Chasing Noodles

"The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us." Mr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela,  Madiba, Tata, Khulu There is nothing I can say to give you the right amount of justice and honour you deserve. Your legacy will live on and you will be forever in our hearts.  Thank you for all that you fought for and teaching us how to love and truly forgive. Hamba Kahle Tata “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” — Nelson Mandela

It has been far too long since I have posted anything and I do apologize. One minute it's October, then suddenly we're almost in December! Seriously? Besides not being able to think of anything to really say about this rule, life has somehow become a little crazy.  Do you remember when you were at school and you'd hear the "grown ups" say how they couldn't believe how time was flying and we used to think that the second term would NEVER end and holidays were just a mirage in the distance. Well, I feel like one of those "grown ups" (even though I still haven't grown up) and that time seriously is flying past. Since I've been back in the country I've been to three weddings, seen three seasons, two hairstyles, an IMPI challenge, a warrior challenge, seven races, some heartache and some hopefulness.  But enough about me, lets chat about this rule. I heard the most awesome advert on radio the other day and it summed up this r

...Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Even the greatest have had to deal with these small people that Mark Twain speaks about at some stage in their lives. You can chose to listen to them or you can rise above them and prove them wrong. It is, of course, much easier said than done.  Sometimes these small people can be peeps you know well that think they are doing the right thing and helping you avoid disappointment, but they are the ones that cannot see or understand your dreams, which is really sad. Everyone has different idea's of what success is to them and sometimes it doesn't mean being rich and famous, or how many things you own. Sometimes its about the memories you make and things you experience. Either way, neither is wrong and none of us should be belittling anyone when it comes to their ambition, because its exactly that, THEIR ambition.  I'll leave you with this:  " To be beautiful me

"...One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein There is no need for me to say any more. If I tried, I would only ruin what has already been said so beautifully. Thanks Albert. 

benevolent   [bɪˈnɛvələnt] adj 1.  intending or showing goodwill; kindly; friendly  a benevolent smile,   a benevolent old man 2.   having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior Benevolent  comes from the Latin  bene  "well" and  volent  from the verb "to wish" so you can imagine that this word brings goodness with it.  Happy happy Ben. :)  xxx

Unfortunately this rule is a little bit too close to home for me to chat about. So instead, I found a quote by the same poet, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, that I am more comfortable with. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”  ― Rumi

Okay, so I just put the rule into search on google and got these results:  Ways to improve your relationship  'The Truth About  Men ': How to get  him  to commit  62 Things to Say to  Make  Your Husband  Feel  Great  7 Things A  Man  Only Does If  He's  Serious About  You   ... Breaking Up, Starting Over  Um, okay. Not what i was expecting. Basically, don't give your guy a present when he's down cause then you wont be able to trap him and make him marry you, wait till he's really depressed before you give him something.  For real? No, I'm gonna go with no. Let's pretend I didn't do that search. I wouldn't go as far as saying NEVER give someone a present when you know they are happy. That's a little extreme. What I would say is maybe a present is more appreciated when you don't feel on top of the world. But seriously, who doesn't like getting presents, happy or sad? Present giving should be something that you want

... so much. This song in particular will forever make me think of Cinderella, Lovely Lamb and Whoop Whoop. Best weekend in a very long time. Just remember,  I'm ready to rock you. http://youtu.be/ktvTqknDobU http://www.imaginedragonsmusic.com/

Say what? That's not what I've been taught all my life. I've always had the "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" version. Hold on, wait. Yes, that's what I've been taught but come to think of it, I've done everything opposite to how I'm supposed to, so I've actually always put all my eggs in one basket. The only problem is, I never knew about the second part of that. Keeping an eye on them. Ya, missed that memo. Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.  He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel,  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark  Twain was the gentleman that said this:  Behold the fool saith, “Put not all thine eggs in the one basket” — which is but a manner of saying, “Scatter your money and your attention;” but the wise man saith, “Put all your eggs in the one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.”   (Wow, no need to shout Mark Twain) He recons you should risk all your resources in a single venture. Th

