Word of the day: obambulate

Word of the day: obambulate - To wander aimlessly.

Sample sentence: Sometimes I feel like I'm just obambulating

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Smile!

Just received this text message forwarded by a friend. I couldnt say how timely this is lol

Why Smiling is Good

1. Smiling makes us attractive -- I remember MJ with this lol

2. Smiling changes our mood

3. Smiling is contagious -- maybe that's what made me smile, when my supervisor was telling abt his daughter's antics

4. Smiling relieves stress

5. Smiling boosts your immune system

6. Smiling lowers your blood pressure

7. Smiling lifts the face and makes you look younger

So keep smiling!

Beauty and Bride and Beast

posted this in my shelfari

Since I was a child, I'm really a Beauty and the Beast fan . I like it more then Snow White and Cinderella since the two characters in this story get to know one another before falling in love with each other. Which is realistic than falling in love after waking from a kiss. After seeing Teresa Medeiros' The Bride and the Beast, I wondered if somehow, this book is the same as the fairy tale movie that I loved. So I started reading and was not disappointed. This book, which is somewhat similar to Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast, has also its own story and twists which I think that Beauty and the Beast fans like me will love.

Life and Mistakes

i was talking to a friend of mine, two friends actually, which gave me the idea to look for "mistakes in life" quotes, and found this here

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Orlando A. Battista

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.

Edmund Burke

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Dr. David Burns

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Joseph Conrad

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.

Russell H. Ewing

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to errors that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Fred Hoyle

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

Eugene Ionesco

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

Billy Joel

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Pauline Kael

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Ann Landers

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Sam Levenson

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

James Russell Lowell

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

Aaron McGruder

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Peter McWilliams

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of.

Donn Moomaw

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Jim Morrison

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes

Spanish Proverb

Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns

Mitch Ratcliffe

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Joan Rivers

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Anthony Robbins

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Swami Sivananda

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once you have missed the first buttonhole you'll never manage to button up.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Denis Waitley

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

William Arthur Ward

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Bill Watterson

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

Arthur Wellesley

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.

Wolfdyke

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes'.

Steven Wright

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Happy Reading at 2009

After 9 days, allow me to greet you a Happy New Year 2009. Huli man daw at magaling, huli pa rin, hehehe. Last Dec 30, my mom and I had the chance to watch Ang Tanging Ina Nyong Lahat and Dayo, 2 of the 8 (tama ba) MMFF entries. I also finished reading the four (e-)books of the Twilight saga, and I'm planning to buy them as soon as they're available in bookstores. Maganda ang story, and touching specially for me na isang hopeless romantic hehehe. Since the year closed and started with me reading (e-)books, heto ako ngayon, mega download na ng e-books. Mukhang I'll be into reading again this year. I had already finished reading Sophie Kinsella's Remember Me, and it's ok. But I still like her Undomesticated Goddess the best among her works.

I'm proud to say that these readings has enriched my English vocabulary. Kaya may maganda ring nangyari, aside sa nainspire ako hehehe. Some of the English words I encountered are:

chagrin
exuberant
innocuous

and others I forgot hehehe.

I'll be reading the vampire series of Lynsay Sands. Hmmm.. mukhang I'm into vampire reading ah hehehe. Di naman siguro ako magiging vampire nito sa puyat hehehe.

Google Logos

naaaliw ako sa mga iba't ibang logo ng google sa tuwing may mga okasyon. isa na ang larawang ito na kuha sa logo nila kahapon, para sa 50th year ng lego :)

gumawa ka ng mabuti, sa yo. gumawa ka ng masama, sa yo.

this story was told by one of my loved pastors. i just hope i can tell it as good as he did.

sa isang kaharian, may isang pulubi na di marunong magpasalamat. ang lagi nyang sinasabi ay "gumawa ka ng mabuti, sa yo. gumawa ka ng masama, sa yo."

sa kahariang yun ay naghahari ang isang hari na may isang spoiled na anak na prinsipe. dahil spoiled ang anak na prinsipe, lagi nitong kinukutya ang pulubi. di naman gumaganti ang pulubi, ang tangi lang sinasabi nito ay "gumawa ka ng mabuti, sa yo. gumawa ka ng masama, sa yo." dahil dito, lalong nagngingitngit ang prinsipe, dahilan upang mainis din ang hari. hanggang sa nakaisip sya ng paraan.

isang araw, pinatawag nya ang pulubi, at binigyan ng magarang kasuotan at pagkain. nguni't imbes na magpasalamat ay ito lang ang sinabi ng pulubi. "gumawa ka ng mabuti, sa yo. gumawa ka ng masama, sa yo." dahil dito, lalong nagalit ang hari, pero hindi nya ito pinahalata.

umalis na ang pulubi, suot ang bagong damit at dala ang pagkain. hindi pa sya nakalalayo ay hinarang na sya ng prinsipe at ng mga kawal nito, binugbog at kinuha ang damit at pagkain.

habang sya ay gumagapang palayo, ang sabi ng pulubi ay "gumawa ka ng mabuti, sa yo. gumawa ka ng masama, sa yo."

di na iyon pinansin pa ng prinsipe at agad na kinain ang pagkaing binigay ng hari sa pulubi. di pa nagtatagal ay biglang bumula ang kanyang bibig, kaya dali-dali syang dinala sa palasyo. dun ay nagulat ang lahat, kaya tinanong ng hari kung anong nangyari. dun ay sinabi sa kanya ng mga kawal na kinain ng prinsipe ang pagkaing binigay nya sa pulubi. yun pala, ang pagkaing yun ay nilagyan ng lason ng hari.

sa kanyang pagdalamhati, animo'y umaaalingawngaw ang tinig ng pulubi "gumawa ka ng mabuti, sa yo. gumawa ka ng masama, sa yo."

HP Mania

Sophie Kinsella

since i had read Can You Keep A Secret, i seem to like her style of writing. parang autobiography na alam mo namang fiction, pero may touch of what's happening in the real world. hindi far-fetched. hindi imahinasyon lang, hehehe. im now reading The Undomestic Goddess, and i might read here shopaholic series as well. di naman ako nagiging fan ni Sophie Kinsella di ba? hehehe :D

fact or fiction?

It's been awhile since I read a book. There are times that I would have bought some books I browsed in bookstores, but the kuri side got the better of me, hehehe. recently, I'm into watching dvd kaya lalong nawala yung hilig ko sa books. or so I thought. Just recently, a friend of mine gave me a book, titled A Million Pieces, which is an autobiography of James Frey. I'm not really into biographies or autobiographies. But since she gave it to me, I started reading it. It's easy reading, as she had said, and I'm now 70% done reading the book :) pag pala papipiliin ako between dvd and a book e mas pa rin ako sa book :D

Today, I tried to googling James Frey, and this is what I found out:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html


So, what's the real score? I don't know. Anyway, the book portrayed a life of an addict, and I think this is somehow an insight to what's going through an addict's mind, which may help someone who is related to an addict.