you may have some problems. Before taking the plunge, I suggest that you select the 'Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer' menu point of the installation CD. This will give you a general idea what the whole thing looks like on your computer and reveals (hopefully:) whether your hardware is compatible with Lucid Lynx or not.
Yes. it is. But in May it's nothing extraordinary. If you haven't heard this expression yet, maybe you start to wonder: "raining cats and dogs"? Yup, it means it's raining very heavily. There are lots of other idioms that use animals. Take for instance, the expression: paper tiger. It is used quite often and it refers to something or someone that seems more powerful or dangerous than it actually is. Or when you hear a story that is suspicious you may smell a rat. Here is a quiz I made last week for my students. It is about animals used in idiomatic expressions. Check how many of them you can get right. (When you have finished the quiz all your answers will be highlighted and you can read or click on the 'Explanation' after some of the difficult questions.)
The other day I did a quiz. One of the questions made me think of the classic zefrank video "therapy". Maybe there is still someone out there who hasn't seen it. It has some pretty good phrases about habits and behaviour in it.
As you already know 22nd April is Earth Day. To celebrate the event, I added a few more questions and explanations to last year's quiz and took it up a notch in user-friendliness with an online quiz maker. Now you don't need to open the key in another window you just have to click through the quiz and your answers will be corrected. When you have finished doing it you will be given a certificate, which you can share on Facebook or on other social networking sites.
Over the past few weeks I have been visiting the dentist's surgery way too often. A filling here, a bit of scaling there, but most of the 'smaller repairs' were neither too dangerous nor too painful. That was until three days ago when I had my impacted wisdom tooth removed. Now, that was a completely different matter: sheer agony during the two-hour surgery and a slow, painful recovery ever since. Fortunately, I feel better now and I have just found this Eddie Izzard video on youtube. It superbly describes my overall experience and general feeling about dentists and dentistry. Good job, I have only found it now, three days after the surgery. Now, Eddie has had me in stitches. Had I found the video earlier, I might have laughed out my stitches.
Recently, I had to write a long text in English and when I went through it before sending it (I always have to double-check my spelling) I came across an old mistake of mine, which I thought I had managed to get rid of over the years. The mistake was the good old see-sea homophone mix up. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean completely different things. The two (or sometimes more) words do sound exactly the same and when I(*_) write (right?) I automatically say the things I'm writing so sometimes I confuse things a bit. Even the inbuilt spell-checks cannot correct these things because the pairs of the homophones (see-sea, war-wore, write-right, sale-sail...) are both in the dictionary.
Have you read Alice in Wonderland? Do you remember the "Mouse's tale" ? In the story the mouse says: "Mine is a long and a sad tale!" Alice thinks the mouse means a 'sad tail' and she is very surprised. So, Lewis Caroll had to come up with a nice, long, winding tail-poem. It seems that homophone mix-ups do have their uses, after all.
Do you find anything strange with the following sentences? Can you correct the mistakes in them?
Yesterday she died her hair. Have you bought the meet? There car is bigger than ours. She stepped on the break but the car didn't stop. Witch one is your watch? The whether is awful today. Piece, brother! You have very week mussels! Sir Robin is a very brave night. That's hour house, over there.
One of the first things you have to learn in English is which form of the verb 'to be' you have to use with which personal pronoun. By the end of the first year most students of English manage to master this grammar at least in Simple Present and in Simple Past. The problem (as always:) is with the native speakers. In some dialects they seem to make a mess about the whole thing. Watch this video to understand my point better. (lyrics of the song here)
As far as I know, this 'you is' conjugation is an example for African-American dialect from the first part of the last century and you shouldn't use it any more unless you are an actor playing a role in a prohibition-era film. But still it's there, they say it, they even sing it. What if my students find it??? *_~
March 22nd has been internationally observed as World Water Day since 1992. I would like to make a slightly belated contribution to this important day by sharing this beautiful video with you. It is from a "Planet Earth" episode titled "Fresh Water". "Planet Earth" is a BBC nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough. In this video you will see and hear about: the birth of rivers, a breathtakingly beautiful waterfall, tough little creatures who use 'safety lines' in rapid currents and a giant, scary-looking salamander lurking in the dark. Enjoy!
Today is an important day for Irish people all over the world. It is the day of Saint Patrick, who is the most recognized patron saint of Ireland. Saint Patrick was a Christian missionary, whose life and evangelising journey to Ireland became a legend. He was said to use the shamrock (or clover) as a symbol of the Holy Trinity. As a result, now the shamrock and the colour green are both worn to symbolize this legacy on Saint Patrick's Day. However, the day has become more than just celebrating an important figure; it is a general celebration of everything that is Irish. Do this simple quiz below to revise or develop your knowledge about Ireland and the Irish.
