Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Useful Phrases at Work

I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.

I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.

I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.

It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.

Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist

Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental

I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.

I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.

It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.

Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.

No, my powers can only be used for good.

How about never? Is never good for you?

I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me

You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication

I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.

I don't work here. I'm a consultant.

Who me? I just wander from room to room.

My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!

At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.

You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.

I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

ps. thanks freindly neighbourhood copywriter.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

There is no situation so bad that it can't get worse.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Pluck the flower when it has blossomed; don't wait until there are no flowers with only branches to break.

Murphy's Laws on Work

A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants.

Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.

You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.

Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested in, and say nothing about the other.

When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

There will always be beer cans rolling on the floor of your car when the boss asks for a ride home from the office.

Mother said there would be days like this, but she never said there would be so many.

Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back. This is what I'm doing wrong.

Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous."

Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour.

To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing.

Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.

The last person that quit or was fired will be the one held responsible for everything that goes wrong - until the next person quits or is fired.

There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but there is always enough time to do it over.

The more pretentious a corporate name, the smaller the organization. (For instance, The Murphy Center for Codification of Human and Organizational Law, contrasted to IBM, GM, AT&T ...).

If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.

You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.

People are always available for work in the past tense.

If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.

When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like.

No one gets sick on Wednesdays.


The longer the title, the less important the job.

Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.

An "acceptable" level of employment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.


ps. thanks friendly neighbourhood copywriter.

Friday, November 17, 2006

Leo Burnett

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Leo Burnett

“Somewhere along the line, after I’m finally off the premises, you -- or your successors -- may want to take my name off the premises, too.
You may want to call yourselves "Twain, Rogers, Sawyer and Finn Inc." ... Or "Ajax Advertising" or something.

That will certainly be okay with me -- if it's good for you....
But let me tell you when I might demand that you take my name off the door.

That will be the day when you spend more time trying to make money and less time making advertising -- our kind of advertising.

When you forget that the sheer fun of ad-making and the lift you get out of it -- the creative climate of the place -- should be as important as money to the very

special breed of writers and artists and business professionals who compose this company of ours and make it tick.

When you lose that restless feeling that nothing you do is ever quite good enough.

When you lose your itch to do the job well for its own sake -- regardless of the client, or the money or the effort it takes.

When you lose your passion for thoroughness ... your hatred of loose ends.

When you stop reaching for the manner, the overtone, the marriage of words and pictures that produces the fresh, the memorable and the believable effect.

When you stop rededicating yourselves every day to the idea that better advertising is what the Leo Burnett Company is all about.

When you are no longer what Thoreau called a "corporation with a conscience" -- which means to me, a corporation of conscientious men and women.

When you begin to compromise your integrity -- which has always been the heart's blood -- the very guts of this agency.

When you stoop to convenient expedience and rationalize yourselves into acts of opportunism -- for the sake of a fast buck.

When you show the slightest sign of crudeness, inappropriateness or smart-aleckness -- and you lose that subtle sense of the fitness of things.

When your main interest becomes a matter of size just to be big -- rather than good, hard, wonderful work.

When your outlook narrows down to the number of windows -- from zero to five -- in the walls of your office.

When you lose your humility and become big-shot weisenheimers... a little too big for your boots.

When the apples come down to being just apples for eating (or for polishing) -- no longer a part of our tone -- our personality.

When you disapprove of something, and start tearing the hell out of the man who did it rather than the work itself.

When you stop building on strong and vital ideas, and start a routine production line.

When you start believing that, in the interest of efficiency, a creative spirit and the urge to create can be delegated and administered, and forget that they can

only be nurtured, stimulated and inspired.

When you start giving lip service to this being a "creative agency" and stop really being one.

Finally, when you lose your respect for the lonely man -- the man at his typewriter or his drawing board or behind his camera or just scribbling notes with one ofour big black pencils -- or working all night on a media plan. When you forget that the lonely man -- and thank God for him -- has made the agency we now havepossible. When you forget he's the man who, because he is reaching harder, sometimes actually gets hold of -- for a moment -- one of those hot, unreachable stars.

