“
Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.
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Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)
“
Wah, orang itu kalau sudah fanatik agama kejamnya bukan main. Kejam atas nama Tuhan, kan kontradiksi yang aneh sekali, tetapi begitulah manusia.
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Y.B. Mangunwijaya (Burung-Burung Rantau)
“
I firmly believe if you want to be a guitar player, you better start on acoustic and then graduate to electric. Don’t think you’re going to be Townshend or Hendrix just because you can go wee wee wah wah, and all the electronic tricks of the trade. First you’ve got to know that fucker. And you go to bed with it. If there’s no babe around, you sleep with it. She’s just the right shape.
”
”
Keith Richards (Life)
“
Filsafat yang mampu mengubah sesearang
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
“
You want me, don’t you?” he asked, and I nodded. “Say it. Out loud.”
Did he just quote Twilight? No matter.
“Ah wah oo.” I managed. Not as sexy when you’re sucking someone’s thumb. But that’s okay. This was happening.
”
”
Alice Clayton (Screwdrivered (Cocktail, #3))
“
Wah ini mudah. "Pasti Mbak tau kok," ujarku yakin. "Laki-laki, namanya Ardian, tadi dia ke sini pakai celana jeans dan kemeja hitam."
Melihat si Mbak Linda mengerutkan kening, aku kemudian menambahkan. "Dia ganteng mbak. Seberapa banyak nasabah mbak yang ganteng hari ini?
”
”
Nina Ardianti (Fly to the Sky)
“
Hear ye Hear ye.... ah, fuck it. We're here today for bullshit and we all know it. So let's dispense with the usual formality and get on with this witch hunt before I lose what little grip I still have on my patience. So, Dare Kattalakis state your case and demands to the council. And do it fast, with as few words as possible." Savitar
"First, I want to restate what a travesty it is that my family's seat is taken by--"
"Wah, wah, wah ... quit crying at the tit. Your brother Vane is the head of the Arcadians and Fury leads the Katagaria. Seek a therapist who gives a shit, or if you'd like to challenge either of them for their position, we can do with some entertainment. Hell, I'll make popcorn for the show. Otherwise, Bitch, get on with it." Savitar
”
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dragonbane (Dark-Hunter, #24; Lords of Avalon, #4; Were-Hunter, #8; Hellchaser, #7))
“
While in Aspen, I was on a panel one evening with Andre Dubus III, who spoke of what happens when a memoir devolves into self-pity: “Wah, wah, wah. Should we call the wambulance?
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Dani Shapiro (Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage)
“
The music was intended to replicate or even enhance the mind-altering experiences of the psychedelic drugs. They were using electric guitars, wah-wah pedals, loop music to create ostinato patterns, electric organs, synthesizers (nobody even had any idea what that was at the time, but it was cool to throw it into a conversation), electro-mechanical polyphonic tape replay keyboards, fuzz box effects, backward tapes, you name it. Anything went
”
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Karl Wiggins (Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe)
“
How lucky, I thought, were people who had known from earliest childhood what they wanted to do. All the children in my grammar school, who said they wanted to be doctors, had grown up to become doctors. This was also the case apparently with firemen, veterinarians, songwriters, and race car drivers.
I had opted for a kind of pure experience, which, as Doo-Wah had pointed out, is not usually something you get paid for. I did not want to write a book about it. I did not want to write so much as an article. I wanted to be left alone with my experience and go on to the next thing, whatever that was.
”
”
Laurie Colwin (Goodbye Without Leaving)
“
He loathed Jimmy Carter, whom he called a “big-toothed cretin.” In 1980, when we were still in Kabul, the U.S. announced it would be boycotting the Olympic Games in Moscow. “Wah wah!” Baba exclaimed with disgust. “Brezhnev is massacring Afghans and all that peanut eater can say is I won’t come swim in your pool.
”
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Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
“
I never went back to my room. I took the Fung Wah bus from South Station.
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Lev Grossman (The Magicians (The Magicians, #1))
“
Wah, seandainya dia keliru, dia telah dihukum berat atas kekeliruannya itu.
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Multatuli (Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company)
“
Target adalah cerminan antara realitas dan harapan, tidak terlalu "wah" juga tidak terlalu "yah".
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Achmad Aditya Avery
“
Too bad Mahler never saw a Morley wah-wah pedal, he thought, or he would have scored it into one of his longer works.
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Philip K. Dick (The Divine Invasion)
“
La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait bien de descendre dans les Caraïbes pour continuer sur le thème du reggae. Ils organisèrent un voyage en Jamaïque, où ils jugeaient qu'on pourrait fouiner un peu et puiser dans l'influence roots avant d'enregistrer. Tom croyait fermement au bienfait d'exploiter cette source, et je n'avais rien contre puisque ça voulait dire que Pattie et moi aurions une sorte de lune de miel. Kingston était une ville où il était fantastique de travailler. On entendant de la musique partout où on allait. Tout le monde chantait tout le temps, même les femmes de ménage à l'hotel. Ce rythme me rentrait vraiment dans le sang, mais enregistrer avec les Jamaïcains était une autre paire de manches.
