The 2009 What Made You Smile Thread - Page 2

srahman24 · 01-06-2009, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swedish Professor

Today we will easily beat Srahmans Canada in the final and win our first gold for over 20 years. They almost lost against Russia and had to cheat with the clock to beat USA. We have crushed everyone so far including a 5-0 win against Russia, Go Sweden!!

PS. Srahman, if we somehow will lose, go easy on me.

Hahaha... I hope your day job isn't as a fortune teller

5 straight junior championships in a row!!! (even though the officials were so completely on your side! there were at least three penalties they didn't call. and your goalie's a little insane) I look forward to crushing you guys in 2010 too

Rai · 01-06-2009, 10:43 PM

The Atheist Bus Campaign has reached my beloved Barcelona!

I'm so proud that I'm living there...

bearbait · 01-06-2009, 10:44 PM

My office had a staff meeting today, it was nice to see everybody again. I'm starting my new schedule this friday: instead of working 10 hours a week from home, I'll be working one 9-hour day in the office, and the remaining 6 from home (2 or 3 hours during the week and the rest on the weekend). I'm looking forward to the change, although not to the commute. It took me about 35 minutes to get there during non-rush hour traffic, it will probably be 45 minutes to an hour in rush-hour traffic. It's bearable since it's just one day a week.

verenita · 01-06-2009, 10:52 PM

i´m just fascinated with my new job!

pupils are so open and eager to learn spanish language. this is a great way to start this new year!

Cerque · 01-06-2009, 11:00 PM

[quote=Yetzirah;342635]yeah, i know how it works up there. we've got christmas holidays which could be nice if we hadn't exams in the last two weeks of january... if you're someone that takes his/her studies seriously you don't have much of a holiday then... ah, well... i'm more that kinda person that takes one or two days off and then another one and another one and then this happens and then that and in the end i get all panicky. not always but i'm really good at it. i'm trying to get better, though... i don't know if i'll ever manage...

i like the cat burrito

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I was known for my hard work in school in secondary. Then I started getting good at the guitar. I am only in year one in University though so I don't fell any pressure yet.

Swedish Professor · 01-07-2009, 01:45 PM

haha Srahman, fortunately I'm a croupier and no fortune teller. But I know your joking when you say that thing about the referees. In sweden this is called the scandalgame after you guys tried to kill our goalie. Espositos and Della Rouveres stunts might have been the ugliest things I've ever seen in an arena. What do you think would happen if a swede did that to your goalie? The whole bench would jump out and try to kill that guy.

Espositos is a clear penalty, you must admit that. look at his right leg, that is really dangerous. And della Rouvere. If the game were played anywhere else he would be out for the rest of the game, you know that's true.

But hey, you were the better team and deserved to win so congratulations! Next year maybe we can play each other in a fair game. No wait, it takes place in Canada again.

Hendrik · 01-07-2009, 06:07 PM

Today I had a phone call from UK, finally they'll want to transfer the rest of my european volunteer service money (bureaucracy, don't ask...) to me for when I was in England three years ago. Yay. I thought they'd never do this after all these years. That's settled then.

Canadian Island · 01-07-2009, 06:54 PM

I just got promoted.

I'll supervise a 1-2 times a month open stage at the Café Central (we played there last month) starting Feb 25th. So if any songwriters are near Magdeburg/Germany by the end of next month, feel invited!

verenita · 01-07-2009, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hendrik

Today I had a phone call from UK, finally they'll want to transfer the rest of my european volunteer service money (bureaucracy, don't ask...) to me for when I was in England three years ago. Yay. I thought they'd never do this after all these years. That's settled then.

that would make smile as well... i´m glad for you.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Canadian Island

I just got promoted.

I'll supervise a 1-2 times a month open stage at the Café Central (we played there last month) starting Feb 25th. So if any songwriters are near Magdeburg/Germany by the end of next month, feel invited!

congrats, oliver. and enjoy the promotion

eva_arg · 01-07-2009, 09:25 PM

srahman24's avatar. quality!

verenita · 01-08-2009, 11:52 AM

reading sahar´s post. i´m so glad you´re safe.

eva_arg · 01-08-2009, 02:44 PM

someone on another forum saw my damo av & sig and asked me which DR sites were good... of course I sent him over here

Yetzirah · 01-08-2009, 03:19 PM

i just made a lovely hot chocolate. while i was making that my mum rang me which felt really good. and it distracted me a bit from the horrible exam tomorrow. i'm really glad when that's over!

