:: LING 2240 ilecture - john henderson

found some interesting things on the net while busy being distracted.

i was thinking bout my EURO2210 reading on Romani in Europe and i went to search for a meaning of the word and if it could be used as a nice babyname. instead i found this:
50 craziest celebrity baby names

haha.. Audio Science! Camera!.. Jermajesty?! Pilot Inspektor?? wtf were these pple thinking?? Moxie CrimeFighter... wah, win already. i actually kind of like Rufus Tiger, Tiger Lily and Lola Daisy. Tallulah and Lennon also sound pretty cool. these pple make me look normal for wanting to call my kids (last time ok.. not anymore) Rainbow Angst (tt's the girl) and Dandy Ellis (boy). haha.

and then while looking for some essay guidelines frm the music faculty website, i wandered onto this page: The Arts Peacocks. 3 yrs here and i never knew those peacocks actually had names! amazing. i'm so impressed by the unis efforts to take care of the peacocks. it's so australian to do these strange but cute things. i wish we'd get shit like this in spore. i can imagine if they put a peacock in nus or something, they'd start charging it rent. then later evict it for shitting all over the place. not nice.

it's nice how for the most part, australians or at least west australians, don't seem to care when things don't look thaaaat fabulous. like how some parts of uni look a bit oldish and some walkways aren't smoothly-paved and stuff or sometimes covered with leaves, and how in summer tt huge tree in uni drops smelly fruit on the main pathway and pple step all over it and the whole pathway is coated with an uneven layer of smelly fig-like fruit and no one really gets worked up or overly concerned. i remember a big berry tree at bedok reservoir between my blk and another and the berries stained the whole walkway purple and then they removed the tree. i was like OI WHERE'S MY BERRY TREE. and then there was this nangkah tree by the rd in front of my blk and they had to remove tt as well "cos the birds kept eating the jackfruit". er... duh.. you put free jackfruit there who dont want to take? the trees were replaced with small sad-looking lousy excuses of trees tt were hardly taller than my pri sch self. of course, i must consider the fact tt im no botanist and i duno the REAL reasons they removed those trees but still, i can't help but feel upset. progress is good i guess but in spore, it always feels like they keep taking away my past. like as if a bit of imperfection is gonna make pple think less of us or make us less functional as a developed nation.

meh meh meh.

so anyhoo.. cette nuit-la etait plein de distractions. je cherchais de la musique francais-algerienne ou francaise-arabique. voila ce que j'ai trouvé: Amel Bent . force est d'agréer, ça c'est vraiment la mariah carey de la france. quelle belle voix.

oh ya, before i forget- i'm gonna apply for a temp job as english teaching assistant in new caledonia. it's actually offered only to aussies by the french embassy here but i wrote them and told them i wanted it and the guy said he's ok with it, but can't guarantee i won't have problems on the N-C side. so i'm applying anyways woohoo. dylan's excited too puisque la nouvelle calédonie a la deuxième barrière de corail au monde (la première est la grande barrière de corail de Queensland). i hope it all works out. i'm actually quite worried we'll be financially strapped in the near future. then the children how?

in other news, i've been thoroughly enjoying the french lit book for this sem << La vie devant soi >>. everyone who reads french MUST read this bk cos it's just so good. or find the eng version.