Linguistico J. I. Cousin

Got hooked up on Brazilian Bossa Nova MPBs. This one’s one of my fav’s.

Grupo Revelação - Talvez
(Brasil) 

Eu quis um dia te dar

A luz pra iluminar

O escuro da solidão…não deu

Lutei pra te conquistar

De tudo fiz pra mostrar

Foi grande a decepção…valeu

Quando a saudade apertar

Não vou chorar…

Mas se o meu pranto rolar…deixa

Quando a solidão chegar

Querendo me acompanhar

Eu não vou desanimar

Jamais vou me entregar

Eu vou cantar, vou compôr

Pra esquecer essa dor

Un dia eu vou encontrar minha felicidade

Eu já perdoei as maldades que você me fez

Adeus querida, até um dia, quem sabe até

Talvez

Que pena o nosso amor desfez.(2x)

–jic 004013MMV0707H

I really need time out to do something else…
long time no see blog watchers!

i’m on my last 2 weeks in this semester in my college

few thoughts:
* where did Christianity focused more on? Guilt? or Human Dignity?
* Cinema Paradiso is one cool movie
* I gotta get ready with three things on friday
    - in-class test in ARW
    - oral exam in LAN (Spanish)
    - take home final exam in EAC (Film Studies)
* R. I. P. Pope John Paul II
* I got more novels and i’m hoping to read them over the summer holidays along with my Japanese classes.
* One more year before i could get to York University where i can reach my dreams of being a linguist and hopefully a filmmaker.
* I’m thinking right now that Portuguese is a very beautiful language… "não" (ngiyawwwww) means "no" but how you pronounce it is like being polite. more words with -ão endings and this is a very nice feature of the language that other languages don’t have…

–jic 004012MMV1924H

Before Final Exams:

ARW
Essay # 2
In-Class Assignment # 2

EAC
Evaluation # 3
Take Home Final Exam

LAN - Spanish
Quiz # 4 Last one
Oral Examination

YKC
Test # 3

Let us pray for the eternal repose of  the soul of Pope John Paul II, Karol  Wotjtyla who passed away April 2nd due to weakening health  (1920 - 2005)

I sure was a devoted Catholic in my teenage years. y’know joining some
groups dedicated to encourage people to pray, to become closer to God
through Jesus and especially Mary.

Noticing how Pope John Paul II was very special for me during that time
too. well i’ve seen him in person twice already… both on world youth
day events… 1995 Manila and 2002 Toronto. He was the only pope i ever
known in my entire life up till now despite having read about all the other popes and i didn’t even notice that he had done a lot
of things that changed the image of the Catholic Church as well as us Catholics and most especially the non-Catholics who the pontiff is always renewing his relationships with. We must be
absolutely thankful for that. He is the only pope to travel around the
world spreading the Good News, the only pope who made a great influence
including politics. He was the only pope who reached out to all
religions and if you are going to talk to a muslim or a jew or a
buddhist about JPII, they will talk about his greatest contributions
from his reign in the throne of St. Peter’s Basilica in 1978. the last contribution he did was when he reacted against the war in Iraq which was continued anyway
by the Bush Administration in the US. He was the only pope to enter a
synagogue, and a mosque. He was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years
after a Dutch pope St. Adrian VI.

Reading all these information about him is nice, but much more when you
really see his face. he is committed to the better of the 1.1B
Catholics around the world and even the non-Catholics and the
non-religious. he loves us, he wants us to go to the right path to
goodness that God have given us.

What will happen next? I always hope for an even better leadership, but
no one can compare to the greatness of Pope John Paul II.

Thursday Japanese, Chinese, Korean Movies back-to-back…
I might make simple notes of my reactions to these films.

"Laundry"

Japan: ランドリー

Director: Junichi Mori (2002)

Original Language: Japanese

Cast: Yôsuke Kubozuka, Koyuki, Kenichiro Tanabe

This film is absolutely an inspirational one despite watching it on the middle. Its a story about a guy who was mentally challenged after an injury he took when he was a child. He runs a coin laundry establishment and falls for Mizue who is a lonely young woman with her own dilemmas as well in life. Couldn’t tell the rest of the plot but absolutely, the acting is superb Yosuke who portrayed convincingly the role of Teru, the mentally challenged man.

"Men Suddenly in Black"

Hong Kong: Dai Cheung Foo

Director: Ho Cheung Ping (2003)

Original Language: Chinese

Cast: Spirit Blue, Jordan Chan, Chapman To, Eric Tsang

This film tackles more around the topic of adultery. Its based on a true story and it is a very hilarious one as well. The story is all about 4 men whose girlfriends and wives left for Thailand to spend their vacation. These men took advantage of the happening that they started to plan on making out and getting laid by other ladies/prostitutes. couldn’t say much, it’s pretty intriguing as one of my chinese friends told me that it happens in hong kong. couldn’t say if i enjoyed it or not. i did laugh but i suddenly cut my attention to it at one part.

"Attack the Gas Station"

South Korea: Chuyuso Supgyuk Sa Keun / 주유소 습격사건

Director: Sang-Jin Kim (1999) 

Original Language: Korean

Cast:
Lee Seong-Jae, Yoo Oh-Seong, Kang Seong-Jin, Yoo Ji-Tae, Park Yeong-Yu, Jeong Jun, Lee Yu-Won, Lee Jeong-Ho… [I know its a big Cast but the film is so great that almost every character in the story is very significant]

Now this is my most favourite of the three. The story takes place in a gas station and the shooting of this film took one week before they finished as how i heard. but anyways, the story is all about a group of robbers trying to rob a gas station… but since they couldn’t get the money in the gas station, they held everyone working there hostage and they asked them how to use the gas station… reason? so that they would just get what they rob for from the customers hehehe.

i really want to give a good review for this film since i like it so much. its actually very annoying with the hits and slaps as if it’s the only way comedy is being done. but the better side of the film goes to the story, which is funnier to think about rather than the slapstick comedy the actors are doing. i liked how the characters take down everyone till the end. they kept on fueling cars up and at the same time kicking ass to those gangs that round them up. its even more funny how you show sympathy to the robbers in the end. a very neat ending i admit. Its my #1 fav K-film so far. it pops to my head when i hear K-movies hehehe.