THAT, boys and girls, is when I shall insist you take my name off the door.

And by golly, it will be taken off the door.

Even if I have to materialize long enough some night to rub it out myself -- on every one of your floors.

And before I dematerialize again, I will paint out that star-reaching symbol, too.

And burn all the stationery.

And tear up a few ads in passing.

And throw every goddamned apple down the elevator shafts.

You just won't know the place the next morning.

You'll have to find another name.”


Via Cia Advertising

phew!!!

after a long-short break... I am back

Monday, November 06, 2006

Good Deeds Circle

Every day a new message will be posted, which is the good deed for the day. Lets make the world a little better, one good deed at a time.

This is a new blog with my sis.. do visit Good Deeds Circle

Friday, October 20, 2006

Sparkling Diwali!

May the lite of all the lamps in the universe always glow in your heart and brighten your life and every other life connected with yours.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Carpe diem

Leuconoe, don't ask it's forbidden to know what end the gods will give me or you. Don't play with Babylonian fortune-telling either. Better just deal with whatever comes your way. Whether you'll see several more winters or whether the last one upiter gives you is the one even now pelting the rocks on the shore with the waves of the Tyrrhenian sea--be smart,drink your wine. Scale back your long hopes to a short period. Even as we speak,envious time is running away from us. Carpe diem, and trust as little as possible in the future.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

calvin & hobbes rules..

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
- Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons p62

The problem with people is that they don’t look at the big picture. Eventually, we’re each going to die, our species will go extinct, the sun will explode, and the universe will collapse. Existence isn’t only temporary, it’s pointless! We’re all doomed, and worse, nothing matters!
- Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat p125

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
- The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes p99


I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
- The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes p77

The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
- The Days are Just Packed p137

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
- The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes p213

Most people don't sleep well next to a hungry tiger.
- The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes p214

Our class voted Calvin the "Most likely to be seen on the news some day".

The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

Hobbes: Did you ask your Mom if you could jump off the roof?
Calvin: Questions I know the answers to I don't need to ask, right?

Monday, September 25, 2006

Good Riddance

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth it was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

GREEN DAY LYRICS

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Charles Dickens

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

A Tale of Two Cities

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

The Great Gatsby

Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

A Tale of Two Cities

Inferno

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Thursday, August 31, 2006

movie time

Shaken, not stirred.
- James Bond


Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind
- Tea & Sympathy


I'm in love with you.
reply: Snap out of it!
- Moonstruck

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Gregory David Roberts

Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way.
You learn something or you feel something completely new, when you break your heart that way.

If you have to ask the question, you have no right to the the answer.

Source: Shantaram

more Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin: "I'm being educated against my will! My rights are being trampled!"
Hobbes: "Is it a right to remain ignorant?"
Calvin: "I don't know, but I refuse to find out!"

Hobbes: "Did you ask your Mom if you could jump off the roof?"
Calvin: "Questions I know the answers to I don't need to ask, right?"

Calvin
I find it easier to live my life with lowered expectations.
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

Calvin's excuse for why he didn't read his history text as assigned: "The book publisher didn't use the proper print fixative. Needless to say, when I picked up the book, all the letters slid off the pages and fell on the floor in a heap of gibberish."

Hobbes: "Shouldn't you be doing your homework?"
Calvin: "I'm pretty sure the assignment was optional."
Hobbes: "Denial springs eternal."
Calvin: "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept."

Mrs. Wormwood: "CALVIN, PAY ATTENTION! We're studying GEOGRAPHY! Now What state do you live in?"
Calvin: "Denial."

Calvin: "They say that all the world's a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is adlibbing his lines."
Hobbes: "Maybe that's why it's so hard to tell if we're living in a tragedy or a farce."
Calvin: "We need more special effects and dance numbers."

Monday, August 21, 2006

Lizzie McGuire

A budget? I couldn't possibly be on a budget. I'd run out of money.

