Esr (2005-2007)

[ZzGaNgStErzZ]

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world:

 

 

 

 

Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy.

Tear in eye, your dress will tear.

So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,

Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain.

(Mind the latter, how it's written.)

Now I surely will not plague you

With such words as plaque and ague.

But be careful how you speak:

Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;

Cloven, oven, how and low,

Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,

Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,

Exiles, similes, and reviles;

Scholar, vicar, and cigar,

Solar, mica, war and far;

One, anemone, Balmoral,

Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;

Gertrude, German, wind and mind,

Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,

Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.

Blood and flood are not like food,

Nor is mould like should and would.

Viscous, viscount, load and broad,

Toward, to forward, to reward.

And your pronunciation's OK

When you correctly say croquet,

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,

Friend, and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour

And enamour rhyme with hammer.

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,

Doll and roll and some and home.

Stranger does not rhyme with anger,

Neither does devour with clangour.

Souls but foul, haunt and aunt,

Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,

Shes, goes, does. Now first say finger,

And then singer, ginger, linger,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,

Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,

Nor does fury sound like bury.

Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.

Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.

Though the differences seem little,

We say actual but victual.

Refer does not rhyme with deafer.

Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.

Mint, pint, senate and sedate;

Dull, bull, and George ate late.

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,

Science, consciene, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,

Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.

We say hallowed, but allowed,

People, leopard, towed, but vowed.

Mark the differences, moreover,

Between mover, cover, clover;

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,

Chalice, but police and lice;

Camel, constable, unstable,

Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,

Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.

Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,

Senator, spectator, mayor.

Tour, but our and succour, four.

Gas, alas, and Arkansas.

Sea, idea, Korea, area,

Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.

Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,

Dandelion and battalion.

Sally with ally, yea, ye,

Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.

Say aver, but ever, fever,

Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.

Heron, granary, canary.

Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.

Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

Large, but target, gin, give, verging,

Ought, out, joust and scour, sourging.

Ear, but earn and wear and tear

Do not rhyme with here but ere.

Seven is right, but so is even,

Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,

Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,

Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)

Is a paling stout and spikey?

Won't it make you lose your wits,

Writing groats and saying grits?

It's a dark abyss or tunnel:

Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,

Islington and Isle of Wight,

Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough,

Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?

Hiccough has the sound of cup.

My advice is to give up!!!

 

 

i juz did tat after the 1st sentence. bo hokkien wan huh? :cheeky:

[ZzGaNgStErzZ]

will give u credit by stating ur name n bike no. at the bottom so dat the pupils can pray for u or wave to u on the road

 

tink shud b give a kick on his bike.

[ahJap]

all so free ar..... i go bike watching liao !!! whahahaha maybe i will be the 1st owner of the 08 busa

 

who can can join me give me a cal !!

 

wow so fast..i went to s1 n check with them just now..they quote mi 22k for machince price..is that price okie?n SE told mi that 08 busa is already in sg

[ahJap]

kelvin that time u bought ur busa for machine how much is it?

[ZzGaNgStErzZ]

wow so fast..i went to s1 n check with them just now..they quote mi 22k for machince price..is that price okie?n SE told mi that 08 busa is already in sg

 

kaoz, go S1 nv tell mi. mich(the pink S4 @ sbbf) working part time there lei, see can cheaper bo mah. U ask the tow kay or sales?

[ahJap]

kaoz, go S1 nv tell mi. mich(the pink S4 @ sbbf) working part time there lei, see can cheaper bo mah. U ask the tow kay or sales?

 

ya i noe he working there..i didnt purposely go down wan la..just happen i pass by so when over n ask lo..i asked ah mu..cos normally mi n my fren get bike from him..n he normally offer quite a gd price, n also gd service for aftersales..

 

u interested also ah?he calculated for mi just now..if i down only 5k n loan 5 yr,monthly 430 like that..if loan 6 yr per month rougly 340

[ZzGaNgStErzZ]

ya i noe he working there..i didnt purposely go down wan la..just happen i pass by so when over n ask lo..i asked ah mu..cos normally mi n my fren get bike from him..n he normally offer quite a gd price, n also gd service for aftersales..

 

u interested also ah?he calculated for mi just now..if i down only 5k n loan 5 yr,monthly 430 like that..if loan 6 yr per month rougly 340

 

u ask de is tat greyish color de? parking there quite long liao?

add up to 30k+

[Bluesky]

all so free ar..... i go bike watching liao !!! whahahaha maybe i will be the 1st owner of the 08 busa

 

who can can join me give me a cal !!

 

Lai lai lai.. Mai tu liao

 

[Bluesky]

wow so fast..i went to s1 n check with them just now..they quote mi 22k for machince price..is that price okie?n SE told mi that 08 busa is already in sg

 

22k machine is for what year one? If 07.. Ask them got freebies like chopping board and knife sharpener anot?

 

if 08 is in sg liao, ask them which shop.. I dont mind gng down to see even if the bike shop is at tuas.. Juz dont say stuck at custom thr.. Awaiting clearance.. Like tat got say machiam no say..

[Bluesky]

u interested also ah?he calculated for mi just now..if i down only 5k n loan 5 yr,monthly 430 like that..if loan 6 yr per month rougly 340

 

 

advisable not to drag ur loan beyond 5 years.. If not can pay till pants drop sia..

