Christmas is in a week!!!

"For God so loved the world,
that He gave us His only begotten Son
that whosoever believeth in Him
shall not perish, but have everlasting life."
- John 3 vs 16

I've been so busy getting excited about the holidays...getting things ready... that I totally forgot the reason for the season. The above verse explains it all!

I'm so in love with Jesus!!!

Constant State of Going Nowhere - (Panic Attack)

I wrote this a few years back
... and yes, it's random. Sue me!...or enjoy :)

A whirlwind surrounds me
I stand still, but time moves on
A million and one thoughts running through my mind
Hold me down, keeping me here
A frustrated state of mind
An angry place to be
But still, it becomes me

In a constant state of going nowhere
A whirlwind surrounds me
But I stand still
Longing to stand tall
Longing to break free
Free from these four walls
Feeling closed in...I find it hard to breathe

So many voices telling me what to do
My chest feels locked in
The breaths are quick and short
I'm holding on

Perspiring

In a constant state of going nowhere

Quick thoughts; Sweet thoughts -

Love, Family, Chocolate
A first kiss, A first date
The sunrise
My baby's eyes
A warm embrace
A gentle touch
The simplicity of it all

That smile...makes it all worthwhile

Breathe easy

Live.

Psst...

*note to self: it's almost over!*

xoxo ;)

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I need you now!

This image clearly expresses how I feel these days... in need of something deeper, greater, meaningful... life with meaning! I don't want to waste a second of another day doing things that don't matter. Life gets so busy - there's so much noise out there. There are mundane routines and expectations.... just a whole lotta noise!...Much ado about nothing :p

My greatest fear used to be that I'd leave this world without meaning something to people - without leaving an impact on people's lives. Now, I don't want to leave just any kind of impact, I want to be a blessing - just as I've been blessed...but then I forget "me" every once in a while. Aaah well!

Here are some of the lyrics to the song "I need you now" by Smokie Norful :

"Not another second

Or another minute
Not another hour of another day
But Lord I need you right away

If I never needed you before
To show up and restore
All of the things that I let slip
While I was yet searching the world for more

The true best friend I have indeed
You're my best friend; I know indeed
I stretch my hands to thee
Come rescue me
I need you right away!

The agony of being alone
The fear of doing things on my own
The test and trials that come to make me strong
The feelings of guilt, hurt, shame, and defeat
The way the trials that beat upon me
But to know Lord - that in you I've got victory "

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this is my life...

...for the next month (and some) especially. My candidacy exam is finally scheduled. One would think that with the amount of anticipation I've had, I'd be ready for the exam but - au contraire!
And i'm going home for christmas so I need to get as much done as possible before I leave.

*scream*

Hellllpppppp!!!!!

Okay, off to make myself useful!

xoxo ;)

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:)

Just saw this image on a friend's blog and fell in love with it. Hehe! A woman after my own heart.

Bump the hammock... pass me a cig ;)

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Mmmmm....

Oh, what I wouldn't give to be in that hammock right ...about ...now!


xoxo

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*Sigh*

Nope.
*dusts off Bible*
In search of answers!

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Defying Mediocrity

Never settle for less!

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Dreamer...

"You can only wake up once from a dream."
- Unknown

image: The Romantic Dreamer, William Edward Milner (Victorian Painter) via JimiAndEllen

Have you ever...?

Have you ever fed a lover with just your hands?
Close your eyes and trust it, just trust it...
Have you ever thrown a fistful of glitter in the air?
Have you ever looked fear in the face
And said i just don't care?

It's only half past the point of no return
The tip of the iceberg
The sun before the burn
The thunder before the lightning
The breathe before the phrase
Have you ever felt this way?

It’s only half past the point of oblivion
The hourglass on the table
The walk before the run
The breathe before the kiss
And the fear before the phrase
Have you ever felt this way?

- P!nk, Glitter in the Air

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Wow...

I remember when I used to think this was money. Wow! *smh*

I AM MUSIC!

