What your name means

What Nicole Means

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a "little" paranoia and jealousy. You "sometimes" go overboard in interpreting signals. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly.  You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily. You are a naturally creative person. A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable. You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life. You are dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you, maybe. At all times, you can be a very serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself. You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow. You are light hearted and accepting. Well adjusted and incredibly happy, most of the time. You are friendly, charming, and warm, sometimes. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a "little" flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

I got this from queeny`s. Thanks! (:

ohmymydayy!

May 30, 2o08

I`l make this blog in a bulleted points, in that way, it would be easier. (i think?)`cos i tend to go a lil further than the main topic. Nag-mimix-mix kasi kung minsan eh.. hehe!  :) Magulo kasi akong kausap, most of the times  (=

• Went into town with mates: ishna, ciello, kathy, regi, jr&pido.  We watched Sex and the City :p Good thing t`was Rated 15A or else, they would`n have seen it, including me. I wouldn of watched it on me own+ two of the girlies as they are only 16&17 or something like that. We thought twas Rated18  or something, but like I said, t`wasn so we`re glad (= We also bought some candyking & oh God, how expensive can it be. Was more expensive than Ben&Jerry's. If we knew, we cuda gotten the ice cream instead. Nehu, while watching it, Me& Ishna were kinda crying as we can relate to the whole relationship shitty story thing in the movie,  I know, we prob looked like a feckin tool in the cinema, good thing t`was dark & no1 seemed to noticed it. We prob wud`ve been slagged the whole time :p I can defo recommend this movie (=

* to watch it click here.

• After cinema, went to Eddie Rockets(empty your pockets!). The name says how much we all spent in the place :p  But it was all worth it, what can we say, were very fond of the American foods, compared to irish foods lol. more fats and chole doe! :( Stephen was there too, he had lunch with us but only for a few minutes as he had to leave real quick like, cos he is still studying like mad for his finals, makes him a nerdy lad now eh? haha! Soon to be a civil engineer, in like 2-3 weeks i think, so hopefully all these will be all its worth... I hope & it better bee! (; Demanding ASS!  After the food trip, we went home as 2 of the girls need to be home real early as they moving out into a different house, lucky bitches! (=

for more pics.... 

• Ive realised some things:
• BEWARE: Ranting&Venting mode haha! (=

1. I hate the way my feller diss me for exams. I know that him, studying  a lot and being smart enough to think about his future thats why he is studying a lot idea is actually a good thing & others mite even just think that I`m just a selfish bitch! Like, For me, he is the most important thing/person in my life, I can fuck up other things in life except for me, I can cancel things for him, in short if I have to do things for him, i would probably end up doing it by the end of the day, even though, my pride stops me from doing it. Like I really would do anything if I have to, you know what I mean? The bad part that I complain about is that, ehhh.... I don't get the same thing back? I guess, I'm expecting the same from him, obviously?  I definitely expects a lot and it frustrates me if i don't get it of if something I want don't happen. Stuck up B*tch? Not that bad, I hope. I'm just so used to getting what I want the the realization part, that I actually can't all the time I want, well, sucks big big time! I can't help but think, maybe ijustdontdeserveit, I mean the treatment I've been wanting& expecting?maybe, maybe. Only GOD knows! He keeps explaining that it's his final exams and that's what his four years in college are building up to. So maybe Is should understand him, I think, well I force myself to think, that eh, I "understand" him, but I get so frustrated and most the time naggy-angry me comes out! haha. I know him too well, like I know, if he really want to do something he will do it, no matter what happens kinda thing? But in some instance, he never really do that to me. 

hayyy! I dunno guys, HELP me! Let me understand him before everything's  too late....... =(

Got to go to bed now, I have work in the morning. & as much of a freak I am, I always count how many hours of sleep every night haha! even the excess minute is a big deal to me and makes a hell lot of a difference.Nutcase I am, i knowww!

Niteyyy everyone! HOpe to be back soon, if I'm not that tired from work as I'l be working whole day, Double pay-HOOORRRAAAY! :p

tagged (:

Bored, so took this survey thing i got from my friend(=

1) Single, Taken, or Crushing? Taken

2) Are you happy with where you are?Ahh, I'm never contented so i can't say yeh with no doubts, haha! ;]

3) When you meet the right person, do you fall fast?defo, whether it`s the rite person or not. haha!

4) Have you ever had your heart broken?ah yeh! sucks. =(

5) Do you believe that there are certain circumstances where if they cheated on you and you are planning to dump them then? huh? what? LOL

6) Would you ever take someone back if they cheated on you?NOPEEEE!

7) Have you talked about marriage with another person?No, don wan scare ya off! :p

8) Do you want children? Of course, who doesn`t?

