Sunday, November 29, 2009

The BoredPoetess' ULTIMATE Christmas List!

Oh, hello again. It’s me, the BoredPoetess. It’s OK if you’ve forgotten me, as I haven’t written in some time now. I only have myself to blame.

THOUGH, I could blame my professors, for giving me all these papers and projects to do. But now I am done with most of said papers and projects, I may forgive and forget. (and let me tell you, this semester’s professors are VERY lucky I’m such a forgiving person…)

I am glad to say that it is that wonderful Christmasy time of the year again; barely done with Thanksgiving leftovers, and yet our little apartment Christmas tree is up and shining, and houses are being decorated, and iPods are being filled with Christmas song playlists, and Christmas sales are going on at every department store across the globe! And as such, I have decided to make up a Christmas list – I already have a real Christmas that I have submitted to those who care, but I also wanted to make a list of the things I want that I am quite sure no one will ever get me.

So here it is, the BoredPoetess’ Ultimate Christmas List:

1) Lifetime supply of chocolate (I want a plastic shoot in my room, so I can shout up into it what sort of chocolate I want, and whoever operates the silly thing sends it right down to me!)

2) My very own house-elf. (Because even though it only takes a minute to make my bed, that’s one minute of my life everyday that I will NEVER get back)

3) A life-size Batmobile with a live Batman (Complete with kung-fu grip!)

4) A complete symphonic orchestra and choir to follow me around everywhere I go in order to provide my life’s soundtrack as I live (Its one thing to have an iPod on wherever I go, but I want OTHER people to hear the music too)

5) A Wikipedia page about ME (I could probably do this myself, but then it would seem like I was bragging or something, and my ego is big enough as it is)

6) Another arm, with hand (Now that’s what I call a handy gift – get it? A HANDY gift? Oh, never mind…)

7) Personal movie theater, with snack bar stocked with vanilla Frosties from Wendy’s and Panera bagels (Who doesn’t want one of those? No lines…)

8 ) No homework for the rest of my life (And this is how we know that the things on this list are unrealistic…)

9) A lump of coal (Just so that I can say I got a lump of coal for Christmas)

10) Oh, and world peace and all that sort of stuff too, I guess (Though some very nasty people around the world are going to be disappointed at that one)

So there it is! My ultimate Christmas list. Gift wrap is not necessary, but if you do put it on, please don’t use any of those weird neon gift wrap. I think its icky.

[Via http://theboredpoetess.wordpress.com]

Last Night

It was 1.07a.m last night (or was it this morning?) when I came to a conclusion. I did this with R.E.M on replay, watching wispy shapes on the ceiling made by the passing headlights of cars.

The conclusion is (drumroll please)…

…no one really knows the real me.

Nothing particularly revelatory there. It’s the kind of thing people sing about. We all think we know the truth to that statement. And so did I. But it was only last night that I acutely felt the reality of it.

I’ve always been an intensely private person. I knew that right from the start, I was different in so many ways. I was aware that my skin colour differed from my peers, that my hair was curly and not straight. I was overweight. My family was different too—my father never signed my report card. I felt the need to conceal all these from people. I became ashamed about my unique situation and resolved never to reveal too much about myself to others.

While I’ve had firm friendships, I’ve never a friend whom I’ve bared my soul to. It hurts me to say this, but that’s the truth. Everyone gets a piece of me, but then again, it’s just a piece. While in recent years I’ve become more comfortable about talking about my dysfunctional family, there’s still so much I’m hoarding inside. I’m afraid that no one will really understand.

My mother thinks she knows me, but at last she doesn’t. This is particularly sad as she’s my closest friend, and yet my closest friend barely treads the tip of the iceberg that is me.

This became apparent after a short argument I had with her. I wanted so much to shake her and say, “But I’m not like that!” And then I realised that by doing so, I would be destroying her image of me. The person that she wanted me to be, all her life. So my temper deflated and I let it pass. In those few minutes, the space between the both of us widened into a gulf. She seemed a few light-years away.

At 1.07a.m last night, with R.E.M on replay, my relationships with people felt as insignificant as the shapes on the ceiling.

For the first time, I felt very much alone.

[Via http://jennyspeaks.wordpress.com]

PMPC Star Awards for TV 2009

Bukod sa mga beauty pageants, mahilig din akong manood ng mga Award Ceremonies. Basta mga events na once a year lang kung ganapin, name it….pinapanood ko yan. At hindi lang ako basta nanonood. Meron din akong listahan ng mga predicted winners ko. Medyo mali nga lang madalas. Mas reliable ang hula ability ko sa mga pageants kesa sa mga award ceremonies.

Pero gagawin ko pa din yun. Maglilista pa din ako ng mga predictions ko. And this is my first time na i-blog ito. Hindi ko na ilalagay kung bakit yun ang predictions ko. Basta yun lang ang gustong manalo. Well siguro hindi nga prediction. Sila lang ang gusto kong manalo.

Here are the nominees for the 23rd PMPC Star Awards for TV 2009 (my choices in bold):

 