Ah, another blog post dedicated to music.

I love music! I wish I could play an instrument but it seems all I've got - for now - is my voice. There's something very freeing about music. I kind of get lost in my own world when I have my headphones on and i'm listening to random tracks on my ipod. Quite loudly too! I think music is the one thing I've always been in love with - we've always had the simplest of relationships :)

It's funny - whenever i'm thinking through my day or random life situations, it's like I have an on-going soundtrack. There's always a song in the very back of my mind. LoL! Yea, I agree - I'm weird...but I love it! The song lyrics don't always have to do with my current state of mind but the tone of each song - the instrumentals perhaps - reflect my state of mind... most times. So the songs that would skip on my ipod - if it was possible for mp3s to skip - would be (in no particular order) :

1) P!nk - I Don't Believe You
2) Jay-Z, TI, Kanye & Weezy - Swagga Like Us
3) Kanye - Love Lockdown
4) Santogold - You'll Find A Way
5) Santogold - Shove It
6) Dbanj - Fall In Love
7) Robin Thicke - Everything I Can't Have
8) Roots - You Got Me
9) P!nk - Glitter In The Air
10) Paul McCartney - This Never Happened Before

... I'm sure I could add some more to that list but I guess that's my top ten for November. I'm sure there'll be more to add soonest...can't wait!

I don't quite get myself these days BUT I have peace of mind. Go Figure!

Until next post... it's over and out!

xoxo

I AM MUSIC!

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Last Sunday...

It's Sunday...the end of the week and coincidentally, the end of November! This was supposed to be my month of "getting shit done" but alas, it's over...and i feel super-unaccomplished. Not good! The month just passed me by and I have NO CLUE where it went! It's the last day of the week, and the last day of the month and typically, I'd want to laze about and do absolutely nothing after Church...but I feel like I need to hide in a corner with books and things and just achieve eeevery last thing I was supposed to take care of all month. Arrgh!

Ok, let's see.... what went wrong where?!
1.) Now, I was supposed to have taken my Candidacy exam by the end of this month (i.e the schedule I had in my mind) but alas, I didn't get the list of people on my Committee (dude's that determine if i'm out/in after the exam) until this past week, and it's already three weeks to the end of the semester. Apparently, I need to give 'em a month's notice...meaning the exam is now - yes, you guessed right - next semester!!! So i'm gonna go home and plaaay for Christmas break and take my exam as soon as i get back! How bloody Charming!

2.) Research - that's actually going OKAY at the moment. I just got kinda lazy in the past week but i'm gonna bury myself in work for the next few weeks left in this semester. Let it not be said that I wasted a whole semester playing with Matlab. *blank stare*

3.) Life - life is good! At least I think so...and that's all that really counts :)

You see that picture up there... I feel like that's how life should be at all times.

Happy Sunday! Here's to a great month ahead!!!

xoxo

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It's Turkey Day!

I'm thankful for my life...for every single day...for every moment... for my loved ones... and for every second/third/fourth...billionth chance God has given me in life. I'm thankful for every dissapointment turned blessing! I'm thankful for every blessing I never knew I needed or even had. I'm thankful for every great thing that's yet to come.


Happy Turkey Day Y'all!!!


xoxo ;)

:)

I love Droopy D. Lol!

This is what a PhD does y'all! Run!!!!

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" I am nobody...

Nobody is Perfect...

Therefore, I must be perfect!"

-Unknown

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Just because...

It's nice to pretend that I'm multilingual every once in a while... saying words I don't really understand in other languages...just 'cause! Today, I decided to look up "I love you" in other languages. Here are the ones i think sound sweet:

Hausa: Ina sonki
Albanian: Te dua
Spanish: Te amo
Italian: Ti amo
Portuguese: Eu te amo
Tagalog: Mahal kita
Persian: Tora dost daram
Kiswahili: Nakupenda
French: Je t'aime

I think they all roll off the tongue rather nicely...even if you don't have the accent full down...

