It’s pouring now…

It’s 6:35 am on a Saturday. And it’s pouring now. And why on earth would I know this totally uninspiring bit of news and am typing this totally pointless bit of entry at this unearthly hour?

Yes, you’ve guessed it. I’m working today. Wish me a good Saturday. I’m leaving now

little drops of water and little grains of sand

sometimes, it’s the little things that makes everything worth it

I remember the kiddos who started off crying every math class… or almost every math class. I remember how they slogged to pass for the first time in their recent academic history. I remember how happy he was to finally get his first pass since primary X. I remember how happy she was to get her B3 in the Os. And her declaration that she might just take Maths in JC just to ensure she’s not “stuck” in the future. (She eventually decided to take Econs, I think, but that’s another story) I remember how she religiously read the papers everyday and got an A in English. I remember how he wrote one essay a day and eventually passed the paper.

Sometimes, when this happens, everything falls into place and the world stops being so bleak (those who have talked to me recently will know what I mean). The news that he got into JC despite wondering if he could get a full cert for his Os when he first came to me in sec 3 certainly came at a right time – with many troubles on my mind, I certainly need all the good news I can get!

Little drops of water,
little grains of sand,
make the mighty ocean
and the beauteous land.

And the little moments,
humble though they may be,
make the mighty ages
of eternity.

 

Little deeds of kindness,
little words of love,
make our earth an Eden,
like the heaven above.

 

Little seeds of mercy
sown by youthful hands,
grow to bless the nations
far in heathen lands.

Top 21 Reasons To Be A Belly Dancer!

by Shira & Friends

In the tradition of David Letterman’s “top 10″ lists, here’s one to warm the cockles of a belly dancer’s heart! Only, I had more than 10 worthy entries, and didn’t want to give any of them up, so my list is a bit longer….

21. So you can subscribe to magazines with names like “Wiggle Hips”.

20. It doesn’t seem so much like “exercise” when you’re wearing chiffon.

19. So you can entertain yourself at stoplights by practicing chest isolations.

18. The camel saddle you’ve had since the 60’s now fits with your decor!

17. So you can leave a trail of beads, coins, and sequins wherever you go instead of bread crumbs.

16. You can name your cat Mizmar and lots of people you know will get the joke.

15. So you can fend off indecent advances from club owners at 2:00 in the morning.

14. So your spouse can whine to his friends about being a belly dancing widower.

13. So you can actually do something useful with what you learned in those sewing classes you took as a teen-ager.

12. So you can annoy your non-dancing friends and co-workers by begging them to come watch all your shows.

11. So strangers will tuck money into your clothing or shower it over your head.

10. So strangers will invite you to their parties.

9. So you can have a perfectly good reason to tote around a sword.

8. So you can enjoy the improvement in your sex life.

7. So you can finally learn how to work your CD/tape player.

6. So friends will start buying you little camel statues.

5. So you can have yet another excuse for rummaging through thrift shops in search of bargains.

4. So you can find yourself singing along to lyrics in a foreign language with no idea of what they mean.

3. So you can get a giggle out of watching people’s expressions when you tell them what you do for fun.

2. So you can shock your old high school classmates by showing up in costume at the next high school reunion and doing a full show.

And the Number 1 reason to be a belly dancer:

1. Costumes! Costumes! Costumes! Costumes! Costumes! Costumes!

(Source: Belly Dancing)

The Value of a Woman

This is written in the Hebrew Talmud, the book where all of the sayings and preaching of rabbis are conserved over time.It says:

“Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears.

The woman came out of a man’s rib.
Not from his feet to be walked on.
Not from his head to be superior.
But from the side to be equal.
Under the arm to be protected,
and next to the heart to be loved.”

Pass this on to all exceptional women that you know.. and to men too- so they know the value of a woman

Don’t be fooled ! Keep Internet Explorer at all cost !

Par Ploum, mardi 9 novembre 2004 à 13:53

Maybe you’ve heard some people around you urging you to change your web browser.

Those people use strange words like “Mozilla” or “Firefox” (a fire fox… is that real?). Be careful, they’ll try to convince you to forget about Internet Explorer arguing that “the 1.0 version is available. Don’t do anything like that ! Internet Explorer can do so much for you…

 

• Internet Explorer gives website creators the ability to open popup windows. Mozilla and Firefox have a popup blocker. It would be a pain not to use 100% of your bandwidth (it’s so expensive…) not seing all those colorful ads, chosen and sorted by the one who created the website you visit.

