воскресенье, 10 января 2010
15:12

The Green-eyed Monster... or 'Disdemona' means 'Unfortunate' in Greek

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
"O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy;"
"It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock"
"The meat it feeds on" [William Shakespeare Othello]
"Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave" Bible: Song of Solomon
"It is not love that is blind, but jealousy" [Lawrence Durrell Justine]

I wonder if it could be cured.... reviewing Shakespeare....:(




it's a human sign... when things go wrong
when the scent of her lingers... and temptation's strong
into the boundaries... of each married man
sweet deceit comes callin'... and negativity lands
cold, cold heart... harden by you
some things look better baby...just passin' through
and it's no sacrifice...just a simple word
it's two hearts living...in two separate worlds
and it's no sacrifice...no sacrifice...no sacrifice at all
mutual misunderstandings...after the fact
sensitivity builds a prison...in the final act
we lose direction...no stone unturned
no tears to damn you...when jealousy burns
cold, cold heart...harden by you
some things look better baby...just passing through
and it's no sacrifice...just a simple word
it's two hearts living...in two separate worlds
but it's no sacrifice...no sacrifice...no sacrifice at all
I gave my heart..


@музыка: Sacrifice

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00:40

The NLP ... or Neuro linguistic programming

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Presuppostions


NLP makes a number of presuppositions. Presuppositions or assumptions are the beliefs a person will find useful in effecting changes to themselves and/or to the world. (Some people call these as the "givens".)


Examples of presuppositions:

  1. Communication is more than what you are saying.
  2. No one is wrong or broken. People work perfectly to accomplish what they are currently accomplishing.
  3. People already have all the resources they need.
  4. Behind every behavior is a positive intention.
  5. Every behavior is useful in some context.
  6. The meaning of a communication is the response you get.
  7. If you aren't getting the response you want, try something different.
  8. There is no such thing as failure. There is only feedback.
  9. Having choice is better than having no choice at all.
  10. In any system, the element with the most flexibility exerts the most influence.
  11. The map is not the territory.
  12. If someone can do something, anyone can learn it.
  13. You cannot fail to communicate.


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суббота, 09 января 2010
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15:53

A Peculiar Quirk of My Mind :)

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Such a touching piece of music, so caring are the words... I've just caught myself crooning and humming it all day long...

Always On Your Side


My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away
But every now and then you come to mind
'Cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game
But when your name was called, you found a place to hide
When you knew that I was always on your side.

Well everything was easy then, so sweet and innocent
My demons and my angels reappeared
Leavin' only traces of the man you thought I'd be
Too afraid to hear the words I'd always feared
Leavin' you with so many questions all these years.

Is there some place far away, some place where all is clear
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
Or are you left to wander, all alone, eternally
This isn't how it's really meant to be
No, it isn't how it's really meant to be.

Well they say that love is in the air, but never is it clear,
How to pull it close and make it stay
Butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away
And I'm left to carry on and wonder why
Even through it all, I'm always on your side.

Is there some place far away, some place where all is clear
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
Or are we left to wander, all alone, eternally ?
But this isn't how it's really meant to be
No, it isn't how it's really meant to be.

Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear
How to pull it close and make it stay
Butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away ?
Leavin' me to carry on and wonder why
Was it you that kept me wandering through this life ?
When you know that I was always on your side.

@настроение: blue & sombre

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13:49

... nothing can take away these blues...

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
I knew it would be this way, it had always been before, and yet I did it...

I wonder how other people can manage it... perhaps they don't feel it that way... perhaps it's me who is not normal... does it exactly mean being shy?.. I don't know... It's the sense of doing something wrong, something that must never be done that hurts... It feels like something very precious is now in ruins, and can never be restored... Something precious inside myself... Anyway, it'll never be the same now...

Longing to be sheltered...




ps. should every account be deleted or locked, I wonder?..
Is it the right time for farewell letters?



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пятница, 08 января 2010
14:19

New Words to Learn and Words in Passive to Remember ))) (part 2)

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.


Talking from experience: having flung myself into chatting on the Internet I got so preoccupied with composing emails and messages, posting on forums, writing snail-mail letters, meeting people of different cultural background that now I really feel exhausted.

 

All I wish now is to fling all those unfinished letters into fire and to get flung out of all those social nets that were initially designed for dating. ('Dirty business!' she flung her hands up in disgust watching the pictures of young girls ready to get flung off their last clothes to make anyone fling himself at them.)

 

On one of my favourite forums I came across an aged man with so poor manners that I could hardly endure. We flung bitter accusations at each other and I had to reduce my posting there to a couple of threads only, yet now he is flinging me out quite vigorously. I don't have the nerve to stay there...

