...to face your fears.  You have to do scary things, so you won't be afraid anymore.

~Daughter, 12

She asked me to blog these words.  Me, Son, and Daughter were walking from the food court back to our car.  I dunno.  I guess it just hit her, and I get this wide-eyed "ooh, Ma, I got a good one for you!" LOL.  You know the drill.  I can't even remember what we were talking about.  All I know is...when little teacher asks if I completed my assignment (posting this blog), I want to get a big, red happy face on my paper (nose and teeth included lol)  :-).

Hmm....scary things.  I reeeally could go down the street with this one.  But I'll just cover her words, and let them simmer after a high boil.  Marinating my fears in this Truth will do me some good....how 'bout you?  Got some scary things you need to do (or keep on doing)....to grow, get over it, succeed, BE?

I jotted down a few of my scary things....things I do, or want to do more often.  Looks like they 'boil down' to "just being Me" regardless.  Love, accept, approve...ME!

-  Letting go of the familiar/safe, to make room for the new/unknown
-  Doing things that show my weakness/vulnerability
-  Speak my Truth, no matter how others take it
-  Blogging about my fears *wink*

Your turn...if it's not too scary :).

]]> http://littlelotusdesigns.wordpress.com/?p=252 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:21:19 +0000 littlelotusdesigns http://littlelotusdesigns.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/last-weekend/ Friday: Class was canceled and we went to the park with the rocketship. We also saw a play later on that night.

Saturday: We went on a sudden road trip to Dick Blicks. I bought $100 worth of art supplies for $50. Awesome. And I got this sweet ass portfolio. Here are a couple crap-ass camera phone pictures from the hour long drive.

Sunday: Slept late and got pancakes for breakfast. Then went to the laundry mat. ew.

It was a good weekend.

]]> http://peeveeads.wordpress.com/?p=125 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:08:50 +0000 peeveeads http://peeveeads.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/roamingnearubcity/ I was waiting for this shoot for a very long time, may be an year or so. Fortunately, last Saturday, managed to wake up at 5.00am and biked till Cubbon Park. I wanted to see the UB City from various points and locations to get different angles, so a small walk through the Lavelle Road, the Vittal Mallya Road, the Kasturba Road, a bit inside the Cubbon park just near the Venkatappa Art Gallery helped me capture few frames with different perspectives.

There was a new Bungalow in the making on the Left of UB City, where i entered with the knowledge of a mason boy, but the security guard said NO for photography. Somehow motivated him and I managed to click one frame from the balcony, through a small cleave.. here it is for you.

From Vittal Mallya Road....

From Kasturba Road...

From Lavelle Road Side...

I also have some frames of UB city in my archives.. check them at
UB City

NOTE:
UB City is one of the largest mixed use developments. It is at the heart of India's IT Capital, Bangalore, brought to you by one of India's largest conglomerates which is also synonymous with Bangalore. The UB Group. Yes UB City is the new identity to Bangalore City.

Holy Crap! You're Telly Monster!

Ok, TImeline:

Saturday, October 4th

7.00 am: got up, got ready
8.36 am: took SEPTA train to Philly
9.15 am: arrived in Philly
9.30 am: boarded "megabus", got in second and got a good seat in the front :D
10.00 am: bus left for New York, two hour bus ride was very nice, I listened to music and ate M&Ms
12.15 pm: bus arrived at Penn Station, NYC. I got out, walked up one block and went into H&M where I saw these awesome black wedges... didn't buy anything. Went on to Starbucks near Times Square, had iced tall soy caramel macchiato and a peach/rasberry joghurt with "Müesli" in it :)
ca. 1.30 pm: Walked to the Salvation Army on 46th Str. between 10th and 11th avenue. Looked and bought a flanel shirt. Almost bought an old leather jacket for only 35 $. I'll be back :D
ca. 2.45 pm: Walked down 46th street one block in east direction and ended up right infront of pottery "Mud, Sweat and Tears", owned by a friend of my moms. Walked in, asked for Bob, he wasn't there. Left.
ca 2.45 pm: Got on Subway, went up to 84th street & Broadway. Walked in north direction until 96th street, realized Urban Outfitters was on 72nd not the 80ies, got back on Subway, went to 72nd, went to shop at Urban Outfitters, bought cool lomo picture (canvas) of prorcelain deer figure for 9.99$
ca. 4.00 pm: got back on Subway, went to Soho/Chinatown, shopped at "Pearl River Market", bought pretzel sticks with chocolate on them (Swtzrlnd: "Mikado", Chinatown: "Pocky"). Walked around Chinatown and Soho.
ca. 5.00 pm: sat down in Starbucks, drank iced tall soy caramel macchiato and ate little plate with walnut-raisin-bread, chesses,orange slice, grapes and apple slices. Called friend Michelle (from Switzerland who was staying in New Jersey), looked on map for ferry to NJ, found ferry to New Jersey.
ca. 5.25 pm: left starbucks, walked along canal street to Duarte Sq., took subway to 42nd str. & 8th ave (Port Authority), walked over 4 avenues and down 3 streets to take the ferry to weehawken NJ.
ca. 6.50 pm: barely got on ferry, went over to Weehawken, walked out, saw someone and realized it was friend Michelle, screamed, ran hugged, srcreamed some more, hopped, smile etc. Went to eat pizza with her and her family who were very nice and funny :)
ca. 8.15 pm: left pizza place and went to their hotel room. Had bailey's with her and her family. Her parents left for a walk, talked with Michelle.
ca. 9.30 pm: left hotel with Michelle, was driven back to port with her by her dad, said good-bye, waited for ferry, got on ferry, went back over.
ca. 10.00 pm: Got off, took free bus to times square, walked to Grand Central Station, bought ticket to Hastings-on-Hudson (where my aunt lives and I stayed overnight), waited for train.
10.56 pm: train left.
ca. 11.35 pm: train arrived in Hastings-on-Hudson, got off, walked to my aunts house, went in, put on PJs, went on computer, my aunt came home from wedding, said hello, talked for a few minutes, said goodnight, got ready for bed, read people mags.

