Speak Hokkien Well

Hokkien - How Well-Informed Are You?

2012-02-09T11:00:00.001+08:00

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12 Ways To Show That You Care
Life Has Its Ups and Downs
Some Words To Describe Our Positive Qualities
Spiritual Words And Expressions
Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit

Speak Hokkien Series 1061

1. Deed Of Bringing Up Someone

Iōng Iǒk Chǐ Oōn

2. Love At First Sight

Ìt Kiěn Chiǒng Chěng

3. Caused A Misunderstanding

Sāi Sěng Gǒh Huěy

4. Someone To Talk To

Kōng Oǎy Ěh Tuì Siǒng

5. Emphasize Personal Reputation And
Dignity

Tiǒng Bǐn Chù Siòh Bǐn Phuéy

6. Take Advantage Of

Chǎy Soǒn Hōng Chún

7. All Sorts Of Trials And Tribulations

Tuǎh Hōng Tuǎh Èng

8. To Be Successful

Chūt Láng Tǎo Tǎy

9. Extremely Well Informed

Siǎo Sǐt Chǐn Lǐn Thōng

10. Time Waits For No One

Sǐ Kān Bǒh Tān Láng

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Parting Power Quotes:

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Alan Greenspan

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Herbert Read

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
Emmylou Harris

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
Samuel Wilson

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
Zoe Saldana

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Martha Gellhorn

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.
Giorgio Moroder

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
Ralph Fiennes

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Ruben Blades

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
Zebulon Pike

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
Paul Harris

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams

Hokkien - Power Words In Fours

2012-01-07T18:44:00.000+08:00

How do you say these in Hokkien....( 4 words each)

1. Life's Matters - jǐn chéng sày sǔ

2. Smoothgoing - chǎy tiǒh soǒn hōng

3. Consider Carefully - khōh lǔ siǒng sǎy

4. Reckless Courage - khāh tī chiòh tàh

5. Under Someone's Control - chiāng ǔp chǐ tiōng

6. Spiritless - oǒ thày bǒh hoón

7. Turn Over A New Leaf - kāi kǒh chǔ sīm

8. Full Of Worries - moā pǎk iǔ chiú

9. Satisfied - sīm moà eě chiǒk

10. Seek Revenge - oǎn oān siǒng pǒh

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Parting Power Quotes:

Niccolo Machiavelli
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Frederick Bailes
Man's power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.

Tao Te Ching
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Seneca
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

Nido Qubein
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.

William Shakespeare
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Hokkien - Can You Take This Challenge?

2011-12-06T16:43:00.001+08:00

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Tony Robbins

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
Colin Powell

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
Sai Baba

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
James A. Baldwin

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

Speak Hokkien Series 1059

Guess and say out the following words in Hokkien if you can and check the video below for the answers.

1. Bewildering - 4 Hokkien words

2. Accept defeat - 4 Hokkien words

3. Seek perfection in all matters - 8 Hokkien words

4. Achieve goals - 4 Hokkien words

5. Can't differentiate - 4 Hokkien words

6. Can't be repaid - 5 Hokkien words

7. Unable to leave behind - 4 Hokkien words

8. Unable to say it - 4 Hokkien words

9. A peaceful life - 5 Hokkien words

10. Persist till the end - 4 Hokkien words

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Hokkien - Words To Describe People's Good Qualities?

2011-11-15T17:54:00.001+08:00

12 Ways To Show That You Care
Life Has Its Ups and Downs
Some Words To Describe Our Positive Qualities
Spiritual Words And Expressions
Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit

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Mahatma Gandhi
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Josh Billings
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Bob Moawad
Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality is everyone's responsibility.
William A. Foster
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
Lou Holtz
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Zig Ziglar
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.
Martin Van Buren
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
George Washington
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
C. W. Barron
Everything can be improved.

Speak Hokkien Series 1058

01. Considerate - thāy tiǎp

02. Conscientious - oǒ liǒng sīm

03. Honest - tiǒng hǒr, lāo sīt

04. Righteous - chèng gǐ

05. Gentlemanly - kǔn chù

06. Reliable - ěh sìn lǐm

07. Generous - khōng khǎi

08. Fairminded - kǒng péng, kǒng chěng

09. Punctual - chūn sí

10. Wise - tì huī

11. Hardworking - kūt lāt

12. Understanding - oǒ thāy liǒng

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Hokkien - 10 Ways To Save Time

2011-11-02T12:38:00.000+08:00

Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit
Another Fascinating Aspect of Hokkien - Single Word With Double Word Rhyme Combo..(1 Plus 2 Rhyme)
Enrich Your Life Speaking Proper Hokkien
Hokkien - Words That We Use Daily
Are You Doubtful? Hokkien Words To Express Lack Of Confidence.