9) How many?As many as I want? ahaha. No, 3 is the most :D i think? whatever happens, happens :)

11) If somebody liked you right now, what do you think is a cool way to let you know? I dunoo, in a way, nobody have ever done it haha? surprise? kinda romantic way?  Muahaha!

12) Do you enjoy playing hard to get?Not really, I dun really do that anymore HAHAHA! ;)

13) Do you want someone you cant have? I usta...

14)Do you believe love at first sight exists?Haven really ad that experience like

15) Do you believe in celebrating anniverseries? ahh yeh, even Monthsary? :>

16) Do you believe that you can change someone?Not really, I hoped and wished, didn`t really happen that way.. LOL!

17) If you could get married anywhere, where would it be? I dunoo lol, anywhere!? ha

18) Do you have feelings for someone right now?Yup Yupp!

19) Have you ever wished you could've had someone but you couldnt?Most the time :(

20) Have you ever broken a heart?yep yep unfo

21) Would you ever fight over a guy/girl?ahaha yeh ona daily basis with the fella :P

right grammar

These are Girls profiles taken from shaadi.com

These are actual ads on a matrimony site. Grammar and spelling errors have no place in a profile description as everything is straight from the heart!

Disclaimer : I am not responsible if by any chance you will forget your
basic grammar after reading this mail...

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- Hello To Viewers My Name is Sowmya , I am single i dont have male, 
If any one whant to marrie to me u can visite to my home. I am not a good education but i working all
field in bangalore.. if u like me u welcome to my heart... 
when ever u whant to meet pls visit my resident or send u letter..

Thanks 
yours Regards Sowmya ~*~ 
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i want very simple boy. from brahmin educated family from Orissa state 
she is also know about RAMAYAN, GEETA BHAGABATA, and other homework

(What Homework?)

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I am a happy-go-lucky kind of person. Enjoys every moments of life. I love to make friendship. Becauese friendship is a first step of love. I am looking for my dreamboy who will love me more than i. 
Because i love myself a lot. If u think that is u then why to late come on ........ hold my hand forever !!!

(The dilwale dulhaniya effect)

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i am simple girl. I have lot of problemin my life because of my luck now i am looking one boy he care me and love me lot lot lot

(I don't know why but this is one of my favorites)

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i want a boy with no drinks if he wants he can wear jeans in house but while steping out of house he should give recpect to our cast

(respect to your cast by not wearing his jeans? What the hell...)

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HEY I AM A GOOD LOKING GIRL,WHO HAS THE CAPABILITY TO MAKE ANY BODY TO LOUGH.I BELIEVE IN GOD AND ACCORDING TO ME FRIENDS ARE THE REAL MESSENGER OF GOD. THE 3 THINGS I AM LOOKING FROM A BOY ,THEY ARE 
1.THEY MUST BELIEVE IN GOD. 
2. THEY HAVE TO LIKE MY PROFFESION 
3. THEY SHOULD NOT GET BORED WITH ME WHEN I WILL TRY
TO MAKE THEM LOUGH.

(all of us might be "loughing" now..{laughing})

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whatever he may be but he should feel that he is going to be someone groom and he must think of the future life if he is toolike this he would be called the man of the lamp

(I am clueless, I feel so lost. Can anyone tell me what she is trying to say and what this girl wants)

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i love my patner i marriage the patner ok i search my patner and i love the patner ok thik h ai the patner has a graduate ok

(I am again clueless but I liked the use of "ok". The person is suffering from "Ok-syndrome". and what is " thik h ai the")

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iam pranati my family histoy my two brother two sister and father & mother sister completely married

(somebody please explain in comments section how to get married 'completely'?)

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my name is farhanbegum and i am unmarried. pleaes you marrige me pleaes pleaes pleaes pleaes pleaes pleaes pleaes

(height of desperation! )

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iam kanandevi. i do owo businas.one sistar.he was marred.

(No comment.....)

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hello i am a good charactarised woman. i want to run my life happily . i divorced my first husband. his charactor is not good'. i expect the good minded and clean habits boy who may be in the same caste or other caste accepted These are Girls profiles taken from shaadi.com

These are actual ads on a matrimony site. Grammar and spelling errors have no place in a profile description as everything is straight from the heart!

Disclaimer : I am not responsible if you forget your basic grammar after reading this mail...

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hello i am a good charactarised woman. i want to run my life happily . i divorced my first husband. his charactor is not good'. i expect the good minded and clean habits boy who may be in the same caste or other caste accepted ...

(but credit cards not accepted..???caste? new spellin for de new era?)

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Iam Sharmila my colour is black, but my heart is white. i like social service.

(Zebra..???)

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Matter of Taste by Matthew Sutherland

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO RELEASE STRESS.....

 This is so funny...take time to read all the way to the end.

 The following is from a British journalist stationed in the  Philippines .

