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Just 'cause you have the cutest avatar around does not mean you can take credit for others' work. Babies feel and smell soo good at that age. But they also throw up on you left and right and get really bad diarreah. Lol.

Ummm... I'm willing to bet he only drinks with a select few. Or he does not allow himself to get drunk. The person running the game does not lose by his own rules!

Mersi Amy jan. I am sure it is a recent change, no? I had no idea you were an IT chick, too. Maladets! But now I feel worse. I can't even get my own DELL using Windows to allow me to post in Arm fonts. I am very tech challenged. Lol.

Me too. I alwyas prefer reading the book first before watching the movie (if available). The movie taints my interpretation of the writing and I become torn between my imagination and the director's potrayal/ version. Have you read Great Expectations? Seen the recent movie version? I love both equally.

I greatly appreciate the change of fonts on the poetry section. I was unable to read the older posts since I have been a member here (2+ yrs.) Thank you for all the hard work you put in so that we may enjoy this site.

BTW.. Marquez's "Love In the Time of Cholera" has been made into a film and is playing everywhere currently.

Wow! I just read through this thread and was so suprised to see two very speacial and meaningful books (for me) mentioned here. If someone were to go to my bedroom, in the second drawer of my nightstand they would find: The Prophet (Gibran) "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked". & The Little Prince (de Saint-Exupéry ).

If Russian is ok (as it should be ) then GReek should be fine too! If my childhood had a soundtrack, then the following Greek song would most definelty be on it. As would Gie mou (Yemu) and most other Greek oldies.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1iL4zPImpM

Why is it so hard to please one's parents? There is not a more complex and at the same time amazing relationship as that between a mother and daughter. It is a love - hate relationship bordering on the insane.

Apres Avo. Great idea. I am seconding that vote. So get out your notebook Missy and start woking on the lyrics.

Oh my God! I am so sorry. I figured you'd know him.

Anahid: I was not refering to any one post in particular. But I did borrow the word "merit" directly from your cooment. It was the best suitable word to convey what I wanted to say. Please don’t be on the defensive every time I refer to something you say. If I got offended every time someone was in disagreement with my opinion or my views on the topic being discussed, I surely would refrain from posting in a public forum. It would be exhausting and intolerable- always assuming ppl were against me. I promise to try my best not to offend you in any way. Maybe that means not referring to any of your posts at all.

I am willing to bet that Miss Kimi could not locate Armenia on a map to save her life. And, before the sex tape fiasco, no one outside of L.A. / entertainment industry or the Armenian community knew who she was. Notice how much publicity the centerfold pics have brought her. In response to what someone mentioned earlier, I hope she is the very, very, very last person of Amenian decent that ppl look to bring "merit" to the Armenian name. If that becomes the case, we are sc3w3d. In any case, she is very pleasing to look at. Maybe we should just look and not seek anyhting deeper from her.

MosJan, inchel asem, kicha nran. Inq@ aveliyin a arrjan. Bayts duqel vat chasetsiq.

My dearest QURIK, Happy, happy, happy birthday mukik! I cannot believe u r 26! Do u remeber at 5/ 6 yrs old in Aresh we were sitting under that tree in your grandparent's hayat and singing "Hisun tari" ? Well, you are more than halfway there. I know what you would wish for yourself, and I pray that your wishes are heard in God's ears. May you and your family be blessed with much health and happy years. I know that your heart is not whole, a big chunk of it will forever be in Armenia, in a past dream. But I am grateful and thankful that a piece if it is here with us, for the sharing. There are very few ppl in the world like you. Thank you vor du kas yev MERNES! I cannot imagine my days w/o your companionship. Patners in crime for life. And since you are the poet (and I cannot make up my mind about my feelings- much else express them in prose ), I shall borrow a piece from another poet (and your favorite poem): i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) -ee cummings Olive juice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3AhZjtvZCg (not asmunq...)

Gites, sirun axchik, Hayko~n jisht er....kyanqi ughiner@ xachvum en yev ayt paherum hrashkner en katarvum...ays anhavatacyal@ darcav havatqov li. Uremn tramabanutyunn@ aystegh der chi katarum....yev yerb vor hasnumes verjin u el brrtvelu tegh chunes nor kezi Astvats mi atorr e ghrgum vor nstes. I know..I know ....as usual, u were right too.

Happy B-day! Wishing u many more accompanied with health and happiness.

