In others' words

In the mood to Quote :
"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that."
- Charlotte

Excerpt from 'Charlotte's Web' , a book than can be read over and over again, and each time one gets a different reading of it, a different perspective....

...And a bit of poetry..... for the soul :
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses;
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while,
then closes Within a dream
- Ernest Dowson

And the revelation of the day just has to be :
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do
with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
- Will Rogers

My sincere thanks to all the amazing people i've quoted...It's the kind of thing one reads and wishes one had written...in any case, i'm glad i got to at least chance upon these words...last but not least,i hope i don't get sued for this.

Thought of the day :
So what am i doing...
why am i doing what i'm doing
and more importantly
why am i not doing what i'm not doing?

And its such a simple question.

Sometimes it feels good to not think about yourself,your life, to not write your own words and express your own thoughts..it might take conscious and concerted effort, coz we are all self-absorbed to at least a small extent...to deny it would be disillusioned,dishonest or simply saintly.(see, i'm not an incurable cynic!)

Inspiration/Aspiration of (time period not specified) :
To think for myself more
and about myself,less
To take more time out from my own life
To ask/want/demand less for myself
To pray for others more
To ask of others less
To give off myself more
Well...i'm done fr now i guess..
That's about it...more or less.
- just me

Needs

I Think I need :
Earrings
A job
More earrings
more time alone
More time. period.
Even more earrings.
Panadol - or any kinda cure for my headache
Brownies..er...ok..maybe not.
Sleep.
Definitely sleep.

I need :
Sleep
A proper job. (dsnt necessarily mean i want one...i know, sounds weird but it makes sense to me)
To catch up with certain goondots
Faster typing skills - to finish up my typing assignments.
Definitely Sleep

I DO NOT NEED :
Any more oreos. Not a single piece..Not even half a piece.
Any more retail therapy
(Think i still need the earrrings tho)

I definitely need :
To end this,
here and now.

Pro-crastination

its amazing how things move in a circle and what the combination of age,experience and maturity can do for you.how it can impact your life, and bring about changes when you least expect it. For me its been constant showers of blessings, not a downpour but just enuff to feel the cool breeze and appreciate the little droplets that cause pretty tiny ripples in the otherwise still waters. Its been nice - good times, old friends, new bonds, renewed friendships. it helps every so often to see things in a different light.we all make our own constellations along the circular path, but somewhere somehow,paths do meet, and things fall into place.We may not all be connected and intertwined fr too long, but as with most things, there is a reason and a purpose, or so i'd like to think.

ok now that i got that out of my system. something to enjoy :
Found it on a website, and it seems to be what i live by.. anyone knows who the original source of this is ???

The Procrastinator's Creed:
1. I believe that if anything is worth doing, it would have been done already.
2. I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses.
3. I will never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration.
4. I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.
5. I firmly believe that tomorrow holds the possibility for new technologies, astounding discoveries, and a reprieve from my obligations.
6. I truly believe that all deadlines are unreasonable regardless of the amount of time given.
7. I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, though infinitesmally small, is not exactly zero.
8. If at first I don't succeed, there is always next year.
9. I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind.
10. I shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when I get around to it.
11. I obey the law of inverse excuses which demands that the greater the task to be done, the more insignificant the work that must be done prior to beginning the greater task.
12. I know that the work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan.
13. I will never put off until tomorrow, what I can forget about forever.
14. I will become a member of the ancient Order of Two-Headed Turtles (the Procrastinator's Society) if they ever get it organized.

- by anonymous

WonderWall

When there's absoutely nothing happening, nothing at all, every single small non-issue becomes an issue and non-event becomes an event.Or at least every single thnig about your pathetic life becomes whine-worthy. And then it suddenly becomes possbile to fill page after page of the old forgotten diary, or type away without restraint into the evolved version of today aka the blog.And then all of a sudden it seems that with the bat of an eye lid, so many things are happening and they just keep happening. Major events even, and ponder-worthy issues.And ur struggling to keep up..Yet, this is when your mind refuses to focus and your fingers dont seem to budge upon the keyboard, except for perhaps to engage in idle chat.i guess at some point u tend to give up and just let it go on, watch your life pass u by as they would say. Its been a while since i even entered this page,my own space or so its meant to be. I had decided when i started blogging - ok, joined the blogging world which by then comprised of half the world, that i would only write when i was inspired to. ok well, inspired to, or pushed to the limit, such that that thoughts and feelings overflowed,beyond the silent boundaries of the mind into the www. - ah, but i had the veil of anonymity - (there is no such thing by the way). there comes a point when you have to accept responsibility for everything you say and do even if you dont do it under ur own name, literally speaking. Coz we ll have our own identity, and that far surpasses afterall a name.again, im dodging the question (alert readers would now wonder, what IS the question??do not worry, coz im wondering the same thing and i get a strange feeling there isnt one) well maybe there is, but it might come through this jumble of words which seem so meaningless even to me but i'm doing what i haven't done in a long time, im just letting my mind and my fingers coordinate, hopefully with minimal restrain and self-censorship. (So now when i make sense, you'll know how much editing would have gone into it) :)
I'm waffling. I think its a childhood tendency which my mom 1st identified and called it 'longwinded'...and later it was properly named by my lit teacher in jc when she put it down in red ink on my essay. (consolation : can anyone tell me how NOT to waffle when your writing about DH lawrence's 'women in love'!?!) That chap waffled his way through the entire novel and we study it for let, and i just get marked down!As i type all this, i realise i really like the sound of waffle...waffles...its got a jingle to it, and it sounds so happy...(i happen to know a dr called that by the way, and coupled with a sirname, woo, its not just alliteration, its plain sad). I truly believe in onomatopoeia. If i had a previous life, if at all, i'm convinced i would have been a waffle. how many ppl have the honour of being both noun and verb.

Out of nowhere, the random forces came together and i now have a dog scurrying about. The dog, 'previously known as remo' is now undergoing an emergency and intensive name-change.So intensive that we're overwhelmed by options and still undecided and refer to it as the dog. but we're doing this out of sheer good will and consideration for the dog, coz we were starting to give it a serious identity crisis by calling it various names..no wonder it ignored us and stopped responding to anything. (aside : trying to name ur dog after watching 'Beethoven'? some dogs aren't musically inclined). Ok so now its here, im not sure if its here to stay, im still quite unaffected by its presence wihch is easy to miss coz it's a very quiet creature and is very contented curling up in shady corners. So no complaints from me in that department.

Apart from this ..er...development, ive also come to the end of 'THE experiments'!!!I thought i would never see the day. no seriously, i knew the day would come, but i just dind;t think i'd live to see it!Embarking on a series of other short-term assignments, attemtps at consoling oneself that one is not jobless or unemployed but that one is a free lance ' something important sounding'.For the 1st time last night, i thought of mm.. thought of him alive coz that's how i think id always want to remember him..not in the physical mortal sense, he was just an extremely alive person..it felt strange thinking about him coz till now, ive refused to let myself go there. come to think of it, its only now, as i counted with my fingers, that its hit me..its been 10 mnths,wow that's fast. just like its been 9 yrs since ga died..days into months into yrs - when ppl say its a matter of time, i guess we can take it damn literally.Speaking of which i better be off..am on a pro- punctuality policy, something i can and should work on (hmm..why do i sense general agreement here)...vibes..wow...i could start an entire post on this, but i'll leave that to another time.Looking frward to a day well spent, for myself and all.

Cheers & carpe diem, till the next time my mind and hands decide to coordinate. quite a rare phenomenon these days.