The worlds most bestest place - Europeans gather here! :D [Part II]

[jessca]

Heres part 2 of the main socializing thread in the Europe forum. :excited: Keep it up Europeans... :bounce: :bounce:

Erm...we were talking about Thailand and Finland?

cologne is a really nice city. i spent a large amount of my time there. the church is called "koelner dom". :wink2:
no i havent been to Germany before....but ive heard its such a fascinating country to go to but one day, for sure ill go there and explore the german lands :happy:
sauerkraut : "koelner dom" church :hmm: how to pronounce that. I still can remember d Mcdonald store at d corner of d road opposite d church hehe
hey there Pam! my firends went to thailand and told me it was absolutely beautiful country! i`ll have to go there winter time though, cause i have a problem with heat ><

sauerkraut: whoa, you`re going to kuopio? are you visiting helsinki anytime? kuopio is nice, but it`s kinda small (just like all the other cities in finland :D ) you`re taking finnish lessons? good luck, i`ve heard that finnish is a hard language for foreingers, cause of the weird grammar. but it should be okay if you`re sticking to the daily language^^

[blue starlight]

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Originally Posted by sauerkraut
cologne is a really nice city. i spent a large amount of my time there. the church is called "koelner dom".

cool! i think my friend's in cologne right now. at least i think she is coz i just got a postcard from her in Germany with a picture of cologne. she really likes it there too.

[ftlouiea]

Hey there, I reckon Thailand is a great place!! And for those who say its really hot, well from my own experience, the weather is perfect. You dont actrually feel hot like you do in hk, coz hk is so stuffy and even if you stnad still, you begin sweating. In thailand, coz your near the sea, summer is alrite, you can wear jeans, and the feeling is like 25 degrees, even though the actual temperature is probably 32 degrees. know what i mean?? Well thailand is really beautiful and so relaxed!

[Sparkling_Jade]

dana: I know exactly what you mean! Here in Sheng Yan, the air is so still! I`ve been sweating like a pig here>< You can`t find a cool breeze anywhere and that`s why the air con is your best buddy! We went to Da Lian the other week, which is a city by the sea, and even when the temp was higher it felt so cool cause of the sea breeze! I was wearing a skirt and a top and I was actually cold in the evening! (Which never happens in Sheng Yan ><)

whee Part two already? I still remember when we 1st started the euro thread, I didn`t know any of you guys! And now I feel so much closer to ya!^^

Jess: I noticed that your CS` VP, good luck girl!! You really are better than the rest! :happy:

[ene]

Hello guys ! :wave:

No, I'm not from Europe but would love to visit it one day. Does that count ? :whistle: You guys have the most amazing mountains and building architecture. I'm jealous ! :cry:

I'm from the little tiny sunny island of Singapore, btw.

[sauerkraut]

i'm not sure how to explain the pronounciation in english, cos english doesn't have the oe sound... :hmm: "coylna dome" is the best i can come up with, but even that isn't too close to the actual german pronounciation.

[christinetang]

hey my fellow europeans!!!!!

missed you guys! wow this thread is kinda going slow now :sweat:

just to let you guys know that ill be away for 2 weeks cos im goin to HK and Japan on monday so i wont be here :sad:

tell you all about it when i come back :excited:

[jessca]

Aww..it has been quiet in here... :cry:

I guess the forum games have taken over most of the time we spend online.. =P

Anywhos, im leaving tomorrow too..i'll miss everyone! *bawls* I'll try my bestest to keep in touch from over there... :D

See you in Amsterdam, xtine! :wave:

[christinetang]

im also leaving on the same day as jess, which is in 5 hours time but i leave earlier than her so fingers crossed that i do see her in AMS, hehe

ill miss you guys too! :cry:

[jessca]

We'll bump into each other in the boarding area in Amsterdam, right? :unsure:

We're not gonna get to Amsterdam till the afternoon, so i wont be hanging around in the airport over there for long..i dont even know whether we can have McDonalds over there! We always have mcdonalds at Schiphol... =P

Anywhos I need to give you some stuff.. >< ..and i better be near you on the plane!!

Aiya..you'll be at the airport right now! I'll listen out for planes flying over the house...hehe..

[xJayChoux]

jessca, you really do love Schiphol, don't ya? :tongue:

gosh...i'm still in HK...i hope i can go back to Holland soon...:oops: sounds ironic huh....><

[sauerkraut]

hi everyone, i'm back... just got back from finland, where i've spent the last few weeks. although it was lots of fun, i feel so unbelievably exhausted. i don't think i've walked so much in my whole life. O.o that's probably why my feet blistered up... urgh... it's so disgusting. anyway, what have you guys been doing lately?

[Sparkling_Jade]

Sauerkraut: You were here already? How did you like Finland? Where did you visit during your trip?

I just came back form China a week ago, and boy, there really is no place like home! 2 months in China has made me appreciate all the stuff I used to take for granted in Finland, like the water, all the forests, the peace and quiet and even the weather!

[sauerkraut]

we were in kuopio most of the time, but we did go to other places like jyväskylä, tampere, savonlinna and helsinki, too. i really loved the lakes, the forests and the beautiful landscape, although i guess i liked helsinki best among all the places i've been to. i flew to kuopio about 4 weeks ago, and returned to germany only yesterday. :wink2:

in which part of the country do you live btw?

[Sparkling_Jade]

I live in Helsinki, and I have to agree with you that it's probably the best part of Finland.. All the other places seem so small compared to Helsinki..

Yup, finnish lakes are really something!

[scarletwillow]

Sauerkraut: You were here already? How did you like Finland? Where did you visit during your trip?

I just came back form China a week ago, and boy, there really is no place like home! 2 months in China has made me appreciate all the stuff I used to take for granted in Finland, like the water, all the forests, the peace and quiet and even the weather!

Hmm, when I went to China I didn't miss USA at all -___-
I wanna go back again, so bad...

Where did you visit? You don't know peace and quiet until you've been to Southern China :P (Yunnan)

[sauerkraut]

yeah, i think i took about a zillion pics of those beautiful lakes. :rolleyes: yeah, although i only got to stay one day and a night in helsinki this time, it was quite nice not to see all the same faces all day and all over the place like we did in kuopio for example.

and wow, it was so hot yesterday and the day before, so i was sweating half to death. :wacko: i never quite expected it to be that hot in finland.

[Sparkling_Jade]

Willy: I spent most of my time in Shen Yang, cause that's where my grandparents live. I didn't really like the place, but we went to Da Lian for a week, and it's so beautiful, I loved it so much. We were supposed to go to Shanghai as well, but it was so hot there and I can't stand the heat ><

Sauerkraut: Yeah, the weather here is so awesome now! The whole summer has been quite rainy up till this week.. It's like 27 celsius right now, feels perfect after 37 celsius in China :D Gonna hit the beach soon, yay! ^^ Did you go swimming in the lakes when you were here?

[sauerkraut]

Sparkling_Jade: i wanted to go, but i was afraid of all those bloodthirsty finnish mosquitos. i got stung a couple of times, which got really unnerving, cos it itched like hell and immediately started swelling up. anyway, most of the other ppl went to the sauna (although i never did) and then swimming in the lakes. do you go to the sauna frequently btw? and do you happen to know muuruvesi and saunalahti? they made us go there, and although i really loved the landscape, that's also where we all got our fill of finnish mosquitos. :wink2:

scarletwillow: what is it that you're holding in your left hand on this pic in your sig? just being curious. cool pics btw.

[yarukon]

nah..i dont like finland.. if i was in the 9th grade my class wanted to make a scholar exchange(hope its named like that^^)... , but i didn't want to go there

Okay...i was sitting then at home and had to go to school and didnt get around.. but it wasnt that bad :whistle: ..

u have to know.. i live in Bremerhaven(Germany) ( city near Bremen, at the North Sea("Nordsee")) and u cant do many funny things here :cry:

okay.....i had the chance to make my english perfect.... but now its too late.... and maybe i travel to another country this year with my school( i am in the 12th grade now)

[ftlouiea]

Finland have mosquitos as well? I'm sorry, i thought only asia had them!

wow u totally put me off going to finland sauerkraut!

yarukon... what put you off finland? not the mosquitoes i just said right??

um... i just kinda picture northern europe as very cold... and the months of complete darkness? yeah, thats what i picture... and that my cousins that live in sweden tell me its boring.

[sauerkraut]

yarukon: hey wow! :excited: another fellow german! :waves: welcome to jcnet...

ftlouiea: finland has TONS of mosquitos, i can assure you, mostly during summer time from what i've heard. there are also mosquitos in other european countries (like germany), but also in america and africa. so mosquitos aren't an entirely "asian" phenomenon.

[Sparkling_Jade]

Sauerkraut: Finland has mosquitos alrite.. But they usually lurk in forests and countryside though. Personally I don't like sauna that much, but almost everyone has a sauna in their home, it's a finnish thing I guess. Finns are crazy when it comes to sauna... in the winter they like to go to sauna and then hop in the icy cold water (and if there are no lakes around, they'll just roll in the snow. It's suppose to boost up your circulation.

Dana: Yeah, your cousins are probably right, atleast Finland is very boring, especialy in the winter. You don't even feel like going outside, because it's so cold and dark all the time. But Finland's summer is very beautiful, and the temp is just right, around 25 celsius ^_____^

[yarukon]

hehe

mosquitos suxx^^...

i dont know why i dont like finland... have no special reason :bleh:

yeah, thats right...its not so warm in the north of germany, but we had the last 2 weeks every day about 32° C :roll:

thats the reason why i'm havin a sunburn or exactly the 4th :happy: ....but now i am brown colord ;D..and everything is okay^^

hey sauerkraut: do u live in germany and where exactly? or just on holiday??? and do u like it here?? :wave:

*g*

[sauerkraut]

Sparkling_Jade: yeah, but i like finland despite all those mosquitos. and i did notice that finns are... er... a little... um... obsessive when it comes to their beloved sauna. they made us go to three different places for instance, just to have us check out the saunas there.

yarukon: i live in a small town near cologne, as i have most of my life. :wink2: it's sort of ok here, but there are lots of places i like better. and how did you become a jay fan btw?

[ftlouiea]

Hehe this image of Finns jumping into their saunas, then running out into the snow stark naked and rolling about... is ... ehem... hilarious! its like sauna-mania!

p.s. And ooh do you think Santa Claus gets in with this sauna-mania? Hehe...

[iny]

hello europeans jay fans. i am not european, actually i am taiwanese but was born in brazil.
but i am studying in europe righ now. to be more specific, i am studying in swityerland. anybody visited here? i feel so lonlely here... well, just came by to say hi...

[christinetang]

hey iny my fellow DKer!!!!

i didnt know that you were born in Brazil? guess your full of surprises then? :D

ive never been to Switzerland before, how about u tell me what you think of Switzerland?

[iny]

yea i am brazilian..but with an oriental face!! hehehe...
sorry..cant help you in guiding switzerland yet.. i havent stepped out of college since i got here... i have not even seen the town which i live in!! hopefully by tommorrow... so..au revoir... i will tell you more about it when i actually know this country..hahha... :)

[ftlouiea]

hey i went to switzers for a french/swiss exchange. the schools they have are local but god do they have great stuff: so many gyms and heated indoor swimming pools, oh and one more thing that was new to me, they take pride in their school. wait let me check where i went. ah went to La Chaux de Fonds.

[iny]

wow..really?? mine has none of those stuf...the gym is really small and they dont have a treadmill...only bicycles.. i prefer walking and jogging...no pool either..anyways..i havent heard of this school. by any chance to you know GLion? it is the school i am in...

[ftlouiea]

Um... have not heard of that place.. Sorry! Sounds like you are isolated within your college till people rescue you!

Why did you go there to study anyway?

[iny]

i came here to study becuase my school counselor said it was one of the best hotel manaemten schools, so i applied hre and got in... it is not exacltw how i though my college would look like, especially because they are pretty strict here. i though that in college i would have more liverty, but i guess thats the price i need to take...
today i went downtown to montreux, and did some shopping..basic needs. its amazing how thing are expensive here compared to brazil..i keep converting the currency. and it just drives me mad you know. but the view of the lake and place is really pretty. cant complain about that.
i geuss thats it.. bye bye...

[sauerkraut]

switzerland is definitely one of my fave countries. been there a couple times, and it's really lovely there. i usually stick to the german-speaking parts, but i'd really like to go to graubünden (romantsch-speaking) as well as the italian-speaking areas.

