Happy 50th Birthday To Me!

Advantages: I have made it to 50 reviews.
Disadvantages: I am still red.

...Well it's my 50th! Looking pretty good on it even if I do say so myself ;-) No, seriously, I have it on authority that for your 50th review you should write something about the marvellous website called Ciao. And somehow, I have managed to write a whole 49 reviews - how did I find the time? [1] Full name Patricia Kate. [2] Ciao Username Tricia24. Boring I know but when I joined up I had no idea about the community / writing aspects of the site and just thought I would be receiving surveys. If I had known I would have tried to go with something a little more inventive, but now I feel I can't change it because people know me. Also 24 was my age when I joined and I am strangely unwilling to update it!!! [3] Date when you joined the Ciao community: 30.07.2003 - my god two and a half years ago! Doesn't time fly...

Tricia24 04.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of My Ciao'ing

The 50th Law - the new entrepreneur's bible

Advantages: clear, presice how to ideas, easily used
Disadvantages: not for everyone

...The collaboration between 50 cent and Robert Greene seems a bit confusing at first. It would seem unique to say the least. The first question would be who the intended audience maybe? The authors have there own distinct following, Greene a middle aged, business market while 'Fiddy' has a worldwide following of mainly young rap fans. Middle America meets the angry rising youth of the ghettos exactly half way, equally applicable to the board room as it is to the mean streets of Queens, New York. The book strikes a unique balance and makes for an interesting read as it provides an urban take on The 48 laws of power, one of Greene's earlier books. Needless to say the book is full of full of knowledge including street smarts, the type of stuff you don't simply get a chance to learn in college. The book advocates the importance...

kingkong218 13.11.2009 (24.11.2009) · Read review
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Review of The 50th Law - Robert Greene, 50 Cent

Mr Birthday

Advantages: Fun reading
Disadvantages: Small writing

...Mr Birthday is another character who starts in the new collection of Mr Men books with added sparkle. He is a square shape and blue in colour. He wears red shoes and a red and yellow stripy party hat. The front cover of the book has a picture of Mr Birthday with balloons around him and the title in shiny blue letters above. The back cover of the book has smaller pictures showing a few of the other books available in the new 'added sparkle' collection. THE STORY The story begins by telling us that the best thing Mr Birthday enjoys about birthdays is the parties that is why he always wears his party hat. It tells us that he likes to organise parties for everyone that he knows. The story goes on to tell us about some of the parties he has organised and who they were for. Mr Birthday gets reminded about a very special birthday...

sewbizzie 16.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Mr Birthday - Roger Hargreaves

A LEGAL CONUNDRUM FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, JOSE ANTONIO

Advantages: He is my dearest brother and I love him!
Disadvantages: I didn't get to see him much when he was younger.

...) but I saw a lot of resemblances between the two of you. I left him a message saying thank you for such a good rating. He replied politely, which encouraged me to send him another message, telling him this time about how much he looked like my brother; again he answered me nicely. I tried to upload your picture on my home page but none have worked. I felt that I shouldn't have talked to him about you, wondering if it looked as if I was trying to 'chat him up!' The poor guy has had to put up with me!! At Christmastime, I went back home and saw my family. You had changed again; I'm not sure why? But after having a new girlfriend your features have been changed; maybe there is some link between having a girlfriend and growing up! Anyway, it's YOUR BIRTHDAY on 16th June and this is my way to say Happy Birthday to YOU. (I hope you...

karimkha 16.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of A birthday greeting

It's Molly Fox's Birthday apparently!

Advantages: some of the story telling is interesting and well told.
Disadvantages: see review!

...... What a strange little book this is. I have actually been really looking forward to reading this, as the reviews I have read have been exceptional. From The Independent: ?Deirdre Madden has written a novel of great astuteness and felicity.? Monday 4th August, 2008. There is no doubting that this is a very clever writer and a very clever novel indeed. In a nutshell, this book looks at identity (mainly of the three characters of the narrator, Andrew and Molly) religion and art. The setting of the book remains on one day where the playwright narrator is contemplating writing her own book but the event of Molly?s birthday has brought her to examine ? firstly at least ? her relationships with Andrew and Molly. During most of the book, there are flash-backs to the times when she met them (Andrew during college in Dublin...

burtybookworm 01.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Molly Fox's Birthday - Deirdre Madden

Happy Birthday, Jacob

Advantages: I got a son
Disadvantages: He's now four years old and Hellbound!

