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Title really says it all. What is the most memorable moment in your life, thus far? :)

the only single memorable thing i can remember just now is completing my first solo glider flight, and then watching the guy who was next up crash his glider on landing causing £40,000 worth of damage :eek:

My most memorable moment is pretty personal, and I don't like to talk about it. The second most memorable would be my high school graduation, and the party after where my mom got drunk. I had never seen my mother drunk before, and frankly, it scared the hell out of me. :eek:

LOL, I got drunk with my mom once. Good times.

Captaining my squad to its first ever state soccer championship.

The moment I was born should be memorable, but I've forgotten it. :p

I can't remember.

Title really says it all. What is the most memorable moment in your life, thus far? :)

Quiberon, France. sitting in a delightful, cool pizza restaurant watching people walk past the promenade just outside, and bake on the beach just beyond that. being served by french guy with awesome dreadlocks, who spoke amazingly good english. being in that restaurant for hours. having two pizzas right after another because they were so yummy... being with the love of my life on our special day in the sun :) :fluffle:


i can picture it so clearly :)

Creating my first nation on NS.

I don't remember anything. I just know I like beer.

can't remember. I've had a few good times, though none that would stick. I remember when I went to china if that counts.

#1 goes under the "too personal" classification.

#2 would probably be meningitis. I woke up one morning with a horrific fever, it got worse until I couldn't even walk or sit up because it felt as though the entire world were spinning around me, I vomited anything I ate, and I had (thankfully) inexplicable memory blankouts. Not to mention, we were living in a foreign country without such a developed healthcare system at the time, and my parents were 3 hours away for most of the day. My first near-death experience, yay :P

I was able to call my parents before it escalated, so they informed a doctor, who took me to a private clinic (the hospitals are apparently unsanitary and require bribery to get anything done), where I received injections and medication and was sent home capable of ambulation. For the next few days I subsisted on glucose supplements and further injections until it cleared up and my head didn't fall off after all. That was about 8 years ago, and my only extremely vivid pre-depression memory, so I guess it counts as memorable. (Then again my memory has a habit of retaining a lot of useless things and obfuscating others, so meh.)

Finding out about the death of and the funeral of one of my best friends, aged 10.

A suicidal moment partly caused by the perceived rejection of another best friend, aged 15.

Acceptance phone call from my college (I had been put into a 'pool' from which colleges could pick after me not getting into my first choice college), aged 17.

Funeral of my grandfather, aged 17.

So, several, not just one moment.

having to punch some ones lights out at a funeral

Probably the morning that my father died. It was more than 15 years ago, but the events are still very clear in my head.

First time that I got some...

A-League 2006/07 Major Semi Final Second Leg, Melbourne Victory vs Adelaide United. Insane.

Mmm... there are so many that stand out. I don't know if I have one most memorable moment. I could list the top ten, maybe, but a lot of them would be fairly personal.

One of them would be the walk to my boyfriend's house after our first serious fight. For some reason, I can *always* see one particular scene in my mind - just past the corner of his street, listening to "Breathing" by Lifehouse, crying my eyes out as the orange streetlight reflected off the wet pavement. Not a happy memory, I guess, but it means something to me nonetheless - and it ended extremely well, so it's okay.

Most horrifically memorable: Cathetor. While conscious. Even when on morphine, it hurt a lot.

Most horrifically memorable: Cathetor. While conscious. Even when on morphine, it hurt a lot.Wuss. :p

Title really says it all. What is the most memorable moment in your life, thus far? :)
What about yourself Zilam?
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getting a 5 wicket bag at cricket or bowling out Ewen Chatfield.

What about yourself Zilam?
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getting a 5 wicket bag at cricket or bowling out Ewen Chatfield.

What, the reknowned ferret Ewen Chatfield? You must have bowled him a completely unplayable ball. :p

#1 goes under the "too personal" classification.

#2 would probably be meningitis. I woke up one morning with a horrific fever, it got worse until I couldn't even walk or sit up because it felt as though the entire world were spinning around me, I vomited anything I ate, and I had (thankfully) inexplicable memory blankouts. Not to mention, we were living in a foreign country without such a developed healthcare system at the time, and my parents were 3 hours away for most of the day. My first near-death experience, yay :P

I was able to call my parents before it escalated, so they informed a doctor, who took me to a private clinic (the hospitals are apparently unsanitary and require bribery to get anything done), where I received injections and medication and was sent home capable of ambulation. For the next few days I subsisted on glucose supplements and further injections until it cleared up and my head didn't fall off after all. That was about 8 years ago, and my only extremely vivid pre-depression memory, so I guess it counts as memorable. (Then again my memory has a habit of retaining a lot of useless things and obfuscating others, so meh.)

