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Wow, Su Ann.. Your campus is very nice indeed. You look happy over there. Hehe. =)

p/s: Yes! Pls do write a post regarding applications to US colleges & tips on writing the essay. Would really appreciate it loads! Thanks. =D

From a fellow mother of an anencephalic child ((hugs))

I too lost a child to anencephaly. I chose to carry to full term.


I like the end question...I make a very similar take on that question when asked why I would want to put myself through the pain of carrying a doomed pregnancy?


Well if your 4 year old was dx with cancer & he had 4 months to live would you rather him go ahead & die so you dont have to suffer the pain of watching him die or would you rather have those 4 months to bond & cherish the time you have left with them?

Either way is so hard...too many mother have to go through this...more than I ever imagined. I dont see their being a right or wrong choice...its something no mother should ever have to go through.

((hugs))

Please stop posting crap like this

money isn't everything as you know. i said you had luxuries...not necessarily things money can buy although it sure helps :)

because it was posted before your reply. life in a bubble is bliss.

all the best miss Pinkpau.

there's a distinct difference between whining and simply stating a fact. so i'm not blessed with bucketloads of manners and tact and verbal eloquence as you seem to be born with. trust me im jealous already. but i think youve lost the whole point defending your lovely statements and Pinkpau in that 10/10 essay of yours....

i'm just saying, you know, given all the luxuries of living a carefree life she sure has a lot of reason to be depressed about.

should i elaborate? reality, for gods sake is more than the oh my god i'm blubbering because i don't know why i'm feeling this way. poor me. reality is clairol on sale not fucking top shelf redken. reality is not enough money not where are my malaysian coins, fuck i dont need all these foreign change from all these trips ive been making. reality is what to eat for dinner on a budget not ordering three pizzas and oh ive lost my appetite.

my opinions. bit late-coming but heck, feel free to disagree.

i do have valid points. Pinkpau can blog about whatever she wants. at the same time commenters can say whatever they want too. all i am trying to say is, that was how i saw it. in a way it was criticism but it wasn't sugarcoated. should it be?

look at porcupine. one negative response from miss Pinkpau and he/she is all apologetic. have some spine man. she's not made out of glass right?

often, blog commenters care too much about what the blogger thinks about them.

why can't commenters be as honest as bloggers often are?

dear charlie

and i said, quote: so if you are going to be touchy feely about opinions people have about the public Pinkpau perhaps you should rethink the image you’re giving us.

truncating half the sentence does change its meaning, and mine, so please don't do that and go off on a tangent. at least show me you understood what i was trying to say. properly.

sweet. princess Pinkpau moderates comments. can't you take a little honest opinion from a stranger?

hey your opinions are valid, so are mine: they're mine. and u choose to let us share ours with you. so don't be biased just because i'm not sitting on your side of the fence, or telling you things you want to hear, after all blogs are free speech and you get the same freedom to say the things we would in comments.

i've been reading your blog for ages, perhaps from what you portray or choose to share these are the opinions people make about you. we can't see past the surface that is this firefox browser because we don't personally know you. so if you are going to be touchy feely about opinions people have about the public Pinkpau perhaps you should rethink the image you're giving us.

and hey, species like "N" will always exist.

what a sad, sad existence.

am sure everyone here is terribly emphatic with the rich old boyfriend, social butterfly, expensive restaurant jet-setting-oh-woe-is-me, designer shoe fetish, cupcake-eating SAT student life you're leading.

i am, too, quite sorry that life is treating you sooooo poorly Pinkpau.

things will get better eh.

The pussycat dolls? For this alone we will send you back to school :D

most funnily written :)
i'm in wadala too, if its a good gym, pls recommend :D

Languages are not difficult because of words with different meanings!
English is a highly analytic language (compared to all other west-germanic languages), but still mildly synthetic nowadays (often called "rather isolating/analytic"), though it stems from indo-german, which was highly synthetic. So modernisation, which sadly begins to get a grasp on other germanic languages, for english meant "losing word flection".

