Questions Game

That is a great answer; I shall ask my sons to read it, to help them to share in the wisdom that you have gained. WHat a powerful experience to live through at that most formative age.

Real friends, well, take as criteria - people who would travel miles to see me when I need them, and that I would travel miles to see - people to whom I can be completely honest, and that feel as though they are completely honest with me - people who are on that special wavelength of communication - 13. But so many more on the next circle out, as it were!


What aspects of your character are you least proud of?

I don't know how to say that in English. And I am not at my home at the moment, so I have no dictionary around So I will have to describe it - I am very tolerant on one level, but also I am not tolerant at all on much smaller levels. I can forgive really huge things if I see that person is honestly sorry (and I mean forgive it without any problems), but some small things can piss me off incredibly if I made it clearly that I dislike it and the other person promised that he or she will never do it again. If I have a friend or girlfriend who is always late, there will be no problem if he or she tells me "Sorry, I am always late, and I guess I'll always be". But if he or she tells me "Okay, I will not be late next time" and then he or she IS late again I will be completely mad. Maybe not such a good example, but you'll get the idea

This might be a tough question, but try to think of a day in your life that you would choose to live once again if given opportunity?

I would choose to live again the day before my Science SATs in Year 9. This is because I would take to opportunity to revise thoroughly and practice questions. I got a dismal level, and did not understand some of the exam questions...

Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with and why?

With man or woman that is in Guinness Book of Records in a category "smallest lung capacity". You never know when will repairmen come.

What's your favourite sitcom?

My favorite sitcom would have to be 'Frasier'. I just love the witty lines & banter & each characters' eccentricities just crack me up.

What is/was your favorite age and why? Your favorite sitcom?(just curious)

p.s. Profound description of your war experience, very moving.

My favourite age was 16. I lived in a beautiful town on four rivers, I had a lot of friends, we had a lot of fun. And we lived in country that will never ever be in the war. But, also, maybe somewhere deep inside we already knew. So, summer of 1991, last summer in peace, was absolutely unbeliavable. "Those were the best days of my life" says, I think, Brian Adams in one song. Those were the best days of my life too. And last days of peace that will never ever come again. No, it's not sad. It's just how it is. When war ended, when my town was liberated, we had a greatest party ever - all town was on streets, everybody was smiling, having fun, and much later, when older people left home, we stayed on streets...with guitars, campfires...girls were never that beautiful as they were that night...boys were never that nice as they were that night...next morning, it was summer again...I was sitting in a caffe in central Karlovac park and I just knew that peace will never come again. Not for us. My daughter was born and she lives in peace. And it's a perfect peace for her. But it's not the peace I used to know once upon a time.

And with years...you forget that some people were trying to kill you. You don't forget actually...just, you more often remember them as those kids, sometimes they are killers, but sometimes they are your best childhood friends again...and you put them in street soccer games, first beers, first girlfriends, long summer nights when you talk about things that are most important in the world when you are 16....
Yeah, 16 was best.
Damn, I was long again.

My favourite sitcom...hm...although I generally prefer British humor, I would have to choose Seinfeld. Or tie between Seinfeld and Monthy Python's flying circus. And one Bosnian sitcom called "Top list of nadrealists" which no one of you heard of

I don't mind and I don't think anyone else does either if you go long, moun. Your answers are at the same time wistful and thought-provoking. I like some British comedies as well.

p.s. You forgot to end with a question.

What is your astrological sign? Does the description of that sign suit you? Or do you have another opnion you'd like to share on the subject?

yeah, forgot the question

I'm Aquarius. And it does suit me. I don't believe in daily, weekly, monthly or even long term horoscopes, but maybe there is something in general characteristics. I really AM Aquarius, and most of them I know are pretty alike in general characteristics.

When is the last time you cried and, if not too intimate, why?

I pretty much feel the same way about horoscopes and the like, but I am much as my sign (Cancer) is described as well.

Let me see... I cried over my son's teeth. He needs extensive dental work that we cannot afford. It seems so unfair that he has to suffer for something that isn't his fault. I feel so badly that we can't do something about it. I absolutely hate the American health care system!

If you could live any where else in the world (other than where you live now) where would it be and why?

Well, my first choice when I am thinking about it would be Iceland. But, I guess if I would HAVE to move and given opportunity to choose anything I want I would actually choose something warmer. Probably something in Carribean.
(gee, everything is free for kids in Croatian health system, that really sucks - I mean "extensive dental work" is always free, I think you have only to pay for braces, but even that is not always the case).

Have you ever done anything illegal? If possible, say what

As a student I helped to put a brick wall across Downing Street outside the Prime Minister's house. Just for fun! The police manhandled me away... Then once, when going to pick up my small children at school, I just touched a police van! But did not stop because I was worried about the children being left with nobody to look after them. I was summonsed for careless driving and fined about $120. And I fairlyconsistently break the speed limit. Nothing major!


What is your ideal location for a home?

Actually I really liked house where I grew up. It's in a green area, lots of trees, especially lost of wild fruit trees (wild = not belonging to anyone), with a most beautiful river in my town just 50 meters away. Only thing that sucked there were our neighbours, actually their retarded dogs. They liked me actually and never attacked me, but I was little kid and was still scared of them cause they were attacking everyone else.

What is the last book you've read?

The last book I read, I read to my daughter The Last Battle from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, my fav- author.

Along that same line, who's your favorite author and favorite book?

It's hard to choose one. Books I read several times and can imagine reading them a lot more times are "Catcher in the rye", "Hundred years of solitude" and "Sarajevo Marlboro" (J.D. Salinger, G.G. Marquez, and Bosnian writer Miljenko Jergovic). Author's list is also hard task - I guess it would be someone between Kundera, Marquez and Llosa.

Name few bands you like

O.k. I like so many!: The Police, No Doubt, Destiny's Child (though technically not a band), ...It's a lot easier to say what I don't like!! Some old stuff, some new stuff. I'm too tired to think!

What is YOUR favorite song and band?

Read By Carson King

What inspired your Able2Know name?

Mine's REALLY boring! It's just my last name and first initial. In my defense, I came looking for an answer to a trivia question and ended up liking it and staying! I'd change it if I could!

What about yours?

Oh; my name came from complete uninspiration; I spent so long trying to think of something, and ended up just choosing this.

Do you ever end up feeling the opposite of being homesick on holidays?

I like it, drom-!
Yes, definitely, if you mean happy being with my family, in a good mood and very much like celebrating, then yes!

What is your favorite holiday and why?

Halloween. Get to dress up and act funny and nobody thinks you're a loony. Candy. Lots of horror movies on TV.

What is your least favorite holiday and why?