• queenparanoia said on Oct 19, 2008....

  oh yeah... so many times... well not only for movies or television but by names of people... do you know the british-filipina singer mutya bueno? first time i saw her i didnt even know she's a filipina. that's when she was a member of a girl group sugababes. but when i know her name i immediately know that she was a filipina. "mutya" means beautiful in tagalog.

• kruuyai said on Oct 19, 2008....

  queen:  ha ha.. and is she?  Beautiful, I mean?

• queenparanoia said on Oct 19, 2008....

  i blog about her before cuz i love her songs... here is my favorite song of her... you decide is she's beautiful... ;-)
   
   
  
  

• skald said on Oct 19, 2008....

  Kruu, he might have just invented the word. Maybe he looked in his mind and maybe he was a Turk in some other life. Who knows?
  
  Are you going to Turkey?
  

• kruuyai said on Oct 19, 2008....

  queen:  I'd say she's more cute or pretty than beautiful.  Is it her real name? 
  
  skald:  Maybe, maybe.  Yes, I went to Turkey this summer and loved it.  It's a beautiful country.  The landscape of the black sea coast reminds me of Norway.  And the people are absolutely the friendliest, kindest and most hospitable that I have ever met in any country.  The reputation for Turkish hospitality is well deserved.  I still don't know just when I'll move there. Maybe as early as January.
  

• lfbno7 said on Oct 19, 2008....

  yeah this surprised and delighted me. in the pension business there was a particularly odious procedure called a DREC. as soon as i heard the name of it, i knew that a jewish guy at irs named it, because the word dreck is yiddish for crap or shit, which it most definitely was.

• kruuyai said on Oct 19, 2008....

  7:  lol.... yep, I've heard that Yiddish expression before.  Was DREC an acronym for something?  Are you going to share with us?  

• skald said on Oct 19, 2008....

  Good luck on that Kruu. I sure would like to see Turkey too but as it is now I will not be traveling for a while. 

• kruuyai said on Oct 19, 2008....

  skald:  Yes, I've seen some of your comments about Iceland's economy.  I hope they find a way out of it.

• ALIENated said on Oct 19, 2008....

  
  C.S. Lewis was a Christian and a college professor, I think, in England. Aslan
  (the lion) was symbolic of Jesus. The Chronicles of Narnia have lots of
  Christian symbolism. And I doubt that Mr. Lewis was a Turk in another life.
  The Bible says we live once and then we die. I wish reincarnation was 
  real, but the Bible says no.
  
  

• nytquill17 said on Oct 19, 2008....

  Keep in mind Britain has absorbed a lot of Eastern culture from their colonial days.  And these books were written in much more "classical" times (the 1940s/50s, which is not so long ago in time but things were so much "older" back then).  A classical British education was, and perhaps is still, very worldly.  You were not considered a properly educated lady or gentleman if you could not read and write in French and Latin at least.  So I wouldn't be surprised if he had some Turkish linguistic influence from somewhere in his life.

• queenparanoia said on Oct 19, 2008....

  yes... mutya is her real name... ;-)

• kruuyai said on Oct 19, 2008....

  ALIEN:  I'm aware of the Christian symbology in the Chronicles of Narnia (I didn't get it as a kid, but it's excruciatingly obvious when you see the film or read the book as an adult). However, I doubt if Mr. Lewis' religious beliefs had any bearing on his previous lives.  You see, I don't believe in the bible, so I'm free to believe in reincarnation if I wish.  :)  Thanks for stopping by.
  
  nytquill:  Probably so.  I know there was a fascination with India (Rudyard Kipling, e.g.).  Nowadays, it's the Germans who are fascinated with Turkey.
  
  queen:    :)
  

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