[Shanhaigirl]

Hey hey my fellow Europeans! :wave:

I haven't visited here in ages! :shy:
How're you all doing?
wow, Iny is here! :excited: you are studying in Switzerland now? that's awesome! i always thought Switzerland is a great country. tell us more about it when you take a look around :).
so it's more expensive there than in Brazil? is it clean there?

[iny]

hello!! yea i am studying in switzerland. i mean it is cool and everything, but i am still not used to the life here. i come from a big city and here it is a small town and everything is just too incovenient. kinda gets me mad actually, but i mean, there isnt much i CAN do right? hehehe...
yea, it is so much expensive then things in brazil, it is frightening. but their standard of living is much better so, cant compare to brazil. it is clean and everything, at least in the school.
you are from russia right? there are some russian girls in my class too!!! hehe...

[sauerkraut]

Shanhaigirl: long time no see! what have you been doing recently?

iny: in which part of switzerland are you living now?

and where are the others btw? :wave:

[ftlouiea]

OMG GOT THE GCSE RESULTS!!

sorry, cough cough, i am so happy :bounce: :bounce: gee i've been smiling all day!!!

[iny]

i am living in Glion, which is actually like in MOntreux. it is a famous tourist area, but i havent been around much tdue to my busy schedule in school..ah... such a pain, we cannot go anywhere during weekdays cuy we have not time and everything closes... anyways.. it is really small here and inconvenient, but everything is really pretty.. especially alke geneve... so yea..thats it...

[xJayChoux]

:oops: our forum has been a little dead...methinks.

so...hows everyone? had a great summer vacation? ^^ i did! i met jessca...and sugarcookie...heehee. it was fun. =P

hmm...your turn, jess? :unsure:

[Katie23]

Hey! I had a ok holiday, haven't been anywhere actually, got a job to save some money for college and my ticket to HK next year. Had a long holiday, twelve weeks :) Started college last week, so I'll be getting busy soon, I guess :( Where have you guys been to this holiday?

[xJayChoux]

Katie! hey...so youre from the Netherlands, too huh? me too! *raises hands*

ive been to Hong Kong. it was fun....bought lots of clothes and stuff...:tongue:

where did you spent your holiday?

[jessca]

hey katie! :wave: im jess, live in england hehe.. =) i was in hong kong, spent a week in korea too. had loads of fun and met up with sinny and esther. :D

so hows college so far? i had to go back to school just over a week ago after a 2 month break. its not that bad...expected it to be worse hehe..but you get back into the routine of things pretty quick.

i miss the summer holidays.. =( wanna go back to hk and go shopping with sinny again! *stomps feet*

[xJayChoux]

eeee...didnt know you already replied. :sweat:

anyway, i want to go back shopping, too! maybe next year...? :roll:

but anyways...theres something wrong with our premier or president's toe. :glug: dunno what exactly tho.

[jessca]

yupyup! definitely next year! :bounce: :bounce: (maybes lol..sure hope so!)

and just how random can you get, Sinny? thats gonna have to be 'quote of the day' in chimugur-kego next lol.. :laughing:

i hope your presidents toe gets better.. :console: XD

[xJayChoux]

:lolabove:

well...his toe was all over the news! he had to be taken to the hospital. :oops:

maybe some infection or something...not sure...dont really follow the news anymore...:sweat:

[Sparkling_Jade]

hahahaahah We're talking bout some guy's infected toe now? :roll:

I've been superbusy with my A-levels >_< so haven't been around for a while....
How are you guys doing?

Sinny: I ADORE you're avie/banner. can't... stop...staring...his....lips.... :love:

Jessca: Waah, are you guys trying to kill me? 2 sets of se7en at the same time!! There's no escaping, he's all over this threah. ah! I think I'm just gonna stick around. And stare. :D

[xJayChoux]

:roll:

heidi jie! missed ya lots! how are you? yup, we're talking about our president's infected toe. :tongue: interesting topic, eh? :bleh:

dont ya just LOVE Se7en? he's so cuuuuuute! can't stop staring at his cute pix...and the way he smiles....*melts*

[jessca]

^Sinny! :cry: you finally understand how cute and adorable se7en is! :hugz: jk lol

Heidi -welcome backies to the Europe thread! jia you with school hehe..dont work too hard! what are you doing for a level? :D imma gonna hang round here and stare for a while too...=P

[Katie23]

Hey xJayChoux! Seems we're the only two of The Netherlands...but there are many Jay fans in NL, most of my Chinese friends (girls) are...

I didn't go anywhere this summer :( But next year, I'll be going to HK :):):) Can't wait, cause then I'll go Jay stuff hunting, haha, I still don't have his real albums...

So you guys met in HK?

[Sparkling_Jade]

jecka: english and french, kinda nervous bout the french, mon francais est tres mal >_<

sinny: LOL I can't imagine any weirder topic than the presindent's infected toe.. :D btw, HOW do you et your toe infected anyway??? (might use that as an excuse the next time we have swimming in PE :roll: hohohohoooo *evil laugh*)

ooooh. se7en.... I've been staring those pics for several minutes and i still can't over bout how cute he is... hai..

Katie: You're going to HK next summer? Wow! heheh yeah then you can go jay stuff hunting alright. I was in China this summer and Jay stuff was everywhere! I was in heaven.. ahhhh :D

[christinetang]

:oops: this ickle european has been away from home for a while now....im sorry :sad:

just been soooo busy this summer with coursework, work, and holiday abroad...just didnt have time to check this thread so hope you guys forgive me....

Dana well done on your GCSE results...herd you did exceptionally well.....keep going girl !!!!!!

Sinny im sorri i couldnt meet up with you guys in HK cos my parents wanted to fly back with some of his friends cos originally i would have left the same day as jess but we didnt....but it would have been cool to see you in real life :wink2:

:wave: katie another new european...Welcome to our little family and i mean little cos its soooo tiny only a few active members about...hehe

anyways....ive got alot of things to tell you guys but some of you guys might know but tell you guys later cos im in lesson now....trying to avoid doing work!!!! hehe

[Katie23]

I'm surprised to see only few European fans on this forum, since there are so many Jay fans in Europe (at least in The Netherlands) and there are so many members here! But that also makes this thread a bit cosy ;)

[christinetang]

maybe they havent discovered this forum yet.....which is a shame cos then we will have a bigger european family in here. But bad thing...i have a bad memory so i wont be able to remember everyones names :oops:

katie have u did a did a profile in this thread? http://jay-chou.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2320, just so that we know a little abit about u :-)

[ftlouiea]

Hey xtine: truely, long time no see! I miss you loads :hugz: my results were cool, and Jess's too! :-) How is everything with your schoolwork and everything? I hope it is all gravy!

katie: we are sitting around in our own little european lounge on comfy seats with our feet kicked up and sipping our hot chocolate... doesn't that feel cosy!

[christinetang]

dana i miss u too!!!!!!!!!!!! :hugz: oh yeh happy bday!!!! i know im abit to late but meaning to send u a PM but been really busy dese days! hope u had a great one!

Dont mention school work cos im waaaaayy behind so now im workin my socks trying to get it done.....aiya!!!!!!!!

too bad i cant sit around and sip hot chocolate....got too much work to be getting on with so il check bk in when i have time.

love u guys!

[jessca]

Heidi - oohh..im taking French and English language too! And History and Maths. I think i managed to pick the combination which leaves me the most work.. T_T I can change my subjects, but im enjoying the courses, so ill just have to stick through it. im sure your french is great..otherwise you wouldnt be allowed to do it.. =P and plenty of practise in our french thread!

Dana - lol..xtine was with me when i got my results.. =P but how have you been? busy with work? =)

xtine - how you been? miss you...ive been so busy atm.. >< but youre juggling so many things at once. jia you!

katie - there are many jay fans in the netherlands? :excited: wow hehe...hope jay pays attention and comes to europe some time then...and yup, some of us met up in Hong Kong hehe. We just went shopping for Jay stuff lol.. :D

[Sparkling_Jade]

jessca: Thanks, my french is okayish, just getting confuse with the pronouns a lot of the times >_< so many of them... heheh yeah, the french thread rocks ;) sounds like you have a lot of work to do.. but you'll be fine. smart girl like you ^^

xtine: hey nice to see you here! it's been a long time.. i never see you online anymore :( don't work too hard, remember to have so fun in between! :wink2:

[Katie23]

jessca: I think their are many Jay fans in The Netherlands, because a friend of mine (who I know since last year) said: not another one, when I said I loved Jay's music...;) I hope Jay comes to Europe for a concert one day! Not to far, I don't think I could go when it is in Spain, but Engeland, Belgium, France, Germany and of course Netherlands will do :) Dream on...

I've had French and German in highschool for four years, but dont' consider myself speaking French or German, I only know some standard sentences, or words. I think it a waste of time to teach other languages if you only give two hour lessons a week, it just doesn't work. It's better to focus on only one language. Luckily, we had more English lessons :) Here in The Netherlands, many people speak/understand English. Television programmes spoken in English have subtitles, so you can pick up a lot of English watching television :)

[ftlouiea]

xtine: i had a nice birthday thank you muchos! ooh you remind me of my work i need to do... AS is so much harder.

Are you on A levels now? Eeek you sound too busy, make me not want to do A levels! :crazy:

jess: that must have been cool then! my work... other than school, i changed my chinese school :bigyawn: but only 4 guys in my AS class! :wink2:

hmm... i have officially quite french. i find that spanish is so much more fun! :happy:

[christinetang]

dana yeh im in my second year doing A-Levels and the courses that im doing (ICT and Double Travel and Tourism) which entails alot of coursework to be done.
guess wot...im struggling to keep up with pace cos im still behind in my coursework which was last years but im nearly done even though im shattered with all them late nights trying to get them done. Deadlines are really tight in your second year so be warned cos you dont wanna end up like me cos im struggling with managing my time....:oops:

[xJayChoux]

Katie, oh...do your friends also like Jay? :rolleyes:

Xtine, agree. would've been fun to see you in real life...heehee. but oh well...maybes next time! :happy: its great to see you on MSN again. ^^

OMG, it would be so cool if Jay held a concert in the Netherlands...even if it were a tiny little concert of half an hour! (:roll: ) i would faint right there if i see Jay walking down the streets here. :P

[ftlouiea]

xtine, i sure hope you do get on top of your work soon, we dont want beloved xtine collapsing coz of stress! :cry: :hugz:

i'm sure to take on your advice. i think. this system never kinda works until you actually get to the stage! :wacko:

... hmm ...

i'd like to see jay attempt a UK concert for once. :worry:

[Katie23]

xJayChoux: well, I hear a lot of Chinese girls are fan (I don't know many, but at least two I know are fan), and I think I've just made another one of my new friends a fan, I lent her the Eight dimensions cd, and she loved it. But for now, I think I'm the biggest fan of my group of friends, cause the rest hasn't even got all of his cds! I think Jay's list of European fans is growing, so there is always a tiny tiny chance he'll perform here someday, even it's is only for 1 song, haha.

[jessca]

the only chinese artist ive known to hold a concert in englands jacky cheung..he performed in london over a year back. :oops:

my friends in england know him, but cos the majority of us are cantonese and only have access to hk tv, its hard to get into mando music. but id say hes popular in newcastle.. =)

xtine - keep going!! :hugz:

katie - french and german? me too! i learnt german last year..could say i know the basics. now, im having to pick up french again after a year out. im definitely better with my french cos it was my first modern language, but its hard prioritising it over the german atm. ill be okie once i get back into it.. =P and i think its great how many languages you get to learn in the netherlands...you guys have excellent grasp of english over there.. :D *pokes sinny*

[Katie23]

I know some HK artists have held concerts in The Netherlands, but that was like ten years or so ago...oh, oops, gotta go to work...

Jacky Cheung...he wears weird clothes sometimes, like a purple disco shining blouse :S Like his old music though.

[xJayChoux]

Katie, what are you saying? some HK artists have actually held some concerts in our little country? :cry: you say what? 10 years ago...i was...*counts*....4. -_-

Jessca, dont poke me! >.< me no good! :oops:

[jessca]

*kicks thread* hey to the europeans! :wave:

Autumns well and truly here...i love the colours! Waking up in the morning is nasty cos its so dark and the house is so cold...but once youre up and awake and you step outside.. :D theres something different about the air and the birds and the sun hehe...

