tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53142691288950006572024-03-21T14:22:19.301-07:00Corners and MomentsBeautiful Corners and mystical Moments from my life in Australia.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314269128895000657.post-80867160349671894352012-06-03T05:02:00.001-07:002012-06-03T05:03:55.520-07:00Vanilla Vegetarian : My journey to become a more inspired cook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In my attempt to be a more involved, more inspired and to become a cook who pours more soul into the art of cooking, I have started an e-log of my recipes and my regular food - <a href="http://www.vanillavegetarian.com/" target="_blank">Vanilla Vegetarian.com</a><br />
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314269128895000657.post-62364650961749905562012-05-24T03:02:00.003-07:002012-05-24T03:06:16.409-07:00(It)aly just melts your heart...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It has been kind of long since I posted anything here. But I bring you some more of the visual treat from Italy - yes it's a never ending process and ...it takes over one small part of heart first and then slowly captures the whole heart and then just keep melting you in its love and charm. That's Italy !<br />
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314269128895000657.post-87716496805809789352012-04-03T17:34:00.000-07:002012-04-03T17:34:32.045-07:00A little town called Hahndorf - Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The cute little towns, the rustic shops and cafes, the streets with traffic slow as a snail, people wandering around and having a good time, arts and crafts, great smell of wood oven pizzas and grill : that's pretty much how I can sum up <a href="http://www.exploringaustralia.com.au/showplace.php?s=adel&p=92" target="_blank">Hahndorf</a>, the German village in Adelaide hills.<br />
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Here are a series of photos spread over several posts from my little moments captured in this town over time. It's so gorgeous that it almost takes you back an era. *sigh*<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314269128895000657.post-43361891839309171672012-04-03T03:57:00.000-07:002012-04-03T03:57:00.165-07:00Date with myself<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKAfmudlNtpCb1Ik47Iz-4f5t-_9_WRNDUI0x1YgzAozZxnbkUmsiw6zpFWkByx2A8aUIfMbxGFS1CRr3UsLl-Obd_fWue4NnvEaM-7gQCKMM319PPJolIo0U1gBMGadHxlWleYIE8s5o/s1600/cafe+and+coffee2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKAfmudlNtpCb1Ik47Iz-4f5t-_9_WRNDUI0x1YgzAozZxnbkUmsiw6zpFWkByx2A8aUIfMbxGFS1CRr3UsLl-Obd_fWue4NnvEaM-7gQCKMM319PPJolIo0U1gBMGadHxlWleYIE8s5o/s640/cafe+and+coffee2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314269128895000657.post-18504887231301580792012-03-28T18:16:00.000-07:002012-03-28T18:16:25.638-07:00Pure white morning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4w6vanMwBsP0N2wDPoTp5whH9W1jgWo4ITW6-EkH2X75vPfNhDnXzcT2Cw-ff7O0EkRKfcQsbbjzOaE3QfBgDz_MywSJlit6RzNmao7ux9EGD-eh1kVIqMuhNEPcuDogUUfwiD5eVLdQ/s1600/Coffee-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4w6vanMwBsP0N2wDPoTp5whH9W1jgWo4ITW6-EkH2X75vPfNhDnXzcT2Cw-ff7O0EkRKfcQsbbjzOaE3QfBgDz_MywSJlit6RzNmao7ux9EGD-eh1kVIqMuhNEPcuDogUUfwiD5eVLdQ/s640/Coffee-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314269128895000657.post-36590118383366804872012-03-21T03:59:00.001-07:002012-03-21T03:59:00.611-07:00Death by Chocolate and coffee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAYYYlej5RWaFujis3DQ-kaZCCDyTsfFYeaC6pr-QQK0gHP8829XlIAweTzCI5DTmSNSdVGdWALUN2etF1_Ya3_VQO7LF7l0pdcm1e0CVidaG8fswNRZLN1jeRXRGxnJVsHUneciaXEEk/s1600/cafe+and+coffee4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAYYYlej5RWaFujis3DQ-kaZCCDyTsfFYeaC6pr-QQK0gHP8829XlIAweTzCI5DTmSNSdVGdWALUN2etF1_Ya3_VQO7LF7l0pdcm1e0CVidaG8fswNRZLN1jeRXRGxnJVsHUneciaXEEk/s640/cafe+and+coffee4.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314269128895000657.post-21290883678473292242012-03-15T06:15:00.002-07:002012-03-15T06:15:00.280-07:00A day's affair in Mclaren Vale<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9DpDg38A3IBEn992MP74bYqS1JC8LKvxp_1q57qiku5B0BESEDL-N2a4GPxjDv9D-Cvz_OaFsiBlS6gL0lmwmAtpWoQM5WucKufAjgLRn2SkWRY082qKsGYDFgdCpXd2rX_hUrTTRxg/s1600/Mclaren-Vale-cornersandmome.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="603" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9DpDg38A3IBEn992MP74bYqS1JC8LKvxp_1q57qiku5B0BESEDL-N2a4GPxjDv9D-Cvz_OaFsiBlS6gL0lmwmAtpWoQM5WucKufAjgLRn2SkWRY082qKsGYDFgdCpXd2rX_hUrTTRxg/s640/Mclaren-Vale-cornersandmome.gif" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A beautiful day spent at Mclaren Vale recently. We are kind of romantic birds and love to take a flight alone every now and then to absorb nature, sip a cup of coffee together and eat some good food. </span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Visitor Centre is the first place to go in any area when you are travelling especially around Australia. This is the beautiful McLaren Vale Visitor Centre also emcompassing a beautiful spacious Art Gallery - The Stump Hill Art Gallery. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can easily spend hours in </span><a href="http://www.mclarenvale.info/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank">Visitor centre</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> alone, as it has a wine tasting bar, art gallery, shop showcasing local produce and art and crafts and a cafe that sells yummmm Gelato ! </span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I believe Vale Ale is SA's 3rd largest brewery now. They offer tasting of 4 different types of beers ranging from clean crisp tasting to American style dark lager. Hmmm....Sniff, swirl, swallow.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314269128895000657.post-84023756028108333062012-03-12T19:04:00.002-07:002012-03-12T19:18:59.752-07:00Kikki K for my precious thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since childhood I have always loved notebooks - notebooks of any kind - lined, unlined, plain, handmade papers, plain paper, old and new, all kinds. But especially with hard covers and blank pages for your imagination, memories, beautiful words to fill in, sometimes lined to create a space for discipline. I think it makes them so special. Special part of your life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">And hence why these pages filled with thoughts, drawings, sketches became such an important part of my life. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Since I have discovered these, I love simplistic <span class="st">Scandinavian</span> <a href="http://www.kikki-k.com/" target="_blank">Kikki K </a>designs. The modern feel, not too stark white but mellow off white plain pages. Anyone else loves them ?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">...and yes - notice the beautiful detailing on the cover. *sigh* </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Diary writing is truly like talking to myself in the dream world so that I can see where I have come from and where I have reached. Almost meditative. Helps me to stimulate that visual, holistic, intuitive side of my brain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Life is about little journeys shared together. Those little precious moments spent together looking into each other eyes and saying "I love you". Some moments from such a day ! </span><br />
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Location: <a href="http://www.theboatdeck.com.au/" target="_blank">The Boatdeck Cafe</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314269128895000657.post-54503879788941165032012-01-26T04:52:00.001-08:002012-03-05T20:44:53.445-08:00Why 26 January is special ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's officially known as Australia Day! </span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's special for its meaning. First fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788. Special for the coincidence (or by some strategic alignment of the stars) that it falls on the same day </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">as Indian Republic Day. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Because it truly denotes the Australian spirit of enjoying, being merry and really living in the beauty of the water and nature. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Water, surfing, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en-au.havaianas.com/en-AU" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span">havaianas</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, swimming, beaches, sand are so iconic to Australian living. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So what better way to celebrate this special day than heading out in the water ?! That's what millions of people did today in Australia. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I often feel that many Australians have a cultural understanding of enjoying 'little pleasures' in life which is absolutely invigorating. There was something magical in the air !</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Also, on this day, so many immigrants like myself make Australia their home for rest of their lives in the Citizenship ceremony in all the capital cities. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It truly is a day to give fellow Australian a hug ! And personally it's a day when I say "Thanks" to Australia for giving me the beautiful life and peace of mind and making me a part of you. </span></div><div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Have you ever found yourself getting annoyed at your friend's posts : "Checked in - the amazing place" to have dinner with "the most amazing person". I have been a culprit of doing that numerous times in the past, mindlessly. But may be not completely mindlessly, because human ego was actively involved in such narcissist / "look at me" type behaviour. When I reflected on it, I found I was doing nothing else but certainly trying to blow my own trumpet apart from some occasions when I was truly trying to see if my friends are around to catch up. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And we all or those who do such things in the name of sharing / expressing. Mark Zuckerberg calls it as "expressing". Is it really the new form of expressing your story ? How boring that is then !</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After checking in random places where I was and with whom, I started questioning my behaviour. Why did I feel the need to tell the world where I was and how I was enjoying, who I was with ? I found it all a bit meaningless and so pretentious - pompous to be exact ! Some random information that I was forcing down people's throat without them wanting to know about it - like everybody else does to me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Facebook is a great medium to reach the masses, promote your service/products, express your thoughts, spread a good message but certainly not a medium to be used to make someone else feel envious or make them feel like a loser. I hated that part although I was doing that (un)intentionally or let's say blindly adapting to what I thought was 'cool'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Such things are never a positive social connection. I am sure that kind of behaviour is never uplifting for the readers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am certainly confused about where to draw the line between "show off" and "self - expression" but I do understand the psychology of low self esteem and insecure people, regardless of what they claim to be on Facebook. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I also believe that "showing off" on Facebook is hugely related to low self esteem. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Isn't putting a huge amount of self promotional content yelling out the message " Look at me ! " sign of self obsession ? Yes !</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We check our Facebook page numerous times during the day ( or within minutes sometimes - I used to, have reduced a lot recently !) - to see how many comments other people have posted, who commented & liked the photo I recently uploaded. Isn't that a sign of seeking constant external positive reinforcement ? The more people do it, the more you crave for it - the more narcissist you become. No, this is not just me telling you - if you observe your past pattern and be honest with yourself - you will also find it true.