When I go fly fishing, changing flies every so often is not unheard of. If the fish aren't biting, it must be the wrong fly. Obviously nothing to do with my skills, just the wrong fly.  The beautiful Oxbow Lodge, Bronkhorstspruit. If I really think about it, I do the same in the figurative sense too. If something isn't working for me, I throw that out and move onto something else, or somewhere else. When it comes to me making decisions about my life and things that relate to my wellbeing I'm incredibly impatient. Give me a fishing rod, or a classroom full of children and I have all the patience in the world.  Maybe it's time for me to stick to the same fly, maybe move around the dam a little to find the best spot, but to not give up on my little fly that I so carefully chose in the beginning anyway. I chose that fly for a reason and unless I get it caught in a tree (as I have once, maybe twice), I'm going to wait for it to become my right fly.  &

My Mom does not leave home, a restaurant, work or the shops without topping up her lipstick. I am lucky if I remember to put some Zam-buk on and special occasions maybe a touch of nude gloss. She LOVES gardening, I struggle to keep a cactus alive. I am crazy about all furry animals. The further away a mouse is to my Mom, the better.  The Real Makoya I'll never be like that, we said when we were younger. Well, things change and we pick up little habits as we grow older. Now days, I'm not comfortable leaving my bed unmade and don't leave the house without mascara. And sometimes I catch myself sounding just like my Mom with the kids at school.  Remember how you used to roll your eyes at your parents? Well, you might be just like them one day.  Quote by  Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYh9DCN8ads

Well thank goodness for that cause I have been wrong many times, maybe too many times.  The thing about being wrong, is to make sure you don't stay wrong. Realise your mistake or wrong decision and start making it right. Some of us take longer than others to see and can often end up making the same one over and over and over again. I am queen at that in one specific area of my life. I'm so good at it I can even see myself making the mistake, feeling the bad decision as it happens, but letting it happen anyway. Then, a couple days later, I wake up again and start all over at righting the wrong.  If you in a situation that you find you have been wrong, don't beat yourself up about it, learn from it and start trying to make it right. Just try your best to not let it happen again. :)

No words for this song by the Lumineers... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GFvUCcljkM&list=TLdNnWeCic-rY Go check out their site:  http://thelumineers.com/ #inlove "it's better to feel pain than nothing at all the opposite of love's indifference"

When i was 18 I used my gap year to see if teaching was my calling by becoming an assistant teacher at a pre-school in the three year old class room. Every single day i would come home with a story that i had heard from one of the kids and every day I said to myself i had to write it down somewhere to remember one day. But I never did.  Since then the wind has blown me back and forth in and out of classrooms and now again, I find myself back in a classroom. This time however, I am not going to forget the things they say because I am going to share them with you.  This is a heart from one of my boys made out of play dough Here's a couple of the story's in my three weeks of work with kids aged 3 - 6. We had a special church service where the littlies had to attend and a couple minutes into the service one of the girls gently poked my shoulder and said in a rather loud whisper, "Okay, now I'm bored. When can we leave." To which the boy on the other

Today I had to go back and read Rule No.42. With puffy, red, burning eyes and a very heavy heart, I had to remind myself that only I can make my dream possible, and sitting around waiting isn't going to make it happen. There will be days, like today, that nothing seems possible and you feel like your heart may snap into two, but if you don't pick yourself off the ground you just going to get dust and stuff all over you. And let's be honest, who really wants that?  Thank goodness every day you get to start all over again... Guess what I'll be doing tomorrow.

While I was in Spain, a beautiful friend introduced me to the incredibly talented Edward Christopher Sheeran. He's only 22 and taking over the music world. His voice is hauntingly beautiful and I can't keep him to myself any longer. Do yourself, and your soul, a favor and go listen to his songs. I'm in love. A-Team was his first hit and if you listen to the words, you will get goosebumps all over your body. As for the song "Small Bump", yoh, get the tissues ready. But each song speaks to the deepest part of your heart and you can feel it comes from his soul. I've just seen the music video for "Give me love" and had to share. You can thank me later. http://youtu.be/FOjdXSrtUxA And of course, this one: http://youtu.be/cOwsttzkUgs