I think im gonna start carrying my digicam around with me a lot more now...just to snap some of the pwetty things ive been taking for granted lately.. =)

so whats autumn like in the other european countries? :happy:

[Katie23]

I don't like Autumn it's cold and rainy in NL, well, not at this moment, cause the sun is shining :D But I hate rain and that's what Autumn here is most like. But I have to say, love the look on some trees, those red/orange/yellow leaves, very nice. But I don't like them falling down, cause it makes a lot of blurry messes mengling with the rain :( I prefer Winter, cause then the Holidays are coming, and with some snow it's perfect. I love putting on a thick coat, some gloves, etc, a perfect winter outfit :) Or stay inside, with some hot chocolat milk :) But it gets dark too early...that's another point to Autumn, since then the sky can get really pretty with the sun going down.

[ftlouiea]

Hm. I dont like the weather of Autumn. Wind Rain Win Rain Chills. Other than that, and the horrible insects that come out, i like th colours and how everybody wears lots of layers.

Our tree next to our driveway has already turned auburn red, but the other trees are still green!

I need a jumper. Will go to topshop or H&M so i can get 10% off with my student card! Dude!

[Katie23]

You get 10% off with your student card? WOW THEY SHOULD DO THAT IN THE NETHERLANDS (NL)!!! Then I would go shopping waaaaaay more often, keke. We get a discount at the theater being a student. But not on clothes...unfortunately.

[christinetang]

a good advantage of being a student because you get discounts in most department stores but bad thing is that river island doesnt do student discount and i could clear the whole shop out if i did have discount !!!! :bleh:

[ftlouiea]

Yup Katie, we get discount! And all you have to pay for the card is £6.50. You get discounts at most department stores except River Island, and others i haven't found out yet. Drat, River Island is so great. How could they not discount us? And at HMV 10% and Pizza Hut 20% which is scrummy!

xtine. any others that dont do discount? i need to know so i can modify my shopping plans! Do Republic do it??

[Katie23]

Still can't believe it! So much discount is a reason on its own to be a student, haha. Oh, in NL, we can also get discounts on some tickets (i.e. plane tickets), and probably some other things too, like going to musea.

I have a Public Transport pass, which allows me to travel by bus/train for free from Monday - Friday, that's my gift from heaven haha.

[jessca]

hehe..katie, i've never had a bus pass..i dont travel on public transport enough.. =P

oh...dana, that student union card thingy? i was gonna apply but the school ran out of application forms and i never got round to checking online.. :glug: and now its past the deadline, yeh? =S

that reminds me...gotta check easyjet prices for a weekend to london...mum wants to take us shopping :rolleyes: i was thinking more paris.. :whistle: i need to practice my french, you know? :shifty:

[xJayChoux]

eeee~! i watched Domino Day, friday! :roll:

all of them were soooo cool! and i think theyve broke the record of last year...:rolleyes:

anyway...still 6 weeks or so to go before christmas...and my holz...:whistle: i cant wait that long...so much work to do...:oops:

[jessca]

Domino Day? :glug: as in the playing tiles with dots on them? :oops:

i cant wait till christmas holidays. i dont think anyone got enough rest over halfterm, so it seems as though its been non-stop since september. and although ive got modules in january, id still be able to get a week or so's decent rest. :D

we'll just have to stick through it together.. =P

and is it just england, or is it getting awfully cold outside now? so hard to get up in the mornings.. :depresse:

[Katie23]

Kind of, but it's something different. The dominos are tiles, but without any dots. You place them straightup on their shortest side and in a row...and when you're finished, you push the first one over, and tadaa, the rest will follow...haha what a lame description is this...

It was held in The Netherlands, but many countries participated. Domino Day is an upgraded version of the standard domino tiles, because they make very complex and beautiful images and constructions, like projects under water.

They did break the record, but only with 145.000 something, the 4 million was not passed by.


It's not just England, it's freezing here too!!! And raining too, today at least...and dark...

Humpf, have to work on my essay...it's not going very well, I'm so slow at writing essays...

What are you guys going to do for Christmas? I don't know yet. We have another festival first here, called Sinterklaas, who looks like Santa Claus, but isn't..very odd.

[xJayChoux]

i really like the one with the appear and dissapear thingy....lol...you could see some costumes of dunno which country. :sweat:

wah...i know...it's too cold outside, thats why im sick...i stayed at home today. :ill: sigh...have a headache as well. :dead:

[jessca]

Eeeeek...Sinny! :cry: Youve been having hoofdpijns? :console: aww..i hope youre feeling better....me miss you.. =(

katie - thanks for explaining! it sounds like fun hehehe...dont think we have anything like that here :glug: i dont celebrate christmas, so nothing for me..but i like the atmosphere. everyones so happy and its all festive! :excited:

i woke up to -3C outside today. its only november..too early... ><

edit: hoofdpijns --> hoofed pigeons! :roll: *calm*

[Shanhaigirl]

Hi my dear Europeans!!! Finally i can join you again!!! :)
I see there are new people here! Hi Katie23, it's nice to meet another European. I'm Patya, hope we'll be friends :)

Hey Jecka, Sinny, Chrissy, Heidi, Ftlouiea! :wave:
aww, Sinny, you got sick my sweet meimei? Hope you'll feel better soon! :hugz:

Jecka, it got cold in Newcastle too? It's freezing here! We've been having snow since Friday and it's snowing heavily!!! The wind is so strong, really don't want to go outside! Hopefully it'll get better till Monday.

[christinetang]

WAHHHH!!!!!! PATYA!!!!! you nearly gave me a fright, girl! when i saw your name on this thread, i was thinking that is wrong patya cant be posting here unless SHE'S GOT THE INTERNET !!!!! :bounce: :bounce:

im sooooo happy for you cos now you can surf for as long as you want and whenever you want! YAYYYYY!!!! missed you :hugz:

yeah, the weather is Newcastle is like unbearable and its only November now :glug: so i duno how im gona cope with the winter cos its gonna be the coldest winter ever!!!! AIYA!!!!

anyways....welcome home !!!!! :excited:

[Sparkling_Jade]

HI Patya! Nice to see you're back, missed ya heaps :hugz:

I bet the weather in Newcastle isn't half as bad as the weather here in Finland.. It's snowing! And there's so much snow that it's not gonna melt! :cry: waah. But I'm going to buy me a new hat tomorrow, so I guess winter can't be all that bad :tongue: It's just wayyyy too long.

[Shanhaigirl]

Lol, Chrissy, yeah, finally i'm back! :excited: now, i'm not gonna leave this place. well, the only problem is that my mom's not used to my sitting in front of computer this much and she's bugging me that it's bad for my eyes etc etc

Heidi , thanx, i missed you heaps too!!!
Wow, it must be really freezing in Finland!
It is awfully cold here. I guess our winter is gonna be cold too. I gotta go to a market and now and i so don't want to go out!

[christinetang]

heidi snowing already?! woah! we normally dont get slow until mid-december but snow's nice cos i have snowbal fights with my little sister in the back garden...kinda funny cos she always misses me when she aims one at me :rasp:
have a nice time hat-hunting, mei mei! :wink2:

patya jie jie even though you say you wont leave here, i wont let you anyways :whistle: your mum will get sick of telling you after awhile because my mum was like that at first but now she lets me get on with it :-)

[xJayChoux]

jessca, awwww...me miss you too. =( hope to catch you on YM tonight...haha thats not how you pronounce hoofdpijn....lol...hoofed pigeons...:roll:

Patya jie, hehe...im feeling OK now...thanks. :hugz: im so glad youve got your internet at home! :bounce: and thanks for that wonbin clip...but i cant open it...:unsure: i cant watch DAT. files? :glug:

[jessca]

PATYA!!!! I only read your SMS this morning lol, im sorry i didnt catch you last night.. >< hehe...but ill be able to chat to you so much easily now! :excited: and dad will be pleased, i wont be nicking off with his phone and using up his money now.. =P

i guess its cold everywhere now.. >< what with england, moscow, netherlands and finland, we've drawn the short straw.. :laughing:

xtine - youre lucky you werent at church today..you know how we had that power cut and there was no heating? it was unbelievably cold.. :oops: then the emergency lighting went off and all the kiddies were sent home early ><

heidi - heyhey again! :hugz: hope you find that hat youre after hehehe... =)

sinny - ill be on laters hehe...i really wanna get this essay done first. i gotta write about the features writers use to make narrative prose more interesting. :glug: and thats how i pronounce hoofdpijn..reminds me of how to spell it.. =P or maybes its about time you taught me another dutch word.. :rolleyes:

and .DAT files should play with windows media player anyhoos.. :glug: or you can change the format to .wmv by renaming the file..methinks.. ><

[ftlouiea]

oooh i feel like i've missed you lot a load!

hello everybody again! hmm i should add, i'm typing with gloves. I'm very warm! Hope you guys are snug, hate being cold you know, toes you can't feel. Nose off and running... :-)

[Shanhaigirl]

Chrissy, i really hope it'll be the way you said. well, during the weekdays i guess just like most of yall i won't be able to be online for so long anyways.

Sinny, aww, hope Jecka's advice helps to open the file!

Jecka!!! can't wait for u to get online. I hope u do it before i leave :) . Good luck with your essay. I have to translate this stupid article from Chinese into Russian and it's so difficult, much more difficult than the one i told you about last time,remember? about confucianism :sweat:
and i gotta write a composition about my family in korean, hehe.

ftlouiea, wow, typing in gloves. it must be really cold there. well, i wouldn't mind using gloves right either, so cold!

[ftlouiea]

Patya: Hmmm its not that cold actually.... I'm just making a fashion statement with my United Colours of Benetton fingerless gloves. Lol that was a mouthful.

Apparently it snowed in the UK somewhere? Any of you guys get any snow at your places?

[Shanhaigirl]

ftlouiea, oh haha, i see. those gloves must be cool! hehe What i need is another pair of socks! my brothers' room is so cold and computer is in their room .

don't know about UK, but it's snowing crazy here!

[Sparkling_Jade]

ugh. today it was snowing so much that i was completely covered with snow when i walked back home from school >_<

dana: that sounds cool, what color are your benetton gloves?

it seems like everybody's obsessing over christmas already.. i have no idea what i'm going to get my family and friends this year.. oh well, still a month to go :happy:

[ftlouiea]

Hey but apparently, when you get cold, especially in front of computer, it is because all your energy is spent thinking. The blood flows to your brain. Apparently, capital A. Lol.

Oooh Patya and Heidi, you have snow already? Ooohhh i'm so jealous... wait, i mite need second thoughts. freezing my toes off or no snow? Ooohh...

Heidi, they are pink! so cool! I think i'm in love. with them.

[Sparkling_Jade]

dana: That kind of make sense.. especially since you're not moving your lower body, so the blood can't reach your toes that well and that's why your toes are extra cold? hahaha. that's only my theory though.

pink! awwh. that's so cute. My new favorite color is green. Lime and pistachio look so nice when you pair it up with grey or some other neutral color.

[ftlouiea]

heidi! shhh and apparently if you'r thin, its because you think a lot. i actually don't think so, but its one of those useless jibberish facts that you bring up to debate over now and then!

Ohh yess and green. speaking of which i have a pistachio trenchcoat! lol sounds horrid, but actually looks good with jeans, and everything else actually. i want a gap tweed coat. any of you guys seen the sarah jessica parker gap advert with lenny kravitz? oh and nicole kidman's new chanel advert is classy!

[Sparkling_Jade]

dana: OH MY GOD you have a pistachio trechcoat? That sounds like the coolest thing ever <3 I bought a green Mango vest from barcelona, it sounds bit weird, but it's like the cutes thing ever. Too bad it's too cold to use it now.. :(
hahhaha then I guess according to that statement fat ppl have no brain activity? kinda absurd :D
SJP can pull off anything. She always looks so chic. I wish I could look like her when I'm 40..

[ftlouiea]

wow i worship mango! and zara to add to that. so amazing and expensive the stuff there, but relatively cheaper in spain! drat, i want to go to spain. i think i've seen them vests, with white writing saying "mango" right? well obviously... but yeah. whip it out when it's... summer... in 9 months? doh. and sjp, having had child too! But if you do a close-up, she does in fact have some wrinkles coming on.... :-) Understandable.

[christinetang]

hey girlys!

cool we talking about shopping= clothes my favourite topic hehehe

gotta say that i've only walked into one mango shop in my whole life which was in Marseille and that was 3 years ago because in Newcastle, we dont have one :cry:
gotta agree with dana that zara is a nice sophisticated shop but gotta add that H & M is as well! :wink2:
im like heidi, buying vests in the middle of winter but who cares if you like it then you gotta buy it because if you go back, there will be none left so grab while you can !!!! :-)

[Sparkling_Jade]

Chris: We don't have Mango here in Finland either, but we're planning on getting 2 (!) by the year 2006. So till then, I'll just have to get my MNG stuff from somewhere else... :( H&M is okay, I like some of their stuff, but sometimes I'm not so happy with the quality and it's so common for ppl to shop in H&M here that you're likely to see the same stuff that you've just bought on other ppl.. sigh. Zara is cool, their stuff is so much cheaper in Spain though! haha You're so right, we're the kind of ppl who buy swimsuits and bikinis in december!!

