Adil, if you'd happen to shout DEPECHE MODE, Koa will surelly turn around ;)
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Adil, if you'd happen to shout DEPECHE MODE, Koa will surelly turn around ;)
I wish you good luck. I'v passed through that experience and i know the stress included. Just remain focussed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
As you like. Koa is a good name also. So I'd just call you Koa.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
Thanks JayQuote:
Originally Posted by Jay
LOL me? why? me not obsessed with anything, let alone with a music band... :D
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I prefer to read in English since I still feel disapointed with the quality of translated books. This apply to all kind of books.
To vegetarian:
I have stopped eating meet (chicken, pork, beef) for a month, but still eat fish and egg once in a while. My Q: does egg also a part of diet allowed for vegetarian?
Hiya, sub.Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
Having persisted in my vegetarianism for years now, I suppose I can answer your question. A vegetarian who eats eggs (like me), we often refer to as ovo-lacto vegetarians (still consuming eggs, "ovo," and lactose milk products, "lacto").
In my opinion, it does not make one any more or less vegetarian, but depends entirely on your own beliefs, habits, and lifestyle. If you want to eat eggs, go ahead; and if some of the more "preaching" vegetarians or vegans taunt you about it, rely on yourself, and your own beliefs for turning vegetarian.
Many people adopting these eating habits, unfortunately, seem at risk for deficiences of protein and iron. Both the white and yolk of an egg contain all of the 20 necessary amino acids (the building-blocks of protein; nine of which the body needs from outside sources) to sustain good health; for vegetarians who do not eat eggs, I highly recommend eating lots of soy products and, perhaps, amino acid supplements. Iron seems a little more difficult to absorb through plant products (mostly dark-leaf vegetables), but, oddly, by maintaining a diet high in vitamin C, the vitamin phenomenally helps the body more efficiently absorb the iron in such vegetables; so eat your spinach and drink your orange juice! :D
Good luck, sub!
Thanks Mono :)
I didn't really have specific reason when I stopped eating meat (chicken, pork, beef). I just want to know whether I could stand not eating meat for a week. Then, I dont know, it just continue and it's been a month now. I do feel healtier though :) and I lost some weight, cause I consume much higher portion of vegetable and fruits. And somehow, I don't have apettite to eat meet again. I still eat fish cause sometimes I find it difficult to find vegetarian menus, esp when I went out for lunch with my work friends.
Speaking of which, sub, can you tell me something about the Indonesian language? I've recently become curious about it...Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
Do you think it's hard for a foreigner to learn it? (silly question I know cos it's relative but with that I mean, does it have many exception, tricky verbal conjugations or anything peculiar only to it which can be hard for foreigners)
Is it similar to any other language? Which one? Is it read like it's written or are there many pronounciation rules? ... And so on... :D
Well Koa, Bahasa (means language) is not difficult to learn. Not only cause the words are in latin (compared to Japanese or Chinese), but also cause there's no specifications in objects (for instance like feminine and masculin in French). ALso, the structure of the languge is kinda simliar with written English.
Our language doesn't really have special arrangements for tenses like English ( past tense, past perfect, present perfect, etc)
For example:
In English:
I eat pancake
I'm eating pancake right now (eat changes to eating)
I ate pancake last night (eat changes to ate)
In Bahasa:
Saya (I) makan (eat) pancake
Saya (I) sedang (am) makan (eating) pancake
Saya (I) makan (ate) pancake tadi malam (last night)
You notice that the word makan doesn't change though the types of sentences are different
By the way, my current sig is in Bahasa :)
Funny thing, sub, this week in school we also decided to try the vegetarian menu. It was a bit tasteless in the beginning, but at the end of the week, it was quite tasty, funny thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
But next weeks we will change back to usual menu.
Thanks sub, I was having a look at a language site yesterday and it made pretty much the same example about eating... Now if only I was a disciplined person and therefore a self-learner, I'd give the language a try... but unfortunately I need lessons to just really learn something...:(
To Subterranean: In which country do you live?
To Koa: From which country culture are you most inspired?
To Kaltrina: Have you read The Moonstone?
To Scherzade: Which is your country or are you interested in philosophy or politics? lol
To Nightshade: Which books do you like?
what boooks do I like .... Just about anything with words Im not fussed my theory is when you work in the library you should be familiar with everything so I read anything kids, teenagers , Scifi-fantasy (ok this is my fav), westerns, large prints, romances, historicals, family sags, cookery books, sewing books, biographies, diet books, dramas, thrillers, adventures. This week is fantasy and family sagas/historicals with the odd chick flick and "worthy book"
Pensive, I live in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Same Q goes to you...and an extra Q; what do you do?
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Originally Posted by Pensive
Logos posts on mine:Quote:
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I live in Pakistan.Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
I am a student who love reading, writing, movies, music and making crafts. :D
Crafts ?
Wood, clay, ceramics?
I love all type of crafts.....specially paper and plastic crafts because it does not require expansive materiel...
To Subterranean: Whats your Gender or are you interested in making crafts?
I'm a She and I'm worst on that kind of art :)
I think that's a good thing as you also doing somekind of recyling act :thumbs_up
To Nightshade: Where are you from? :)
ah thats a difficult one lots and lots of places My mums english my dads egyptirn I was born in KSA lived there 11 (almost) years lived in Cairo 5 years now living in uk 2 years. So just abou all over the place ;)
Thats really cool. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
I have never been outside my country and I love to visit new places. :p
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Originally Posted by Pensive
Tough one, Pensy... I think it depends on the period...I had my Russian period when I was reading Dostoevsky a lot... but I am interested in all cultures, I think maybe especially eastern European ones, but I like to know about every place in the world...