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I know some people who ask ( softly or jokingly sometimes ) their friends to "Like" their photo. I also know someone who I noticed strategising posting their photo and with immense vigour and attention so that their other friends get to notice the photo - and that behaviour tells me that the person has such a grandiose need of self-importance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then there are really sad stories, like the girl I know, who constantly feels bullied by one of her Facebook friends who she thinks looks much prettier than her. She succumbs to her quip remarks and feels pressured to come up with a better one next time in order to prove herself (Seriously !). She constantly deals with self-defeating feelings and words. It's actually a sad sight to see her going bad to worse and becoming obsessive about posting better photos, flaunting better outfits and shoes and all that on a very regular basis. ( If you want to see the bull fight, the virtual fight is live here baby ! ). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have another issue with Facebook - "Time". Time is precious and we are all spending so much time on facebook checking and checking back our same facebook page. Before we realise, we have spent 4 hours checking other people, their friends' profiles, photos and life etc and then 6 more hours gossiping about them. All we are left with is less time to do things we really aspire to do, dissipated of energy, random information spinning in our heads, which just means food for more gossip to put you in the vicious cycle of negativity. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I personally have sacrificed the reading time, time with my best friend, my time to paint and sketch to spent time on Facebook. This </span><a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/01/the-first-thing-you-do-when-you-sit-down-at-the-computer.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">article</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> got me thinking even more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And believe me this is not me just ranting furiously about Facebook as I truly believe it has some great things to offer too. But the control has been given in <u>our hands</u>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love how you can keep in touch with people and control the contact with them, send out a beautiful & inspiring message to tons of people at the same time on Facebook, keep in touch by sharing mundane things with family and close friends which you may not talk about otherwise or simply forget, how you can understand about people so much by simply being a silent spectator, how you can market your products to the masses, how you can build communities of like minded people and learn and share. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have also come to love the 'timeline' feature which takes you back in the memory lane and indicates how far you have come in life. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have come to believe use of Facebook needs self discipline otherwise it can be a slow & silent deterrent in rising up to become 'the best you' because it poses the risk of you becoming so self absorbed that you may not reflect on what you are today and where you are actually going. The clutter and useless information added to the already overloaded generation doesn't help to keep the peace of mind either. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The best remedy is "Self reflection" or "Introspection" and "Discipline". I will certainly keep doing that until I feel that I am truly living my values and not simply trying to conform or adapt or silently getting sucked into a behaviour that doesn't match the kind of person I'd like to be. We really can't blame "Facebook" - one man's idea to take over our life and rule it. We can't blame it just because we choose to let it overwhelm various spheres of our lives and lose our sanity - because we gave it permission to do that and participated in that actively.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There is a certain beauty in some esoteric details of life - and I personally like to share it with a few special people. Perhaps in something like a form of poetry beautifully written on a handmade card posted out to them. Yes, I believe there is something beautiful in the tangibles still.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I truly think we are all stories - wonderful stories, and we should all express ourselves through different means but let's keep in mind and question ourselves "Are we doing the things, saying the things to simply express and share? Are we being creative enough? Are we using the right medium? " or "Are we looking for external reinforcement and thriving on it ? Are we simply becoming a narcissist ? Are we doing it or saying it to make someone else feel jealous ?"</span><br />
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Defining something is the first step to achieving it. Overtime I have made some self-commands - these are of course work in progress ( always will be !) and only some of them.<br />
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I will choose 'fearless' over 'popular'</div>
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I will live my life according to those values </div>
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I will admire people who are worth it</div>
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I will be careful of energy vampires</div>
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I will watch myself when I am jealous and take myself out of that place almost instantly</div>
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I will pay genuine compliments anywhere and everywhere I feel someone is deserving</div>
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I will freely admit I am wrong</div>
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I will not stop questioning the status quo and thinking deeper</div>
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I will surround myself with inspirational people</div>
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I will cut down on 'social friends' and choose to be with the real ones</div>
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I will choose 'right' over 'safe'</div>