Dana: Actually this is what my vest looks like MNG vest (http://www.webpost.net/li/lilhihi/home_campana.jpg) (the color is nicer in real life though :D) Shopping in Barcelona is heaven! They have HUGE zara and mango stores there! <3

[Shanhaigirl]

waah, i love shopping! :excited:
We have a few Mango stores in Moscow, but don't think i've seen Zara anywhere here, hm. Is it that good?
Mango is considered a casual store here actually, it's not too expensive, so mostly teenages shop in there. But i like it, sometimes you can find really nice stuff there. But Mango is different in every country i think. 'cause in Shanghai the choice of clothing they had was so different from what we have here in Russia.

I gotta buy a new pair of winter shoes. gotta do it this weekend! I love buying shoes!

[ftlouiea]

Xtine: h&m! but me and my friends call it "hum" cos... we do. i pity you that newcastle doesnt have mango. but you have the normal topshop and stuff? but that stuff is so typical, people who solely buy from there are so horrid. we'll my school. but ted baker is nice :-)

Heidi: nice vest! looks very sassy, dont you think? Lol. I'm trying to imagine myself in the huge stores in Spain. Relatively cheap as well, right? hmmm*

Yeah Patya, different in every country. Here its around late teens and early lady age, very classy. stuff that you can wear as a business woman, with a little chic. Say, HK have really skimpy stuff and "cute" styles in comparison. So yeah, different audience, different clothes.

Hmm need some boots, classy ones. I reckon every girl is either a bag person, or a shoe person, or BOTH. Me, I'm a shoe person, every type of shoe does it for me. :-)

Currently searching my ass off for stilettos with black satin ballerina-style ribbon that you tie up your leg. See any?

[Shanhaigirl]

hehe,i'm definitely a shoe person :). I looooove shoes! when i was in China it was a disaster for me, 'cause Chinese feet are so small and i could hardly find any shoes of my size! I bought only like 2 or 3 pairs during the whole year :(.
Moscow is heaven for shoe lovers actually! But i'm still having hard times finding what i like.

Dana, haven't seen any stilettos that you're searching for :). they sound nice though! hehe

[ftlouiea]

Patya, shoe buddy! Hmm how can it be? What size are you? I doubt you''re size 13 like my friend's friend is. Lol. Keep searching anyway, coz you'll meet your one love. Shoes i meant. Lol.

Hmm stilettos of my dreams. And rounded toe high shoes are nice. Hate pointed shoes/ boots coz they always elongate your feet.

[FreaK]

ur tokin bout shopping?!
i dun really like h&m. but i often buy underwear there hehe :whistle:
we do have some mango stores too in austria.

[ftlouiea]

Yup shopping. Hey freak... don't you have a name we can call you? I mean, i feel a bit strange calling you a freak, dont you find it a tad bit insulting? :-)

Hmm austria, you have h&m there too? Wow that's cool. Off to dinner, tell me what other shops you have there, not too mainstream ones.

[FreaK]

well...hahaha....i like FreaK..hehe..coz i am one ^^
but i can call me Mik or Michi :wink2:

hmm...we do have C&A, Pimky, Orsay, Xanaka,..
do u know them or some of them?

[Shanhaigirl]

Dana, in Russia my size is 39. i don't know if it's equal to 13 in this case , hehe .
and i don't like pointed shoes either! they make my feet even longer :cry: . besides round toe ones are so in fashion now!

Mik , i'd rather call you that instead of Freak, haha. i kinda feel weird calling you Freak too.
we don't have any of the shops you mentioned in Moscow :shy: .

[jessca]

heyhey Mik! id prefer to call you that too hehe...im Jess.. =)

ooh..they have H&Ms all around Scandanavia too hehe..i was in Copenhagen..or was it Oslo...and there were H&Ms at every street corner. :glug:

C&A...aww...they closed down in the UK at least 5 years ago now. :oops:

[FreaK]

MiK is ok ;)
i dun like C&A...they have weird style..hahahah...and i hate the underwear there...hahahah.
actually, i dun like any of these stores i mentioned..
where should i buy my clothes?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!??.....

[jessca]

my favourite store at the moment is..Zara...and ive been getting a lot from Jane Norman recently. i like H&M too, unless the layouts too messy and there are clothes everywhere. i just shop anywhere lol!

the shopping centre near me is now the biggest in Europe, so ive never had problems finding clothes hehe..its finding the time to go shopping now. =X

[FreaK]

hmm....im not sure wether i know zara or not......
the shopping centres in austria sux....
i hate the price in europe! everythings so expensive..
if u go to china, u find clothes very cheap! like 1?....

[xJayChoux]

ooh i love zara! all their clothes are so pretty! i really love their shirts they sometimes have. H&M isnt bad either, its cheaper than zara...lol. but you can find the most simplest things there...love to shop there. :happy:

i dont like C&A....their clothes are so weird...when its a shirt it looks like jeans...when its jeans...it looks like a shirt. :dead:

[jessca]

LOL! C&A that bad? when it was still open in England, i was probably 6 or 7 so i didnt mind clothes like that! :laughing:

hehe...Zaras really good for simple basics. and i love how the shops laid out too...nice and colour coordinated! its really depressing though, cos the sizes are so small. im a size UK 8-10, but i prefer a Zara L. :glug: is it just the UK? or just me? :oops:

[ftlouiea]

Really? Zara don't have L for 8-10... they have european sizes e.g. 36, the last time i checked.

i'm a sucker for different shirts rite now, the combo of knitted top and shirt underneath. "I'm Lovin' it" as Justin Timberlake would say...

C&A is kinda like BHS rite now. Not nice, very oldies. :?

[FreaK]

u like Justin Timberlake?

C&A sux...i really dun like their new ''style'' some time ago the style there was better.

[jessca]

dana - i just dont get the way they size clothes in different shops. >< my last top from zara was Europe L...whatever that means. :glug: but im usually a size 10....so 10 to Europeans is L? :unsure: or arent i buying them tight enough lol!

and BHS hehe...the last time i bought something from there was my junior choir uniform at least 5 years back lol! i really like debenhams at the minute though, we had one open a coupla months ago in newcastle...we got a mango too...which is big for us.. =P

[ftlouiea]

Lol me like Justin? You must be dreaming...

hmm jess: i think i remember now, i got a top from mango which was M and was slightly tight >_< but yeah, they have small sizes!! or its just me and you :?

yeah debenhams is good coz it has a wide range of brands all rolled into one store. they have faith there! i want one of them bags they give you when you buy a pair of shoes. :-)

[Katie23]

Hey! I haven't been on the forum for a while, but if I had known you were talking about shopping/clothes.... :excited:

I love clothes, but don't buy a lot. Unless I'm in another country, then I buy lots. If you look at my summer clothing, I can say that 80% is bought in another country, lol. :bleh: Yeah, when I'm on vacation, I tend to buy more than when I'm in NL.

I mostly go to Esprit, Mexx, Mango, but also buy clothes at nonbrandshops. OMG, thinking about cloths really makes me want to go out and buy myself some beautiful cloths for the Winter, including gloves, shawls, boots, a big sweater, nice warm socks, a hat, I've got my perfect outfit in my head already... :rolleyes:

[XiaoWuan]

sauerkraut: cool...you can speak german! i can speak german too!
i live in austria! hallo wie gehts??? :-)

[sauerkraut]

sauerkraut: cool...you can speak german! i can speak german too!
i live in austria! hallo wie gehts??? :-)

oh, hey, another austrian jay fan! :wave: mir geht's gut, danke, und dir? :happy:

[XiaoWuan]

sauerkraut: hallo mir geht es ganz gut! ich finde es toll das du deutsch kannst!

du kennst doch sicher Freak oder??? wenn ja sie is meine cousine!.... :-)

[FreaK]

hahaha...klar kennt mich sauerkraut .
es wurde mir gesagt dass es nicht erlaubt sei, in foren deutsch oder andere sprachen ausser englisch zu schreiben. ist das wahr?! ich hoffe nicht...

[xJayChoux]

wah....das ist sehr toll!

i didnt know XiaoWuans your cousin, FreaK! :excited:

wow...lol...O.o thats....cool. haha have never experienced this before...(FreaK, thanks for spreading the love of Jay =P)

[jessca]

Awww..cousins? hehe...but i dont think i would have realised unless sinny said it in english. i think ive totally forgotten all my german already.. ><

but thanks for spreading the Jay love hehe..the European forum has expanded so much so quickly! :D

Sinny - we've got sisters in the surfers.. =P

[FreaK]

hehehheehe...i'm spreadin love everywhere i can :wink2:
i think, without me, XiaoWuan wouldnt even know who Jay is....I THINK....
dun understand wrongly, dear couzn...;)

[Shanhaigirl]

wow, Kathy and Mik are cousins? how cool! :excited:
i wish i could make my cousins come here, haha.

Jecka, who are sisters in the surfers? :?

and yeah, thanx to Sinny for translating the cousin part :wink2:

[sauerkraut]

sauerkraut: hallo mir geht es ganz gut! ich finde es toll das du deutsch kannst!

du kennst doch sicher Freak oder??? wenn ja sie is meine cousine!.... :-)

oh, i didn't you were cousins. i think it might not be polite if we use german all the time, but i think / hope it's ok if we do it every once in a while...? :? :angel:

[xJayChoux]

lol. no problem. =P

but yeah, jessca unnie, who're sisters in CS? :glug: tell me! *bounces*

[jessca]

lol okie, just to stop Sinny bursting with excitement.. :rolleyes: =P

Miss Gun and Sakura are sisters hehe.. =) im sure you know Jans, but Sakura hasnt been well lately, so we've been missing her around... :depresse:

Hope she'll be backies soon, and then you'll know that shes Jan's little sister.. =P

[Shanhaigirl]

wow, it's so cool to have a sis who likes the same stuff that you do! I wish i had at least a friend who liked the same music as me *sigh*
Luckily i have you guys here :hugz:

do you have such shops as Promod, Froggy, Morgan at your places?

[xJayChoux]

:excited: really?!!? awww...that's so awesome! *bounces*

aww...i hope she gets well soon...^^ does she look like Jans? :rolleyes:

*i happen to know how Jans look like...:tongue:*

[jessca]

LOL...i cant remember whether Ean looks like Jans.. :glug:

we're deprived of department stores like Harvey Nicks up north in Newcastle, but we have a little shop called 'Cruise' which sells some designer.

so..guess what my parents bought me the other day! :excited: A pink Burberry purse...its so purdy... <333 im afraid to use it.. :sweat:

patya - we have morgan hehe..=)

[Shanhaigirl]

Jecka, wow a pink Burberry purse! :excited: I bet it looks good!!! I have a pink purse too, but it's not Burberry :( , lol
In China i got obsessed over pink and bought too many pink clothes! now i'm getting sick of pink, hehe. Want to buy more blue clothes. I never buy green though, it just doesn't suit me at all.
what are your fave colors when it comes to clothes?

[ftlouiea]

Patya, green suits anyone! It's such a vibrant colour! as is pink btw :-) I'm loving a tint of green, blue, black with multicolour, or pink with brown. Lol. too much choice :excited:

jess: if you're scared to use your brand new monkin' burberry purse, i recommend you put some cling film inside it so the coins/ notes dont dirty your inside of your purse... LOL. the looks you'd get from the sales assistants at your OTT!

[Sparkling_Jade]

OOh are we talking about my favourite subject again? :D haha

Jecka: Wow, the pink burberry purse sounds so lush!! I'm sure it's supercute! (just like it's owner ;))

Patya: I have loads of pink stuff too!!(and huge amounts of other pastel coloured garments as well) I'm bit bored of them, so currently trying to buy clother with darker shades :) And you'd look fab in green^^ especially in pistachio (which is my favourite color ATM btw ;))

I just noticed that i don't have anything blue (well, one shirt and a pair of shoes) or black (except for one pairs of straight pants that I never use) . I'm black and blue deprived!! :D

[jessca]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

hehe..its past midnight GMT... :hugz: i hope 2005 will be a great year for my fellow Europeans.. <3

[xJayChoux]

Happy New Year!

i wish you all the best in 2005! may you all stay healthy and well, my fellow Europeans! <3

*huggles* :hugz:

[christinetang]

im abit late because i didnt have access to my computer so just to wish my fellow europeans a Happy New Year and i really hope that the europeans will prosper *fingers crossed*

love you all and continue to stay in this little family that i treasure soooo much....sorry i aint getting soppy on youse hehe

bye for now!