I have the perfect example for this one, the second half that is. A friend of mine agreed to have a college over from another country for a week on a business/pleasure trip. The idea was mentioned by the college and my friend politely agreed. The first night arrived and as any host would, my friend payed the rather large bill, as the man was quite a size himself and was not shy. The following day he got them breakfast, lunch and dinner happily, but by the third day he noticed there was no sign of any hands going into any pockets by the college at any time. After a week my friend walked in looking a little worse for wear. Turns out, for the entire week this other man had not so much as even pretended to offer (you know that motion when you go for your bag/wallet as a polite gesture) A whopping 1800€ tab was counted at the end of this week, for food, drinks, petrol and you know, stuff in general. As my friend said, he would have paid for everything anyway, but a gesture, or a

... when you find out your ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend quoted a song you posted for him. Normally, that would be fine, it's just a song right. Well, this one is a little different, it epitomizes him and how he is in a relationship. I can only hope he'll have changed his ways by now.  Speaking of ex's, dont you think the worst break up line, ever, is the "I'm concentrating on my career" one? If only guys could just be honest with us and say, you know, I just don't like you as much as I thought I did. Or, you not the one for me. If they could just man up and tell the truth, we wouldn't have to endure books and movies like "He's just not that into you " that remind us what idiots we can be when it comes to boys. Sure, it will suck to hear at the time but at least when you see them with another girl you a little bit more okay with it than if you'd been told the career fib.  #justsaying #thatsall

http://youtu.be/RBumgq5yVrA Such a beautiful yet incredibly sad song. Made me think of you... 

...But if you say there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants in the sky, people will probably believe you.   I've had a really hard time with this one and for that reason have fallen behind with my posts. Eventually after much anguish, I found this interview on  http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3196/the-art-of-fiction-no-69-gabriel-garcia-marquez which  sums it up. It's actually a great interview so if you have time, go have a read... Interviewer:  There also seems to be a journalistic quality to that technique or tone. You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is this something you have picked up from journalism? GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ That’s a journalistic trick which you can also apply to literature. For example, if you say that there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants flying in the sky, peop

(Thank you to SuzeOriginal for showing me this beautiful story) A young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. But an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said,“Your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine.” The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating strongly but full of scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in … but they didn’t fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. The young man looked at the old man’s heart and laughed. “You must be joking,” he said. “Compare your heart with mine … mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears.” “Yes,” said the old man, “Yours is perfect looking … but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love….. I t

la curiosidad mato al gato

A mud-fish is a type of fish that lives and thrives in muddy water. If these areas become dry, a mud-fish can survive by living under a decaying log or leaves. All they need is leaves or other debris to keep them moist and they can live out of the water for as long as two months. The mud-fish has this adaptation ability which allows it to survive in places other fish can’t.  That makes the mud-fish pretty unique. Not particularly nice to look at, but this little guy has adapted to what he has and lives happily there. Well, relatively happy. He's quite an aggressive fella, but can you blame him, he cant be perfect.  In between the mud and the decay, he shines with his bright coat and proves, no matter what the situation around you, you can choose to be happy, bright and shiny. 

pescado + amor + hueso

cra·zy   [ krey -zee ]     adjective,   cra·zi·er, cra·zi·est,   noun,   plural   cra·zies. 1.     M entally   deranged;   demented;   insane. 2. senseless;   impractical;   totally   unsound:   Synonyms: bats   in   the   belfry,   batty,   berserk ,  bonkers ,  cuckoo,   delirious ,  demented ,  deranged ,   insane ,  kooky,   lunatic ,  mad ,  mad   as   a   March   hare, mad   as   a   hatter,   maniacal ,  mental ,  nutty   as   fruitcake,   of   unsound   mind,   psycho ,  schizo,   screw   loose ,  unbalanced This is the official definition of crazy, I don't know about you but i can honestly say that I have been called more than one of those words before. Does that mean someone should be paying me, or that I should be locked up. Probably the latter, but hey. Maybe the trick is, if you are not a famous writer or actor or artist, to just not get caught being a crazy.  This quote comes from the incredibly deranged yet uber talented Hunter S. Thomp