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wongkk September 1 2009, 21:24:50 UTC
Ha ha - not yet! (motorcycle) but it is on the list of Things For the Future. Please un-faint ( ... )

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wongkk September 2 2009, 11:17:47 UTC
You're welcome. I have problems with these verbal distinctions in so many languages so I know it is hard to remember or even to understand sometimes. In Cantonese, the verb to ride a bicycle is to "tread" (chaai) which is so graphic that I never forget!

Ah, it's the first time that I have seen those bright stamps and, to be honest, on the face of that big white parcel they don't seem so garish maybe.

Mmm - probably if he doesn't answer, it will be because I have knocked in the wrong way, maybe silently even!

Thank you for your example. This usage has confused me for a while because you can see in airports and hotels both "Willkommen" and "Empfang" - and usually in capitals so I can't even tell if the word if being used as a noun! I know (danger danger) that "willkommen" comes to me more quickly just because it is cognate with the English word "welcome", so that it already a barrier to my good understanding. And to use the verb "to give" in the context of a welcome is perfectly sound English so nothing is dead yet ;=)

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wongkk September 2 2009, 11:21:58 UTC
Psst - about having a song stuck in your head, I had to live with this one
http://wongkk.livejournal.com/6380.html#cutid1
for a month and a half. I recorded a crude instrumental version on my synthesizer which converts (via a program called Midi) to standard mpeg format. I think the synthesizer can do some good mulit-track recording but I've never had time to try. I miss playing in a band but, honestly, once full-time work claims you, the hours are snatched out of your hands by the hundred!

Soryy - I couldn't put this reply with your GA lyrics post/comment because of cowardice: I dun want the GA firing squad to come after me for using link in broad daylight

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