Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Task #12 - Song translation

Katie Melua Lyrics – If You Were a Sailboat

If you were a cowboy, I would trail you
If you were a piece of wood, I’d nail you to the floor
If You Were a Sailboat, I would sail you to the shore
If you were a river, I would swim you
If you were a house, I would live in you all my days
If you were a preacher, I’d begin to change my ways
Sometimes I believe in fate
but the chances we create
always seem to ring more true
you took a chance on loving me
I took a chance on loving you
If I was in jail I know you’d spring me
If I were a telephone you’d ring me all day long
If I was in pain I know you’d sing me soothing songs
Sometimes I believe in fate

Kui sa olid kauboi, ma rada te
Kui sa olid puutükk, ma küünte sul korrus
Kui sa olid Purjekas, oleksin sõidavad sul kaldal
Kui sa olid jõe, tahaksin ujuda te
Kui sa olid maja, ma elan teile kõigile mu päeva
Kui sa olid jutlustaja ma hakata muudan võimalusi

Vahel ma usun saatust
kuid võimalused loome
alati tundub, et ring rohkem tõsi
sa võtsid võimaluse kohta armastav mind
Võtsin võimalus on armastav sa

Kui ma olin vangis Ma tean, sa tahaks kevadel mind
Kui ma telefoni soovite ring mind terve päeva
Kui ma olin valu ma tean, et sa tahaks laulda mulle rahustav laulud

Vahel ma usun saatust

Task #11 - My favourite musician


1. I heard them on the radio.
2. He became well know in 1956.
3. No, he wasn't influenced by anyone.
4. No I haven't seen them play live.
5. Yes I like their music.

Every time he sang the crowd went crazy.
You can see him on Youtube.
Hes music makes me happy.
Some of hes songs fill me with energy.
Some of hes music is origianl.
Hes music also affects my mood.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Task #10 - Film review


I chose to write a review of Pulp Fiction because it is one of the best movies ever created.

Here is the plot:


Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days, later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to throw his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.


The film initiates with two small-time thieves, Honey Bunny and Pumpkin, who spontaneously decide to hold up a restaurant. The film then shifts to the story of Jules and Vincent, who are hitmen for the well known and feared Marsellus Wallace, who is caught up in a deal gone wrong with struggling boxer Butch Coolidge.  

Pumpkin and Honey Bunny are two thieves who, while dining at a coffee shop, decide that the best thing to do is to rob it. Vincent and Jules, two hitmen working for mob kingpin Marcellus Wallace, are sent to retrieve a very special and very mysterious briefcase for their boss. Vincent later must also show Mrs. Wallace a good time while her husband is out. Butch Coolidge is an aging prizefighter who is being paid to "take a dive", but instead, accidentally kills his opponent, and tries to flee the town, but not before getting his dead father's lucky golden watch. These four seemingly unrelated stories are interwoven together in a non-linear fashion.

Jules and Vincent work as hitmen for crime boss Marcellus Wallace. Wallace is currently dealing with Butch Collidge, a boxer who failed to throw a fight after taking Wallace's money and is now planning to flee the city, but can't leave his father's watch behind. Vincent faces some problems of his own when Wallace asks him to show his wife Mia a good time while he's away. Some of these people redeem themselves and some don't, and all meet an end appropriate to their choices.

Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are two hitmen on the hunt for a briefcase whose contents were stolen from their boss, Marsellus Wallace. They run into a few unexpected detours along the road. Marsellus is out of town, and he's gotten Vincent to take care of his wife, Mia. That is, take her out for a night on the town. Things go smoothly until one of them makes a huge error. Butch Coolidge is a boxer who's been approached by Marsellus and been told to throw his latest fight. When Butch ends up killing the other boxer, he must escape Marsellus. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (not their real names) are two lovebirds/thieves who have decided to rob the restaurant they're currently eating at. But the restaurant doesn't turn out to be as easy as the other places they've robbed.

This is the cast: 
 My review: It is one of the best movies erected from the mind on Quentin Tarantino and I like it very much.
This movie is a ravishing piece of art. At the time when this movie was made it was very odd to make a a movie like this. It is very rare to see a movie like this entertaining.

