2008/03/30

Thong/Flip-flop人字拖的英文及法文

Thong [countable]
1 a long thin piece of leather used to fasten something or as part of a whip
2 [usually plural] American English a type of shoe that covers the bottom of your foot, with a strap that goes between your toes to hold it on your foot as you walk [= flip-flops]
3 a piece of underwear or the bottom half of a bikini that has a single string instead of the back part

"Thong" est en effet (normalement) "string"...

thong also used to mean flip-flop, until the "other" thong became popular about 20 years ago... Now you will always assume un string if you hear thong in AE. Except for your grandmother, who still walks on the beach with her thongs on her feet!

2008/03/27

got to have courage!

It's been ages since I started to work after leaving the school, I felt dull and bored.
I know for real I shoud've made some changes from sheer boredom.
Yup, my first step is turning my care-for-nothing attitude to being a bit more active goes towards what may come to me in life.

2008/03/23

我的火星小孩 Martian Child


年份/國家:2007/USA
喜度:★

偶爾和家人一起看電影時,還是會選擇好萊塢電影,畢竟他們已經習慣差不多的模式,要他們看有時石破天驚的外語片,有點要求太高XD,總之就是被一貫的行進方式制約,看有點不太一樣的電影會暈眩接著投降。但,這部實在太差,雖然已經有概要的輪廓在心中運行,還是有點期待有點新意迸發。

看完之後,直覺自己浪費時間,約翰庫薩克(John Cusack)這幾年到底在做什麼?orz劇情是個普通無趣,他跟那個小孩也完全沒有化學作用,我不知道他到底對那個小孩那麼好幹嘛?orz口口聲聲說愛,是應映劇情般地做作不堪嗎?至少我完全感受不到所謂的愛,好造作。小孩的與眾不同,應該要在學校裡與同學相處間強調,可惜劇情只是略微帶過,所以觀眾怎麼可能會有同理心去感受?不要把觀眾當笨蛋!

2008/03/11

女侍情緣 Waitress


Director:Adrienne Shelly
Country/year:USA/2007
Actor:Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly
喜度:★★★★★★★☆

這部深得我心,就似帶點苦澀焦味的派中嚐出一抹香甜那般的清新好滋味。

雖然梗有點老,但機智幽默字字珠璣的對白,令人回味再三哪!
Jenna是個備受控制欲老公家暴的餐廳女服生,偷偷存錢希冀開創新生活,沒想到再一次意外被丈夫灌醉後發生關係,因而懷了小孩,這對想離家遠走高飛實現夢想的她,無疑是雪上加霜。好險有同事的友情,與婦產科醫生突然降臨的愛情/激情?還有熟客的人生經驗加持才讓她從壓抑窒礙感及憤世嫉俗中面對真正的自我,最重要的是,孩子讓她變得強壯,當下有勇氣去切斷囤積已久剪不斷理還亂重重結繩。

「I'm saying, my whole life I spent lost. If a sign said "go this way." I'd go the other way. Time after time after time. I turned the wrong corner, made the wrong choice, went the wrong way, like a chicken without a head. This life will kill you. I'm saying, make the right choice; Start fresh. It's never too late, Start fresh. I know you are. I was just dreaming a little for you. Because, all my dreams is gone. 」
--(Andy Griffith)《Waitress》。

以上是熟客的人生經驗談,我想他真正要表達的是,It's never too late, Start fresh. There is always a second chance in your own life if you really want it by heart. So once in your life time, just follow your heart, let it lead you.

人生總是敗多於成,但夢想讓人不顧失敗,一再嘗試,人因而偉大。
感謝Adrienne Shelly創造了一部讓我在麻木消極度日還能重新檢驗自己的電影,同時也惋惜她的英年早逝,嘆!(1966-2006)


Quincy Coleman - Baby Don't You Cry (The Pie Song)

When the world is gray and bleak
Baby don't you cry
I will give you every bit of love that's in my heart
I will bake it up into a simple little pie…

Baby don't you cry
Gonna make a pie
Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle
Baby don't be blue
Gonna make for you
Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle.
Gonna be a pie from heaven above
Gonna be filled with strawberry love
Baby don't you cry
Gonna make a pie
And hold you forever in the middle of my heart.

Baby here's the sun
Baby here's the sky
Baby I'm your light and I'm your shelter
Baby you are mine
I could freeze the time
Keep you in my kitchen with me forever
Gonna be a pie from heaven above
Gonna be filled with strawberry love
Baby don't you cry
Gonna make a pie
And hold you forever in the middle of my heart.

Gonna bake a pie from heaven above
Gonna be filled with butterscotch love
Gonna bake a pie from heaven above
Gonna be filled with banana creme love

Baby don't you cry
Gonna bake a pie
Hold you forever
Hold you forever
And hold you forever in the middle of my heart.