:hugz:

[ftlouiea]

Oooh just in time before the 1st January 2005 ends here, Happy New Year!

p.s. i swear it wasn't that long ago since we celebrated the millennium, its already... *wah* 5 years?

[jessca]

thats half a decade!! :glug:

wow.

hm...but i think im getting an unhealthy liking of designer. i blame my mum..shes rubbing off on me :rolleyes: and i blame my dads willingness to pay lol! :laughing:

:shy: me and my mum managed to get from cruise yesterday one burberry handbag, one pringle handbag, a levi top and diesel jeans. i would have got a pringle jumper too (cos we could have got money off...pen ink on the back and it was the only one there) but my dad didnt want me to get it cos it was imperfect. :cry:

and we're heading down to london in february!! :excited: like my dad said, hes got over a month to save up :roll:

...but sinny might be going this week, methinks? :unsure:

[ftlouiea]

A cruise to buy soo many things? Wahh that's soo cool! Diesel jeans! Wah, i'm in such a jeans craze at the moment! They must be *gorgeous methinks* :rolleyes:

Bah your daddy is a bit picky! Bleh, don't blame him. He wants the best for his little girl. :-)
Honestly, that pen ink would have washed of in the wash, eh? Ah, a chance missed. Things happen for a reason, maybe you'll get a... Versace jumper later in the year? :D

Coming down in February? In the half term? Or Chinese New Year?

Me thought that sinny lived in holland... Is she coming to London? Wah, everybody all visit the bestest place in the whole wide world! (*cough except bangkok, hong kong, ...*)

[christinetang]

Jessca looks like your mum loves shopping as well when it comes to the sales, because i certainly do :wink2:

You guys bought alot in Cruise! all designer but hey gotta abuse the sales to save money huh? hehe

I really wanna go shoppin in London, i havent been for ages and London must have changed abit now me thinks :?

Just sitting in I.T now and the HTML codes are doing my head in so i thought i come in here and escape! not long to go before i go shopping with my mum and get some more bargins :excited:

dana when do you go back to school?

[ftlouiea]

Christine, how long have you not come down to London? Meet up with me!
Hope your family problems are sorting themselves out :hugz:

Oh and i forgot to say, I'm at school! In a free...

Respect 12 noon today.

[christinetang]

hmmm..it must be about 7-8 years i think..i cant really remember cos it was that long!
maybes when i have time, me and jess could come down or something? :wink2:

my family problems are beginning to resolve now, thanks for the concern :hugz:

[ftlouiea]

Ah that's nice to hear, christine!

yup, trip to london eh? are you the type of person you likes to drop into the BIG chain stores or to visit the little on-off mini shops? Me, the latter. :D

Btw, did it snow up North during Christmas? Or near then, anyway... I'm still waiting for the ice queen to bring some snow to me :-)

[jessca]

the snow fairy forgot about newcastle! :cry: so much for white christmas =(

hehe...i prefer the smaller shops :D id still need to drop by harrods though..ive never been!! but i can imagine me and my mum and aunties will be spending most of our time in the as many stores as possible lol xD my dad and the men are taking the younger kids to the museums etc so we dont need to deal with them moaning keke...

apparantly you need to have your passport with you to buy stuff from LV in London? :glug: actually, i think we needed out passport in Copenhagen too..but i assumed that was so we could claim tax free. =\ weird.

but we're heading down for halfterm...and it just so happens that its chinese new year, so my aunts get their breaks too and they can come with us. we know someone who can use their staff discount to get us £20 return which isnt bad at all! :excited:

btw if we get lost on the underground, im calling you. :unsure:

[ftlouiea]

No white christmas? I heard it did drop by at Bath... for quite a while...!

Harrods? A must! Though, i used to make time for Harrods, i find Selfridges a better hangout for me, it has LOTS of vintage OTT jewellery! And the little designer sections so pretty and expensive... it's more modern... bleh, i don't know what i'm talking about. And it's also near to all the other shops which makes it more convenient, eh?

Hmm i don't think you need your passport. Only if you want tax free if you're on holiday here. It's strange LV never has sales, but honestly speaking, even though it never has sales, so many people still buy it. They don't need to do price cuts! :D

Chinese New Year! I lurrrve going to see Chinese people, yup the people. Well most of them are Mainland, but then some eye candies tottle about... :excited: I'm sooo shallow! The other day, when to Oriental City (outskirts ex-Yaohan) for dim sum, and man, sooo many nice guys.

Damn, how silly do i sound. :shy:

£20? Whoa, that's so cheap! It's totally worth it! It cost my friend the same to come by coach from Bath! Well, i don't know how different the distances are though...

Bleh heh, don't get too lost! I hate the really really long escalators in the stations, make me want to fall and make everyone else fall with me. :glug:

[caiyun]

helloooow! i'm new here! my name is lisa (17) from austria. that means i'm european too!! haha. well, i'm chinese actually, but i was born here in austria. hehe. are there any other members from austria here?! or some german speaking people?! ^___^ okay, i just wanted to introduce myself and say "hi". ^___^v

[christinetang]

:wave: Lisa

:welcome:

so nice to see a new face in here :happy:

im christine from the UK and im chinese as well but born in the UK :-)

Yeah there are some german speaking members around here that i know so pop in when you can cos they are around somewhere...hehe

[lingling]

Heeey lisa!!! :wave:

Sooo coool that you joined!! Isn't this a great site? :happy:
well, u know who i am... or maybe u forgot... :D
if so, my name is eugenia and im from sweden - not too far away from austria... wiiiiie - and i'm chinese too, but only half... i hope u will find some german speaking members... if not, tell me and i can sign up for a new account and pretend im from asutria or germany or something... :D

see ya around!

[Shanhaigirl]

oh my, i always forget to check our european thread :shy: :cry:
and with all this gazoo obsession i could hardly find time to visit any other thread, LOL

anyways, i see new people here :-)
Hi Lisa and lingling, welcome to our cozy european home :-) .
I'm Patya from Russia *waves*
and yes, there are a few Austrians here

waah, talking about London, i wanna visit too!!! I had a chance to go to London this winter, but as you can see i'm still in the same old Russia >< . But i'm not losing hope, i know i'll go to London someday. My cousin studies there and if i earn some money, i can persuade Mom to let me go, the only problem is getting a visa. well, i'll think about it when time comes :-)

aww, Chinese New Year!!! It was so great celebrating it in Shanghai! and it's gonna be so boring here >< . Too bad i don't know any chinese here to celebrate with them *sigh*

[FreaK]

helloooow! i'm new here! my name is lisa (17) from austria. that means i'm european too!! haha. well, i'm chinese actually, but i was born here in austria. hehe. are there any other members from austria here?! or some german speaking people?! ^___^ okay, i just wanted to introduce myself and say "hi". ^___^v

hi lisa!!
i never thought that here r some more austrian people! thats cool... =)
where do u live in austria? where were u born in austria?

[caiyun]

lingling aka eugenia.. how can i dare to forget you? that's impossible, you know =D loolz i already found someone who speaks german and who's from austria.. and funnily enough i know her (freak) brother hahahahaha. what a coincidence!!

FreaK it's really a coincidence that i meet you here. well, to answer your question (but u might already know it) i'm from linz, born in linz haha. (just as information for all those other austrian members out there loooolz) nice to meet ya! =D

christinetang & shanghaigirl nice to meet you both too! =D wow.. uk.. i always wanted to go there.. haven't had a chance so far.. but i'll go to london once.. i'm still young hahahaha.. shanghaigirl: you're from russia? really? honestly, i've never ever met someone from russia.. so i'm glad to meet you here!! =D

[jessca]

hihi! :wave: im Jess and im also in England =P

patya - i really hope you manage to come over to london one day. visas are so awkward. :cry: my parents actually seemed okie with the idea of me going over to moscow to see you! but maybe its cos they know its near impossible to sort out. we had to have visas just for a day at st. petersburg never mind a weekend at moscow. :depresse:

[ftlouiea]

Ah welcome you all!

Patya: I hope you do come and visit soon, it'll be totally different from Russia.

Jess: when are you coming! The chinese radio said that there will be a performance in Trafalgar Square on the 13th February!! It'll be soooo fun because there'll be all chinese people and god, wah!

I'm sorry to the rest of you! I'm supposed to be revising my Maths for this afternoon and i need to stop posting soon! 2 hours!

[jessca]

bah..id be coming down on the 15th. :depresse:

but maths is over....yay! how did you find it? do you take edexcel? :unsure: our paper was okie, basically what we expected. the first 6-7 questions were fine, and then it started getting weird. :glug: but i hope i managed at least a B...80% for an A is crazy. :cry: at least we get 3 resits lol.

just history left to go T.T good luck if you have any other modules! <3

[Shanhaigirl]

Lisa, really and honestly, i'm from Russia :D glad to meet you too :-)

Jecka, waaah, i want you to come so much :cry: . *kicks the Visa people in GB and in Russia*
and yay for math!!! good luck with history now! jia you! :yeah:

Dana, yeah, i imagine it'd be different from Russia. Why don't you come to Russia? :angel:
and good luck with math!

I went shopping with my Mom today and we bought me an amazing pair of pants!!! :excited: Can't even explain what they look like, not for casual wear though. Now i need to get shoes to go with my new pants! :bounce:

[jessca]

lol..then a top to go with the pants..then a jacket and even a handbag to complete the outfit? :rolleyes: =P jk

and thanks for the luck! hehehe...ive already attacked you on msn with my 'ive managed to finsh another practice essay within the 45 minutes!!' so i wont do it again here :bleh:

i really wanted to visit you too. :depresse: im sure my parents know enough about my patya jiejie to let me go for a weekend. but therell be plenty of opportunity in the future, right? ^^

[Sweet_Monkey]

helloooow! i'm new here! my name is lisa (17) from austria. that means i'm european too!! haha. well, i'm chinese actually, but i was born here in austria. hehe. are there any other members from austria here?! or some german speaking people?! ^___^ okay, i just wanted to introduce myself and say "hi". ^___^v

Heyy Lisa!
Cool, you`re from Austria!! haha...Me, too... :-)
Where do u live in Austria??

[christinetang]

havent been in here for a day or two and i see sooo many new people...are we doing something right here?! hehe

*:wave: to everyone in the european lounge*

*sits down* *sigh* home sweet home!!!!! but too bad i cant stay for long cos im heading for work in 5 mins....which is a bummer! oh wellz

catch u all later and take care guys :hugz:

[Shanhaigirl]

Jecka, i think i already have a really beautiful chinese-style shirt to go with the pants, but handbag...hehe, you're right, i need to get me one for this outfit :D
was your history module today? how did it go? what topic did you get? did you manage everything in 45 minutes?

yeah, i hope there'll be opportunities in the future. but hope that i won't get old by that time, lol

Hey Chrissy! have fun at work! :wink2:

[ftlouiea]

Jess, Ah, 15th, after Valentine's Day, eh? :D

Maths was do-able! Yup edexcel too! I mean, the 1st question had a whole page for you to answer the square root of 64 :-) I liked the colour of the equation booklet that they gave us! Emerald green! Don't even think resits! Miss very brainy! :hugz: P.S. GOOD LUCK in history, coz i dont have any more now!

Wah Patya! Russia! Gawd, i want to come when its really really freezing, like when I can get to wear fur coats and stuff! Wow that'd be fun! And is there a lot of ice skating in the winter? Woooshhh... :D
Meh, when you say pants, I think of those pants, not trousers! :D I wonder what they look like *black and formal, very business-like? :?

Christine: I'm thinking you'll be off work by now... :D All the more reason to celebrate! :excited:

[Shanhaigirl]

Dana, lol, i've never worn a fur coat, i don't even have one! :D Yeah, quite a lot of ice-skating, but i can't really ice-skate ><

oh, i should call them trousers? oops, lol! anyways, they are not too official, they have a big satin belt! Looks awesome! and the pockets have satin stripes too.

[ftlouiea]

You dont?! Wah, maybe i'm being too general... maybe people in Siberia will :D
I'll make you come ice-skating with me! *ehem i cant either* i guess we'll be falling over and having our bums iced over! :? :-)

Wow, sounds really glam! Maybe you'd pass as a celebrity if you wore your pretty trousers and your snazzy chinese top!

[kahel]

I don't know if you've heard about these guys but Mr. Zhou Jie Lun is going to London for a concert!