Je ne pouvais vraiment pas tenir le rythme de leur consommation de ganja, qui était énorme. Si j'avais essayé de fumer autant ou aussi souvent, je serais tombé dans les pommes ou j'aurais eu des hallucinations. On travaillait aux Dynamic Sound Studios à Kingston. Des gens y entraient et sortaient sans arrêt, tirant sur d'énormes joints en forme de trompette, au point qu'il y avait tant de fumée dans la salle que je ne voyais pas qui était là ou pas. On composait deux chansons avec Peter Tosh qui, affalé sur une chaise, avait l'air inconscient la plupart du temps. Puis, soudain, il se levait et interprétait brillamment son rythme reggae à la pédale wah-wah, le temps d'une piste, puis retombait dans sa transe à la seconde où on s'arrêtait.
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Eric Clapton (The Autobiography)
“
Ru ... ra ... wah ... who?" He finally managed to say and lapsed into a frantic kind of silence. He was feeling the effects of having not said anything to anybody for as long as he could remember.
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Douglas Adams (Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3))
“
She started to sound like Charlie Brown's mother to him. Just a nasal wah-wah-wah. He loved her, he really did, but he imagined Charlie Brown loved his mother, too. It didn't make her any more comprehensible.
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Nora Roberts (Blue Smoke)
“
The message was wrong, I knew that now, but maybe the tactics were right. Perhaps we could use the methods of the Islamist groups to create a counter-Islamist movement, to do da’wah for the democratic culture?
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Maajid Nawaz (Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism)
“
The tribbles were really made by a fellow named Wah Chang—he did much of STAR TREK’s special effects work, but he’s also well known for his work in films like Jack the Giant Killer, The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, and other fantasies requiring unusual effects or animation.
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David Gerrold (The Trouble with Tribbles: The Story Behind Star Trek's Most Popular Episode)
“
Little Girl Blue"
Sit there, hmm, count your fingers.
What else, what else is there to do ?
Oh and I know how you feel,
I know you feel that you're through.
Oh wah wah ah sit there, hmm, count,
Ah, count your little fingers,
My unhappy oh little girl, little girl blue, yeah.
Oh sit there, oh count those raindrops
Oh, feel 'em falling down, oh honey all around you.
Honey don't you know it's time,
I feel it's time,
Somebody told you 'cause you got to know
That all you ever gonna have to count on
Or gonna wanna lean on
It's gonna feel just like those raindrops do
When they're falling down, honey, all around you.
Oh, I know you're unhappy.
Oh sit there, ah go on, go on
And count your fingers.
I don't know what else, what else
Honey have you got to do.
And I know how you feel,
And I know you ain't got no reason to go on
And I know you feel that you must be through.
Oh honey, go on and sit right back down,
I want you to count, oh count your fingers,
Ah my unhappy, my unlucky
And my little, oh, girl blue.
I know you're unhappy,
Ooh ah, honey I know,
Baby I know just how you feel.
”
”
Janis Joplin
“
Wah’Kon-Tah, the mysterious life force that pervades the sun and the moon and the earth and the stars; the force around which the Osage had structured their lives for centuries, hoping to bring some order out of the chaos and confusion on earth; the force that was there but not there—invisible, remote, giving, awesome, unanswering.
”
”
David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI)
“
FOOD
Adobo (uh-doh-boh)---Considered the Philippines's national dish, it's any food cooked with soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and black peppercorns (though there are many regional and personal variations)
Almondigas (ahl-mohn-dee-gahs)---Filipino soup with meatballs and thin rice noodles
Baon (bah-ohn)---Food, snacks and other provisions brought on to work, school, or on a trip; food brought from home; money or allowance brought to school or work; lunch money (definition from Tagalog.com)
Embutido (ehm-puh-tee-doh)---Filipino meatloaf
Ginataang (gih-nih-tahng)---Any dish cooked with coconut milk, sweet or savory
Kakanin (kah-kah-nin)---Sweet sticky cakes made from glutinous rice or root crops like cassava (There's a huge variety, many of them regional)
Kesong puti (keh-sohng poo-tih)---A kind of salty cheese
Lengua de gato (lehng-gwah deh gah-toh)---Filipino butter cookies
Lumpia (loom-pyah)---Filipino spring rolls (many variations)
Lumpiang sariwa (loom-pyahng sah-ree-wah)---Fresh Filipino spring rolls (not fried)
Mamón (mah-MOHN)---Filipino sponge/chiffon cake
Matamis na bao (mah-tah-mees nah bah-oh)---Coconut jam
Meryenda (mehr-yehn-dah)---Snack/snack time
Pandesal (pahn deh sahl)---Lightly sweetened Filipino rolls topped with breadcrumbs (also written pan de sal)
Patis (pah-tees)---Fish sauce
Salabat (sah-lah-baht)---Filipino ginger tea
Suman (soo-mahn)---Glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, wrapped in banana leaves, and steamed (though there are regional variations)
Ube (oo-beh)---Purple yam
”
”
Mia P. Manansala (Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1))
“
I am writing this on a computer that I can’t imagine living without. This is an alarming thought, the extent to which I have organised my life around a metal box full of wires (and, via the Internet, to many other metal boxes full of wires). Someone told me most of the Internet is stored in a warehouse somewhere in North Carolina. I don’t know enough about technology to gauge if this is true, but it made me realise how little I actually understand about the world I inhabit. The world of Dr Wong’s childhood was significantly smaller than mine, but he understood every square inch of it.
