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Open Question: please tell me if i am being petty or what (this is a long one )?
okay this is going to be along one …i am so frustrated with my in laws …all of them…they drive me crazy ….first off i know they have been good to me and my husband and daughter but still sometimes it is so hard to bite my tongue …ok my bro in law has got himself in so much trouble with dui’s and they act like he is a saint and my mil took an extra job this summer just to help him …which is crap …why do parents do that any way to the baby ? anyways so now i have to hear my mil complain all the time about being tired and not having time to see my daughter which gets on my nerves because she has plenty of time to go lay in the tanning bed or talk on the phone for an hour after she gets home or go see her guy friend for 45 minutes but yet she cant come here ….by the way we live a hop skip and jump away…..then my husbands aunt complains about not getting to see us and not having time to clean house but yet she can go to auctions and drive right by our house to go listen to a friend sing ….grrrrrr…. it is such crap ….and then my husband other aunt lives a hop skip and jump away and she complains about not getting to see her and having to work all the time but she can make time to see my husband other cousins that are still little by the way and to see my husband sister that comes in on the weekends …..oh yeah and about the sister in law …gosh i feel like we need to roll out the red carpet for her when she comes….and you have to walk on eggshells around their son because he sleeps 50 times a day ….i dont know it is just so hard for me to grasp how different my family is with his ,,,i know with my family i can just tell them what i think but i cant with his and he is too big of a coward to say anything ….he says to just let it roll off your shoulders but this has been going on for 9 years now ….that is alot to take on …..ok here is another instance …..i was pregnant and it was my husband birthday …we go to his aunts house to celebrate and he gets drunk …i was pissed off because here i am with a child and wondering what am i bringing this kid into….so i get mad and make my husband get up off the couch and walk downstairs to the bed and he ends up getting sick which i think serves him right ….but during all this his mom and aunts and sister where laughing at it like it was nothing and it ran all over me …me and his mom got in a big fight and i said some things and so did she …but the one thing i remember more than anything from that night is what she said while we were fighting ….she told my husband that when ever we had the baby that he better bring her over or she would sue for grandparent rights …and i told her that me and my husband would have to be divorced or whatever for her to get any rights …..any ways that is just an idea of how she is …..sometimes she can be such a smart elec toward me and i feel to save peace for my husband i have to keep quiet ….but here lately it hasnt been so easy …i hae been speaking more of what i feel….but anyways …i was just wondering i am just being petty about this (and no smart elec remarks please) or am i in the right about it …….
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Open Question: Why say the judicial sysytem in Sri Lanka is the problem when the article clearly stated gangs and corruption?
along with terrorist and separatist elements are the real issues? There seems to overprivilidged and underprivileged alike that feel that if they are caught in criminal acts the answer is to separate the country. The underprivileged are controlled by the criminal overprivileged as in most societies. Why rewrite the book when it is clear that those who worked with and/or for LTTE either implicitly or complicity need to be rounded up. It is a shenanigan just as it was in Iraq that there are certain people who are above the law because of political connections or entrenched mafia ties. Sri Lanka needs to further isolate and remove those elements – taking out the Ranil/UNP would do a lot to curb the levels of impunity – there seems to be a great misconception that each and or any group is allowed to have a political party for there to be democracy – nothing can be further from the truth for when an existing party gets completely radicalized by its leadership the party has either remove the leadership or come to an end. The UNP is obviously afraid to act for every 2/3 months they state that they are moving away from Ranil and then Ranil calls in another set of bogus deal makers and they are back to square one. Same thing happens with the TNA – these people spend more time off island plotting media and other spectacles than they do on island taking care of the needs of their constituents. The UNPs constituents are not asking them to create methods where the national resources are purloined to foreign countries with no benefit to them.
