edgar allan poe- Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me&
Yes!;that was the reason
(as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

vara asta

Si uite ca aproape s-a dus si vacanta de vara, au trecut 3 luni in care pur si simplu am stat degeaba. Ei, nu chiar degeaba, am fost la mare, in Delta, in Fagaras, zilele trecute prin Bran :P, m-am plimbat putin vara asta, nu atat cat as fi vrut, dar in fine, a fost frumos :D. Mi-am indeplinit visul de a-mi face ziua de nastere la mare- avantajul de a fi nascuta in mijlocul verii.
Am mai si citit putin in vara asta, nu tot ce ar fi trebuit, dar e ok, ma apuca tocmai acum spre sfarsit sa fac tot. Asa sunt eu, fac totul pe ultima suta de metri, dar nu prea mi-a mers rau pana acum cu metoda asta, desi sunt constienta ca ar trebui sa fac lucrurile din timp, bla, bla, bla...
Inca o chestie ce am mai descoperit vara asta, deloc in avantajul meu este jocul Sorority Life, eu una il joc pe tagged desi am vazut ca e si pe hi5 si nu mai stiu ce al siter de genul. Spun ca nu e in avantajul meu pentru ca acum nu mai pot sa ma dezlipesc de calculator, nici macar sa mai citesc blogurile si siteurile de zi cu zi, cele cu bancuri, cu stiri, si asa mai departe. Ma trezesc, aprind calcu si in fata calcului pana seara tot pe tagged.
nu-mi place, mai ales ca lunea viitoare incep scoala, ar trebui s-o las mai usor. Ma si vad la o intalnire de genul AA : Buna, eu sunt Adina si sunt dependenta de calculator si nu de calculatorul in sine ci de un joc :)))). Nici NFS nu mi-a creat atata dependenta.
Dar las' ca scap eu de ea, mai ales daca o sa fiu pe drumuri de la 7 dimineata pana pe la 6-7 seara, mai intru pe calc in weekend si de sarbatori :)))

Bancuri :D

* I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone.

*- Nu mai astepta, aici autobuzele merg numai de sarbatori, - se adreseaza o doamna catre o blonda.
- Pai astazi e ziua mea de nastere!!

*O femeie casatorita se plange prietenei sale:
- De ce ma bate sotul? Spal, calc, fac mancare, totul e perfect, de copii am grija...
- Cu altul nu iesi?
- Poate din cauza asta...

*In cuseta vagonului de dormit se aude o bufnitura. Buimaca de somn, sotia intreaba:
- Ce-a cazut acolo, Nicule?
- Pijamaua, draga.
- Cu atata zgomot?
- Eram si eu in ea!

*Într-o zi, o soţie se plînge soţului:
- Dragă, sînt nemulţumită că am sînii mici.
Soţul îi răspunde:
- Ia o bucată de hîrtie igienică, freac-o între sîni şi în cîţiva ani ai să vezi că o să-ţi crească.
- De unde ştii? întreabă mirată soţia.
- Cu fundul a funcţionat, nu-i aşa?

*BARBATUL a descoperit sticla si a inventat PAHARUL.
FEMEIA a luat sticla si a inventat OGLINDA .
BARBATUL a descoperit ZARUL si a inventat jocul.
FEMEIA a luat ZARUL si a inventat VRAJITORIA.
BARBATUL a descoperit CUVANTUL si a inventat CONVERSATIA.
FEMEIA a descoperit CUVANTUL si a inventat BARFA.
BARBATUL a descoperit BANUL si a inventat COMERTUL.
FEMEIA a descoperit BANUL si a inventat CREDITUL.
BARBATUL a descoperit TRANZACTIILE si a inventat CARTEA DE CREDIT.
FEMEIA a luat CARTEA DE CREDIT si BARBATUL s - a dat dracului..
BARBATUL a descoperit MUNCA si a inventat SALARIUL.
FEMEIA a descoperit SALARIUL si iar s - au dat dracului BARBATII.
BARBATUL a descoperit FEMEIA si a inventat SEXUL.
FEMEIA a descoperit SEXUL si a inventat ..........................................CASATORIA

DUPA ASTA BARBATUL S - A SUPARAT SI NU A MAI INVENTAT NIMIC, CE NAIBA , PANA CAND SA TOT CADA DE PROST..

*Cele trei mari dorinte ale barbatului:
1.sa fie asa frumos cum crede maica-sa ca e!
2.sa fie asa bogat cum crede fiu-su ca e!
3.sa aiba atatea femei cat suspecteaza nevasta-sa ca are!

