Tamine's birthday

Prude

Prude
(noun) One who is excessively concerned with being or appearing to be proper, modest, or righteous.

WORD HISTORY: Being called a prude is rarely considered a compliment, but if we dig into the history of the word prude, we find that it has a noble past. The change for the worse took place in French. French prude first had a good sense, “wise woman,” but apparently a woman could be too wise or, in the eyes of some, too observant of decorum and propriety. Thus prude took on the sense in French that was brought into English along with the word, first recorded in 1704. The French word prude was a shortened form of prude femme (earlier in Old French prode femme), a word modeled on earlier preudomme, “a man of experience and integrity.” The second part of this word is, of course, homme, “man.” Old French prod, meaning “wise, prudent,” is from Vulgar Latin prōdis with the same sense. Prōdis in turn comes from Late Latin prōde, “advantageous,” derived from the verb prōdesse, “to be good.” Despite this history filled with usefulness, profit, wisdom, and integrity, prude has become a term of reproach.

source: http://www.bartleby.com/ (link, June 20th, 2008)


To be proper, modest, or righteous is not disapproving. What makes it a term of reproach is the excess prude people may do under the view of a more tolerant person.

BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad

Beck is a music based anime. I thought it would be a very urban, alternative anime, but it was just the (maybe two) first episodes. The anime is about Koyuki, a boy who gets interested in the music world and goes for it. Our attention is always up for for what's going to happen to the next new thing that goes on.
I identify some elements of my life into the anime. It's according to each person, but I love this anime!
Btw, the musics are awesome! My favorite one is in this clip.

IMVU

Lee has grabbed me into IMVU. It's a fun virtual environment with nice actions for the avatars. I would say it's a good place to practice flirtatious skills! -blinks-

Google Pages

I've just discovered a new Google feature, Google Pages, where people can host a personal home page and I already have 2 on the air!
The first one is quite academic and boring, so don't mind about it. The second one is personal and it's open to everyone! So if you are just curious about it, you can visit through this link.
I'm going to put it into the sidebar links, so it would be easier to find it up later.