wedNURSEday's childe

On Googling, I extracted that 'This old nursery rhyme "Day's of the Week" is said to have been written to help children learn the days of the week.'


One mGf@primroses.blogspot.com says she has an Almanac which can help identify one's Day of the Week you were born. Lucky her, she jest celebrated her Friday's Childe birthdae -- full of gifting on the wings of love.

And, meself? I hope I was knot born on a Wednesday...here's the long Y to come in gOod dime! Send thee the bill later for this short, but significant, English lesson, especially if you asspire to be a broadcast journo.Like Connie Chung. If you never heard of her, nah mind, it's just you're not into the 4th Estate. And if you think that's some sort of real estate in Subang Jaya or Langkawi or Penang, you're jest knot Journalism material!
(This is a variation of an olde post, but some nursery rhymes are worth re-reciting, Yes?)



Monday's Child is fair of face

Tuesday Child is full of grace

Wednesday's Child is full of woe

Thursday's Child has far to go

Friday's Child is loving and giving

Saturday's Child works hard for a living

But Sunday's Child is fair and wise

and good and gay

~~ author unknown

DESI: This Post is necessary to underscore the point that unconsciously, children have been educated into poetry APpreciation from their kindie days, yes, singing along with Teacher, the NURSEry Rhymes.

I don't know why the majority can't graduate to appreciating Poems in adult days -- maybe they aloud the cares and wear and tear of earning Bread&Butter to sap away childhood ways of innocence and enjoyment of life, come what May, or September.

We grow old, we sledom grow up. A familiar line I borrow from another mGf@ yancorner.blogspot.com. She has moved on to wordpress, but Desi's loyalty/royalty is still at BC.

Now to foolly answer the Quiz ChallengiA which elicited severeal responses after Desi applied Da Stick following a one-carat gift unsolicited from a wanderer that only attracted "elegant Silence"? Trying to collect more asses to join Poet-aspirant bandwagon now proudly have on board (bread too) joespsc, dreAmerI -- WoW, even a Maverick -- not Sharir or Zaid-lah, though could be their crony! -- has stealthily climbed the horse like a Marlboro Man:)

Okay, Answers to Da Posers, T'anks for bearing with me, finally!
He ain't heavy, he's a writHer!~~



Poser1 to ER: Tell Desi what's the "ellor"?
Answer1: "Penang CM says FDI up 400% to RM4bil in 2005 ..." -- From RM1bil to RM4bil is 300% increase,Dr Koh. Dr Watson says it's "elementary" Arithmetic, not even Maths!

AS Joepsc says:"Desi:

Many thanks for your wandering verse. I too am wondering if that image on page will materialise to match your discerning mind.

The DR is confused by 'increased to' and 'increased by'. The sum is increased to 400%, but it is increased by 300%.

The yellow people cannot manage 'L' with their tongue, so 'clock' is 'cock' or possibly 'crock'.

By Joepsc, at 10:46 AM "

PS1:So do you agree with DESI that Some reporter, a sub-editor, a news editor, and the CM's press secretary were sleepig on the job?

Poser2: What do Koreans, Japanese and Chinoserie have in common in their tongues?

Jest one extract of a CONverse~~

MS: You have experts to repair my clock then?

KCL: Yes, we have many certified cock experts. We have some 100 over such cocks to be serviced in our shop."


Klue: Remember Dr Mahathir relating how the Japanese stewardess extending a warm welcome to the air passngers, then wishing them: I hope you enjoy a conmfortable fright?

Desi: I like FAshionistA's response~~


"OKla....i give face to desi and do the quiz. :>

Q1, its 3 fold increase therefore should be 300%

Q2: they can't get the L and R r(l)ight???

Q3: easy this one, desi visit the pretty nurse every weds!! must be the highblood pLeasure...hehe

Q4; dunno...

By Fashionasia, at 10:58 AM "

Poser3:
Why do you think Desi often spells the third day of the week thus: wedNURSEday?

and Poser4 (taken together with Poser3 as they belong to each other:)


Have you noticed two Community Messages over Light and Easy the past month or so that have this word in common: MEDICINE?
Q4:What's Da Jarring Note?

DEsi: And here's Helen of Troy's 75%-plus correct answers~~

"Q1 : If FDI was 1 billion in 2004, 100% increase would equal 2 billion rite? 200% = 3 billion, 300% = 4 billion and 400% = 5 billion?

Q2 - What do Koreans, Chinese and Japs have in common with their tongue? Errrr, I'm tempted to say many amazing feats K/C/J can do with their tongues but I know you don't want that on your blog hor? :-) (but knowing me, I'm sure Desi knows what my filthy mind is thinking...)

Q3 - WednuRseday? Mr Desi is fond of the purring cat. Think Cheshire Cat...

Q4 - I'm lost in wonderland... I need my medDEEcine. lol

I like your 'wandering' very much. Don't wander too much, OK? I know for a fact we WILL meet one of these days. That's for sure! :-)

By Helen, at 5:48 PM "



CONCLUSION:

Many of so-called pratitioners of the Fourth Estate, especially in broadcast journalism, need to realise that when it comes to the audio-visual medium, a key ingredient for success -- and not make a fool of oneself -- is to do some research on PRONUNCIATION before one oes on air.

"Wednesday's child is a child of woe"

So Desi's case is that we all need lots of NURSING on this third day of the week, more so for those who are born on a wedNURSEday!
But if you're reading news of national TV or a pre3senter of community message on national Radio, please remember the "e" in "nes" in Wednes-day is Elegantly Silent.Yes, consider the NURSE being off-duty, cry baby!

Likewise, the "d" in "di"(ERRATA: the "I", not the "d"!) in "medi" cine is also Elegantly Silent. Now I wonder if Pak Lah is still in Madison Square, shopping? Or is the PM 'walking the talk'?

PS2: I'd like to make TV and Radio presenters sing Julie Andrew's "A spoonful of sugar makes the 'medsin' go down..." Remember that cute ditty?


PS3&4: Do you know how to pronounce "annihiliation" of the world when WW4 descends of poor buggers like us? The conquerors say if you got IT correct, they will let thee live. Othervice, it's the nuclear bomb, and Da "b" -- which one, you ask Desi? Who do I arse? -- is also Elegantly Silent when it falls, okay? And that's a rhetorical Q.

Final P''S: If you have to ask what the meaning of r........is, please get the hella outa of hell! And I remind forgetable ER:
The path to hell is paved with good attention...
(With Apologies to some Johnson!)