 

Well, I consider all that as the last fling before starting a new term :) Obviously it has brought in some worthy experience and knowledge, anyway I am happy it's all over, and now I can do things I am really into :)

 

ps. I enjoyed talking to some decent people, luckly they are very few, so I am almost sure I'll be able to handle it in future :)

 

Phew, I hope I got it right :)


fling (flung) was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.


Avenue is intended to let everyone have a last fling, and all `leftover" rubbish brought from      
    kitchen tables, freezers, cookers, desks or fling cabinets etc., will slide freely, without     
 of which he and his buddies break into just to fling themselves off the roofs. I know about him    
am amazed at Stephanie Calman (Let him have his fling, February SHE). Can she really be so cold? I  
  baby-face was one of the lucky ones chosen to fling a bottle of Lenor to the next woman in an     
   my breast, motherfucker [p] He describes his fling with a pneumatic, pouting cartoon in Cool     
  from 28 exhibitors; should inspire a highland fling. Last year, a cabin chest reportedly owned by 
   we had spent together had been a meaningless fling - something to be enjoyed at the time and     
   was campaigning through the pages of Popular Fling for rearmament before World War Two not as    
     and the kicker is that it was only a short fling, and it was over months ago." He laughed, a   
anything about these incidents at the time? Why fling them at Senna retrospectively? [p] Nor did    
   and pus-pocked arms that every evening would fling themselves around his neck, the sore-infested 
snatched a banana from my hand: when I moved to fling a pebble at it, I was cursed at by a man in   
because it is in decline. Before East Europeans fling their fags in the bin and join health clubs,  
  island, its central spine of mountains a last fling of the Andean chain. Legally protected since  
      grow in any kind of proximity they have a fling.  [p] [p] In December you recommended         
of night and neon.  [p] A lesser director would fling his two stars together, like fighting cocks   
  Bennett, fair-shares-for-all bit was the last fling of the 1940s, the swan song of the short-     
but here Daniele Gatti, enjoying perhaps a last fling with the LSO before becoming music director   
        eight d This game represented the final fling of what, by their standards, has been a       
          matches without that common desire to fling the machine out of the window.  [p] Sound is  
  the controversy over the summer of her summer fling with financial advisor John Bryan.  [p] The   
stars Barbara Hershey as a defence lawyer whose fling with her client (J T Walsh) comes to a bloody 
is also keen to see Villa's youth being given a fling after the success of teenager Graham Fenton   
   which is what counts [p] [h] Martina's final fling;Martina Navratilova;Tennis [/h] [p] MARTINA   
    everyone fall about with laughter: `Must we fling this filth at our pop kids [p] Whether it     
 returns to London.  [p] [h] Major's son denies fling;James Major [/h] [p] PREMIER'S son James      
  Winners' Cup final could turn into a farewell fling for three of their semi-final heroes.  [p]    
 [p] She told TODAY that the streak was a final fling before celebrating her 30th birthday next     
be salvaged at appalling expense. And Costner's fling with a local hula-hula dancer last October    
   Chris, 44, begged forgiveness for his latest fling with ex-nanny Maresa Morgan, 20.  [p] But     
    in which the arms emerge from the water and fling forward. He had copied the style from a       
able to rip the viscous strands of that web and fling them behind him. As always he was honest with 
 His eyes moved wildly in his head, he tried to fling himself away from Bob, but he was caught in   
This category includes the passionate two-night fling while attending an out-of-town national       
   vacationing together who have a brief sexual fling but quickly drop this practice when they      
He will wad the blueprints into tight balls and fling them into the lake. Then he'll get moving     
 University School of Engineering's annual food fling try to fling a pumpkin from a 10-story        
   [p] dark like me [p] that is my dream [p] To fling my arms wide in the face of the sun [p]       
   end product yeah when they're just you could fling an experiment together and it could end up





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четверг, 07 января 2010
13:40

Comin' In On a Wing and a Prayer ...

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Did you know that,

one of the most popular "Russian" songs of the WWII "Мы летим ковыляя во мгле..." sung be Utesov, was in fact originally written by Jimmy McHugh, 1894-1969 and supposed to be American war pilots' song. Compare:




One of our planes was missing
Two hours overdue
One of our planes was missing
With all its gallant crew
The radio sets were humming
We waited for a word
Then a noise broke
Through the humming and this is what we heard

Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
Though there's one motor gone
We can still carry on
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer

What a show, what a fight, boys
We really hit our target for tonight
How we sing as we limp through the air
Look below, there's our field over there
With just one motor gone
We can still carry on
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer

Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
With our full crew on board
And our trust in the Lord
We're comin' in on a wing and a prayer




Russian version:

Был озабочен очень
воздушный наш народ:

К нам не вернулся ночью
с бомбежки самолет.
Радисты скребли в эфире,
волну найдя едва,
И вот без пяти четыре
услышали слова:

"Мы летим, ковыляя во мгле,
Мы ползем на последнем крыле.
Бак пробит, хвост горит и машина летит
На честном слове и на одном крыле..."