”
”
Jeremy Tiang (Durians Are Not the Only Fruit)
“
I love you two.” She put her arms around her girls. “You are so sweet to have come over.” “Are you kidding?” Lucy said. “After you told us what happened with that dick-doo-wah, I snagged a couple of shovels from the store in case we needed to help you bury a body.” And that brought tears to her eyes. Maybe she was kinda drunk. But still, only a true friend would help you dispose of a body. “You’re the best.
”
”
Avery Flynn (Butterface (The Hartigans, #1))
“
Tidak ada sesuatu yang lebih membosankan daripada suara kemakmuran. Desing membosankan suara penyejuk udara atau suara klik yang teredam dari sebuah keyboard tidak bisa mengalahkan suara teriakan para penjaja di pasar terbuka atau suara deru mesin jahit di pabrik. Bahkan lalu lintas negara Dunia Ketiga, dengan simfoni klakson dan lonceng yang berdentang, mengalahkan suara wah yang monoton di sebuah jalan bebas hambatan modern.
”
”
Eric Weiner
“
That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.
”
”
Stephen Return Riggs (Tah Koo Wah Kan; Or, the Gospel Among the Dakotas)
“
And whenever I complained about it, privately or publicly, people just rolled their eyes. They said I was whingeing, said I only pretended to want privacy, said Meg was pretending as well. Oh, she’s getting chased, is she? Wah-wah, give us a break! She’ll be fine, she’s an actress, she’s used to paps, in fact, wants them. But no one wanted this. No one could ever get used to it. All those eye-rollers couldn’t take ten minutes of it.
”
”
Prince Harry (Spare)
“
aware (Japanese)
The feelings engendered by ephemeral beauty. [noun]
Something of the sweetness and brevity of life is conveyed wordlessly in the fall of a petal. This inspires a kind of aware-ness known as aware (ah-WAH-ray), brought on by that ephemeral, fragile beauty of, say, a cherry blossom as it floats to the ground. Would cherry blossoms be as poignantly beautiful if they bloomed all year round, or if they were as tough as walnuts? Would our worldview be enriched if our notion of beautiful objects expanded to include things that remind us of our mortality?
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Howard Rheingold (They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases)
“
Now, isn’t that neat.” Midwestern sarcasm, when it’s done correctly, can be a thing of rare beauty. It’s like performance art. Everywhere else in the world, you can identify sarcasm if you’re paying attention. Even if the hostility isn’t overt, you can read the signs. There’ll be slightly elongated syllables or a pitch that’s just a little off. It’s like a trombone player with a plunger head. There’s that slight “wah-wah” tone-bending to let you know not to take this too seriously. Midwestern sarcasm plays it straight and makes you listen more closely. You have to treat every conversation like a safecracker. Unless your ears have been trained to recognize it, you’ll miss the hint of a minor key. Sometimes you don’t realize what’s happened until hours later, when it’s 3:00 a.m. and you’re half-asleep, and it suddenly hits you. “Aw, crap, they didn’t mean any of that, did they?” Midwestern sarcasm becomes even more deadly when it’s combined with small-town isolationism. These women had been cheerleaders at our high school, they weren’t indie rock aficionados, and Wilco isn’t exactly a household name. So on the one hand, it wasn’t surprising that they hadn’t followed every turn in my career. It’s shocking that they even remembered I played music at all.
”
”
Jeff Tweedy (Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.)
“
The stories surrounding eating durians remind us that literature should incorporate low culture, bringing it closer to lived reality. These legends come not from the pens of the elite, but are assembled from the words of the masses, both written and spoken, passed from one person to another—the only way to create a text this deep and compelling.
”
”
Wong Yoon Wah (Durians Are Not the Only Fruit)
“
June Afternoon"
Didn't I tell you everything is possible in this deja vu?
Try the river boat, the carousel, feed the pigeons, Bar-B-Q.
Look at all the people, happy faces all around.
Smiling, throwing kisses, busy making lazy sounds
It's a bright June afternoon, it never gets dark.
Wah-wah! Here comes the sun.
Get your green, green tambourine, let's play in the park.
Wah-wah! Here comes the sun
Some folks are on blankets, slowly daydreaming
and reaching for their food.
Let's go buy an ice-cream and a magazine with an attitude
and put on a cassette, we can pretend that you're a star
cos life's so very simple just like la-la-la
It's a bright June afternoon...
There's a painter painting his masterpiece.
There are some squirrels jumping in the trees,
There's a wide-eyed boy with a red balloon.
All my life I've longed for this afternoon.