Best Primetime TV Series Codename: Asero (GMA-7) Eva Fonda (ABS-CBN-2) Iisa Pa Lamang (ABS-CBN) Kahit Isang Saglit (ABS-CBN) Luna Mystika (GMA-7) May Bukas Pa (ABS-CBN-2) Tayong Dalawa (ABS-CBN) Best Drama Actor Gerald Anderson, Your Song Presents: My Only Hope, ABS-CBN) Christopher De Leon (Kahit Isang Saglit, ABS-CBN) Baron Geisler (SRO Cinemaserye Presents: Suspetsa, GMA-7) Coco Martin (Tayong Dalawa, ABS-CBN) Albert Martinez (May Bukas Pa, ABS-CBN) Diether Ocampo (Iisa Pa Lamang, ABS-CBN) Jericho Rosales (Kahit Isang Saglit, ABS-CBN) Best Drama Actress Claudine Barretto (Iisa Pa Lamang, ABS-CBN) Agot Isidro (Tayong Dalawa, ABS-CBN) Angel Locsin (Only You, ABS-CBN) Angelica Panganiban (Iisa Pa Lamang, ABS-CBN) Gina Pareño (Tayong Dalawa, ABS-CBN) Cherry Pie Picache (Iisa Pa Lamang, ABS-CBN) Cristine Reyes (Eva Fonda, ABS-CBN) Best Single Performance by an Actor John Lloyd Cruz (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Pedicab” episode, ABS-CBN) JC de Vera (Obra Presents: JC de Vera, “Pretty Boy” episode, GMA-7) Vice Ganda (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Bola” episode, ABS-CBN) Joross Gamboa (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Bisikleta” episode, ABS-CBN) Richard Gomez (Obra Presents: Katrina Halili, “Bayaran” episode, GMA-7) Albert Martinez (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Bisikleta” episode, ABS-CBN) Diether Ocampo (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Lambat” episode, ABS-CBN) John Wayne Sace (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Chess” episode, ABS-CBN) Best Single Performance by an Actress Gina Alajar (Obra Presents: JC de Vera, “Pretty Boy” episode, GMA-7) Gretchen Barretto (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Salamin” episode, ABS-CBN) Alessandra de Rossi (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Pedicab” episode, ABS-CBN) Sunshine Dizon (Obra Presents: Sunshine Dizon, “Butch” episode, GMA-7) Judy Ann Santos (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Lason” episode, ABS-CBN) Lorna Tolentino (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Chess” episode, ABS-CBN) Carmina Villarroel (Maalaala Mo Kaya: “Reseta” episode, ABS-CBN) Best Children Show Art Angel (GMA-7) Batang Bibbo (GMA-7) Kiddie Kwela (TV 5) Kids On Q! (Q 11) Sine ‘Skwela (ABS-CBN) Best Children Show Host Pia Arcangel, Tonipet Gaba, and Krystal Reyes (Art Angel, GMA-7) Roxanne Barcelo (Batang Bibbo, GMA-7) Bayani Agbayani (Kiddie Kwela, TV 5) Tonipet Gaba, Ella Guevarra, Romina de Jesus, David Hubalde, Sam Turingan, Renford Alano, and Aria Cariño (Kids On Q, Q 11) Tado Jimenez, Bombi Plata, and Shiela May Junsay (Sine’Skwela, Studio 23) Best Educational Program Born To Be Wild (GMA-7) Convergence (Net 25) Kabuhayang Swak Na Swak (ABS-CBN) Matanglawin (ABS-CBN) Quickfire (Q 11) Best Educational Program Host Kim Atienza (Matanglawin, ABS-CBN) Rosebud Benitez (Quickfire, Q 11) Paolo Contis (Bilib Ka Ba Nights Presents: World Records, GMA-7) Amy Perez and Gilbert Remulla (Kabuhayang Swak Na Swak, ABS-CBN) Dr. Ferdie Recio and Kiko Rustia (Born To Be Wild, GMA-7) Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr. (Kap’s Amazing Stories, GMA-7) Best Travel Show Balik-Bayan (Q 11) Bread and Butter (UNTV 37) Biyaheng Langit (IBC 13) Landmarks (Net 25) Trip Na Trip (ABS-CBN) Best Travel Show Host Drew Arellano (Balik-Bayan, Q 11) Arlene Razon, Kitt Meily, and Rodel Flordeliz (Bread and Butter, UNTV 37) Rey Langit (Biyaheng Langit, IBC 13) Faye de Castro (Landmarks, Net 25) Uma Khouny, Katherine de Castro, Jayson Gainza, Kian Kazemi, and Franzen Fajardo (Trip Na Trip, ABS-CBN) Best Reality Program Dare Duo (Q 11) Day Off (Q 11) OMG! (TV 5) Pinoy Records (GMA-7) Best Reality Program Host Ryan Agoncillo (Pinoy Fear Factor, ABS-CBN) Paolo Bediones (Survivor Philippines, GMA-7) Toni Gonzaga, Nikki Gil, and Billy Crawford (Pinoy Dream Academy – Season 2, ABS-CBN) Marc Nelson and Rovilson Fernandez (Dare Duo, Q 11) Manny Pacquiao and Chris Tiu (Pinoy Records, GMA-7) Best Lifestyle Show Events Incorporated (Q 11) Fashionistas By Heart (Q 11) House Life (Q 11) Life And Style (Q 11) Urban Zone (ABS-CBN) Us Girls (Studio 23) Best Lifestyle Show Host Tim Yap and Sam Oh (Events Incorporated, Q 11) Heart Evangelista, Jocas de Leon, and Schinina Juban (Fashionistas By Heart, Q 11) Tessa Prieto-Valdes (House Life, Q 11) Ricky Reyes (Life And Style, Q 11) Daphne Osmeña-Paez (Urban Zone, ABS-CBN) Angel Aquino, Iya Villania, and Cheska Garcia (Us Girls, Studio 23) Best Morning Show Good Morning Kuya (UNTV 37) Home Page (Net 25) One Morning (NBN 4) Umagang Kay Ganda (ABS-CBN) Unang Hirit (GMA-7) Best Morning Show Host Daniel Razon, Aida Gonzales, Allan Encarnacion, Rene Jose, Ryan Ramos, and Tony Arevalo (Good Morning, Kuya, UNTV 37) Ros Olgado, Eunice Mariño, and Weng dela Fuente (Home Page, Net 25) Aljo Bendijo, Bobby Yan, Claudine Trillo, JM Rodriguez, Charlene Lontoc, and Veronica Baluyut-Jimenez (One Morning, NBN 4) Edu Manzano, Pinky Webb, Bernadette Sembrano, Rica Peralejo, Donita Rose, Kim Atienza, Alex Santos, Anthony Taberna, Winnie Cordero, and Ginger Conejero (Umagang Kay Ganda, ABS-CBN) Arnold Clavio, Susie Entrata-Abrera, Lyn Ching-Pascual, Rhea Santos, Jolina Magdangal, Winnie Monsod, Drew Arellano, Regine Tolentino, and Eagle (Unang Hirit, GMA-7) Best Public Affairs Program Harapan (ABS-CBN) Probe Profiles (ABS-CBN) Y-Speak (Studio 23) Best Public Affairs Program Host Korina Sanchez and Ted Failon (Harapan, ABS-CBN) Cheche Lazaro (Probe Profiles, ABS-CBN) Bianca Gonzales (Y- Speak, Studio 23) Best Magazine Show Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (GMA-7) Mel And Joey (GMA-7) Moments (Net 25) Rated K (ABS-CBN) The Beat (Q 11) Best Magazine Show Host Jessica Soho (Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho, GMA-7) Mel Tiangco and Joey de Leon (Mel and Joey, GMA-7) Gladys Reyes (Moments, Net 25) Korina Sanchez (Rated K, ABS-CBN) Ivan Mayrina, Valerie Tan, Tonipet Gaba, and Miriam Quiambao (The Beat, Q 11) Best Documentary Program I Survived (ABS-CBN) I-Witness: The GMA Documentaries (GMA-7) Kalye: Mga Kuwento ng Lansangan (ABS-CBN) Reporter’s Notebook (GMA-7) The Correspondents (ABS-CBN) Best Documentary Program Host Ces Oreña-Drilon (I Survived, ABS-CBN) Kara David, Jay Taruc, Sandra Aguinaldo, and Howie Severino (I-Witness: The GMA Documentaries, GMA-7) Atom Araullo, Sol Aragones, and Anthony Taberna (Kalye: Mga Kuwento Ng Lansangan, ABS-CBN) Maki Pulido and Jiggy Manicad (Reporter’s Notebook, GMA-7) Karen Davila, Abner Mercado, and Bernadette Sembrano (The Correspondents, ABS-CBN) Best Documentary Special Kidnap (ABS-CBN) Mega Tatlong Dekada (ABS-CBN) Newsmakers (GMA-7) Summer Sarap (GMA-7) Walang Iwanan (ABS-CBN) Walang Pera? (GMA-7) Best Public Service Program Bitag Live (UNTV 37) Imbestigador (GMA-7) Reunions (Q 11) Wish Ko Lang (GMA-7) Wonder Mom (ABS-CBN) XXX: Xklusibo, Xplosibong Xpose (ABS-CBN) Best Public Service Program Host Julius Babao, Henry Omaga-Diaz, and Pinky Webb (XXX: Xklusibo, Xplosibong Xpose, ABS-CBN) Karen Davila (Wonder Mom, ABS-CBN) Mike Enriquez (Imbestigador, GMA-7) Vicky Morales (Wish Ko Lang, GMA-7) Jessica Soho (Reunions, Q 11) Ben Tulfo (Bitag Live, UNTV 37) Best News Program 24 Oras (GMA-7) Balitanghali (Q 11) Bandila (ABS-CBN) IBC Express Balita (IBC 13) Saksi: Liga Ng Katotohanan (GMA-7) The Evening News (TV 5) TV Patrol Linggo (ABS-CBN) TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN) Best Male Newscaster Martin Andanar (The Evening News, TV 5) Julius Babao (TV Patrol World, ABS-CBN) Ted Failon (TV Patrol World, ABS-CBN) Ivan Mayrina (News On Q, Q 11) Henry Omaga-Diaz (TV Patrol World, ABS-CBN) Alex Santos (TV Patrol Linggo, ABS-CBN) Best Female Newscaster Karen Davila (TV Patrol World, ABS-CBN) Vicky Morales (Saksi: Liga Ng Katotohanan, GMA-7) Precious Hipolito-Castelo (IBC Express Balita, IBC 13) Ces Oreña-Drilon (Bandila, ABS-CBN) Korina Sanchez (Bandila, ABS-CBN) Mel Tiangco (24 Oras, GMA-7) Best Youth-Oriented Program Ka-Blog (GMA-7) Lipgloss (TV 5) Best Horror/Fantasy Program Komiks Presents: Dragonna (ABS-CBN) Komiks Presents: Flash Bomba (ABS-CBN) Komiks Presents: Nasaan Ka Maruja? (ABS-CBN) Komiks Presents: Tiny Tony (ABS-CBN) Komiks Presents: Varga (ABS-CBN) Midnight DJ (TV 5) Best Talent Search Program Shall We Dance: The Celebrity Dance Challenge (TV 5) Talentadong Pinoy (TV 5) Best Talent Search Program Host Lucy Torres-Gomez, Jon Avila, Victor Basa, and Arnell Ignacio (Shall We Dance: The Celebrity Dance Challenge, TV 5) Ryan Agoncillo (Talentadong Pinoy, TV 5) Regine Velasquez and Ogie Alcasid (Celebrity Duets – Season 2, GMA-7) Best New Male TV Personality JR de Guzman (Midnight DJ, TV 5) Zyrus Desamparado (Lipgloss, TV 5) Zaijian Jaranilla (May Bukas Pa, ABS-CBN) Xian Lim (Your Song Presents: My Only Hope, ABS-CBN) Guji Lorenzana (Precious Hearts Romance Presents: Bud Brothers, ABS-CBN) Jose Sarasola (Only You, ABS-CBN) JC Tiuseco (Unang Hirit, GMA-7) Best New Female TV Personality Maritoni Francisco (Kiddie Kwela, TV 5) Schinina Juban (Fashionistas By Heart, Q 11) Cheska Ortega (Lipgloss, TV 5) Queenie Padilla (Totoy Bato, GMA7) Patani (Ful Haus, GMA-7) Maricar Reyes (Precious Hearts Romance Presents Presents: Bud Brothers, ABS-CBN) Carmen Soo (Kahit Isang Saglit, ABS-CBN) Best Celebrity Talk Show Boy And Kris (ABS-CBN) Ruffa And Ai (ABS-CBN) Sharon (ABS-CBN) Sis (GMA-7) Spoon (Net 25) The Sweet Life (Q 11) Best Celebrity Talk Show Host Boy Abunda and Kris Aquino (Boy And Kris, ABS-CBN) Ruffa Gutierrez and Ai-Ai delas Alas (Ruffa And Ai, ABS-CBN) Sharon Cuneta (Sharon, ABS-CBN) Janice de Belen, Gelli de Belen, and Carmina Villarroel (Sis, GMA-7) Janice de Belen (Spoon, Net 25) Lucy Torres-Gomez and Wilma Doesnt (The Sweet Life, Q 11) Best Variety/Game Show All Star K!, The P1M Videoke Challenge (GMA-7) Pilipinas, Game KNB? (ABS-CBN) Wowowee (ABS-CBN) You And Me Against The World (TV 5) Best Game Show Host Kris Aquino (Kapamilya: Deal Or No Deal, ABS-CBN) Janno Gibbs (Kakasa Ka Ba Sa Grade 5?, GMA-7) Richard Gomez (Family Feud, GMA-7) Allan K and Jaya (All Star K! The P1M Videoke Challenge, GMA-7) Edu Manzano (Pilipinas, Game KNB?, ABS-CBN) Best Gag Show Banana Split (ABS-CBN) Bubble Gang (GMA-7) Goin’ Bulilit (ABS-CBN) Lokomoko High (TV 5) Nuts Entertainment (GMA-7) Wow Mali (TV 5) Best Showbiz-Oriented Show The Buzz (ABS-CBN) Entertainment Live (ABS-CBN) Juicy! (TV 5) Showbiz Central (GMA-7) SNN: Showbiz News Ngayon (ABS-CBN) Startalk (GMA-7) Best Male Showbiz-Oriented Show Host Boy Abunda (SNN: Showbiz News Ngayon, ABS-CBN) Joey de Leon (Startalk, GMA-7) Raymond Gutierrez (Showbiz Central, GMA-7) Luis Manzano (Entertainment Live, ABS-CBN) Mo Twister (Showbiz Central, GMA-7) Best Female Showbiz-Oriented Show Host Kris Aquino (The Buzz, ABS-CBN) Toni Gonzaga (Entertainment Live, ABS-CBN) Bianca Gonzales (Entertainment Live, ABS-CBN) Pia Guanio (Showbiz Central, GMA-7) Mariel Rodriguez (Entertainment Live, ABS-CBN) Best Comedy Show Everybody Hapi (TV 5) Ful Haus (GMA-7) Parekoy (ABS-CBN) Best Comedy Actor Ogie Alcasid (Bubble Gang, GMA-7) Joey de Leon (Nuts Entertainment, GMA-7) Jayson Gainza (Banana Split, ABS-CBN) Pooh (Banana Split, ABS-CBN) Vic Sotto (Ful Haus, GMA-7) Michael V. (Bubble Gang, GMA-7) Best Comedy Actress Eugene Domingo (Everybody Hapi, TV 5) Alex Gonzaga (Everybody Hapi, TV 5) Angelica Panganiban (Banana Split, ABS-CBN) Pokwang (Banana Split, ABS-CBN) Rufa Mae Quinto (Bubble Gang, GMA-7) Sharlene San Pedro (Goin’ Bulilit, ABS-CBN) Best Daytime Drama Series Ligaw Na Bulaklak (ABS-CBN) Pieta (ABS-CBN) Precious Hearts Romance Presents: Bud Brothers, “Stupid Cupid” episode (ABS-CBN) Precious Hearts Romance Presents: Bud Brothers, “Pepper Roses” episode (ABS-CBN) Sine Novela Presents: Saan Darating Ang Umaga? (GMA-7) Best Drama Mini-Series SRO Cinemaserye Presents: Ganti (GMA-7) SRO Cinemaserye Presents: Suspetsa (GMA-7) Your Song Presents: Boystown (ABS-CBN) Your Song Presents: My Only Hope (ABS-CBN) Your Song Presents: Someone Like You (ABS-CBN) Best Drama Anthology Maalaala Mo Kaya (ABS-CBN) Maynila: Larawan Ng Bansa (GMA-7) Obra (GMA-7) Best Musical Variety Show ASAP ‘08 (ABS-CBN) SOP Rules (GMA-7) Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman (GMA-7) Best Male TV Host Ogie Alcasid (SOP Rules, GMA-7) Allan K (Eat Bulaga, GMA-7) Luis Manzano (ASAP ‘08, ABS-CBN) German Moreno (Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman, GMA-7) Vic Sotto (Eat Bulaga, GMA-7) Best Female TV Host Julia Clarete (Eat Bulaga, GMA-7) Valerie Concepcion (Wowowee, ABS-CBN) Toni Gonzaga (ASAP ‘08, ABS-CBN) Pia Guanio (Eat Bulaga, GMA-7) Regine Velasquez (SOP Rules, GMA-7) Best TV Station ABS-CBN GMA-7 IBC 13 NBN 4 NET 25 Q 11 RPN 9 STUDIO 23 TV 5 UNTV 37 Breakdown: ABS-CBN - 35 GMA - 9 TV5 – 6 Q11 – 3 IBC – 0 NBN – 0 NET25 – 0 RPN – 0 Studio23 – 0 UNTV – 0 TOTAL: 53 The 23rd PMPC Star Awards for TV will be held tonight at the Pagcor Grand Theater, Ninoy Aquino Avenue, Paranaque City at 7PM. ABS-CBN will air the late telecast.