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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. ~James Matthew Barrie

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~The Talmud

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on. ~Zall's Second Law

Time! the corrector when our judgments err. ~Lord Byron

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~Carl Sandburg

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. ~Willaim Penn

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. ~Charles Caleb Colton

The Present is a Point just passed. ~David Russell

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. ~Denis Waitely

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~Tony Hendra, "Deteriorata" (Thanks Tom)

Speak Hokkien Series 1057

01. Set goals - Khēng Těng Bǒk Piāo

02. Do tasks when concentration is good - Chòh Khǎng Khuěy Ài Tàn Oǒ Chěng Sín Ěh Sǐ Chǔn

03. Break big tasks into smaller ones - Chiǒng Tuǎh Hǎng Khǎng Khuěy Pǔn Chòh Sēh Sèh Hǎng

04. Decide a deadline - Kuàt Thěng Chīt Lǎy Kǐ Hǎn

05. Emphasise the important ones - Chù Tiǒng Hīt Lǒh Tiǒng Iǎo Éh

06. Do not procrastinate - Běh Ěng Tī Thuǎh Thuǎh Suǎh Suāh

07. Use waiting time - Lǐ Iǒng Tǎn Tǎi Ěh Sǐ Kān

08. Delegate - Pǔn Chīt Kuāh Lǐm Bǔ Hǒr Pāk Láng

09. Rest sufficiently - Oǒ Kào Sǐ Kān Hiòh Kǔn

10. Say No - Ěh Hiào Kǐ Chuāt

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Hokkien - 11 Serious Health Matters

2011-10-19T09:05:00.003+08:00

12 Ways To Show That You Care
Life Has Its Ups and Downs
Some Words To Describe Our Positive Qualities
Spiritual Words And Expressions
Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit

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Jim Rohn Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson The first wealth is health.

Anthony Robbins The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Henry Maudsley The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

Thomas Jefferson
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Josh Billings
There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.

Denis Waitley
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Henry Ward Beecher To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Richard Baker To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

Speak Hokkien Series 1056

01. rest - hiòh kǔn, hiǔ siěk

02. health treatment - eě tǐ

03. immunity - tī khòng lāt

04. operation - tǎng chiū sūt, khuǐ tōh

05. second opinion - tǎy jǐ lǎy eè kiǎn

06. effective cure - oǒ kǒng hǒw, oo kièn hǒw, oǒ hǒw lūt

07. terminal disease - chuǎt chěng

08. dietary restriction - kim4 chui3

09. radiation - tièn liáo

10. chemotheraphy - huàh liáo

11. discharge - chūt eě

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Hokkien - 11 Health Considerations

2011-09-29T09:49:00.002+08:00

Express Yourself In Hokkien With Proper Vocabulary
Hokkien - What Do These Idioms Mean?
Hokkien - Words That We Use Daily
Enrich Your Life Speaking Proper Hokkien
Are You Doubtful? Hokkien Words To Express Lack Of Confidence.

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Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~James H. West

Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. ~Author Unknown

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene
Supports the mind supports the body too.
~John ArmstrongThe scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~Moliere

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. ~Denis Diderot

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~George William Curtis, Lotus-Eating

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. ~Logain Clendening

Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ~Jackie Mason

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family

Speak Hokkien Series 1055

1. Western medicine - sǎi eē

2. Chinese medicine - tiǒng eē

3. treatment - tǐ liáo

4. hospital - pěh eě, eě sěng kuàn, lōh kǔn chǔ

5. clinic - chǐn sǒr, iěoh páng

6. examination ( health) - kiām giǎm

7. warded - tuàh eě, tuǎh láo

8. medical expenses - eě iěoh huǐ

9. health insurance - kiěn khōng pōh hiàm

10. boil herbs - chuāh iēoh

11. injection - chù siǎh, phàh chiām

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Hokkien - 15 Ways To Be Sure Of Matters

2011-09-10T08:52:00.002+08:00

Hokkien - What Words Can Be Spoken At The Right Time?