Now, there are some languages that "I love you" sounds/reads rather harshly... for example:

Hungarian: Szeretlek te'ged
German: Ich liebe Dich
Bavarian: I mog di narrisch gern
Welsh: 'Rwy'n dy garu di

Ouuuch!

Don't mind me though.... I guess when you're hearing those words from the right person, they sound great however it is that they're said. But, if you're saying those words and you're not quiiiite sure just yet about the other person, stick to English or one of the kinder languages!

xoxo ;)

Here's what I've been up to....

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It's November Already?!?!

Doing my happy dance :)

I think this picture pretty much sums up what most of my semester's been like...aside from the random moments where i'm pulling my hair out because my research isn't quite working out...

It's been a good day... good week... I guess i've come to the realization that there are things I can't really change, but there are ways to make "difficult" situations much more bearable...

step 1: pray!... follow prayer clues for step 2 ;)

October was a FABULOUS month... but November's reared its head and now I must return to the life of a Real PhD Student!!

I STILL can't believe it's November already!!!

Wow... He Baracked the US!

Congratulations to Senator (soon to be sworn in President) Obama! I guess he really is Superman!

Niiiceee.....!

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lady sings the blues...but dares to hope ;)

I'm a punk...i come to realize this every once in a while. I've got the blues... So, i sit here with my hot cup of tea, smoking an imaginary cigarette and thinking through my life as Pearl Bailey sings Bluegrass on the radio...but, I digress...

Earlier today, I walked past Obama's book - The Audacity of Hope - and i thought to myself ~ what a brilliant title! To have real hope requires a certain measure of gutts (audacity, if you may). Hope defies logic and looks past the imaginary lines drawn for us by ourselves and our surroundings. To hope, is to be unreasonable sometimes...almost seemingly insane in some situations. But hope is only the beginning... you don't hope and wait....you hope and ACT accordingly towards your dream. Nothing's really impossible - some things are foolish though...so to hope foolishly never really got anyone anywhere (Or maybe it did...i'll have to get back to you with stats on that :p )

Ok, I guess i'll revise what i said and go with this - most things aren't impossible, they're just difficult ~ or seemingly difficult, whilst you're going through 'em. Without hope...without a dream, you never really move past the difficulties/obstacles that are placed in your path. These obstacles test your dreams and your determination to achieve 'em. Without hope, life is mundane and monotonous and you lose your true self to the person you're told you are.

Live, love life, dare to hope, dare to dream... life's too short to live any differently...

Chooo Choooo....

I lost my train of thought!...It's been missing for a while now :(

if you find it, by any chance at all, please let me know.

Signed,

Owner.

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Psalm 121

Lord, I will lift my eyes to the hills
Knowing my help is coming from you
Your peace you give me, in time of the storm
You are the source of my strength
You are the strength of my life
I lift my hands in total praise to you!


Yes, it's the concise (song by Richard Smallwood) version but it's been in my head all day. My brain feels like mush...my research work is suffering from mushed-brain syndrome with side-effects of laziness, zero-motivation and overall "blaa-ness." I'm praying for some direction in life...you know, once again, the big golden arrow showing me exactly where to go and what to do and HOW to do it all. Until then, I believe and I recieve all that's been promised. amin!

I'm a Libra ?!?

So, I'm really not into zodiac signs and bla bla... but in my usual style of procrastination, I decided to look up the personality traits of a Libra woman from all sorts of random websites and here's what the consensus was:

- only sign not represented by a human or animal...makes a libra naturally unique
- The sign (scales) represents a libra's need to be fair and balanced in everything in a detached way
- slight perfectionist
- has good observation and perception skills
- narcisstic
- desires popularity
- loves art and beauty
- loves intellectual conversations
- hates being rushed, or making pressured decisions
- loves mingling
- has a natural ability to make relationships work
- though self-sufficient, is not happy alone
- thinks like a man, but reasons like a woman
- freedom-loving

Although some of these (good and bad) are true...I find it very hard to agree with a chunk of 'em. But I guess that's what the general idea is about the libra. Aaah well, thank God my stars don't determine everything about me :)

Ok, i'm getting back to work. Gosh!