• Using Internet Explorer, you can still keep this cute blue icon and show everybody your computer knowledge, going around saying “The Internet crashed !”. This way, you’re sure the guy you called for help will take care of you, and only you. (Did your OS crash ? Was it the Web browser ? Has the connection been cut ? By the way if the Internet did crash, everybody would know about it…)

• Using Internet Explorer, you enable lots of funny software to happily settle down in your computer each and every week. These tiny programs entertain you and prevent you from dullness all day round, displaying erotic pictures, adding buttons that let you know in real time what the weather’s like in Ouagadougou. Pure Happiness ! So why miss it? Ok, it certainly slows down your computer, but weren’t you just complaining about it being too powerful ?

• Using Internet Explorer, you never know the real address of the website you’re surfing on. Isn’t it funny to find out that your credit card number was actually sent to a chinese email account instead of to the website you wanted to buy something from ? Anyway, it certainly keeps you out of daily routine and forces you to check your bank accounts.

• Using Internet Explorer, you’re sure your geek friends will gladly help you (Haven’t they indeed whispered : “Oh my God, he still uses IE… How ages ago he is !”). On Forums, any post about Internet Explorer gives you the moniker of “n00b”. So sign up for the Community.

• Oh Yeah, some links in Internet Explorer will launch small malicious software called a “virus”. It doesn’t matter, so don’t worry ! This will permit you to invite your cousin Bob, who, of course, has better computer knowledge than yourself, to spend a dreamy afternoon fixing your computer while you’ll be quietly watching TV. When you get back, your computer will be all cleaned up, like when it was delivered, and even faster than before. (Just be sure to ask “Is it ok, Bob?” from time to time, to keep him in a not so dreadful mood on this sunday evening).

• Mozilla and Firefox both use a tab system. A tab system enables you to be five times faster and to load pages while reading others. But is that really what you want ? The Web is like cooking, you should take your time tasting it ! You click on a page, and have that marvelous feeling you can have when opening a new chocolate box, slowly, things appear, right in front of your eyes ! THAT is the beauty of the Web…

• Internet Explorer just loves to trick you and keep you entertained ! Didn’t it ever suprise you with some “Error dll in 0×863a5c9″ or “kernel32.dll exception” messages ? Those little messages are what decipherers of mysteries enjoy the most. It gives you a sense of being a part of that great Microsoft family. Sure, we don’t understand them, but who cares, who could live without them ?

• Be careful ! Lots of people start by installing Mozilla, and one year later, they end up being Linux users with OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Thunderbird. This would mean the end of all viruses you get, this marvelous little fear you had each and every time you opened an attached file of one of your emails. How stressing it was ! The constant feeling of danger, how exciting ! Fearing that an explicit pornographic popup opens up just when your wife is right aside you. Hell ! Let’s fight against secured computers ! Never make the first step !

• Lastly, Internet Explorer gives you the opportunity to participate in the commercial hegemony that leads the web. It would really be a lot better and easier if one company could control the Internet, the web and all computers ! That would be so marvelous having one company deciding everything for us, and giving us all its enjoyable technologies. Just deny any other company. It would be far better if everybody had the same computer, same screen size, same icons, and such… Let’s fight for it !

Whenever one suggests you install Mozilla or any other standards compliant browser, just tell him you’re for the web’s unicity, there’s only one standard, the one you paid for when you bought your computer !

PS : I originally wrote this text in french. It was translated by the community (Many thanks to folks of linuxfr and from Mozillazine. the text and the translation are in the Public Domain.”

scribefire

cool! I’m trying out scribefire for the first time! hmm… actually, I should be marking… so… erm… bye?

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692 days to go…

hmm…. realised I’ve not blogged much lately… mainly some cut-and-pastes that I found floating around the web…

anyway, in a super LAME (yes, in caps) mood right now. Have lots of work to do, but erm… I feel like doing something silly but can’t think of what to do (how lame can I get??)

Met up with YR for lunch yesterday… talked about our friends, about life, about work. Then dance class. The weather was incredibly hot when I entered the MRT near my place, but it was pouring when I reached my destination… So all the BMX competition people were hiding in the station. And I ran into an ex-student and a current student. Sort of bittersweet to see him again, especially since I didn’t have time to chat, for afterall, he was sent home and then took a leave of absence before quitting school.