 

[Via http://sifranzaypinoy.wordpress.com]

Saturday, November 28, 2009

stop!

it’s another early morning that i reached home at..

i didn’t stay at home like i plan to, last sat and this sat.

 

i’m definitely stopping such weekend lifestyle.

no more drinking !

 

there was a huge movement in office..

all i can hope is that monday will be a good day for us.

life is REALLY unpredictable.

we should never take anything for granted.

[Via http://paperlulu.wordpress.com]

Ed Hochuli

It’s amazing how anyone in the NFL outside of players, coaches or the commissioner has managed to achieve rock star status.  However, we’re not talking about any random person here!  We’re talking about Ed “I’m jacked out of my motherf*ckin mind” Hochuli!  Seriously, just Google the guy and all kinds of sh*t pops up.  It’s crazy!

A few years ago, when I first learned of the tour de force that is Ed Hochuli, I stumbled across WhatWouldEdHochuliDo.com.  This site is pure genius!  On there, they list 50 True Facts About Ed Hochuli.  They are flippin hilarious!

However, as a warning, if you’re not familiar with Ed Hochuli or other random bits of pointless f*ckery, they probably won’t be as funny for you as they were for me.  Regardless, I’ve harnessed the power of Copy and Paste and brought the 50 True Facts About Ed Hochuli here to YAKWII and added my own special touch to them.  Enjoy.

1. Ed Hochuli invented apples
2. Ed Hochuli calculated Pi to the 300th digit and the declared it ENOUGH.
3. Ed Hochuli wrote a thirteen volume, complete history of the Yukon and gave it away for free.
4. Ed Hochuli owns Mokena, Illinois

5. Ed Hochuli knows exactly how to dance about architecture
6. Ed Hochuli gets an 80% discount on overnight shipping with Fed Ex
7. Ed Hochuli uses 65% of his brain
8. Ed Hochuli can resist all viruses with the power of his mind
9. Ed Hochuli gets a peppermint oil pedicure every Saturday morning

10. In 2012 Ed Hochuli will be carved into Mount Rushmore, just over to the left.
11. Ed Hochuli appears with a golden aura in every color photo

12. Ed Hochuli has a normal to dry T-Zone
13. In May of 1962, Ed Hochuli predicted the advent of satellite radio
14. Ed Hochuli gives Roadhouse 3 out of 4 stars
15. Ed Hochuli wants to get to know your mom better.

16. Ed Hochuli destroyed the remaining 73 cases of Crystal Pepsi by throwing them out of the stratosphere
17. Ed Hochuli rides rollercoasters without strapping himself in.

18. Ed Hochuli filled his lungs with pure air and exhaled a mighty wind that expelled the bird flu from all of North America.
19. Ed Hochuli eats the heart.
20. The weights in the penalty flag of Ed Hochuli are pure platinum.
21. Ed Hochuli has been the roller in an ongoing craps game since April of 2003

22. Ed Hochuli translated Leviticus into Russian
23. Ed Hochuli knows what it’s like to be the sad man, to be the bad man, behind blue eyes
24. Ed Hochuli is hoping you’ll be his Valentine
25. Ed Hochuli has won 23 Source Awards


26. Ed Hochuli completed the Tour De France in three days.
27. Ed Hochuli predicts the eruption of Volcanoes by measuring his navel.
28. Ed Hochuli is the ghost writer for the last five years of NANCY cartoons

(used to love this show back in the day!)

29. Ed Hochuli can get blood from a turnip…AND HOW.
30. Ed Hochuli developed Minnetonka’s Greatest Patty Melt
31. As a youth, Ed Hochuli walked the great plains of the USA scattering apple seeds throughout the land.
32. Ed Hochuli is the Majority Whip
33. Ed Hochuli prefers rainbow sprinkles

34. Ed Hochuli beat Smarty Jones in a foot race
35. Ed Hochuli is not above the law…but who is?
36. Ed Hochuli wrote the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner
37. In Greece, Ed Hochuli is a unit of measurement

38. Ed Hochuli loves the tuck rule
39. Ed Hochuli serves as Secretary of The Crackback on George W. Bush’s cabinet
40. Ed Hochuli needs more cowbell
41. Ed Hochuli can skeletonize a cow inside of three minutes
42. Ed Hochuli wrote Shakespeare’s later plays
42. Ed Hochuli has perfect pitch

43. Ed Hochuli has been to Mars. His assessment? No biggie.
44. Ed Hochuli has your mom’s secret Chex Mix recipe.
45. Ed Hochuli keeps a living giant squid in his basement
46. Ed Hochuli’s biceps change with the barometric pressure
47. Ed Hochuli won Luxemburg Idol
48. Ed Hochuli saw mommy kissing Santa Claus

49. Ed Hochuli cures cold sores with love
50. Ed Hochuli can cross stitch to beat the band!


[Via http://youalreadyknowwhoitis.com]

123 saosin

寧惠 says: *lol *okay *hmm *talk about deshun’s traumatic experience with flying cockroaches thn -unчςәp says: *Hmm 寧惠 says: *LOL -unчςәp says: *Okay! 寧惠 says: *because you didnt know they exist anyw -unчςәp says: *I heard cockroaches don’t die if you cut off their head. 寧惠 says: *thn end with it was a dream -.- *thn end with actually you were dreaming tt it was a dreAM *okay forget it i am lame *anyw *REALLY? *EEEEEEE -unчςәp says: *Really? 寧惠 says: *tt they dont die even if you cut off their heads -unчςәp says: *Yeah it’s so cool. 寧惠 says: *eeeeeeee -unчςәp says: *They die only after 1 week because they can’t drink. 寧惠 says: *….. *omg. *sick *i swear i hate flying cockroaches -unчςәp says: *I think they talked about it in primary school. 寧惠 says: *o.o -unчςәp says: *Déjà vu. I think I heard you say that before. 寧惠 says: *but i rather 2 flying cockroaches land on my head thn fly away *thn one tiny worm land on my head and continue crawling -.-l -unчςәp says: *Wow. How?! 寧惠 says: *how ? *how wad? -unчςәp says: *The worm got onto your head. 寧惠 says: *it didnt *i was talking about a simulation *i mean like *i rather *not that it did happen *lo *lol -unчςәp says: *Oh haha. *I’m scared of everything. 寧惠 says: *of what? o.o -unчςәp says: *I’d rather nothing happens. 寧惠 says: *LOL -unчςәp says: *Creepy crawlies. 寧惠 says: *not like you will scream if one lands on you *lol *I FKING HATE THE CRAWLIES. *i am like okay with non flying cockroaches andlizards *but i JUST HATE CRAWLIES *THOSE WITH NEVER ENDING LEGS *OMFG *the tought of it fully digusts me -unчςәp says: *I’m scared. *You’re scaring me. 寧惠 says: *o_o -unчςәp says: *Are there flying lizards in the first place? =o 寧惠 says: *you ARE not serious RIGHT. o.o *LOL *NO *LOL *LOL *LOL *LOL -unчςәp says: *Right. 寧惠 says: *LOL

 

-unчςәp says: *I’m outside now by the way. 寧惠 says: *o.o *oh *maybe a thousand locusts will fly your way -unчςәp says: *Maybe… *Maybe a polar bear will start flying past me. 寧惠 says: *LOL *I LOVE POLAR BEARS -unчςәp says: *They’ll die. =o 寧惠 says: *you should totally call me if one flies by *i wna hug them! -unчςәp says: *I heard pandas are coming from china. 寧惠 says: *after plunging a knife into them *before they start killing me *really -unчςәp says: *You wouldn’t say that when they actually start hugging you. 寧惠 says: *why? o.o *so cute and fluffy -unчςәp says: *They are strong. our weird convo about animals. ._. LOL. one flying cockroach landed on my head for a second ytd =’( i had to wash my head at 2plus am in the morning because of that… and all keyi did was LAUGH AT ME. whatttt! lol. it’s quite funny actually. cause i was like wtf-ing. went to meet amanda at amk ytd. headed to amk at 1plus. brought her to meet deshun & co. = sean/shaun/shawn + zhisheng + jeckie. went to play pool for like a few hours. after that went bowling. they count payments by frame ._. which ended up around 40plus? yeah sean/shaun/shawn went home early. thn deshun left us in the mist of bowling. so he left us in the awkward presence of 2 of his friends. haha. but they are funny. so yeah, its okay. walked together to the MRT station. went home~ suppose to meet Jo for our photo thingy today. but it rained in the morning so we decided to cancel. going to meet the 6/3 guys and play bball in some hougang court. they are suppose to book it? lol. Jo coming along. meeting manda tmr for whatttt. giving out flyers? omg. i guess i just have to do that for a day. need some cash man -.- i want my micro SD card. Deshun is not replying me! :( must have drown when he was swimming. RIP ;D lol kidding xD btw, www.dhism.com wont die if you click it ya. lol. yeah. so gotta stop here~ bye.

 

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Zombie invasion?

I don’t know about you, but ever since the whole “2012″ thing started up, there have been ALOT of articles on the web about how to survive a zombie uprising.

Now I myself feel quite prepared because of this (I have my head shots timed to perfection and a year’s supply of Mike and Ike’s). But I can’t help but wonder why there has been a rush of these survival guides.

I don’t know if the ancient Mayan civilisation predicted an undead army who would strike the earth rendering it lifeless…if they did, that would be impressive. Perhaps they predicted that they would come back…maybe we should be preparing for a Mayan takeover?

Then again, this could all be some overly dramatic ruse, we tend to go through these every so often…like economic recessions.

Stay safe!

 

fear teh zombie kitteh

 

 

fear teh zombie kitteh

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WELCOME TO MY PLACE*

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My doors are always open
For all of you to see
All of the happiness and laughter
You are always wished from ME!

So, I just want to thank you all
For everything you say
that brings a smile to my face
each and every day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Believe in Yourself;

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Luisa Doraz

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

I Moustache You A Question

Movember (a portmanteau of the words ‘Moustache’ and ‘November’), is an annual month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November. The event has been claimed to have been invented in 1999 by group of Australian men from Adelaide.

Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Australia and New Zealand. In 2007, events were launched in Ireland, Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
I’ve went unshaven for pretty much the whole of November. The reason? I had an agreement with a few friends that we would let our facial fuzz grow for a few weeks and then shave it into some form of moustache for the last week in November so we could do our own little contribution to the Movember Campaign. Well the beginning of the last week in November started yesterday. So on Sunday afternoon i blew the dust off my razor and had a shave, i must admit i was tempted to shave the whole beard off as it was getting itchy as hell BUT i stuck to the agreement and shaved myself a Lemmy style moustache/beard effort. Today i’ve came to the decision that for each remaining day this week i’ll have a different style. Basically i’ll gradually shave the moustache off bit by bit. So Sunday, yesterday and today i sported the Lemmy style. Tomorrow will be the simple yet overwhelmingly camp handlebar, Thursday will be a “normal”, casual moustache and on Friday it comes off. I realise that technically that means i’ve only sported a moustache for 5 days and not a week. But Sunday to Thursday is enough for me! Plus, i’ve got a night out on Friday and there is no way that i’m heading into the Glasgow nightlife with a hairy top lip!

Tom Selleck's gotta be in there somewhere!

This Friday, i’ll do a special post about my 5 days living with my moustache and also a special “Top Lip Music Top Ten” List that’ll include the best ten moustaches in music.  I’ll also stick up some pictures of my own fuzz so everyone can have a laugh at my hairy lipped expense.

Until then though enjoy two classic moustaches……technically these two dudes have beards but seeing as i’m saving the Moustache Brigade for Friday they’ll do for the moment.


MP3: Motorhead – Ace Of Spades


MP3: Kris Kristofferson – Closer To The Bone

And as a little taster of what to expect from my own facial creations have a look  (and listen) at this….

S.I.T Wolf  X

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Something we forgot

There are some things that are meant to be stay in your system. But there are some things that are just too painful but we still want to let it have some room in you. Why? Because we feel that we will lose one of the best things in life that have ever happened. But ever wonder why you still feel that pain? Admit it, you’re still not over that issue. Yes, I admit there are some things that I couldn’t let go so easily. Call me a wuss or sentimental but if I were to tell you I’m over everything in the past, you can be sure I am lying. Perhaps lying to you or lying to myself.

This don’t apply to me, it applies to everyone. If he/she is able to erase all memories, then he/she is not human afterall. Its just a matter of whether you are able to get the lesson out of the pain you’re still keeping.

Ps; This has got nothing to do with the JeanGrey issue. So guys, stop it k? HAHAHAHA.

Oh, let me end with something that has got nothing to do with what I typed earlier on,
I used to play and have fun at the end of the day.
Now if you were to ask me, “Khai, are you still playing this game?”
I’ll answer, “I still am… But now, I play to for the thrill and for me to keep for end of the day.”

Go figure.

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Random text message

Day 9:  Today I received a text from my hubby, just to say hi and love you.  It probably took him all of 20 secs, not much time out of a day to let someone know you are thinking of them. I am grateful for his effort and acknowledge sometimes we can all overlook showing gratitude to the people closest to us.

Day 9: Text message

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Poor Turkey

 By Timo Cerantola

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I guess many of you are looking forward to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings of course. Naturally, you’ll have turkey. You always have turkey on Thanksgiving. It’s a family tradition.

Poor turkeys, they don’t care much for this family tradition. Let’s face it, they have absolutely nothing to be thankful for on Thanksgiving.

To a turkey, Thanksgiving must be the quintessential nightmare from hell – sort of like a spooky Stephen King novel, the one where all your friends slowly disappear one by one. You ask around, but everyone is clueless. No one seems to know where they’ve gone. You search everywhere for them – until the end when you discover your best friend tits up on a table in front of a bunch of smiling, creepy, hungry fat people.

OK now, before all you budding vegetarian tree-huggers out there start feeling remorseful and ashamed of your carnivorous ways. Before you even think about switching your Thanksgiving menus to tofu turkey or vegetable lasagne, I have one thing to say. Turkeys are to blame for their own sad predicament.

What, you may ask, could those poor turkeys have done to deserve the November death sentence?  

Well, let me tell you.

After some extensive turkey research and analysis, I have come to the conclusion that their serious image and public relations failures are a direct result of turkey incompetence and mismanagement. Here are just a few of my findings and the five most likely reasons why turkeys will once again be a Thanksgiving casualty.

Reason #1:  The name “Turkey!”

OK, this nerdy sounding name almost screams, “Kill me and eat me, I’m just a stupid bird.” In fact, among humans, the word ‘turkey’ is now commonly associated with losers.

Case in point: remember that weird kid in the schoolyard with the odd name – Millard, Heathcliff, Brewster or Schmedley?

These guys were every bully’s number one target; mercilessly teased and pushed around mainly because of their odd or peculiar names. 

Well, turkeys have the same problem. They need a name change. Something proper sounding – perhaps an elitist type name would work. A dignified sounding name that implies wealth and power – names like Churchill or Eisenhower. Names such as these get a lot of respect among humans. Somehow, stuffing and roasting an Eisenhower seems unappetizing, not to mention, unpatriotic.

 

Reason #2: The turkey call.

“Gobble. Gobble.”

Is it me, or does this sound kind of suggestive?

Seriously, turkeys might as well wander around the world’s barnyards screaming, “Bite me, bite me!” I think turkeys should stop with the “gobble, gobble” and change it to “Veggie plate, veggie plate.” The subliminal suggestion alone may start some humans on the path to vegetarianism.

Reason #3: The turkey walk.

OK, that lopsided turkey trot of theirs is pathetic. Seriously, when I think of a trotting turkey, I picture an awkward oafish creature running across a barnyard, teetering back and forth with all the grace of a malformed pumpkin on legs – which then haplessly loses its balance and impales itself on a fence post. Really, you might as well eat one; they’ll probably manage to kill themselves anyways.

Reason #4: Turkeys can’t fly.

Turkeys have wings but they can’t fly. So, they’re perceived as failures.

True, go out to the farm and see for yourself, turkeys cannot fly. And to make matters worse, they’re not even trying to fly. Really, who cares about a failure that never even tries? So, why should we care?

Think about all those people who have things that they can’t operate. Those with computers they cannot use or electronic equipment that endlessly flashes 12:00 a.m. That’s why we call these people “turkeys.”

Finally, reason 5: The goofy red sack.

What is that goofy red sack that flaps around on their heads?

What exactly is the purpose of that thing?

Is this where a turkey keep its brains?

Sorry, but in this ever-increasing superficial world, that red sack thing has got to go. It is not a very attractive feature. If turkeys were at least trying to hide that thing by covering it up with make-up or perhaps looking into plastic surgery options, we might be a little more understanding. But no. “Turkeys” just wobble and gobble around the barnyard with that red thing flapping all over the place not even trying to fly – which all leads to one unavoidable conclusion.

This year, when people start thinking about their Thanksgiving menus, it’s very likely that some edible barnyard type is going to take a dirt nap and, 99 out of 100 times, turkey is number one on their hit list.

I imagine in time, perhaps a million years from now, as the ‘turkey’ species moves up the evolutionary ladder; they will rise up and take control of their own destinies with a well-funded lobby in Washington; PR firms working on pro-turkey ad campaigns to bolster their sullied public image – they may even get a turkey elected to Congress (granted, not the first turkey in congress).

But not this year; no, sadly this year like last, those poor dumb turkeys aren’t going anywhere but great with stuffing, cranberry and gravy. Happy Thanksgiving. Cheers.

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it's *almost* bordering on my earlier threat to quit.

Reasons YOU need to get your ass in gear and send your thankfulness to me.

NOW.

(dearbooshy at hotmail dot com)

1. The deadline is Tuesday…I think we’ve procrastinated enough.

2. You probably need to remind yourself why you married him…or her.

3. It’s like free advertising…just without the super-massive-fifty-million-views-exposure…but we’re *almost* there (that just made me laugh…a sardonic, never-in-your-lifetime-keep-dreaming laugh)

4. There isn’t a test at the end…so think of it like major extra credit…or something…with chocolate.

5. A day of thankfulness would be really depressing without any well, thankfulness.  Which is completely circular and the result of such a catastrophe would probably send me on a downward spiral into crazyville, and I know you don’t want that on your conscience.

6. Babs just told me to shut the hell up all, “Don’t be a brat. You can’t force anyone to DO anything.” I simply reminded her that the reason she didn’t run off, “sayonara, asshole” was because of my super-stealth plan called Moxie.  Follow the logic? No? Let me help: you don’t want to be the recipient of my super-stealth plan.

7. It’s the right thing to do. 

8. You’ll need an escape for when you’ve reached the in-law/child/random uncle exposure maximum all, “I need to go meditate and remind myself why I didn’t just strangle you.”

9. It will probably make your bloggy-friends realize they need to stop being all whiny and mopey…or at least give them one day of, “Wow! I love everything…The trees! The thorny bushes!  The carpet fibers! The cat’s ass!”

10. You’d be the start of a tradition…and who doesn’t like to be able to say, “I STARTED THAT. I participated the FIRST DAMN TIME…I’ll bet you can’t say THAT. Exactly. I’m awesome.”

And we all like to be awesome.

Like the awesome people who have already sent their thankfulness.

At least they’ll be able to breathe easy come Thursday…

(and if you’re one of those few breathing easy…feel free to leave lots of chiding, guilt-inducing comments)

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Patriotism is Alive!

In a time in which is seems patriotism is dead, I observed last night that it is very much alive.  I was so moved that it brought me to tears.  I think the fact it was my last game as a student also played into my emotions, but that is beside the point.

It was during the half-time show that I noticed that people still overwhelmingly love America.  Every home game our band performs a themed show and this week was a ‘Salute to America and our Armed Forces’ show.  They had a member of our armed forces from each branch that proudly carried their flag across the field and a member of each branch was honored during the performance. When the booming voice on the speakers asked everyone to ‘please stand,’ everyone that I could see did without blinking or thinking twice.

What really got to me about this performance was when the announcer asked everyone to continue standing as we took a moment to honor those who were lost at Fort Hood. It was amazing to see over 100,000 people silent and paying their respects. Well, except for the couple of drunken guys behind me. I almost turned around and told them to have some decency.

After the performance, a few members of our armed forces walked by our section. It was quite astonishing to see so many of my fellow students stand up, cheer for them and yell out ‘thank you.’

This whole thing reminded me that there are people out there who still love our country and that respect the men and women who sacrifice so much to ensure that we may all retain our freedoms. It also solidified the notion in my mind that I will do whatever it takes to make sure that America stays who she is. I refuse to lie down and let some radical politicians change everything that I love about the land I am so blessed to be a part of. I know I’m not alone in this way of thinking. We need to band together and show these Washington cronies that we won’t stand for this. It needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.

Oh, and if you were wondering, we beat Vanderbilt (31-16)!