–jic 0000H MMV003018

[source: m-w.com]

stipulate [v] - to make an agreement to do something.

implore [v] - to call upon supplication.

vanity [n] - something that is empty, vain & valueless.

infer [v] - to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises.

vivid [aj] - producing a strong or clear impression on the senses.

vibrant [aj]  - pulsating with life; bright.

tine [n] - a slender pointed projected part.

subtle [aj] - hard to perceive or understand.

despise [v] - to regard as negligible, worthless, or distasteful. contempt; disdain

oblivious [aj] - lacking rememberance, memory, or mindful attention.

wit [n] - a person of superior intellect.

intricate [aj] - difficult to resolve or analyse.

conspicuous [aj] - obvious or noticeable to the eye or mind.

menial [aj] - lacking interest or dignity.

seam [n] - a weak or vulnerable area or gap.

Green

That is supposed to be the colour of the feast of St. Patrick. Nothing very special happened to me, but i just wanna greet everyone out there especially the Irish people who definitely celebrate this occasion… Get rid of the serpents as fast as possible. Always pray for protection.

–jic 2234H

Well, I’ve been very motivated to my studies after going to those sessions in YorkU. Oh yes! I met a middle aged man who was asking where the buses load. We talked a bit… he’s from Columbia. shared a little bit of my pursuit in spanish and told him that i got Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel "100 Years of Solitude". I think meeting people like him would be my very reason of getting into university. I absolutely want to speak in different languages and make a great deal of learning from friends whose native language is one of the languages i am pursuing.

I’m also going to get some good stuff from Krys in the Learning Centre. In two to four meetings, i will become very confident in speaking english and doing public speaking without forgetting or being distracted. Film studies tomorrow, probably we’ll be watching "Taxi Driver" with Robert de Niro… then… Spanish once again… studying demonstrative adjectives… este, esta, ese, esa, aquel, aquella… i’ve read it in the straight forward book, but definitely i would love to hear it from my prof and my spanish friends as well outside the college.

One thing i really see… Everything is competitive. I absolutely want to show the best me that i can. whether you are rich, financially supported, or not, you may never know what you are going to be in the future. Which is why there must be some inspiration that will always be on my side above all things… GOD!

–jic 1958H MMV003015

Well, we GAS students have the opportunity to visit Seneca@York for some seminars and coffee.

What am I thinking today? A lot! Its getting pretty nice in my abode. Mom and Dad both preparing the house for the blessing on Easter Sunday. I keep on remembering how my Dad is so smart, he always give me advices that are very vital to my decision making. My Mom is very religious and I absolutely thank her for always guiding my spiritual development. Indeed I don’t want to become ignorant, but indeed I don’t want to become too devoted. A good balance is just fine.

going to another side of my story: Nowadays, whenever I listen or see salesmen, or people from insurance firms, TV Shopping Channels, etc. I always think that my spiritual self gets tainted. it absolutely manipulates my psyche. They think that I’m a failure when I’m not. They think that I’m a loser when I’m not. They think that luxury is the only thing that would make people happy. They want me to become a materialist! To become hip, to become cool. Sure I would enjoy watching people, but one thing I would absolutely stick in my mind that my dad also told me is "to be alert".

But you know what? I got a comment from my Mom about this. There are people who just want to get out of school and work, then there are those who want to continue being educated… I’m the latter and its indeed a good thing. That’s why I want to pursue languages. I want to indulge my spiritual self with many things. I would love to travel around the world where I would not rest… I will love work and I will not do any siesta. I will work with people, I will speak their native language, I will get involved with their culture. I will do something that no one would likely do. People will not feel safe about this world by looking for places where they can rest. There is no rest in this world. Human beings are naturally lazy and we all have to overcome this. Even reading a book? come on! those people who don’t read books do not realize what they are missing.

–jic 0700H

Today’s a very nice day. -10C in the morning then 0C the rest of the day. Held my head with Ralph’s lecture in Social Sciences. Then I went to the Spanish Centre downtown. Absolutely lovely! As lovely as the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in North York. The best part is the bookstore. I saw books of very popular authors from all Latin American countries speaking Spanish as well as Spain itself. I bought a book by Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez entitled "Cien Años de Soledad" translated as A Hundred Years of Solitude. Marquez is one of the most popular and greatest authors of the Spanish world. I’m hoping to understand the book sometime in the summer vacation. I talked a little bit of Spanish to the cashiers. "Hablas español?"… "Ahh… no… ehh.. um poco entiendo español… Soy de Filipinas.." then she said that she have Filipino friends who are studying level 2 spanish. Then the total amount of the stuff i bought was said in Spanish, and then she suddenly said something that was out of my range of vocabulary… if the books are mine or as a gift for someone… then we talked in english… very nice and funny experience. I’m hoping to get acquainted with Spanish friends.

Went home so energized for the Spanish class in the afternoon and i received my assignment for next week. Its going to be great in Spanish class.

Image from: spanishcentre.com

–jic 1858H MMV003014