Archive for April, 2009
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From Bill Gates – On Life
- Bill Gates (via last.fm)
This should be posted in all schools and work places
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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Who’s your (claw)daddy!?
Next Sweldo: You, Me & A HUGE Crab in white wine, garlic, and olive oil (or the Crab Maritess - Crab sauteed in olive oil, white wine and chilies). I concentrated mainly on the crab, and I think I looked like I enjoyed it too much because nobody tried to take it away from my part of the table. My brothers had ribs, and ordered a few other things at New Orleans (the resto beside it).
The items on the menu were a bit pricey (i mean i could get really fat crabs at the seafood wharf for 1/3 of the price of the one in ClawDaddy, and yeah, I’m NOT rolling in dough), but I think well worth the price.
We went there on a Sunday, and man, was it busy! There was a guy who was obviously pissed and castigating the poor waitress (because they still haven’t gotten his damn hot towels) and it took forever to get some of the items we ordered, but they were very apologetic about it, and it seemed like they were undermanned that day, so we just tried to understand(for the love of delicious crabs, I was willing to wait). Also, I could picture my friend’s husband, Parker, say in the background, “as long as it’s delicious food, we’re willing to wait”(anawangin 2008!).
Overall it was a good experience. Definitely going back
ClawDADDY! on Munch Punch.
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Preparing for a Shmarathon
I’m getting ready.. getting ready.. oh what a day it’s gonna beeeeee – yeah the song keeps playing in my head ever since I made a decision to prepare for marathon running. I said prepare… not actually run a marathon hahaha.Bea & Mark have already suggested we join the running club over at the fort every thursday, but before we actually show (me & drei) the running population our barely there running skills, we’ll head to the gym first to test our endurance… which I barely have.. ugh. (wish life was like WoW – buy a trinket off AH and get +10 stamina, +25 agility, with an equip function to increase attack power by 72)
here are a few link s to all you interested to join us prepare for a marathon.
http://www.ehow.com/how_136552_run-marathon.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15416351/
http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/diet-fitness/how-do-prepare-marathon.html
If you’re a regular runner (or have tried running in a marathon) what tips can you gives us noobs?
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You reading this, YOU are AWESOME.
Amazing video of seeing the good in others, and letting them know. Don’t you just wish everyone was like him? I’m taking this video as a sign that I need to give validation – I WANT to give it, and I’ll start it with my super duper human validator, drei!
Inspiring. it’s 16 minutes long but it’s worth its loading time (and much more!)
Got it from this post The Gift of Validation. If you have time, please read the post as well.
Excerpt:
Ultimately, our validation has to come from God. Parents, bosses, spouses, and even friends will disappoint us. They have their own issues. But God is the one Person who is wholly other-centered. He made us in his image and delights in us. He stubbornly loves us even when we are unlovable. If that’s not validation, I don’t know what is.
Hi! I’m Ven
I work in the Lost & Found Dept of the web :) Pescetarian for more than a 200 days now. Loves dogs. and shoes. and ok maybe make-up(i'm just a girl, after all..) 2011= 20eleVEN."Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be ridiculous than boring."-Marilyn Monroe
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