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How to Say It

In this segment, I learned about an idiom and how to to pronounce the idiom. The idiom was “read someone like a book”. But before explaining the meaning of that idiom, we must know what idiom is. Idiom is a group of words strung together in a certain order in which meaning can not be predictable from the meaning of its constituent words separately. Now the meaning of “read someone like a book” is understanding someone completely and always know what he/she thinks. This idiom has a synonym and the synonym is “read someone mind”. The example of using this idiom: John’s wife, Jannie, can read him like a book, she knows when something troubles him and everybody knows that without her, John is lost.

Idioms

    In this segment, I learn a new idiom. Idiom is a group of word strung each other in a certain order in which meaning can not be predictable from the meaning of its constituent words separately. The new idiom I learn from this segment was "Blood Sweat Tears." To be honest, I never heard that word before. And the speaker tell the meaning of that idiom. So "Blood Sweat Tears" was a full of hard work and struggle in doing something difficult. The example for this idiom is "There will be much blood sweat and tears before we have completed this project." That means, before the project is complete, there will be a bunch of work to do.

Bilingual

The news that I listened was about Simon Berry, 24, from Sheffield, has become a Guinness World Record holder after completing the highest bungee dunk, combining his passions for biscuits and bungees. Well, I think this is really crazy or incredible. I don’t know what word to describe the man’s action because Simon Berry did bungee jumping for dipping a biscuit into a cup of tea as high as 75 meters above the ground. Well at least, he was safe and his name recorded in Guinness Book of World Record.

English, Please!

 Now we come to the last segment, "English, Please!" The topic is "Idol Worshiping." Well it's not ''worshiping'' in religious way, but more to fanboy/fangirl. It's not like I hate people like this, who shut him/herself in dark room and in their room there were a poster of their favorite idol attached to their wall. But for "Idol Worshiping" I read some news about this before long time ago, located in Japan, there was an Idol who got stabbed by one of her fans because he is jealous his Idol have a boyfriend. After read that article, I just shake my head. Just because an Idol have a boyfriend, a fanatic brave enough to stab his favorite idol. Well in other cases, I have a friend he is not Worshiping a real idol, but a 2D idol, well I can say an idol from anime. He just spent almost millions of Rupiahs, just for buy a Figma and Nendoroid of his favorite idol. I even saw a picture of his Figma just sit on table, and there was birthday cake, and it writes "Happy Birthday." Well it's good thing to have idol you favorite, but don't become fanatic. I have idol I like myself, but I never bought such a thing like poster, photos, or figma that cost millions of rupiahs. I just bought a song of my favorite idol from iTunes. Well original songs are cheap, the expensive one is IDR7000. I bought 1 song/month. Well last from me, if you really love your idol, don't overdo it.