Showing posts with label seahorse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seahorse. Show all posts

01 September 2013

PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS

Following the success of the 2010 movie "Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief" where Uma Thurman played the unforgettable Medusa, the sequel was finally released 3 years later with the same cast starring Logan Lerman, Douglas Smith, Jake Abel, Alexandra Daddario and so on.

This time round, Percy and his team had to find the golden fleece in order to restore the life of the magical tree that created the shield that protected the camp of half-bloods from any outside invasion and to save Mount Olympus from being destroyed by Luke. Here Percy was united with his half-brother, who was actually a cyclops.

Along the way, they took a ride on a magical creature Hippocampus, which is the scientific genus of the seahorse.

Overall, I wasn't quite thrilled by this movie although there were some bit parts that I liked.



14 March 2012

ENGLISH LANGUAGE - CAR PARK OR CARPARK

Today's weather - sunny






I think I should start with this post, otherwise I will spend time posting photos and this will be relegated to the back of my mind and never see the light of day.


I shall start with the easy one first. I am certain everyone knows what a car park is, so I shall not spend time explaining it other than saying it is a place or area where vehicles are parked. So is a carpark the same as a car park? Or is there really such a word as a carpark?


car + park = carpark?


I failed to find the word "carpark" in a dictionary with the same meaning. How or where does it originate? Frankly, I have often seen it being used locally in newspapers, magazines, brochures and so on. So I think it is one of those words that is unknowingly created locally and used so blatantly that it sort of became accepted here. It looks so natural together but I am inclined to think there is no such word at all. I mean, we can't put two words together to form a new word, can you? 


There are similar words e.g. artwork, waterfront, seahorse, glasshouse, walkway, like these and how many of them are really acceptable?