Life Has Its Ups and Downs
Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit
Spiritual Words And Expressions
Pealing Our Emotions And Characteristics

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
Winston Churchill

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mohandas Gandhi

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin Franklin

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
John Lennon

The more I see the less I know for sure.
John Lennon

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

Speak Hokkien Series 1054

1. chèng béng - prove

2. chèng khǎk - valid

3. chèng kǔ - proof

4. chèng sǎik - proven

5. chǐn lì - truth

6. hǔp lì - plausible

7. chiǎn chīn bǎn khǎk - beyond doubt

8. oǒ iàh - true

9. khāk sit - really so

10. ěh siǒng sǐn - believable

11. kǒng béng chèng tǎi - publicly

12. ěh sìm lim - can be trusted

13. oǒ khōh khǒh - reliable

14. sǔ sīt - fact

15. bǎy huǎi gí - no reason to be suspicious

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Hokkien - 10 Challenges Of Life

2011-08-17T09:14:00.009+08:00

Indispensible Expressions

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“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” -Ralph W. Sockman

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.'' -Corrie Ten Boom

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." -Unknown

"Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk." -Unknown

"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself." -Liberace

"You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dream." -Oprah Winfrey

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." -Leo Buscaglia

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." -Edward Abbey

"When made frustrated and fretful by small cares, look up at the sky, the stars, and see how insignificant our troubles really are." - Unknown

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that ? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." - Marie Curie

Speak Hokkien Series 1053

1. siǔ jīp bǒh oōn těng - fluctuating income

2. chǐn phāi chòh láng - hard to please everyone

3. phàh khooī sǐm kǎt - resolve difficulties of the heart

4. siǎo tú sàt khǐ - banish a vengeful spirit

5. khǎh pǒr tǎh chāh - a misstep

6. tǎi chǐ chùt phuǎh - matters exposed

7. bǎy hiāo chū lì - not knowing how to handle

8. bǎn pūt těik eè -forced to without a choice

9. lóng puěy ooǐ kān - team up to betray

10. sǐm lǎi oǒ kuì - something evil in the heart

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Hokkien - 12 Hindrances Of Life

2011-07-26T08:05:00.001+08:00

12 Ways To Show That You Care
Life Has Its Ups and Downs
Some Words To Describe Our Positive Qualities
Spiritual Words And Expressions
Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit

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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
Paul Simon

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.
Kim Weston

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
Martin Yan

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
Ernest Hello

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
Jim Carrey

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Henry Ward Beecher

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
Ralph Steadman

Speak Hokkien Series 1052

01. siǒng tuǎh ěh chōr gǎi - biggest hindrance

02. chòh ngǒr ěh suān těik - bad choice

03. bāy nàh oǒ sǐm chéng - not in the mood

04. thàd tiǒh thì pāng - face a repercussion

05. thǎy sīm tiào tàh - worrying and frightful

06. thòng kòr ěh chǔ bǐ -taste of misery

07. bǒh hǒng piǎn chùt bǐn -unable to show oneself

08. tuǎh kiāh siōh kuǎi -unduly suspicious

09. bǒh lī tǐ ěh tǎi chǐ - irrational matters

10. oǒ chǒh kāh nāh bǒh chǒh -work to no effect

11. lǎi mm sǐ chǔn - arrive at the inappropriate time

12. chiǎn sīm bǎn khòr -with much difficulty

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Hokkien – 13 Ways To Beat Stress

2011-07-05T11:20:00.000+08:00

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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~Margaret Fuller

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. ~Lily Tomlin

Give your stress wings and let it fly away. ~Terri Guillemets

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. ~Author Unknown

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.
~William Henry Davies

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. ~John De Paola

Each day should have a clearly marked emergency exit sign. ~Dr. SunWolf

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~J. Lubbock

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. ~Etty Hillesum

Speak Hokkien Series 1051

01. siǔ thōng - see clearly now

02. hǒr siǒng lǎi hǔ chǐ - mutual support

03. siǔ khāh sāy chiù - stop doing somehing bad

04. bǒh siǒng kān – never mind

05. tǒr kàh – take a vacation

06. chěng chèh, khàk chèh - come to one's senses

07. bǎn sǔ pài tǒk - help out in all matters

08. hōh khāh hōh chiù - sound, healthy without defect

09. pěng chěng, ǎnn léng - tranquil, peaceful

10. hiǔ siěk, hiòh khoǒn - take a rest

11. kān tān kuèy jǐt chì - live a simple life

12. kāh lǎng hǒh hòh - at peace with all

13. kiáh chǐt pǒr suì chǐt pǒr - take a step at a time

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Hokkien - 14 Deeds From The Eyes Of The Law