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I won't whine and cry but choose to do something to resolve</div>
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I won't seek external motivation but seek it internally</div>
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I won't stay put - I won't stagnate</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">There's a world out there and I wanna be in itI got a life and I'm gonna live it<br />
Don't tell me the sky's the limit<br />
There's footprints on the moon<br />
I wanna do my walkin' down the road less traveled<br />
Sew my dreams where they won't unravel<br />
If you play it safe you won't get nowhere<br />
I can't stay in here when there's a world out there</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><i>~ Lyrics by </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brandt" target="_blank"><i>Paul Brandt</i></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">I love this song for its lyrics - Don't you ? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">12 Photos, 12 months and a new year around the corner. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wish I could sum up and tell you everything that happened in my 2011 in just 12 photos. Not an easy thing, but these photos certainly hold a special meaning in my heart. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have no resolutions for the new year. All I know is that I am very proud to be the person I was in 2011 and I know in my heart that I will be just a better 'me' in 2012. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just some things, I find myself thinking with the advent of the new year, a new chapter: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I will nourish my body, my soul and people around me. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I will find ordinary more beautiful. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I will hear more stories of success, commitment and strength. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I will truly prioritise between the 'real' friends and the 'social' friends. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I will look for more ways to be inspired and creative than ever before. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I will be a little easy on myself. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I will take more chances and laugh at myself more than I do. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* Something that never changes - I will love more. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I will remember </span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“The best answer for a fool is silence.”</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I will start a "Love Series" on this blog. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At this point my spirit can be defined by one of my all time favourite poems, by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maya Angelou</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> - so fierce and majestic. Grabs me every time I read her work...and more so, she ignites my old love for writing poetry. May be that's also in store for 2012. ;) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><b></b> You may write me down in history</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i></i></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> With your bitter, twisted lies,</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i></i></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> You may trod me in the very dirt</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i></i></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> But still, like dust, I'll rise.</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div style="padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px;"><i> Does my sassiness upset you?<br />
Why are you beset with gloom?<br />
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells<br />
Pumping in my living room.<br />
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Just like moons and like suns,<br />
With the certainty of tides,<br />
Just like hopes springing high,<br />
Still I'll rise.<br />
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Did you want to see me broken?<br />
Bowed head and lowered eyes?<br />
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.<br />
Weakened by my soulful cries.<br />
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Does my haughtiness offend you?<br />
Don't you take it awful hard<br />
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines<br />
Diggin' in my own back yard.<br />
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You may shoot me with your words,<br />
You may cut me with your eyes,<br />
You may kill me with your hatefulness,<br />
But still, like air, I'll rise.<br />
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Does my sexiness upset you?<br />
Does it come as a surprise<br />
That I dance like I've got diamonds<br />
At the meeting of my thighs?<br />
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Out of the huts of history's shame<br />
I rise<br />
Up from a past that's rooted in pain<br />
I rise<br />
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,<br />
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.<br />
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear<br />
I rise<br />
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear<br />
I rise<br />
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,<br />
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.<br />
I rise<br />
I rise<br />
I rise.</i></div></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wish you all a very Happy New Year. Welcoming the new year is one thing and living it up for next 364 days is another. The latter is the challenge and the excitement that I am looking forward to. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">In order to be as free as I possibly can </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity. I detest and loathe [those categories]. I think it's off-putting to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things. </span></span><br />
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