I’ve been working hard all week -aaaggh…nothing a warm bath can ease. Can’t help but listen to Atomic Kitten’s Whole Again, turn the bass to maximum, sing out loud and shake all my tired muscles. I’ve got two British friends who are a couple of forty-year olds and they were giving me this free slang and swearing lesson during work. ooh God, didn’t we almost tore our bellies from laughing too much last night while I swear out on all ‘fucking willies’ (what I now jokingly call all our male co-workers)… the entire room was shaking of swearing and laughter. whew! I’ve got a few days off and tomorrow were going to Swansea to do some shopping. We’ve been there last week to watch Nanny Mcphee.  It’s quite entertaining especially with Colin Firth around! I’ve got to go get myself some sleep.

Okay, yet again, some words I have heard or read that got me drooling over the dictionary in this frosty English (or shall I say Welsh?!) weather:

• loo- not so pleasant a word to begin with, but the shortest one, so what the heck. most of you would have guessed, you know, it;s where you pee and drop the bomb? anyway, it’s their more informal word for toilet.
• knickers - they say something like "hey, i can see her knickers peeping out of her skirt". you have a clue? fine. it’s the girls’ undergarment ok.
• shillelagh - this one is from a name of a karaoke bar in Butlin’s (The Singing Shillelagh). I looked it up in my oxford and it’s as hard to pronounce as it is to spell ( something like sh-e-lei-la, li ). as it turns out it only means a stick of oak used as a weapon and it is Irish.
• pins - you know, like when they say  "kate moss has those willowy pins". it means legs.
• skivvy - a low ranking female domestic servant, in other words ‘katulong’.
• snogging - like harry potter snogging ginny weasley?! yes, kissing!
• sloping about - "what are you doing sloping about in town?" hinangin ba sa labas ang damit mo? joke! it means to dress in untidy or casual manner.
• shirty - " shirty today, eh? ". it means being ill-tempered or annoyed
• creche - ( the first e has that slanted line on top of it? what the hell do they call that? and how the hell are you gonna type that here?)that is their term for nursery where mums leave their babies when they go to work or they went clubbing.
• windscreen - you know, that windshield in your car?
• bollocks - this one they always use instead of nonsense. they say, "that’s bollocks!". but, mind you in vulgar slang it’s those, you know, balls of the male anatomy (sige na nga testicles, there I said it!fine.)
• stone - that’s their measurment for weight like I weigh 7 stones. yeah like how heavy is that? 1 stone is equivalent to 14 lbs. or 6.35kg.

until next time…