*Un orb sta la semafor insotit de un caine si astepta sa treaca. Un alt om sta si priveste scena de pe cealalta parte a drumului. Se face verde, dar cainele nu il trece strada pe orb. Se face iar verde, cainele nimic. Se repete scena de cateva ori, dupa care orbul scoate un os din buzunar si il da cainelui. Mirat, omul care observa, intreaba:
- De ce ii dati os, daca va tine pe loc si nu va trece strada cand se face verde?
- Pai am observat ca stau de 10 minute in acelasi loc, ii dau un os ca sa imi dau seama unde are capul si sa-i ard un sut in c*r ca ma tine in loc de atata vreme.

*Merge un tată cu copilul lui de 3 ani şi trece o tipă superbă pe lîngă ei, cu o rochie foarte mulată. Tipul nu poate să se abţină şi exclamă:
- Doamne, ce c*r fain!
Băiatul se întoarce către el şi întreabă:
- Ce ai spus, tati?
- Am spus cucu.
- Ce-i aia?
- O pasăre, fiule...
- Ahhh... Şi există cucă, tati?
- Mda.
- Şi un cuc şi o cucă fac cuchiţi?
- Da, fiule.
- Şi un cuchiţ şi o cuchiţă fac cuchicişori?
- Da, băiatule!
- Şi un cuchişor si o cuchişoară fac cuchişorei?
- Da, omule, ce atîta...
- Şi un cuchişorel şi o....
- Mă, băiete, am zis c*r. Ai înţeles? C*r!

vreau la mare 8->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvaf4GfX9CQ&feature=related

vacanta :D

Pot sa spun ca am inceput vacanta. Azi am dat penultimul examen, ultimul nu se pune, e ca si luat ;)) Si tot azi se pare ca a inceput bacul. Nu pot sa cred ca a trecut un an de cand am dat bacul. Parca ieri ma plimbam pe coridoarele liceului. Nu pot sa spun ca mi-e dor de liceu, ca nu-mi e. Mi-e dor de colegi...am avut 24 de baieti in clasa :)) nu cred ca a fost zi de liceu in care sa nu rad :))
Partea buna e ca ma duceam cu drag la scoala, pentru colegi si pentru buna dispozitie, nu conteaza ce probleme aveam acasa , daca ma simteam bine sau rau, dar cand ajungeam la scoala uitam de tot si radeam frate.....
Acum la facultate ma duc ca nu sunt obligata :)) , ca nu se mai scade media la purtare, si deoarece chiar aflu ceva nou in fiecare zi si-mi plac profesorii si cursurile si tot. Zic asta acum ca aproape am terminat sesiunea si vreo 3 luni nu mai calc pe acolo :)) Ar cam trebui totusi sa profit de vacanta asta sa recuperez la germana....hmm...mdap. Nu o sa se mai repete ce s-a intamplat in sesiunea asta.
acum...ideea de baza este ce fac eu in vacanta asta???? Pe langa germana :P
Sper sa miros marea si muntele vacanta asta....hmm si apoi?
trebuie sa gasesc ceva de facut vacanta asta neaparat. Poate o reuniune de liceu :)))

Not a drop to drink

Two thousand years ago the Romans tried to turn this desert into an oasis, a place full of rivers and lakes and canals. The Romans wanted to build big white temples and big houses under the hot sun. They wanted to turn this desert into a new paradise, full of trees and flowers and fields. They planned to sail their ships across the desert. But they failed.

The Romans failed because they looked only at the surface of the land. They tried to make the desert into a paradise with water and trees by digging canals and building aqueducts. They dug canals to connect the sea and the rivers. They built their aqueducts, long pipes to carry water, for many miles across the desert, to carry water from one town to another.

Now, I can still see some of the old aqueducts. There are a few white stone arches under the hot sun in the dry desert. They are falling down. The water in the aqueducts dried up. There is nothing left of the Roman canals. The water in the canals disappeared and the canals filled up with sand again, but if you look carefully it is still possible to see where they were. There are lines across the desert that look like very old roads.

In 1777 a Portuguese explorer called Emanuel de Melo Pimento came to this desert with a plan to turn it into an oasis. At that time in history, everybody was very excited by new discoveries in science and technology and engineering. Emanuel de Melo Pimento was a man of his times, one of the new scientist-philosopher-engineers who believed that all the problem of people in the world could be solved by science and philosophy. He believed that he could turn the hot, dry desert where nobody had enough water to drink into an oasis, into a utopia. He wanted to build a completely new city here, he wanted to build a completely new country. He wanted to call it “Pimentia”, named after himself, of course.

