by nate on Monday, October 26th, 2009 | Dating, Friendship, Love, Tips | No Comments

KISS:

1. Kiss on the Forehead: We’re cute together

2. Kiss on the Cheek: We’re friends

3. Kiss on the Hand: I adore you

4. Kiss on the Neck: I want you, now

5. Kiss on the Shoulder: You’re perfect

6. Kiss on the Lips: I Love You

GESTURE:

1. Holding hands: We definitely like each other

2. Holding you tight pressed against each other: I want you

3. Looking into each other’s eyes: I like you, for who you are

4. Playing with hair: Let’s fool around

5. Arms around the waist: I like you too much to let go

6. Laughing while kissing: I am completely comfortable with you

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by nate on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | Love | 2 Comments

See for yourself and make comments… or you can be speechless like me.

Christian was a lion originally purchased by Australians John Rendall and Anthony ‘Ace’ Bourke from Harrods department store of London in 1969 and ultimately reintroduced to the wild.

Rendall and Bourke (erroneously cited in various sources as Berg), with their girlfriends Jennifer Mary and Unity Jones, cared for the lion where they lived in London — until it was a year old. Christian’s increasing size and the increasing cost of his care led Rendall and Bourke to understand they could not keep him in London. When Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, stars of the film Born Free, visited Rendall and Bourke’s furniture shop and met Christian — they suggested that Bourke and Rendall ask the assistance of George Adamson, the Kenyan conservationist who, together with his wife Joy, was the subject of their movie. Adamson agreed to help reintegrate Christian into the wild at his compound at Kora National Reserve.

Adamson introduced Christian to an older lion ‘Boy’ and subsequently to a female cub Katiana in order to form the nucleus of a new pride. The pride suffered many setbacks: Katiana was possibly devoured by crocodiles at a watering hole, another female was killed by wild lions, and Boy was injured, afterwards losing his ability to socialize with other lions and humans, and was shot through the heart by Adamson after fatally wounding a man. These events left Christian as the sole surviving member of the original pride.

Adamson continued his work, and over the course of a year the pride established itself in the region around Kora, with Christian as the head of the pride started by Boy.

Reunion with Rendall and Bourke in 1972

When Rendall and Bourke were informed by Adamson of Christian’s successful reintroduction to the wild (reported in some newspaper articles to be in 1971, and by George Adamson to be 1972), they travelled to Kenya to visit Christian and were filmed in the documentary Christian, The Lion at World’s End. According to the documentary, Adamson advised Rendall and Bourke that Christian may not remember them. The film shows the lion at first cautiously approach and then quickly leap gently onto the two men, standing on his hind legs and wrapping his front legs around their shoulders, nuzzling their faces. The documentary also shows the female lions, Mona and Lisa, and a foster cub named Supercub welcoming the two men.

A viral video of this reunion (edited from the documentary) received worldwide attention more than 30 years after the event. As of December 2008, several versions have been viewed millions of times. Various news sources have tracked down Rendall and Bourke for their current perspective on the events surrounding their life with Christian.

Reunion with Rendall in 1973

Rendall details a final, unfilmed reunion that occurred (reported in some newspaper articles to have been in 1974, and by George Adamson to have been in 1973). This reunion occurred without Bourke, and by this time Christian was successfully defending his own pride, had cubs of his own and was about twice the size he was in the earlier reunion video. Adamson advised Rendall that it would most likely be a wasted trip as he had not seen Christian’s pride for nine months. However, when he reached Kora, Christian and his pride had returned to Adamson’s compound the day before their arrival.

Rendall describes the visit he and George Adamson made:
“ We called him and he stood up and started to walk towards us very slowly. Then, as if he had become convinced it was us, he ran towards us, threw himself on to us, knocked us over, knocked George over and hugged us, like he used to, with his paws on our shoulders. ”

The second reunion lasted until the next morning. According to Rendall that was the last anyone saw of Christian.

Adamson counted the days from the late spring 1973 final reunion. He notes in his memoirs that after 97 days, he stopped counting.

source: wikipedia

Tags: berg, Bourke, christian the lion, Hug, Kiss, Lion, Love, Rendall, reunion

by nate on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | Humour, Knowledge, Life | 2 Comments

This video I found it very funny and helpful at the same time… how to give a great hug to a man. The modern world is a complex place for many men. You are expected to be in touch with your feminine side, but never to the point that compromises your masculinity. And to make things even more confusing, along comes the “man hug” — an unabashed show of affection to your fellow men. If you don’t hug, you may be accused of not being secure in your sexuality. But if you’re not used to hugging other men, it might feel awkward and uncomfortable. Here are some guidelines to approaching the man hug, applicable only to those who’ve ever been unsure of how to go about giving one.

General Etiquette:How To Give A Great Man To Man Hug

Tags: family hug, friendship hug, Hug, man's hug, punch hug

by bintangkecil on Monday, August 25th, 2008 | Humour, Life | 4 Comments

Yesterday, my two friends and I went to church. It’s a Catholic church in Monterey Park. When we were having the rite of peace, one of my friends (let’s just call her “C”) giggled. So, I looked at “C” and asked her what was funny .. and then she’s like “No no no .. I’ll tell you later!” So then, we continued giving sign of peace to everybody else.

After the mass has ended, we went to Noodle Cafe on Garvey, Monterey Park to have lunch with our two other friends. Then, “C” started telling us the reason why she was giggling earlier.

THIS IS PROBABLY NOT THE EXACT WORDS SHE SAID BUT I’LL TRY MY BEST ..

“C”: I once went to St Stephen’s church alone. I was sitting near the end of the bench seat. In the rite of peace, I saw this nun hug the person who was sitting couple of rows in front of me and then give him a kiss on the cheek. Then, she goes to the person right next to that guy and gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. She then moves to the next row in front of me and do the same thing to those people.

Normally, people would just shake hands in the rite of peace saying “Peace be with you” .. but cheek kissing was the normal way that men in the ancient western Mediterranean would greet one another. So, this nun is probably doing the “normal way” of greeting people. So then, she’s almost done with the row in front of me and I saw her walking towards my direction. She gave me a pat on the back so I thought, ok, I’ll do the same thing, so I hugged her and gave her a kiss on her cheek. But then, she suddenly said “Uhm, excuse me, I’d like to get over there!” while pointing to the other side of the bench.

“C” felt really embarassed … and said .. “I kissed the nun on the cheek …”

All of us burst into laughters.

The nun was actually just trying to get pass “C” to the other side of the bench since “C” was sitting near the end of the bench seat.

“C” added, “That’s why I always laughed when I saw the nun at the mass. It reminds me of that incident.”

Have you guys had any similar experience like this?

Tags: Catholic tradition, Hug, kiss on the cheek, peace be with you, rite of peace