GTKY - celandine

1. How did you come across Ozzu.com?

2. What's behind your avatar image?

3. Tell us something interesting about Belgrade and Serbia

4. What languages do you interpret in?

6. What's the meaning behind your nickname?

7. What did you do this past weekend?

8. Tell us about your current living arrangements. (Who you live with, in a house/apartment, etc)

9. Finish this sentence "My life's motto is..."

10. Tell us something about your self that we might find surprising.

11. What are you listening to right now?

12. What kind of car do you drive? (post a photo!)

13. Your profile states you are fluent in 4 languages, one of them being Japanese. Impressive! Where did you pick that one up?

14. Pet peeves. We all have them. Give us your top 5.

15. Any vacation plans you are looking forward to sometime this year you'd like to share with us?

16. Guilty pleasures & bad habits (cigarettes, gum, candy, etc) Give us the dirt!

17. Tell us about http://www.celandinewebdesign.com/

18. Any useless talents? (double jointed, tongue can touch nose, great animal noises imitations, etc)

19. What are you up to today?

20. What are you listening to right now?

21. Favorite meal?

22. What are some of your hobbies?

23. Have you traveled much? Tell us where you've been.

24. Who was your fave superhero growing up?

25. Do you have any pets?

26. Tell us about the last thing you were thinking about.

27. What do you do to stay in shape? Or do you do anything at all? LOL

28. What's the craziest thing you'd do for 1 million $?

29. What's your favorite song(s)?

30. What other sites do you frequent besides ozzu.com?

Post more questions everyone.

Aw, i'm so glad this has finally come about.

I'll chuck in a few questions later on.

heh heh... I'll get right onto these as soon as I get home...

edit: what the heck, now is good.


by accident really. I started mucking around with web design so I typed something like 'web design forum' into google and up it came.


her name is Dr. Atsuko Chiba, from the anime 'Paprika'. I use Paprika herself (Atsuko's dream-world alter ego) as an avatar on another forum... I love anime when it's top quality. so much more imaginative than most of western cinematography...


oh heavens. this place is boring, I want to get out of here.... umm interesting... the name 'belgrade' ('beograd' in original) means 'white city' - they say back when the central citadel was first built the whole thing really made of white stone. must have been quite a sight, at the estuary of two rivers.... not so white these days.


English - Serbian for work. nothing too exciting It's mostly customs-related matters...


it's a bit convoluted really. celandine kennington was the wife of eric kennington, a good friend of T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). I was reading something about T E Lawrence's life and came across the name, which just appealed to me immensely. T E Lawrence, incidentally, is probably my favourite historical figure.....


went to swimming pool with friends and got terribly sunburnt... owie... then played a bit of tennis on the sunday, hilariously because the wind was so strong the balls were flying in wide arcs.


little but wonderfully furnished and modern apartment (was made brand new for us out of the upper half of Husband's parents' ginormous apartment, lucky lucky) with Husband and two cats. The tiles in my kitchen are arranged to make pictures of space invaders!!!


'It's in my blood to B+' (I'm A+ really but that wouldn't be as punchy...)


hnmmm... I can recite the entire 'Waste Land' by heart (heh heh no, just kidding...) ...hmm.... I don't really like people very much, on the whole. I don't think that shows most of the time


clock ticking. If I could be bothered to put some music on I'd be listening to 'Slow Hand' by the Pointer Sisters. That or the Portal closing credits song.


don't drive. took the test once, failed splendidly and never tried again... will do someday. my grandfather bequeathed me his ancient canary-yellow opel kadett, (woulda looked something like this - but yellow...) but my mother and aunt sold it for peanuts behind my back. horrid thing to do. I wanted to trick it out and everything...


yeah they just sort of stick. as opposed to the natural sciences.... I started studying japanese in high school, that was an accident too. I wanted to go for spanish but they told me the competition was too fierce (it was a kind of a high-profile high school). In the end turns out I coulda gotten into spanish, but it was the finger of fate that sent me into the japanese class - I've loved it madly ever since. Won a scholarship on my 4th year of university and spent a year in tokyo - best year of my life...


people with unnecessary attitude
boring people you have to sit next to at business dinners
people who want everything to be obsessively neat
liars
people on busses who stand right at the door even though they're not getting off, so you have to ask them to move and they look at you all confused, like 'what?'... ha ha ha that's probably a particular 'belgrade' peeve....


a week in London starting 30 July, and a week in a totally fancy-schmancy hotel in Turkey starting 20 september (yes it's a bit off season but it's the only time I can afford the place heh heh) ......and maybe a week in barcelona somewhere in the autumn.


chocolate. cream. strawberries and cream. icecream. sweets of all descriptions. that and black tea.