Emanuel de Melo Pimento had a lot of money. He had a lot of money because a lot of rich people in Portugal and Spain gave him money to go around the world and explore. These rich people invested in Emanuel de Melo Pimento’s journeys of exploration and discovery. Now they had given him money to build a new city, a new country, a utopia, to create an oasis in the desert. These rich people hoped to become even richer. Emanuel de Melo Pimento took their money and used it not to try and change the surface of the land, like the Romans, but to change what is under the surface of the desert. Emanuel de Melo Pimento wanted to dig canals under the desert, to make big underground rivers where the water would not dry up under the heat of the sun.

He failed, of course.

Some of his plans still survive. I have some of them here in my office in the Institute of Hydrogeological Research where I write this. They are very beautiful works of art. But not one of his plans was ever completed – they needed too much money, more money than even the rich people in Portugal and Spain gave to Emanuel de Melo Pimento. Instead, Emanuel de Melo Pimento spent all the money on building beautiful buildings where he could live and dream of his new city.

From where I write in my office in the Institute I can still see one of the old buildings that Emanuel de Melo Pimento lived in before he went mad and died here. He failed because he tried to look only under the land. The Romans failed because they looked only at the surface of the land. Now, I will succeed, because I am not looking at the surface of the desert, or under it. I am looking up above the desert. I am looking up at the sky.

Now, at the beginning of the 21st century we have the ability to go up into space. We have the ability to build satellites. Some people have said that I am mad, just like Emanuel de Melo Pimento, but I know that I will succeed. I have spent many years making plans to build satellites that can not only forecast the weather, but change it.

The first of the satellites went up into space last week, and now, using a computer here in my office, I am telling it what to do. The programmes I spent many years planning and designing all work perfectly.

I look up at the sky, and it is starting to rain.

It has now been raining for three weeks. It has not stopped raining for 21 days. At first, the people were very happy to see so much rain. Now the desert has flooded. Where before there was only sand, now there is water. Where there was desert, now there is sea.

But the rain that has come down from the sky has destroyed many houses. Some people now have nowhere to live. The rain was stronger and heavier than I planned. I was right to look up above the desert, not at its surface or under the sand, but I did not expect the force of nature to be so strong.

Have I too failed? I do not know. Will people in the future think of me as I now think of the Romans and of the failed mad scientist Emanuel de Melo Pimento?

I have turned the desert into a sea. We can now sail ships across the desert, like the Romans dreamed. But the people do not thank me. They have water, but they have nothing to drink.

The end

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-themes-deserts.htm

deci...o sa incep cu deci ca o conluzie din tot ce "am invatat" azi: germana e grea !
prima data cand am auzit ca o sa fac germana in facultate, am fost chiar incantata, a fost un fel de "dream come true", din copilarie vroiam sa invat germana. nush de ce, nu aveam un motiv deosebit, imi placea cum suna cred.
acum, dupa aproape un an de zile de germana la facultate, vreau sa spun ca ma ia durerea de cap cand deschid manualul . Mai rau decat franceza. Nu inteleg nimic. Si cel mai grav , nu vad asemanarea aia cu engleza !! toata lumea zice ca daca stii engleza, germana o sa fie usoara. da de unde?
totul e pe invers, toata fraza, toate cuvintele sunt INVERS. dar ai zice ca fiindca m-am prins ca e invers o sa pot sa invat. nu e chiar asa.
d-bia acum inteleg expresia : parca vorbesti in limbi straine :))
pai..engleza o invat din gradinita, si pot sa spun ca o stiu, franceza o inteleg cat de cat, are si ea gramatica grea si o mie si una de exceptii, dar merge, nu e imposibila; spaniola a venit cam firesc, nush de unde, poate din telenovelele alea din copilarie:)) (am fost mare fana Thalia :)))
si acum...germana...ca nimic din ce am invatat pana in prezent
si problema uriasa si de baza este verbul !
cum s-o fi inventat verbul?
si cum doamne iarta-ma s-a ajuns ca in germana verbul sa aibe particula separabila nu pot sa-mi dau seama, e o chestie extraterestra asta
particula separabila?? wtf?
si pe langa asta, frustratrea mea adevarata si sincera nu e neaparat faptul ca nu inteleg ci ca ceilalti...INTELEG!
adica marea majoritate din cei din grupa chiar au invatat germana! fara sa stie din liceu sau generala. au intrat la fel de bombe ca mine dar o sa iasa stiind germana. eu in schimb o sa ies asa cum am intrat + hai sa zicem cateva cuvinte noi in vocabular, si multe fire albe.
da, azi am observat fenomenul, au inceput sa-mi iasa fire albe, la nici 20 de ani.
vi se pare normal? ca mi-e nu.
macar de-ar fi din cauza invatatului, macar sa pot spune ca am invatat de mi-au iesit fire albe, dar sa stiu germana :))
poate o sa visez la noapte verbul si o sa pot sa fac ceva maine la examen.
sper !