No, I have enjoyed all the extracurricular activities my parents have tought.
What is your opinion of watermelons?
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No, I have enjoyed all the extracurricular activities my parents have tought.
What is your opinion of watermelons?
they are very watery and melony. Pretty bland too, not much taste to them.
Why do people do silly things?
To please the devil that is in everyone of us.
Why peaple tend sometimes to be crual towards those they love?
Hmm...possibly, because they seem like brilliant ideas at the time! :lol: Or perhaps, just for the experience... might prove to be interesting conversation-starters!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by AimusSage
Because the people you love are the ones you often take for granted. Also, they're the only ones who might understand and forgive later.Quote:
Originally Posted by adilyoussef
Same question...
People do this because they are sure that they will be forgiven by their loved ones.
Same quesQuote:
Why peaple tend sometimes to be crual towards those they love?
This always seeming a tragic subject, having had to study it through nursing school - various theories in psychology and such subjects. In my opinion, and in most cases, I would call it the combination of a stressor, poor coping mechanisms, and the presence of a person/target, whether a loved one or not.
To the person below me: how do you usually react and cope with various stressors (such as occupation, finances, relationships, children, etc.)?
usually when i am stressed i listen to music and play some guitar. it also helps me to write about what im thinking and sometimes me being stressed gives me poetic ideas. i also tend to just walk around outside for a while and let my mind clear.
to the person below me: how long (per day) do you usually spend on the literature forums?
Many, many hours.
Same question.
At least an hour average, scattered throughout the day.
Do you tend to like mainstream music or less-known, newer bands?
I usually catch on late, so I like mainstream music a couple years afterward when the music declines in popularity.
Take a trip to the Congo right now or stay where you are?
A trip anywhere sounds great! And aren't there still wild gorillas in the Congo? Yes! I'd go!
Chess, Rugby, Skin Diving, or video/pinball/if-it-moves-shoot-it games?
Definitely chess - I consider myself a true chess-geek, having played for about 13 or 14 years. :D
To the person below me: what games (in terms of board games, outdoor games, etc.) do you usually enjoy the most?
I prefer soccer/football over any other outdoor game (Kabaddi is fun too ;) ) and chess of cards indoors.
Do you enjoy swimming in indoor or outdoor pools more? (even if, say, both are heated)
I dont know to swim coz I'm hydrophobic. So both are a no no for me :D
I'll pass on the ques - Do you enjoy swimming in indoor or outdoor pools more? (even if, say, both are heated)
Indoor. I never really liked watching insect corpses drift past me.
Same question.
I'm a relatively poor swimmer, but growing up, we always swam outdoors in the river or lake. I haven't done any swimming in recent memory. :goof:
Does people talking on cell phones in public places and not paying the slightest attention to what they are doing annoy you? :flare:
...huh? Oh, sorry, I was talking on my cell phone and not paying the slightest attention to what I was doing...um, I'd have to say yes.
Same question!
Oooohh yes it does annoy me . . . especially when they bump into you & yell at you "watch out where youre going" !!!!!!!!!!!
Same ques.
It does annoy me a bit, but I think it's an interesting aspect of globalizing culture and therefore worthy of observation.
How do you listen to your favourite music?
Quite loudly.
Same question:
How do you listen to your favourite music?
Depending on my surroundings, usually fairly loudly; other times, I do not mind blasting my music on headphones also. :lol:
To the person below me: how do you prefer your coffee/espresso? :brow:
Coffee: Make mine a movie star... sweet and blonde
Espresso: I'd rather have a cappacino instead, and I always put granulated raw sugar in it.
Next person: same question
Since I frankly am not a coffee drinker, let the question past to the next person.
To the person below me: how do you prefer your coffee/espresso?
With sugar, but strong.
Do you like Starbucks?
Not for their coffee, but they make very good coffee icecream!Quote:
Originally Posted by thevintagepiper
Do you ever like a food but only in certain ways?
For example, I like raisins but cannot stand them in other foods like cookies. Or some people never drink coffee, but like coffee icecream. That type of thing.
I don't like brocolli, uhm...wait, I never like brocolli in anything. Let me think, Chocolate, I can't chocolate Icecream in any form, or chocolate covered ice, or anything icy with chocolate. But I love a chocolate in bar form.
Same Q. (brain is still at the dry cleaners.)
Oh, yes! I do not necessarily consider myself a finnicky food conoisseur, but, especially while I cook, I consider myself a 'creature of habit,' and always have to cook perfectly so everything tastes just right. With that foods? The list goes endlessly.