”
”
Roxette
“
Alexander’s intense eyes were only on Tatiana, who smiled and said, Carolyn, can’t you see? He is pushing you out of the way. I see. Tell him to stop. Let him, Carolyn, Tatiana whispered. Let him. Show him how to catch that baby. Tania, no! What are you afraid of? Just look at him. Let him catch his baby. Thank you, Tatiana. And Alexander went on one knee between her legs, as Carolyn was anxiously bent by his side, her hands next to his. The order of the universe, Alexander felt, was restored. The belly tightened, Tatiana clenched up, one soft slippery push, and the purple baby glided out, swam out face down, front down into the waiting, grasping, open hands of his father. It’s a boy, Tania, Alexander breathed out without turning his son over. Hold him, just like that, don’t move, Carolyn was saying as she cleaned out his mouth and Alexander finally heard his first sound all night. “Wah . . . Wah . . . Wah . . . Wah . . .” Like a little wailing warble. And with his first breath he became pink not purple. Alexander let the boy be placed front down on Tatiana’s stomach, keeping his hand over him and over her, and after Carolyn tied up the cord, he picked up his warm sticky infant, holding him in his palms, and brought him close to Tatiana’s face, whispering, Tania, our boy. Look how small he is. He pressed his wet forehead into her wet cheek. Look at him flailing, squirming, wailing. Buddy, what? Been cooped up too long? He held the boy in his fanned-out palms. Oh God, how can he be so blessedly tiny? He is smaller than my hands. Yes, my love, said Tatiana, one hand on her husband, one hand on her child. But then you do have very big hands. Standing up, Alexander walked over to the open French doors so he could take a better look at the baby in the moonbeam light. Charles Gordon Pasha, he whispered. Pasha. The baby stopped squirming, moving, crying; he relaxed all his limbs and lay sticky and small and completely still in Alexander’s open palms, blinking, clearing his eyes, blinking, clearing his eyes, trying to focus on his father’s face so close. Tania, whispered Alexander, pressing his damp son to his bare chest, to his heart. Look, Tania, look, what a small, little, lovely, tiny baby.
”
”
Paullina Simons (The Summer Garden (The Bronze Horseman, #3))
“
AWARE
The great sigh of things. To be aware of aware (pronounced ah-WAH-ray) is to be able to name the previously ineffable sigh of impermanence, the whisper of life flitting by, of time itself, the realization of evanescence. Aware is the shortened version of the crucial Japanese phrase mono-no-aware, which suggested sensitivity or sadness during the Heian period, but with a hint of actually relishing the melancholy of it all. Originally, it was an interjection of surprise, as in the English “Oh!” The reference calls up bittersweet poetic feelings around sunset, long train journeys, looking out at the driving rain, birdsong, the falling of autumn leaves. A held-breath word, it points like a finger to the moon to suggest an unutterable moment, too deep for words to reach. If it can be captured at all, it is by haiku poetry, the brushstroke of calligraphy, the burbling water of the tea ceremony, the slow pull of the bow from the oe. The great 16th-century wandering poet Matsuo Basho caught the sense of aware in his haiku: “By the roadside grew / A rose of Sharon. / My horse / Has just eaten it.” A recent Western equivalent would be the soughing lyric of English poet Henry Shukman, who writes, “This is a day that decides by itself to be beautiful.
”
”
Phil Cousineau (Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words)
“
Each morning, five of us were awakened by: “WAH-HOOOOO!” Then SPLASH! as Po cannonballed into the lake for his morning skinny-dip.
”
”
Kate McMullan (Have a Hot Time, Hades! (Myth-O-Mania, #1))
“
Once the initial backing track jam had been recorded, Marr delivered his most savage guitar performance to date, heavy on the wah-wah pedal, returning to the control room “shaking” at his own intensity.
”
”
Tony Fletcher (A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths)
“
We are at the intersection of a new and old, at the junction of salt and freshwater, unable to adapt to the loss of the old, not yet able to see hope in the new that surges towards us. What’s called adaptation is much closer to torture.
”
”
Tang Siu Wah
“
I too will go. I will fight this terrible evil. And I will do it all for Love. For what is a warrior, without Love in his heart? Without Love, it adds up to nothing."
[Okuzig Wah-yeza, The Mist-on-the-Water]
”
”
C.A. Tedeschi (Lion Knight saga 2, The Tree of Despair)
“
A-wah-rey. “It’s Japanese. The bittersweet feeling you have for a passing moment of transcendent beauty.
”
”
Shawn C. Butler (Beasts of Sonara)
“
There is no point in a man’s life when he remains fixed and unchanging. When a man ceases to change, he will be no more.”
(Okuzig-wah-yehza / the Mist-on-the-Water)
”
”
C.A. Tedeschi (Lion Knight saga 2, The Tree of Despair)
“
Then they got to this dog named Hach-something-or-other. Hatchet-toe, maybe? Seems his owner died (for the record, I object to the word “owner,” but we’ll set that aside for now), and Hach-something-or-other sat around for over nine years in the same spot at the same train station, day after day, waiting for him to return. Thing is, the narrator guy was blabbing on and on about this dog, really over-the-top stuff: How loyal! How loving! Break out the Kleenex! Blah blah blah, wah wah wah! Man’s best friend! They made a statue of this dog. I kid you not. A statue of the dog who sat around nine years waiting for a dead guy. in my opinion That dog was a ninny. A numskull. A nincompoop.
