Am on vacation. Yay!!
Next update is on friday March 2.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Friday, February 02, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Craig Davis
When you look at an idea and feel envy, it's a Bronze. Jealousy means Silver. Humility, that my friends, is a Gold.
(on clio awards)
(on clio awards)
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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.
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
Friday, December 08, 2006
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.
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
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
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
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?
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
- 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
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."
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.
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..
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
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
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.
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
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.
(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.
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.
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?
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
Friday, July 28, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
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)
getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
(Lady Windermere's Fan)
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
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.
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.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Samuel Johnson
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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.
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
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.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
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.
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
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.
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.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
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
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
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
...
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
ps. not sure who said it
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Iyanla Vanzant
If you are having a bad day, it is a personal problem; the world does not have to deal with it.
...
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!
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
Thursday, June 29, 2006
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
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.
i think, therefore it is.
when in rome, do the romans. : )
ps. go ahead add more to the list.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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.
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.
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.
hello!!! at the end of the day, what happens to the things we love... they just take a back seat.
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