Happy Thanksgiving!

Give the Thanks each other,
The whole world could be happier!
Happy Thanksgiving!

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Views from an Arakanese traditional yellow robbing ceremony in Bangladesh

The following pictures are from an Arakanese traditional ceremonial round of visits with the novice-to-be prominently ensconced in the procession at Arakanese community of Bangladesh.
You could see an Arakanese traditional drumming view in the first picture.
Enjoy with the pictures and have a great day!
Thank you!

Photographer: Naing Naing (Site Twe)

Quote of the Week: One Nation; One People

“In this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.”

President-elect Barak Obama


Source: Chicago Tribune (November 16, 2008)

Picture: http://blogs.wnyc.org/vote2008/files/2008/11/obamalg.jpg

Meanings of the Given Names (P)

Peter = A Rock

People often ask me about - what does my name mean.Sometimes, I also ask other peoples if his or her name means something.These are not important but it is good to know about each other in our cultures of mankind.For my friends who want to know, the meanings of (Western) given names:

Men’s Names (P)

Patrick: (Latin) Noble or patrician
Paul: (Latin) Small
Percy: (Old French) Persius’ estate
Peregrine: (Wanderer; stranger
Peter: (Greek) A rock
Philbert: (Germanic) Very, bright
Phillip: (Greek) Lover of horses
Pierre: (Greek-French) A rock
Prescott: (Old English) Priest’s cottage

Women’s Names (P)

Pamela: (Greek) All honey
Pansy: (Greek) From the flower pansy
Patricia: (Latin) Noble or patrician
Paula, Pauline: (Latin) Small
Pearl: (Old French) A pearl
Peggy: (Greek) Pearl
Penelope: (Greek) Weaver
Phoebe: (Greek) Bright
Phyllis: (Greek) A green leaf or bough
Priscilla: (Latin) The ancient
Prudence: (Latin) the discreet or prudent person


Picture: http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2007/08/large_TR.ThunderRock.JPG

Source: Smith, Elsdon C. “Vocabulary of Given Names.” The World Book Dictionary. 1968.

Honors Movie Night: Tell No One

This is honors’ movie night. Today, I watched a French movie, ‘Tell no one,’ with English subtitle at Tivoli theater at Downers Grove.

It was good mystery movie with complicated scenes and thoughts. I noticed that some of French words are similar to English, such as ‘No’ ‘What?’ When French say ‘what,’ I heard sounds like “Kwhat?” Sometimes subtitle in English was too long, while actors said just a little bit in French; and sometimes, English subtitle was just a few words, while actors were saying long sentences.

Briefly, it was good movie.

Special thanks to COD’s honors program to give chance to honors students to watch movie; Professor Alan Carter for his lovely programs; theater director who explained us about how films and its system work. (I made a joke to my friends that the film was long more than two miles because one hour movie is long one mile of film, according to director's explaination.)

Another Special Thanks to Katie, for her kindly carpool driving!

Picture: http://thecia.com.au/reviews/t/images/tell-no-one-ne-le-dis-a-personne-poster-0.jpg

NewsLink: Kenya declares holiday for Obama

Kenya has declared Thursday a public holiday to celebrate the election of Barack Obama to the US presidency.
Mr Obama's father was from Kenya and his victory has prompted jubilation across the country.
"We the Kenyan people are immensely proud of your Kenyan roots," President Mwai Kibaki said.

To read more, please click the following link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7710394.stm

Congratulations President Obama!

Dear Mr. President,
You are respectfully asked to rebuild America’s stronger, wealthier and healthier future!
You are frankly asked to rebuild the world’s peaceful future!
Congratulations!!!

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/04/wrap-polls-start-close-frenied-day-voting/

The Two Most Excitement Men in the World in This Moment

Tomorrow, one of these men’s life pattern will be changed.
The whole family and new generation’s future will be changed.
The United States and Americans’ direction will be changed in some points.
The change of the United States and Americans will surely shake the other changing consequences of the World.

We will see tomorrow, who will lead? –
this Free Land;
where the most modernized people are living;
where the strong people are living;
where the brave people are living;
where one-third of world’s economy has existed;
where, which is the most powerful country in the world!

You could see the changing patterns of the world that when the United States sneeze, rest parts of the world get fever. When the United States grow, the rest parts of the world also have opportunities to grow together because Americans always share their new ideas, innovations, growth, wealth, education, freeness and fairness with the other people of the world.

Tomorrow, on the November 4th, we will see our new leader who will create our better lives in future!

Have a Greatness Eve and Good Luck for everybody!!!

Picture: http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/00651/eng_obama_mccain_BM_651372g.jpg

Love

Today, I was listening to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “A knock at midnight” sound tape at my work.
There are six tapes in the package and I finished only four tapes today. I have to listen to the rest part tomorrow.
In one of the speeches, he explained about “love.” In English, we have only one word “Love” about the love.
For me, I also know in Arakanese, Burmese and Thai languages about “Love,” and those languages also have only one word - “Love.”
Since then, when we have to split about the meanings of love, we have to say specifically, such as ‘love for romantic of man and woman,’ ‘love for friends,’ and ‘love for things.’
Dr. King explained that in Greek language, there are three different words for love;
- Romantic Love: between man and woman
- Friendship Love: Love between/among friends, colleagues, teammates etc.
- Great Love (or) God’s Love: Love anybody, anything on any situation, without any pre-judgment.
(I am sorry I could not be available to write the Greek words.)
Then, I googled about ‘love’ in Greek-English online dictionaries.
One of the dictionaries expressed as below:

love
(Lex**) αγάπη love (for/to a thing)
(Lex*) αγάπη (για/σε ένα πράγμα) love (of/for/to/towards a person)
(Lex*) αγάπη (***of/for/to/towards ένα πρόσωπο)

Just sharing with my readers. Sometimes, if we explore different languages, it makes us to understand the concepts of the words better.
Have a lovely day!


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