Here is a recent UNP crossover – he was given funding to address the health needs of IDPs in the North and the East. He is holding an open air health clinic at Batticaloa when the IDPs are at Menick Farms. 50% of the budget allocation was for the North and the East while the other 50% was for the rest of the country. I would think that with impending monsoon season that the health ministry would be stocking some water-bourne illness medications as well as vaccinating against such and working with authorities and funding adequate drainage at Menick so that water bourne illnesses do not take hold.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/JBRN-7THG92?OpenDocument
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_091/Jun1246367722RA.html
Two very different stories about the same subject – there was another national programme that was going to provide off site accommodations for orphans and round the clock care including education as well as provide learning centers for A/O level students that program was spearheaded by the first lady of Sri Lanka along with the administration of the IDP centers .
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SNAA-7TH976?OpenDocument
Here is another program that does not cover Malaria vaccines
What was interesting about this acid attack in Sydney is that that same week there were a spate of acid attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
CHECK DRAFTS/GATES/GOTHY/RAJA/GENERAL F
Does Sri Lanka require stocks of smallpox and measles drugs as I thought that there had been a programme for such just a few months back – these should not be occuring on more than the prescribed intervals. -
Open Question: Sending a letter to an inmate… HELP?
I had a penpal in prison. We’ve been penpaling for a couple of months. She is 21 and I’m 23. She is so cute and I really loved her. But she stopped writing me when I said ” I love you” and asked her what it is like to wear the orange and shackles. So I’m sending this letter again.
Tell me what you think and if there is anything I have to fix. Thank you.————————————–…
Hi. Jessica
How are you doing? I haven’t heard from you for a while. I wonder if something happened to you and I’m worried about you. Or it is because I made you uncomfortable or upset? Jessica, I’m really sorry and I apologize if I have ever made you feel bad. >_<I won’t ask you to date me. But you know we can be really good friends right? As you said before, we can be compatible penpals and I could use a good friend in my life too. So Jessica please keep in touch with me. I think good friendships don’t just happen. but the best ones seem to fall into place right from the start, naturally and easily, as if they were always meant to be. So I’m really glad we are friends.
And hey, I got my paycheck yesterday so I sent you $50 through JPAY. Jessica, I’m not sending you this money in return for anything. I sent you the money because you are a very important friend to me and when you talked about your prison meal, it really broke my heart and I really care you as your friend.
Well, I’m studying and working hard now. I’m not going to school this summer but I’m trying to study computer programming and Chemistry this summer on my own. I also got a part time job too. I teach math to kids at a learning center and I also tutor two highschool students.
Oh Jessica, did I tell you that I graduate from highschool very late? It’s not because I was dumb. When I was in grade 11, they built a new school in the town so I went to the new school next year. The school was very new and big but they adopted a new (but very strange) education system. There were no classes or teachers. They just give you all the packages and you study on your own. It’s like self-paced courses. Teachers are called markers and they just mark your tests and you can ask a question when you don’t understand something. Can you imagine there are grade 8 and 12 students in one class room and they study whatever they want? It kinda looks like a huge library rather than a school lol. But they give you full credits when you finish a course. The good thing is that you can finish a course so fast because you can take a test any time you want but if you get a little bit lazy, you will never be able to finish them. So when I first went to the school, I had no idea what the heck was going on and I just blew my first year in grade 12. And next year I worked so hard. I not only just tried to pass, but I also tried to get perfect marks. I was getting like 95% in every grade 12 course but at the end of the year, I realized that getting perfect marks actually makes everything so slow cause I didn’t take tests until I perfectly understood it and I had to drop out some courses eventually. So I was like 19 and I still couldn’t graduate. I was very depressed and disappointed by myself. But I knew that I had to move on. So I finally went to another school next year. I took some other courses there and I finally graduated from high school. Yeah, I took grade 12 three times and I was like 20 when I finally graduated. Haha. Some people said it’s impossible for me to graduate or go to college but yes I did graduate. I got into University and I even got a scholarship. So Jessica, it must be hard for you now but whatever your dream is, don’t give it up. Never listen to anyone who says you can’t do it. Believe in yourself cause you know you can do it and I know you will do it. I know you are strong and brave. Don’t be afraid of anything. And you are a really good person.
Take care, be safe and hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerly
Your Friend
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Open Question: Sending a letter to an inmate.?