”
”
Katherine Applegate (The One and Only Ivan & Bob ebook collection)
“
Namumkin kuch bhi nhi h,hum wah sab kuch kr skte hain jo hum soch sakte h,wah
Bhi soch sakte h jo hmne kabhi socha nhi ki sab kuch sambhav h
”
”
Abhimanyu Kumawat
“
Shana knew this angst over the fact life is super unfair, wah, was hyper-fucking-cliché of her, but it was what it was, and she felt what she felt. Things, she thought, were supposed to be better than they were.
”
”
Chuck Wendig (Wanderers)
“
Yes…it was when I was eleven…
“Reim, i entrust this important mission to thee. Deliver these letters directly into the hands of Duchess Rainsworth.”
“P-pardon me, but…in what vein might their contents be…?”
“Hah! ‘Tis obvious! They art love letters to Sheryl…No! They art missives of challenge! Proclamations of war that contain the pent up ill will of countless years!! Wah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!
”
”
Jun Mochizuki (Pandora Hearts, Volume 8)
“
Yeah, figured you would say some immature shit like that. Wah, wah, wah, fuck Cappadonna… fuck the monster.” He paused. “You don’t even have to worry about me coming for you tonight… I’m like Freddy bitch, I’ll haunt your dreams. Plus, I want you scared when I get you. Fucking rapist!” he ended the call.
”
”
Jahquel J. (Cappadonna 3 (Season two: Delgato Family: Cappadonna))
“
Sipping underneath that wet, burned rice after dinner in his gaze is some long night far away on the other side of earth in other eyes and other pots burned hot in the charcoal clay stove flickered light from the lit dry grass under the same stars fields of rice and water Pacific Ocean end of murmured sadness jumped intestinal interstices, bisected, circulated, tongue's crack, crossed into gut, guttered now between the pages of this book the floating gaze and taste burnt right through to the spine.
”
”
Fred Wah (Diamond Grill)
“
Be Happy: Be you want to be. If other dont like it, let them be As the saying goes. Happiness is a choice. Life is not about pleasing everybody !
”
”
wah quotes
“
Yeh maana zindagi apni fakat ek chaar din ki hai, Magar yeh chaar din ki zindagi bhi kam nahin hoti.
”
”
wah quotes
“
What do you do for fun? / What are your hobbies? Tanoshimiwa nandesuka. (tah-noh-shiy-mhy-wah nah-n-deh-soo-kah) / Shumiwa nandesuka. (shoo-mhy-wah-nah-n-deh-soo-kah)
”
”
Alex Castle (Japanese: 101 Common Phrases)
“
I WAKE up alone. I eat alone. I work alone. I come home alone. I sleep alone. Sometimes I sit in my truck and listen to this song, “Here Without You” by 3 Doors Down, over and over again ’til my eyes are all friggin’ misty. Yeah. Wah, wah, wah. Poor fuckin’ Nate.
”
”
Mia Kerick (Here Without You (One Voice, #2))
“
I’m taking thirty to shower and give myself a full body lift. You’ll thank me later,” she parroted back to her sister.
“Says the sister who was born looking like an Olympian. Wah-wah.”
Kerry stood and stretched, stifling a groan as every muscle in her body protested. So much for the restorative powers of sleep. She grabbed her last fresh pair of khaki shorts, decided which of her already worn T-shirts was the least questionable, made a mental note to take her laundry basket with her when she left, then sighed as she caught sight of her restless night, wild-child hair once again in the mirror. If only Cooper could see your oh-so-sexy self now, she thought, he’d book the next flight out.
“Kerry?”
“Well,” she said, making a face at herself in the mirror, “if there was an Olympic even for bed head, I’d take the gold right now, no question. Even the Russian judge would have to cave and give me a ten.”
“I’d say give me a break, but come to think of it, I have seen you in the morning.”
“Bite me.”
“Oh, and because you brought it up,” Fiona added, her voice dripping with sugar once again, “make sure you book some extra time to tell us every last detail about your dead-sexy Aussie fiancé.”
“He’s not my--”
“Hurry!” Fiona interrupted as group laughter echoed through the phone from somewhere behind her; then she hung up.
Kerry looked at the dead phone, then tossed it on the bed, mumbling swear words in several languages under her breath.
”
”
Donna Kauffman (Starfish Moon (Brides of Blueberry Cove, #3))
“
Among Chinese Singaporeans and Malaysians, many hold the belief that when Admiral Cheng Ho landed in Nanyang, he relieved himself in the jungle, and the steaming puddle of shit and piss evolved into the durian tree. To put it less elegantly, the mounds of flesh inside the durian resemble a row of little turds, resting neatly in a boat-shaped husk.
”
”
Wong Yoon Wah (Durians Are Not the Only Fruit)
“
Well,there's not much more to see," Bill said. "Just the usual routine of a building catching fire-smoke, walls of flame,people screaming and stampeding toward the exits,trampling the less fortunate underfoot-you get the picture.The Globe burned to the ground."
"What?" she asked, feeling sick. "I started the fire at the Globe?" Surely burning down the most famous theater in English history would have repercussions across time.