JECKA MUST WATCH!

more info here:
http://www.zennation.com/zen_index.php

Penciled information:
at the moment these are the prices we are considering subject to change:

1st row and 2nd row have all been reserved for media, industry and special guests.
3rd and 4th Row Seats = £150-175
5th row, 6th row seats £100
7th-10th row = £75
All other seats = £40-60

The dates we have penciled in so far are 13-14th June 2005. Just working out which is the best venue to hold the concert.

kinda expensive. but there is an after party for some lucky concert goers.

I hope this pushes through for you guys. :hugz: SAVE UP!

[caiyun]

is that really true?? is jay really planning to come to europe, to london? why not austria?! *sigh* j/k looolz. i know the reasons, no need to tell me again hahaha. but london is good. hey, that's great! that's awesome!! lucky fans in gb!! i wanna go to jay's concert too!! well, i have to persuade my parents to let me fly to london during school time (o_O) and go to jay's concert!! that's MY chance!! =D i'm so excited right now!! wheeee~

thx kahel for telling us =D xie xie!!

[FreaK]

i want to go to that concert!!!! aawwww.....but too bad its during the school time and i am too young to get there alone. my parents wouldt let me go to a concert anyways...
and its too expensive... >_<
and ya...why not austria?!?!?!? lolz...
haizz...i can only dream to be at his concert T_T

[jessca]

KAHEL! I WUB YOU SO MUCH!! I FORGOT I HAVE STUDY LEAVE AROUND THAT TIME...SO AS LONG AS I DONT HAVE AN EXAM THAT DAY..IM THERE!!

its got to happen.... :cry: and as my friend said, A levels we can resit. =X

ive just called everyone i know and screamed down the phone to them. :roll:

this is reliable, yeah? :sweat:

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah....jays coming to london!! DANA! you lucky ragamuffin!!

edit: i so hope this is genuine. promise me itll happen >< but i hope you guys get to make your way to london somehow <3

[Shanhaigirl]

Meli!! thanx for this info!!!!!
Wah, lucky lucky London fans!!!!
Jecka, i so so hope that you'll get to go!!!!!!! I'll be praying for your exams to be at the other dates!!! You just have to go see Jay!!!!! :bounce:

hm, i'm thinking...we were planning to go to London on my winter break, but didn't get a chance, so now i'm wondering if my parents would want to make me a graduation present...a trip to London on the exact dates of Jay's concert!!!!!!!!!!!! :excited: I'm so gonna ask for that!!! i'm not sure if that'll happen, but it's graduation! they have to let me go to London!!! waaaah, i love the idea i just got, lol.
Gotta start persuading my parents, hahaha

I bet Dana is going! :-) Are you? i mean OMG! JAY'S FIRST CONCERT IN EUROPE!!!!!! That's a start!!! He can go to other European countries after a while!!!!!!!!! :excited:

[christinetang]

WOAH!!!!! *nearly faints*

this cant be real cos it was a small possibility that jay will ever come to the UK and perform and now he is.......:shock:

jess if we both dont have exams during those dates or i dont need to work then maybe we can jump on the train and go attend this once in a lifetime concert!!!! what do you think? :excited:

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *running around like a crazy women*

[ftlouiea]

OMG! I COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS WHEN I READ THIS!

I've heard of zen nation, its this asian posh party! kinda club, and i know a senior staff person who works there! I am so asking them, but my internet is still down at home!

WAHHHHHHH

OMG, I really have to check this out! *faints* *flaps air around face* *flusters* *falls to ground*

I sooo want to go, but i doubt my mum will let me. Will have to find out more more details, until i can actually convince them. *fingers crossed*

[jessca]

i dont have exams that entire week!! :excited:

ive got a school friend whos definitely gonna go down with me. so if it goes ahead, we'll be flying down that morning :D i hope they dont change the dates! :oops: my dads still iffy about it but i dont think my parents are gonna say no.

dana - as soon as you find out more info, let us know! =P and youve got to go!! its right on your doorstep hehe <3

xtine - lol..im thinking a lot of ppl at church would be wanting to go too. hope you guys can come!!

patya - that would be AMAZING!! :hugz:

SINNNNNNY...find out if youre on hols yet.. T.T

[ftlouiea]

Bleh! I hope I find out soon!

After all, Jess has convinced me to go! It's the price that's the main thing, I'm sure that if i revise prior to the concert, I'm sure i'll pass even if i'm 99.9% falling asleep on my paper :-) And you guys, are all coming right? Or at least I heard that Patya will try and make it, won't you!? :rolleyes:

[jessca]

kekeke..i think my parents have realised that im going no matter what. :rolleyes:

i asked my dad whether id need my passport to fly within the UK...cos mine expires in april. he replied that we didnt need to deal with it so soon cos i dont fly down till june xD and i hadnt even mentioned london. :bleh:

but the main problem is saving up the money. i dont really want my parents to pay for me. :sweat: but youll pick me up from stansted, wont you dana? :tongue: ill end up taking the train back up to newcastle somehow... :unsure: i AM that hopeless with public transport. *dies*

[ftlouiea]

Lol really? aww your your dad is so sweet! Me and mum are on touchy terms right now, it's best if i dont say now... eh?

Yup, i think i might go for £100 or £75, how about you? I have no problem with me paying for it myself, its just that i want my mum's permission, you know! And i'm certain that if i'm going to something as big as this, the only compromise is to revise well in advance, no matter what i have to sacrifice, e.g. not going out for 2 months prior! :-)
Stanstead, i dont know where that is.... but i can tell you it's on the train map. i'm sure you can book a train from there right? i'm only 5 minutes from heathrow terminal 3, which comes in handy to pick people from hk, but not from newcastle! and if i have exam that day,ill probably meet you later in the evening!
wait, don't be sooo excited yet. god, i'ts all going to tumble down when he doesn't come, right?!

[jessca]

dana...it would be soo good to go with you! :hugz: i know what you mean about wanting your mums permission. now that my parents have made it obvious that im allowed to go, its one less thing to worry about. my little sister wants to come with us though. what if i lose her. =X

but change of plan: for £23, we can get a return ticket to london by train. so im probably going by train then... >< i dont like trains.

and seeing as you reserve by paying only half the ticket price, we might be attempting to get the £150. cos we can all cough up £75 within 2 weeks. methinks. :wacko: my friends were even wanting the £200..*dies* but by the time comes, i dont think we'll be able to pick. ill get anything thats available... :unsure:

...ooh...my mum said its fine to meet up in february! =)

[ftlouiea]

£150?! OMG argh. You're not kidding, are you... Which row would that be? Basically, you'd like the 2nd highest price, right? Let me think about that... And what's the next price? £100? Can i not convince you to pay £50 less to sit one row behind? *digs into empty pockets*

Train would be good... hmmm to Waterloo Paddington or Marylbone?

Oooh need to PM you about february and this ticket situation!

[jessca]

...ill try to convince them £125. :unsure:

i dont think theres drastic difference in distance to the stage either. and thatd be an extra £25 to spend on the stalking. think HK style stalking.. :rolleyes: we need to pay taxi fare, you know? =P

and i have no idea which station. :glug: same one im arriving at in february? *dies*

[ftlouiea]

I'm still not sure on the price ranges coz they are moving them up and up, it's depressing! :cry: But could you convince them for the 3rd highest price available? Me needs to find a summer job to pay for that! And some extra pocket money to add to that...

Yes! HK stalking, cut the £25 and then you could buy him some present, and wait at the backstage! I'm sure his security won't get the hang of London buildings yet...

Taxi fare? Depends where it is. Me thinks I know London Arena and how to get there on tube, but will have to check. And anyway, still need the confirmation of the venue. Unless it is Brixton, which will be *rough*.

I'm thinking your station will be Paddington, it is usually that station for trains all around UK.
Oh well, make sure you have your bestest photo with a nice pose for your new passport :rolleyes:

[Joey88]

haaaaai.... going to be a lot of trouble for me! i live aaaaall the way in edinburgh so i gotta take the damn train aaall the way to london on the day which will cost around £40 return. then i gotta get the ticket before hand... gotta get front seats so that will cost me another..... £100+. then i gotta take a taxi or something to get to the place... dont know how much that will cost. THEN i gotta travel ALL the way back....

i think i even have exams on that day! these exams are so important too! i need them to get into uni! HAAAAI. what am i going to do now? if i have exams on the day then...... i wont be happy AT ALL. just a lot of trouble for me. will cost me a lot to go there but i MUST go.

[jessca]

^i have friends from edinburgh that might be making their way down too! :D but i hope you dont have exams that day...that would be a horrible choice to make =X

dana - thank you so much.. :hugz: youre making it so much easier for us to go! <3

about passport photos..apparantly theyre bringing in new regulations about the photo. you've got to be facing the way your bodys facing...nothing obstructing, nothing covering etc...and no smiling. at least everyone will be looking miserable in their passports then..keke...

[ftlouiea]

Joey: are your GCSEs?? Maybe try and find the exams on www.aqa.org.uk if you know your board and paper reference. Recommended! :D
After all, you can't spend ALL that money, and find you have a exam those days? I hope you don't though *fingers crossed*

Lol Jess. damn, and i was ready to do my superstar pose for my next passport... :-)
I'm going to keep checking! And i found out that there are NO restrictions per house, unless you reserve 100 or something...

[xJayChoux]

argh....everyones talking about his concerts in London now...:cry:!!

London is like TOOOOO close for me not to go...i missed Jay a couple of years ago in HK cos i had to go back home (the Netherlands...-____-) and now i will miss him again cos of my uber stupid exams!!!

I HATE THIS!!! :-x

[kjd-108]

i'm partly european... o.o am i allowed here....hehe ^^;;;

london~ oh yea baby~ come to me~ XD

[ftlouiea]

Sinny!
I'm sorry... but I feel for you!
But exams are for the long term, right? don't be disheartened too much, coz in a few years, you'll find you have more time to travel around e.g. study leave and in the summer. Hopefully that will be the time of Jay's next round of concerts!

[jessca]

aww Sinny. :console:

youll make it to Jays next HK concert! :D like dana said, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. he'll be around for aggges <3

[xJayChoux]

but by the time i get to see him, he would be grandpa Jay, married to Jolin *coughcough* and have plenty of lil' and lil' lil' Jays & Jolins running around them...:depresse:

^see how depressed i am? -________________-

[ftlouiea]

ooh dearies, sinny. can we do anything to make you feel better? :cry:
I was saying that you'd see him in 2 years though, you know, 2 or 3 give or take. So are you implying that Jay and Jolin will be getting jiggy within 2 years?? Aish! *faints*

Remedy...
When do your exams end, or your school holiday? Is your exams on that day?

[jessca]

=X

*passes wookie for huggles*

:console:

[Shanhaigirl]

No No No, if Jay has a concert in London, that means he wants to conquer Europe with his music, right? if so, he's most likely to have more concerts and maybe even in Netherlands!!! so, Sinny, just don't lose hope! I"m sure you'll have an oportunity to see him! :hugz:

wah, Sinny's got Wookie for huggling!!! *remembers the times when Jecka let Wookie hug Patya* *sigh* lol

[jessca]

^actually..it was the time jecka let patya hug wookie.

wookie only huggles jecka. xD jk

*groups huggles* patyas right...you never know, he may turn up in amsterdam some time soon! schiphol makes everything so convenient =P

[ftlouiea]

^ seconded Patya's point.
I mean, look at us, we had the idea of Jay coming to UK out of the window long and forgotten for sooo many years. And since he's made the step of holding this concert in London... you never know. Never ever.

[HarmonyCloud]

Hey, where are most of you from out of curiosity???

[xJayChoux]

well, if Jay & Jolin marry next week, and get kids right away...O.o

and YES i have exams on that day.

jess unnie, thanks for lending me wookie...but im afraid his uber uber cutest smile of the world wont do me good...:cry:

argh....the more i think about it the more depressed i get. the more depressed i get the more i want jay to stay in asia so that i wont feel so bad that i cant go to his concert...the more i want jay to stay in asia the more i want to go to asia...etc. -_____________________________-

harmonycloud, look in the introduction thread of this forum, i think you'll be able to see where we're from there. :happy:

[caiyun]

i do hope jay comes to london, and the concert will pushed through. i'll continue hoping that he pay me a visit in austria ^___^ i mean, austria is THE music country per excellence =P he needs to visit vienna and salzburg. very famous musicians were born, and lived here!! mozart, schubert, beethoven just to name few =P and since he's also playing the piano, HE MUST COME and see the place where all these people lived!! ^____^ okay.. i just wanted to say that ^____^;;

[jessca]

sinny - even wookies smile wont help? :oops: hmm..listen to 1TYM's Cry. that always makes me feel better.. <3 *huggles*

harmony - we're dotted all over lol..couple from the UK, finland, the netherlands, germany, austria, russia =P

caiyun - hi! im jess =) and by the sounds of it, jay must go to austria one day :glug: ive never been before either. >< have you ever been to england? :D

[Shanhaigirl]

oh, Jecka, you know what song always makes me feel better? H.O.T.'s "Candy"! I can't fail to smile when i hear it! so cheering!
but I love "Cry" too! I so love the chorus and it's easy to sing along too!

