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		<title>Freedom in your language</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the GVers asked on mailing list, &#8220;How do you say freedom on your language?&#8221;. She&#8217;s doing some bookmarks and stickers with &#8220;Freedom&#8221; written in different languages or something&#8230;.So lots of GVers answered her back in their language. Here are a few I noted from the list. In Arabic: حرية pronounced as: Hurriyah, Hurriyah [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the GVers asked on mailing list, &#8220;How do you say freedom on your language?&#8221;. She&#8217;s doing some bookmarks and stickers with &#8220;Freedom&#8221; written in different languages or something&#8230;.So lots of GVers answered her back in their language. Here are a few I noted from the list.</p>
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<li>In Arabic: حرية pronounced as: Hurriyah, Hurriyah (or Houria) is a very popular name in Morocco as well <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li>In Turkish: özgürlük or hürriyet.  While they mean the same thing, the first one is more &#8220;Turkish&#8221; in its etymology and the second is a borrowed version of the Arabic.</li>
<li>In italian: Libertà</li>
<li>In Malagasy it&#8217;s Fahafahana (pronounced as it&#8217;s spelled). It&#8217;s also my favorite folk song in Malagasy <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . French speakers will probably weigh in soon but if you are in a hurry, it&#8217;s Liberté.</li>
<li>In Chichewa it&#8217;s: Ufulu. </li>
<li>In Chinese :  自由 in Chinese (pronounced: zi you)</li>
<li>In Japanese: 自由 The same characters as the chinese, and the pronunciation is close too: Jiyu</li>
<li>In Danish: &#8220;Frihed&#8221; </li>
<li>In Norwegian: &#8220;Frihet&#8221; </li>
<li>In German: &#8220;Freiheit&#8221; </li>
<li>In Esperanto: &#8220;Libereco&#8221;</li>
<li>In Dutch: vrijheid</li>
<li>In Spanish (Español): Libertad</li>
<li>In Portuguese: Liberdade </li>
<li>In Catalan: Llibertat</li>
<li>Askatasun &#8211; Basque</li>
<li>In Malay: &#8220;KEBEBASAN&#8221;. used in brunei, malaysia and indonesia. <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  ke-bay-bus-an in pronunciation</li>
<li>In Macedonian: Слобода</li>
<li>In Albanian: Liri</li>
<li>In Tamil: விடுதலை. Pronounced Viduthalai. In Hindi &#8211; pronounced Swatantrata</li>
<li>In Hindi: स्वतंत्रता. pronounced Swatantrata</li>
<li>In urdu: آزادی &#8211; pronounced Azadi</li>
<li>In Bangla (Bengali): স্বাধীনতা (Swadhinata) </li>
<li>In Mapudungun: Kidunguneun  from Mapuche language.</li>
<li>In Serbian: Sloboda</li>
<li>In Hebrew: חופש . Interestingly enough, it comes from the root &#8211; חפש &#8211; which means &#8220;search&#8221; or &#8220;in search of&#8221;</li>
<li>In Russian and Ukrainian: свобода &#8211; svoboda &#8211; </li>
<li>In Persian: Azadi </li>
<li>In Filipino: Kalayaan</li>
<li>in Khmer (Cambodia): Serey Pheap.</li>
<li><strong># [Updated] #</strong></li>
<li>In Fijian: Galala &#8211; Thx Naomi for the word. See Ian&#8217;s comment below for more detail.</li>
<li>In Welsh: &#8216;rhyddfreiniau&#8217;</li>
<li>In Tumbuka: wanangwa</li>
<li>In Finnish: vapaus</li>
<li>In Lithuanian: laisve or valia</li>
<li>In Latvian: briviba</li>
<li>In Estonian: vabadus</li>
<li>In Polish: wolnosc or swoboda</li>
<li>In Swedish: frihet</li>
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<p>Quite a diversity in GV don&#8217;t you think? Anyways, after that much of replies have been posted from various authors, I realized that I haven&#8217;t replied in Burmese yet. So I quickly flick through my brain and found out that I forgot (seriously!) how to say &#8220;Freedom&#8221; in Burmese. Embarrassing! I asked my brother and he asked me back, &#8220;What freedom?, What are you talking about?&#8221;. May be he also forgot the word or don&#8217;t understand what I&#8217;m asking, he just brushed me off like that. So I asked some random Burmese onliners on my gtalk. I simply asked &#8220;How do you say freedom in Burmese?&#8221; What&#8217;s the Burmese word for Freedom?&#8221;</p>
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<p>Me: how to say Freedom in burmese? is that loot lat yay? loot lat yay is independence right. what&#8217;s the burmese word for freedom?<br />
X: may be &#8221; it can do as you like in leagally &#038; it can get all equally chances&#8221; I think friend..<br />
Me: no, i dont want english meaning. I want Burmese word<br />
X: so what? okok<br />
Me: i forgot the word<br />
X: it may &#8220;lute lat mhu&#8221; pot bya<br />
Me: loot lut mhu or yay? lute lat mhu&#8230;.ic ok thx<br />
X: but in legally nor you must careful in that.<br />
Me: i dont know those, i just forgot the burmese word so asking anyways. that&#8217;s all</p>
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<p>I don&#8217;t know what/how he understand my simple question but he started talking about legality and illegality issues and showing the sign of warning in his words. I was a little annoyed about the sensitivity of the word &#8220;Freedom&#8221; and how Burmese people take extra care to speak of it; I just don&#8217;t want to listen to him anymore so quickly say thanks and left him. But I still wasn&#8217;t convinced with the word he mentioned so I asked another friend. Here is what he said:</p>
<blockquote><p>May: bro, sorry to bother u<br />
Y: hi, nope<br />
Me: i forgot burmese word, how do u say Freedom in Burmese?<br />
Y: long tim no see <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' />  လြတ္လပ္ေရး?<br />
Me: loot lat yay or loot lat mhu? yay? mhu? confused<br />
Y: its depends, both are noun<br />
Me: true, ok thanks bro<br />
Y: sometime its even say လြတ္ေျမာက္ျခင္း<br />
Me: ok cool, i&#8217;ll note that as well<br />
Y: you can write မႈ or ျခင္း or ေရး , its depend on that sentence <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> <br />