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Why women are like food

You’ve heard it a million times before, and probably done it a few times yourself. At restaurants, movie theaters, at work and pretty much everywhere else in public. Now get your mind out of the gutter, I’m talking about terms of endearment.

You know, when you call your better half, “Honey-bun” or “‘lil lamb chop” or “sweetie-pie” or the countless other sweet/salty snacks/foods you like or can think of. But did you ever wonder where these terms originated from? Or phrases like “You look good enough to eat”. Well yes, porn…. but they get their material from some place too. No prizes for guessing but all this terminology stems from the human-desire to consume…food.

Ergo, thought it would be only too fitting to relate women to food.
So without further delay….
womanfood.jpg

f1.jpgEmpire Butter Chicken
Health rating: 6/10
Usually makes an appearance after a very drunken night, succulent, usually tender, and generally, very satisfying after a night of binge drinking. But just like the actual dish, you kind of regret you had some when you wake up the next morning. Ends up giving you unexpected problems, like making you spend extended periods in the loo and seeking treatment later.

f2.jpgDaal Rice
Health rating: 8/10
Staple food of most Indian men. Just like the dish, these women are there whenever you need, and are ready at a moments notice. Also just like the dish, gets boring and mundane if consumed everyday for long durations of time. And this results in a yearning for the occasional “Butter chicken”, after which you want it again. Gave birth to the adage of “Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em”

f3.jpg“Healthy” Tandoori Chicken
Health rating: 3/10
Wrong on so many levels. These are the kind of women who will take something fun and suck the life right out of it. Just like the dish, the promise of the meaty-goodness of legs & breasts is laid out right under your nose and then taken away while reminding you sternly, “That this much rich food is not good for you” instead “have a modified version of it, just like the original, but without the masala or the flavor, told you just like the original” I’ve been told by a fellow researcher, that there is a name for this variety of woman, “wife”.

f5.jpgChateaubriand
Health rating: 4/10
Definitely an acquired taste. Just like the dish, will run up quite a bill at restaurants. Goes best after expensive wine or scotch. Comes in a portion just big enough to satisfy but leaves you craving for more. Definitely can’t afford to spend time with this woman everyday. Unless you have very, very deep pockets.

f6.jpgRaas Malai
Health rating: 3/10
Made popular by the BBC programme “Goodness gracious me” This term is constantly used by British-Asians (notably punjabis) and Brits who wanna hang with the asian kids. Literally stems from the term “eye-candy” more often than not, these women do turn out to be just that, candy, the kind that makes you wish you had tooth-ache just so you’d be distracted enough by the pain, not to hear her silly rambling!

f4.jpgMaggi Noodles
Health rating: 8/10
Similar to the daal rice variety in so many ways. This is the very epitome of the comfort variety. There by your side to give you solace when the world is against you. Doesn’t mind being there when every other varienty is scarce or non-existent. And ready in just 2-minutes (a lil overboard I know). Just like the dish, this woman is great to spend time with in the morning, afternoon, night or even in-between meals. Again just like the daal rice variety, looses it’s appeal if consumed too often.

There are, of course, numerous other varieties, because just like the endless, wonderful world of cuisine, the varieties of women are also limitless.

Which is why the “Doshi’s Institute” is recruiting the most brilliant minds (i.e. you) to contribute your findings and help further the boundaries of science and human understanding. If you do want to share your research, do get in touch.

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How AFA affects my weekend

Basically, I would be too tired and busy to blog this weekend, as can be seen today when I spent my entire day @ AFA buying merchandise, having fun commenting on how the meido cafe doesn’t seem like a real meido cafe, and snapping my camera away at cosplayers. My thanks and apologies to j1m0ne who was frequently abandoned without notice as I followed my lens to the cute/kakkoii girls and guys and forgot about her.

Photos will be up later, while I attempt to track down the K-ON seiyuuz in the airport. In short, it is a camping effort on my part with no guarantee that I’ll be able to find them. Good luck to me. With AFA continuing for one more day tomorrow, I wish someone could give me a much-needed massage on my back and feet. I need a waifu, and not a 2D one.

So, ja mata ne!

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butterfly

Today was a fun day xD
Quite tiring actually >.<;;
But went to class in the morning. Had a yummy cookie. Talked an hour with a friend. That was okay.
Then went to class in which I just watched a movie for extra credit.
Basically I didn’t even haev to go today >.<

But went to the mall. expecting to find something I like but I didn’t >.<
Had cheesecake! And chipotle! Omgsh and chips a guac. Today was such a food day. A yummy food day.
LEts see…
Explored mroe of campus…
hence the picture.
I took that picture! *ish very proud*
That butterfly liked me~ So did the ducks… but meh. The ducks can be scary… I think they were laughing at me -.-;;

–Kimiko–

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Thermometer

Seems like I am the human thermometer in the office- with workmates oftentimes trying to figure out if it’s hot or cold with the kind of jacket I’m wearing , or if I’m wearing any at all, the length of the sleeve, the texture of what I’m wearing, even the colour.

Of course- they exaggerate, but they must notice something, as they most definitely do comment.

I wore my white cotton summer top today, short sleeved and a colourful butterfly embroidered in the front, no jacket and three quarter jeans. Seeing me walk in- they decided it must be warm today.

I played around, too. Dude, its casual Friday and it was a pleasant 26 degrees this morning. Who needs to see the mercury rising to feel that?

That makes me think- I must put a lot of thought in my attire without even realizing it! I must be a girl

mon.

monday will be a bad day. cause i can’t come home until 11pm. auntie have some cleansing the house christian thingy until 10plus. and only adults allowed. =.= poor aidan and faith will be send to their cousins’ home. while the poor me will have to camp at tracy’s house until i get a call from them. lol. she have to work on that day. so i think will be helping her to close shop first then happy happy walk to her house, open the tent and camp. first time in my 7 years with them that i want to be home =.=

co rehearsal today was okay. co practice will always be good when the female conductor is not here. she was only here for a while. bitchy asshole. i hate her. and today suddenly got a few parts of the songs i can’t play. its bad ): tmr performance alr lehh! my dizi in school now, can’t practise =.=and ohh, i had great fun laughing at sungchang’s uncle shoes and his ‘house’ that is filled with ginger smell. lol.

okay, drama time. ep 22 alr! anyway, i got my books alr. HAPPY!

Is School REALLY Cool?

Tomorrow is the date I’ve been waiting for.  I get to register for my Spring semester classes.  Last semester I was all messed up with my registration time and I didn’t plan out my schedule before hand.  So far, I’ve got a math class, an english class, a vet tech class and hopefully an animal handling class if it opens up.  For some reason it’s not allowing anyone to register into it.  Oh well, we’ll see what happens.

In other news, Ridge and I are applying for jobs non stop.  Work around here is almost impossible to find.  I’m going to be helping Ridge study for the GED test.  He really needs it to improve his chances of getting a job.  I hate that neither of us can get a job just because I’m young and he didn’t finish school.  Sometimes life really sucks.  Ridge isn’t a drop-out, he’s going  to start college soon.  But he can’t put that down on any applications until he actually starts classes.  I hate that, but it’s the law and I’d rather he didn’t get charged with perjury.  That would suck.

Speaking of the law and all the crappy legalities, I hate that almost every place around here doesn’t hire under 18.  It’s completely unfair.  I know, everyone says “Life’s unfair,” but this is stupid.  Anyways, this is stupid.  I’m going to continue being a lazy child, sitting at my house watching a movie.  Maybe I’ll apply for some more jobs and then take a bath.  Tune in next time for more fun stuff.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

New book, Muhammad: The "Banned" Images

A new book being published that, unlike Yale University Press, will include the Muhammad cartoons. The Volokh Conspiracy has the news:

I’m pleased to be the first to report that the newly founded Voltaire Press at Duke University has just published Muhammad: The “Banned” Images. The book includes all the images that were omitted by the Yale University Press from Jytte Klausen’s The Cartoons That Shook the World — including the 12 Mohammed cartoons — plus many more historically significant items (a total of 31), together with brief discussions of the context behind each work. The images, reproduced in high quality and in full color, include works by William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Salvador Dali, as well as Muslim artists from the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires.

The book includes an Introduction by Prof. Gary Hull, Director of the Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace at Duke University, who has been the driving force behind the book. It also includes as an afterword, a Statement of Principle, which I am honored to have been asked to sign. (The Statement is followed by a disclaimer that “The above signatories agree with the ideas expressed in the Statement of Principle. However, they were not involved in the creation of Muhammad: The “Banned Images”, and have no responsibility for its contents.”

The disclaimer to the Statement of Principles wreaks of dhimmitude and is obviously a wink and a nod to Muslims who will cry blasphemy as they charge forward, effigies and ‘Death to Voltaire’ signs  in hand. Read the Introduction:

From the Introduction by Dr. Hull:

Muhammad: The “Banned” Images is a “picture book” — or errata to the bowdlerized version of Klausen’s book as published by Yale University Press. It is of course more than that. It is a statement of defiance against censors, terror-mongers, and their Western appeasers. It is a rallying cry for free speech, freedom of the press, and for open scholarship unfettered by fear.

The Statement of Principles is also interesting. The creators seem to go out of their way to not single out or offend Islam or Muslims, while equivocating violence and stifling of speech across religions and groups, and they even seem to support freedom of speech for terrorists like Bill Ayers. Anyway, in an age of almost total submission to Islamic sharia law, two steps forward and one step back, is better than three steps back.

There is a wonderful quote on the website as well:

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ~ George Washington

Halal slaughter? There is also an excellent supplement to the book, in PDF, titled “Murder, Mayhem & Self-Censorship A timeline of reactions to images and descriptions of Muhammad.” Here is a sampling:

1955 – April: Eight-foot sculpture on the Appellate Division of the First Department of the New York State Supreme Court (at Madison Square Park), in place since ca. 1900, is identified during renovation as Muhammad, and removed after the Egyptian, Indonesian and Pakistani ambassadors to the United Nations protest its presence. See Muhammad: The”Banned” Images p. 13.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,866187,00.html

http://www.meforum.org/pipes/5487/destroying-sculptures-of-muhammad

1988 – September 26: Publication of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses

1988 – October (early): Satanic Verses banned in India

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/11/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses

1989 – January 14: Satanic Verses publicly burned by Muslims in Bradford, England

http://students.stlawu.edu/theweave/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=712&Itemid=39

1989 – February 14: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues fatwa against Salman Rushdie

1989 – March 1: Cody’s Books and a branch of Waldenbooks in Berkeley, CA, are firebombed after their managers assert that they will continue to sell Satanic Verses

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/01/world/2-bookstores-in-berkeley-are-firebombed-rushdietie-is-explored.html

1989 – April: Collets and Dillons in London are firebombed for stocking Satanic Verses; bombs also at High Wycombe, on London’s King’s Road, in the Liberty department store, and the York Penguin bookshop. Unexploded devices discovered at Nottingham, Guildford, and Peterborough

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/11/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses

1989 – August 3: Unidentified 21-year-old Lebanese man dies priming a book bomb he intended to use to kill Rushdie

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article531110.ece

1991 – July 3: Ettore Capriolo, the Italian translator of the Satanic Verses, is beaten and stabbed in Milan, after death threats by Muslims

http://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/g/general/general3926.pdf

1991 – July 12: Hitoshi Igarashi, professor of comparative culture and Japanese translator of the Satanic Verses, is stabbed to death at Tsukuba University, near Tokyo

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-translator.html

1993 – July 2: Attack targeting Aziz Nesin, a translator of the Satanic Verse, kills 37 Alewi intellectuals at the Madimak Hotel in Sivas, Turkey

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9331717.asp?scr=1

1993 – October 12: William Nygaard, publisher of the Satanic Verses in Norway, was shot and injured

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/11/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/12/world/publisher-of-the-satanic-verses-in-norway-isshot.html

1997 – Council on Inter-American Relations (CAIR) objects to the figure of Muhammad in Adolf Weinman’s frieze of lawmakers in the Supreme Court, Washington, D.C. Chief Justice Rehnquist replies that it is unlawful to remove or injure any architectural feature of the Supreme Court, but that the Supreme Court will change its tourist literature to be more sensitive to Muslim religious beliefs. (See Muhammad: The “Banned” Images, p. 13 and no. 28.)

http://www.cair-net.org/pdf/10th_anniversary_report.pdf, p. 22.

