WGS84

Genuflect: Kneeling on a pew in worship.

Cicadian rhythm: Your body's natural 24 hour clock. Your wake-sleep cycle.

Proletariat: The workers of society/the working class.

Solipsism: Believing that only your mind or your views exist or are valid

"It's equal rights. I have the right to see fine in every colour" - (Mary Jackson, Hidden Figures).

"If you don't like how a sausage is made, eat it with your eyes closed" (John Shaft II).

"I'm an equal opportunities ass whooper" (John Shaft II).

"Apologising does not always mean you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego" 

- (Mike Matthews)

• "And so he told me his secret formula for happiness. Part one of the two-part plan was that I should just get on with ordinary life, living it day by day, like anyone else.

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• But then came part two of Dad's plan. He told me to live every day again almost exactly the same. The first time with all the tensions and worries that stop us noticing how sweet the world can be, but the second time noticing

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• And in the end I think I've learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I've even gone one step further than my father did. The truth is I now don't travel back at all, not even for the day. I just try to live every day as if I've deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life."

- (Tim Lake, About Time)

Corinthians 13:7 

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home? (Paul Newman)

The world is perfect. Appreciate the details. (Dean, The Dead Don't Die)

Contentment is the greatest wealth above all.

A monks true duty is to become a beacon of hope for others especially those who have made mistakes and have nowhere to turn.

The only thing that does not change in this world is change itself.

- (Monk Anek, Episode 'Buddha Data' from Tomorrow + I)

It wasn't a judgement. It was a comment of sincere praise.

(Yo-han, The Fiery Priest, S1:E5)

If the celestial bodies are the great universe, the world humans live in is the small universe. Each human is a star and I'm studying the stars everyday, one by one, while scanning barcodes.

(Yo-han, The Fiery Priest, S1:E7)

The bigger the star, the sooner it burns out. You're going to burn strong and long, just like a small star.

(Yo-han, The Fiery Priest, S1:E8)

A tiger that protects the King.

(Song-sak, The Fiery Priest, S1:E13)

With age, people should gain dignity, not visceral fat.

(Kim Hae-il/Father Michael, S1:E14)

You should think carefully, since you only have one canvas (when Prosecutor Park wondered if she should get a tattoo).

(Kim Hae-il/Father Michael, S1:E14)

I was just feeling the gravity.

(Yo-han, The Fiery Priest, S1:E20)

Kindness should never be against the rules.

(Father Brown, S12:E7)

My nerves are turned on. 

I hear them like musical instruments. 

Where there was silence the drums, the strings are incurably playing. 

You did this.
Pure genius at work. 

Darling, the composer has stepped into fire.

(Anne Sexton)

Watch out for love
(unless it is true,
and every part of you says yes including the toes)

(Anne Sexton)

Have nothing in your room that you do not believe to be beautiful or know to be useful.

(William Morris)

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Words/Phrases of the Day

A list of words uttered by my favourite people:

~ Cantankerous

~ Obstreperous

~ Verisimilitude

~ Opprobrious

~ Nugatory

~ Hewing the wood and drawing the water.

~ Herding cats

Word Bank

Ambergris - A grease-like product of the sperm whale’s digestive tract that is used as a base in the finest perfumes.


Amuse Bouche - A small bite-sized hors d’oeuvre offered free of charge and served to excite the taste buds.

Apparatus - A systematic organisation of activities, functions and processes that are directed towards a specific goal.

Baku - The capital of Azerbaijan.


Bliss - A state of profound satisfaction, happiness and joy - a constant state of mind, undisturbed by gain or loss.

Deferential - Polite, respectful.


Flagship - In retail terms, this refers to the largest or most well known store - the store that sells the highest volume of merchandise.


Ham-fisted - Clumsy or lacking dexterity.


Hegemony - Political, economical, ideological or cultural power exerted by a dominant group over other groups.

Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet - Nonsense phrase used as filler text in Microsoft Word online Help.


Matriculate - To enroll as a member of a body, such as a college or university.

Myriad - Classical Greek word for the number 10,000.

Nincompoop - Someone not of sound mind.

Pythagoras' theorem - In any right-angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the opposite to sides - (a² + b² = c²).

Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus (Platypus) - An Australian mammal with a tail just like a beaver; fur just like a bear; feet just like an otter; gives milk like any cow and lays eggs like any bird.

Rosin - A substance made with pine sap used by violinists on their bow hair so it can grip the strings and make them speak.


Rotund - Round in body shape: portly, plump or podgy.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - An English word that was used in the musical film Mary Poppins. According to the film, it is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say".

* Definitions have been derived from dictionaries and the internet *