Thus english _IS_ incredibly simple, because it is not very synthetic and not very analytic. It's the simple things of both worlds combined. Try to learn chinese (which is highly analytic and melodic, thus very hard to learn) or Finnish (highly synthetic). Or even Mohawk (sp?), which is, like most native american languages, polysynthetic.

German is in between. German is rather synthetic. That means most word classes yield to flection (Nouns, verbs,..), but some don't. These are adverbs (heute/today, ..) and adjectives (beautiful/schoen and such). I will not plunge into detail here, as english has those so you should understand.

I will give one example to illustrate the difference.
Consider the following english sentence, translated to german.

If it was not raining, Paul would be at the cinema.
Regnete es nicht, waere Paul im Kino.

In english, if, was, would, be, at and the denote the grammatical structure (if + 3rd form for conditional, ..). They are morphemes. In german, this information is fused into the words (flection). "Waere", "im", "regnete" are forms of "ist", "in" and "das" and "regnen". The words include grammatical information (thus synthetic/fusional). But there are morphemes (nicht/not, im is one morpheme, es, ..). Thus only rather synthetical.

English IS easy. That's not necessarily bad, even though I do not like it. I think poetry suffers if a language is analytic. I think that analytic languages are boring and sound repetitive. And in general sentences are longer. (Compare my 2 examples)

But that's a matter of opinion. On the pro side: English is easy, thus many people learn to speak english. English is strict in word order. Thus it is easy to understand the meaning behind a sentence just by analyzing the word order.

English is NOT one of the most complex languages of the world, it is one of the most simple. (German is not one of the most complex, but it is more complex). One could argue if analytic or synthetic is harder (I'd say synthetic and it's sub branches). But english is neither analytic nor synthetic. And emotion is neither a distinctive feature of english nor a special feature of any language group. Every language can be used to talk of emotion. Every language has different forms for different emotional meanings. And slang is not a feature of english, either.

Study the subject of language at least a bit before talking gibberish.

Well, Kiprusoff is still the better goalie! *sigh*

Heheh! =)

"'Listen'? What, you don't get the game over there?" Poor you. =(

Well, I guess we don't have to worry about losing everything to Colorado, but too bad about Edmonton not making the playoffs, though. :( But, realistically, we'd probably make it further anyway, so let's consider it an extra boost (by ranking us higher in the division), thanks to Edmonton. They're about as West Coast as we are, anyway. :)

Um, EEEW!! Well, I guess all those people that pick their noses while driving (thinking no one can see them) are halfway there .... Gross.

Good luck! I voted for you lots!

I wonder what colour chips Bill Gates gambles with in Vegas. Considering that they use chips to gamble so your losses don't seem as big, it'd still be like betting a penny to Billy, unlike for us "thousandaires".

I'll have to agree with Kathryn. There are better places to spend that kind of money. (Although, wow, Kathryn, what ring was going to be a down-payment??) I would be uneasy wearing a ring that cost that much, anyway.

It is tradition, but it doesn't have to be expensive. I'd be happy enough just having a ring (for the symbolic, not materialistic aspect). My friends told me how their buddy bought a 300.00AUD engagement ring for his girl. (They broke up afterward, but I don't know that that had anything to do with the ring.)

Fellows, let me introduce you to ... Moissanite. All the terrific qualities of a diamond (even sparklier) at one-tenth the cost. ;)

Heheh ... I still have to watch LotR:TTT! (And RotK!) But I'm looking forward to it, because the scenery is breathtaking.

As for the engagement right - I guess the carats is an easy measurement of how well off the man is (2-month rule?), but there are other factors that aren't as apparent: the quality of the diamond (or other gem), and the size of her finger! E.g., my very well-to-do friend bought his wife a 0.70 carat ring, but it is virtually flawless. But, if it were any bigger, it would look gawdy on her tiny hand. So ... can't really judge it by its size.

Iron Ring - some Americans? Really?? I thought it was still restricted to Canadian graduands. My female 'geer friends still wear theirs, as I do mine. Call it reward for suffering through all those years. :) Two of them that got married kept their IRs on at the wedding.

You also forgot ... ringtones. :) Ring ring!