A friend of mine had meningitis in sixth grade. She survived, but another patient didn't.

My most memorable moment is my high school winning first place in Class 4A at Havelock back in November. :D

The day my libedo died. :)

A friend of mine had meningitis in sixth grade. She survived, but another patient didn't. :)

My most memorable moment is my high school winning first place in Class 4A at Havelock back in November. :D
Sorry for my joke last night. :(

Sorry for my joke last night. :(

Don't do it again. :mad:

A friend of mine had meningitis in sixth grade. She survived, but another patient didn't. :)
Hooray for painful deaths!

I think that the moment I most remember was 9:47 AM, February 10th, 2007. Every little detail sticks out so clearly in my head like it was less than 60 seconds ago.

Hooray for painful deaths!

I think that the moment I most remember was 9:47 AM, February 10th, 2007. Every little detail sticks out so clearly in my head like it was less than 60 seconds ago.
O_o

I can't remember.

I was gonna say that :(

I hate you now.

A friend of mine had meningitis in sixth grade. She survived, but another patient didn't. :)

My most memorable moment is my high school winning first place in Class 4A at Havelock back in November. :D
Worst use of ':) ' ever.

Don't do it again. :mad:
You can put me on ignore if you want....

You can put me on ignore if you want....

You can use TGs.....

I haven't had one that really sticks out yet

I don't really have one. I have a lot of memories, some good, some bad, that randomly decide to pop up into my conscious thought, but there isn't one that sticks out in particular.

Worst use of ':) ' ever.

Indeed.

but oh, did I laugh...

Worst use of ':) ' ever.

I know. :( I was doing it for my friend though. :(

but oh, did I laugh...

So did I.

I know. :( I was doing it for my friend though. :(

I know, it's just that the other person died, followed by the ':) ' :p

The letter that offered me a place in the art college I wanted to go to, and which I continue to attend.

What, the reknowned ferret Ewen Chatfield? You must have bowled him a completely unplayable ball. :p
But in gumby Cricket he was a decent bat, he always seemed to get * especially against us, i think we played his team 4 times and only got him out once.

Right now. My memory ain't so good.

But, srsly, when I found my dad dead.

A friend of mine had meningitis in sixth grade. She survived, but another patient didn't.:)

My most memorable moment is my high school winning first place in Class 4A at Havelock back in November. :D

Worst use of ':) ' ever.
LOL.
Sadistic=yum.

Title really says it all. What is the most memorable moment in your life, thus far? :)

The day I lost my virginity. It was a great day! The smell of circus peanuts and cotton candy was in the air! The oohs and aahs of the crowd as the trapeze artists did their stuff. I'll never forget the feel of her beard. :)


Okay, seriously. It was the day I held my firstborn son for the first time. But don't tell anybody. I have a reputation to maintain. :)

The day I lost my virginity. It was a great day! The smell of circus peanuts and cotton candy was in the air! The oohs and aahs of the crowd as the trapeze artists did their stuff. I'll never forget the feel of her beard. :)


Okay, seriously. It was the day I held my firstborn son for the first time. But don't tell anybody. I have a reputation to maintain. :)
*Tells everyone* :p :D

Title really says it all. What is the most memorable moment in your life, thus far? :)

I really don't know. I don't have many memories. I either forget them or repress them.

But one thing that comes to mind is when I was hanging around a girl who I liked. Her best friend said "Back off, she's mine!" I shouted back that that made no sense. Two other memories which come to mind are when this girl's friends told me to go away because I was being a stalker. I was trying to ask her for a dance. Not happy memories.

But, on a happier note, she moved, and hopefully I'll never have to see white hide nor blonde hair of her ever again.

*Tells everyone* :p :D

:eek:

*calls for a CCT(Clown Cleaning Team) to 'sanitize' the area*

one of the most memorable...the road trip that me and two of my friends took this past fall

I've had many memorable moments in my life. So, I'm choosing one of them.