What about you, Pensy? (LOL I'll call you Pensy :D)
Hi Koa, How are you? I hope you will be hale and hearty, You are online after many days, I wonder what happened?
lol, I wouldn't mind to be called Pensy :D
As for me, I like to know different country's cultures but there are some cultures which I don't like at all. But on the other hand I love to know about different countries and their cultures. I guess, I will like to know more about Japan, China, Finland, Kosova, India and I also find some Pakistani cultures interesting. Here we have lot of cultures..lol...different traditions and those of some places are very different from others. ;)
I myself have not known many of the Pakistani cultures and traditions.
no I haven't read it. what about you? have you read it and if you have did you like it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
sorry for delay in answering but I didn't see this post till now...
Yeah Kaltrina, I read it and really fell in love with it.
great then i'll have to put it in my reading list. :D
To Kaltrina : Where are you???
To Samercury : Where are you???
I am but sometimes I hesitate to identify myself as such. I hate arguing religion, it's such a personal thing and my philosopy is that whatever religion you are, is fine with me, I don't feel the need to push my views on anyone else and I don't want anyone to push their views on me. I don't think there's one true religion, I don't think there are wrong beliefs and right beliefs...you know...within reason of course, I mean, I would classify a belief that to kill people is to bring you closer to God as 'wrong' but you know what I mean, I think for the most part, people find a faith that works for them and go with it and thats as it should be. I grew up in the church, my dad is a lutheran pastor and I have a very deep faith, I just prefer to keep my mouth shut about as a general rule.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adelheid
i'm a christian too :nod:
To all: When did you first start reading? When did you know it was something you really liked to do?
As a kid I read very casually,only when there was nothing on TV or when I was extremely bored.Then one summer I read all the Harry Potter books in a week, and afterwards I read The Portrait Of Dorian Gray.I've been reading non-stop ever since.Anything and everything I could get my hands on.Three or four novels a week.It became somewhat of an obsession, and I often skipped school to finish certain books.
I began to read when I was starting secondary school, one of my matters was Literature or "Español", and as I mentioned once in another thread my teacher was really fantastic. You know, I am not the only one who thought thus about him, everybody in the school loves him. He was so passionate about the great plays or books that it was so contagious.
I've been reading (as in books) since I was 10 or so, back then I liked this comic series (most likely for boys as there were almost no girls but back then I didn't mind that much I suppose ;)). That's the band: (translates into 'Fast Arrows' and used to be a clasic, it's by Jaroslav Forglar, it's about a group of scouts)
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Can't remember any more of the books I used to read, that one stuck, and another similar comic, called Bonaventura. But that's kinda off topic :p
I always loved reading. Don't know when did I 'decide' to love it. I just did :D
It is funny that you are asking that question, because I asked myself that several weeks ago. My mother was cleaning our garage to prepare for our move this summer and she found several boxes full of books that I read over and over again through gradeschool and junior high. So I look at them now and I figure I must have loved it and have been reading, pretty much as soon as when I first learned how.
I have been on the classics for pretty much a year now though and I still absolutely love it. The only trouble is finding the time.
Question to all:
How does everyone get to know eachother so well? I am probably asking cuz I am relatively new here...but just curious
I didn't really get into reading for my own pleasure until I was out of college. I had taken literature classes and enjoyed the books we read in class, I was one of the only ones in class that actually read the books instead of relying on Cliff Notes but it never occured to me to read something I wasn't assigned until I wasn't assigned anything anymore and I found I missed it. Then, when I had kids, I didn't have time but once they got a little older, to the point where I didn't have to watch them 24 hours a day, I picked it up again with even more passion than I had before and have passed that love of reading onto my kids, they've become just as voracious readers as I am and I'm very happy about t hat.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
When I was 5 or 6 I was ill and had to stay in bed for a week or 2 My mum read the secret garden to me twice after another 2 times oof reading it she said thats it you want to read it read it yourself so I did and did nd iddid then I 'discovered' Enid blyton and it seems I never stop reading since. :D
hey papaya what about you??
ummmmm I'm not sure. I remember sitting on my grandpa's lap as he read to me, pointing to the words as he read. But what I think really pushed me over the edge was when my mom ordered those personalized books, with my friends and my names in them.
It just kind of happens once your here for a little while.Quote:
Question to all:
How does everyone get to know eachother so well? I am probably asking cuz I am relatively new here...but just curious
I employ sophisticated methods that would put Mr. Bond to shame.Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
3 answers:
1. I'm a Christian, and not ashamed to tell what I believe, and I have strong convictions
2. I've always been homeschooled, in first grade my mom used this boring reading curriculum, you learned words in a lesson, then read a book with those 10 words in it. It was so boring I hid a reading book. Then I started getting easy reading books like frog and toad from the library, and when I found new words, I just asked my parents or older sister what they were. Soon we got rid of that curriculum. (yay!) and I've really loved reading since then, so about 2nd grade. It is amazing to me that I have only been reading for about 6 years.
3. this is exactly how I learn about people-read their posts and somethings chat in different threads, especially live chat. pms. help too, because it is easy to get to know people that way. :D good luck!