When others cook, however, I do not get too picky at all - only in accordance to my strict vegetarianism.
To the person below me: have you ever stopped endorsing and/or purchasing a product merely because a corporation you dislike produced it?
(a friend of mine struggles with this precise dilemma)
No I dont think so. I usually dont have anything against any corp. My choices are determined more by the product they offer.
To the person below me: Which of your parent do you think has had a tougher life and why? (it could be in terms of their early days, or trying to manage work and home, finances, their nature, aspirations, etc.)
My mother. She raised three children with no help from my dad, and she had two sons die as children, one in her arms on the way to the hospital. That's a lot to ask of anyone.
Do you feel that you were treated well as a child growing up?
That is tragic Pen. It must have been devastating for your mother. I remember how my grandmother used to talk about her two sons and the only daughter who died when they were kids. She had five kids and only two survived, she was very attached to her daughter.
To answer your question:
I am really not sure how to answer it, I think it was fairly reasonable now that I can look back as a more mature person.
I think the way they brought us up was the best they could think of. I was definitely treated equally as my two brothers. But there was this thing about respect and love that was mandatory for me to impart, then. As being the second child and a girl, I was supposed to show compassion and lovey dovey nature towards my brothers. Not that I do not love them, but it was sort of expected of me, and I was never and still am not very fond of rules or boundations. If certain behaviour was expected of me, I rarely fulfilled those expectations, eventhough I knew that it was the best way. If left on my own I would do it, if as a rule I could never.
My parents wanted us to be alike, maybe because then it would have been easier for them to manage raising three kids rather than dealing with three different individuals, which we are in anycase today. They would always say to me "Why cant you be like your brothers, see how well they perform in exams?" "Why cant you take up the same academic course that they have taken?" or "Why cant you behave like your brothers?"
I think my parents had a tough life trying to manage their careers, finances involved in raising kids, dealing with us as different individuals.
But, also there were times when I could get away with what I wanted by taking advantage of being the only daughter of the house. :D :D
So, all in all my childhood days were a mixture of both good and not so good experiences. (I am not really able to sum up my childhood, as while writing I can see my childhood days in flashback)
I love my parents, although I rarely show them that I do.
I would like to know how different or similar were other people's experiences. So the question passes on.
I am still growing up, of course, but I am very content with how my parents are raising me. I love and respect my dad more than anyone in the world, and though my mom and I don't really get along well, they do work toward the same things. There are times when things they say are hard to accept but for the most part I agree with them and how they are raising me....they certainly have my good in mind and invest a lot in that, but it can be strict at times. Plus I'm the eldest and therefore a little bit of a gunea-pig :confused:
Are you closer to your dad or mom?
I'm close neither to mom nor dad. Because of certain incidents that happened which shouldn't have happened, the concept of "Family" withered away from our house. But still, mom understands me more than dad.
Same ques.
I feel very close to both of them, for different reasons. In more of a casual sense (that may not seem like the right word), I feel slightly closer to my mother in everyday discussion, joking, etc. (a very comfortably, warm, casual woman). In more in-depth discussions, but still informal, I feel closer to my father (a very moral, prudent man).
To the person below me: extending the question a little farther, out of all of your family members, with whom have you often felt the closest, and with whom the most distant, and why?
Closest with my sister directly younger than me, and the most distant with my mother.
Do you admire your friends' parents?
I really worship my friend I's dad. He lost his wife very early in life & had to take care of 2 very young daughters. Also, he belongs to a certain community of India where a boy child is preferred to a girl child. However, still he didn't re-marry, for his own sake or for the want of a son, & has brought up his girls in the most perfect way.
Same ques.
Some of them. :lol:
For the most part, I think my friends' parents very agreeable and kind, but a few, and I hardly have a right to judge, may 'rub me the wrong way,' so to speak.
To the person below me: did you ever make some kind of mistake, lie to your parents about it at the time, but later tell them the truth about the situation?
Not really that I can remember...
Same Question.
Yep!!!!! My best friend and I LOVED doing this. We used to lie about where we were going when we were teenagers. A few years back (we were late 20's by then) my best friend and our moms were together for some reason and we told on ourselves. Boy was thay fun - not so much for our moms though.
Same question.
Uh, yes ;)
Do you feel very guilty after lying?
Yes, but it only last until I have to worry about the next lie.
If you were a bird, what kind of bird would you be?