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I wrote a good omelet...

I wrote a good omelet...and ate a hot poem...
after loving you...

Buttoned my car...and drove my coat home...
in the rain...
after loving you...

I goed on red...and stopped on green...
floating somewhere in between...
being here and there...
after loving you...

I rolled my bed...turned down my hair...
slightly confused but... i don't care...

Laid out my teeth...and gargled my gown...
then i stood...and laid me down...
to sleep...
after loving you

- Nikki Giovani

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or

reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,

and all that is left is a compromise."

-Robert Fritz

The kid in the corner...

There's always that kid in the corner...
that kid that's alone...
that kid that pretends to want to be alone because he's that kid that was never really noticed...

Would you please say hello...
or maybe nod like you even see me...

Would you please make an excuse...
when you don't invite me out with the other kids...

Would you please pretend to care...
when you see me bent over, red-eyed, holding back tears

You might not care for me, but sometimes it's okay to pretend to...
I dress in grey, hoping i'll blend into the walls, giving you reason to not notice me...

Then i can say "Ah, my colors didn't stand out - that's why I'm so invisible"

La vita e bella!

I'll admit... it's been a while! At first, I wasn't updating my blog because I was busy being a student... and then I had nothing to write about....and then I had too much to write about (and started writing but never finished any actual post)...and then I went on a mini-holiday ...and now, I'M BACK ;)

My birthday was last week...yaaay! Went to St. Helier with my family and I had the most AMAZING time. I'm not sure it had a lot to do with the place - I know it had a whole lot to do with the people. I was surrounded by so much love that I wanted to cry every other second... lol... and i'm sooooo not that person! No, really...i'm not! It was just so freaking overwhelming!

So...what next? More of the same, probably! I realize that I'm not much of a party animal, as i'm still recovering from the mild (but endless) partying last week...hehehe! But really, all i've learnt in the last couple of weeks is to try to live life to the fullest...otherwise you get to miss out on sooo much that's out there....and really, you only get one shot at life!

That being said, I've played soooo much that I have a huge amount of research work to get back to *scream* ... like, yesterday....if I want to graduate any second soon! I guess it helps that i'm majorly jet-lagged right now so I'm waking up crazy early....now I just need to actually get work done While I'm awake.

OK, it's over and out for me. I'm off to start my day the proper way.

God bless!

xoxo ;)

Wisdom... part deux

I previously blogged on this topic because it's on my mind every once in a while... and I just came about a clever short film with some of my favorite artists - Wole Soyinka, Robert Redford, Alan Arkin, Judi Dench, etc. - speaking briefly on Wisdom (and life...and love).

Click here for the video.

Enjoy!

"To wish you were someone else

is to waste the person you are"

- Unknown

There are many things
That will keep me loving you...
And with your permission
May I list a few...

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No they can't take that away from me... :))

- Sarah Vaughan

Music

I was just listening to Ella Fitzgerald's Someone to watch over me and I suddenly got a very nostalgic feeling - I miss the days when music was MUSIC. Sometimes I feel like I was born into the wrong generation. Mainstream music like "my lipgloss...is poppin" or "bump and grind" or "Umbrella..ella..ella...eh eh"....is that really all we can come up with these days? Whenever I listen to the radio now it's really more for the comedy of what's out there than actual appreciation for the musical talent (because I find it so hard to find any these days...it's so RARE).

To Music:

You are more than words...
You are strings, you are drums
You are notes on a page
You are an outlet for my rage
You are hums and snaps
And stomps and claps
My soprano, my tenor
My alto and barritone
All fuse and form beautiful sounds
That express emotions so profound
To you Music - and all you have been to me
To you, and all the substance you bring
I'll hold on, only to your best
Until we meet again.

A day without laughter,

is a day wasted.

- Charlie Chaplin

Heart don't fail me now...