Sunday, October 5th

02.00 am: went to bed
ca 09.10 am: got up, said hello to aunt, talked some more, made plans to come back in november, but for whole weekend, aunt left, got ready
ca. 10.35 am: left house, ran to train, got ticket
10.55 am: train left for NYC
11.30 am: arrived at Grand Central, went to starbucks, got iced tall soy caramel macchiato and joghurt again, went to H&M, looked at very cool sweater, didn't buy it though, but bought cool furry fluffy overly big hat :D Walked up 5th ave, went to anthropologie, took subway to central park south west corner, walked into park, sat down, relaxed, got up, went back on subway to Penn Station. Went to H&M, bought black wedges. Bought another caramel macchiato and cheese/bread/fruit platter for bus.
03.15 pm: started waiting in line for bus
03.45 pm: bus left. Slept a little.
05.45 pm: arrived in Philly, went to train station, bought notebook and pen for 4$, wrote down what everything had cost, what I still need to do etc.
06.49 pm: train to daylesford left.
07.34 pm: got off at daylesford, walked home.
:D

Fincances:
Transportation (Train, Bus, Subway, Ferry, Metro-North, Subway, Bus, Train): 63.75 $
Shopping (shirt, picture, shoes, chocolate-stix, hat, pen, notebook): 80.95 $
Food: 29.80 $
Total: 174.50 $

I think that's pretty good for a weekend trip to NYC :)

The Salvation Army was awesome! I want to buy a leather jacket... I'll find another one just as good as the one I wanted to buy :) ANd if it's fake leather it'll be just 12$ :D The whole weekend was great... it was so nice being indepentend again and just doing stuff on my own and travelling all over the whole city :) ANd now I know how it all works and stuff, so next time will be even better. Ahh! And I saw so many people who had style, like, their own style! It was so cool :D I almost bought this really cool sweater at H&M, it was really really huge (size S went down to my knees) and it had a triangle not-so-pattern (it wasn't symmetrical) and was white black and brown :D I'm prbably still gonna buy it sometime...

Oh, and the picture: I've been wanting it for about two months now XD I finally bought it and even cheaper! ANd this morning I finally understood my fascination with it!!!

When I was little I had this porcelain figure of a little cat with really cute big eyes, and the head is bigger than the body, and that porcelain deer in the picture is from the same "series"!! It has those exact same eyes!!! It was one of those "ooooh"-choir singing and light shining through clouds onto my face-moments :D I was so happy!

The photo is the one on the far left on here: http://benjaminlong.com/combination31.htm
They cropped it to a square shape for the canvas print.

Take a look at the rest of the website: http://benjaminlong.com has some really nice art! I especially like the photographs.

And in Anthropologie I found these really cool booklets thingies: Mind log/health log/idea log: three different little agenda type things, just not for agendas. The mind log has stuff like, how you felt this day, dream log and stuff, the health log has a section for a food agenda, excercise log, sleep log, and the idea log has a section for scetches, one for quotes and more, check them out here:

Health Log
Mind Log
Idea Log

They're cheaper when you buy them in Anthropologie though... I think they'd make cool presents :D There was also a book, a guide for vintage shopping, with good stores all around the world, pretty cool :) And there was a book called "Top Tips for Girls" by Kate Reardon with all sorts of tips (household, cooking, pets, etc.) and it had some pretty good stuff in there, tips sent in by people :)

And I wanna read pride and prejudice.