Me: yep<br />
Y: <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  writing some articles?<br />
Me: ah&#8230;a friend asked how it called n I forgot the word <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> <br />
Y: ah, i see <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p>So&#8230;..the word &#8220;Freedom&#8221; in Burmese is လြတ္ေျမာက္ျခင္း (Loot Myout Chin) or လြတ္လပ္ေရး (Loot Lat yay) or လြတ္လပ္မွဳ (Loot Lat Mhu) depending on the sentence.</p>
<p>If you ask &#8211; What&#8217;s my point here? No point! I was asked to think about the word, I thought about it, turned out that I forgot the word, I asked around and now I got it. I&#8217;m a bit ashamed of myself for forgetting so I&#8217;m not posting it on the list but noting it down along with the word in other languages.<br />
THE END.</p>
<p>P.S: I gotta ask how does it call in Fijian.</p>
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		<title>GV Citizen Media Summit 2008 &#8211; Day 2 Actions</title>
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		<title>Talk: Bulldozer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scenario: Being the lazy arses as we are (Bro and I), we don’t even want to clean up our dishes after dinner and always putting off each other to do in turns. Bro: Do my dishes for me today. Me: I was gonna ask you the same thing. Why are you always copying me? Come [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Scenario</strong>: Being the lazy arses as we are (Bro and I), we don’t even want to clean up our dishes after dinner and always putting off each other to do in turns.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Bro</strong>: Do my dishes for me today.</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: I was gonna ask you the same thing. Why are you always copying me? Come to think of it, you always copy me and follow whatever I do.</p>
<p><strong>Mom</strong>: That&#8217;s right. He always follows you around when you were young. He repeated whatever you say and always following you. Lucky, he didn&#8217;t wear skirt but went for pants. LOL</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: That&#8217;s right. Back in school too, you used all my books to study.<br />
You took the same subjects as me.<br />
You went to the same Uni as me.<br />
You graduated with the same degree like me.<br />
Now we work in the same company, doing the same thing!!<br />
What&#8217;s wrong with you? Why are you always following me?</p>
<p><strong>Bro</strong>: Hey, I&#8217;m not following you. I&#8217;m just treating you like a bulldozer.<br />
Don&#8217;t you know in Chess, the pawns go in front and cover for the king.<br />
The same thing applies here. I&#8217;m just using you to clear my path.</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: You little!! @#$%#@$%#*!!!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Moral behind the talk</strong>: Being the eldest is such a pain especially with these kind of bad mouth siblings.</p>
<p>Regarding the matter of pawn and chess, I just read that the guys from Failed-Paradise were also <a title="Chest Porn" rel="external" href="http://failedparadise.blogspot.com/2007/08/chest-porns-ftl.html">cracking up</a> about <a title="Fiji Literacy" rel="external" href="http://failedparadise.blogspot.com/2007/08/fiji-literacy.html">Chest and Porn</a>.</p>
<p>I love the slogan for <a title="Fiji Geek T-Shirts" rel="external" href="http://dfiji.blogspot.com/2007/08/fiji-geek-t-shirts.html">geek T-Shirt idea</a> proposed by Digital Fiji.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em><strong>We are not chest porns to be played around with.</strong></em>&#8221;</p>
<p>There you go, I&#8217;m not your chest porn nor I the bulldozer. haha.<br />
I&#8217;ll just wait and see how the designs come out as. Whoever wear them, go around in town and take some photo of yourself. If you&#8217;re lucky, your pic might even get into the next day Fijitimes post; otherwise you can always show off yourself on your blog. <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Lunchtime Talk: A Corn Seed Story</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a typical lunch time conversation between me and my bro. Scenario: Today we&#8217;re having a fried corn curry and an incident relating it. Bro: Ah Oh, I swallow a corn seed in whole. Me: You wait till you shit; the seeds will come out whole too. Bro: Yah the seeds in the shit [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a typical lunch time conversation between me and my bro.</p>
<p><strong>Scenario</strong>: Today we&#8217;re having a fried corn curry and an incident relating it.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Bro</strong>: Ah Oh, I swallow a corn seed in whole.<br />
<strong>Me</strong>: You wait till you shit; the seeds will come out whole too.<br />
<strong>Bro</strong>: Yah the seeds in the shit hehehe<br />
<strong>Me</strong>: It&#8217;s gonna be very colorful with seeds LOL</p>
<p>(He pulse for a while trying to shape up the thoughts while gulping down his lunch)</p>
<p><strong>Bro</strong>: You know what; you should make a poll on your blog.<br />
<strong>Me</strong>: huh? poll?<br />
<strong>Bro</strong>: Yah, a poll to get a survey on number of people who look at their own shit while toileting. The options should go like this:<br />
Do you look at your shit while toileting?</p>
<ul>
<li>Yes</li>
<li>No</li>
<li>Always look at it</li>
<li>Never look at it</li>
</ul>
<p>Now, that&#8217;s a good one. LOL<br />
<strong>Me</strong>: LOL Man, if I do that my reputation would go down the drain. haha but good idea though. You look or no looking? haha</p>
<p>(we laugh our heads off &#8211; we pulse again &#8211; continue eating lunch &#8211; imagine what we just talk about &#8211; laugh again while chewing corn seeds properly.)</p></blockquote>