Very interesting indeed. Maybe it is instinctual, involuntary..maybe faith is built in..like your body's defense mechanism. Maybe God is inside us no matter how much we want to deny him. Or maybe I am totally off. I am still debating all this myself. And yet I find that prayer is never missing from my lips.... and.... "shnorhakal em Astvats" is my waking thought and last sentence uttered before sleep.

Vay, het gnatsi mi kani tari. Te imanas inchqan em lses es nuyn barrer@ im tsnoghnerits, harazatnerits, barekamnerits yev nuynisk otar harevannerits...lol.

Lol. Mos, I was thinking the same thing! Why isn't anybody wearing a tie? The men look so informal. I wanted to know who the pesa is. I am assuming he is important/ needed by Gago. Maybe some gov't dude? Do you recognize him? Mos jan, Ani has immediate family in Armenia. It is depressing to see how those ppl live whle the teachers, doctors and hard working ppl are paid next to mothing wages.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1353578307308012045

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=15436564 (audio commentary) L.A. Armenians Push for Genocide Resolution by Mandalit del Barco Enlarge Karl Walter In 2006, Armenian activists protested outside the Turkish Consulate in Los Angeles to mark the 91st anniversary of the estimated 1.5 million Armenians killed in 1915. Getty Images Morning Edition, October 19, 2007 · Support has faded for a measure that would officially recognize as genocide the mass killings of Armenians in 1915. The resolution passed a contentious House committee vote, but it has stalled in the face of criticism that it would harm U.S. relations with Turkey. The resolution was backed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D), who represents California's 8th District, an area with a sizeable Armenian-American population. This week, Pelosi has admitted that she is reconsidering her pledge to force a vote on the measure in Congress. In Glendale, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb that is home to the nation's largest Armenian population, reaction to the resolution being tabled has been harsh. 'They Were Massacred' Armenians make up about 40 percent of Glendale's population. Their music, food and culture give the community a distinct flavor. At one restaurant called Raffi's, Alice Milkorian discussed the events that have sparked the resolution. "My mother's parents were lost in the genocide," Milkorian said. "They were massacred." Milkorian, who is nearly 80, was born on April 24, also known as Armenian Remembrance Day, the beginning of the killing by the Turkish Ottoman Empire that would eventually claim as many as 1.5 Armenian lives. Like many Armenian-Americans, Milkorian says she looks forward to an official U.S. acknowledgement of that event. Political reluctance — even outright denials of the deaths — only makes Armenians more passionate about the issue, Milkorian says. "We Armenians," Milkorian said, "[have] hot blood. So we want our youth to know what happened in the past. It's very important for us." "Every single Armenian family has a story, a terrible story, as to what happened," said Glendale's mayor, Ara Najarian. He says he gets choked up whenever he recalls his own family's stories. "My grandfather on my dad's side relayed to me how he saw his father beheaded in front of his own eyes," Najarian said. "And on my mother's side, I heard the story of how my great-grandmother, at that time, threw herself into the river to commit suicide rather than to be raped and abused and eventually executed by the Turkish soldiers." Push for Recognition will Continue Ten years ago, the state of California officially recognized the Armenian genocide. Najarian says he still hopes politicians in Washington follow suit. "It certainly is not going to bring back loved ones from four generations ago," Najarian said, "but it's just a recognition of the historical truth." Najarian and others point out that world leaders have acknowledged the events of 1915. Even Adolph Hitler allegedly asked, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" More than 20 nations have officially condemned the atrocities. And six years ago, President Bush referred to the "terrible events" in a presidential message. But this week, Bush urged Congress not to risk antagonizing Turkey's military support for U.S. missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. And that has Glendale's Armenian community upset. "I'm appalled, I'm surprised, and in many ways I'm disgusted," said Larry Zarian, who hosts a cable TV show in Glendale. "Why are we playing politics with this?" Zarian, who was the city's first Armenian mayor, says Bush is backing away from an election promise to officially condemn what happened to the Armenians. "This is about humanity and about one and a half million people that perished 92 years ago. Let's do the right thing. Let's put this behind us," Zarian said. "Turkey needs us more than we need them. Turkey is going to be our ally. Turkey cannot do without the United States of America. Why are we so worried?" Zarian and others in Glendale say that even if the current resolution dies in Washington, they'll continue their crusade to put the Armenian genocide on record.

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?storyId=...077682306a37c19