Anyway, belly dance is still fun, though it’s getting confusing… I seem to have difficulty differentiating not only directions, but also body parts as well? I seem to be emphasizing the wrong parts all the time! hahaha… I’ll leave you to imagine what I mean

And now… I’m sitting at home… wondering what stupid thing I can do without making myself too tired… what to do… what to do… already organised and re-organised my music collection… and started and aborted Civ2 and AOE many times… how how???????

Song of the day: I’m a Bitch – Alanis Morissette

Not sure why I like this song, considering that my introduction to the singer isn’t exactly gentle!

Friendship day!

Happy Friendship day!

 

International Friendship Day, time to recognise your friends and their contribution to your life. Friendship helps to bring peace and positivity to the globe – a great reason to celebrate!

Friends come in many shapes, sizes and guises: school friends, work colleagues, siblings, partners, parents, pets and neighbours. Pull out all the stops and
let your friends know they are truly appreciated!

 

Quotes About Our Friendship

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

“Best friends need not be physically present, each keep the other company in the hearts.”

” A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” – Arabian Proverb

“You’ve got troubles, I’ve got ‘em too. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you. We’ll stick together to see it through cause you’ve got a friend in me.” – Randy Newman

 

 

 

 

To all my friends out there and all the friends I’ve yet to make. No matter what the day, I hope it is wonderful for you!!! 

Enjoy Friendship Day everyone.. and make the most of it!

Friendships

1. In kindergarten your idea of a good friend was the person who let you have the red crayon when all that was left was the ugly black one.

2. In first grade your idea of a good friend was the person who went to the bathroom with you and held your hand as you walked through the scary halls.

3. In second grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you stand up to the class bully.

4. In third grade your idea of a good friend was the person who shared their lunch with you when you forgot yours on the bus.

5. In fourth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who was willing to switch square dancing partners in gym so you wouldn’t have to be stuck do-si-do-ing with Nasty Nicky or Smelly Susan.

6. In fifth grade your idea of a friend was the person who saved a seat on the back of the bus for you.

7. In sixth grade your idea of a friend was the person who went up to Nick or Susan, your new crush, and asked them to dance with you, so that if they said no you wouldn’t have to be embarrassed.

8. In seventh grade your idea of a friend was the person who let you copy the social studies homework from the night before that you had.

9. In eighth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you pack up your stuffed animals and old baseball cards so that your room would be a “high schooler’s” room, but didn’t laugh at you when you finished and broke out into tears.

10. In ninth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who went to that “cool” party thrown by a senior so you wouldn’t wind up being the only freshman there.

11. In tenth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who changed their schedule so you would have someone to sit with at lunch.

12. In eleventh grade your idea of a good friend was the person who gave you rides in their new car, convinced your parents that you shouldn’t be grounded, consoled you when you broke up with Nick or Susan, and found you a date to the prom.

13. In twelfth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you pick out a college, assured you that you would get into that college, helped you deal with your parents who were having a hard time adjusting to the idea of letting you go…

14. At graduation your idea of a good friend was the person who was crying on the inside but managed the biggest smile one could give as they congratulated you.

15. The summer after twelfth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you clean up the bottles from that party, helped you sneak out of the house when you just couldn’t deal with your parents, assured you that now that you and Nick or you and Susan were back together, you could make it through anything, helped you pack up for college and just silently hugged you as you looked through blurry eyes at 18 years of memories you were leaving behind, and finally on those last days of childhood, went out of their way to give you reassurance that you would make it in college as well as you had these past 18 years, and most importantly sent you off to college knowing you were loved.

16. Now, your idea of a good friend is still the person who gives you the better of the two choices, hold your hand when you’re scared, helps you fight off those who try to take advantage of you, thinks of you at times when you are not there, reminds you of what you have forgotten, helps you put the past behind you but understands when you need to hold on to it a little longer, stays with you so that you have confidence, goes out of their way to make time for you, helps you clear up your mistakes, helps you deal with pressure from others, smiles for you when they are sad, helps you become a better person, and most importantly loves you!

There’s never a wrong time to pick up a phone or send a message telling your friends how much you miss them or how much you love them. No matter where we go or who we become, never forget who helped us get there.

If you love someone, tell them. Remember always to say what you mean. Never be afraid to express yourself. Take this opportunity to tell someone what they mean to you. Seize the day and have no regrets. Most importantly, stay close to your friends and family, for they have helped make you the person that you are today and are what it’s all about anyway.

Sick :(

Sick…

bad sore throat… doc said it’s very inflamed

blocked nose… doc said it’s bad and I need to breathe through my mouth for her to hear thru the stethoscope

cough… not that bad _yet_

headache… from all the above…

I hate being sick