<p>What do you think? Should I make a poll out of it? hehe Nah I better not. This is already too stupid to blog about it. Come to think of it, I remember last time a friend of mine said, in Australia they are encouraging people to look at their shit after they done. By looking at it, you are more aware of your health problem cos&#8217; the shape and color of the shit tell you a few things about your health&#8230; or something&#8230;may be she was joking. I&#8217;m not sure on how they differentiate types of shits&#8230; may be I&#8217;ll ask her properly next time haha. So yes, <strike>looking</strike>examining your own shit is a good thing and we all should start doing it. OMG I&#8217;m so bad writing shits on lunchtime. LOL</p>
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		<title>Lunch Time Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 03:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[X: What&#8217;s for lunch today? Me: Chicken and Egg X: Very good; mother and fetus. Thought #1: I never thought of it that way before&#8230;now that he mentioned it, it sounds very eeky. I feel sorry to eat up the whole family. Gosh that&#8217;s it, I&#8217;m gonna tell my mom, not to cook Chicken and [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><strong>X</strong>: What&#8217;s for lunch today?<br />
<strong>Me</strong>: Chicken and Egg<br />
<strong>X</strong>: Very good; mother and fetus.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Thought #1</strong>: I never thought of it that way before&#8230;now that he mentioned it, it sounds very eeky. I feel sorry to eat up the whole family. Gosh that&#8217;s it, I&#8217;m gonna tell my mom, not to cook Chicken and Egg the same time.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: It&#8217;s not cooked as combination but a separate two curries. Egg, potato and green peas as one and separate fried chicken as one. Still&#8230;mother and fetus.</p>
<p><strong>Thought #2</strong>: You know, when you eat stake or pork or anything with lots of meat fibers, it got stuck in your teeth. I hate that feeling the most. Sometimes if it&#8217;s really stuck in between, you can&#8217;t even remove them by brushing your teeth. You gotta floss them with some thread. Oh I just hate that so much. So trying to eat less meat.</p>
<p><strong>Thought #3</strong>: Last night Mom says, she&#8217;s becoming a Peking duck because she missed her badminton games for a few weeks. I asked her what is that mean and she said Peking ducks can&#8217;t wonder around. They just sit in their own little boxes, get fed everyday and waiting for their time to get eaten. It sounds very painful just living to get killed. Mom said every animal live stock are just living and eating to get killed/eaten. That make us, human, to be very cruel beings. I feel very sorry for those animals.</p>
<p><strong>Thought #4</strong>: I recalled someone says, eating meat is regarded as consuming on dead corpses. That is just so gross.</p>
<p><strong>Thought #5</strong>: Going back to thought #2, I got another thought about tooth brushes. There is a Colgate tooth brush Ad on FijiTVOne. There is this big glamorous tooth brush and small normal tooth brush. It goes something like this:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Small Brush</strong>: Ah…excuse me Sir; are you the Colgate 360?<br />
<strong> Big Brush</strong>: Yes, I am.<br />
<strong> Small Brush</strong>: Is that true that you have a tongue cleaner?<br />
<strong> Big Brush</strong>: That’s right, not only tongue cleaner, I’m a teeth and gum cleaner.<br />
<strong> Small Brush</strong>: Waarh!!<br />
<strong> Big Brush</strong>: You see kid, blar bla blah……<br />
(The big brush talks of some explanation talk on his special features and stuffs.)</p>
<p>Finally the small brush says:<br />
<strong> Small Brush</strong>: You know when I grow up I want to be just like you.<br />
And the Ad ends there.</p></blockquote>
<p>Whenever that Ad comes, I always wonder this BIG question in my head:<br />
When a tooth brush grows old, you throw it in the rubbish bin and buy a new one.<br />
How can that &#8220;Small Brush&#8221; be just like the &#8220;Big Brush&#8221;?</p>
<p>C’mon, I don&#8217;t want to disappoint him, but he gonna go straight to the bin for sure. Unless you recycle him (upgrade to Colgade 360) or whatever. But he still going to the bin. LOL.</p>
<p><strong>Thought #6</strong>: I have another big thought on Coca-Cola TV Ad as well. This guy, he put a coin to the soda machine, the coin starts rolling in and there is this big Cola factory with all those cartoon characters bringing Coke bottle, filling up by mid-air Cola tank, icemen gets blown away by big fan to frozen the Coke bottle and they shooting fireworks as filling up the gas&#8230;and finally perfectly filled Coco-Cola bottle comes out from the machine. The guy took it and get confused by little Christmas music coming out from the box. The Ad ends there.</p>
<p>Now here is my thought. I like the Ad very much for all those cartoon characters and the music. But there is one place I don’t understand. There are some kind of puffy white dolls kissing all over the Coca-Cola bottle before it gets frosted up by icemen. What are they for? Are they for cooling purpose? But icemen pretty much done the cooling process.  So till now, it&#8217;s a mystery for me and I keep wondering what those kissing puffy dolls do in the Ad. If anyone knows the reason behind those puffy kisses, please let me know so that I can sleep well at night. LOL</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Surprisingly, my genius brother, who normally get the ideas from TV Ads quite easily asked me the same question about kissing things other night. So now we both searching for the truth behind kisses. Hehe.</p>
