haptic \HAP-tik\, adjective:
1. Relating to the sense of touch; tactile.
noun:
1. The science that deals with the sense of touch.
Why do people want haptic augmented reality? So a mother-to-be can touch her unborn child in the womb.
-- Bruce Sterling, "Beyond the beyond: Augmented Reality: Haptic Augmented Reality", Wired, May 2010
Loats would hear her get up at night, making her haptic way through the dark rooms, peering through the windows into the night for the telltale lanterns of the Americans.
-- Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes
Haptic derives from the Greek haptikos, "to grasp."
rococo \roh-kuh-KOH\, adjective:
1. Ornate or florid in speech, writing, or general style.
2. Pertaining to a style of painting developed simultaneously with the rococo in architecture and decoration, characterized chiefly by smallness of scale, delicacy of color, freedom of brushwork, and the selection of playful subjects as thematic material.
noun:
1. A style of architecture and decoration, originating in France about 1720, evolved from Baroque types and distinguished by its elegant refinement in using different materials for a delicate overall effect and by its ornament of shellwork, foliage, etc.
adjective:
1. In the manner of, or suggested by rococo architecture, decoration, or music or the general atmosphere and spirit of the rococo.
Whereas the author's early works, like "Dead Babies" and "The Rachel Papers," were animated by a satiric gift for social observation and a deliciously black wit, this novel tackles the same themes - sex and identity and coming of age - with weary determination, and lacquers them all with pompous, inanely rococo meditations about the nature of art and truth.
-- Michiko Kakutani, "The Sexual Revolution Dissected", New York Times, May 2010
"Is this some sort of grandiose and rococo midlife crisis? Are you that afraid of getting old? Aging is the most natural thing in the world." He snorted.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug perfume
Rococo originates as a humorous alteration of the French rocaille, "shellwork, pebble-work", refering to the excessive use of shell designs in the style of various French monarchs.
If someone ask me what I want for Christmas, I would say a bag of groceries or a nice oven for my kitchen. But personally, I really wanted to have the new iTouch (yeah with the camera!) and a very sleek and high-tech cell phones. I don't have any particular model in my mind right now. Anything would do as long as it's touch screen, with wifi, great camera, awesome player--and all that jazz. You know how cell phones are made now. It's like "everything-in-it" gadget. So maybe someone might be reading this post and decided to buy me one! Santa Claus? hahaha!
proliferate \pruh-LIF-uh-reyt\, verb:
1. To increase or spread at a rapid rate.
2. Biology. To grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.
Look at the smokestacks, how they proliferate, fanning the wastes of original waste over greater and greater masses of city.
-- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
During the 1990s, armed escort vehicles began to proliferate in Lima and cars ceased stopping at red traffic lights. Professional companies fitted more and more electric fences round high- and middle income settlements.
-- Alan Gilbert, The mega-city in Latin America
Proliferate is a back-formation from the biology term proliferation, circa 1873.
Here's something new we tried--HIGHLIGHTS! It's temporary of course. We bought one can each of hair color spray and walla! We are ready to rock!
World Bazaar Festival is indeed a great place to buy stuff for the Holiday season. I saw a lot of nice gift ideas with awesome discounts. And what I was impress was the food section of the place. Organizers maintained cleanliness--which is important of course. Food served hot off the grill and he refreshments were served refreshingly cold. I think they were using stainless steel drums for the drinks to stay cold. At the end of the day, I end up buying more food rather than gifts for my family hahaha...
Don't forget to visit us at BOOTH 4026 - WABSHAQ! See you there!
Catch Marry Me AMY today @ the 10th World Bazaar Festival @ 4pm. See you there!
heliolatry \hee-lee-OL-uh-tree\, noun:
Worship of the sun.
I am certain that if our preparations for greeting the returning sun were seen by other people, either civilised or savage, we would be thought disciples of heliolatry.
-- Frederick Albert Cook, Through the first Antarctic night
Tourists were known for their heliolatry, excessive drinking, and promiscuity; their prearranged cultural excursions were notoriously shallow and contrived.
-- Sasha D. Pack, Tourism and dictatorship: Europe's peaceful invasion of Franco's Spain
Heliolatry stems from the Greek helio-, "sun," and -latry, "worship."
Have you heard of a wireless home theatre system? All I know is the new home theatre system but it's just recent that I heard it's already wireless. Technology is definitely upgrading and before we know it, everything's going wireless already! woah! Now that's something to expect in the future. But before that, I think I'll settle for the basic home theatre system for now.
Enjoy an array of exciting, fun, quality and unique gift items for you and your family.
Come visit us at The 10th World Bazaar Festival at the World Trade Center, Pasay City from December 3 to 16! BOOTH 4026! See you there!
Catch Marry Me Amy @ the 10th World Bazaar Festival at the World Trade Center, Pasay City on December 7, 9, 13 to 16, 2010! 