[JoYCe]

sorry to interrupt.........
i am JoYCe,a new member from UK--Northampton.
now i am studying AS.
just want to say hi and hope to meet everone~~
:-)

[jessca]

hi Joyce! im jess =) im doing my AS levels too.. :D so much work..*dies*

patya - i only have the one HOT song. =P and im glad you like 'Cry' too. theres something about their rapping to such an easy-going song. <3

#but still life goes on..life goes on...#

[JoYCe]

hi Jess~ya, AS is not really hard,but too much work........=.=
i hope i can get a better marks in this year so that next DEC i can go back to HK~~
dun need to resit~~ :D
i am doing chem,maths and econ,how about u??

[jessca]

awww..good luck with everything then!

im doing maths, english language, french and history..^^ ill probably carry on all 4 to A2. its a lot of work but i like my subjects. :blush:

and i dunno when shell see this..but HAPPY BIRTHDAY XTINE! i hope you will you-know-what-la and we can you-know-what-la and then youll always be you-know-what-la! :hugz:

(no, i dont know what either xD..but wub you <3 will call you later!)

[ftlouiea]

Aww, Jess really can't put down her textbooks, eh? :rolleyes:

Lol, I noticed your name on the lubley special birthday list!...

Christine! 18th! A Very Important Person today!
The glowing Birthday Girl! Happy Birthday to you! :flowers:

[Shanhaigirl]

Happy Birthday Chrissy mei! I'm late with congrats in this thread :shy:

Hi Joyce! :wave: I'm Patya from Russia :-)

and i get the feeling that all ppl from UK like to study here, lol

Good luck with studies! :yeah:

Jecka!!! only 1 HOT song??? :glug: Waaaaah, how could that happen?! They are so so so good! and a few days ago i downloaded Tony's solo album and it's so so so good!!!
lol, i think i need to convert you into an HOT luver :wink2:

[ftlouiea]

Patya!

I think the 1 song that Jess has, is the one she sent me, right Jess?
"Song For A Lady" Her favourite and only HOT song she has. Lol.

[caiyun]

jess: unfortunately i've never been to london, or uk in general *sniff* that's one of the reasons why my parents don't really want me to go to london in june *cries* hehehe. but i still have some time to persuade them. *smile* btw. you're taking all those subjects i dislike loooolz. except of english, english is okay.. but maths?! o_O french?! o_O and history?!?!? hehehehe. okay, history is probably interesting, when you don't have a teacher like i do =P but.. hmm.. isn't maths and french difficult?! =P

[jessca]

lol..brownie points for dana!

patya - maybe the mv and performances scared me off (vivid use of colour a good way to put it? =P) and i went running to kangta rather than HOT xD kangta did sing the bestest in that song. :rolleyes: <3 taya oppa

caiyun - aww i see..i hope you get to go to london in june! *fingers crossed* and you dont like my subjects? lol...i guess im an arts-y person and i dislike science =P maths isnt bad, so long as you do enough pratice questions, its okie. french has its moments though.. :wacko:

but all my teachers are really good. the classes never have more than 10 people in them and we get loads of support form the teachers. i have their phone numbers and everything lol. :laughing:

[JoYCe]

jess:wow......i think u really like reading coz most of ur subject need to read a lot~ :wacko:
i am too lazy to read bk........@.@
u wanna take these 4 in ur A2~wow~~~
do ur best la~~~

Patya:hihi~~u know my scl have Russian too~~
i think around 30-40~~
i am not really a gd student,never revise in my free time... :shy:


may i ask do u gals/guys know how to speak chinese/cantonese??

[ftlouiea]

OMG Did caiyun just say she dislikes Maths? that's a shocker :? Lol, I think its the best subject, no doodah thinking except right or wrong answers.... in a strange kind of way. :D

p.s. London is a friendly, calm place. It doesn't have baddies out to get you, caiyun! Keep persuading your parents!

Jess: are brownie points the same as chocolate brownies? :bleh:

Joyce: I speak cantonese! Yay to that! Except, my mum just pointed out I can't write chinese, so my hopes of earning some money as a waitress in a top notch chinese restaurant... is down the drain.

[JoYCe]

OMG Did caiyun just say she dislikes Maths? that's a shocker :? Lol, I think its the best subject, no doodah thinking except right or wrong answers.... in a strange kind of way. :D

p.s. London is a friendly, calm place. It doesn't have baddies out to get you, caiyun! Keep persuading your parents!

Jess: are brownie points the same as chocolate brownies? :bleh:

Joyce: I speak cantonese! Yay to that! Except, my mum just pointed out I can't write chinese, so my hopes of earning some money as a waitress in a top notch chinese restaurant... is down the drain.


dana:o.....so that's mean u cant read the word in lyric but u still can pronounce the right word of his song.wow~~so clever~~ :excited:

[Joey88]

hahaha good old cantonese... gets boring after a while doesnt it... doesnt have the same beautiful tone as mandarin.... unless you have the Beijing accent... bleugh... sounds horrible .... always adding "r" to the ends of the words like... wo xiang qu waR, ming tian naR... did that sentence make sense... i actually speak cantonese too... learning mandarin in school with.... Beijing Accents...

[ftlouiea]

joyce: i can read 60% of chinese words, write 40% words... but when it comes to writing "beef in black bean sauce" i think i'll need a little training with that :bleh:

the beijing accent is nice coz it's like... the "royal" accent in England. But normal Taiwanese mandarin is easier to understand.


TENNIS: Australian Open Men's Final
MARAT SAFIN (Rus) BEAT LLEYTON HEWITT (Aus)!
*ehem* i blame patya for this! she got me into rooting for marat even though my henman got kicked out!
(Wont be long before she posts up her pride and celebrations :rolleyes: :flowers:)

[Shanhaigirl]

Jecka, yeah, their perfs and MVs are weird sometimes, but there are nice ones too :-)
But yeah, Kangta is the bestest! <3 Well, i really like Tony too, he's such a monkey :love:

Joyce , wow, you have russian at school? that's interesting
and i speak mandarin. know only "hi" in canto, lol. I forgot how to say "i love you" in canto, again ><

Dana , YES YES YES HE WON WON WON!!! :excited: :bounce: :excited: :bounce:
I'm sooooooo hyped! jumping all around the room, screaming, hugging everyone around! :D
Marat is THE BEST!!! You should've heard his thank you speech hahaha. He's just so sweet and funny! He even thanked Lleyton's family and his girlfriend, LOL
Marat's got a girlfriend too >< .Well, i'm happy for him, but... >.< lol
anyways, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bounce:

[ftlouiea]

Hahaha lol! I heard the Thank You Speech, but only the one in English!
Him thanking the sponsors obviously vying for some sponsorships for himself?! :excited:
Very honourable guy! And kept saying "Am I right? Am I right?"

[JoYCe]

i think the beijing accent is quite hard to lean and not easy to listen.
in my scl also have some from beijing,
sometimes i cant hear what they ar talking about since the accent.....

dana:mm....i think u can be a gd waitree if u practice more~
hehehe~~~ :rolleyes:

patya:yea~my scl have russian.i have met some of those,but not really close since we just in the same class of 2lesson in a week. we dun have enough time to chat......
i hope i will get closer with her~~ :-)
i cantonese I LOVE U is "o oi lei",
i is not really pronounce like o,
but nearly~~mm....acutually cantonese is quite difficlt to pronounce

[Shanhaigirl]

Dana, looooooooool, he definitely likes to say "Am I right? Am I right?" :D I watched the match and the thank you speech again today, lol. It's just so funny how he cursed in Russian, not really loud, but Russians still could tell the words, hahaha! And thanking sponsors for such a long time was hilarious! :D
He was so friendly to Lleyton too, talked to him about smth, but Lleyton didn't seem to be in a mood to talk ,lol. Well, no wonder, after losing to the greatest MARAT SAFIN!!! =p

Joyce, thanx for telling the cantonese I love you :-)
Are the accents (sheng diao) the same in cantonese as they are in mandarin?
And i agree that the beijing accent is not easy to listen! I don't really like it, makes the language kinda rude sounding. I like the southern pronounciantion more. I like the way they speak mandarin in Shanghai, though Shanghainese dialect is awful!

[jessca]

LOL...bless you, Patya :hugz: i dont follow tennis, so i dont know much about him but he sounds really sweet =P and Tonys a monkey? :laughing: never seen him in that sort of light before. xD

*hands chocolate brownies to dana*

2 weeks till half term in the UK! we can do it! :D

[ftlouiea]

Patya! See Lleyton mankey face standing beside Marat on the podium! And he even looks short next to Marat, even though he is 5"11.

Jess, only 2 weeks till half term! begins 12th february! and only 1 and 1/2 till CNY!

[caiyun]

hehe i also saw the australian open's final at least the beginning and the end.. (i had chinese course in between haha).. yea. congratz to maran safin!! ^__^b he was really good!!

ftlouiea uhh.. shouldn't i have mentioned that i dislike maths?? =P hehehehe. well i got my maths test back today.. and have a 3 (which would be a C??) and i'm really "proud" of myself coz i thought i did worse. loooolz. but surprisingly everyone has (compared to last test) quite "good" marks.. hehehehe.. well.. maths has always been our "problem subject" in school.. besides french.. hehehe.. it's hopeless!! =P anyway. i respect all people who are good in maths and like this subject.. it's amazing.. coz it's such a mystery for me.. ^__^;;

[ftlouiea]

Aww Caiyun! it's always improvement that counts, and consistency! If its any help, you could always post up your problems for us to puzzle over!
Speak of the devil, i'm doing my maths homework now. Logs. :bleh:

i :love: logs. jks, or am i? :rolleyes:

Hmm what's going on in Europe these days...
I'm watching this Programme on TV right now, about a guy in the US who fell into a coma 19 years ago, in 1984-5, and has just woken up. He still thinks that Ronald Reagan is US President. He thinks his daughter is still a baby (now 19) it's really sad :cry:

[Shanhaigirl]

Jecka, lol, yeap yeap, Tony's a monkey! every HOT fan knows that :-) He looks like a cut little monkey and behaves like that too, haha. Not that he jumps around and climbs the trees, but still a monkey :D
and Marat is hot =p Look at the pics i have of him in my xanga, really funny

Dana, i know, Lleyton looked so short compared to Marat. Have you seen pics of Marat and Rochus together? Rochus is like REALLY short, they looked hilarious when shaking hands :D

and yay, 2 weeks till half term! :excited: :-)

edit: omg, Dana, what a weird story :glug: . I wonder how that could happen, it's like in the movies.

[jessca]

i dont think youre kidding. *huggles* i wubs logs too. theyre so gorgeously simple and helpful. <333 :rolleyes:

and youre doing your maths homework right now? that reminds me..i have some mechanics homework to do... :unsure: equilibrium. the other 5 people in my class have decided to do S1 and S2 rather than S1 and M1. just me and one friend slugging it through mechanics. i dont think its that bad =X

caiyun - hehe..good luck with maths! and a 3 isnt bad at all if its causing everyone so much problems..=)

edit: patya - lol! youll have to show me the piccie sometime =P

[ftlouiea]

Rochus? Who's he :? He must have lost to Marat, it's not easy playing against a giant hitting aces at you! Any pictures? I need a laugh! How tall though? 5"2? Lol. That'd be me!

Patya: not a story, tis real life! almost like movies, but it's very strange, which is why they're taking him to neurologists...

Jess: i finally discovered uses for logs instead of what i used to do "1-AM-A-log" :bleh: Mechanics is hard... from the experience I had, I don't wub it much. I hate it a lot! But then s2 would build on s1, and that's not very nice either... :dry:

[jessca]

LOL! you sound just like me! :roll:

a bit disappointed when i discovered the In button next to log was actually Ln..need to find a different way of writing 'in' now.. =(

and yeh, thats why i decided to do M1 and S1..at least theyre both 1's. plus our class just never caught onto the complicated probability stuff that makes up half the S1 syllabus. our teacher just gave up on us and moved onto PMCC. ><

[ftlouiea]

I do! I do? :bounce: We aren't long lost twins, are we? :D

"in" how I write it is "1" and the sign for "pie", which also proves helpful typing my name out... :rolleyes: D-a-Pie-a. Gah we're doing probability right now! using venn diagrams is sooo primary school, but soooo confusing. *switch to primary school mode*

pmcc?