So, for whatever reason, I can't seem to get the song "Journey to the Past" from the movie Anastasia to stop singing in my head. In my mind, I'm in a large garden, surrounded by pretty flowers, twisting a bright yellow umbrella, in a pretty sundress, belting out the lyrics to the song...

"Heart don't fail me now

Courage don't desert me

Don't turn back now that we're here...

People always say

Life is full of choices

No one ever mentions fear...

Or how a road can seem so long

Or how the world can seem so vast

Courage see me through

Heart I'm trusting you

On this journey...

To the past"

Soo, I'm not taking no damn journey to the past (Amen) - been there, done that - but I feel like i'm on an interesting journey at the moment. A whole lot of "don't knows" and "maybes" and "perhaps" and "we'll sees" going on with me. Ever wonder if you're defintely where you should be?... It's always great when you cross that line (whatever it might be) but then there's always something else that needs to be done. Once you answer all the hows and stop asking the whys so much, I guess getting ish done isn't so hard. But there are times I gotta ask - WHY?!?! - and I wish I'd get some earth-shattering sign from above and know for sure that I'm exactly where I should be.

Clearly, I'm up working late. Random musings. I'm tired....but... Sleep is for suckaaas!

Don't worry, be happy!

Everyday, I wake up and decide that I'm Happy! That's what makes me who I am - the fact that I decide to be happy. Some might call this a disillusioned way of life - I call it contentment. There's always going to be some thing random that will attempt to take your joy away - illness, breakups, exams, stupid people, bad weather...really, it's just as easy to wake up and stay in a bad mood all day. Lol!

...and happYness always rubs off on the next person (as long as you don't over-do the "perkiness" - then it just gets annoying!)

Have a great weekend people! I'll spend mine running simulations for my project - Oh what fun!

Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall...

Dear Summer,

I can't believe we already had our last day together and we'll have to part ways for many MANY months to come. It's been really nice knowing you. It's one of those times that i'll say "it was good while it lasted" and actually mean it. No, Really!

We travelled together and shared lots of laughs. We got to hang with friends and family...got some work experience, lost (and then gained) some weight. You showed me the beauty of the world again, like it should be seen - with the sun shining most hours of the day. You helped me make important decisions - growing mentally and spiritually. How could I not love you?

Now it's getting to that time - when dresses will be out and sweaters start creeping in. The leaves will begin to dry up and fall 'til all the trees are bare. Short shorts out - long pants and thermals are in. No more outdoor picnics or laying on the grass. No more long walks on the beach or outdoor swimming.

Goodbye Summer... I'll miss you!

Hello Fall!

I believe we've met many times before...but it's never quite-so-great with us. This time around I'm gonna try really hard to embrace the change you bring. It won't matter that I was standing under a tree for some shade today, but instead dead leaves kept falling on my head. It won't matter that you'll force me to wear extra layers of clothing to keep warm and sane - no, I'll embrace it. I'll go out more, travel more, make more friends, pray more, exercise more...I'll pretend it's a new year and start afresh...

Hello Fall! It's me, Polly. I believe we might actually have something good going this time.

L O L

So, I just heard a quote that I think is really funny:

"It's like running into a lion holding a gun. It doesn't look good...but you can't quite tell why."

...and you can't even imagine how accurately it describes the situation that was being discussed at the moment. L O freaking L!

Skip, skip...

...skip to my loo...skip to my loo my darling!

I'm doing my happy dance! A lil' somn like the funky chicken!

yeaaaaaaaaa, maayn!

whatcha know about that?!

Yes, I noticed all the exclamation points too... deal with it! ! ! !

:)))

Bla...

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall." - Confucius

It seems like I'm having one of those days...one of those weeks...one of those years?! Lol! Ok, now i'm reaching! But yea, there's always something that seems to be going not-quite-right but somehow God reminds me he's still in control. That's really about all the comfort I have now.

August is almost over. Wow!

I might have my candidacy exam in a week. Wow!

