Meh.

Got this from a friend today:

Nov 17, 2008
Meh’ enters dictionary

LONDON – AT LEAST someone is excited  about ‘meh’. The expression of indifference or boredom has gained a place  in the Collins English dictionary after generating a surprising amount of  enthusiasm among lexicographers. 

Publisher HarperCollins announced on Monday the word had been chosen  from |terms suggested by the public for inclusion in the dictionary’s 30th anniversary edition, to be published next year.  

The origins of ‘meh’ are murky, but the term grew in popularity after being used in a 2001 episode of The Simpsons in which Homer suggests a day trip to his children Bart and Lisa. 

‘They both just reply ‘meh’ and keep watching TV’, said Mr Cormac McKeown, head of content at Collins Dictionaries. 

The dictionary defines ‘meh’ as an expression of indifference or  boredom, or an adjective meaning mediocre or boring. Examples given by the dictionary include ‘the Canadian election was so meh’. 

The dictionary’s compilers said the word originated in North America, spread through the Internet and was now entering British spoken English. 

‘This is a new interjection from the US that seems to have inveigled  its way into common speech over here,’ Mr McKeown said. 

‘Internet forums and e-mail are playing a big part in formalising the spellings of vocal interjections like these. A couple of other examples would be ‘hmm’ and ‘heh’. 

‘Meh’ was selected by Collins after it asked people to submit words  they use in conversation that are not in the dictionary. Other suggestions included jargonaut, a fan of jargon; frenemy, an enemy disguised as a friend; and huggles, a hybrid of hugs and snuggles. –  AP 

teehee

My grandma was one of the most selfless people i know; she always put others’ needs before her own.  she was also stubborn as a mule and that was how this all started two weeks ago.  Grandma had been ill for a while and was already very fragile, but when she needed to use the loo at 5am in the morning, she didn’t want to trouble anyone in the house, so she shuffled quietly to the bathroom on her own but tripped and had to be rushed to the emergency ward.

Grandma broke her femur, a serious injury in itself really, but fatal in her case as she was deemed by doctors as too weak to be operated on.  can you imagine having to heal a broken bone naturally?  Grandma hated being at the hospital, old people were treated without much dignity there, but whenever the family visited her she’d always try to keep her spirits high: a wink here, croaking along to her favorite tunes when we sang to her, a firm squeeze of my arm to convey “i’ll be alright” when visiting hours were over and i worried about leaving her alone through the night. 

Sadly the combination of pain killers and heart medicine and prolonged pain proved too much for Grandma, and she finally left us on August 2.  Even in her final hours, when she was struggling even to keep her eyes open, she made sure that all of her 8 children arrived before she lost consciousness, so that they all had the chance to say goodbye to her.  

Bye now Grandma, I’ll miss you, but I’m sure you’re in a better place and are finally together with Granddad.  I’ll think of you whenever I hear 魚火閃閃 …

cravings

i need to stop watching Lost because
1) i inevitably get pissed off and start yelling at the TV at the end of each episode, and
2) seeing him

makes me crave

(gotta be the red packet original seasame flavor!)

at lunch today my friends decided to indulge my cravings and we trekked 20 mins to a dodgy 荼餐廳 that served delish instant noodles but alas! it was closed for rennovations.  in the end i had to settle for dumplings . v unsatisfying, must try again tomorrow.

woah, i was away for a couple of months and xanga is looking all fancy schmancy.  it took me 2 mins to figure out where to post a new entry!

anyway, i got this from facebook today.  seriously – why would you (application engineers) write this into your program to send subscribers?  is this meant to make me use your app more??

Stella, you are more desired than less than 20% of all people.

This email was sent by Social Profile. You can disable emails here.
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In total, you were reviewed for dating 6 times and no people expressed interest in you.
You are more desirable than less than 20% of 23,317,797 people.

Last week you were viewed 1 time and no people expressed interested in you

remember this little guy?

guess what he looks like now?

………..i feel old

(story credit: tmz.com)

the evolution of dance

this video is pretty funny.  dude has some smooth moves for a white man.

my thumbprint

so yesterday morning, like any other morning, i tried logging into bloomberg as soon as i got into work.  i punched in my username and password, then pressed my thumb onto the sensor thingie on the keyboard to scan and register, but an error message came out: “print quality too low, try again”.  i tried again; the same thing happened.  no thumbprint match = no access.  argh!  you probably won’t believe this but i tried north of twenty times, but my thumbprint still came out all static-y, i even tried changing keyboards (in case it was the damn board’s fault and not mine), washing my hands (in case there was dust on my thumb hence distorting the image), and putting on hand cream (in case my thumb was too dry)… none of which worked.

unbelievable. 

as there was apparently NO WAY you could skip getting your finger print scanned as part of the log-in process, in the end the tech guys had to recalibrate my finger print and i switched to using my middle finger to log-in instead.  the root of the problem?  either “the skin on [my] thumb was too thin” or “the lines on [my] thumb print were too light”. oh and apparently my middle finger “was the meatiest”, according to Gary from IT.  should i be flattered?

what random things you learn about yourself thru the course of your life.