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Thursday, October 23, 2003

TschöRmen

The German language has a lot more sex appeal than most people seem to be comfortable with.

Why does the Tiamat piece Spine contain the words "For lots of English speakers, there is no scarier sound than the German language"?

It's a complex phenomenon, this 'German-hating', and since I'm writing this while online, I can't analyse it too deeply. Certainly, there are all the traumas from WWII (though it would seem strange to blame today's Germans for what some of their grandparents did). Another factor are the terrible German tourists who invade various parts of the world every summer.

But one factor, that is seldom noticed, is something similar to the 'white man's' hate for the 'olive man', because the 'white woman' is much more interested in dark, chocolate eyed men than them. (This becomes very obvious every time I mention that I like dark, hairy men, when speaking with a pale, hairless man.) That's one of the reasons why many Russians despise Caucasians - Russian women, who have spent their holidays at the Black Sea, *know* that Caucasians are much more virile than most Russian men (right, Natig?).

Also, like everyone who has seen A Fish Called Wanda knows, languages can have a very strong effect on the opposite sex.
My personal favourites are Russian, Arabic and Hebrew. Turkish is an incredibly cute language, too, and I just want to squeeze anyone to death who says "Ölümlü".
And, as I've noticed recently, the German language has its place in the top list, as well.

Oh well, or maybe I'm just a pervert who gets immeasurably excited by guttural sounds.
(Russian should be an exception to the rule, in that case. And yes, Russian ... ahh, Russian. It is a whole chapter for itself. No, a whole series of novels. No, a whole life's work.)

Posted at 7:06 pm by turukhtan
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Window-painting

Some guys are coming to paint my window frames tomorrow morning. I didn't ask them to do it, but it's just my landlord who thinks this should be done. This means that I will have to remove all furniture, plants, computers, curtains, etc. from any proximity to the windows tonight.

When I complained about this hassle to my mother, she said, "Oh, but then you can wash the windows, too! Isn't that great?"
"Uhh ... NO."
"But you must at least clean the window frames, so they can paint them."
"Wha ... But can't they do that, themselves?!"
"But Tinet! You must be NICE to the poor men!"
"No ...!?"
"Tineeeeet ...!"
"I'll sweep the floor, okay!!"

(That'll be the first time ever that I sweep the floor by the windows, behind my desk ... It will surely be a fascinating experience.)

Posted at 6:37 pm by turukhtan
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Sunday, October 19, 2003

For you

Just before I log off the internet and return to my studies ...
... A piggy-hug for YOU!

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My cuddlymunchkins

Lo and behold my hairy children!

Sergei taking an afternoon nap

Mitsu looking particularly munchkinous

Sergei peeking out between my knees

Posted at 9:40 pm by turukhtan
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Saturday, October 18, 2003

Tool

I was just listening to Tool's Lateralus. When I took off my headphones, I realised that my neighbour above me is listening to the same record.

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Thursday, October 16, 2003

Fourty six & two: Slicha, mah hasha'ah?

Naah, I'm not going insane. I just got my period.

I don't want to learn to say what time it is in Hebrew. Then I can't just ignore stupid Israeli men who want to approach me by asking what time it is!

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Wednesday, October 15, 2003

I might be going insane.

Just now, I started crying uncontrollably because of a sheet of paper with exercises that I got for my Arabic class.

There are just some simple exercises on interrogative pronouns, in the pattern of "Who is this? - This is a boy. - What is his name? - His name is Sami."
There are a couple of pictures drawn in a kind of 70's style, with a girl, a boy and also a dog and a cat. The dog's name is Ruby, and the cat's name is Fulla. Further down, there are a few sentences without pictures, where a number of men, women and children are introduced, and also a horse by the name of Saqr.

