Hello Ahjummabunny,
Good to hear from you as well. I think JoAnne (below) got it, sound wise. Thank you guys for helping me figure out how to explain how to accurately pronounce Ivoire. Hope you guys are having a great day!

You are Princely!

LOL
I hope that's a legit ethnic background :)

Glad we were able to help, RTRH. That was actually a fun exercise. Glad also to know that you are at home relaxing, you deserve it.
Ah, nosy aunties, I know about those. I hope you will survive those parties, what we do for family huh... :-) Have fun!
Thank you for correcting the assumption I had that you were Malay. So what are you, if I may ask? (I am just curious about that part of the world...). (it will be OK if you don't want to answer that question, however).

It was FUN! I had a great time imagining people trying to sound out your name. Hehe.

Lemme just say that I am a hybrid child. My parents (who are biracial themselves) got married and produced cute multiracial children. I've got at least 3 different ethnic blood coursing through my veins. The government simply use the term Sino-Native to describe minorities like me.

Thanks RTRH, I learned something new today and I will be going to bed tonight less ignorant :-)
Wow!!! Ethnic and cultural diversity, how rich it makes our world, huh... So if you yourself have children with someone whose ethnic background is as diverse as yours (or at least biracial), the cycle would be continuing huh... How cool.
So, do you actually currently live in Malaysia (and go to school there?) I think it's kind of neat that we can be of different places of the world, and yet because of our love of Kdramas, here we are connecting...

I liked the part about "produced cute multiracial children" I will take your word for it :-)

My parents just called us "Heinz 57" because we have many different ethnic lineages. I don't even remember how many there are for sure but at least 7 or 8 I can recall. Two from my mom and the big mix is from my dad's side.

Background: Heinz is a company and one of the sauces they make is call 57 because the company makes a lot of different sauces.

Hello MJP,

I can't say that I am as ethnically diverse as some of you, but I will say that I have lived in many parts of the world simply because life turned out that way. I will also say that I have relatives (uncles, aunties and cousins) from different parts of the world as well because of the different intermarriages that took place.
And I will say "Yay" for cultural and ethnic diversity. I mean, just imagine the different kinds of food, music, dramas :-), languages etc... we get to be exposed to...
Thanks for adding your story to the mix. Hope your day is going well :-)
P.S.: Were you the one who had the concert a few weeks ago? (that you were rehearsing for?) And you are the mom of wee MJP, right :-)
(I was a nanny for many, many years and I am the oldest of 6 children and yes, I do love children).

Hello JoAnne,

You have a very interesting and diverse ethnic and cultural background indeed, and added to that, your husband's... Thank you for sharing :-) Your daughter is very multiracial, to say the least.

@JoAnne:

2Legit, 2Legit 2Quit! Blanking out on who that was, but love the memory :)

We are English and Welsh on my mom's side, Czech, German and English on dad's. And, except for the Czechs (my great grandpa), we've been here since before the Revolution. Not much ethnic diversity there. BUT, my Mom grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks" with all of her Mexican friends, and cooks like a Mexican (thanks to her neighbor, Abuelita Nunez), my brother married a Mexican, so we claim Latino, too.

My parents story could be a Kdrama. Dad's family was fairly affluent, mom's was dirt poor. They met when my mom was playing accordian in a dance hall....she was 15 and they'd lied and said she was 18. My dad's mother actually told my mom's mother that my mom wasn't good enough for her son. Grandma hit her back with, "oh really??? I thought it was the other way 'round". Dad's parents didn't even come to the wedding. My grandparents never did reconcile, although they did come tolerate one another eventually.

Ivoire,

Yes it is I, MJP-eous from Mount Olympus, Super Mom to the Universe! Ba Ha Ha Haaaaaa (Just kidding) :-)

Yes, I did have the concert and completely forgot to have hubby bring the camera, but that was okay because Wee MJP wouldn't sit still so he ended up walking the halls and playing with him. Wee MJP only heard two songs, but MJP Hubby got to watch a bit more. It was songs and a play interspursed together.

Nanny, hmmm, do you have children or did you just get tired of doing the nanny thing?

@JoAnne:

MC Hammer... no kidding! He was such a trendsetter in my late high school/early college years... yeah, his pants (I totally had MC Hammer pants) and his dancing had a lasting influence on my generation :)

@ MJP,

Hi back! just read your answer and I will be responding later (maybe much later tonight or tomorrow) so please check back. It will take a little while for me to explain how I became a nanny and how taking care of children has played such an important part in my life. I am so glad we connected, I love reading stories about your family, you all seem very loving and close to each other.
Are you also the one who adopted a teenager a few months ago? (Just wondering, it is hard to to keep the names straight on this blog and what happened to whom, especially when one [me] is not always participating).
Talk to you later :-)

Its probably too late but me and my mum call ourselves Allen allsorts party bag (basically a bag of mixed lollies)

On mum's side we're maltese, italian, spanish, german, english and scottish. On dad's it's irish, welsh and english.

There are several of us in California. :0)

Hello Ivoire,

It's Christmas Day here, time for me to relax... :)
Romanian sounds like a strange mix of Italian with French, Latin and Slavic elements. But I'm always amazed how well the foreigners who live or study here speak it, really.

Weather here is typical for central/eastern Europe - winters are cold, sometimes we have lots of snow, sometimes not s much. I don't know how many degrees are now outside, but I guess a bit below zero.