Ну, дела! Ночь была!
Их объекты разбомбили мы до тла.

Мы ушли, ковыляя во мгле,
мы к родной подлетаем земле.
Вся команда цела, и машина пришла
На честном слове и на одном крыле

 

1943

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среда, 06 января 2010
12:09

C Рождеством Христовым ! )))

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.


One of my favourites)))

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03:44

Hey, people, what about being happy? )))

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Dearest PR (ПЧ),
What are your ideas of being happy?

As for me, it means a caring husband, my parents being alive (despite their illnesses), a nice letter from a nephew, knowing that my friend on the other part of the globe is ok, the second major holiday in Russia ahead, having my colleagues on-line and easy to connect with (in case I am going to truant my school - lol), very romantic music on :), lots of nice presents :), unabling my witch to harm us any more, no matter how hard she tries LOL LOL LOL :)


so, I am bouncing - lol :jump:

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вторник, 05 января 2010
23:22

About Addictions

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.


I've been crying all day long :) it's soooo beatiful.........

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22:22

Thank You For Hearing Me

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.



Thank you for hearing me
Thank you for hearing me
Thank you for hearing me
Thank you for hearing me

Thank you for loving me
Thank you for loving me
Thank you for loving me
Thank you for loving me

Thank you for seeing me
Thank you for seeing me
Thank you for seeing me
Thank you for seeing me

And for not leaving me
And for not leaving me
And for not leaving me
And for not leaving me

Thank you for staying with me
Thank you for staying with me
Thank you for staying with me
Thank you for staying with me

Thanks for not hurting me
Thanks for not hurting me
Thanks for not hurting me
Thanks for not hurting me

You are gentle with me
You are gentle with me
You are gentle with me
You are gentle with me

Thanks for silence with me
Thanks for silence with me
Thanks for silence with me
Thanks for silence with me

Thank you for holding me
And saying "I could be"
Thank you for saying "Baby"
Thank you for holding me

Thank you for helping me
Thank you for helping me
Thank you for helping me
Thank you, thank you for helping me

Thank you for breaking my heart
Thank you for tearing me apart
Now I've a strong, strong heart
Thank you for breaking my heart


'Thank You For Hearing Me

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New Words to Learn and Words in Passive to Remember ))) (part 1)

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
grumpy
dorky
compliance
cauious
respect
caring
timid
understanding
subliminal
frequently
lot of fakes
subdue
somber
snooty
detrimental
aware
flan
custard
bitchin =wow!
validate
que passa (Spanish)
de natha = nothing
que ondda (for Mexicans)
whats up
prude
picky
decent
even - placid; calm
to wing (smb) off -

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About Choices... or How We Choose Each Other...

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Long ago, about last month I was told that my English is out-of-date, not modern and not English at all. The most dreadful thing was that I knew it was true, and another crusial thing concerned the person who opened my eyes on my English. :( Poor I was crying desperately all nights till I found quite a modern book by Tony Parsons 'Man and Wife' (first published in 2002). Now that I've read it up to the end, I may say that I sort of like it. Can't say it's a masterpiece, yet it was rather pleasant to read mostly because it deals with marriage, family life, love, children and other human values. I wish I had now the most up-to-date English, however I guess I should read other books by the same author to get the most natural command of the language (^_^)

Actually, what I was going to post today is not about the language. The thing that struck me was the following:

He wrote: 'That's how fragile all this is, as gossamer thin as a spider's web, as intricate and fragile as that, meticulously built but easy torn apart by a few cruel, casual blows. My parents' marriage looked like it was made of sterner stuff. My mum and dad genuinely believed that they couldn't be happy with anyone else. And I knew that wasn't true for me. I could have been happy with Kazumi (his girlfriend). Just as Kazumi could find the human bond we all seek with some other man. And just as Cyd (his wife) could have found someone else to love her. That didn't make what I had with my wife feel like nothing. In some ways the knowledge that either of us could survive without the other made what we had seem even more precious. We stayed together because we chose to stay together. In the world full of choices, we chose each other. '

For me it sounded like a thunderstorm on a nice sunny day. Why on Earth people are bound to live together? It's so evident now :) because they chose to live with each other :pink: Is there love in it? I don't really know, it just feels comfortable to think of choices we made :)


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суббота, 02 января 2010
19:28 

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Love... or About Being Happy

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Love is merely madness...
William Shakespeare

Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato


Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul.
St. Augustine


Love seems the swiftest,
but it is the slowest of growths.
No man or woman really knows what perfect love
is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain


So, that's what it's all about :) Love, feelings, emotions... and deeds, because love is dead without deeds.