<p><strong>Thought #7</strong>: There is another Ad on &#8220;D-Power&#8221; dish cleaning soup. I can&#8217;t stand that Ad cos&#8217; it&#8217;s so awful the way they act in there. But the music stays in my head and can&#8217;t get rid of it. It goes &#8220;D-Power, Oielai lai lai&#8230;D-Power&#8221;. It makes me wonder what is that &#8220;Oie lai&#8221; actually express in there; does it make like &#8220;Wow&#8221; or &#8220;OMG&#8221; or &#8220;Zzz&#8221; kind of expressions?</p>
<p>Ok this &#8220;Oie lai&#8221; is the same thing/expression as &#8220;A Ma Lai&#8221; in Burmese. You can use &#8220;A Ma Lai&#8221; with different kind of expression depending on the sitution rite? Well that goes for this &#8220;Oie Lai&#8221; too. So in this Ad, I always wonder what expression does it emphasise upon. Hmmmm</p>
<p>Ok enough with stupid thoughts; they all started from Chicken and Egg story which go all over TV Ads.<br />
Now May, back to work!!!</p>
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		<title>Family Conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 02:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scenario: My mom checking out what I&#8217;m doing and curious about who my friends are. Me: tap tap tap&#8230;. Mom: what are to doing? Me: Chatting with Missy. Mom: Are they your friends? (Looking at my gtalk friend list icons) Me: yah Mom: who is the one called D-A-D? Me: huh? Who? Mom: D-A-D Me: [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Scenario:</strong> My mom checking out what I&#8217;m doing and curious about who my friends are.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Me</strong>: tap tap tap&#8230;.<br />
<strong> Mom</strong>: what are to doing?<br />
<strong> Me</strong>: Chatting with Missy.<br />
<strong> Mom</strong>: Are they your friends? (Looking at my gtalk friend list icons)<br />
<strong> Me</strong>: yah<br />
<strong> Mom</strong>: who is the one called D-A-D?<br />
<strong> Me</strong>: huh? Who?<br />
<strong> Mom</strong>: D-A-D<br />
<strong> Me</strong>: LOL it&#8217;s Dad!! Faygyi lay.<br />
<strong> Mom</strong>: Oh, you chat with your father across the room too.<br />
<strong> Me</strong>: You don&#8217;t know who the person is in the photo?<br />
<strong> Mom</strong>: well I can&#8217;t see the photo properly.<br />
<strong> Me</strong>: Yah yah that&#8217;s Dad.</p></blockquote>
<p>For some reason, I chat with my dad and brother on gtalk at home instead of go talk to them in person. Last time, I was asking something to my brother over gtalk then he started yelling from his room, why am I chatting him on gtalk instead of just ask him outside. My mom is the only one who doesn&#8217;t use computer at home so I do the proper talking with her the most. At work too, all of us talk each other over gtalk even that person is sitting a few feet away from you.  I guess I&#8217;ve been communicating with my laptop too much that I hardly ever need to do the real talking. These days I&#8217;m excessively using gtalk or emails for my communication purposes. Oh geez, what if I forget how to talk. haha that&#8217;ll be interesting.</p>
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		<title>April Fools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scenario: It&#8217;s April the first and I&#8217;m cracking my head to think up some prank ideas to play on my friends. I asked for some help from my genius brother. Me: &#8220;Phothar (his home name), we do some April fools. You got any idea?&#8221; Bro: &#8220;You are the fool and it&#8217;s April. Good idea huh?&#8221; [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Scenario</strong>: It&#8217;s <a title="April Fools Day" rel="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day">April the first</a> and I&#8217;m cracking my head to think up some prank ideas to play on my friends. I asked for some help from my genius brother.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Me</strong>: &#8220;Phothar (his home name), we do some April fools. You got any idea?&#8221;<br />
<strong> Bro</strong>: &#8220;You are the fool and it&#8217;s April. Good idea huh?&#8221;<br />
<strong> Me</strong>: (&#8230;..)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Lesson</strong>: Never to ask for help from a smart arse or you&#8217;ll get yourself fooled.</p>
<p>Have fun fooling around.</p>
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		<title>Salary Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scenario: The gangs are talking about salaries at USP (University of South Pacific). X: These gangs at USP, their base salary is 80K. Z: They are ripping off students. Filthy rich. X: What if all of us salary is 100K? Y: Fiji is not that rich. X: I&#8217;m just saying&#8230;what if our IT team salary [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Scenario</strong>: The gangs are talking about salaries at USP (University of South Pacific).</p>
<blockquote><p><strong> X</strong>: These gangs at USP, their base salary is 80K.<br />
<strong> Z</strong>: They are ripping off students. Filthy rich.<br />
<strong> X</strong>: What if all of us salary is 100K?<br />
<strong> Y</strong>: Fiji is not that rich.<br />
<strong> X</strong>: I&#8217;m just saying&#8230;what if our IT team salary is 100K? Everyday pizza&#8230;&#8221;<strong>Z</strong>&#8221; will be twice that size.<br />
<strong> Z</strong>: How Rude!!<br />
(* Chuckles *)<br />
<strong> X</strong>: Haha I&#8217;m just joking.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Thought:</strong> The higher the salary, the better/more food in take, the bigger your size will be.</p>
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		<title>Me and the IT Team</title>