His observations are so hilarious!!! ! This was written in 1999.

I have now been in this country for over six years, and consider myself in most respects well assimilated.  However, there is one key step on the road to full assimilation, which I have yet to take, and that's to eat BALUT.

The day any of you sees me eating balut, please call immigration and ask them to issue me a Filipino passport. Because at that point there will be no turning back.  BALUT, for those still blissfully ignorant non-Pinoys out there, is a fertilized duck egg.  It is commonly sold with salt in a piece of newspaper, much like English fish and chips, by street vendors usually after dark, presumably so you can't see how gross it is.

It's meant to be an aphrodisiac, although I can't imagine anything more likely to dispel sexual desire than crunching on a partially formed baby duck swimming in noxious fluid. The embryo in the egg comes in varying stages of development, but basically it is not considered macho to eat one without fully discernable feathers, beak, and claws.  Some say these crunchy bits are the best.  Others prefer just to drink the so-called 'soup', the vile, pungent liquid that surrounds the aforementioned feathery fetus...excuse me; I have to go and throw up now.   I'll be back in a minute.

Food dominates the life of the Filipino. People here just love to eat.  They eat at least eight times a day. These eight official meals are called, in order: breakfast, snacks, lunch, merienda, merienda ceyna, dinner, bedtime snacks and no-one-saw-me- take-that- cookie-from- the-fridge- so-it-doesn' t-count. --haha! c told yu.. we eat loads! :)

The short gaps in between these mealtimes are spent eating Sky Flakes from the open packet that sits on every desktop. You're never far from food in the Philippines . If you doubt this, next time you're driving home from work, try this game. See how long you can drive without seeing food and I don't mean a distant restaurant, or a picture of food. I mean a man on the sidewalk frying fish balls, or a man walking through the traffic selling nuts or candy. I bet it's less than one minute.

Here are some other things I've noticed about food in the  Philippines :

Firstly, a meal is not a meal without rice - even breakfast. In the UK ,  I could go a whole year without eating rice.  --cant live wi out rice--- Second, it's  impossible to drink without eating. A bottle of San Miguel just isn't the same without gambas or beef tapa. Third, no one ventures more than two paces from their house without baon (food in small container) and a container of something cold to drink. You might as well ask a Filipino to leave home without his pants on. And lastly, where I come from, you eat with a knife and fork. Here, you eat with a spoon and fork.  You try eating rice swimming in fish sauce with a knife.

One really nice thing about Filipino food culture is that people always ask you to SHARE their food. In my office, if you catch

anyone attacking their baon, they will always go, "Sir! KAIN TAYO!" ("Let's eat!"). 

This confused me, until I realized that they didn't actually expect me to sit down and start munching on their boneless bangus. In fact, the polite response is something like, "No thanks, I just ate." But the principle is sound -  if you have food on your plate, you are expected to share it, however hungry you are, with those who may be even hungrier.  I think that's great!

In fact, this is frequently even taken one step further.  Many Filipinos use "Have you eaten yet?" ("KUMAIN KA NA?") as a general greeting, irrespective of time of day or location.

Some foreigners think Filipino food is fairly dull compared to other Asian cuisines.  Actually lots of it is very good: Spicy dishes like Bicol Express (strange, a dish named after a train); anything cooked with coconut milk; anything KINILAW; and anything ADOBO.  And it's hard to beat the sheer wanton, cholesterolic frenzy of a good old-fashioned LECHON de leche (roast pig) feast.  Dig a pit, light a fire, add 50 pounds of animal fat on a stick,  and cook until crisp. Mmm, mmm... you can actually feel your arteries constricting with eachsuccessive mouthful.

I also share one key Pinoy trait --- a sweet tooth. I am thus the only foreigner I know who does not complain about sweet bread, sweet burgers, sweet spaghetti, sweet banana ketchup, and so on. I am a man who likes to put jam on his pizza.  Try it! -as weird as yu! haha-

It's the weird food you want to avoid.  In addition to duck fetus in the half-shell, items to avoid in the Philippines include pig's blood soup (DINUGUAN); bull's testicle soup, the strangely-named "SOUP NUMBER FIVE"-nvr herd of tis!-  (I dread to think what numbers one through four are);  and the ubiquitous, stinky shrimp paste, BAGOONG, and it's equally stinky sister, PATIS. (fish sauce)

Filipinos are so addicted to these latter items that they will even risk arrest or deportation trying to smuggle them into countries

like Australia and the USA , which wisely ban the importation of items you can smell from more than 100 paces.-thats how mad we are! haha...

Then there's the small matter of the purple ice cream. I have never been able to get my brain around eating purple food; the ubiquitous UBE(its a purple yum ice cream..)leaves me cold.

