faCe 2 buRbeRRY

Vocabulary:

• launch
  Burberry launched its first logo in 1900.
• register
  i registered the car in my name.
• signature
  burberry registered the signature check pattern as a trademark in 1920.
• trademark
  Velcro is a registered trademark.
• conservative
  it was an established luxury brand for wealthy middle-class conservatives.
• revamp
  the CEO revamped its image.
• heritage
  he repositioned the Burberry brand in line with its luxury and exclusive heritage. 
• depict
  Ads were designed to depict the essence of the new Burberry.
• essence
  time is of the essence.
• elitist / elitism
  it gives a modern feel combined with classic British elitism.
• intend
  somehow i offended him, which wasnt what i'd intened.
• embrace
  If Burberry embraces the new audience, will they lose their core customers?

ChroME EXtenSIONs

There are several handy extensions on Chrome browser which are worth being shared.

1. Screen Capture (by Google)

    you can easily and quickly capture your screen within Chrome with provided 4 different ways. It also provides simple and essential editing functions(highlight, blur, block) before you save or share the image you have just captured. It's easy to save and share, although the share function is still considered not sufficient. 

2. NYTimes

    be honest, i dont read NYTimes frequently, however, i think this web app is well designed. If you are familiar with a reader app, Flipboard, on iDevice(such as ipad), you will be used to the use flow and page layout of NYTimes. the layouts (it provides 4 different design) enable each headline to be clearly read, and so does the content. you can select your interested topics and customized the keyboard shortcuts. i think it will also provide good user experience on All-in-one with touchscreen, although i dont really have one. 

3. Numerics Calculator & Converter 

    It's definitely a handy utility for a person needs so some calculation often. it supports a little bit complex math operation, such as sqrt(2+6*3-0.5^3). the history of your calculation is also recorded which is a easy way to go back to any step of your complex operation. I love the Calculator function most. However, it also provides another useful tool -- converter for currency and units. it is still intuitive to use. 

thE beaST

累了

但是還是殘忍的圈住

sAY you WilL

聽著聽著

覺得就是喜歡如此直接歌詞

滿滿的情緒

最真實的感觸

理性在這裡不是一切




It's taking you too long to decide
And I don't want to be the one, the one
Crying over wasted time

If you think you're strong enough to let me in
Then come on, stand up and be honest, be honest
I'm tired of feeling so alone
Cause you won't let me understand
I don't wanna pretend, I wanna feel, I want to love

Say you will or say you won't
Open your heart to me
Now or never, tell the truth
Is this real, is this real?

Whenever you're around, I can't fight it
You get under my skin the way that I like it
And I can't take anymore
Tell me what you want from me or leave me alone
'Cause I'm all caught up and I'm losing control

I'm tired of holding on so tight
When you won't let me understand
Now I'm falling apart
I never meant to lose myself

Say you will or say you won't
Open your heart to me
Now or never, tell the truth
Is this real, is this real

Say you will or say you won't
Open your heart to me
Now or never, tell the truth
Is this real, is this real?

Like drops of rain against my heart
Cut through like silver
And I want to make you feel that way
And I want to make you feel the way that I do

Say you will or say you won't
Open your heart to me
Now or never, tell the truth
Is this real?

Say you will or say you won't
Open your heart to me
Now or never, tell the truth
Is this real, is this real?

BRokeN

壞掉了

壞掉了

你的玩具斷了頭

掉了手腳

妳無心修復

摸摸她的頭髮和臉龐

微笑的感慨這是怎麼壞的

壞掉了

壞掉了

接不回去的舌頭

她也只能奮力厭惡的擠出聲

感慨自己為什麼壞掉了

cuRSE

dont know what i was talking about

answered

answered

answered

just dont like it

is that what i was waiting for?

AutiSM

vocabulary:

narrator (the character who tells you what is happening in a book or film)
you are going to read about an unlikely bestseller which has an autistic teenager as the narrator.

intractable (very difficult and seeming to be impossible to control)
we are facing an intractable problem.

despite (without taking any noticed or being influenced by)
Despite its difficult, apparently intractable problem, the judges said of his The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: "we can think of few readers can take no pleasure from this wonderful novel."

inferior (not as good as someone or something else)
these products are inferior to those we bought last year.

entanglement (a situation or relationship that you are involved in and that is difficult to escape from)
he tries to bridge the mysteries, fears and entanglements of life using logic and his gifts for mathematics.

dePOsiTORy

害怕的時候

就追問自己怕什麼

生氣的時候

就追問自己氣什麼

難過的時候

就追問自己在難過什麼



如此抽絲剝繭

就會理性多點

paRAdoX

nothing is definitely right or wrong. you shouldnt be afraid of losing things you now have, as long as you believe that you can get them back or some things instead through ways. One never knows whether the decision made is correct or not at the moment. the only thing you can do is to judge if you are on the way to your goal. therefore, goals matter.

i always admire people clearly knowing their own goals, no matter they sound great or ordinary. what is mine? one of my friend, he'd wanted to be a good teacher. he took education programme in college. he spent time studying chemistry because to be a junior high school teacher his physics degree was not sufficient. now, so happy for him, he is a great teacher. after teaching for a while, he told me he wants to get the certificate of english teacher in junior high school. he's started to study english on his own and, even better, he applied for the english institute. i admire his ambition and his courage to chase things he wants. if i were him, i guess i wouldnt do that because i would challenge myself that how could i get a certificate of teaching english and become an english teacher if my major was physics and others who have already studied in english for such a long time. (after i've just written this, i feel what i've concerned sounds so stupid. XD)

can i calm down and shut up?