"Oh,don't get all self-important. It was going to happen anyway. If you hadn't burst into flames, the cannon onstage would have misfired and taken the whole place out."
"This is so much bigger than me and Daniel. All those people-"
"Look, Mother Teresa, no one died that night...besides you.No one else even got hurt. Remember that drunk leering at you from the third row? His pants catch on fire.That's the worst of it. Feel better?"
"Not really.Not at all."
"How about this: You're not here to add to your mountain of guilt. Or to change the past.There's a script,and you have your entrances and your exits."
"I wasn't ready for my exit."
"Why not? Henry the Eighth sucks, anyway."
"I wanted to give Daniel hope. I wanted him to know that I would always choose him,always love him.But Lucinda died before I could be sure he understood." She closed her eyes. "His half of our curse is so much worse than mine."
"That's good,Luce!"
"What do you mean? That's horrible!"
"I mean that little gem-that 'Wah, Daniel's agony is infinitely more horrible than mine'-that's what you learned here.The more you understand, the closer you'll get to knowing the root of the curse,and the more liekly it is that you'll eventually find your way out of it.Right?"
"I-I don't know."
"I do. Now come on, you've got bigger roles to play.
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Lauren Kate (Passion (Fallen, #3))
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He winks at me and ignores me for the rest of supper, during which he instructs Ross about current diabetic treatments, corrects Maggie's perfectly pronounced Renoir as Ren-wah, and keeps fondling Kate's breasts. Okay, not exactly, but he touches her arm or hand whenever he talks or she does, and it's so frequent it's bordering on molestation. I can't believe no one's putting a stop to this.
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Erin McCahan (Love and Other Foreign Words)
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Baik, kalau begitu pinjami aku Blue Velvet?
Blue Velvet?
Iya, masa kamu tidak tahu, sutradaranya David Lynch
Oh, Black Velvet maksudnya Tuan?
Blue Velvet
Apa sih Blue?
Wah, guru SD-mu siapa? Blue ya biru dong!
Apa sih biru itu, Tuan?
Din, kamu mabuk?
Saya kira Tuan yang mabuk, dari dulu juga Tuan tahu judul karya David Lynch itu Black Velvet
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Seno Gumira Ajidarma (Sepotong Senja untuk Pacarku)
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A man's complexion has little to do with his talent. He either has it or has it not, and despite the dictates of spiritually starved white sophisticates genius does not automatically descend upon one because one's grandmother happened to be sold down the river "befo' de wah.
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Amritjit Singh (The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader)
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Yaho, wah, wowee, wowee, yah, weh, wowwee, wowee, yaho, wah, wowee, wow.
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A.D. Aliwat (In Limbo)
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Murid : "Wahai guru!, mengapa Muhammad tidak mempunyai mukjizat yang wah seperti nabi-nabi lain sebelumnya?"
Guru : "Apakah kamu menanyakan perihal tentang Musa membelah laut, Sulaiman memerintah angin, Isa menyembuhkan penyakit?"
Murid : "Ya! dan Muhammad tidak ada"
Guru : "Ikutlah denganku"
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Kemudian mereka pergi ke sebuah kolam besar di tengah hutan.
Gurunya mengambil pelepah dauh pisang lalu melemparnya ke hingga ke tengah kolam.
Pelepah pisang tersebut tidak terkena air hingga ke dasar kolam yang mengakibatkan air berlubang hingga ke dasar tanah.
Lalu gurunya bersiul dan datanglah seekor burung tepat di tangan kirinya.
Diambilnya pisau lalu disembelihnya burung tersebut kemudian dia berjalan di atas air kolam sambil membawa bangkai burung.
Sampai di tengah kolam, gurunya masuk ke dasar kolam yang berlubang mengambil pelepah pisang.
Kemudian ia berjalan di dasar kolam dan air kolam terbelah mengikuti jalannya hingga sampai ke pinggir kolam.
Di bungkusnya bangkai burung dengan pelepah, lalu dilemparkan ke kolam. Dan seketika air kolam menyatu kembali, pelepah pisang terbuka dan burung tersebut hidup kembali dan terbang hinggap ke tangan sang guru.
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Lalu si guru berkata,
Guru : "Aku melakukan itu semua hanya dengan 2 ayat dari Alqur'an yang dibawa Muhammad, dan aku hanya seorang umatnya
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Tolep Coy
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Your aunties coming over, so late at night, coming to help us get rid of body, and we don’t even offer them any food? How can? Oh, we have dragon fruit, good, good. Big Aunt’s favorite. Wah, got pear too. Very good. Help me peel, don’t be so rude to your aunties, you will bring shame.” “Oh, right, it’s the lack of fruit that’ll bring shame, not the dead body in the car.
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Jesse Q. Sutanto (Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1))
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Meddy,” Second Aunt breathes. “You have Taser?” I can’t help cringing as I nod. Here it comes. They’re going to— “Can we see?” Second Aunt says. Huh? “Wah, wonder what model you got,” Big Aunt says.
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Jesse Q. Sutanto (Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1))
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Kahani bewaqoof ghatna ke byore mein nahin hoti. Usse upajne wali nayi aur alag duniya mein hoti hai. Wah nahi gadhi, to kuch nahin.
