Friend Of Pandora, he was a really cool guy.

Hm... Yes, he's quite a friendly person. :) I haven't been in contact with him for a while, though. I sent him a few messages and he was going to send me something too. Never heard from him since about 3 months ago. Any word?

not at all. i sent him a message because he said he would send me details of someone who was selling the Avatar movie posters, but no reply :(

Another casualty of forum fissure.
This is sad. Very sad only. They did not need to leave.

Make me wonder how many people are still trying to hold on, not to lose Avatar, unaware that we are here... :'(

Life is a bitch. Even if one of you lived across town, I still couldn't meet up.

ME: I'm gonna catch the metro to the north side
MOM: Why?
ME: To meet a friend.
MOM:...
MOM: You don't have any friends there...is this one of those internet chat line thingies?!
MOM: Haven't you seen dateline lately? Wait... you're not even supposed to be talking on the internet!
MOM: You're grounded for a month!
ME: *facepalm*
ME: *retreats to room, incurs a head-desk injury.*

I'm very grateful for any communication with you all, ma aysmukan si aysmuke, even if it is just pictures and text. It could always be a lot worse, I could be sitting here with all these emotions bottled up and no one to talk to.

damn that really sucks. I think my mum would probably have said the same thing about me meeting a dude from the internet. But I just told her I'm going to see Avatar on my own and she said why so I said "Because it's IMAX!!!! It's......... FREAKIN IMAX!!!!!!" and she didn't understand what was so special so she said "fine, but this is the last time!" and it actually was the 5th time out of 9 :D GREAT SUCCESS!

I know how you feel.

I chat to quite a few of the people on here on skype and tinychat and my parents get really, really suspicious. Not so much my Dad, I think he understands me and trusts the world somewhat...

But my mum is totally off-the-scale. She actually asked me if the people I was talking to were religious fundamentalists and were trying to recruit me to al-qaeda. Part of it was joking, but I can tell that another part is deadly serious.

Eywa only knows what they're going to say when I tell them i'm going on a camping trip with some of the people here this summer... I suppose i'll just have to lie to them again. :(

I can clearly imagine myself in the similar situation a few years ago. Parents usually do this, I hope I won't be the same when time come... On the other side I can see why parents behave like this, when they are feeded by media that there is danger everywhere, and nothing positive no more. However what people say and how they behave here only confirms that this community is unusuall in means of goodness - it is nice and very positive, but make troubles when it comes to ability of other people to understand that this can be (and IS) real. So don't be annoyed, but try to speak more with parents and try to explain, I know it will be hard way and for someone dead end ... but hope is everlasting.