It was the day I graduated boot camp from the Navy. I was so happy to be getting out of that Hell hole. It was the most miserable two months of my life but they were a life altering two months. I became a strong willed man who could do just about anything. My mother was so proud of me when our division marched in for the ceremony. I was in my uniform adn when the ceremony ended I searched through the crowd but she found me first. I ran towards her and we hugged. She was crying, I was crying and she kept saying through the tears of joy of how proud she was of me. I had accomplished something great and she knew it too.

Title really says it all. What is the most memorable moment in your life, thus far? :)

Nothing to smile about.. :(

My friend and I getting chased through a swamp, woods, then a field, by a few hicks shooting at us with automatic rifles, no bs either. Then after we eluded them, we ran into a fucking bear, that was asleep, right in front of us. We eventually got the hell out of there tho.

My friend and I getting chased through a swamp, woods, then a field, by a few hicks shooting at us with automatic rifles, no bs either. Then after we eluded them, we ran into a fucking bear, that was asleep, right in front of us. We eventually got the hell out of there tho.
Jeez, man! :eek:

Wtf did you do to rile up the hicks? :eek:

My friend and I getting chased through a swamp, woods, then a field, by a few hicks shooting at us with automatic rifles, no bs either. Then after we eluded them, we ran into a fucking bear, that was asleep, right in front of us. We eventually got the hell out of there tho.

I saw that movie! Burt Reynolds was in it! :D

I saw that movie! Burt Reynolds was in it! :D

What movie? My moment? There we were, chasing these hippies through a swamp, then the woods, then a field. We woulda got 'em too, if this damned bear hadn't wandered up out a nowhere.

Either the 'road' trip from to amsterdam with my best friends from frankfurt, the three (I think;) ) days that followed, or my first solo:

I had been preparing for my first solo aircraft flight for ages, and when my instructor finally got out of the plane and left me alone, I was pretty psyched. I had noticed as I taxied out an F-18 parked on the tarmac (at a tiny little airport, remember. Very strange- I still don't know why he was there). I was too excited to really pay much attention to it, but anyway I did my thing, flew 3 touch-and-gos of the airport, landed, the controller congratulated me on my first solo, then the F-18 pilot said:
"(my call sign), confirm this is your first solo?"
"roger that."
"congratulations and welcome to the club."
Then I talked a bit more and we worked out how to pass on the taxiways.
After I taxiied back and passed him on the taxiway, he took off and did several screaming low fly-bys of the airport then left, leaving me understandably awestruck.
Maybe this doesn't sound like much, but to a student pilot on his first solo to be 'welcomed' by an F-18 pilot is like talking to God. It still sticks in my mind as incredible (although that was only like a year ago).

Either the 'road' trip from to amsterdam with my best friends from frankfurt, the three (I think;) ) days that followed, or my first solo:

I had been preparing for my first solo aircraft flight for ages, and when my instructor finally got out of the plane and left me alone, I was pretty psyched. I had noticed as I taxied out an F-18 parked on the tarmac (at a tiny little airport, remember. Very strange- I still don't know why he was there). I was too excited to really pay much attention to it, but anyway I did my thing, flew 3 touch-and-gos of the airport, landed, the controller congratulated me on my first solo, then the F-18 pilot said:
"(my call sign), confirm this is your first solo?"
"roger that."
"congratulations and welcome to the club."
Then I talked a bit more and we worked out how to pass on the taxiways.
After I taxiied back and passed him on the taxiway, he took off and did several screaming low fly-bys of the airport then left, leaving me understandably awestruck.
Maybe this doesn't sound like much, but to a student pilot on his first solo to be 'welcomed' by an F-18 pilot is like talking to God. It still sticks in my mind as incredible (although that was only like a year ago).
OMG, so beautiful! *sobs* :D

Either the 'road' trip from to amsterdam with my best friends from frankfurt, the three (I think;) ) days that followed, or my first solo:

I had been preparing for my first solo aircraft flight for ages, and when my instructor finally got out of the plane and left me alone, I was pretty psyched. I had noticed as I taxied out an F-18 parked on the tarmac (at a tiny little airport, remember. Very strange- I still don't know why he was there). I was too excited to really pay much attention to it, but anyway I did my thing, flew 3 touch-and-gos of the airport, landed, the controller congratulated me on my first solo, then the F-18 pilot said:
"(my call sign), confirm this is your first solo?"
"roger that."
"congratulations and welcome to the club."
Then I talked a bit more and we worked out how to pass on the taxiways.
After I taxiied back and passed him on the taxiway, he took off and did several screaming low fly-bys of the airport then left, leaving me understandably awestruck.
Maybe this doesn't sound like much, but to a student pilot on his first solo to be 'welcomed' by an F-18 pilot is like talking to God. It still sticks in my mind as incredible (although that was only like a year ago).
You need to meet a few fighter pilots. That'll cure any lingering respect you might have for them.
*Old Joke*
What's the differnce between a pig and a fighter pilot?
There's some things even a pig won't do.