So you're a Californian gal? I see lots of west coast people here on the forum :).,

Hello Shel and Plume,

Turns out my dinner invitation was actually for today, Christmas day, as opposed to yesterday, Christmas Eve. So I do have to go get ready (again :-)) so I won't be late (I am one of those people who take a long time to get ready, because there are so many things I have to do beforehand...), so again, I will come back and write more later.
Plume, yes now, I am a Californian gal, after having been a Minnesotan gal for 12 years. I know about the cold, having spent 12 years in MN and I don't miss it at all :-) now that I live in CA. Hope you are enjoying your relaxing time today. I am going to spend some time with a family, their two young children (yay!!!) and I think some of their in-laws. Dinner will be good, I am sure. I am looking forward to it. OK, time for me to go make myself pretty, get the presents ready and iron my African dress (I need to figure out which one to wear, and find the shoes and bag that will go with the dress. Got to accessorize :-)
Will be back later, not sure when later, but I will be back :-)
P.S. I am so in love with Bobby Kim who sings on the OST of Man of Honor and Spy Myung Wol. He has such a great voice. I also like Junsu and Jeajong who sings on the OST of Protect the Boss and SungKyunkwan Scandal (Might have mispelled the 1st name, hard to get it right without looking at the spelling). I actually like a lot of Korean singers I am discovering, just don't have the time to list them all right now.
Off to getting ready...

I only skimmed through this, but it's certainly a report I'll go through more thoroughly when I have more time, and, from my brief scrutiny, it's something I think everyone should look at carefully...

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/groseclose/Media.Bias.8.htm

Excellent discussion of media bias.

http://mediamatters.org/research/200502180005

More info about CBS bias (for anyone besides me who cares :) )

(Yeah, I love two things in this world... CSW and American politics.)

A Greek friend once told me that Greek names ending with '-is' originate from Krete Island, and that is the most beautiful place in Greece. :) The few Lithuanians I met were charming but sadly I don't remember any name.

I'm in Romania now and the TV stations I watch have funny names like "Antena", "Realitatea", "Euforia", "Romantica". When I was a teen I used to like MTV, first the British one and then the Romanian version. I also liked VH1 but I don't really know to which country it belonged. As for American TV channels, I think we only have CNN here, on cable, sometimes I watch that one too (if there is some big event happening and I want fresh information from the source).

I'm charmed at the 'charming', but scared that CNN is your American representation.... :-)

A friend spent two years in Romania with the Peace Corp and loved it. Every Christmas, she makes some type of hot mulled wine she learned over there is very delicious.

Ah the winter wine :) the whole central Europe makes that kind of hot red spicy wine in winter, I assume it originates from Germany.

Actually I see more American reality shows than CNN and THAT is scary. I began to think at some point that people in L.A. and Texas really like glamourous glitzy blingy trash, but then I saw people complaining on various forums that not everyone there is like that and those shows affect their image.

To tell the truth, the represention I have on U.S. is based mainly on what the Hollywood and media show us, the Eastern people. I don't know how accurate could that be.

It's like watching the KDrama and assuming that everyone who gets married has hateful in-laws, and can only get drunk on soju in an outside tent on a blue chair.

Reality is too boring for television, no matter what country. I would look at my family as being typical:
- parents married 55 years with 4 childen
- oldest sister married to a minister with 3 children
- second sister married to a firefighter with 2 children, she is a director at the local children's hospital
- brother married to a school teacher with 3 children, he is a firefighter
- Me, the youngest, single and living in a 1300 sq foot house on 1/4 acre lot, paying the mortgage, driving a Hyundai and holding down two jobs (police department and hospital) and volunteering about 800 hours a year.

My mother nags that I need to be married and eat better.
My dad and I play golf together and share Harlequin romance books.
My brother whines when I ask him for assistance but ultimately does help me, especially with the parents.
My oldest sister pities me for not having a family.
My second sister and I meet twice a month for either Mexican or Japanese food, pedicures, and alcohol.

Sometimes we yell at each other, but no hair-pulling, punching, object breaking, or any other violence.

Like I said, pretty typical and boring.

what is happening to the world! I think I'll approve of capitals for the older dramas and leading men.

alright, its really because i didnt realize it. i tend to shorten the names normally. i'll keep that in mind, sorry to confuse you guys!

Hmm... I followed your link, Jomo, and it does seem like my love'll be in some kind of doctor show soon... except that it'll give me MD PTSD, I'll certainly watch it!

Umm, and wait a minute, who are all your "cute boys," Jomo, from 1 to 10 or 1 to 20 or whatever? Please share!

Huh...

I'm afraid I wouldn't give a kidney to any of the men on your list... are they not all a bit young?

(Not that there's anything wrong with that, but they have no life experience...)

Thing is, women wear bras for lift and definition and all that, and men presumably don't want that for their man-boobs... what would be needed is more of a man-girdle for the chest area -- and particularly one that'd be padded/defined to give the impression of chest/abdominal muscles.

That's what Kramer's manzeer was - it looked kinda like an Edwardian bodice cincher and was 3/4 length. It was hysterical seeing George's father (J. Stiller) modeling it.
:)

LOL! I totally forgot about man-zeer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm just reading and cracking up from old memories that you have brought up.

Thanks for the welcome