Yeah, that's about it, I'm gonna go order that sewing machine now :)

<3 Nina

Free Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine

Join the Kraft First Taste Program for free samples and products from Kraft

Free Sample of Good Nites Boys and Girls from Walmart

Free Subscription to La Cucina Italiana

Free Stationary to print out

Free Tote Bag (again, from another company)

Hope you enjoyed today's freebies, and will be giving more tomorrow!

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Cya!!!!!!!!!!

WADDLE ON!!

Trying to start something new

Bottled up with paranoia

Misplacing your mind

Trying and trying to wash away that confusion aftertaste

Wished that you thought twice

Before venturing on this new difficult state

That has you bracing all your fears

Conducting your thought to think

Creating your mind to weld into a perfect sum

Of what they believe is accepted

No they don’t care of how hard you tried

Nor do they care that this is the first piece you present

They don’t see all that effort and soul poured into any of it and

They defiantly don’t take crap from anybody, or at least yourself

How does everyone last this suffocating hardship that you see?

When you’re the show and tell of disappointment

Each day hoping for the slightest improvement

But in the end you’re just letting yourself down every goddamn time

With felling as though it’s ripping your mind and heart apart watchfully

Wanting to quit and give up

Throw in the towel already whatever.

But your still there,

Not knowing why you’re making yourself go through all shit again

Still Striving for that one day till it all turns around

Just one fucking day

Click here to read a first interview with him on the Times Online website.

See them now in sceneries..

xxx

V.

36IC 4.4.4 will also contain a new brush-function which will replace the pencil tool. This also means that V4.4.4 will come with a few brushes to start with. The color selection functions are split as well, there is an extra button which will enable a color picker to select a color from the image. Also the text function is finally out of the BETA stage.

The new release will also come with an update of the DashBoard and the help file.

We would also like to announce that 36IC 4.4.3 is now #21 in popularity on download.com in the category "Image editing" leaving Ulead and Fireworks far behind it, we hope to top the 1.600 downloads a week next week. 36-image converter will also appear in PC magazine in Italy, a magazine with 45.000 subscriptions and a high sales rate.

"Initial feedback from customers testing the new site has been overwhelmingly positive," said Ask.com CEO Jim Safka, in a statement. "By listening to our customers and giving them what they want, we've already seen a 14 percent increase in customer satisfaction."

Ask.com's search engine employes semantic search technologies that the company says break new ground in Web extraction, ranking, and search results, and more innovations are expected to appear in coming months. Ask.com also says it has improved download speeds by up to 30 percent, so users get their search results faster.

The company also claims its improved search results are producing a 16 percent improvement in customer retention—and that, in turn, means the company earns more money from advertising placements on its search results pages.

Incidentally, ad placements on Ask.com are handled by…Google.

Ask.com says its search results are more likely to me relevant than other search engines, in part to extra emphasis it places on Entertainment, Health & Nutrition, Jobs, and Reference categories. Ask.com has also simplified its interface and integrates abroad range of content directly into its search results pages.

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doesnt it look so cool? hongki, the hot goth kid? fighting, girls, rivals. i'm excited!! gotta love boys in eyeliner, even the background music is exciting!

to quote something i recently saw, "dude hongki just gets hotter everyday doesnt he?!"

i think it comes out 10/15/08 ??

Its time to put get my head down, put a proper mixtape together and see what we can do. This is certainly a real chance. No better place than the birthplace of my co-existence with music that has formed since that very day. 

Here's the info from the site:
Passion has always been proud of trying to introduce new and exciting talent alongside big named DJs.

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If your an up and coming from the UK I suggets you give this a try, this club is amazing and I am sure if you can please the crowd you will have a night you will remember in your last breath.

Luck to us all! :)

Me and a fellow student did the usability test last Wednesday and on Thursday we met to write all things down. Ok, he did the most part on writing, but i prepared everything, the scenarios, the handouts... and i had to format his text a little.. His text was very good, but the layout he chose was terrible!! So i changed it!

Yesterday i printed everything and gave it to our prof today!

I dont rap ringtones I spit classics...

Killer Mike back and he's angry. aint no punchline to that one he's just angry. link after the jump. first single off his mixtape?

DOWNLOAD KILLER MIKE - BANG. bang.bang.

Well I was looking at the blog stats for this blog. Wonderful. Only one blog I have ever worked on has ever done that good...

Well I used to play Club Penguin. Ran a blog of it. (hint hint nudge nudge wink wink). And Runescape. Ran a CP army. But that all changed in January. I started to hate the game. Then quit in April.

Well Im 13, live in Ohio, USA. I own a Gamecube, and run a blog about it. (Blog)

Im going to be adding all your gaming news, mostly about Nintendo.

I hope to help this blog greatly.

-George

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GameZo: Welcome! :)