Why, where, how love is born inside a human? Is it an in-born quality that grows up with age? Does it dwell in the heart, in mind or both? Is everyone able to love? If yes, then to what extend? If no, then why do people speak about broken hearts?

Does love include only two? If to love means to care, then is it possible to love more than one person? Can we also love a friend, a brother, a parent? Or there should be another word for it?

Long ago I came across this definition of Love that I was captured by as it looks universal, true to everyone and everything, and much deeper and high above our everyday life. It feels wonderful because it's not restricted to two people only but speaks about the whole mankind:

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
It is not self-seeking, nor easily angered.
It keeps no record of wrongdoing.
It does not delight in evil,
But rejoices in the truth.
It always protects, trusts, hopes, and preserves.
There is nothing love cannot face;
There is no limit to its faith, hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things that last forever:
Faith, hope, and love;
But the greatest of them all is love.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

 

 

And what is happiness then, if not to be loved in that way? And what is the most desperate pain if not to be able to love in that way?

Is it not the desire to love that makes a person happy? If yes, then can a person be happy if he loves too many people in his life? It's not the feeling of guiltiness that bothers him, it's mostly the necessity to choose between the dearest people that hurts.

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." ( G.K. Chesterton ) seems to be the right manual in our world, rather cold and selfish. It gives the sence of achieving something really eternal and beautiful...
:unic:




This lovely poem is quite for the season)) It has been snowing in Moscow and it feels so warm and cosy at home...

Bewitching Snow



It’s crazy how bewitching it is tonight
Everything’s frosted and still
The whole world is holding its breath
As we crunch through the softness
Hand in hand.
The purple-grey sky is a blanket
and the world sleeps underneath
with sugar-plum branches
and sugar-snow icing
that frosts everything
magical.
The powdered ice-sugar
sifts down
catching my eyelashes as I look up
the air turns your breath to frost as you lean in
and your hand is warm in mine.

It’s crazy how bewitching you are tonight
As we lay here so close and so still
I feel your touch and I’m holding my breath
As we look to the future
Hand in hand.
Tangled here in this blanket
wrapped tight in your arms underneath.
The touch of your skin
the scent of your breath
suddenly everything’s
magical.
Your soft lips
graze mine
catching my eyelashes as I look down
the night dances with our breath as we lean in
and your heart is warm next to mine.

- Gina Giacopuzzi -




These are my two cents, rather awkward, I bet :pink:

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пятница, 01 января 2010
01:15

Nothing Compares to You

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

That's how we spent the new year midnight:
singing out loud old songs,
thanks to the fireworks the neighbours could not hear us singing
lol



It's been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing ...
I said nothing can take away these blues,
'Cause nothing compares ...
Nothing compares to you


It's been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong?
I could put my arms around every boy I see
But they'd only remind me of you
went to the doctor guess what he told me
Guess what he told me?
He said, girl, you better have fun
No matter what you do
But he's a fool ...
'Cause nothing compares ...
Nothing compares to you ...


All the flowers that you planted, mama
In the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try
'Cause nothing compares ...
Nothing compares to you


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четверг, 31 декабря 2009
17:43

Happy New Year

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

All my dear new friends as well as the old ones!!!!

May the year ahead bring you happiness and peace of mind :)
and let all your beautiful dreams come true!




going to have a nap till Nativity :winnie:


Happy New year 2010!

No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
Its the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Nows the time for us to say...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we dont we might as well lay down and die
You and i

Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks hell be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing hes astray
Keeps on going anyway...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we dont we might as well lay down and die
You and i

Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
Its the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what well find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we dont we might as well lay down and die
You and I.


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среда, 30 декабря 2009
09:56 

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вторник, 29 декабря 2009
13:56

Holidays Are On :))))

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
At last I had time to amuse myself and I really did it :)

(to go on press the line below :) )

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понедельник, 28 декабря 2009
11:29

Exhausted and Worn Out

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
I'm thinking of taking leave of most my Internet pages....
feeling sort of being fed up with chatting...
and rather upset to realize that all the words and emotions were false

kinda coming back to reality :pink:

:winnie:

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