E.R. in 10 minutes... haven't watched a single episode. What makes me think I'll watch this one?

[Shanhaigirl]

Girls, you have mechanics at school? :glug: wow! What do you study there?

Dana, Rochus is 5''5! :D
can't show the pic yet, 'cause the site i saw it at is not working at the moment. But i'll show it to you, it's really hilarious.

erm..what's logs? :shy:

edit: Ooooooh, i love E.R.!!! Dr. Carter is so cute :rolleyes: I watched loooots of eps of it. They show it quite often here

[jessca]

but 1[pie] doesnt look as neat as In. =(

your name would have been nice to spell out! theres no J though..i always used ) :oops: and another way of passing time in maths lessons...inputting ()() continuously..and then using your arrows to make it move xD

PMCC - Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. nice and easy..just involves a coupla formulas <3

what i didnt like about the the probablity was all the 'X given Y' stuff..got too confusing. i miss the simple GCSE tree diagrams. :depresse:

ER? never watched it. STH is on in 15 minutes though! yay! <3

patya - maths-based mechanics :tongue: we dont get to fiddle with cars, im afraid =P and logs are the power you need to raise the base by to get your number. lol...just be glad youre not studying maths. ^^

[ftlouiea]

Lol Patya, almost imagining us bending over some oily engine!? Gah, never!
Like Jess said, and we have to figure the speed of a ball falling down from a building... tis :? stuff!

Dr Carter yupyup :bleh: I prefer Kovak personally, those strong brooding arms :rolleyes: I didn't like how carter suddenly went off to congo, meets a girl, gets with her. after him and abbey enduring so much together. this new series: i need to watch, coz i'll miss the plot line!

Jess: the ()()() move along and replace each other! tis fun fun! and the "boobless" thing that i learnt from my friend in year 8 :D We don't do tree diagrams? but they were so pleasing to the eye! Me thinks you'll be watching STH now... and having said i was going to do my Maths in an earlier post, I haven't progressed since there... that was 1/2 hour ago.

Tiddums. Byebye for now girlies (as Patya would put it!) :waves:

[Shanhaigirl]

lol, i thought it was weird studying mechanics at school :shy: Glad to know that it's just Math :D
But yeah, Jecka, i'm so happy i'm not dealing with math anymore, had my last Math lesson like 6 years ago :-)
Have fun watching "STH" :-)

Dana, Kovac is good too!!! I liked him a lot, his story is so sad too :cry:
And there are new series of E.R.? wow, i don't think we got them here. Hopefully they'll show it soon.
I didn't see the Congo eppies!!! :cry: waaaaah, stupid Russia! repeats the old seasons so many times, but can't show the new ones! *kicks Russian TV*
but actually i didn't really like Abbey >< . She was weird.

Good luck with Maths , mechanics, etc ! :wink2: bye bye! :hugz:

[ftlouiea]

His story is sad? Which bit do you refer to? I can only remember from the Congo series, last season! I can't beleive they don't show that series! And we are on the 3rd or 4th episode of the new series! May i tell you vaguely what happens in the episode I have just watched? Two black girls, around 6 years old, are rushed into E.R. having received injuries from falling many storeys from a building. Although the doctors try very hard to save them, they can only do what they can. The mother of the 2 girls comes to see her dead daughters, weeping. Only at the end, we find out that this woman needs her mental medication, but it had run out last week. As Carter and a social worker question what happened to her daughters, she begins to remember, holding her son in her arms. Although her husband has died a year ago, she was imagining that he had come back to kill her. Fearing that he will shoot the door down and locked in her apartment with her young children: 2 daughters and a son, she tells them to hide, run away leave so he will not find them. She sees the window, and lifts her daughters up to the windowsill. Even though her son is crying out to tell her not to do it, she ushers them to jump out the window. They jump. She realises what she has done.

That's got me in a very somber mood. Oh dear. *runs to finish maths and to bed Dana goes*

[caiyun]

if i didn't know this is the "european members thread" i would think this is a maths-thread =P hehehehe.. a classmate of mine tried to convince our maths teacher to give her some more points for one excercise.. coz it IS correct, her calculator says so loooolz. teacher said he didn't care what the calculator says.. he wants to know how she calculated.. they argued like 15 mins and wasting our precious time. hahaha. and she still thinks she's right >_< although her answer was wrong.. she's weird. hahaha.

i haven't watched ER sooooooo long.. i rather spent my time in front of the pc, when it was shown here in austria.. hehehehe..

what does STH stand for? i'm thinking and thinking but can't think of any series i know right now looolz

[christinetang]

Hey caiyun STH stands for 'Stairways to heaven'. This is a Korean movie on Sky...i dont watch it but i know a certain someones watches it :whistle:

[caiyun]

ic ic.. thx christinetang ^__^ yea i've heard about this series, but also haven't seen it yet.. hehehe.. still waiting for someone to lent me his/her vcds/dvds. hehe. poor me, living in austria without any sources *sniff* haha..

is STH good? recommendable? =D

btw. you guyz can call me "lisa". that's how all my friendz call me.. ^__^

[ftlouiea]

xtine doesn't watch it?! oh well. suits you maam. :rolleyes:

lisa, it's an alrite series, not the best, but the music is stunning. it has my favourite actress choi ji woo and my now one of my favourite actors kwon sang woo.

[JoYCe]

Dana, looooooooool, he definitely likes to say "Am I right? Am I right?" :D I watched the match and the thank you speech again today, lol. It's just so funny how he cursed in Russian, not really loud, but Russians still could tell the words, hahaha! And thanking sponsors for such a long time was hilarious! :D
He was so friendly to Lleyton too, talked to him about smth, but Lleyton didn't seem to be in a mood to talk ,lol. Well, no wonder, after losing to the greatest MARAT SAFIN!!! =p

Joyce, thanx for telling the cantonese I love you :-)
Are the accents (sheng diao) the same in cantonese as they are in mandarin?
And i agree that the beijing accent is not easy to listen! I don't really like it, makes the language kinda rude sounding. I like the southern pronounciantion more. I like the way they speak mandarin in Shanghai, though Shanghainese dialect is awful!



sheng diao.....not really,
the accent of cantonese and mandarin ar quite different,
cantonese I Love U dun have any change in sheng diao,
just very normal........i dunno how to describe....... :oops:
i dunno how is shanghai accent,
i think will better than beijing once

[caiyun]

ftlouiea (dana, right?) ic ic.. i'm not so into korean movies and stuff ^__^;; so i have no clue about any actors/actresses looolz. i just watched a few korean dramas, like glass shoes & all about eve.. hehe. and just now i finished watching "my sassy girl" i know i'm late, but hehe. yea that's me! looolz

joyce may i ask what sheng diao is?? i'm not sure... hehehe.. btw. i can speak a bit cantonese.. but i understand more than i can speak ^__^;;

[Shanhaigirl]

oh, Joyce, so there are no sheng diao in canto? really? how interesting! i thought every dialect had sheng diao. Shanghai dialect does have them, even more than 4 i think.

Lisa, hm, hard to explain what sheng diao is :shy:. Well, it's the 4 different versions of pronouncing the same thing in mandarin. like you know, when you write in pinyin you type the number of sheng diao. for ex. Wo(3) ai(4) ni(3)

[ftlouiea]

lisa, dont worry! it's just that some of us are korean entertainment fanatics here! :rolleyes: eat korean, live korean, sleep gasoos. :D

patya, we dont have sheng diao. cantonese, you just have to know the sound of the letter off by heart! though with some words, they can have different sounds in different contexts. Car can be said "chaer" or "gui", reason? don't know... :?

[Joey88]

is it when the pinyin sometimes has lines on top of the vowels... eg... é ē ě è. it just changes the tone of the word... Cantonese kinda has that aswell.... but i dont think it matters as much as mandarin... example.... take the car example.... if we say Cher (hi tone) it means car... but if we say Cherrrrr (low tone) it can sound like (dont know how to explain this) its kinda like a sound word....we would use if you werent impressed by something.

ok i dont know what im talking about.... im just a beginner at mandarin so i might be wrong.... and my cantonese is disappearing from my brain since i hardly speak it.

[Shanhaigirl]

Dana, wow, that's interesting. It's like there are no sheng diao's, but just...hm...confusing, lol.

anyways, i promised to show the Safin - Rochus pics, here they are:

Marat - Rochus 1 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/Shanhaigirl/Marat19.jpg)
Marat - Rochus 2 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/Shanhaigirl/Marat20.jpg)

[ftlouiea]

Lol!
That lightened up my very bad day!
It's like Rochus shrank, and Marat grew... like Gulliver's Travels :D
Gotta say, Marat bears even more resemblence to Orlando Bloom in those pics :love:

Canto, is just funny and non-logical. I give up.

[JoYCe]

caiyun,patya:
sheng diao is when u read a word,how's ur sound will be,
if u read a word in different sheng diao,
that two words will be different and dun have the same meaning.

u know in mandarin have 4 "sheng diao" ,
in cantonese auctually have 9 also,
but i dun really know about it.........=.=
i just know how to say it.

[caiyun]

haha okay okay. i know what you guyz mean now ^__^ that's actually also that thing i was thinking of. hehehe. thanx for confirming it. hehehe. i once heard cantonese has 6 "sheng diao's" not sure tho..

i wished i could speak cantonese fluently. i think it sounds much better than mandarin, but that's only my opinion. hehe.

[jessca]

ive always thought that mandarin songs sound better...but for everything else, i tend to prefer the cantonese language. =P

its more personal? the slang and the little additional grunts of approval/disapproval are more fun :D maybes im used to the diverse dialects in the UK and it rubs off onto my mother tongue. whenever i watch mandarin drama, i think of a 'better way' the actor could have said it in canto <3

[Joey88]

yeh i think mandarin songs sound better than cantonese. i dont know why. maybe because i am getting bored of cantonese perhaps? but i think when speaking... cantonese sounds easier. it is more clear (or i think so anyways) than mandarin.

grunts of disapproval? things like.... "Chui" "Meh?" "Cheeeerrr" and things like that.

[ftlouiea]

Exactly those kinds of words ^^ :-) . Maybe coz I dont hear enough mando people talk, but generally mandarin language is pretty much how it is written, unlike Canto.

Actually, I'm so disgusted with some of the magazines and trashy newspapers that even PRINT with the canto dialect. Yes it makes it easier to read, but it's just killing everybody's knowledge of the chinese language. When they actually write down on paper.

[Shanhaigirl]

I like mandarin sound more than canto. Don't know, mandarin sounds more melodic (is there such a word?) to me. But i'd like to know canto, just 'cause most of you speak it ,lol
I want to talk to Sinny, but she wouldn't talk to me, 'cause she doesn't want to speak english, so the only way to talk to her is for me to learn canto :D

you can print in canto dialect? how's that? I thought the hyerogliphics is the same :glug:
is the grammar different too?

[Joey88]

i thought they were the same too.... maybe when writing in colloquial tone then maybe it is different grammar? im not sure. i think it is the sentence structure... because my mandarin teacher always says: "that sentence is more like cantonese" when im trying to translate from cantonese to mandarin so im GUESSING there is a slight difference.

[ftlouiea]

Hmm... how to say this.

When writing GOOD chinese, then both canto and mando will be the same.
Canto has lots of colloquial terms, and people have started changing letters so they don't have to write out a phrase with the same meaning:

(You can see I'm sooo miffed about this, I bothered to write out a few letters to show you :bleh: )
From here, the above two is what you'd write out in essays etc. But now, instead of writing the FULL way of "don't have" people take out the two lines in "have" to represent "don't have".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/ftlouiea/have.jpg

[Joey88]

ooooo you DO learn something every day then. never seen that before maybe because i dont read much chinese letter things.... i only TRY to read the nice formal newsletter which is WAY too hard anyways.

[ftlouiea]

formal newsletters shouldn't have does kinds of HORRID letters.

lol, this has turned into a "value of chinese language" type of thread. Off topic.

Read in the news yesterday that in Italy, a baby girl was born with her legs stuck together like a mermaid. Doctors are going to operate on her, but she has so many other abnormalities, that she'll most probably die soon. (e.g. 1 kidney) :depresse: