December is not only a month to look forward to Christmas and the year-end holidays, it's also a month to meet up with fellow bloggers at this grand year-end gathering, Blogger Meet.
Will you be there?
Sunday, December 3, 2006
Year-end Blogger Meet
December is not only a month to look forward to Christmas and the year-end holidays, it's also a month to meet up with fellow bloggers at this grand year-end gathering, Blogger Meet.
Will you be there?
Friday, December 1, 2006
I'll Give It to Someone Special
Found this cutie pie of an animated Christmas video that I just can't wait to share it with you. I know, I know, it's only the first day of December but... (yes, but lets you get away with things)... but time does fly and at the blink of an eye, it'll be Christmas already.
Actually I found it on LB's and he so kindly ok'd for it to be aired here, sort of like a revival. Good stuff should live forever and be enjoyed. (Thank you, LB) I fell in love with it the very first time I saw it. I guess you could say 'twas love at first sight.
I love December. Love it! Love it! Love it! The human spirit comes full circle and alive with all that sharing and giving and loving and cheer and snow-flakes (oops! not here) and shopping and presents and Christmas trees and blings-blings and more shopping and Santa Claus and mistletoes and some more shopping and bells and hugs and kisses and...(I'm out of breath..)
Okay, enough already. Let's get on with the show.
I present to you (drumroll, please)......Last Christmas (click on the image below)
Actually I found it on LB's and he so kindly ok'd for it to be aired here, sort of like a revival. Good stuff should live forever and be enjoyed. (Thank you, LB) I fell in love with it the very first time I saw it. I guess you could say 'twas love at first sight.
I love December. Love it! Love it! Love it! The human spirit comes full circle and alive with all that sharing and giving and loving and cheer and snow-flakes (oops! not here) and shopping and presents and Christmas trees and blings-blings and more shopping and Santa Claus and mistletoes and some more shopping and bells and hugs and kisses and...(I'm out of breath..)
Okay, enough already. Let's get on with the show.
I present to you (drumroll, please)......Last Christmas (click on the image below)
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Short Shots: Personality Quizzes
Let's end November with a trip, an ego-trip, that is. Here are some really, really simple personality quizzes. Honest, they're so short and simple you'd be wondering how they're able to tell your character. Beats me, but do try them, just for the fun of it.
Let me share my readings. I'm not taking them seriously, so you shouldn't either.
***Your Hidden Talent***
You are both very knowledgeable and creative.
You tend to be full of new ideas and potential - big potential.
Ideas like yours could change the world, if you build them.
As long as you don't stop working on your dreams, you'll get there.
Now your turn.
What's Your Hidden Talent?
Are You Hot?
Don't you wanna know?
LOL, this one cracked me up.
***You Are Smokin' Hot***
You're a terrible flirt, a sharp dresser, and a party animal.
Of course, you're totally sizzling too. And for you, being hot just comes naturally.
What Time Of Day Are You?
Check it out.
***You Are Sunrise***
You enjoy living a slow, fulfilling life. You enjoy living every moment, no matter how ordinary.
You are a person of reflection and meditation. You start and end every day by looking inward.
Caring and giving, you enjoy making people happy. You're often cooking for friends or buying them gifts.
All in all, you know how to love life for what it is - not for how it should be.
And finally
Are You Psychic?
Are you? Are you? Well, find out.
***You Are 90% Psychic***
You are so very psychic.
But you already predicted that, didn't you?
You have "the gift" - and you use it daily to connect with others.
You're very tapped into the world around you...
Just make sure to use your powers for good!
Now, wasn't that fun!? Hope you enjoyed that little excursion. I did.
Let me share my readings. I'm not taking them seriously, so you shouldn't either.
***Your Hidden Talent***
You are both very knowledgeable and creative.
You tend to be full of new ideas and potential - big potential.
Ideas like yours could change the world, if you build them.
As long as you don't stop working on your dreams, you'll get there.
Now your turn.
What's Your Hidden Talent?
Are You Hot?
Don't you wanna know?
LOL, this one cracked me up.
***You Are Smokin' Hot***
You're a terrible flirt, a sharp dresser, and a party animal.
Of course, you're totally sizzling too. And for you, being hot just comes naturally.
What Time Of Day Are You?
Check it out.
***You Are Sunrise***
You enjoy living a slow, fulfilling life. You enjoy living every moment, no matter how ordinary.
You are a person of reflection and meditation. You start and end every day by looking inward.
Caring and giving, you enjoy making people happy. You're often cooking for friends or buying them gifts.
All in all, you know how to love life for what it is - not for how it should be.
And finally
Are You Psychic?
Are you? Are you? Well, find out.
***You Are 90% Psychic***
You are so very psychic.
But you already predicted that, didn't you?
You have "the gift" - and you use it daily to connect with others.
You're very tapped into the world around you...
Just make sure to use your powers for good!
Now, wasn't that fun!? Hope you enjoyed that little excursion. I did.
Never Wore Fricken Lacy Lingerie
Frogma (Bonnie) of New York posted this comment on my earlier post, The Best Medicine...Laughter. I love it! It is so good that I feel it deserves a place on the mainboard. So, here it is.
So, for all single ladies out there, this is for you.
Bonnie, thank you for sharing it.
Bonnie said:
I just got this from a friend (married, actually!) this morning & thought you'd enjoy!
Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "NO!
And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, camping, drank martinis, always had a clean house, never had to cook, did whatever the hell she wanted, never argued, traveled more, had many boyfriends, didn't save money, and had all the hot water to herself.
She went to the theater, never watched sports, never wore fricken lacy lingerie that went up her backside, had high self-esteem, never cried or yelled, felt and looked fabulous in sweat pants.
THE END
So, for all single ladies out there, this is for you.
Bonnie, thank you for sharing it.
Bonnie said:
I just got this from a friend (married, actually!) this morning & thought you'd enjoy!
Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "NO!
And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, camping, drank martinis, always had a clean house, never had to cook, did whatever the hell she wanted, never argued, traveled more, had many boyfriends, didn't save money, and had all the hot water to herself.
She went to the theater, never watched sports, never wore fricken lacy lingerie that went up her backside, had high self-esteem, never cried or yelled, felt and looked fabulous in sweat pants.
THE END
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Happy Birthday to FH2O
Happy Birthday, FH2O, and Many Happy Returns of the Day (November 29).
*Singing*
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear FH2O
Happy Birthday to you.
Having a birthday between Nov 22 to Dec 01 means
You fell from the ASH TREE (the Ambition)
Uncommonly attractive, vivacious, impulsive,
demanding, does not care for criticism,
ambitious, intelligent, talented, likes to play with fate,
can be egotistic, very reliable and trustworthy,
faithful and prudent lover, sometimes
brains rule over the heart,
but takes partnership very seriously.
Nov 25 - Dec 23
Always impressive, RAVEN people are a tower of strength. They are more intelligent than their peers and are adept problem-solvers. They enjoy challenges are stimulated by wild and exposed places.
Born on the 29, you are in the Number 2 people group.
No matter what, you will be loved by everyone coz your ruler is the Moon and everyone loves the Moon. Well, you are a person who daydreams a lot, you have very low-self confidence, you need backup for every move in your life, you are very much unpredictable meaning you do change according to time and circumstances, kinda selfish, have a very strong sense of musical, artistic talent, verbal communication, your attitudes are like the Moon so everybody can expect changes in you. You can be a next Mahathma Gandhi who is peace-loving or you can be a Hitler who wants to destroy mankind and peace (in the community and your own Home).
People born between Nov 17 to 30 being in the Cat group
Are very shy and cute. They are followers and don't like to talk to people they don't know. They are very careful about choosing their friends. They are really nice.
FH2O, best wishes for yet another wonderful year of Happiness, Health and Wealth!
Source of pictures: 123greetings.com
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The Best Medicine...Laughter
I haven't been posting jokes lately, so here are some to continue the tradition. Enjoy.
Why divorce?
In a divorce court a woman requested the judge:
"Your honor, I want to divorce my husband."
"But why?" asked the judge.
She replied, "Because he is not faithful to me."
The judge asked, "How do you know?"
She replied, "My lord, not a single child resembles him."
Love Your Enemy
From his death bed, the husband called his wife and said,
"One month after I die I want you to marry Samy."
"Samy! But he is your enemy!"
"Yes, I know that! I've suffered all these years so let him suffer now."
Same Service
A husband visited a marriage counselor and said,
"When we were first married, I would come home from the office, my wife would bring my slippers and our cute little dog would run around barking. Now after ten years it's all different, I come home, the dog brings the slippers and my wife runs around barking."
"Why complain?" said the counselor.
"You're still getting the same service!"
Love To Do
A wife, one evening, drew her husband's attention to the couple next door and said,
"Do you see that couple?
How devoted they are?
He kisses her every time they meet.
Why don't you do that?"
"I would love to." Replied the husband.
"But I don't know her well enough."
No Answering Back
A man was telling his friends,
"When my wife is infuriated, she starts shouting at me, my children and even at our dogs and nobody dares answer her."
One of his friends asked.
" And when you are angry, what do you do?"
The man replied,
"I also shout angrily at the windows and doors of the house and none of them dares to answer back.
Coming Home Late
A woman was complaining to the neighbor that her husband always came home late, no matter how she tried to stop him.
"Take my advice," said the neighbor, "and do what I did.
Once my husband came home at three o'clock in the morning, and from my bed I called out:
"Is that you, Jim?"
And that cured him.
"Cured him !" asked the woman, "but how?"
The neighbor said, "You see, his name is Bill."
Problem Father
"You look troubled," I told my friend,
"what's your problem?"
He replied, "I'm going to be a father."
"But that's wonderful," I said.
"What's wonderful? My wife doesn't know about it yet.
And this one must be taken with a huge pinch of salt. Guys to note.
Source: Unknown
Why divorce?
In a divorce court a woman requested the judge:
"Your honor, I want to divorce my husband."