[Bluesky]

kelvin that time u bought ur busa for machine how much is it?

 

 

OTR 23K.. Free number plate worth 38K..

[Bluesky]

and kelvin why is thurs coney dog day?

 

 

errmm... cos it's not... Techno cat day?

[draught]

22k machine is for what year one? If 07.. Ask them got freebies like chopping board and knife sharpener anot?

 

Maybe got free demo for chopping radish & carrot on the spot?

[draught]

all so free ar..... i go bike watching liao !!! whahahaha maybe i will be the 1st owner of the 08 busa

 

who can can join me give me a cal !!

 

You POWER leh..so fast go view liao ah...so when taking class 2? after exam?

[ahJap]

u ask de is tat greyish color de? parking there quite long liao?

add up to 30k+

 

22k machine is for what year one? If 07.. Ask them got freebies like chopping board and knife sharpener anot?

 

if 08 is in sg liao, ask them which shop.. I dont mind gng down to see even if the bike shop is at tuas.. Juz dont say stuck at custom thr.. Awaiting clearance.. Like tat got say machiam no say..

 

Maybe got free demo for chopping radish & carrot on the spot?

 

22k machince is for the 08 model..but like wat kelvin say,he told mi tat the machince is now in port..but is already in singapore now n can make order liao..

[ahJap]

advisable not to drag ur loan beyond 5 years.. If not can pay till pants drop sia..

 

haha have to find more part time job liao..haha

[Bluesky]

22k machince is for the 08 model..but like wat kelvin say,he told mi tat the machince is now in port..but is already in singapore now n can make order liao..

 

 

 

Like that i also know how to say...

 

Actually there's 2 08 busa parked at my carpark now.. Terms and conditions apply if u wanna see it..

[ahJap]

Like that i also know how to say...

 

Actually there's 2 08 busa parked at my carpark now.. Terms and conditions apply if u wanna see it..

 

haha..okie okie..lol..but at least we know the price liao

[Bluesky]

haha..okie okie..lol..but at least we know the price liao

 

If thats the case.. the pricing in the post i quoted would then be roughly the price u could expect it to be..

 

22K + 7% GST($1540) + COE (Currently is $1081) + Some ah pu nehneh admin charges and tax ($??) + Agreement fee ($ x00) + Road tax ($250 ½ yr) and last but not least.. Insurance ($1500+-)

 

Whole thing round up to ard $27k..

[ZzGaNgStErzZ]

If thats the case.. the pricing in the post i quoted would then be roughly the price u could expect it to be..

 

22K + 7% GST($1540) + COE (Currently is $1081) + Some ah pu nehneh admin charges and tax ($??) + Agreement fee ($ x00) + Road tax ($250 ½ yr) and last but not least.. Insurance ($1500+-)

 

Whole thing round up to ard $27k..

 

:giddy: tis is full cash pricing lei. haben add the interest if want installment. :faint:

wait til i dio tao pio. my bike no. consolation tiao di heng ah. i see di pio almost sia.

[fabian]

A blonde goes for a job interview in an office.

 

The interviewer starts with the basics. "So, Miss, can you tell us your age, please?"

 

The blonde counts carefully on her fingers for half a minute before replying. "Um ... 22."

 

 

The interviewer tries another straightforward one to break the ice. "And can you tell us your height, please?"

 

The young lady stands up and produces a measuring tape from her handbag.

 

She then traps one end under her foot and extends the tape to the top of her head.

 

She checks the measurement and announces, "Five foot two!"

 

 

This isn't looking good so the interviewer goes for the real basics; something the she won't have to count, measure, or lookup. "Just to confirm for our records, your name please?"

 

The blonde bobs her head from side to side for about fifteen seconds, mouthing something silently to herself, before replying, "Jenny!"

 

The interviewer is completely baffled at this stage, so he asks, "What were you doing when I asked you your name?"

 

"Oh, that!" replies the blonde," I was just running through that song, 'Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear...'"

 

 

What would happen if she's interviewing for a model job and was ask:

 

The interviewer: Last of all, what's your vital stats?

 

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[GuiNNeSS]

guys decided to let go my xiaohong.....not giving to dad liao.......as wat norman said.....to free up on my expenses........(when i ask him why he sold his r6......) cos i still got to think of my xiaobai.......i cant keep all.......1 had to go......will post tomorrow in garage sales......so sad.......

[Bluesky]

guys decided to let go my xiaohong.....not giving to dad liao.......as wat norman said.....to free up on my expenses........(when i ask him why he sold his r6......) cos i still got to think of my xiaobai.......i cant keep all.......1 had to go......will post tomorrow in garage sales......so sad.......

 

Dont be sad ba..

 

If u love her.. U gonna let her go...

[spyker]

esr!! lets go down and kay poh!!

chosen sunday coz one of our AKL bro working till late on sat.... =)

 

Big Bike Fest @ Suntec, 16th (Sun) Sept

Meet: ECP Mac 12pm for lunch (hope to catch the bike stunts at 3pm)

 

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[AshBlack]

Hi guys, anyone joining the convey for SBBF? I am contemplating but don't know if it is another "fusion" hoax...

 

If got anyone going can sms me please?