In the following situation comedy sketch from "Fawlty Towers", Manuel, the Spanish waiter, is cleaning up the reception of the hotel while trying to engage in an easy-going conversation with the Major. However, the conversation is somewhat hampered by the giant moose-head that has been left on the reception desk.
Well, this new post is not a puzzle. For a change, I decided to blog about a real EFL topic: words that can be confused. However, if you don't feel like practising vocabulary, never mind, come back this Sunday for the new puzzle.
There are some words in English that resemble other words simply too much. The difference in meaning is usually not proportional to the small difference in the form. One or two letters can make or break a sentence. For example, speaking of an 'economic car' would not make too much sense, whereas an 'economical car' actually means something: a car which is cheap to operate and maintain. Word pairs such as lie-lay , beside-besides , affect-effect or desert-dessert should be familiar to all foreign learners of English above intermediate level. But there are other traps similar to these. In fact, there are lots and lots of words in English that can be confused, and some of them are occasionally mixed up even by native speakers. There is a very handy site, where you can spend some time on improving or testing your knowledge about these words. The thing that I especially like about this site is that the verbs are tested in all (or at least several) of their various forms.
And if you are still here you surely deserve this nice dessert:
This is a short passage from a newspaper article. The passage is about an object. The name of the object (which, as it is used here, is only half of the whole name) has been left out from all the places where it appears in the original article. Can you find out what it is?
"This is my own ********** ," says Olivér Nagy, showing me the inscription 'Olivér's **********'. I use this at competitions. Each contestant brings his own ********** after he has adjusted the tightness of the springs and the lubricant to fit his own hands. We use ordinary shop-bought **********, which we take apart and then file the internal mechanism. There are people who colour them, adding purple or pink sides, which they can recognize during a fast solve. I've changed nearly everything in mine - the radiuses, the spring, the screws and the washers - so it's well adjusted."
(The number of stars in the missing word does NOT correspond with the number of letters.)
This poem was my favourite when I was at university. I think I liked it at the time because I didn't need a thick thesaurus to look up every second word and after a few readings I could recite most of it by heart (probably with pauses and a few mistakes but still somehow). Now that I have found it again I am quite surprised just how beautiful it really is. This time, I will make a point of learning it well.
Dylan Thomas: In My Craft or Sullen Art
In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.
You can listen to Dylan Thomas reading this poem here.
I have found a poem which I quite like. It is on a BBC site called Poetry: Out Loud (unfortunately no longer updated). The title of the poem is "On the Booze" and it is read by the poet John Hegley himself. A few notes for learners of English:
- The word 'booze' means alcoholic drink. - The expression 'blew her lid' means that the person got really angry. - 'Lather' is the foam that soaps and detergents make. - The word 'blinking' in the poem is used as a swear word, similar to 'bloody'. - The adjective 'obnoxious' is a synonym of annoying or offensive. - A 'half' is a measure of drink, usually of beer, and equals the half of a pint.
Another site with good poems read aloud can be found here.
The small picture in the previous post shows the smallest tiger sculpture that has ever been made. It was created by Taiwanese artist, Chen Forng-shean, who is a specialist of miniature sculptures. The tiger is made from resin and it is only 1 millimeter in length. The artist carved the miniature in anticipation of the Year of the Tiger. (read more here)
Watch this video about this piece of art and about the process of its creation.
"I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, Drinking milk shakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think You knew you were in my song"
I keep listening to this song over and over again. It was released in 1972 and it was the opening track on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album. The basic idea of the song is simple: a radio announcement breaks the news that Earth has only five years left and the following chaos is described. This video on youtube shows a great live performance with good quality sound. The only thing I slightly dislike about it is the interruption of the closing drum fade-away, which sounds like a passing train or the sound of your heartbeat that you can sometimes hear when you abruptly awake from a vivid dream.
Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.'s My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children If the black hadn't pulled her off, I think she would have killed them A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think you knew you were in my song And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there Your face, your race, the way that you talk I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes Five years, what a surprise We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got We've got five years, what a surprise Five years, stuck on my eyes We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got We've got five years, stuck on my eyes Five years, what a surprise We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got We've got five years, what a surprise We've got five years, stuck on my eyes We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got Five years Five years Five years Five years
Welcome to 2010. There is a debate whether it should be pronounced in English as 'two thousand (and) ten' or 'twenty ten'. I prefer the first version, mainly because of the sci-fi classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. In Chinese astrology 2010 will be the Year of the Tiger. According to gotohoroscope.com, "it looks like we've got a mood swinging, vigorous and hard-working year ahead." The Year of the Tiger starts on 14 February so we will see what it holds for us pretty soon. If you are interested in your yearly horoscope clickhere. If you are more into literature why not read or re-read some quotes from Agatha Christie? She was born in the Year of the Tiger. On the same page you can also read two of his novels online.
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