		<link>http://www.mayvelous.com/2007/03/12/life-at-fijitimes-it-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IT team I&#8217;m working with at the moment is made up of very young and cheerful youths in their mid 20s. They do numerous daily routines such as maintaining websites, reports, support calls, tech job such as fixing printers and whatever people ask them to help with. Most of the time, guys are running [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The IT team I&#8217;m working with at the moment is made up of very young and cheerful youths in their mid 20s. They do numerous daily routines such as maintaining websites, reports, support calls, tech job such as fixing printers and   whatever people ask them to help with. Most of the time, guys are running around different departments and picking calls. Very few times, you&#8217;ll find them sitting at their desk. They do shifts and some stay   up really late to finish their work. Though they are busy, you will find them cheerful, always ready to make a joke and are quite loud. Sometimes they would pick on each others, calling names and saying bad   things against each other. They are doing it just to amuse themselves during the busy hours and bring up team spirit.</p>
<p>I enjoy working with them, they amuse me most of the times and would never get bored listening to their chatters. Indeed, it&#8217;s a good team and working environment (except for closely packed room).</p>
<p>The followings are some of their conversations I picked up today:</p>
<p><strong>Playing Music<br />
Scenario</strong>:The guy was playing some instrumental music and others starting complaining at him.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>X</strong>: May, if this disturbing you, let me know Ok? For the rest of you, you got no choice.</p>
<p><strong>May</strong>: It&#8217;s Ok.</p>
<p><strong>The Rest</strong>: Wow Vayah, Like that huh!</p>
<p><strong>X</strong>: It&#8217;s always been like that!</p>
<p>(*Laugh*)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>ID Card Idea.<br />
Scenario:</strong> The guys were discussing about their new ID card design.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>X</strong>: Hey who&#8217;s the best graphic designer here? What about the layout?</p>
<p>(One guy (Y) went up to the board and started drawing)</p>
<p><strong>Y</strong>: Let&#8217;s make it like this.<br />
We can put our logo here.<br />
Our address at the bottom<br />
Name here<br />
Photo here<br />
Then we can add Shimmering stuffs around here.</p>
<p><strong>X</strong>: What’s the shimmering stuffs?</p>
<p><strong>Y</strong>: You know, some sparkling things. Something like…in nightclubs. The shining stars and the sparks.</p>
<p><strong>Z</strong>: Oh rite, put some neon light balls and some dangling stuffs at the bottom of the card.</p>
<p><strong>Y</strong>: Yah then we show it to everyone &#8211; this is our ID card. Auu very attractive.</p>
<p><strong>Z</strong>: Haha, hey make it as Business card. Everyone wanna have one too.</p>
<p>(*Laugh*)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Spy<br />
Scenario</strong>: The guys were gossiping about something in quite low tone</p>
<blockquote><p>May: Alrite guys, I&#8217;m off</p>
<p>X: Auu, there she go. You know what, don&#8217;t talk around May. She&#8217;s a spy from Datec</p>
<p>May: What? Spy?</p>
<p>Y: Oh yah becareful with your confidential information. May is watching.</p>
<p>May: Haha yah I&#8217;m a spy. Professional Spy</p>
<p>May: May, James May &#8211; 0007 here.</p>
<p>(*Laugh*)</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Earthophobic Foot</title>
		<link>http://www.mayvelous.com/2007/02/27/earthophobic-foot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A conversation between me(May) and my bossy sis (Win). This time, we were on about sentence structure but the subject was twisted into &#8211; the Earthophic Foot. May: hey, fix this sentence for me I want to say, it touches me how to say that in proper sentence? &#8220;There is only once in my life [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A conversation between me(May) and my bossy sis (Win). This time, we were on about sentence structure but the subject was twisted into &#8211; the <strong>Earthophic Foot</strong>.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>May</strong>: hey, fix this sentence for me<br />
I want to say, it touches me<br />
how to say that in proper sentence?</p>
<p><em>&#8220;There is only once in my life I have a personal contact with them; ie. when I   tried to plant some vegetable plants and dug up a few earthworms.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>personal contact?? it sounded wrong.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong>Win</strong>: the 1st sentence- <em><br />
&#8220;the one and only time I encoutered an earthworm was   while digging soil for a vege plant.<br />
It was my 1st and last association with an earthworm, as well as gardening&#8221;.</em></p>
<p><strong>May</strong>: <em>The once and only time I encountered an earthworm was while I was   digging soil for a vegetable plant. I cut them half in the process. The cut parts   got twisted and jumped up on my foot; I run like hell and never dig the moist soil   again. It was my 1st and last association with an earthworm as well as helping   mom garden.</em></p>
<p>there that&#8217;s good enough</p>
<p><strong>Win</strong>: no!</p>
<p><strong>May</strong>: thanks. no that&#8217;s good</p>
<p><strong>Win</strong>:<em> &#8220;the one and only time I encoutered an earthworm was while digging soil for   a vege plant. I managed to mame them with my spade. Their cut pieces twisted   and turned, and ewwwwwww, came in contact with my delicate foot which   reflexively carried me far away, really fast.<br />
It was my 1st and last association with an earthworm, as well as gardening.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>there.</p>
<p><strong>May</strong>: full of shit!<br />
delicate foot! my arse LOL</p>
<p><strong>Win</strong>: hey, much better than urs<br />
ur delicate foot</p>
<p><strong>May</strong>: ppl will laugh n think i&#8217;m stupid<br />