The story lies not in reportage of a stupid incident. But in the new and different world it gives rise to. If that is not constructed, it's nothing.
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Geetanjali Shree (हमारा शहर उस बरस)
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A Quotation of the Foreword of Sheikh Hasan ‘Abdul-Bassir ‘Arafah (General Manager of the Islamic Da‘wah, the Ministry of Awqaf of Egypt in Alexandria):
For the present, there is a ferocious attack on our Islamic heritage. Modernity Thoughts and radical groups still misunderstand and impugn the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Besides, to offend the companions of the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ had witnessed to them with fairness. They were like the stars in the heavens. The book’s contents are simple but not easy, written down by Eng.: Ahmad ElYamany. The author was affected by his father’s upbringing; I mean that his father educated him according to the Thought of Al-Azhar Ash-Sharif (1). His father did his best upon a pulpit of Masjid(s) for standing up for the Sunnah until his death. Now, the author does follow the example of his father. He did write down this book to explain The Study of Tradition Terminology (2) for ordinary people in simple words. Besides, he does show how the previous Imams of the ‘Ummah took care of The Study of Tradition Terminology. This book geared-towards an obstacle against those who make a ferocious attack on the Sunnah and the heritage.
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(1) The Thought of Al-Azhar Ash-Sharif: I do mean the Sunni Madhab. The Sunni Madhab is a term generally applied to the large sect of Muslims, which consists of:
• Regarding Fiqh: who follows one of these authorised Madhabs:
- Madhab of Imam Abu Hanifah (مذهب أبو حنيفة), Madhab of Imam Malik (مذهب مالك), Madhab of Imam Ash-Shafi‘i (مذهب الشافعي), or Madhab of Imam Ahmad son of Hanbal (مذهب أحمد بن حنبل).
• Regarding Creed: who follows one of these authorised Theologies:
- The Ash‘arism Theology (Ash‘ariyah: Arabic المدرسة الأشعرية) or The Maturidism Theology (Maturidiyah: Arabic: المدرسة الماتُريدية).
• Regarding Sufism: who follows one of any authorised Orders or Schools (Tariqah: Arabic: الطريقة الصوفية) of Sufism, such:
- Al-Ghazzaliyah (الغزَّالية), Al-Qadiriyah (القادرية), Ash-Shazliyah (الشاذلية), Ar-Rifa‘iyah (الرفاعية), and so on.
(2) The Study of Tradition Terminology: (Arabic: علم مصطلح الحديث), pronounced in the Roman Transliteration: ‘Ilm Mustalah Al-Hadith. The word Al-Hadith or Hadith means Communication or Narration. In the Islamic context, it has come to denote the record of what the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said, did, or tacitly approved.
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أحمد اليمني (The Hadith And The Narrators ... In Simple Words)
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Wah gwaan, Gyaal?” He grinned.
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Alexandra St. Pierre (The Origin's Daughter: Book one of The Origin's Daughter series)
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Wah!!! Wah!!! Wah!!! Fart!!! Vomit!!! Smile! Naptime!
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Steven Magee
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Jake1010Hotelier: Oh. Wow, okay. Damn, girl, you’re even thirstier than I thought. Meddelin Chan: Haha! No, no, not thirsty! I have a lot to drink. Quite wet now. Jake1010Hotelier: Wow. Damn. If I’d known, I would’ve asked you out sooner. Meddelin Chan: Wah! How you know eggplant my favorite?? Jake1010Hotelier: It is, huh? Well, I’ve got a real big one for you. Meddelin Chan: Oh! I can’t wait! LOVE eggplant!! I
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Jesse Q. Sutanto (Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1))
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weh-wah, weh-wah. Soon
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Robert McNeill (THE DI JACK KNOX MYSTERIES: Four gripping Scottish detective novels)
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She was married to this dude Osiris, and he croaked,” Dan said. “So she freaked and was all wah! and went and cried herself a river.” “Amazing! That’s just what it says on the hieroglyphs,” Theo said.
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Jude Watson (Beyond the Grave (The 39 Clues, #4))
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The television exploded. KABOOM! “WAH!” screamed the girl. “NOW I CAN’T WATCH MY CARTOON!” As her parents dashed into the living room, a singed FING plopped out of the television. DUNK! Electricity fizzled all over its fur. “GET THAT FING OUT OF HERE!” ordered Myrtle. To add emphasis to her rage, the girl stamped her feet. * With the creature stunned, Mr and Mrs Meek seized their chance. “NOW!” ordered Mother. The pair pounced on it. They rolled FING into the garden. With all their might, they squished it through the shed door, and locked it.
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David Walliams (Fing)
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Naturally, we even made snow angels in the backyard as we stumbled around, and passed out. No one cared what we did really, thus far that was the fun of it all. Oh, and Kenneth was just the boy that only wanted one thing from Jenny.
He had no personality to speak of… he would hit on me all the time, and sometimes he would get it from me too, or I would be out of the group by her if he said I was the one that wanted it from him.
