Halcyon Forum Posts (167)

RE: Wheres Uli

Hello Ulimaroa
Gosh I have mis-spelled your name in the green bottles thread - hence couldn't find you back here as quickly as it worked with Smoky

Hope you forgive a few typing errors

RE: Wheres Uli

Propaganda? I see a beautiful display of books and others - pity I'm not really into books

RE: Your Obsession!

My Obsession is to make the good ones come true and the bad ones vanish

RE: Do you care if someone has photo /???

Photo or not, email or not..
just because soeone spends a few hours if not weeks emailing and chatting before deciding to meet for real, that doesn't mean that since the chatting held both together, then also in real life they will stick together.

There are things that no online service can convey, such as manners, capability of holding an intersting conversation, personal grooming..
Wow..this seems like being choosy? Nope - if you're in for something long term and serious they do play an important role.

Otherwise for any casual date or activity partner, that's too much waste of energies.

RE: Do you care if someone has photo /???

Eyecathers are first - I'd prefer a photo on a profile, but that doesn't mean I don't read through profiles with no pics.

The only thing that really puts me off are those quiz-like profiles with no photo, no description and jus lines of 'ask me' 'ask me' for anything you would like to know - it becomes like an interrogation

Then the problem with photos is that once you get the ball rolling on emails and chats, decide to meet up, and they recognise you as you've put in a genuine and recent picture of yourself, but you don't recognise whom you were supposed to meet A bit embarrassing I guess

What counts though, is how much effort does someone put in a profile.
Leaving many a question missing does make me think about how much they really do care, have self esteem and the lot.

RE: Are you to choosey?

The worst isn't when things fall apart, but when you feel you're falling apart, might be cuz you've walked to far out of your way to reach out for her.

So better the devil I know (within myself).

There's nothing more stupid than not listening to your inner voice, and keep going on in a hope that something will change within a relation.

Been there in the rusty old railway down the valley, so I'm just doing my best to enjoy myself before another mishap comes around.

on the other side I still stand my chances and meet someone for real every now and then - never know when the right one's there in front of me.


As for being too choosy, looking back and forward, from the eyes of whom I was a few years ago to who I am nowadays, I might have seen myself becoming choosy in future.

But nowadays looking back to who were I in the past, I was directionless.

At least nowadays, If I still don't know who'd be the right one for me, I know for sure who'se not the right one - been there, done that, got injured.

RE: Good grief! The chat feature...

Yet even though there's no fuel wastage directly in the car, still some if not most electric power plants consume fuel to produce electricity.

For me, marketting electric cars as environment safe is a big scam.
The batteries are either lead-acid, orfor the hydrogen fuel cell, titanium plates are used.

All those rare earth metals up on the surface of planet earth are surely gonna be an environmental issue if not properly disposed of.

Smoke will still come out, not from your car, but at the lelctric power plants or hydrogen processing plants

RE: Good grief! The chat feature...

Yepp it gets up to 100 mph surely - there's a new technology around with electric vehicles - it's no longer a ton of lead acid batteries to fuel up the car, but rather a hydrogen fuel cell that can either be recharged through an electric outlet (quite expensive to charge) or re-fuelled at a hydrogen station.

The fuel cell weighs a good 80-85% less than conventional lead acid batteries!

The Smart Car will be having their version of hydrogen fuel cell out soon

RE: REVISED: MALTA MEET, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Beer? Thought it was a Martini you're having. Can't see the pic so clearly but is that a green olive or a cherry in it?

RE: Wheres Uli

Last time seen around she had one of those mermaid looking like photos and also an updated profile. Cannot understand why she soon vanished

Uli was also on my thread 'green bottles' but didn't get her attention back here

The Supermarket

Must have been a huge shopping list you had, to be a ble to cope for months without going back to supermarket?

Would have loved to see you do Formula 1 with the trolley and people flying as they get hit and run over

RE: REVISED: MALTA MEET, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

NEWS NEWS!!

Managed to get Saturday 16'th off duty.
However Smoky still doesn't know the meeting's been postponed to the 16'th.

Whichever day you choose I'm off both on the 15'th and 16'th

RE: KNIGHT OF MALTA DIES .....

Rome - Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, which was a Christian crusading military order more than 900 years ago, has died.

About time if he was 900 years old

No, seriously, was surprised I didn't hear or read about the above mentioned on local papers or news, else must have skipped it

The Supermarket

30 minutes a day, the supermarket only opens Monday - Saturday, so it's only 3 hours a week

Actually I usually do the second shopping of the day - with a list titled: items forgotten this morning.

Was a great idea my sis came living nearby now - she'll do the second shopping list as long as I don't have to babysit

The Supermarket

You need the brains to remember to take your dose of wine / beer and always reply like the mirror mirror on the wall

"Yes you're the most beautiful woman in the realm"
"Yes honey, we'll get the new curtains"
"Of course it's no problem if you dented the car - we'll fix it"

The Supermarket

Today I had the terrible experience of reliving a past childhood trauma - Shopping with mum .
I finally understood why it takes 30 minutes to do the usual shopping even on an off-peak hour.

1) For every item on the list she has to check all the brands, makes, etc. including whatever is surely not needed,
2) If the items on the shopping list don't match the order they are found on the shelves, for every item she has to cross the entire shop completely.