it needs an overhaul!!! it's the first site I ever made, at the end of my little web-design course. I'll redo it completely in the next few weeks (hopefully) and start taking serious steps towards possibly making web design my full-time career...


nothing comes to mind...


long day at the office it was - go home, take a walk by the river with Husband (we live right on the quay), then play with cats, fiddle with my newly installed blog..... (yes, I'm one of those now...lol...)


that was question no. 11 hasn't changed...


seabass and grilled vegetables. just had some at a fancy business dinner in italy - we were in rome, the restaurant was on a rooftop overlooking the Circo Massimo and the seabass - which they call 'spigola' - was unspeakably good.


swimming, shooting, archery (used to be in japan - miss it to death... might open my own dojo someday), reading, tennis... I also love long dinners and neverending evenings of conversation.......... (yeah I talk a lot... heh you noticed, eh? )


lived in bangladesh as a kid, had three months in cyprus coming back from there... spent all summers in croatia but then it didn't use to be a foreign country, sniff... a year in japan... visited quite a bit of europe - vienna, istanbul, rome, london, paris, prague, budapest, lisbon, umm... I've probably left something out... visited nepal a few times from bangladesh - wonderful place...... if it was up to me I'd never stop moving.


ooh they're all good. silver surfer. batman. neil gaiman's sandman. I like the dark ones...


two monstrous cats who are currently in the habit of waking us up at 5am by horrendous mewling because they feel like cuddles.


I've kind of had a fight with someone yesterday and I can't stop obsessing about it.


sex, tennis, plus I swim when I can. did a month of pilates and kinda liked it, but life got too busy... I'll get back to it at some point probably. stretchy


probably nothing too crazy. I'm not terribly money-hungry.... in fact I don't think I'd do anything for a million that I wouldn't do in some circumstances even without the million offered.


soooo many.... 'american girls' by the counting crows. 'one headlight' by tom petty and the heartbreakers. 'sara' by bob dylan. 'slow emotion replay' - the the. 'walk away' - franz ferdinand. 'every you, every me' - placebo. hundreds of others...


I love my web-comics - alien loves predator, OOTS, xkcd, penny arcade... the slate for the news... oh and the edge. (and no, it's got nothing to do with guitars )

ahh well there's some light bedtime reading for ya...... feel free to keep 'em coming

[quote]31. If time froze long enough for you to slap the hell out of someone and get back to your life before time resumed and they wondered what the hell just happened to them, who would it be ?[/quote]


[quote]32. Which if the current world leaders would you vote for in a President of the world election ?[/quote]


[quote]33. What's the climate like in Serbia ?
For some reason I picture it being realy cold with everyone wearing really furry coats, but you mentioned sea bass and now I'm confused.[/quote]


[quote]34. What mundane task would you like to be paid one American cent for every time you do it for the rest of your life ?[/quote]


[quote]35. Who would win in a fight, Steven Hawking, or a suicide bomber ?[/quote]


[quote]36. Ask yourself a question here.[/quote]


[quote]37. I heard on TV that white tea is baby tea, does that mean black tea is granny tea ?[/quote]

"The tiles in my kitchen are arranged to make pictures of space invaders!!!"
brilliant...

[quote]38. Make up a word (in English) and use it in a sentence...[/quote]

[quote]39. Tell us a Japanese swear word [/quote]

[quote]40. What do/did your parents do for a living [/quote]

[quote]41. When was the last time you clenched-your-buttocks [/quote]

[quote]42. Donkey Kong, Chuckie Egg or Defender [/quote]

[quote]43. Where did you meet your husband [/quote]

[quote]44. Pets [/quote]

[quote]45. Religion [/quote]

[quote]46. Cup size [/quote]

[quote="spork"]47. You're in a dark room and the only thing you can see is a suspiciously well-lit tomato sitting on a table in front of you. What do you do?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]48. Duct tape, masking tape, or Scotch tape?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]49. What's the gist of the strangest conversation you've ever had to translate?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]50. Have you ever used a stapler as a weapon?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]51. Do you drink coffee?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]52. Favorite TV shows?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]53. Red or blue?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]54. What's the largest prime number you can think of off the top of your head?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]55. Beer, wine, spirits, or other? Any favorites?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]56. If you are familiar with the current U.S. presidential candidates, which do you predict will win this year? If not, when was the last time you saw a circus?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]57. You're in your car when suddenly, on the road ahead of you, you spot a large tornado heading your way. You have a teddy bear, a ping pong ball, and a small bag of cashews. What do you do?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]58. Where in the world would you most like to visit that you haven't yet?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]59. I'm surprised 613flavah didn't list this one, but...
spam us: give us some sites you think we should visit.[/quote]