..., Ali went in to labour and a call to the hospital was made to tell them our second child was on its way. I remember it all very well, I remember clearly - once Jacob was born - sitting there on his auspicious birth date (the first day of the second month of the third year) watching on the small hospital bedside television as the Space Shuttle re-entered orbit? and disintegrated. I remember that taking more precedence in my mind than the birth of my second son. But now, on his fourth birthday, I remember more clearly the weather of that night. When we rang the hospital they told us not to rush in, but looking out of the window I could see the snow was already starting to fall thickly. "No," I told the woman at the other end of the phone, "I'll take my chances and head in early. I don't want to get cut off by the snow." A year...

markd_uk 01.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of A birthday greeting

A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO CIAO FROM RICHADA

Advantages: An unusually retrospective birthday greeting.
Disadvantages: Hardly a conventional birthday party.

...meet ?Ada? (Adrianna), a year later that meeting bought about the marriage which created ?RICHADA?. When written, the following piece was written by someone as single as it is possible to be. Whilst reflective in tone, in some respects it has proven to be remarkably prophetic, rueing the pace of change in 1999 seems positively ironic to me now ten years later ? thanks to modern technology, particularly information technology, it simply defies belief just how much more productive we have all had to become. The following I have copied verbatim from my hand-written, title-less ?essay?, written on the last day of the twentieth century: BACK TO 31.12.1999 I write this on the final afternoon of the 20th Century, with, on the television in front of me, the BBC broadcasting powerful images of the last 100 years, this inter...

RICHADA 21.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of A birthday greeting

A " Birthday celebration" for... SPRING! "

Advantages: Colour....flowers the outdoors blue skies Sunshine!
Disadvantages: Over too quickly!

...Yay! SPRING! Makes you feel better doesn't it just to see the sunshine after a long dark winter. The gorgeous blooms in gardens begining to shoot up. Hope you enjoy this silly little ditty half rhyme and ode to the best season of all...I'm sure you can do better. So SHOW me, do! " HAPPY BIRTHDAY.... TO SPRING! " Here she comes (but is she a 'she' or a 'he' I do wonder!) Sprightly sprigs vanish all gray.. Along come the buds the flowers of tulip Sweet are the smells in May! Hardy are daffs the hyacinths of blue... Crazy the april rains But sweet is the sound of newly hatched eggs and the green ridge of grasses and hay. No longer asleep the rabbit spies fox; resume their wiles as they roam... bird songs of new babies with mothers who feed carrying their morsels, home. The mating...

christina44 28.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of A birthday greeting

Happy Birthday to who?

Advantages: We all need her
Disadvantages: Not appreciating her

...~*~ CELEBRATING OUR MOTHERS ~*~ A fairly short one this time just to make you think... Happy birthday to who? Happy birthday to who? Happy birthday to your dear mummy For giving birth to you! I often wonder at the fact that people celebrate their own birthdays and don't celebrate their mother on that day? Our mothers are the ones who carried us around for 40 or so weeks and then went through (often very long and very painful) labour to give birth to us. How often do we thank our mothers on our birthday by saying "Hey mum thanks for carrying me around safely in your tummy for all that time!" and "Hey mum YOU deserve the kudos on my birthday as YOU did all of the hard work on the day, all I did was pop out (eventually) and start wailing like a baby (well I WAS a baby, so you can excuse me that one)." On top of that she...

anonymili 23.07.2005 (05.08.2005) · Read review
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Review of A birthday greeting

My 50th review!

Advantages: it's fun!
Disadvantages: you know what i think!

...This fun Ciao challenge is set by Louise90. If you want to take part, just copy and paste this review, deleting the answers and adding your own! Let Louise90 know by adding a message in her Guestbook and she will drop by and read it! Copy this bit too! I have decided to do this review as it is my 50th review and someone told me that it is tradition to write a review about Ciao on your 50th, so here goes? 1) What's your personal view on the community points system? When I first started with Ciao I was really excited about changing the colour of my dot!! But now I am Purple I have to earn so many points before I change that I am not that bothered really. I do think it is a bit competitive as well, not necessarily a bad thing, but not something I am used too. In the beginning I did feel slightly threatened by people with more...

LIZKEMPO 07.05.2004 · Read review
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