2011-05-31T23:40:00.000+08:00

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A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
John Lothrop Motley

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
Bill Williams

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
Sam Waterston

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb

Speak Hokkien Series 1050

protection money - pōh hǒr hooǐ
clean dealings – lǎi lǒr chèng tōng
abnormal dealings - bǒh chèng sióng ěh kuǎn huěy
carry on wrongdoing - īt chǒh chài chǒh
put on a show - phuǎh chīt chūt hǐ
surrender to law – tǎo ǎun , chǔ siù
beneficial evidence - iū lǐ ěh chèng kǔ
strongest suspicion - siǒng tuǎh ěh hiǎm gí
secret survelliance - ùm tiōng kàm sǐ
bribe - ǒrr sāy
fugitive - tǒh bóng, thǒng chīt huǎn
moral point of view – tǒh gǐ siǒng
approval - thǒng kuěy
commit wrong - huǎn chǒh

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Hokkien – The 12 G's Of Life

2011-05-25T20:08:00.001+08:00

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. ~Abraham Lincoln

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ~Alan Simpson

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ~William Safire

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~Author Unknown

Speak Hokkien Series 1049

1. generous - tǎi hōng , khōng khǎi

2. gentleman – koǒn chù

3. get along - hǒh hòh

4. get permission - kěng kuèy phuěy chùn

5. get to know - kièn sǎik

6. give guarantee - phàh pōh chěng

7. give orders – hǎh běng lěng

8. give up everything - phàng sǎk sōh oǒ

9. go in circle - lǐn lǒng sēh

10. goal achieved - bǒk piāo tǎt séng

11. grateful - kām kiěk

12. greet – phàh chiǒh hōr

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Hokkien - 12 Ways To Feel Good

2011-05-08T11:24:00.002+08:00

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Quotes That Make You Feel Good!

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford

Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

Speak Hokkien Series 1048

1. siǒk chuěy ěh kǐ huěy - chance to undo the wrong

2. bǒh kiòh hoǒn - not keep resentment

3. hiòng chéng khuǎh - look forward

4. kuèy khǐ pàng chuì láo - forget the past

5. tǒr kuèy chīt kiǎp - pass through this trial

6. kām kǎk chǐn ǎnn ooǐ - feel comforted

7. kām kiěk - grateful

8. chǐn liēk - fullest effort

9. chièk lǐm kām - sense of responsibility

10. chǐn tuǎh ěh khǐ tǎi - full of hope

11. chǐn hòh ěh suān těik - very wise choice

12. guǎn bǒng sīt hiěn - dream achieved

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Hokkien - 10 Ways To Move Forward.

2011-04-29T22:34:00.003+08:00

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Khalil Gibran

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Speak Hokkien Series 1047

ABILITY - POŌN SOǑ, PĀH ǍRK, CHĀI TIǍO

ACCEPT THE TRUTH - CHIÀP SIĚW, SOǑ SĪT

ACCOMPLISH - WǍN SÉNG

ACCURATE - CHÈNG KHǍK

ACTION - HĚNG TǑNG

ADVANCE - CHÌN PǑR, CHÌN TĒN

ADVICE - KHǑH KNG

AGREE - CHÀN SÉNG, TÀH ĚNG

ALERT - CHOŌ EĚ, THǍY HÓNG

ANALYSE - HOǑN SIĚK

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Hokkien - 8 Opposite Hokkien Expressions

2011-04-23T22:12:00.017+08:00

Indispensible Expressions

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Life and death are the ‘Two sides of the same coin’. Life is a controversy at various points of time. Sometimes, what you think is not what happens in real life! Isn't this worrisome?

There's more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne

Speak Hokkien Series 1046

Here are some useful Hokkien words and their opposites.
At times, you may like to use it but cannot think of it. Is it not a problem for English educated Hokkiens?