Task #9 - Detecting words

1. Dactylion - Keskmise sõrme tipp
2. Dactylonomy - Sõrmede lugemine
3. Defenestrate - Midagi aknast välja viskama
4. Dompteuse - Naine kes treenib loomi
5. Estrapade - Hobuse katse ratsutajat oma seljast eemaldada
6. Filipendulous - Ühe niidi küles rippuma
7. Fuscoferuginous - Tume rooste värv
8. Gambrinous - Õlut täis olema
9. Gargalesis - Tugev kõditus
10. Onychophagy - Küünte närimine

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

An exciting job

I would like to be a bed tester like Roisin Madigan. She get's payed  £1,000 a month just to test different beds. She also get's to consume alcohol untill she is drunk to see how that affects her sleep. After the testing she would have to give feedback on all the different beds. 
I chose this job because it would be unbelievably easy. I would get payed to sleep, there is nothing better than that. I would also like to test different innovative beds that are still in early stages of testing. I would get to try specific types of beds and give my opinion on them. I like to sellep, so I think I could do this job well.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Task #7 - My inspirational quote

"I have been, and ever shall be, your friend. Live long, and prosper." -- Spock

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

India

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In 2009, India's nominal GDP stood at US$1.243 trillion, which makes it the eleventh-largest economy in the world.[135] If PPP is taken into account, India's economy is the fourth largest in the world at US$3.561 trillion,[136] corresponding to a per capita income of US$3,100.[137] The country ranks 139th in nominal GDP per capita and 128th in GDP per capita at PPP.[135] With an average annual GDP growth rate of 5.8% for the past two decades, India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world.[138]
Before 1991, the Indian government followed protectionist and socialist-inspired policies because of which the Indian economy was largely closed to the outside world and suffered from extensive state intervention and regulation.[139] After an acute balance of payments crisis, the nation liberalised its economy and has since moved towards a free-market economy.[140][141] Since then, the emphasis has been to use foreign trade and investment as integral parts of India's economy.[142] Currently, India's economic system is portrayed as a capitalist model with the influx of private enterprise.[141]
India has the world's second largest labour force, with 467 million people.[143] In terms of output, the agricultural sector accounts for 28% of GDP; the service and industrial sectors make up 54% and 18% respectively. Major agricultural products include rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes.[78] Major industries include textiles, telecommunications, chemicals, food processing, steel, transport equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery and software.[78] India's external trade has reached a relatively moderate share of 24% of GDP in 2006, up from 6% in 1985.[140] In 2008, India's share of world trade was about 1.68%;[144] in 2009, it was the world's fifteenth largest importer and eighteenth largest exporter.[145] Major exports include petroleum products, textile goods, gems and jewelry, software, engineering goods, chemicals, and leather manufactures.[78] Major imports include crude oil, machinery, gems, fertiliser, chemicals.[78]
Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car.[146] India's annual car exports have surged fivefold in the past five years.[147]
During the late 2000s, India's economic growth averaged 7.5% a year.[140] Over the past decade, hourly wage rates in India have more than doubled.[148] According to a 2007 McKinsey Global Institute report, since 1985, India's robust economic growth has shifted 431 million Indians out of poverty and by 2030, India's middle class population will rise to more than 580 million people.[149] In 2009, the Global Competitiveness Report ranked India 16th in financial market sophistication, 24th in banking sector, 27th in business sophistication and 30th in innovation; ahead of several advanced economies.[150] Seven of the world's top 15 technology outsourcing companies are based in India and the country is viewed as the second most favourable outsourcing destination after the United States.[151] India's consumer market is currently the world's thirteenth largest and is expected to become the fifth largest by 2030.[149] India has the world's fastest growing telecommunication industry, adding about 10 million subscribers during 2008–09 period.[152] The country has the world's second fastest growing automobile industry, with domestic sales increasing by 26% during the 2009–10 period[153] and exports increasing by 36% during the 2008–09 period.[154]
Despite India's impressive economic growth over recent decades, it still contains the largest concentration of poor people in the world.[155] The percentage of people living below the World Bank's international poverty line of $1.25 a day (PPP, in nominal terms Indian Rupee symbol.svg 21.6 a day in urban areas and Indian Rupee symbol.svg 14.3 in rural areas in 2005) decreased from 60% in 1981 to 42% in 2005.[156] Since 1991, inter-state economic inequality in India has consistently grown; the per capita net state domestic product of India's richest states is about 3.2 times that of the poorest states.[157] Even though India has avoided famines in recent decades, half of children are underweight[158] and about 46% of Indian children under the age of three suffer from malnutrition.[155][159][160]
A 2007 Goldman Sachs report projected that "from 2007 to 2020, India’s GDP per capita will quadruple," and that the Indian GDP will surpass that of the United States before 2050, but India "will remain a low-income country for several decades, with per capita incomes well below its other BRIC peers."[161] Although the Indian economy has grown steadily over the last two decades; its growth has been uneven when comparing different social groups, economic groups, geographic regions, and rural and urban areas.[155] The World Bank suggests that India must continue to focus on public sector reform, infrastructure, agricultural and rural development, removal of labour regulations, improvement in transport, energy security, and health and nutrition.