Achtung baby!

Thank you for Not Smoking. Cigarette smoke is the residue of your pleasure. It contaminates the air, pollutes my hair and clothes, not to mention my lungs. This takes place without my consent. I have a pleasure, also. I like a beer now and then. The residue of my pleasure is urine. Would you be annoyed if I stood on a chair and pissed on your head and your clothes without your consent?"



I'm not so funny, Mr. Schitt (who sometimes happens to have an awesome sense of humor) found this on a blog and shared it with me, and I want to share it with you!) It's not my words but once I find the blog url from where the above bit is from I'll put it up :)

Picture courtesy: Artbox



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Dreams

"But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”
- The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

Life is but a dream. I hold my dreams very close to my heart, from the small ones I envision at night, to the child-like ambitions I've cherished all my life. Dreams...they can be quite personal, can't they?

So when someone tells me "Keep your dreams and reality separate..." I wonder how mundane life would be without dreams to cherish? Are dreams really that different from our reality? It is but the dream that we envision that allows us to shape our future.

The other day I went to a party and got talking to this girl and after the boring "what do you do stuff" she casually mentioned that she thought I was really brave to follow my dreams, and to be honest I never thought of myself to be brave. I just did what I thought I should do, keep focused. I see people who change their career paths and achieve wonders, and those are the ones I think are brave. Moi? I'm just a silly little girl who manages to spit out a few words now and then...

The above quote is by Paulo Coelho, I think it's from his book The Alchemist. I don't have the book with me so I can't double check. I read his books much before I had even heard about positive thinking, The Secret and the sort of stuff that make dreams happen. I chanced on his book "Eleven Minutes" when I saw a classmate reading it. The Alchemist was the second book of his that I read and I admit it did change my life...not in the way that miracles do, but in the quite, shy manner that great authors inspire. I know calling Mr. Coelho a great author might be of doubt to some (my brother doesn't think much of his writings, he's more of a non-fiction dude and I say, each one to their own), but to me the word great can be used for someone who can even inspire a single person.

The Alchemist talks about achieving dreams... and to simply put it, our goals maybe closer than we think, but the journey we go through to achieve the goal, the sense of satisfaction the journey causes, and the teachings you learn along the way are just as important as the dream itself. It can be taken from a different point of view, but this is what I'm sticking to.

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
- Paulo Coelho

So you see, dreams to me are not just silly little thoughts. They are visions to the future, visions of a secret desire, visions that make life beautiful. As a shy, little, insecure girl I dreamt that I will be whoever I wanted to be, I will carve my own path being able to stand my own ground. It's not something impossible, I know I can achieve it, most days I feel sorry for the people around me, some days I feel sorry for myself. I have moments of weakness, and in those times I think of what the future will be, and how tiny these moments are compared to the satisfaction of achieving my dream.

I may not achieve everything, but even if I become a single per cent of the woman I envisioned to be, I will know the journey was worth the while.

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
- Paulo Coelho

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Stress levels: High!

I'm stressing out over a few things, nothing new & unusual I always stress out, that's just who I am. But I'm beginning to freak out about the responses regarding my paranoia. Somehow it all relates to everyone telling me to have faith, about God and everything in between. I do take it in seriously, and I love some of the advice I've been given but the similarities coming from varied people is beginning to spook me out !


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La Bella Vita

A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
Eda J. Le Shan

My nephew, my angel. I love both my nephews and I wish I can see them grow into strong sensible men with right values. I wish they respect their parents and grandpatents and love everyone around them, I wish they choose what is right for them but never hurt anyone along the way. Most of all I wish they have the strength to follow their dreams...


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Oh Hai There !

I almost forgot I had a bloggie! Last few months have been really hectic work wise, and to be honest I've had stressful (OMG nothing is going to work out days) but in general I've been happy!

Which made me realize, I can't write when I'm happy, I just don't have any deep meaningful thoughts. This is in general, I don't even think I can write news/feature articles for work when I'm happy ! AND BOY AM I HAPPY ! :D

Well, mainly coz it's November, I'm always happy in November. It's my favourite month for numerous reasons, one of them being that Christmas is just round the corner. Thankfully, for me Xmas doesn't mean stressing for pressies for million family and friends, if I want to gift, I will, if I don't my love & affection is good enough for everyone ;)

I do like Christmas quite a lot. My friends know this really well, coz when I shared a house with lovely Jenny Benny I'd be the first one getting excited about Christmas decoration and I'd be planning the party wayyyy in advance. Which reminds me I neeed to book my friends off for our Xmas ado-do ! We all are little busy bees who needed to schedule each other in!

Last year, when I moved to my new place and didn't have a tree to decorate my house, Jenny Benny gifted me Xmas decor complete with the tree. Best present I've ever received. Most people don't know this, but I love surprises! Sure, I'd be the one poking my nose and pestering about trying to guess the surprise...but if someone actually manages to go through the whole ordeal with me...I'm just one happy bunny ! :D

Xmas does make me a bit sad, coz on Xmas day everyone is with their family, and I'm just stuck at home watching silly Christmas shows on TV coz my family is so far away! This is not to say we'd be having a Christmas lunch or dinner. It makes me sad, coz every Christmas eve, my friend and I go out the night before and have a ball! We whine about the same party we go to, but we always make it a point to look amazingly gorgeous and just try to have a good time. But in the end we do, coz we all just get to hang out and be silly. It's one of those parties which you had to attend the minute you were allowed late nights, most people have deadlines throughout the year, but on Christmas eve, there's no deadline and it's just good fun :)

The best bit about Christmas in London is the day after, Boxing Day! OMG the sales...do I need to say more? I'm the girl who literally camps outside Selfridges a few hours before it opens! I know, I know, I'm extremely silly :)

This post has way too many smiles...not good for the emo in me ;) But I can't help it.

OMG OMG OMG! I'm going to New York ! I wanted to go and study in NYU when I was younger (and a part of me still wants to!) and when the visa lady told me my visa has bee approved I just wanted to hug her! Heck I even wanted to hug the postman when he gave me my passport ! :D I'm going for a week long holiday and I'm realllly looking forward to it :D

I do love to travel...there's so much I want to see and so many things I want to do. It makes me really happy to see my dreams come true.

Also, this month is Mr Schitt's birthday, the maiiiiin reason why I love this month. My two fave months of the year is November and May (no, my birthday is not in May!) Everyday I feel so happy to have him by my side. He's my joy, my sorrow, my smile, my tears, but there isn't one thing I'd want to change !

There are a few things that are bugging me though. I'm getting extremely frustrated about chasing my dreams, but that's for another post...where I'm more emo :D

I do wish I could make the people around me happy. I do hate it when I'm the reason for sadness or stress for the people who are really close to me, who make me smile and make the sun shine...

I have an article to finish for work, and it's been good having work to concentrate on, but it's also frustrating coz of the goddamn recession! Although, one thing is for sure...working from home is hard! I can't concentrate, I get distratcted by shiny objects too easily !

I've been working in the beauty department recently, and I'm officially a beauty junkie now. I have so much stuff in my house...it's not funny! I do plan to give out most of the stuff, but I can't decide if I should have a beauty sale, where I sell the stuff for a quid each and then donate the money to some Breast Cancer charity, coz I do really support that (I wore my pink ribbon throughout October...go me!!) *grins*

I think the best thing about print journalism for me is seeing my byline. I don't say this out of pride, but seeing my name see printed brings immense joy to me. :s

OMG! I'll be getting photoshop on my dear lappie soon, *sqqqqqueeeel* soooo excited about it.

Okay! I better get back to work... I promise there will be an emo post coming soon... ;)


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