2002 – June 24: Police foil plot by fundamentalist Muslims to bomb the Cathedral of Bologna, which contains a 15th-c. fresco depicting Muhammad in Hell. (See Muhammad: The “Banned” Images, p. 13 and no. 6.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jun/24/arts.artsnews

2006 – January 30: Former President Bill Clinton, speaking in Qatar of the Danish cartoons:  “None of us are totally free of stereotypes about people of different races, different ethnic groups, and different religions … there was this appalling example in northern Europe, in Denmark … these totally outrageous cartoons against Islam.”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/01/clinton-warns-of-rising-anti-islamic-feeling.html

2006 – February 3: Kurtis Cooper, spokesman for the U.S. State Department, announces: “We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable.”

http://www.redorbit.com/news/politics/379434/us_backs_muslims_in_cartoon_dispute/index.html

2006 – February 7: New York Times states, “The New York Times and much of the rest of the nation’s news media have reported on the cartoons but refrained from showing them. That seems a reasonable choice for news organizations that usually refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols, especially since the cartoons are so easy to describe in words.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/opinion/07tue2.html

2006 – February 17: Two editors of the University of Illinois’ student newspaper, the Daily Illini, are suspended (one is later fired) for reprinting the cartoons

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/bigblogoncampus/archive/2006/02/17/editor-suspended-overcartoons.aspx

2006 – February 17: Italian Minister Roberto Calderoli appears on TV wearing a T-shirt depicting one of the Danish cartoons. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi demands Calderoli’s resignation. Calderoli states, “What happened in Libya has nothing to do with my T-shirt. The question is different. What’s at stake is Western civilisation.” He later quits under protest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/international/europe/19cartoon.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4728188.stm

2006 – February 28: one or more of the cartoons have been printed in at least 143 newspapers in 56 countries.

www.boston.com/news/world/worldly_boston/chronology.doc

2006 – March 7: From November 4, 2005 to March 7, 2006, 28 American periodicals published some or all of the cartoons; 10 of these were university newspapers.

2006 – March: Studi Cattolici publishes a cartoon that pokes fun at Italian politicians who cave in to Muslim pressure. Even though Muhammad does not appear in the cartoon, Italian Muslims profess outrage, and the Catholic organization Opus Dei (one of whose members publishes Studi Cattolici) promptly issues an apology.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/apr/17/pressandpublishing.italy

http://sixthcolumn.blogspot.com/2006/04/new-muhammad-comic-printed.html

http://alemaniasociedad.blogspot.com/2006/04/opus-dei-on-studi-cattolici-cartoon.html

2006 – April 6: Police foil another plot by fundamentalist Muslims to bomb the Cathedral of Bologna, which contains a 15th-c. fresco depicting Muhammad in Hell (see also 2002). Today the public is denied access to the part of the church where the fresco is situated. (See Muhammad: The “Banned” Images, p. 13 and no. 6.)

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/20080641217873

2006 – April 27: Dutch judge rules that Ayaan Hirsi Ali must abandon her home, since neighbors complain that her presence is an unacceptable security risk to them.

http://www.slate.com/id/2141276/

2006 – April 1: Borders and Waldenbooks refuse to stock the April/May 2006 issue of Free Inquiry magazine, because it includes the Danish cartoons: ”For us, the safety and security of our customers and employees is a top priority, and we believe that carrying this issue could challenge that priority,” says a spokeswoman for the Borders Group. Paul Kurtz, editor in chief of Free Inquiry, says, ”To refuse to distribute a publication because of fear of vigilante violence is to undermine freedom of press – so vital for our democracy.”

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E2D71230F932A35757C0A9609C8B63

2006 – September 17: Pope Benedict XVI apologizes to Muslims twice in 2 days for quoting (in a discussion of reason vs. violence) a 14th-c. comment by Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKbMHhuvCE6A&refer=home

(again, this is just a sample, it is a long, long list that continues to grow)

When Squirrels Go Bad (yeah...like THAT'S a stretch!)

As my friends know, I DESPISE squirrels.

Well, as if my feelings towards these nasty little vermin needed any prodding, I stumbled upon a video of a squirrel dropping the false pretense of “cute little acorn eater” and going full-blown, Wild Kingdom carnivore on a blue jay. (Due to the nature of the video and some language therein I won’t post a link, but it isn’t that hard to find the video in question on YouTube.)

Now, before anybody starts yacking about “he was only defending his nest”….nope, that argument doesn’t work. To kill the blue jay as an act of self-preservation is one thing, but the bushy-tailed rat EATS the blue jay! There’s even a follow-up video that shows what was left of the bird when ol’ Squirrelly McNutjob got finished chowing down.

So think about that the next time you’re tossing crackers to a squirrel in the park. He may be nibbling away on that saltine, but the whole time he’s doing that, he’s also scoping you out and thinking, “Mmmm-mmmm….fresh meat!”

Film Cliches & Donnie Darko

Hey Gang,

Hope you had a marvelous Monday (alliteration and all).

I accidentally clicked the Stumble button on my StumbleUpon toolbar (which is one of the most fantastic things available on the grand interweb as well as one of the largest ways to realize four hours has gone by and you’ve accomplished next to nothing) and found this link to common film cliches.

On the topics of films. I just finished rewatching Donnie Darko for the fourth time or so. I finally am able to piece a lot of it together. I read the director’s interpretation on wikipedia (which, by the way, makes me an expert) and finally feel like I can understand a lot of what’s happening.

From the quote that Rotten Tomatoes provided from Richard Kelly one can start to see why certain references might have been made:

“Maybe it’s the story of Holden Caulfield, resurrected in 1988 by the spirit of Phillip K. Dick, who was always spinning yarns about schizophrenia and drug abuse breaking the barriers of space and time. Or it’s a black comedy foreshadowing the impact of the 1988 presidential election, which is really the best way to explain it. But first and foremost, I wanted the film to be a piece of social satire that needs to be experienced and digested several times.”

And experience and digest it several times I have. Most films I do not like to view a second time and it is even more unusual for me to want a watch a film four or five or six times. Donnie Darko is an exception. I thoroughly enjoy this film and believe that it gets better every time you watch it again.

On a side note I feel bound to inform anyone who will listen that the supposed sequel to Donnie Darko (in which visionary author of Donnie Darko, Richard Kelley, had no say or creative input) is a pitiful waste of time. If you’re a die-hard cult fan of Donnie Darko, you’ll rent it anyways, but it’s truly not worth your time.

Back to the topic of cliches. It’s how we deal in film. While some deviation from the normal “cliched” shots is necessary (or maybe isn’t) to keep an audience engaged, without the standard plethora of shots we already understand and can take almost instant meaning to it would be harder to convey certain emotional moments or tensions. We have become so used to situations such as this one from the website:

“Two people will often converse while one stares out the window, with their back to the other. When an emotional point is made, the first person will turn around.”

Many people turn up their noses at cliched scenes and motifs, however with the number of films being created every day (especially with the dawn of new content delivery systems such as YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Vimeo) it becomes more and more difficult, if not impossible, to create unique genuine emotional moments. Let’s face it, if a writer knows they can evoke a certain emotion by using a convention you’ve already been trained to acknowledge, they’re just speaking in your visual language. The only problem becomes then, obviously, if cliches are so pronounced, forced, or strong that they achieve the opposite effect than intended and distract from the immersion of the audience and any possible suspension of disbelief. An overused cliche can be a bit like noticing a boom-mike sneak in to view on the edge of the screen. The fictional world we are convinced is real becomes fake again and our interest drops significantly.

Anyways. Just thoughts of the evening.

Cheers,

-Jack

Sunday, November 15, 2009

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Happy Sunday, everyone!

I don’t know about elsewhere, but it’s a gorgeous day here in NYC! I am astonished because here we are, mid  November, and I was able to wear a short sleeve t-shirt  outside (plus puffy vest that I now live in, that is) without fear that my arm would freeze and break off like an icicle. Last year at this time, I was literally freezing, and I do believe my feet had already frozen a couple times while gallivanting outside. Mother nature, I could kiss you! She’s really redeemed herself for our days and days of gloomy rain.

I had some brunchy goodness this afternoon with my mama at a neighborhood spot. I have been craving some French toast, so that’s exactly what I ordered!

whole wheat french toast!

I hope my pancakes weren’t jealous, but I’ve been wanting some squishy French toast dripping with syrup lately, and this platter totally did the trick. Me and syrup used to be bff, and as a child I would basically eat a pool of syrup accompanied beside some waffles/pancakes/French toast. The syrup to carby bfast food ratio was sort of unreal. I am amazed I didn’t have cavities. I’ve cut back majorly on my syrup usage, but I still love to dunk!

In case you care about my recent protein uppage plan, I’m still trying- this brunch was served with a scrambled egg white (unpictured bc I’m a lazy blogger).. plus some fruit and a LOT of coffee. Holler.

Today was spent doing some grocery shopping, completed with the help of my mama after brunch. I currently have a massive amount of bananas and wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if my roomie starts accusing me of  hiding a family of monkeys under my bed.

these are mutantly-large bananas, too.

Though that could be fun, the truth is that I just tend to go through fruit at the speed of light. Also in my fruit collection of the moment: apples (as seen), blueberries, strawberries, kiwis, 2 bags of grapes (red + a nearly empty bag of green), and a lone pear… Yep, think that’s it. Totally normal, right?

Come summer, my fruit bowl gets a little out of control.

For a snackie today I decided to try a combo I’ve seen often on the blogosphere.

i prob could have sliced the naner more attractively..

A pumpkin butter + peanut butter sammie, with 1/4 of a huge banana on a whole wheat sandwich thin.

