Chasing Noodles

First things first, happy Worker's Day everyone. Hope you all had a restful day and enjoyed the day off. I just found out the origin of Worker's Day, very hectic actually. You should go have a read if you don't already know the story here ...  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day Today also marked one year since a very heart breaking event in my life. Sometimes life can be pretty unfair, but after a while you realise there was a reason life did that. And you learn from it. You learn things about yourself, about others, and sometimes it even makes you begin to learn the meaning of being humbled. At the time, I was sad, angry at myself, angry at them, and completely despondent.  Today, one year later, I climbed a mountain, but it was much more than that for me. It was climbing out of my slump, out of my silly routine and up to a new place. As I stood on the top of Lion's Head today, a massive rush of relief came over me. As unfit as I was, I ma...

"Don't leave the house without lipstick, you never know who you might bump into." "Moisturize" "Keep your chin up and your nose clean" "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar' These are the kinds of words of advice we get from our Gran's. The kind that you don't ask for but just get. Now I am going to get all soppy on you. I never got to meet my Dad's mom, and my Mom's mom passed away when I was 16, and I have always felt robbed of that. There is something about becoming a gran that they suddenly have all the answers to all the questions in the world and they just have an amazing way of comforting you and make things seem as though everything will be fine.  I have so many questions I would want to ask my Gran's. One of them though, is to ask my Gran why she smoked cigarettes called Life ? hehe. No seriously, I know I could have learnt so much from them and often wish that I had just a day with th...

Funny story, this quote comes from the mid 1600's 110 Rules of Civility and decent behaviour in Company and Conversation and features as the rule no. 54. When George Washington was 16, he wrote all these rules, originally written by French Jesuits in 1595, as part of an exercise from his schoolmaster. If you read these rules now, it seems so silly and really fussy never mind completely outdated applying only to the time when you could have a massive bum and hide it behind the awesome dresses, that's if you could survive the corsets.  The one thing about these rules though, is the focus on other people rather than having the focus on ourselves and our own interests that we find now days. It's not just about manners back then but rather little sacrifices that we should still to this day be willing to make.  These rules show respect for others, even though they sound so silly, and in turn, self-respect. All that been said, I have to share these two rules with you, caus...

1 . Be on time 2. Bust your butt 3. Play smart 4. Have some laughs while you're at it I have been trying to write this post for two days now. But there is actually nothing to write. These rules say it all. Be on time, bust your butt, play smart and have a laugh. Perfect. That's all.

Thank you Suze Original for bringing Florence into my life...

When we were younger, we used to play a game. It didn't have a name, but hearing this rule, i think this is what it should have been called. "The Lesser of two evils". We would take turns to make each other choose between two things, neither of them great. Example? Brussel sprouts or asparagus? Kissing a frog or playing with a spider? Eating a dog pellet or lick a shoe. Then as we got older the choices became harder. Like, who would you rather kiss, Jocelyn Wildenstein or Carrot Top? And so on, either way, you choosing a less than ideal option.  The origin of this saying comes from the Cold war-era  pragmatic foreign policy  principle used by the States . These days it is used mostly in reference to electoral politics and silly games that we play. Funny, every now and then, we still throw out a "what would you choose".  This however, for me, is the perfect way to make a decision when it comes to two lesser evils, always choose the one you haven't tried...

I have two birthmarks on my body and three beauty spots on my face in the shape of the shorthand "therefore". My eyes are brown-green when I am happy, and a darker brown when I am sad. My nose is skew and I have two very large scar's on my right leg from an accident when I was a kid. I used to have perfectly straight teeth after years of braces, but then my wisdom teeth decided to redecorate my mouth. I'm at least 10 cm shorter than all 5 of my family members and my fingers look like baby pork sausages. This is me. Fingerprints, teeth, lips, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, beauty spots, birthmarks, scars. These are just some of the things that make us unique. Without them, CSI would be a lot more complicated and Horatio would probably have so many more one liners for all the unsolved clues. Millions of us have brown eyes, or blond hair, or are 1.56m tall. But every single one has something, well, unique. Studies have showed that even identical twins are different. I had th...