Hypnotic

"Energetic Independence....Once you reach it, miracles start to happen and you wake up from your hypnotic sleep" a friend of mine said.

But what is hypnotic?!

I tried all the dictionaries I know to understand this word, non did give me an understandable explanation, the only way made it understandable to me is searching for it on google image :?. Yes, it's one of the ways I use to understand many words!

Actually, google image search is very much a dictionary to me. I don't like a literal translation, though you'd say it's more easier and quicker. But if you really want to learn English or any other language other than your mother-tong, you should learn that language like a baby does.

When we were "babies", we didn't learn our mother tong language by translating it to other language, because we didn't know another at that time, so how did we learned it? Have you asked yourself this question before?

Names and words can be learned from pictures, actions, and feelings... Grammers are learned by practice. Later on, you learned more words that defines special cases, or concepts.

This is the way anyone should learn a new language. Start simple, like a baby, learn from pictures, name your feelings, or actions, later on, when you get to tough words, like "Hypnotic" here, you may use an English to English dictionary. If still can't get it, just use google image.

Vinegar

I have always seen this word on the potato chips bags, but I have used to see it written in a the language I know. This was the first time I see it in English "Vinegar & Salt".

It meant the flavor of this chips is of Vinegar & Salt.

Salt is an easy word, everybody learning English knows what salt is, but not everyone knows vinegar, or least me. Which is, by the way, "A sour-tasting liquid containing acetic acid" as the dictionary of Google translated.

By the way, sour is a new word to me. I must write about it next to remember it.

Dream

Usually, dream is defined as the series of images and emotions you live while asleep ... well, actually it's not. In a matter of fact its not definable, it's better be set in an example like this.

Today, I lie down and thought a little bit. Why life is so hard; I like to study, so why I can't just keep studding forever, no need to work, just study and get few amount of money, just for living a good life, like having a single ferrari "car", and just one a little bit big house .. everywhere I like in the world. I don't think that's too much, it's just a tiny "dream" !!!

Anagram

I used to use very useful and easy to use software, which is “Babylon”. It’s a translating tool that employs a great amount of dictionaries (or glossaries as it prefer to call them) to provide users with multiple meaning resources or choices. The dictionaries are so many, you can download as many as you want to use on your computer, or you can subscribe to them to find words meanings while you’re on-line.

One time, I was browsing those dictionaries on the Babylon website when I stumbled with a glossary called “Anagram”; which muddle up my eyebrows! I downloaded it to see what it does! When it was installed and ready to use, I clicked the word “download” to see what will this glossary give me, but I was surprised of the result; it was a single word, which is “woodland”, isn’t it funny!

I tried it on a couple of other word like: “abroad” was converted into “aboard”, “note” to “tone”, “dormitory” to “dirty room”, and a phrase like “television set” was converted into “see? It’s violent!” In a matter of fact, it was a fun glossary, it anagrammatize the word if possible. It doesn’t anagrammatize the word, for real! It looks for it if it has an anagram or not.

Equilibrium

Few days ago, I watched the movie “Equilibrium”. It was a nice kung fu movie, and has new methods of fighting techniques.

The movie, in general, is about the future, where a third world war occurred. Humans, who survived, realized that mankind can never survive a forth. They discovered that the human’s emotions are a disease that symptoms are anger, rage, and war. Therefore, they found a cure to get rid of this disease, a cure that kills emotions. So, equilibrium among humans is the result of unemotional treatments. A life without the desire is an equilibrial life.

The movie doesn't end here of course; the men (and women) who are living in the underworld kept fighting for their freedom, for their natural instinct, and for the life of their emotions.

The movie’s concept is absolutely fictitious and a bit tough to understand like The Matrix, some people might not like it for this.

Boring

I’ve used to write late at night before I go to bed. The last night I didn’t write anything, I’m writing now at the early morning; I’ve just got up leaving the bed. I’m not going anywhere this morning, so I have enough time to write. But there’s a problem!

Didn’t you feel boring from the previous few lines?! I know I repeated some meanings uselessly, but I don’t know what to write. Actually, I can’t write now. I feel my brain is empty! Usually, I put all the words I want to talk about in a file, and then when I want to write, I pick one and start writing immediately. Now, I read all the words; and they are quite many, but can’t write any story. None of them inspired me nor remind me of there own story, although I wrote for some of them a reminder snippet.

I feel my self is boring now, and I’m sorry if I made feel boring, but I hope you’ll never forget the meaning of the word boring. And, comeback again, I promise I’ll not make you feel boring next time.

Cheaper

I still remember a conversation between me and my cousin from more than three years ago. She was telling me that someone is a cheaper “laughingly”, then she asked me “Did you know what the meaning of cheaper is?”, “Yeah, of course!” I answered rabidly. In a matter of fact, I didn’t! But, at the same time, (if she’d read this!) I really understood her. It was the first time to hear this word, but it was easy to guess.

Days after this conversation, cheaper jumped to my mind, telling myself “Does it really mean what I guessed? I have to check for it in the dictionary”. But from that time to date, whenever a new dictionary, land in my hands, I look for this word just to figure, at last, that this word doesn’t exist in a dictionary, so don’t try to look for it. But if you still don’t get it, it means a stingy person.

And, by the way, my cousin is a native English speaker.