I had a penpal in prison. We’ve been penpaling for a couple of months. She is 21 and I’m 23. She is so cute and I really loved her. But she stopped writing me when I said ” I love you” and asked her what it is like to wear the orange and shackles. So I’m sending this letter again.
Tell me what you think and if there is anything I have to fix. Thank you.———————————————–
Hi. Jessica
How are you doing? I haven’t heard from you for a while. I wonder if something happened to you and I’m worried about you. Or it is because I made you uncomfortable or upset? Jessica, I’m really sorry and I apologize if I have ever made you feel bad. >_<I won’t ask you to date me. But you know we can be really good friends right? As you said before, we can be compatible penpals and I could use a good friend in my life too. So Jessica please keep in touch with me. I think good friendships don’t just happen. but the best ones seem to fall into place right from the start, naturally and easily, as if they were always meant to be. So I’m really glad we are friends.
And hey, I got my paycheck yesterday so I sent you $50 through JPAY. Jessica, I’m not sending you this money in return for anything. I sent you the money because you are a very important friend to me and when you talked about your prison meal, it really broke my heart and I really care you as your friend.
Well, I’m studying and working hard now. I’m not going to school this summer but I’m trying to study computer programming and Chemistry this summer on my own. I also got a part time job too. I teach math to kids at a learning center and I also tutor two highschool students.
Oh Jessica, did I tell you that I graduate from highschool very late? It’s not because I was dumb. When I was in grade 11, they built a new school in the town so I went to the new school next year. The school was very new and big but they adopted a new (but very strange) education system. There were no classes or teachers. They just give you all the packages and you study on your own. It’s like self-paced courses. Teachers are called markers and they just mark your tests and you can ask a question when you don’t understand something. Can you imagine there are grade 8 and 12 students in one class room and they study whatever they want? It kinda looks like a huge library rather than a school lol. But they give you full credits when you finish a course. The good thing is that you can finish a course so fast because you can take a test any time you want but if you get a little bit lazy, you will never be able to finish them. So when I first went to the school, I had no idea what the heck was going on and I just blew my first year in grade 12. And next year I worked so hard. I not only just tried to pass, but I also tried to get perfect marks. I was getting like 95% in every grade 12 course but at the end of the year, I realized that getting perfect marks actually makes everything so slow cause I didn’t take tests until I perfectly understood it and I had to drop out some courses eventually. So I was like 19 and I still couldn’t graduate. I was very depressed and disappointed by myself. But I knew that I had to move on. So I finally went to another school next year. I took some other courses there and I finally graduated from high school. Yeah, I took grade 12 three times and I was like 20 when I finally graduated. Haha. Some people said it’s impossible for me to graduate or go to college but yes I did graduate. I got into University and I even got a scholarship. So Jessica, it must be hard for you now but whatever your dream is, don’t give it up. Never listen to anyone who says you can’t do it. Believe in yourself cause you know you can do it and I know you will do it. I know you are strong and brave. Don’t be afraid of anything. And you are a really good person.
Take care, be safe and hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerly
Your Friend
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Open Question: how can i convince my mom to let me buy this game?
ok this game is rated T so thats not the problem heres the story i had my xbox 360 and ps2 xbox broke returned it and got my money back and i had had to sell my ps2 all games that i seriously bought with my own money that i worked for for baby sitting chores stuff like that i got total 760 dollars i bought ps3 so i have 360 left they gave me a fifty dollar gift card so i had 410 left i bought a used game for 50 and a a used controller for 40 so that leaves me 320 dollars and she said i could get games in the summer it is now summer and i want a game called skate 2 which i had for the xbox and she wont let me buy it the thing that gets me angry is she would not let me send my xbox to microsoft so they could fix it she said it had to be returned and buy some thing else..
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Open Question: Is this bad eyesight?
im 13 and I was at the doctors today and they said that i had 20/40 in one eye and 20/50 in another.
things are a little blurry for me and i am probably going to need glasses…
but is my 20/40 and 20/50 score REALLY REALLY bad?? Should i be worried??