But, not saying it's only my dear mum that does the shopping in such a zig-zag across the shelving isles fashion, indeed most of the female clientele in this particular supermarket does the same zig-zag pattern, also including a pushcair with a screaming baby

To my amusement I watched a guy in his 30's doing his shopping too.
1) picks up a trolley
2) walks in an isle and picks up only the items required as they appear, whichever the order they were numbered on his list,
3) repeats the same procedure for all 6 shelving isles,
4) Stops by the cheese counter for a couple of items,
5) Pays at the cash and

in 8 minutes walks out with a fully loaded trolley.

RE: REVISED: MALTA MEET, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Did you know Smoky's playing cricket lately, and she always has one of those super techy foldable cricket bats always with her?

she just presses a little button and Voila she is armed with a supersize cricket bat and uses it for self defence as well!

Not to mention her karate lessons also!
Better watch out Sir Lago

RE: REVISED: MALTA MEET, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Yes I'll be there!
Okay so it's gonna be a double night event - Friday and Saturday.
Would have loved meeting Queen Smoky - maybe she can make both nights?

RE: REVISED: MALTA MEET, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

oOops. I'll have to miss out then. I'm free Friday evening but night duty on the 16'th.
Would have liked to meet you folks.

RE: Meet up

Smoky, you'll be here for the 15'th Feb or 15'th March???
Remember 15'th Feb will be the dry run - I'll have to smuggle some bottles in my coat pockets

RE: Who is still Single on the site and ---

I'm not looking - but would like to - if only someone that knows what the word 'COMMITTED' does mean in the context of a relationship

RE: how many men?women u dated before u found THE ONE????

A question asked so many times, be it here on CS and btw. me and myself. Who knows when the right one will come around?
I guess all my past dates were the right one when I met them, otherwise it would have been an insane act to date them.
Opinions change, and a story may last a few weeks, a few months, even a few years.

Looking back to my past stories I am happy about the outcome and all I've learnt.

I also always believed in leaving enough time between one story and another, time for myself to realise where were my weak points and faults, change and also accept what I could not.

As time goes by we might get more choosy, leading to less chance for finding that someone we would like to meet. But it's all a process of growth, trying our best to avoid past pitfalls.

Going back to your question, some people have had a first date and spent years with the same partner happily and still are together.
Sometimes meeting the right person the first time may be dangerous as well, it's kinda not knowing what the world around offers, other than what we have.

A note about 'Long Lasting Happiness'
Happiness isn't something that persists like when leaving the lightswitch in the ON position.
Happiness is the result of a change towards something we wish. Once our wish comes true, we will immediately lookout for something else, so the happiness gained through our pursuit is only temporary.

I could talk endlessly about the subject and might tend to get a bit too technical, philosophic or whatever. However if you want to read what seeds my views, google up a search on Max Wurtheimer, Gestalt Contact Cycle.

RE: Meet up

Dry Run?? So there'll be nothing to drink but just talk then

RE: Are you still satisfied with

in all my 30 years I always lived here where I stand (rather sitting now).

Have done loads of travelling, mainly work matters and little holiday. I have considered going abroad several times, but I guess I'm too much stuck to my own things, be it the place I live, the friends I have (whether I meet them regularly or not). I'm quite territorial I suppose.

Now I'm settling here forever, for after all, wherever I may roam and go to, there'll always be something to get sick of in the end, be it weather, long distances, the lifestyle.....

I only used to dread one thing, the need for going abroad due to the ever decreasing job opportunities in my specilised field. But nowadays, despite committed with high bills to pay and the lot, I don't even let a job be my threat for leaving homeland.

I'd rather change my job, start afresh, but never change country.

I learned to value things, situations and places. Better the devil I know, I'd leave the beautiful places I know about, scattered over the rest of the world for planning a holiday

RE: Meet up

Hey Jacko, how about posting it in the get togethers part of CS?? will try 2 b there

RE: Does it happen to you too....

If you keep attracting the same type of personality it's quite understandable - it meas you haven't changed yours since the previous partner.

When a story comes to an end everyone tends to blame the other half.
Thinking about it at a later day, you may realise it took oth sides of the story to end up how it did.

So after realising which were your bad points leading to an ending, it would be wise to change those things that harmed yourself within you, prior to be open for another story.

Then becoming a better or different personlaity yourself will attire someone different and potentially leading to better grounds.

RE: MISSING PERSONS BUREAU

Are we all sorted for the Kit Kat Boys?
The ladies come to watch those hairy chests in bowtie and waistcoat

RE: MISSING PERSONS BUREAU

Yepp noticed moloko missing too this morning :(
Forgot to add on the list of lost and found actually

There'll be no green bottles standing on the wall...:blues:

YAYY!!! Great news!!
Yes sure Smoky time to party and welcome back
Oh I feel like one of those green bottles in my refridgerator right now.
Anyone out there fancy a Hein*ken?

Mission complete I'm off to earn a coin - duty calls.

Like Schwartzenegger says "I'll Be Back "

There'll be no green bottles standing on the wall...:blues:

Hey you all out there, what's all this thing about great people leaving this site?

Seems we lost Ulimaora and also Smoky.
I don't want to start the argument again from a previous thread or rather various other threads but I somehow have a feeling who these two females pissing off Smoky may be.

What is it nobody can have fun and ignore some ignorant user coming across these interesting threads anymore?
Some users have become so touchy and are rolling the red carpet for others not quite welcome around here?

I'm starting a petition here, and anyone wanting Smoky, Uli and any other missed member to come back please follow:-

Halcyon requests Smoky, Ulimaora, KillingTime back on CS