And lastly on the subject of weird food, beware: that KALDERETANG KAMBING (goat) could well be KALDERETANG ASO (dog)...-nvr ad tis! 

The Filipino, of course, has a well-developed sense of food. 

Here's a typical Pinoy food joke:  "I'm on a seafood diet. 

"What's a seafood diet?" "When I see food, I eat it!"--haha!

Filipinos also eat strange bits of animals --- the feet, the head, the guts, etc., usually barbecued on a stick. These have been

given witty names, like "ADIDAS" (chicken's feet); "KURBATA" (either just chicken's neck, or "neck and thigh" as in "neck-tie"); "WALKMAN" (pigs ears); "PAL" (chicken wings); "HELMET" (chicken head); "IUD" (chicken intestines), and BETAMAX" (video-cassette- like blocks of animal blood).  Yum,yum.  Bon appetit.sounds eeew-ish bt most ppl even foreigner loves it. aven tried it meself too..i mite wen i go home..

WHEN I arrived in the Philippines from the UK six years ago, one of the first cultural differences to strike me was names. The subject has provided a continuing source of amazement and amusement ever since.   The first unusual thing, from an English perspective, is that  everyone here has a nickname. In the staid and boring United Kingdom , we have nicknames in kindergarten, but when we move into adulthood we tend, I am glad to say, to lose them.

The second thing that struck me is that Philippine names for both girls and boys tend to be what we in the UK would regard asoverbearingly cutesy for anyone over about five.  Fifty-five-year- olds colleague put it.

Where I come from, a boy with a nickname like Boy Blue or Honey Boy would be beaten to death at school by pre-adolescent bullies, andnever make it to adulthood. So, probably, would girls with names like Babes, Lovely, Precious, Peachy or Apples.   Yuk, ech ech. Here, however, no one bats an eyelid.

Then I noticed how many people have what I have come to call "door-bell names". These are nicknames that sound like -well, doorbells. There are millions of them.  Bing, Bong, Ding, and Dong are some of the more common. They can be, and frequently are, used in even more door-bell-like combinations such as Bing-Bong, Ding-Dong, Ting-Ting, and so on.  Even our newly appointed chief of police has a doorbell name Ping .  None of these doorbell names exist where I come from, and hence sound unusually amusing to my untutored foreign ear.

Someone once told me that one of the Bings, when asked why he was called Bing, replied, "because my brother is called Bong".  Faultless logic.

Dong, of course, is a particularly funny one for me, as where come from "dong" is a slang word for well; perhaps "talong" is the best Tagalog equivalent!! !

Repeating names was another novelty to me, having never before encountered people with names like Len-Len, Let-Let, Mai-Mai, or Ning-Ning.  The secretary I inherited on my arrival had an unusual one: Leck-Leck. Such names are then frequently further refined by using the "squared" symbol, as in Len2 or Mai2. This had me very confused for a while.

Then there is the trend for parents to stick to a theme when naming their children. This can be as simple as making them all begin with the same letter, as in Jun, Jimmy, Janice, and Joy.

More imaginative parents shoot for more sophisticated forms of assonance or rhyme, as in Biboy, Boboy, Buboy, Baboy (notice the names get worse the more kids there are-best to be born early or you could end up being a Baboy-pig-).

Even better, parents can create whole families of, say, desserts (Apple Pie, Cherry Pie, Honey Pie) or flowers (Rose, Daffodil, Tulip).--wtf.. haha! bt it tru! The main advantage of such combinations is that they look great painted across your trunk if you're a cab (taxi) driver.

That's another thing I'd never seen before coming to Manila --taxis with the driver's kids' names on the trunk.

Another whole eye-opening field for the foreign visitor is the phenomenon of the "composite" name. This includes names like Jejomar (for JEsus, JOseph and MARy--get it? lol), and the remarkable Luzviminda (for Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao -its lik dub, wocklow, cork kinda ting..., believe it or not).

That's a bit like me being called something like "Engscowani" (for England , Scotland , Wales and  Northern Ireland ).  Between you and me, I'm glad I'm not.

And how could I forget to mention the fabulous concept of the randomly inserted letter 'h'. Quite what this device is supposed

to achieve, I have not yet figured out, but I think it is designed to give a touch of class to an otherwise only averagely weird name.  It results in creations like Jhun, Lhenn, Ghemma, and Jhimmy. Or how about Jhun-Jhun (Jhun2)?

How boring to come from a country like the UK full of people with names like John Smith.   How wonderful to come from a country where imagination and exoticism rule the world of names.

Even the towns here have weird names; my favorite is the unbelievably named town of Sexmoan  (ironically close to Olongapo and Angeles).  Where else in the world could that really be true?

Where else in the world could the head of the Church really be called Cardinal Sin?--it tru!

Where else but the Philippines !

Note: Philippines has a senator named Joker, and it is his legal name.