[quote="spork"]60. What's the strangest thing you've ever Googled?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]61. Do you think intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]62. In a battle royale cage match between all of Ozzu's moderators, who do you thing would come out victorious?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]63. Do you prefer pens or pencils? Crayons?[/quote]

[quote="spork"]64. This question is a perfect square. Mathematics: detest or embrace?[/quote]

[quote]65. Have you ever seen the movie, or better yet the cartoon, [i]Beetlejuice[/i] ?[/quote]

[quote=kc0tma]66. If you could switch places with one person for the rest of your life, who would it be and why?[/quote]

[qoute=kc0tma]67. Name one thing you own that you absolutely could not live without, but not your computer because that is a given.[/quote]

[qoute=kc0tma]68. Name one thing you own that you absolutely positively wish you didn't own but have to keep.[/qoute]

best question - ever

69. you list shooting as a hobby, what kind

ooh guys gotta go sleep now.... keep 'em coming, more answers tomorrow..... this is fun

[quote]70. Did you have dreams of thousands of mini Ozzu dragons chasing you through the city last nite ?[/quote]


[quote]71. Do you think you will now that I mentioned it ? lol[/quote]

[quote]72. You catch your best-friend's husband cheating on her. Do you tell the friend? If so, how?[/quote]



[quote]73. What's the dumbest thing you've ever done?[/quote]



[quote]74. Name a song and a smell that evokes nostalgia in you?[/quote]

yes, loved both


I actually quite like being me If I had to make a switch though, I'd... hmm... I can't really give you a name because I don't know anyone specific, but someone born into a good family - you know the type, old money, influential... who could - a) own a boat (I would sell my soul for a little yacht, but I'll probably never be able to afford one) and b) get a job in some institution of power, so one could actually make a difference in the world... like, Chairman of the UN, or some such. (but the boat comes first)

well it's not one thing, but earrings. If someone told me I had to stop wearing earrings I'd have great trouble going through life. I feel naked without them. Incomplete.

Bibles. my husband and I are both atheists, but his mother is a believer and she's forced us to accept these two giant bibles in hard cover with giant gold crosses on the cover....... and I don't want them for two reasons - one, I have a bible (Gideons, my great aunt nicked it from a hotel in london) and it's a nice little one with brown covers, not a giant huge golden 'look at me I'm a bible' ostentatious kind of one.... and two - she kind of forced us to take them, by offering until we didn't know how to politely refuse, and I hate it when people manipulate me like that.

Handguns. I'm pretty good really. never shot a rifle though... I'd like to. my shooting instructor promised he'll take me along to one of the 'undercover' club gatherings, where they close down the range and fire crazy things like kalashnikovs...

ha ha ha no, I dreamt I ran into an old friend somewhere in a foreign city and we were sitting on a large bed with our backs leaned against each other and laughing about something...

probably not I seldom recognise traces of things that happened to me or things I was thinking about during the day in my dreams. but hey, this could always be the exception

Oooh yes I do I guess. How... god I don't know. if possible arrange it so that she sees/ catches him herself - because people have a tendency of not wanting to believe such things, and 'shooting the messenger'... thankfully I don't think he's the type
On the other hand there's a part of me that thinks not saying anything is best. relationships have very strange and complex mechanisms within them, and tampering from the outside often brings nothing good............. hard choice though. I might not tell her but confront him and ask him to do the decent thing by her.

jumped into the sea off the pier fully dressed because someone who was supposed to be paying attention to me wasn't. pathetic, I know. In my defense, I was only about 16 at the time. I've matured a bit since then.... (cough cough shuuure I have....) well maybe my techniques have gotten a bit subtler.

Excellent question. Sometimes walking around the city I catch something I could swear was the smell of the sea, and that really cuts me to the quick. Also sometimes I catch an indefinable smell, which I can't exactly place but I know it smells like someplace I've been a long time ago.... that's a strange feeling, like nasal hallucinations. song - sara by bob dylan, and pretty much anything by don mclean or cat stevens, cuz that was the kind of thing that was always on the record player when I was really little and my parents were having these endless parties with all their friends... it was so amazing, to me at the age of four or five, all these people who seemed so smart and interesting... (my parents hung with a nice crowd of people, artists, musicians, philosophers, writers.... none dreadfully good perhaps, but aspiring. people with inner substance)

*kc0tma sorry for taking your name out of your quotes but for some strange reason they wouldn't publish as quotes with the name.... ??

You skipped #31-64

oh my god those didn't publish!! no, i answered all of them... damn.... must have been some sort of glitch.
I'll redo them now. sorry