Ok then... I guess I'm off to study...or sleep...yea, study! Yea...that!

TGIF

"I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking...And I plan on finding out what it is." - Derek Zoolander

...that's kinda how i feel today....really really ridiculously good looking! Lol!

Off to find out what else is out there...TGIF!

I carry your heart with me...

A poem by E. E. Cummings (image via national geographic)

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear;
whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
And you are whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

"If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting

the appetite may sicken and so die...

That strain again - it had a dying fall;

O, it came oer my ear, like the sweet sound

that breathes upon a bank of violets,

Stealing, and giving odour! Enough! No more!

'Tis not so sweet, as it was before..."

William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night (Orsino)

I remember reading "Twelfth Night" for a class... many years ago and absolutely loving it. It was probably the first Shakespeare book i'd ever read. I found it initially confusing w/ the awkward english...but it became highly entertaining once I got used to it. I remember reciting the above scene over and over 'til i knew it by heart (for whatever reason). I guess some part of me wishes people still spoke like that...making a big fuss about any and everything :)

Happy Monday!

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Smile...

My mama always told me that life doesn't get any easier as you get older... you just get accustomed to certain situations and learn how to better deal with them. It's interesting how as a child, you can't wait to grow up and start living your own life and making your own decisions...and then that time comes - you're an "adult" and you're suddenly required to make responsible choices and that freedom you so yearned for just really means "paying your own damn bills"...LOL! I love being grown - most times - but other times i just wanna yell out "mummmyyyyyyy!!!" and have her take care of Everything!

I woke up this morning feeling that way and then amazingly heard a song I absolutely love (Smile, by Nat King Cole) - that kinda made it all better :)

I'll leave you with the words... have a super-duper day!


"Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you...

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile"

Quotes on Prayer

"Pray, and let God worry." -Martin Luther King

"To clasp the hands in prayer, is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world" - Karl Barth

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." -John F. Kennedy

"Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble."- Philip Melanchthen

Lord, teach me to pray...even when I really don't feel like it...even when i'm not sure what i need to say!

Lin vs. Yang : Beijing Olympics

Yang (L), Lin (R)

Nine year old Lin Miaoke, performed "Ode to Motherland" as China's flag was paraded Friday into the Beijing National Stadium...but...wait....it was actually Yang Peiyi singing (7yr old girl), while Lin was lip-syncing. Shhhhhhhhheeeeeeeee....tt!

"The reason was for the national interest," said Chen Qigang, the ceremony's musical director, in a state radio interview. "The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feelings and expression. ...Lin Mioke is excelelent in those aspects."

Just. Wow! *dead* Can't believe they're already f-ing with these kids minds about who's cute and who isn't... Just.Wow!

Lesson here for the kids - be born "cute"...and stay that way, if you plan on making it in Beijing!

photo via bbc.co.uk

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
is just to love and be loved in return."
-Moulin Rouge (2001)

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Bla...

Is it possible to have so much on your mind that you go totally BLANK?! I'd really like to crawl under a huge rock and hide there for a while...if that's okay with everyone? Even better - i'd like to have the power to freeze time. That'd be the coolest thing ever! Just click the freeze/pause button, get everything done that needs to be done, and then click "play" like nothing ever happened. Yea, that's it! I'm on to something here guys...

I've got a case of the Mondays!

"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage you can't practise any other virtue consistently. You can practise any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."- Maya Angelou

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"I dream, therefore I become."
- Cheryl Renee Grossman

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently"

I stole this quote from a friend (JP) and thought - how appropriate! Especially as I've been feeling like s**t for not getting much done all summer.

Elo ni jale?

For those that are not Yoruba, this simply means "what's the final price on this item?" (after a personal discount). So, depending on your hustle, you can get the item for a fifth of the original price mentioned after asking "elo ni jale?"