It's true. I mean, pictures fade, and they get torn, and stuff spills on them, and your haircut looks really dorky, but memories last forever.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The Ride

Everyday is a new journey..
enjoyin the ride..
riding the wave..
unexpected detours makin my day..

Monday, August 14, 2006

Greek Gods and their Roman names

Aphrodite is Venus
Apollon is Apollon
Ares is Mars
Artemis is Diana
Athene, Athena is Minerva
Eros is Cupid
Hades is Pluto
Helios is Apollo
Hermes is Mercury
Odysseus is Ulysses
Poseidon is Neptune
Zeus is Jupiter

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

The problem of going on a world tour, is how would you top it next summers.
I felt sorry that I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet.

Monday, August 07, 2006

Paisley Brad

Where you go through life
So sure of where you’re headin'
And you wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened
‘Cause sometimes when you loss your way it's just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that’s when you find yourself.

source: Find yourself, lyrics.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Pablo Picasso

I paint what I think, not what I see.

Walt Disney

I believe in being an innovator.
(this one goes out to you CC)

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Bill Watterson

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

C&H

If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

Who wouldn't be interested in everything we do?!

My life needs a rewind/erase button.

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.

One of the Kindly Ones

Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending any time. You know where you are with an ending.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Anais Nin

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Charles Schulz

(Linus walks past, dragging his blanket. Snoopy puts a paw on it.)
Linus : Get that paw off my blanket, you stupid dog or be prepared to suffer the consequences! (Snoopy obeys.)
Snoopy: My life is full of unsuffered consequences...

Linus: If you have some problem in your life, do you believe you should try to solve it right away or think about it for awhile?
CB: Oh, think about it, by all means! I believe you should think about it for awhile.
Linus: To give yourself time to do the right thing about the problem?
CB: No, to give it time to go away!


Linus: It's fair weather today Charlie Brown.
CB: So where are all my friends?

Frieda: It's a nice day. If I were a dog, I'd be out chasing rabbits on such a nice day...
Snoopy: If it's such a nice day, why spoil it for the rabbits?

Saturday, July 29, 2006

This is as bad as it can get, but If I were you I would not bet on it.
You cannot tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
If you lend someone twenty dollars and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
I can't tell you to go to hell, I know you live there.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Terminator

I'll be back.
A star is born everyday.

Oscar Wilde

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not
getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
(Lady Windermere's Fan)

Oscar Wilde

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Don't miss the woods for the trees.

Sly Stone

Different strokes for different folks

Friday, July 21, 2006

Goldman

Angels don't come when you call them. They come when you need them.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Gone with the wind

Scarlett O'Hara

Well I guess I've done murder. Well I won't think about this now. I'll think about it tomorrow.

Another dance and my reputation will be gone forever.*


Rhett Butler

With enough courage you can do without a reputation.*

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole but is terribly terribly sorry he's going to jail.

You helpless? Heaven help the Yankees if they catch you.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.


*in conversation.

Margaret Mitchell, 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.

All About Eve

Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

Star Wars

May the Force be with You.

Sudden Impact

Go ahead, make my day.

The Godfather

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Vivien Leigh

After all... tomorrow is another day.

Rhett Butler

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Gone with the wind.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Samuel Johnson

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Salvador Dali

I will be so brief I have already finished.
(entire speech)

Rik Mayall

I told you a million times, don't exaggerate.

(lol)

Mel Brooks

There's a perfectly good explanation for this, which I'll make up later.

Winston Churchill

A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

Friday, July 14, 2006

Quit, when you are ahead.
Sometimes it's important to give of yourself even when you don't feel like it.

Oscar Wilde

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
Learn what not to say.

Be willing to give someone a seond chance.
At the same time don't forget, If u cheat me once, shame on you, cheat on me twice shame on me.

Know where the line is drawn and never cross it.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Stop stealing my thoughts before i think them!
The ancients stole my thoughts.
Still waters run deep.

Nike

You don't win silver, you lose gold.

Yogi Berra

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

I never said most of the things I said.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

It ain't over till it's over.

