Posted 11:09 PM

8578634525th reason why I'm smart.

Alright listen up piglets.

I'm about to gloat. Haha. Eh come on lah.. very rare mah... very nan de I got chance to yaya papaya about something ley..

Oh my gosh I feel as if a part of me got burnt just by typing those few words; I've let down my British ancestors. Who would have thought the language they tried to inculcate into us, would revolve into such NoNseNse? Haha once again I'd like to highlight my stand that I'm ok with singlish and it's just that I wanna practise writing well so I don't do it on my blog. Oh And I realised TypInG LikE tHiS Is kNoWN aS StIcKy CaPS. One of the most retarded phenomenons to hit town. My own personal research shows that girls are the main sources of idiots (if you find any guy who types like this please post a link here thank you) and they are born 1984 or younger. Anyone else who does that should go for a sanity checkup. Actually they all should. The most astonishing thing is that while people can type like this on the computer, they can even do it on their handphones! I mean how much bloody time do you spend sms-ing a sentence like that? And I haven't even mentioned using different symbols to represent different letters. (eg the plus sign as t) It's not even aesthetically appealing, it's not even pretty, and they make doctors' prescriptions seem easy to read, damnit.

Ahhhh but I digress.
Just like all smart people do. =p

During translation class today we dealt with translating a little of the transcript of a Harry Potter movie (part 1). In it there was a line by Professor Snape, teaching the class how to make potions.

"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death - if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."

Can you guys take 30seconds to think about what the words in bold mean?
*tick tock tick tock the mouse ran up the clock*

Ok time's up. What did you think of the term 'stopper death'? Everyone was interpreting it as stopping death, like the potion that will enable you to live forever. Even the resident "ang moh' guy called upon by the professor thought so. And most translated it as zu3 zhi3 si3 wang2 (prevent death). If you think so too, here's what I have to say:

Idiots!!!!

Don't you understand the metaphorical meaning of the words in bold? Linking bottle, brew, and stopper. Bottle as in the container, brew as in the action carried out, and stopper being the item used to cap the bottle, which means death is the potion, and stopper death means keeping the potion of death, and not keeping the potion which will prevent death. The students in the lecture gave out an "ohhhh". Ohhhh what imbecility!!!! What preposterous foolishness! And the professor before telling us what was wrong had asked if there were any poets or lyricists around because they will better understand the phrase stopper death. I don't think you need to be one of those people to figure that out.

Anyway I feel that I'm so smart is because I had told my friends about this concept of mine, that stopper might not mean stop, and if you look at it figuratively, it might actually be the opposite of preventing death. And they looked at me with those condescending looks saying 'okayyyyyy..'
What ludicrous absurdity!!

Ok I admit when I thought of that I wasn't confident about it but when the professor starting pointing out this part I started to smirk and I bet my face had that Itoldyouso look.

So if you didn't think of it, it's ok you're mediocre, just like everyone else.

I don't care if you did and you find yourself saying "er isn't that obvious?", it certainly wasn't in my lecture! I felt like killing all of them!!
In any case, congratulations too, for you're as smart as me.

Oh yeah. I'm so smart. =D

triggering Mr Ng HS |