3Rd conDitionAL

Story:

• a young Spanish couple, Victor and Josefa, had just got married. they were from two of the richest families in Spain. they wanted to spend part of their honeymoon travelling to New York on by the Titanic. But Victor's mother didn't want them to go, because she had had a premonition that the Titanic was going to sink. Victor prepared many postcards, already written, and asked his servant to send one postcard every day to his mother a postcard to his mother on each day.
  
  When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Josefa was in the bed and Victor was getting ready for bed. he told Josefa to get dressed. they both went got on the deck. Josefa got into on a lifeboat. Victor stayed on the ship.
  
  When the Titanic sank, Josefa and the other people in the lifeboat heard the terrible cries of people in the water. Josefa shouted her husband's name Victor again and again.
  
  Josefa arrived New York safely. at first, Victor's mother refused to believe that his son was dead. 'I've just had a postcard from him got his postcard from Paris today.' she said. 

vocabulary:

• premonition (a feeling that something unpleasant is going to happen)
  his mum had a premonition.

make questions:

• what would Victor have done if he'd known the Titanic was going to sink?
• would Victor's mum have faced jer son's death more easily, if Victor hadn't asked his friend to send letters for him?

sobER

某一天

才突然理解

最不能忍受的

原來就是看到自己

 在時間飛逝下

 原地踏步

 與期望漸行漸遠

fiRM

• foreman (leader)
  the foreman of jury got to his feet to deliver his verdict.
  


• verdict (a decision made after judging the facts that are given)
  the jury returned a verdict of not guilty


• climax (the most important or exciting point in a story or situation)
  the election reaches its climax next week


• defendant (a person in a law case who is accused )


• descend (to go or come down)
  the darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night.
  the traditional tense silence descended on the court


• court (a building where trials happen / an area drawn out on the ground which is used for playing sports, such as tennis, volleyball, basketball)


• tickle (an uncomfortable feeling in your throat which makes you want to cough)
  a member of jury couldn't control the tickle in the back of his throat any longer


• devastated (very shocked and upset)
  she was utterly devastated when her husband died.


• devastating (making someone very shocked and upset)
  devastating news


• puzzled (confused because you don't understand something)
  one of the jurors was puzzled why he was jailed after being found not guilty


• console (make someone who is sad feel better)
  his lawyer tried to console him


• sentence (to decide and say officially what a punishment will be)
  he was sentenced to life imprisonment


• imprisonment (to put someone in prison (noun.))
  judge Gibbon sentenced Alan Rashid to two years' imprisonment


• imprison (to put someone in prison (verb.))
  he was imprisoned in 1965 for attempted murder.


• ill-timed
  the ill-timed cough


• drown out (a loud noise cover the sound)
  the ill-timed cough drowned out the vital word 'not'.


• convict (to decide officially in a court of law that someone is guilty)
  he has been convicted of robbery


• discharge (allow to leave)
  the judge discharged the jury


• mystify / mystified / mystifying (confuse)
  i was mystified by her decision


• usher (a man who shows people where they should sit, especially at a formal event such as wedding or at a theatre or cinema)
  a mystified juror asked a court usher why a man they had acquitted was being imprisoned


• acquit (to decide officially in a court of law that someone is not guilty)
  she was acquitted of all the charges against her


• hasty / hastily / hastiness (describe something that is done in a hurry)
  "he looks good for his age." she hastily added


• reconvene / convene (to arrange a meeting (again))
  the court was hastily reconvened


• bizarre (very strange and unusual)
  bizarre behaviour/situation


• offence (an illegal act, a crime)
  he committed several serious offences


• flatten (make thinner or become level)
  flatten the bottle


• inhale (to breath air, smoke or gas into your lung)


• exhale (to send air out of your lung)


• decriminalize (to stop something from being illegal)
  the campaign to decriminalize cannabis


• cannabis (marijuana)


• mind-altering (describe a drug has string influence on a person's mental state)


• contraband (goods which are brought into or taken out of a country illegally)


• lenient (not as severe in punishment as would be expected)
  they believe that judges are too lenient to terrorist suspects


• puberty
  at puberty, pubic hair develops and girls begin to menstruate


• consent (permission or agreement)
  they can't publish your name without your consent
  age of consent


• manslaughter (the crime of killing a person by someone who did not intend to do it)


• murder (the crime of intentionally killing a person)


• premeditated (planned)
  a premeditated murder/ attack

DROwn

suddenly
fall into a hole

all the negative thinking have emerged from the surface

A leSsON

不要想敷衍 ,盡力做到最好, 縱然不喜歡 ,即使不能理解 , 先做到 ,而且盡力做到好 .

如果 你猶豫 ,那就先停下來 , 當你聽到或是看到 , 你就會知道了

BiTTEr

feel exhausted to face all of it

its bitter

why do i need to experience it

i hate that

HAtE

吞下

眼盲

我練習看不見會讓我疼痛的光亮

我還要練習多久

我還要練習多久

我還要練習多久

reFUSed

我只是單純的

想要

回家

這天

我可以跟你這樣講話

很開心

有一種肆無忌憚

放縱的揮霍最不雅觀的缺點

你說

因為是家人

也許是吧

也許不是吧

只是

突然可以相信

有一種十年黏

鬆脫

卻又繫著

CunnINg

Suddenly i think of the tough time in the past

the feeling when they responded me was chilling

that was a shadow

i am not sure if it is still

i remembered i put my face down between my knees to feel the pain with tears

i heard nothing but confusions

what's about now?

soMEthING

nothing more

nothing left

nothing before 

nothing pass

nothing smile

nothing pain

nothing once again 

nothing die away