It gets late early out there.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Swatch

Time is what you make of it.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Future

What if your life flashed before your eyes in the beginning?
You would know your fortune from the start.
There would be no moments of uncertainty.
But, also no surprise parties,
no getting caught in the rain,
no curious shaking of gifts.
Life would be ordered, predictable, precise.
That is, if you still called it that.
Live every moment!

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Cure for all aches and pains

Gooey double choco chip muffins.

Fixes everythings..

prekz

it had to happen..it happened..i dealt with it..it's over now..

?!

It’s what lies between the lines.

The end...

The end..
It calls me.. I ignore..
It repeats…I move on..
I refuse to listen.. I refuse to admit..
To the pains of the world.. I wish to submit.
A scream…
a screech..
a call for help..
To stop itself from being pushed to the edge…
One misstep and It’ll lose its grip…
One misstep and It’ll fall off the cliff…
At the edge of life now I stand…
Looking back I find not a single trance…
Unfulfilled.. unlived.. untouched.. unreleased…
Living with the pain of the approaching end…
Yet I live.. coz within me lives the dream to live…
A belief that believes I live…for a purpose…
For a purpose I will fulfil…
for a goal… For a goal I will accomplish…
And then it’ll be what you call..
the end…

Prekz

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

gravity

Gravity is a myth. The earth sucks!!!

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

The toughest decisions are the ones you make not because you want or have to, but simply because you know it is the RIGHT thing to do.

...

When they find the center of the earth, many people are going to be disappointed to know, it's not them.

ps. not sure who said it

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Payal Shah

Jus some of my thoughts... in my own words... (risk it, if u can) on Brain Candies.

Iyanla Vanzant

If you are having a bad day, it is a personal problem; the world does not have to deal with it.
xoxox
xooxoxxxoxx
xxoxxox
xoxo

...

It is madness to hate all roses cos u got scratched by one thorn.
to give up all your dreams, cos one didn't come true.
To lose faith in prayers cos one was not answered.
To give up on your efforts cos one of them failed.
To condemn all your friends since one betrayed you.
Not to believe in love b cos someone was unfaithful.
Remember that another day another chance with come,
A new friend
A new love
A new life
never give up
Cos life is beautiful!

Friday, June 30, 2006

life

The honey jar will get sticky.

Anantha

Let the grass grow..

Thursday, June 29, 2006

So like me

A sign above a dead fish read, "If I hadn't opened my mouth, I wouldn't be here".

Early bird

The early bird catches the worm.. What did the poor worm get for waking up early? Huh?? He got eaten..

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Moulin Rouge

The greatest gift of life is to love and be loved in return

Z

No wrath like a woman scorned.

twisters

I came. i saw. i left.

i think, therefore it is.

when in rome, do the romans. : )

ps. go ahead add more to the list.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

yah!

take yr time, pick a side...
it's either my way or the highway..

a few of my favourite things..

Reading chick lit is one of them.. From my current reading.. here goes..

In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams

Afterwards, the universe will explode for your pleasure.
Douglas Adams

Somebody already broke my heart.
Sade

Where there is great love, there are always great miracles.
Willa cather

Someday somebody’s going to ask you a question that you should say yes to.
Old 97’s

I don’t have to be careful I’ve got a gun.
Homer Simpson

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

I just need your star for a day
Nick Drake

Source: Girls in Pants, Third Summer, Ann Brashares.

Monday, June 26, 2006

think abt it

Is there a black sheep in very flock?

Where does the darkness go when the sun comes out?

If there were no day, what would be there instead?

Did satan borrow your soul for a day?

Don’t you always want to quit on a Monday morning?

No one notices when you arrive early.

What did the dreams tell the soul?

Did Satan whisper in your ear?

The dots don’t connect do they?

Are you on the highway to hell?

Ever notice the lunch hour seems as the shortest hour in the day.

Two minutes depends on which side of the toilet you are.

How is it on a Sunday you wake up even before the sun decides to come out.

hmm

Why is it we spend all time, trying to take a liking to things that we hate, excelling in things we are terrible at?

hello!!! at the end of the day, what happens to the things we love... they just take a back seat.