delicate foot!!! LOL</p>
<p><strong>Win</strong>: fine, just write nonearth-loving foot</p>
<p><strong>May</strong>: sound stupid</p>
<p><strong>Win</strong>: foot</p>
<p><strong>May</strong>: yah foot is enough</p>
<p><strong>Win</strong>: nono- <strong>earthophobic foot</strong></p>
<p><strong>May</strong>: LOL</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Lunch time talk &#8211; The Prologue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the prologue of &#8220;Dura &#8211; The Eel&#8221; story which will be posted soon. Talk 1: The Source of The Story Conversation between Jachin (my friend) and May (me). Alisi &#8211; Jachin&#8217;s mistress. Jachin: Alisi sent me a couple of photographs this morning I&#8217;ve forwarded them to you. Very big eels May: Oh g8 [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the prologue of &#8220;<a href="http://www.mayvelous.com/?p=295" title="Dura - The Eel" rel="external">Dura &#8211; The Eel</a>&#8221; story which will be posted soon.</p>
<p><strong>Talk 1: The Source of The Story</strong><br />
<em>Conversation between <strong>Jachin</strong> (my friend) and <strong>May</strong> (me). <strong>Alisi</strong> &#8211; Jachin&#8217;s mistress.</em></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Jachin</strong>: Alisi sent me a couple of photographs this morning<br />
I&#8217;ve forwarded them to you. Very big eels<br />
<strong>May</strong>: Oh g8 thanks<br />
<strong>May</strong>: Duna means eel?<br />
<strong>Jachin</strong>: Yes, Fijian word<br />
<strong>May</strong>: they r huge!</p>
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<p><strong>Talk 2: Information Gathering</strong><br />
<em>Conversation between <strong>Win</strong> (my bossy sis) and <strong>May</strong> (me)</em></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>May</strong>: what do u know about eel?, i&#8217;m writin about eel, getting facts<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: slippery slimy snakelike finned water creature i see on exotic menus. Write about squid<br />
<strong>May</strong>: no, writing about eel. I got 2 great photos<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: there is recent catch in ross sea, by NZ of the largest yet caught squid<br />
10m, 450kg<br />
imagine, 10m long<br />
<strong>May</strong>: it can long up to 10cm &#8211; 3m says in wiki<br />
urs is too long<br />
r u sure that&#8217;s m or cm?<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: sobo latest news<br />
<strong>May</strong>: show me the source, url, proper link.<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: <a title="Colossal Squid" rel="external" href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21269279-30417,00.html">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21269279-30417,00.html</a><br />
<strong>May</strong>: 10m is&#8230;how many ft?<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: colossal squid<br />
30, duh<br />
incredible<br />
<strong>May</strong>: I said EEL! not Squid!!<br />
Eel yar eel eeeeeeeel!!!<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: n i said write about squid<br />
<strong>May</strong>: anyway that too is a good story, may b i&#8217;ll link it up<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: oh n also a dolphin dying of a broken heart<br />
<strong>May</strong>: what!?<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: coz trainer murdered, its refusing to eat n lost 50kg since<br />
<strong>May</strong>: oie! he&#8217;s in love with the trainer?<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: female trainer<br />
<strong>May</strong>: yah I said he = dolphine<br />
see i&#8217;m a good guess<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: if u want to write about environment, flash news on reef destruction due to erosion of pesticides with proof<br />
<strong>May</strong>: no no that&#8217;s enough about marine life. Not writin environment. may b later.</p>
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<p><strong>Talk 3: Unresolved Argument</strong><br />
<em>Cont- conversation between <strong>Win</strong> (my bossy sis) and <strong>May</strong> (me)</em></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Win</strong>: oh, abit of eel related, almost, its snakes, do u know, they, like turtles n salmon return to site of their hatching place to lay eggs interesting or what?<br />
<strong>May</strong>: that i know<br />
what about snakes?<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: what about them?<br />
<strong>May</strong>: u said abit of eel related &#8211; snakes<br />
what u talkin about<br />
aww aww, gotcha.<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: well, snake is almost eel related,<br />
<strong>May</strong>: snakes return to lay eggs like turtles etc.<br />
my bad.<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: but snaes return to their hatching place to lay eggs<br />
thats the story<br />
<strong>May</strong>: hey! snakes doesn&#8217;t lay eggs<br />
they go live snakes<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: oh my god<br />
<strong>May</strong>: no eggs<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: u stupid<br />
<strong>May</strong>: u stupid!<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: so stupid<br />
<strong>May</strong>: u r!<br />
the big snakes, i seen them, never lay eggs<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: look, only marsupils n mammals bear live babies<br />
<strong>May</strong>: they give birth to live tiny snakes, plenty of them<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: snakes are reptiles, like turtles, crocs, lay eggs<br />
u remembering old indianajones movies<br />
<strong>May</strong>: but some snakes exceptional<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: stupid<br />
<strong>May</strong>: yah i seen from there!!!<br />
