Monday, September 18, 2006

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pep.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis & evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza.Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Thanks, Q! :)

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Top 10 Chocolate Treats (for 100 calories or less)

1. 4 Hershey’s Kisses (100 calories)
2. 1 cup diet hot cocoa and 1 chocolate graham cracker (80 calories)
3. 1 JELL-O fat-free chocolate pudding snack (100 calories)
4. 1 Quaker Chocolate Crunch popcorn cake (60 calories)
5. 1 cup strawberries drizzled with 1 Tbsp. fat-free hot fudge (100 calories)
6. 1/2 cup fat-free chocolate frozen yogurt (100 calories)
7. 20 chocolate-covered raisins (80 calories)
8. 1/2 cup General Mills Cocoa Puffs cereal (60 calories)
9. 2 Snackwell’s Devil’s Food Cookie Cakes (100 calories)
10. 2 bite-size York Peppermint Patties (100 calories)

Thanks, Picha Pi! :)

Friday, September 01, 2006

Highly recommended!

Set in 1959 Havana, The Lost City is a story about three Cuban brothers: Andy Garcia (who looks better if he isn't smiling), Nestor Carbonell (I remember him from Brooke Shields' TV series Suddenly Susan), and Enrique Marciano (the goofy by-the-book FBI agent in Miss Congeniality 2).

Splat-splat rating:
6 out of 5 splatters! One of the best films I've seen so far.

Trivias about the film (source:
IMDB)
  • Took 16 years to get made.

  • Shot in 35 days.

  • Garcia's first draft of the script was 306 pages. It was later trimmed to 120 pages.
For history lessons about Cuba, visit the free encyclopedia.