We could break widows out of old buildings and homes, and who would stop us. Sure, we got chased by the cops, yet that was the fun of it too. There is nothing else for us to do. I remember Maddie leaving her handprints in the wet mud, Jenny her butt, and some of her lady-ness, when the town thought it was time for new sidewalks. Yet we all did, something that would last forever, we thought. Maddie drew a few other things too. You can get the picture! All inappropriate… all there for life.
She was just crazy like that, like squatting down pissing, and doing number two in the old man Jackups yard. She has more balls than most guys… I knew. Old man Jackups called us, ‘Mindless slutty hooligans’ So that was payback. At the time- I thought like what is wrong with that, we're just having some fun here… your old windbag, like go and sit on your cane! You know what I mean… I think?
I remember being so smashed at my sweet sixteen too, that I don’t even remember it. Yet that is what having a good time was all about, so they say. Bumping and grinding on all the boys with loud music. And as the twinkling lights shine on your skin, that lights the way up to your bedroom.
You know that your puffy dress is going to be pushed up a couple of times on that night. I just don’t remember how many times it was, and I didn’t remember who it was with, I am not even sure if I know them at all… all of them or not. All I know is I did it all and was happy to do whatever they asked me to do. But- but I thought I was having the time of my life. I was the birthday girl that had the rosiest pink lipstick on most boys at the party. I thought it was such a horror. In my mind at the time, I thought that I high-jacked the rainbow, and crashed into a pot of gold! All the girls my age did it, yet I was the best at it!
I recall the time Liv and I went trick or treating. I was dressed as Hermione from the Harry Potter movies. Liv was a sexy witch! With the pointed hat. So, original…! That is what I told her. That was the night we scared the pants off of Ray in the not-so-scary haunted house. And before you ask, he was dressed as Harry. So, I wanted to play with his wand, that's why I dressed the way I did at the time. Liv was one of those good friends… I thought, which would tell everyone what you all did the day after, to all the girls at the lunch table.
She can text faster than anyone I know. Anyways… we jumped out at him, and he nearly craps his nicely pressed pants. I am sure there was a skid mark on his tighty- whities or something. Yet he did yack on Liv’s chest, and that was hilarious to me. She was dancing around, and flapping her hands doing the funky chicken while yelling, ‘Ou- ou- ou- wah!’ As I dibble over in lather, I guess it was funnier when it doesn’t happen to you too many times.
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Marcel Ray Duriez (Nevaeh Falling too You)
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Compton Gage, a Spiritual breed faction who seeks to restore early days of glory through Spiritual Warfare, a holy war directed against internal and external enemies both physical and spiritual.
The perspective and movement focuses on religious studies and the winning of hearts and minds (da‘wah) as a way of creating a Holy society rule by the New World Order law.
From Compton Gage’s perspective, humankind must strive to disseminate and implement Allah in all areas of life by liberating the lands on planet earth from other cultures through the holy war, which is perceived as the personal duty (fard ‘ayn) of every human being. "Thus we must fight the enemies of the world through the Holy Book and uncompromising military struggle."
Moreover, according to the Conflict with demonic strongholds and moral deception that require spiritual weaponry and armor perception, its enemies are not only external, but also other regimes that cooperate with the unbelievers, evildoers, or secular Arab/African/Western regimes that are considered “infidel.” Therefore, according to Compton Gage, the Holy Book religious law justifies overthrowing them.
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COMPTON GAGE
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It's the life in your days that matters, not the days in your life. It is how you spend your days that will make life meaningful and rewarding.
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Leong Kin Wah
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Doctors, nurses, supporting staff and patients are together in a team, with one aim, to win.
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Leong Kin Wah
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Let’s play a game,’ said Rusty. ‘What’s your favourite food?’ ‘Hot jalebis,’ said Popat. ‘What’s yours?’ ‘Hot pakoras,’ said Rusty. ‘Not bad. What about Pitamber?’ ‘Hot chapatis with lots of butter.’ ‘Wah, wah,’ said Rusty. ‘Ten out of ten! Now think of all these favourite foods while I enjoy my banana!’ Rusty finished a banana. It is full of potassium, he told himself. Monkeys eat them all the time. ‘So—what did it taste like?’ asked Popat. ‘Just like fish and chips,’ said Rusty. ‘How’s your potato?’ ‘Just like rasmalai.’ ‘And my banana tastes like a banana,’ said Pitamber,
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Ruskin Bond (Rusty and the Magic Mountain)
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Ha-tep ‘Be at peace’ Ha-wi ‘Strike’ Hi-nehm ‘Join together’ Isfet ‘Chaos’ Ma’at ‘Restore order’ Maw ‘Water’ Med-wah ‘Speak
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Rick Riordan (The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3))
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The Great Bell Chant,” which is narrated by Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, as well as devotional music by the artists Enya, Snatam Kaur, Tina Malia, or Wah!
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Judith Orloff (The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People)
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Quinoa, pronounced “Keen-wah” is a tiny seed, low in calories and packed full of nutrients. It is beneficial for heart disease, diabetes, gluten intolerance and kidney disease. Quinoa is easy to
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Jenny Allan (40 Top Quinoa Recipes For Weight Loss)