After eating it, I’ve got to say for the life of me I can’t figure out what the hype’s been all about. I’m not into the combo of pumpkin butter and pb in sandwich form- it tasted sort of …weird. Alone completely on a toasted sandwich thin has proven to be quality, but mixed with other ingredients its best in a liquidy concoction (read: yogurt mess, oats, etc.), in my opinion.

Alright, I’m off to get ready for din-dn with my darling friend Erica, who I haven’t seen in a flippin’ month! Far too long.. AND I’ll be walking to the restaurant, boooya!

Have a looovely night, ya’ll! xo

Food for thought: Dunkin Hines sells enough frosting to frost the tip of Mount Everest… hmm.

talk of town

APEC of cos.

and here’s something amusing which i got off NYtimes.com.
APEC summit meetings are not known for accomplishing much that is substantive. The most memorable moments often involve the photo opportunities, in which leaders wear colorful matching shirts. And often communiqués issued on dismantling trade barriers are undermined by the attending countries almost as soon as they are signed.

hahahahhahhaa.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

my motivation for applying for jobs is slowly dying now...

I want to look back in year time and see what i have achieved and what i have lost and see how i can develop into better , fulfilled person. So this blog will represent my life as it is.

For those who dont know me! My name is Salma  and I’m in my twenties and still clueless about my life as i was 10 years ago. I have been job hunting for ages now, my motivation for applying for jobs is slowly dying now… I can’t give up i better keep moving on…

Duct tape fashion!

 

I just realized I haven’t been on here in what seems like ages.  I totally apologize for that, and I will try to keep my blog a little more up to date,

One type of fashion I have been seeing more and more of is made from Duct tape. My little sister recently created the coolest belt and pair of clogs out of lime green duct tape. And did you know that they make every color duct tape you can think of now??? It’s totally sweet

Some people have taken this hobby to a whole new level…check it out!

 

 

This lovely alien made from duct tape isn't exactly fashion, but was so creative I couldn't resist putting it up

 

 

These people really have too much time on their hands. It’s not like they are going to continue to wear this stuff, there is no way it can be comfortable!

 

Duct tape kilt....ummm...ok

Hey! It's my knight in shining duct tape!

Ok, here are the last two

 

Wow! That's actually really pretty!

 

 

Fresh Air, Fresh Perspective?

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy

Freedom from school, finally!

And on to having no free time for the next few weeks to come … O_o
This weekend I’m off to a friend’s cottage; he’s having a get-together of a group of friends.  The reason I’m posting about this in this blog and not a more vanilla-based one?  It’s a group of kinky people.  Now I have definitely been associating myself with my kinky friends more often, seeing them every week or two, so I can say I’ve been immersing myself in the kink-culture a lot more as of late.  But this is a weekend away with a group of them, and vanillas need not apply.

I’m not planning to play or anything, but I just find I’m getting comfortable around this group.  I’m coming out of my skin a bit more, being more vocal and less inhibited about what I think or what I’m into.   However I’m slightly nervous that people might decide to play, and the fact that I am not a voyeur will possibly work against me in this case.  Enter discomfort and awkwardness, especially since my usual support system will not be there.

Bah, I shouldn’t be worrying about these things, I should just relax and go with the flow.  Within reason, ahem.

On a similar vein, I’ll likely be going to my first play party next month. *little excited bounce*  The same friend who invited me to his cottage is going to be celebrating his birthday and the post-dinner locale is a fet-night.  It is a slight squee-worthy thing for me because, though I have been to play parties and fet nights before, it’s the first one in which I’m actually somewhat excited.  Again, not to play, but it gives me an excuse to dress up and wear my pretty pretty corset.

One thing  about the situation that I’m on the fence about — inviting a friend.  As I mentioned in a prior post my random co-worker might actually not be so vanilla.  A part of me considers inviting him to (a) introduce him to the local scene, (b) have a security blanket of sorts, and (c) have someone to drive me so I don’t have to.  But on the other hand, I don’t want to invite him because I don’t want to mislead him into thinking this is something I want to explore with him.  Also watching him hook up with one of my friends might be a little .. weird.  Over the last few weeks I’ve re-thought the ‘friends with benefits’ situation and I don’t know if it’s something I really want.  I’m not sure what page he’s on, but that’s how I feel.  I know I need to talk to him about it, but since we haven’t hung out since I’ve decided this I figure I can put it off a little longer … but yeah.  So it makes me a little more comfortable with the idea of inviting him along,  but introduces the possibility of misleading him.  Conundrum.

 

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Aww!

There’s always something that makes you go aww even if you’re not that kind of person:

HEY JUDE!
Come on, the kid is holding a guitar bigger than him
Aw rating: 6
video credit: virvid

What is it about small fluffy animals and youtube?
Aw rating: 7
video credit:N3OS3R

More Cool (and yummy) than Cute. Mine look NOTHING like these -_-”
Aw Rating: 4.5
video credit: mariahee

She’s right: The Best Laugh.
Aw rating: 8
video credit:gkandel

Youtubes definition of cute: Kittens/cats, babies, small fluffy animals (rabbits, puppies) and japanese things.

Not cute but I came across it and found it really funny:

video credit:schmoyoho

Atlanta-area mayor to sell personal land for mosque - shrine to Islamic warrior?

The mayor of Lilburn, Georgia, a suburb 20-some miles outside of Atlanta, owns most of the land that area Muslims want to buy to build a new mosque – that will be a replica of a shrine to a Muslim holy warrior in Iraq (where more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed).

Is it a coincidence they chose land owned by the mayor, and will she be pressured into selling it, during one of the worst real estate markets in U.S. history, for a mosque?

By Shane Blatt in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, excerpts via ajc.com:

Lorraine Lobos bought her Lilburn house in 2003 for the idyllic charm and tranquility.

“Our house is behind 4 acres of land with beautiful trees,” said the 36-year-old homeowner in the St. Albans subdivision. “You see birds. You see Bambis. It’s so beautiful.”

That beauty will be destroyed, Lobos said, if the city approves plans for a 20,000-square-foot mosque, gymnasium and cemetery on about 8 acres of land — some of which is currently owned by Mayor Diana Preston — at U.S. 29 and Hood Road.

Residents say the mosque is simply out of place. They say it would pose parking, traffic, drainage and noise problems, and disturb the community’s small-town way of life. And then there’s the issue of the cemetery.

“We might be having barbecues in our backyards, and they might have a funeral going on,” said Ilene Garry, a 14-year homeowner. “It’s just the wrong space.”

But Wasi Zaidi, a founding member of the 11-year-old congregation, said the group has outgrown its two 2,000-square-foot buildings on the same property. It needs the additional space to accommodate Lilburn’s growing Muslim community and the 90 families who worship there.

Traffic and noise would be minimal, Zaidi said. The main services are Friday night, and the mosque would front U.S. 29 — away from residences — he stressed.

Besides, he added, the two-story mosque — a replica of a shrine of the Islamic hero Hazrat Abbas in Karbala, Iraq — would help beautify the city and is smaller than the 27,000-square-foot Hindu temple less than a mile down the road. As for the cemetery, passers-by wouldn’t be able to see it from the road, he said.

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Doug Dillard, the attorney for the congregation, said the proposal is not inconsistent with other churches in the area, most of which back up to residential areas. He said if city leaders reject the plans, “our recommendation would be to file a lawsuit, challenge it as arbitrary, capricious and unconstitutional.”

The congregation owns 1.4 acres of land and is looking to buy an additional 6.5 acres. Preston, the mayor, owns four of those acres. To avoid a conflict of interest, Preston will not attend the City Council meeting or vote in the event of a tie.

Just a couple of things jump out, based on the cultural, stealth jihad waged by other Muslims in the U.S.

1. Barbecues near the mosque? Everyone knows that pork and alcohol are BBQ favorites, and pork and alcohol are forbidden in Islam. How long before a fatwa is issued banning such activities near the mosque as we’ve seen elsewhere?

2. Once again, zoning laws have to be changed for a mosque to be built in a residential area.

3. Once again, if the Muslims don’t get their zoning change, land and mosque, the litigation jihad will be waged against the infidels – with the help of an infidel. That large numbers of area residents are opposed is not even a consideration (see Saudi Islamic Academy).

4. The mosque will be a shrine to a Muslim holy warrior who fought for the cause of Islam according to islamicoccasions.com:

The Life of Hazrat Abbas is an example of unflinching loyalty and love for a brother. It is also the story of a warrior who sacrificed his life for the cause of Islam, which, according to Hazrat Abbas, was a just cause.

The towering form of Abbas and his fame as a warrior throughout Arabia, had created much tenor amongst the enemy. When this ‘Dauntless Lion’ made his appearance on the field, the enemy tried its best to prevent him from reaching the river.

Magical man! Ohh magical man! ROFL!

I wish for a magical man to come into my life that can make me ____. If I’m really lucky he’ll be able to help me market my business and book too. Or maybe he’ll just be rich enuff to buy me an entire marketing team. LOL Ugh,.. all’s I know is,.. I’m new to social networking and using it as a marketing tool is key to success, but it’s sooo challenging for me to grasp. Blah blah,.. Anyways,.. If the magical man was hot enuff then we could just take my mind off of my stuff and do some other stuff

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

why i love birthdays...

Excitement would have to be the word. 

This month is my favorite month… cliche as it may seem, because it happens to be my birthday month.  I have always enjoyed birthdays and have looked forward to them.  whether it be mine or someone else’s, i find there is no better day.. then a birthday.  Waking up and feeling like it’s YOUR day… to spend the way YOU want!  On that day, everyone takes a momment to to keep you in their thoughts.  Thoughts that would otherwise be preoccupied with some other more important thing.  You have an excuse to go out and eat cake, or other sugary caloric items.  You pamper yourself and take care to make sure you look and feel your VERY BEST.    

There is no better day then a birthday.  I truely believe this.  So Why cant everyday be my birthday?  Ok maybe the cake and extra food would be overkill… but the other side of things.   what about that??

  • The waking up and feeling like it’s YOUR day?
  • Going about life the way YOU want to?
  • Having people that want the best for you? 

Why must it only be on birthdays that we feel so great about ourselves?? I want this for my DAILY life. I think thats the biggest realization I’ve had in the past few days. 

Since my birthday is so close, I think it will be fitting if I make a resolution: This next year… I am going to focus on being the best me.  I am going to make strides in feeling good about myself because enough time has been wasted feeling the opposite.  Enough time has been lost waiting for my birthday to feel special.  I know that I have a lot of good things to give and I have to stop short-changing myself and give myself some credit here.  I deserve that…

Relationships, Trust & the Internet

I decided to write this one because one of my friends is dealing with a guy who apparently she is feeling and they are trying to work on getting thing together. I kind of understood both sides but I was just wondering if it was too soon.
The situation:

My friend reunites with this guy she knew from way back when. To kind of sum things up they end up wanting to be together which is all fine and dandy. But I see a lot of red flags on both sides, but if she’s happy then I’m cool.