they cut open the big snake stomach on the meal table<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: crazy<br />
<strong>May</strong>: n all small snakes come out<br />
n they pick up to eat those raw<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: thats a bloody movie for heavens ssake<br />
<strong>May</strong>: that&#8217;s true<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: snakes=reptiles=lay eggs<br />
<strong>May</strong>: i still don&#8217;t think so<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: omg<br />
<strong>May</strong>: where r the facts?? show me the proper facts<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: google it<br />
<strong>May</strong>: U google it!<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: search in any science txt bks.<br />
hey whatever<br />
<strong>May</strong>: whatever! snakes birth small baby snakes<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: u write that snakes give birth to baby snakes on ur blog n wait for a stream of comments of ur mistake to come ur way<br />
then u&#8217;ll face the embarrassment<br />
ur reputation on line<br />
<strong>May</strong>: oh yah!! I&#8217;m still writing!<br />
<strong>Win</strong>: good 4u<br />
<strong>May</strong>: GOOD!!!</p>
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<p><strong>-:: Prologue Ends Here. ::-</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this one, it&#8217;s good, really good. Very hilarious. Just listen properly.Chasers War On Everything &#8211; Americans A general knowledge questions: # Name a country that begins with &#8220;U&#8221;? # What is the religion of Buddhist Monk? # How many sides does a triangle has? # What is the currency used in United Kingdom? # [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watch this one, it&#8217;s good, really good. Very hilarious. Just listen properly.<a title="Americans Joke" rel="external" href="http://www.truthring.org/?p=3131">Chasers War On Everything  &#8211; Americans</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>A general knowledge   questions:</strong><br />
# Name a country that begins with &#8220;U&#8221;?<br />
# What is the religion of Buddhist Monk?<br />
# How many sides does a triangle has?<br />
# What is the currency used in United Kingdom?<br />
# How many kidney does a person has?<br />
# Starwar is based on a true story &#8211; true or false?<br />
# How many Eiffel towers are there in Paris?</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong>Politic, Current Affair:</strong><br />
# Meet Mr. John Howard – Prime Minister of Australia &#8211; Have you see   me on television? Thank you it&#8217;s just very nice to be recognized.   My slogan is &#8220;John Howard is my mate&#8221;<br />
# Who is Tony Blair?<br />
# Kofi Annan is a drink &#8211; True or False?</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong>Geography:</strong><br />
# Mark the country on the world map.<br />
# North and south Korea, which one is bigger.</p></blockquote>
<p>Typical Americans. HHHTRSF. Thanks KoSein for the <a title="Americans Joke" rel="external" href="http://www.truthring.org/?p=3131">Link</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was catching up on my feeds and this one amuses me hence sharing. 10 Replacements for LOL from Words For My Enjoyment. RRA: Really, really amused. LOTI: Laughing on the inside. SHRN: So hysterical right now. LLL: Living, laughing, loving. TTTT (OL): Too tired to type, or laugh. CCN: Commence chortle, now. WAGNGFL: We are [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Was catching up on my feeds and this one amuses me hence sharing.</p>
<p><strong>10 Replacements for LOL</strong> from Words For My Enjoyment.</p>
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<li><strong>RRA</strong>: Really, really amused.</li>
<li><strong>LOTI</strong>: Laughing on the inside.</li>
<li><strong>SHRN</strong>: So hysterical right now.</li>
<li><strong> LLL</strong>: Living, laughing, loving.</li>
<li><strong>TTTT (OL)</strong>: Too tired to type, or laugh.</li>
<li><strong> CCN</strong>: Commence chortle, now.</li>
<li><strong>WAGNGFL</strong>: We are go, no go, for laughter.</li>
<li><strong> RHIPWMES</strong>: Really, honestly — I’m pleased with my emotional state.</li>
<li><strong>IYWHRNYSML</strong>: If you were here right now, you’d see me laughing.</li>
<li><strong>LIDLIJDNEOTIIMBDTTFTAACIHAPWSOBTLOOMALTTRITIDL</strong>: Look, I don’t laugh. I just don’t. Not even on the inside. It might be due to the fact that as a child, I had abusive parents who sort of beat the laughter out of me. At least that’s the reason I think I don’t laugh.</li>
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<p>Holly mother! The last one is just so hard to remember.</p>
<p>So next time, no more LOL. Choose one of the above. LOL is too history. LOL. Oops my bad.</p>
<p>Oh adding one more to the list. A friend of mine doesn&#8217;t use LOL, instead he goes &#8211; <strong>LMAO</strong>, ie. <em>Laugh My Arse Off</em><br />
Are you adding some more?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t feel like eating these days. I lost interest in eating especially while I&#8217;m into something I won&#8217;t even bother to look at the food. It’s not that I&#8217;m dieting or anything. I never have in mind to diet and I don&#8217;t need to as I&#8217;m genetically structured as a tiny-thin homo sepian. Just [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" alt="Food" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/344077132_64bd6fbe3a_o.jpg" />I don&#8217;t feel like eating these days. I lost interest in eating especially while I&#8217;m into something I won&#8217;t even bother to look at the food.</p>