I was just thinking...wouldn't it be super-cool if you could ask that question in any/every scenario in life? For example take the following:

1. Your professor (or boss if you're out working already) asks you to get some project done before you go on vacay and because you're trying to do the least possible work, you ask - elo ni jale?
2. You're just starting your job and they say you need to go through a 2yr program to start off, before you get any sort of promotion and you ask - elo ni jale?
3. You start a program in school and they say you need certain courses before you can graduate and you ask - elo ni jale?
4. Your doc tells you to take a certain number of pills every couple of hours in order to get better and you ask - elo ni jale?
5. Your husband/wife tells you they want a certain number of kids and you ask - elo ni jale?

...always trying to get as little as possible done! Yes, I'm random and these are my monday morning thoughts!

Have a nice day :)

Live, Love Life, Give Love

"In an effort to avoid situations you might regret, you end up regretting some things that were left undone." - Anonymous

I guess for the most part I've been the "safe" type. I try to do things right most of the time but I recently learned to "let my hair down" every once in a while. Life's too short to be scared of making mistakes all the time. If you never make mistakes, you never get the opportunity to learn from them....And no matter how much you try to avoid making mistakes, you're gonna make 'em anyway :) Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should walk right into something that's a definite no-no...just that it's okay to take a chance on the most random things every once in a while.

I started writing this and was reminded about a song Bette Midler sang in a movie - Beaches

"You've got to give a little, take a little,

And let your poor heart break a little

That's the story of, that's the glory of love...

You've got to laugh a little, cry a little,

Until the clouds roll by a little

That's the story of, that's the glory of love...

You've got to win a little, lose a little,

Yes, and always have the blues a little

That's the story of, that's the glory of love."

I always loved that song... I always loved that movie. Hehe!

Okay, now I'm off to continue with my lazy lazy weekend. Hopefully I'll squeeze in a couple of hours of work.

Is today tomorrow?

That may seem like a silly question but not if you look at it from a two year old's point of view. Apparently, I asked that question when I was about 2. I'd been given an assignment in kindergarten (probably coloring or something along those lines) and was told to bring it back with me 'tomorrow'. Now, the only problem was that I'd heard people randomly refer to this day- tomorrow - but I never really knew when it was. So, every day (i think for about a week), I'd ask my mother - Is today tomorrow? And she'd try to explain that today is today, and tomorrow is tomorrow...but I never really got it!...and so I asked over and over again until she finally said "Yes, today Is tomorrow."


Lol! It's amazing how eager I was for "tomorrow" to come so I could go ahead and turn in my homework (or whatever it was). Now, I feel like there aren't enough hours in a day! Maybe I just sleep too much. Maybe it's all the procrastination. Whatever it is... I can't believe it's already the beginning of August!

Send in the Clowns

LOL! I feel so random. Whenever I'm feeling somewhat down or a family member (or friend) was feeling down, I'd sing

"where are the clowns.... quick, send in the clowns"

...but those were the only 2 lines I knew in the song (by Barbra Streisand). I had no idea it was about lost love and bla bla bla...until I listened to it today. I think it's a rather clever song though - very well written. And yes, I still love Barbra's music! BUT, now I'll have to sing a different song to cheer my people up... like one my mum taught me:

"if your face wants to smile then let it/if a smile u can get then get it/never look down/don't wear a frown/ 'cause everyone will hear about it all around the town..."

...and it's got a happy dance too. Lol!

(peep the lyrics to 'Send in the Clowns' here: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Barbra-Streisand/Send-In-The-Clowns.html)

Wisdom

In life, I guess we all pray for wisdom in the decisions we make daily...but what does it really mean to be wise? Here are some definitions I found:

1. The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight.
2. The sum of learning through the ages; knowledge.
3. The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
4. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

so basically... common sense + knowledge = wisdom ... i guess
...but common sense isn't always so common.. lol!

paradox

"A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must sometimes be cruel in order to be kind. Another form of paradox is a statement that truly is contradictory and yet follows logically from other statements that do not seem open to objection. If someone says, “I am lying,” for example, and we assume that his statement is true, it must be false. The paradox is that the statement “I am lying” is false if it is true."

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