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Time

One day while walking through the wilderness, a vicious tiger followed a man. He ran but soon came to the edge of the cliff, climbing down a vine; he discovered another tiger at the bottom. Then two rats started gnawing on the vine. Suddenly he noticed a plump ripe red strawberry. He plucked it and popped it in his mouth and said delicious…

Cherish the moment. Happiness is acting according to the circumstances whatever they may be..



Source: Zen Speaks, Shouts of Nothingness. Tsai Chih Chung

Clouds in the blue sky, water in a bottle

Don’t worry about whether the clouds are going to turn into water or whether the water is going to turn into clouds. If it’s the clouds, take a cloud’s leisurely point of view, and if it’s water, take the water’s placid, carefree point of view.


Source: Zen Speaks, Shouts of Nothingness. Tsai Chih Chung

A cup of zen

Is life a yarn of thread?

Would you go in search of the one sheep you lost, leaving behind the other ninty-nine to wander?

How does hollowness sound?

How does it help a blind man carrying a lantern?
He’ll never know when the light goes off, and in addition he is carrying the extra weight.

Seize the moment.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Jerry Garcia

It's no longer good enough to be the best of the best, you have to be the only people who do what you do.

Lead guitarist of The Grateful Dead

me

this isn't the life i had ordered!

i need to get my life new writers..

(any writers available)

truth

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it must be a horse.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Happiness is....

picking up your best friend at the airport...

gifting an i pod..

knowing you will fight with her in less than 12 secs..

spending the nite at her place..

hoping her dog is tied up...

knowing you will chat up whole nite long and forget that you have to go to work in the morn..

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Living life..

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

life is...

sundays
fairy tales
romantic ending
box of chocolates dark ones, gooyey ones, bitter ones, nutty ones & yummy ones.
summer holidays
refreshing ice tea
havin a cat
speed breaker
finding a kitten on a rainy day
money in your jeans pocket
finding true love
chick flick
lemonade
sunsets
a great friend
a broken heart
gettin caught in the rains
ride on a bike
curious shakin of gifts
a white christmas
tiffany blue box
sailing
whatever...

Attitude

When life throws lemons your way don't forget to make lemonade.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Wear Sunscreen

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists,
whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice now.

Don't worry about the future.
Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective
as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind,
the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead,
sometimes you're behind.
The race is long and, in the end,
it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive.
Forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bank statements.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll divorce at 40,
maybe you'll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody else's.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go,
but with a precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle,
because the older you get, the more you need the
people who knew you when you were young.

Travel.


But trust me on the sunscreen.

Extract: Mary Schmich (newspaper columnist, Chicago Tribune)

life is..

Life is a mind game..

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Preksha

Take your time, just dont take soo long.. that someone else makes the decision of your life.. while u still stay staring.. unaware of what is happening..

pyl

When I feel like exercising, I lie down and let the feeling pass.

Friday, June 16, 2006

more Calvin & Hobbes

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!"?


I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.


That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Friends - Rachel

Everything you need to know is in that first kiss.

Karma

Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.
Neo: What vase?
[Neo turns to look for a vase, and as he does, he knocks over a vase of flowers, which shatters on the floor.]
Oracle: That vase.
Neo: I'm sorry--
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?

Source: Matrix

hmm.. would he have broken the vase? i wonder, if she hadn't said anything abt the vase he wud not have turned and crashed into it. if she really didn't want him to break the vase she should have told him to stay away from it.

wud it not help to know abt it, if you could stop the action. or is it just karma and it had to happen.. the purpose of the oracle shud have been to help him prevent his karma.

Steve Jobs

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.


Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.


Extract: Stanford Report

Chewies

Life is a boomerang. It will come straight back at you.

No one ever said on their death bed, "I wish I'd spent more time in office".

The way up IS the way down.

Don't cry its over, smile it happened.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Snoopy

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm Happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Source: Charles Schulz.

Chief Seattle Speech

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? That idea is strange to us.
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memory of the red man.