Cerque · 01-08-2009, 03:39 PM

Finishing my exams and going out with all of my friends, I am not sure if it was a highlight but it was funny. Me and a couple of lads didn't have a way to get home so we were stuck in the city at 4 in the morning. One of my friends was a methodist and had keys to their church, we went in and i played accidental babies on the organ, then he took us upstairs and we slept the night on the floor.

Rai · 01-08-2009, 03:55 PM

Having a great last day at home. Met with some friends, said hello to a few of my professors (well, had at least an hour-long chat with two of them, even introduced one to Lisa's music) at uni and had a nice meal at my favourite Mexican place. Now bring me back to BCN!

Rai · 01-11-2009, 05:25 PM

The Dubliners will be palying here early February!!!!! Yippeee!

Yetzirah · 01-11-2009, 09:16 PM

reading una's post

srahman24 · 01-12-2009, 01:53 AM

My best friend's been away for the week at this event organized for Canadian med students. She heard Damien on in the background at my place and got all excited. Turns out, they were playing a trivia game between the different med schools... and Damien came up as a question! "Where is the singer Damien Rice from?"

Thanks to my incessant blathering about him, she got the answer - down to the specific county

Hendrik · 01-12-2009, 05:35 PM

Reading in Naomi Klein's "Shock doctrine" that satan Milton Friedman's parents came from Hungary. I will have an eye on Rai then...

Milton, lol ->

Rai · 01-12-2009, 06:10 PM

^I can guarantee I am not one of his parents

But you could do some reseach and maybe find some relationship between him and another famous Hungarian, Nicolas Sarkozy

(speaking of him, who thinks that his loving wife will try to get her hands on Obama and ditch him for a more prestigious first ladyship?)

verenita · 01-13-2009, 10:05 PM

i had my first class teaching today, and john, a professor at the university of nebraska, is adorable! so open to learn, altough his spanish speaking is pretty weak!

bearbait · 01-13-2009, 10:33 PM

My 3-year-old, Luke, made me smile this morning. Ethan was tearing some paper off a box, and Luke said, "Ethan is tearing the paper". He thought about it for a minute, and then said, "Mommy, is Ethan a tearer?" and I just burst out laughing and said, "Yes Luke, Ethan is a terror!"

Cerque · 01-13-2009, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by verenita

i had my first class teaching today, and john, a professor at the university of nebraska, is adorable! so open to learn, altough his spanish speaking is pretty weak!

Thats great! Congrats!

Hendrik · 01-14-2009, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bearbait

My 3-year-old, Luke, made me smile this morning. Ethan was tearing some paper off a box, and Luke said, "Ethan is tearing the paper". He thought about it for a minute, and then said, "Mommy, is Ethan a tearer?" and I just burst out laughing and said, "Yes Luke, Ethan is a terror!"

Haha. Did Luke defend the box from the war of tearer after that?

Btw, Luke and Ethan are adorable names.

bearbait · 01-14-2009, 12:48 PM

^Thanks! Lol, Luke knows not to mess with his younger brother! Ethan is not shy about defending himself, and actually is the instigator in most cases when they fight. I think he's going to be a rugby player or something when he grows up - that or a mountain climber, he mastered climbing onto the kitchen table at about 8 months

verenita · 01-14-2009, 08:42 PM

reading bear stories about her children. you tell us adorable ones!

Gatsby · 01-14-2009, 09:57 PM

friends of mine got the call to say they are supporting Staind at their dublin show next monday. after years of hard work, its good to see them getting the breaks they deserve now

Yetzirah · 01-14-2009, 10:10 PM

wow, that's brilliant news! you getting any vip-passes?

because if that's the case i'll come up to see them

as well!

Gatsby · 01-14-2009, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yetzirah

wow, that's brilliant news! you getting any vip-passes?

because if that's the case i'll come up to see them

as well!

ah im sure i will, either that or i can guitar tech for my friends band.. i used to be quite the Staind fan in my day

bearbait · 01-16-2009, 09:58 PM

^That's awesome. I hope they do really well and make it big! I like Staind too

BTW, thanks Verenita for the kind words!

01-06-2009, 10:43 PM	#32
Rai Eskimontologist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Robo-Hungarian Empire Posts: 2,345	The Atheist Bus Campaign has reached my beloved Barcelona! I'm so proud that I'm living there... __________________ "There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos." "If you find you've got a dragon charging at you at thirty miles per hour snapping its teeth you can always drive it defensively through the covers" Last edited by Rai; 01-06-2009 at 10:45 PM.