Apparently, the guy got his heart broken so he has trust issues. She says when anyone calls her, he wonders who it is. If it’s one of us, he says she talks to us too much. Mind you we barely hear from her when he’s around. Only, one of us has met him. Not me (Red Flag), because I think she knows I’d be on my P’s and Q’s to make sure she was being treated right.

But at any rate, they were talking about them furthering their relationship and getting on the path of being together and the internet came up. He called her an “Internet Whore”. He said if he’s going to “wife a chic, he doesn’t want her on the internet”. He also went on to say how she had a lot of males on her facebook and she didn’t need her co-worker as friends either.

As she’s telling me this, I’m like what the hell? I mean I understand how sometimes the internet and some site can get you in trouble. But I think it depends on the person and the level of trust. I have been in a committed relationship and still had a facebook and myspace page. Plus, he had a facebook page and wasn’t offering to delete his.

For what I was hearing he was asking her to do all of this and only after that would he decide to continuing trying to further their relationship and deciding whether she was in fact “Wifey Material”. That just didn’t sit well with me. She asked my advice and I told her “If you’re going to delete all your pages do it because you want to… not because he wants you to and how do you know it won’t be something else down the line?” I didn’t want to sound like I was hating, I have just seen her sacrifice so much for a man and the man is unwilling to do the same for her.

My question: What would you do if someone you we talking to and trying to building something with asked you to erase your internet ties and they will then decided whether you are the one for them? Have you ever asked someone to cut their internet ties? If yes, then please explain why?

**It’s not that I have a problem with it…but every situation is different. **

They Always Say Time Changes Things

I find myself daydreaming far too often. I could simply sit for hours and let my thoughts wander. I think about the future, I think about the present, but more often than not I think about the past.

I like to present myself as an individual who doesn’t dwell on the past or think too much on how different things could be, but my behaviors exhibit the antithesis to that disguise.

Today, on my drive home from school, I began thinking about all the things that have changed in such a short time. Some things have, of course, been for the best. For instance, I graduated high school and moved on to college. I am in my second year now and am well on my way to acheiving my academic goals. That is a great feeling. There are others things though that kind of make me sad. Mostly the way some of my relatioships have changed. There are certain in particular that I just miss so much! I want to give them a big hug and sit and talk for hours catching up on all that has happened since the last time we spoke. It saddens me that I probably will never get that opportunity. It also saddens me that these people will never know any of this.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Pulling the bits and pieces together...

I’m embarking on a little experiment. I, like many of you, have been feeling really fragmented lately – pulled in too many different directions, and wondering at the end of each day, “Where did the hours go?”.

There are lots of things I love to do, and I’ve been indulging in many of them over the past few days: long walks in the woods with my dog, writing, cooking yummy things from scratch, having friends and family over for dinner.

And then there are the days that just feel eaten up by little technological moments, like the hour I spent dinking around on facebook last night before bed. This had the dual purpose of wasting an hour of my time AND firing up my neural synapses so my dreams were weird and disjointed. Not good.

I also spend a lot of time swapping voice mail messages with people rather than actually talking to them. So our relationships become tiny sound bites instead of connections of substance. That feels pretty poopy, too.

And the last thing is, I’m feeling the need to get back in touch with my grounding – I’ve been looking to others a lot lately for advice, and it’s time to turn inside to the wise critter that is me. I read this quote by Eve Ensler and it just grabbed me:

“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars… Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.”

I need to do more of those things, at least in the metaphysical sense.

So here’s what I’m doing: for the rest of the year, I’m going on a technology diet. What this means for me:
* I’m ditching facebook until 2010.
* I’m cutting back on my social phone calls (friends of mine, stop snorting. I know I’ve never been a phone person, but you get my drift).
* I’m cutting back on TV (one hour per day max)
* No more random googling of ex-boyfriends, myself, or questions best answered by god/goddess/universal truth (such as “why am I here?”. I have googled that. You have too, admit it. )

So if I’m dieting, that implies hunger. To fill me up:
* 1000 words of writing every day.
* 10 minutes (minimum) of meditation every day.
* Walking and/or showshoeing daily, weather dependent.
* Home-cooked meals. Hot things, not just breakfast cereal.
* A retreat over Thanksgiving to the hermitage.

This is the plan. I’m announcing it here because I know you’ll hold me to it, and mock me shamelessly if you find me on facebook killing hours.

I don’t want to kill any more time. I want to live it, inhabit it.

 

NFL Predictions: Week 9

Okay, so last week was probably the worst I have ever done with predictions, but THIS WEEK will be good.  Upsets are in BOLD. Haha!!

BALTIMORE over CINCI by 10 INDIANAPOLIS over HOUSTON by 3 SEATTLE over DETROIT by 7 JACKSONVILLE over KANSAS CITY by 6 MIAMI over NEW ENGLAND by 3 GREEN BAY over TAMPA BAY by 18 NEW ORLEANS over CAROLINA by 15 SAN DIEGO over NEW YORK GIANTS by 6 SF over TEN by 11 DALLAS over PHILLY by 4 DENVER over PITTSBURGH by 3 in OT CHI over ARI by 3 ATL over WAS by 13

the simple pleasure of being able to see someone's toes

I want you here to speak quietly to me, and to watch foreign films that we cannot understand because our eyes are not on the subtitles. I do not think that it is too much to ask for, simplicity, perhaps happiness. Just because I so miss your arms, I do not want you to come half-heartedly back.
It’s beginning to really feel like fall here in Brooklyn, the smell of rusty, fallen leaves breaking down consumes the air, fills this room through the cracked window. You’re missing autumn, I wonder if that has occurred to you yet. It doesn’t bother you enough to make you come running here, to wrap me up and dim the lights (not that I blame you, I’m just giving you a hard time). I’d love to grab your hand and shout “Let’s go! Let’s go!” Or maybe not, and just hold onto you for a little while. it is so easy to miss feeling you. I hate the way the feelings, the memories of them, fade the longer that you’re gone. I wonder when I will see you again, wonder how I’ll keep myself quietly in line when I do. Maybe I’ll surprise you, could I?

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Not a fan of morning practice

Everything seems harder, the jumps, the spins, and the Falls… I only have early practice one day a week so my body is just not use to it. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

The last couple of days have been very productive, getting lots of school work done, so I have not had much time for blogging…

I think I’m gonna let the pictures do the talking today!

The pictures are a collection from the past couple days

Breakfast sand with some grapes that have seen better days…

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love this tea! and yes I use my xmas mugs all year-round

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love pb and pumpkin butter combo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m gonna be so sad when these are all gone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got these from my last Costco trip, so far I like them! I need to have strong skating bones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A packed lunch for school, btw I would not recommend this brand of soy yogurt, I got it on sale to try it and it’s pretty nasty…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yummy pumpkin oats with raisins & sunflower seeds and some java!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Getting my veggie and hummus fix!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baked acorn squash with maybe a little too much butter and cinnamon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Todays breakfast skating fuel! I had never had this before, and it was very yummy and kept me full for a long time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But when I came home I was in need of some lunch asap!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soy vanilla yogurt, cinnamon cereal and blackberries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay okay, I’m gonna stop now since I do have things to do, plus I really wanna “bake” some raw cookies today

later gator! have a great saturday!

long live the King.


This Is It was the bomb. seriously. I LOVE IT. this is an MJ post. (:

My life will never be the same, ’cause girl, you came and changed the way I walk, the way I talk. I cannot explain the things I feel for you, but girl, you know it’s true, stay with me, fulfill my dreams and I’ll be all you’ll need. You rocked my world, you know you did, and everything I own I give (you rocked my world), the rarest love, who’d think I’d find, someone like you to call mine (you rocked my world).

You rocked my world, you know you did, Michael Jackson.

Ten reasons to suck it up and write a post anyway

1. At least the computer works.

2. You should find time for the things you love.

3. You can always reset your password.

4. If you wait around to be motivated then you never will be. You motivate yourself. Motivation does not usually magically descend upon you.

5. You can write about anything. What you are thinking, something that happened, something you know, or even something you don’t know. There is always something to write about.

6. Writing is one of the best outlets for questions. If it sounds a little incoherent, just call it art and pretend everyone else is too shallow to understand it.

7. Sit down, stop finding distractions, and quick making excuses.

8. Writing can be like a vacation.

9. You should write tomorrow. And today. Because you can only write while in the present, so do it now.

10. If you are writing for other people you will rarely be satisfied with the actually writing. Write for yourself and write often, eventually you will write something you are satisfied with. And then you will write even more.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Tales of an Angry Fatty

I’m not much for emotion.

That might sound a bit terse, but it is accurate.

I can probably count the number of times I’ve cried on one hand—maybe two hands if we’re counting times I got hit in the stones—and I really don’t go the other direction and get ragingly angry all that often either.

Does this mean I’m a bubbling cauldron waiting to explode in a multi-state killing spree that leaves dozens of innocent people dead in my wake?

Maybe, anything is possible, I guess.

For the most part, I think it just means that I’ve learned how to deal with my anger and/or sadness in other ways.

Today we’re going to focus on my anger-management skills.

You see, Faithful Readers, there was a time back in my youth when I didn’t have any anger-management skills.

When I got mad, I turned into a punk-ass little beeyotch.

I’d throw things, I’d break things, I’d curse, I’d scream, I’d beat the ever-living dog-piss out of my little brother (we’re all good now) and when I was done with all that the anger was gone.

As I got older—and received a plethora of well-deserved ass-kickings—I learned that there were probably better ways to deal with my anger. So I quit breaking things and quit beating the crap out of my brother and moved on to many other things.

There was running, baseball practice, writing, sleeping (an odd reaction if ever there was one), running again, baseball practice again (I thought I had a mighty fine fastball at one point), running yet again and eventually when I got to college drinking.

Drinking probably wasn’t the best option, because when you’re full of rage, half-a-dozen Bud tall boys ain’t going to do anything to calm you down.

So after a short period of drunken, ill-advised decisions to punch holes in things (NEVER a wise move)…I replaced that with my current anger suppressant – eating.

Well, eating meat, to be more specific.

When I’m all pissed off about something there is nothing more likely to calm me down than a perfectly cooked (read: medium) bacon cheeseburger with all the fixins.

Today for instance, I had an insatiable urge to bludgeon a co-worker to death with a crowbar before dragging his/her bloody remains over to the Charles River, where I would then give him/her a proper Viking funeral by using one of the MIT sailing club dinghies and a few homemade Molotov Cocktails courtesy of the fine folks at The Muddy Charles Pub.

Instead I huffed and puffed a few times and wandered over to Fresco’s and snagged myself one of the aforementioned rage-sapping bacon cheeseburgers.

To make things even better they gave me a free side of coleslaw—which I can only assume was rapidly approaching an expiration date—and the fine musical-stylings of Journey came blaring over the radio.

By the time I left Fresco’s, I was out of rage and full of meat. As such, said co-worker survived the day and most-likely he/she will survive for many more days.

Clearly my “eating to devour rage” game plan is working and working well.

My only worry is that if things like this keep happening, I’m going to be one very angry fatty!