<p>It’s not that I&#8217;m dieting or anything. I never have in mind to diet and I don&#8217;t need to as I&#8217;m genetically structured as a tiny-thin homo sepian. Just that, these days I&#8217;m having very bad eating habit. When I eat, I eat alot and when I don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t touch a thing.</p>
<p>Am I sick? No, I&#8217;m just fine. Physically I&#8217;m all set. May be I&#8217;m mentally sick. <img src='http://www.mayvelous.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<blockquote><p>The most common element surrounding <strong>ALL</strong> Eating Disorders is the inherent presence of a low self esteem.</p></blockquote>
<p>OUCH! It hurts yet so true. What kind of &#8220;low self-esteem&#8221;, I&#8217;m yet to discover.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m 5&#8217;2&#8243; with 46kg. It&#8217;s been a few years my height and weight never go over that limit. I guess it&#8217;s normal that I stop growing in height but the weight is limitless so should fluctuate from time to time.</p>
<p>According to some standard weight vs height charts, I got to have around 52kg for my height. So I&#8217;m surely under weight. I do some checking and found out these common types of eating disorders and their symptoms.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Anorexia Nervosa</strong><br />
Anorexia nervosa is an extremely dangerous, life-threatening eating disorder in which a person intentionally deprives themselves of food and can literally starve to death in an attempt to be what they consider &#8220;thin.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Binge-Eating</strong><br />
Out-of-control episodes of consuming abnormally large amounts of food. People with this disorder eat whether they are hungry or not and continue eating well past being uncomfortably full.</p>
<p><strong>Compulsive Eating Disorder</strong><br />
Compulsive eaters feel incapable of controlling how much or how often they eat. They may feel unable to stop eating, eat very fast, eat when they&#8217;re not hungry, eat when they&#8217;re only alone, or eat nearly non-stop throughout the day.</p>
<p><strong>Bulimia Nervosa</strong><br />
Consuming large amounts of food in a very short period of time, and immediately &#8220;purge,&#8221; ridding their bodies of the just-eaten food by self-inducing vomiting, taking enemas, or abusing laxatives or other medications.</p>
<p><strong>Obesity</strong><br />
obesity leads to chronic and often life-threatening eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa.</p>
<p>Via:<a title="eating disorder" rel="external" href="http://www.eating-disorder.com/">Eating-Disorder</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Out of those, the most relevant one would be &#8230; Anorexic? My sister teases me everyday that I&#8217;m anorexia cos&#8217; I&#8217;m too thin compare to her (her so-called &#8220;Growing Child&#8221;, rather a little PIG!). No, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m Anorexia. Anorexics are those who starve themselves and dying to do anything to be thin. I&#8217;m definitely NOT anorexia, cos&#8217; I don&#8217;t like being thin and I never starve myself.</p>
<p>I prefer soup and gravy these days than solid food. I&#8217;m sick of meat, it sticks in my teeth. I hate milk, I don&#8217;t like cereal, I have a problem with butter, margarine, I dislike wheat and I&#8217;m scare of fruits. I guess my thinness is cos of deficiency in protein, vitamins, fibers, carbohydrates, etc in my diet. Haha I’ll die of malnutrition very soon.</p>
<p>Nah&#8230;My guess is, I&#8217;m just having mid-20s crisis such as stress, worries, laziness, <strike>family problems, life hardships, parenting, kids,</strike> too much day dreaming, etc, which push me to have eating disorder.</p>
<p>So, any of you have any irregular eating patterns or any solution to solve my eating habit, do share with me too.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m enjoying this post. &#8220;Everyone’s Happy New Year Is Ruining This Country’s Level of Productivity&#8221; I&#8217;m laughing at these strips. My Bull Shit How Dare You I&#8217;m changing Liz&#8217;s &#8220;this&#8221; word. I don&#8217;t like this. to&#8230; I don&#8217;t like you. I don&#8217;t think I love this. to&#8230; I don&#8217;t think I love you. I&#8217;m thinking [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>I&#8217;m enjoying this post.</strong><br />
<a title="Everyone Happy New Year" rel="external" href="http://www.pauldavidson.net/2007/01/02/everyones-happy-new-year-is-ruining-this-countrys-level-of-productivity/">&#8220;Everyone’s Happy New Year Is Ruining This Country’s Level of Productivity&#8221;</a></p>
<p><strong>I&#8217;m laughing at these strips.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><a title="Gaping Void - My Bullshit" rel="external" href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003587.html">My Bull Shit</a><br />
<img alt="Gaping Void" src="http://www.gapingvoid.com/11444661503-thumb.jpg" /><br />
<a title="Gaping Void - How Dare You" rel="external" href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003586.html">How Dare You</a><br />
<img alt="Gaping Void" src="http://www.gapingvoid.com/11444661502-thumb.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>I&#8217;m changing <a title="One word" rel="external" href="http://www.successful-blog.com/1/one-sentence-one-word-one-entirely-different-meeting/">Liz&#8217;s &#8220;this&#8221;</a> word.</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t like <strong>this</strong>.</p>
<p>to&#8230;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t like <strong>you</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t think I love <strong>this</strong>.</p>
<p>to&#8230;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think I love <strong>you</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>I&#8217;m thinking which changed phrase would sound better.</strong></p>
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