You must teach the children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers.
So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin.
Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother.
Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth.
If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

This we know, the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
We may be brothers after all. We shall see. One thing we know, which the white man may discover one day - our God is
the same God.

The whites too shall pass, perhaps sooner than all other tribes.
Contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave you
dominion over this land and over the red man. That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo
are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires.
Where is the thicket ? Gone.
Where is the eagle ? Gone.
The end of living and beginning of survival.

Source: extract from Chief Seattle Speech.

Elixir of life

There are four basic food groups, milk chocolate, dark chocolate,
white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.
Source: Unknown


All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
Source: Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

Forrest Gump

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.

Source: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Clement Greenberg

We have differences but we're not made different. If you don't agree with me, you're wrong.

Andy Warhol

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Calvin and Hobbes

My favourite, don't think life would be the same without c&h.

Nobody asks me how things oughta be! I've got tons of ideas!
(me too!)


I gotta get my life some writers.


To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.


Reality continues to ruin my life.


Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.


A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.


I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!
(where can i buy all the lemons of the world)


Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.


What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?


Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.


Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!


From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can play together all night!

Julius Caesar

The die is cast.

Et tu, Brute?

The Ides of March are come; to which the soothsayer answered, softly, "Yes; but they are not gone."

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Chick flicks

Can't help being a romantic, can I?

Never Been Kissed (1999)
"That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time."


When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?

"...And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."


Father of the Bride (1991)
Love is wonderful. Until it happens to your only daughter.
(sure dad would agree to that one)

Frankie and Johnny (1991)
You never choose love. Love chooses you.

Before Sunrise (1995)
When love can come as a complete surprise

"If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but... who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt."

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
"And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before."

Meet Joe Black (1998)
"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart."



source: Filmsite

Frieda Norris

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.

Meera Zachariah

Choose the battles you want to fight.

Bhargavi

The day brings many adventures,
the night changes many thoughts.

Fortune cookies - pyl

This too, shall pass.

Some memories last forever.

The truth, sometimes is not easy to understand.

Take your time, but not forever.

Forever never lasts.

pyl

Wish on the first star of the evening. If your wish is not granted, well wish again tommorow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

love

Love is like war: easy to begin, hard to end.


Can you make yourself love?
Can you make yourself be loved?
source: Ann Brashares


In your eyes I am complete.
[still waiting to hear that from someone ; ) ]
Source: Peter Gabriel

J R R Tolkien

Not all who wander are lost.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Harry Winston

As the world around you becomes mass-produced into monotony, we ask you to remember this.
Nothing perfect ever rolled off an assembly line.

Perfectly symmetrical, yes, and perfectly attractive.
But nothing perfect.

Perfect is breathtaking.
Perfect is inimitable.

Perfect comes from staying awake until 2 am deciding whether to tilt a stone one hundredth of an inch this way or that.

Perfect is not rational.
Perfect is tempestuous.
Perfect hurts.
Your brain doesn't know perfect. Nor your eye. The only part of you that knows perfect is the exquisitely painful way your heart beats in its presence. That part was born knowing perfect.

What will you own that's perfect? What impossibly beautiful thing waits to become yours?

Find it.
Make it yours.
Bring it out.
Because when you do, your perfection will
make the world's heart hurt.

source: Harry Winston

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Bill Cosby

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.


That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Paulo Coelho

When you least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

Alchemist

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Extract: Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Monday, June 05, 2006

African wisdom

Don't set sail on someone else's star.


Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.


The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery.


When elephants fight, it is the grass beneath that suffers.

Paul Rand

Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Geoffrey Beene

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Saturday, June 03, 2006

pyl

I open my mouth, to change feet.

love defies logic and reasoning.

Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God is in the details.



Less is more.

Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Zen Speaks, Shouts of Nothingness.

Snowflakes fall where they should.
Everything under heaven, whether it be large or small, important or insignificant, has its own particular place. And when it arrives in its rightful place, why ask why? That's just how it is!

Source: Tsai Chih Chung

Friday, June 02, 2006

kota

Want, does not mean get!