01-06-2009, 10:52 PM	#34
verenita ... trusty and true ... Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Argentina Posts: 6,387	i´m just fascinated with my new job! pupils are so open and eager to learn spanish language. this is a great way to start this new year! __________________ ["Read me your favourite line": "No podía sucederme nada peor –pensaba aquel amigo–: tengo el alma delicada."]

01-07-2009, 01:45 PM	#36
Swedish Professor Eskimo skiier Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gothenburg Posts: 197	haha Srahman, fortunately I'm a croupier and no fortune teller. But I know your joking when you say that thing about the referees. In sweden this is called the scandalgame after you guys tried to kill our goalie. Espositos and Della Rouveres stunts might have been the ugliest things I've ever seen in an arena. What do you think would happen if a swede did that to your goalie? The whole bench would jump out and try to kill that guy. Espositos is a clear penalty, you must admit that. look at his right leg, that is really dangerous. And della Rouvere. If the game were played anywhere else he would be out for the rest of the game, you know that's true. But hey, you were the better team and deserved to win so congratulations! Next year maybe we can play each other in a fair game. No wait, it takes place in Canada again. __________________ I'm not lost, just frozen in frost

01-07-2009, 09:25 PM	#40
eva_arg Eskimo Regular Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Argentina Posts: 1,795	srahman24's avatar. quality! __________________

01-08-2009, 11:52 AM	#41
verenita ... trusty and true ... Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Argentina Posts: 6,387	reading sahar´s post. i´m so glad you´re safe. __________________ ["Read me your favourite line": "No podía sucederme nada peor –pensaba aquel amigo–: tengo el alma delicada."]

01-06-2009, 10:44 PM	#33
bearbait Eskimo Pie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 868	My office had a staff meeting today, it was nice to see everybody again. I'm starting my new schedule this friday: instead of working 10 hours a week from home, I'll be working one 9-hour day in the office, and the remaining 6 from home (2 or 3 hours during the week and the rest on the weekend). I'm looking forward to the change, although not to the commute. It took me about 35 minutes to get there during non-rush hour traffic, it will probably be 45 minutes to an hour in rush-hour traffic. It's bearable since it's just one day a week.

01-06-2009, 11:00 PM	#35
Cerque Resident Irishman Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: some forest in Ireland Posts: 757	[quote=Yetzirah;342635]yeah, i know how it works up there. we've got christmas holidays which could be nice if we hadn't exams in the last two weeks of january... if you're someone that takes his/her studies seriously you don't have much of a holiday then... ah, well... i'm more that kinda person that takes one or two days off and then another one and another one and then this happens and then that and in the end i get all panicky. not always but i'm really good at it. i'm trying to get better, though... i don't know if i'll ever manage... i like the cat burrito [/QU I was known for my hard work in school in secondary. Then I started getting good at the guitar. I am only in year one in University though so I don't fell any pressure yet.

01-07-2009, 06:07 PM	#37
Hendrik Teddy Daniels Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Berlin Posts: 9,693	Today I had a phone call from UK, finally they'll want to transfer the rest of my european volunteer service money (bureaucracy, don't ask...) to me for when I was in England three years ago. Yay. I thought they'd never do this after all these years. That's settled then.

01-07-2009, 06:54 PM	#38
Canadian Island Eskimo Regular Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Berlin Posts: 230	I just got promoted. I'll supervise a 1-2 times a month open stage at the Café Central (we played there last month) starting Feb 25th. So if any songwriters are near Magdeburg/Germany by the end of next month, feel invited!

01-08-2009, 02:44 PM	#42
eva_arg Eskimo Regular Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Argentina Posts: 1,795	someone on another forum saw my damo av & sig and asked me which DR sites were good... of course I sent him over here __________________

01-08-2009, 03:19 PM	#43
Yetzirah Eskimissima Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: in my own little world! :D Posts: 2,746	i just made a lovely hot chocolate. while i was making that my mum rang me which felt really good. and it distracted me a bit from the horrible exam tomorrow. i'm really glad when that's over! __________________ Nothing to declare

01-08-2009, 03:39 PM	#44
Cerque Resident Irishman Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: some forest in Ireland Posts: 757	Finishing my exams and going out with all of my friends, I am not sure if it was a highlight but it was funny. Me and a couple of lads didn't have a way to get home so we were stuck in the city at 4 in the morning. One of my friends was a methodist and had keys to their church, we went in and i played accidental babies on the organ, then he took us upstairs and we slept the night on the floor.