Well, it's kind of hard to explain why it made me cry, but it's exactly the same feeling as when I read a passage in Vasily Grossman's novel "Life and Fate" (one of the best books ever written, in my opinion), where Christmas had come to Stalingrad. To celebrate the holiday, the German army leadership had for some reason decided to distribute little twigs of pine tree to all the German soldiers, along with some additional Christmas decoration. After having gotten used to fighting and death, they felt very strange holding these pieces of something that they had almost forgotten, something that they had left behind a long time ago.

So, my situation is almost the same: after getting used to 'fighting and death' in my terrible Arabic book EMSA (a gigantic orange thing, where the layout has been made with a typewriter), I feel very strange holding the Christmas decorations of this sheet with exercises ...

Posted at 11:03 am by turukhtan
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A word about dics III

I just realised that it's impossible to even think of buying an English/German/Whatever-Arabic dictionary online, because I can't check if the vowels are written out. And when I e-mail the bookstores to ask, they all reply that they can't answer, because they don't read Arabic. Well, fair enough, but ... what am I supposed to do?!

Arabic dictionaries with vowels written out are terribly rare: only one of the dictionaries in question in my university library is vowelised. Not even the grand Oxford dictionaries have vowels.

As if non-Arabic speakers would have no interest in learning interesting Arabic words!

I mean, with the vast amount of words there are in Arabic, how many fascinating synonyms might there not be for 'hairy man'? ...

Posted at 12:21 am by turukhtan
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Monday, October 13, 2003

Noooo ...

Since I have to get up early tomorrow and do my homework, I find great interest in doing stupid things like this ...

Maybe I just have to work off the frustration I feel about my editors. They sent me an article on NEPAD today, to illustrate, and said that it had been checked and corrected many times over. But what did I discover when I read it? - INCREDIBLE amounts of TERRIBLY embarrassing misspellings! Like, not knowing that there is a difference between a semicolon and a colon ...!!

Anyway:

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Argh! WTF?!?! Did I choose the wrong options?? (But I know Sasha would have been delighted ...)

You're Sensitive and you'd like to stay that way..

-Sensitive- You're Sensitive, and you'd like to
stay that way. Sorry,listened to a bit too much
Jewel there. You're sweet and very emotionally
charged. You definitely love the person you're
with, and always want to know how they're
feeling so you can make sure they're happy.

What Kind of Girlfriend Are You?
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Lucky for me that I very rarely am anyone's girlfriend, so I don't have to embarrass myself being like that ...

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This is perhaps a bit more accurate ...

So goth you're dead!

You are every goth-kids dream!

Which Ultimate Beautiful Woman are You?
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But I do like it!

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kjkj

You are The Butcher! You would be famous for
chopping up and slaughtering of people in your
own unique way. That would be why the cops
would not be able to identify your victims. You
would probably get ideas from slasher movies or
previous killers, but turn them into your own
thing. You have a creative side to you, which
is scary, and you would use it on your victims.
You would not be vicious or anything; you may
go all cool and casual with a smile, and then
do your work and examine your victims. The
public would really want the Butcher away from
the streets!

What Would Your Serial Killer Name Be? What Would the Public Know You As?
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What a crooked view people have of my favourite colour. For me, black is the ink I create worlds with, black is the universe and the night, black is eternity and the moment before birth.

Info Black

Your Heart is Black

What Color is Your Heart?
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He he ... This really is true, even though I'm a pretty harmless case:

HASH(0x83bc418)

schizoid

Which Personality Disorder Do You Have?
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All right, enough of this foolishness ...

Posted at 12:09 am by turukhtan
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Thursday, October 09, 2003

Whew!

After several minutes of struggling, the counter is where it should be. Almost. I'd like a few blank spaces between the "Register for updates" and the counter icon, but I haven't got the energy now.

Why a counter? Because ... me wantshh CONTROL!! Bwa hah haa ...

(I'm trying to set up one on my Blogger blog, too, but that service is, as usual, a pain in the ass.)

Posted at 8:36 pm by turukhtan
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