1. Optimistic – lǒk kuān; Pessimistic - pǐ kuān

2. Legal - chèng tōng; Illegal - hweě huǎt

3. Fall - phàh tòh; Rise again - huān sīn

4. Gentle - oǒn liú; Rough - chǒr lòr

5. Bride - sǐn niú, sǐn niao; Bridegroom - sǐn lóng, kiāh sǎi

6. Need - oǒ sǔ iǎo; No need - bǒh hǐ hàn

7. Innocent - siěn lióng; Cunning – khan3 kiao4

8. Familiar - siěk sǎi; Unfamiliar - sěh hoǒn

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Hokkien - 9 Ways To Do One's Best

2011-04-02T12:26:00.004+08:00

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10 Observations Which Make You Think

2011-03-17T12:19:00.003+08:00

12 Ways To Show That You Care
Life Has Its Ups and Downs
Some Words To Describe Our Positive Qualities
Spiritual Words And Expressions
Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit

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Speak Hokkien Series 1044

In life, people make statements even as we do that sets hearers thinking. As to whether people are prejudiced or said in sincerity, we need to to weigh them carefully. At times, such observations may set us thinking, regret and change for the better. Other times, it may even prove to be a point out of our problems. It is likewise the same with others as well.

1. Be reasonable - khah1 chah3 put4 toh1

2. No such thing - boh3 hit1 kuan4 eh3 tai3 chi3

3. Not sincere, not mean it - oo3 chui3 boh3 sim1

4. Advance by withdrawing first - ee1 thay3 ooi3 chin3

5. Unacceptable and disliked - khuah4 bay3 soon3 gan4

6. Not come to senses yet - chi1 bay2 put1 ngoh3

7. Ingratitude - bong1 oon1 puey3 gi3

8. Much endurance - lun1 khi3 thun3 siah1

9. Make people moved emotionally - su4 lang3 kam1 tong3

10. Not help when able - kien4 su3 put3 kiu3

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Hokkien - 8 Commonly Used Hokkien Idioms

2011-03-03T16:46:00.010+08:00

Marvellous Hokkien - Double Rhyme Combo Words (2 Plus 2 Rhyme)
Enrich Your Life Speaking Proper Hokkien
Express Yourself In Hokkien With Proper Vocabulary
Speak Hokkien - What is needed?
Speak Hokkien - Life Has Its Ups and Downs

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Speak Hokkien Series 1043

An idiom is defined as:
A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

Here is another Hokkien installment of idioms.

1. indecisive - sam3 sim1 liong1 ee3

2. impasse - say3 put1 liong3 lip1

3. can differentiate right and wrong - si3 hooi1 eh3 hiao1 hooi1

4. high handed crooked ways - put1 teik3 chiu1 tuah3

5. agreed - it1 gian2 ooi3 teng3

6. consummate a marriage - tong3 pang2 wah3 chiok1 iah3

7. can't go against heaven's will - tian3 ee2 put1 khoh1 ooi2

8. marital future happiness - chiong3 sim1 tai3 su3

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Hokkien - 12 Words To Express Your Spirituality

2011-02-11T22:40:00.006+08:00

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Hokkien - 8 Hokkien Wise Sayings

2011-01-01T12:20:00.006+08:00

Double Rhyme Combo
Fascinating Hokkien
Words That Build Up
Positive Expressions
Indispensible Expressions

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Speak Hokkien Series 1041

1. phah4 kao4 tioh3 khuah4 chu1 lang2 - look at whom you are offending.

2. ban3 leng2 boh2 chit1 si2; ban3 ban3 put1 leng2 - full power takes time but can lose it all.

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3. chap1 eh3 lao3 lang2; kao1 lang2 ai4 kong4 tng3 guan3 chuey1 - old people loves relating the past.

4. hoh4 oo3 hoh1 poh3, og3 oo3 og4 poh4 - what you sow, you reap

5. hi2 huan4 hi2; heh2 huan4 heh2 - two different matters

6. chuah4 pao3 huey4 pao3 buey3 tiao2 -as vain as covering fire with paper

7. chin3 boh3 por3; thay4 boh3 lor3- no way out

8. seh1 put1 tai4 lai2; si4 put1 tai4 ki3 - brought nothing into the world at birth; at death neither can carry anything out.

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Hokkien - How To Speak Hokkien With Rhymes - Section 4

2010-12-25T19:42:00.004+08:00

12 Ways To Show That You Care
Life Has Its Ups and Downs
Some Words To Describe Our Positive Qualities
Spiritual Words And Expressions
Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit

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Speak Hokkien Series 1040

1. boh3 tai3 boh3 chi3 - without reason

2. hoh1 siah1 hoh1 lay4 - speak in a nice way

3. su3 su3 liam3 liam3 - miss someone

4. siu3 khang1 siu3 phang3 - find reasons

5. mng3 tang1 mng3 sai1 - ask all sorts of matters

6. chin3 chin1 chiah4 chiah3 - truly, honestly

7. su3 su2 hui3 hui1 - gossip, slander

8. bay3 chiak1 bay3 khun3 - lose sleep and appetite over a matter

9. siah1 siah1 ku4 ku3 - keep on saying

10. tiong3 cheng2 tiong3 gi3 - treasure relationship and righteousness

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Hokkien - Another 8 Hokkien Idioms( Part Two) That We Can Proudly Use

2010-11-27T13:52:00.004+08:00

Hokkien - What Do These Idioms Mean?

Clearly, we are attracted to Hokkien idioms. Here, I have complied the second set of idioms. Please learn them and use them. You may be an object of admiration if you use it appropriately.

1. lao1 kao2 mah3 eh2 phuah3 tay4 chiu3 kah1 - even the capable can one day make mistakes

2. sar1 niu4 eh3 miah3 bay3 chiah3 pay4 niu4 eh3 bi4 - expect too much

3. phuah4 kin1 pay4 niu4 - incomplete, incapable

4, sin2 put1 thi1, kooi4 put1 kak3 - no one will know

5. sar3 tng2 ng3 tay4 - any untoward happening

6. choh4 kah1 lao3 kuah3, iu3 koh1 lao3 nuah3- work extremely hard without reward

7. si3 kay3 ng3 boh2, phang4 kay3 sai4 chit1 tooi1 - produce nothing good except bad

8. chap1 kiah4 chap1 sim3 pu3, chun3 chit1 lay2 lao3 kuah1 hu3 - refusal to care for the elderly (unfilial)

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10 Ways To Express Yourself Using Rhymes – Section 3

2010-11-22T09:35:00.003+08:00

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Hokkien - What Words Can Be Spoken At The Right Time?

Life Has Its Ups and Downs
Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit
Spiritual Words And Expressions
Pealing Our Emotions And Characteristics

Speak Hokkien Series 1038

The beauty of Hokkien is seen in its rhyming expressions. When we use it, our communication becomes richer, more expressive and more interesting. People will connect with us better. They will find us more nicer to talk to. Our vocabulary becomes richer. We become someone more desirable for them to have around.

1. phit1 phit1 phok1 phok1 – sound of excited heartbeat

2. put1 tiong1 put1 hao3 – disloyal and unfilial

3. kong1 tang1 kong1 sai1 – undesirable speech

4. boh1 ee1 boh1 oah4 – no one to depend

5. it1 seng1 it1 ee3 - long-held desire

6. kooi1 tao2 kooi1 nao4 – crooked and cunning

7. tang1 ni2 tang jit1 – same day and year

8. oon3 oon3 soon3 soon2 – mild tempered

9. oo3 tao2 oo3 bin3 – high status in society

10. tuah3 tuah3 say4 say3 - big and small

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10 Difficulties In Life

2010-11-20T10:35:00.004+08:00

Life have many challenges and difficulties. The following are some expressions we can use in expressing those difficulties.in Hokkien. May this lesson, again, serve to activate your mother tongue. Also, welcome those who are learning this as an additional language.

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12 Ways To Show That You Care
Life Has Its Ups and Downs
Some Words To Describe Our Positive Qualities
Spiritual Words And Expressions
Hokkien - Words That Build Up Your Spirit

Speak Hokkien Series 1037

1. siong3 nao1 kin1 – difficult to decide

2. bay3 siu3 suah3 – cannot be settled

3. chiak1 khooi1– at a disadvantage

4. chiong1 moa4 oan4 hoon3 – full of resentment

5. ki1 gi2 sim1 – starting to be suspicious

6. chin1 chiah4 goh3 huey3 – real misunderstanding

7. boh2 tao3 sin2 – forgetful

8. mm3 si3 phan3 huat3 – not the solution

9. sit1 ki4 chu3 keh3 – disqualify

10. jin1 hai4 bong3 bong2 – hard to trace

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