<p>Name: Diana Negoescu
Revan, I emphatize:). I'm curious how my name will sound too. There was an English girl who came to our school to teach us English in 4th grade and she just gave up after pronouncing the first three letters..Must be the "escu" ending...:)
Location:: Romania
Ethnicity: Romanian
Music: The Cardigans, Feeder, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, and some Romanian bands like Vama Veche, Vita de Vie and the Moldavian(?) band Zdob si Zdub. I heard there will also be someone from Moldavia at Princeton, so I'm looking forward to asking him/her to translate "Vidili Notch":)...And I do hope that noone at Princeton has ever heard of "manele"
Movies: Bruce Almighty, Ice Age, Sound of Music, Dragonfly
TV : The Gilmore Girls, and a Romanian show called "Carcotasii":)
Free time : sleep, draw, hang out with friends, go rollerblading (not so often, though)
And I don't tend to break everything, but I did go to school without my schoolbag once when I was younger:)..Hopefully I've grown up since then</p>
<p>Your name doesn't seem that hard... I would say "Neg-o-es-coo". Am I close?</p>
<p>not axfr, but axel. that's a cool name. (no offense taken but its pegdIver, not driver. lol)</p>
<p>Haha. Key difference considering it's...y'know...what you do, haha. Although I suppose if you wanted to become a greasy, leather jacket-wearing truck-driving biker momma, it could work out...</p>
<p>Name: Theodore Beers
Location: Connecticut
Ethnicity: Pure WASP
Music: Jazz, jazz, and jazz.
Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Clerks, Napoleon Dynamite (sorry... your mom goes to college), and so many more
TV: Not much. But I enjoy that show Best Week Ever....
Free time: Double bass (classical and jazz), spend time with gf
Food: anything that isn't nailed down</p>
<p>Looking forward to meeting all of you... I'm sure this isn't a representative sampling but from what I've seen here, we have quite the diverse group.
:)</p>
<p>edit: Interesting to see some people from Romania here. For a year or so now I've been a forum moderator and beta tester for a Romanian online game in development. All of the developers have last names like Antonescu, Popescu, etc. So I've gotten decent at pronouncing them lol.</p>
<p>diana, a rough translation of Videli Nochi is "i've seen the night". I asked some russian guys in Siberia, while we were teaching them to dance "hora mare".</p>
<p>Though i doubt we will be dealing wih manele, we won't escape crappy Romanian music. There is this video on the net with Drunk Brown Students. (check out the Brown university forum). And they're listening to "Dragostea din Tei"....cah.... Somehow i hoped ivy leaguers were above such crap....</p>
<p>mae la tu, mae la eu, mae la o o</p>
<p>sorry pegDIVER! lol</p>
<p>Yes pretty fish, you actually are very close, but i'm not shure how u pronounce the e's:). If you pronounce them as the e in ''end'' then your Romanian pronounciation is perfect!</p>
<p>And thanks for the translation Revan. That song with "Dragostea din tei" is indeed everywhere, it was even in Croatia two years ago, but let's just hope it will fade away along with the trio's break-up.</p>
<p>Name: Aditya Desai
Location: Bombay, India
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Male < -------- philntex, pegdiver
please read :p
Music: pretty much everything except for gangsta rap
like GnR, Metallica, Pink Floyd, killers, U2, SnG, some selective european trance/techno, eminem, sting, usher, green day, etc. (and I hate to admit it
but as a kid I always dreamed about being a phish groupy :) )
Movies: National Lampoons Van Wilder, Old School, Road trip, Goonies, boiler room, wall street, good will hunting, incredibles, American pie 1, beautiful mind, finding nemo,
TV: Seinfeld, Reno 911, Everybody loves Raymond
Free time: (geez
forgot what that feels like
) hangout and just do a whole lot of nothing, read, run, go out bar hopping (in India we dont have age limit for alcohol consumption), travel, etc.
Food: Axel
I am right with you buddy
1. Thai 2. Indian 3. Mexican 4. Vietnamese and ofcouse, love all kind of junk food</p>
<p>Gender duly noted, haha. Great movie choices, btw. Reno 911 rules too.</p>
<p>Yes! I win the Romanian pronounciation game! Hurray!!</p>
<p>hehehe yes i've got ur gender down NOW adides. oh and phil, tho the greasy, motorcycle momma is a hot(and by hot, i mean NOT hot) image, it just doesn't fit me. ok i guess i should finally fill this out....</p>
<p>Name: Peggy!
Location: Los Angeles, CA (actually the san fernando valley, as in yes i'm a valley girl. i look the part too)
Ethnicity: White :)
Gender: female (i got lucky, as opposed to adides, hardly ne1 mistakes my gender)
Music: a LOT. hehe i do my gansta rap, and my poppy music, alternative rock, and pure rock....i'll list a few, ludacris, 50 cent, ciarra, missy elliot, john mayer (john mayer is LOVE), jason mraz, dave matthews band, jack johnson, jessy mccartney, britney spears, christina aguilera, the killers, velvet revolver, postal service, muse, green day....it obviously varies
Movies: Napoleon Dynamite, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Donnie Darko, i like good comedy and good action/drama.... NO SCARY MOVIES, i get really really scared, its bad
TV: Lost, OC, CSI, and Alias. oh and sex and the city
Free time: DIVING takes up a lot of it (you guys shud come watch me next year at the meets!), um other than that i like to dance (hip hop, tap, and ballet), hang out with friends, see movies, bowl, be really cooky and fun. i don't care what i do as long as i'm with people i like and having a good time.
Food: chinese (orange chicken yuummmyyy), mexican, chocolate, ice cream, i eat a lot. and i'll eat just about anything. except for fish (including sushi) fish scare me.</p>
<p>Diving pep squad anyone?</p>
<p><em>waves flags</em> <em>blows noisemakers...after the dive, of course</em> :D</p>
<p>Whoop for John Mayer and Mexican food! It'll be hard for me to get away from Tex-Mex next year...</p>
<p>hehe that'd be great, a CC cheering section. hey i'm up for supporting ne other athletes here on CC. :) :)</p>
<p>god i know. they asked me if i wanted to go out for mexican on my recruiting trip, and i was like uuuuhhh, the problem is i'm used to REAL mexican food, not east coast style. baja fresh is part of my lifestyle.</p>
<p>Rowing is really where it's at, I'm not gonna lie. Although I do love that french-canadian diver from the Olympics, he was so pretty!</p>
<p>AH alex despatie!!! he's MY LOVE.</p>
<p>I was so sad when he didn't win. I loved him even though he was French.</p>
<p>hehe...now the sn pegdiver makes a whole lot of sense
pegdiver = peggy the diver...uptil now i thought it meant 'peg of bourbon'+'can drink like a fish' :p and i was like damn...thts 1 gutsy sn... :p</p>
<p>hahaha, so we're even now. i was a crazy alcoholic and u were a girl. lol. i never thought that my sn could be taken any other way. that's amusing</p>