"But why?" asked the judge.
She replied, "Because he is not faithful to me."
The judge asked, "How do you know?"
She replied, "My lord, not a single child resembles him."
Love Your Enemy
From his death bed, the husband called his wife and said,
"One month after I die I want you to marry Samy."
"Samy! But he is your enemy!"
"Yes, I know that! I've suffered all these years so let him suffer now."
Same Service
A husband visited a marriage counselor and said,
"When we were first married, I would come home from the office, my wife would bring my slippers and our cute little dog would run around barking. Now after ten years it's all different, I come home, the dog brings the slippers and my wife runs around barking."
"Why complain?" said the counselor.
"You're still getting the same service!"
Love To Do
A wife, one evening, drew her husband's attention to the couple next door and said,
"Do you see that couple?
How devoted they are?
He kisses her every time they meet.
Why don't you do that?"
"I would love to." Replied the husband.
"But I don't know her well enough."
No Answering Back
A man was telling his friends,
"When my wife is infuriated, she starts shouting at me, my children and even at our dogs and nobody dares answer her."
One of his friends asked.
" And when you are angry, what do you do?"
The man replied,
"I also shout angrily at the windows and doors of the house and none of them dares to answer back.
Coming Home Late
A woman was complaining to the neighbor that her husband always came home late, no matter how she tried to stop him.
"Take my advice," said the neighbor, "and do what I did.
Once my husband came home at three o'clock in the morning, and from my bed I called out:
"Is that you, Jim?"
And that cured him.
"Cured him !" asked the woman, "but how?"
The neighbor said, "You see, his name is Bill."
Problem Father
"You look troubled," I told my friend,
"what's your problem?"
He replied, "I'm going to be a father."
"But that's wonderful," I said.
"What's wonderful? My wife doesn't know about it yet.
And this one must be taken with a huge pinch of salt. Guys to note.
Source: Unknown
Monday, November 27, 2006
New Blog Features
You might have noticed two new features on the sidebar of my blog. The first is "Who Links To Me".
This was borrowed from Pandabonium's blog week before last. As the name implies, this feature gives an idea as to who is linking to the blog.
The other feature is the Neo Counter and this I got from the Moody Minstrel's blog. Generally, I'm not concerned about traffic volume to my blog. This Neo Counter is interesting in that it allows for various configs by country and city and each category allows for a few ways of tracking traffic. It also offers four cool backgrounds. I chose to show just one type of each category, recent cities and daily visitors by country, and I chose backgrounds of the Savanna (with three birds flying across the sunset sky) and Tropical (with an airplane across the sky and two nuts (I mean coconuts) falling to the ground.
On the first day after installing this, I noticed a city called Sheboygan, WI, which reminds me of "Home Alone". Remember the kind gentleman (played by the late John Candy) who offered the mom a ride in his van when she could not get an air-ticket home? Perhaps I'm mistaken.
Anyway, I saw cities like Soldetalje (Sweden); Burnaby and Port Coquitlam (Canada); and Igea Marina (Italy), Noordbroeksterhamrik (Netherlands) on the city-roll. Wow! These are cities that I had never even heard of and it is really exciting seeing them. Of course there are familiar ones like Bahamas, Quezon City (The Philippines), Santa Fe, London, Manchester, Bristol, Melbourne, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, KL and the different regions of Malaysia and even some of these are not familiar to me. Some geography lesson here. (And I just saw Ulaanbaator (Mongolia) - this is way too cool.)
As much as it is exhilarating for me to see those cities, I imagine it would also be exhilarating for visitors to the blog to see their cities being listed. I know I would get a kick out of it if I were to see my city on a city-roll on anyone's blog. Wouldn't you?
Excitement does not even come close. I am more in awe of how borderless the world has become and communication is merely a mouse-click away. Awesome! But a sombre thought here - why can't we even live together in peace?!
Well, give them a try. These features are free and easy, i.e., free to use and easy to install. Thanks PandaB and MM, for showing the way.
Switching to a different matter, I have decided not to wait until December to change the music video. I changed it over the weekend to "Forever Young". I figured "Hotel California" has served us well and need a rest. I hope you will enjoy the new one. Here are the lyrics to the song - I thought you might want to sing along.
FOREVER YOUNG
Alphaville
Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you going to drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men
Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders we're getting in tune
The music's played by the madmen
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever young
Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young
It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth is like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We let them come true
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Postcards from America
How time flies. Once again Postcards from America has selected the four finalists for this year's Postcards/Photography competition. Here are the four. Which one do you like? Which one would you vote for?
In last year's competition, one postcard on Oregon was chosen. This year, there is once again a finalist depicting Oregon. Oregon must be a beautiful state. Oregon reminds me of the Moody Minstrel. MM is from Oregon but is now living in Tokyo.
Check out last year's photos.
In last year's competition, one postcard on Oregon was chosen. This year, there is once again a finalist depicting Oregon. Oregon must be a beautiful state. Oregon reminds me of the Moody Minstrel. MM is from Oregon but is now living in Tokyo.
Check out last year's photos.
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