OMG, so beautiful! *sobs* :D

:) Thanks!
*TPE quoted me! OMG!:D *
I consider my nation initiated!

You need to meet a few fighter pilots. That'll cure any lingering respect you might have for them.
*Old Joke*
What's the differnce between a pig and a fighter pilot?
There's some things even a pig won't do.
Yeah, I don't really like the military too much, but you can't help but be impressed by the beautiful machinery they fly, even outdated F-18s.
I remember you, I think. You're a pilot, too, right?

:) Thanks!
*TPE quoted me! OMG!:D *
I consider my nation initiated!
Lol, you're welcome. And glad to be of help. :p :)

Yeah, I don't really like the military too much, but you can't help but be impressed by the beautiful machinery they fly, even outdated F-18s.
I remember you, I think. You're a pilot, too, right?

Almost. I was an A-6 bombardier when I was on active duty. I do have a PPSEL/Instrument ticket, but I can't afford the gas I need to buy to stay proficient and safe.

I'm just joking about the pilots. They're mostly good guys, but you have to be pretty cocky to do well at the job they have.

And congratulations on the solo. Consider your shirt tail clipped and hung on the wall.

Almost. I was an A-6 bombardier when I was on active duty. I do have a PPSEL/Instrument ticket, but I can't afford the gas I need to buy to stay proficient and safe.

I'm just joking about the pilots. They're mostly good guys, but you have to be pretty cocky to do well at the job they have.

And congratulations on the solo. Consider your shirt tail clipped and hung on the wall.
Thanks. I got my PPSEL and night since then, but I'm in the same position - can't afford 145$ an hour while going to school, so not quite sure what I'm going to do about flying.

i have done many things in my life. i have been able to do things that only very few have been able to do. but for some reason i dont think i have a "most memorable moment", atleast not yet.

i have often wondered if i was to die today what will my last thought be of. hopefully not of thinking what an idiot i am for doing what i just did.

My most memorable moment is being 15 years old and holding my newborn son thinking "holy shit so babies really do pop out of that thing 9 months after you squirt your juice in it."

Wow...

Title really says it all. What is the most memorable moment in your life, thus far? :)

easy for me....the days both of my children were born...my girl was something special...3 weeks premature,only 3.5 pounds.had to keep her in an incubator for a week till she got over 5 pounds before the hospital would release her to us.

it was simply.....i am at a loss for words....perfect?

she is now,beautiful and going to law school next year.

my son was just a big little fella...healthy and not so happy..lol(born cutting teeth)
had a few rocky spots with him...but now he is graduating high school with straight a's,and allready completed bootcamp last summer down at fort benning,and after graduation..back too benning for advanced infantry training...and if he doesnt get deployed after that,college to be a state trooper.

20 years ago if i was asked this question..i would have thought about a girl i had been with that i liked...or some jump i made on my motorcycle i didnt think was possible..now it is the only truly great memory i have.or at least remember first.

My most memorable moment is being 15 years old and holding my newborn son thinking "holy shit so babies really do pop out of that thing 9 months after you squirt your juice in it."

Wow...

15?!? Jesus, you started early.

15?!? Jesus, you started early.I made a typo; I meant 14.

Oops... that doesn't really make it better now does it?

I made a typo; I meant 14.

Oops... that doesn't really make it better now does it?
Rofl. :D

Either way, it turned out to be one of the best mistakes I've ever made.

I made a typo; I meant 14.

Oops... that doesn't really make it better now does it?
Hah!:p

Is it a bad thing if all of your happiest memories are recollections of vivid dreams? :p Really though, all my best memories are from dreams.. the real world is less interesting. Lying on the concrete after having a stroke, this one crazy fight I got into in New Orleans, and my first month on the road after getting my CDL probably qualify as interesting memories, though mundane.

When I was seven years old. I was on a beach with my best friend... And out of NOWHERE a bull started chasing after us. The farmer then caught it and apologised.

That, or, my sixth birthday. We went Ice-skating... My Parents left me at the ice-rink and drove home. :( (Then they called the ice-rink and asked if I was there and then collected me). :)