01-08-2009, 03:55 PM	#45
Rai Eskimontologist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Robo-Hungarian Empire Posts: 2,345	Having a great last day at home. Met with some friends, said hello to a few of my professors (well, had at least an hour-long chat with two of them, even introduced one to Lisa's music) at uni and had a nice meal at my favourite Mexican place. Now bring me back to BCN! __________________ "There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos." "If you find you've got a dragon charging at you at thirty miles per hour snapping its teeth you can always drive it defensively through the covers"

01-11-2009, 05:25 PM	#46
Rai Eskimontologist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Robo-Hungarian Empire Posts: 2,345	The Dubliners will be palying here early February!!!!! Yippeee! __________________ "There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos." "If you find you've got a dragon charging at you at thirty miles per hour snapping its teeth you can always drive it defensively through the covers"

01-11-2009, 09:16 PM	#47
Yetzirah Eskimissima Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: in my own little world! :D Posts: 2,746	reading una's post __________________ Nothing to declare

01-12-2009, 01:53 AM	#48
srahman24 Dandy little dreamer Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,244	My best friend's been away for the week at this event organized for Canadian med students. She heard Damien on in the background at my place and got all excited. Turns out, they were playing a trivia game between the different med schools... and Damien came up as a question! "Where is the singer Damien Rice from?" Thanks to my incessant blathering about him, she got the answer - down to the specific county

01-12-2009, 05:35 PM	#49
Hendrik Teddy Daniels Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Berlin Posts: 9,693	Reading in Naomi Klein's "Shock doctrine" that satan Milton Friedman's parents came from Hungary. I will have an eye on Rai then... Milton, lol ->

01-12-2009, 06:10 PM	#50
Rai Eskimontologist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Robo-Hungarian Empire Posts: 2,345	^I can guarantee I am not one of his parents But you could do some reseach and maybe find some relationship between him and another famous Hungarian, Nicolas Sarkozy (speaking of him, who thinks that his loving wife will try to get her hands on Obama and ditch him for a more prestigious first ladyship?) __________________ "There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos." "If you find you've got a dragon charging at you at thirty miles per hour snapping its teeth you can always drive it defensively through the covers"

01-13-2009, 10:05 PM	#51
verenita ... trusty and true ... Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Argentina Posts: 6,387	i had my first class teaching today, and john, a professor at the university of nebraska, is adorable! so open to learn, altough his spanish speaking is pretty weak! __________________ ["Read me your favourite line": "No podía sucederme nada peor –pensaba aquel amigo–: tengo el alma delicada."]

01-13-2009, 10:33 PM	#52
bearbait Eskimo Pie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 868	My 3-year-old, Luke, made me smile this morning. Ethan was tearing some paper off a box, and Luke said, "Ethan is tearing the paper". He thought about it for a minute, and then said, "Mommy, is Ethan a tearer?" and I just burst out laughing and said, "Yes Luke, Ethan is a terror!"

01-14-2009, 12:48 PM	#55
bearbait Eskimo Pie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 868	^Thanks! Lol, Luke knows not to mess with his younger brother! Ethan is not shy about defending himself, and actually is the instigator in most cases when they fight. I think he's going to be a rugby player or something when he grows up - that or a mountain climber, he mastered climbing onto the kitchen table at about 8 months

01-14-2009, 08:42 PM	#56
verenita ... trusty and true ... Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Argentina Posts: 6,387	reading bear stories about her children. you tell us adorable ones! __________________ ["Read me your favourite line": "No podía sucederme nada peor –pensaba aquel amigo–: tengo el alma delicada."]

01-14-2009, 09:57 PM	#57
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	friends of mine got the call to say they are supporting Staind at their dublin show next monday. after years of hard work, its good to see them getting the breaks they deserve now __________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

01-14-2009, 10:10 PM	#58
Yetzirah Eskimissima Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: in my own little world! :D Posts: 2,746	wow, that's brilliant news! you getting any vip-passes? because if that's the case i'll come up to see them as well! __________________ Nothing to declare

01-16-2009, 09:58 PM	#60
bearbait Eskimo Pie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 868	^That's awesome. I hope they do really well and make it big! I like Staind too BTW, thanks Verenita for the kind words!