Reality Check

These are some great that advice for all the adolescents out there(including me). Most of the times, we tend to think that the world revolves around us but this upcoming speech will prove wrong. I came across it accidentally when i was "cruising" in my SP(Singapore Polytechnic)
e-online blackboard and i thought that this speech should be in my blog because it will serve as my constant reminder whenever i think that the world is against me. This is a Bill Gate's speech to some high school students entitled 11 ThInGs YoU WiLl NoT LeArN At ScHoOl which will expains why many adolescents fail to make it to the real world.
Here they are...

RULE 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
RULE 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world expects you to accomplish BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3: You will NOT make $40,000.00/year fresh out of high school. And 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 until you get a boss. He won't have tenure.
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 is only your fault; learn from your mistakes.
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 are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your room instead.
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 will give you as many times as you need to get it right. This doesn't have 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: TV is NOT reality. In real life people need to leave the coffee shop and go to work.
RULE 11: BE NICE TO NERDS!! Chances are you will end up working for one!

Love is in the air

These are some love quotes that i found very endearing, some filled with sorrow and some dat advises us what it is like to go thru love especially for the young adolescents like me...
Enjoy it and take it to heart.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare -

You don't marry someone you can live with,you marry the person who you cannot live without.
- Unknown -

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.


Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
-Washington Irving-


Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.
-Curtis Judalet-

Joy of Christmas

Here are some very heartwarming poems I would like to share with u gals and guys to celebrate the spirit of Christmas. Not all of us are Christians and celebrate Christmas (including me) but let us all learn the good things from the upcoming Christmas such as feed our souls with love....

About Friendship

Friendship is like the breeze,
You can't hold it,
Smell it,
Taste it,
Or know when it's coming,
But you can always feel it,
And you'll always know it's there,
It may come and then go,
But you can know it'll always be back.

- Terri Fanning -

Have you ever felt like you knew someone a long, long time ago,
Another place, another time, a friendship of the souls?
Two people who share a bond for reasons neither know,
A feeling that they were friends, a long, long time ago?

Did they stumble onto each other by pure circumstance,
Or was it fate and destiny that played a certain hand?
Two souls intertwined, they are worlds apart,
But the soul, it knows no difference, in matters of the heart.

Somehow they are drawn together, fate has brought them back,
Each living worlds apart, they journey separate paths.
When this life is over, and a new life begins,
Their souls will find each other, two souls that we call friends.

- Lia Fail -

About Love

As I stand here today with the world as my witness,
I pledge to you my undying and everlasting love.
I will stand beside you as your partner,
I will stand before you as your protector,
And I will stand behind you as your solace.
Please spend and end your life with me.

- Earl -

Never Have I Fallen

Your lips speak soft sweetness
Your touch a cool caress
I am lost in your magic
My heart beats within your chest

I think of you each morning
And dream of you each night
I think of your arms being around me
And cannot express my delight

Never have I fallen
But I am quickly on my way
You hold a heart in your hands
That has never before been given away

- Rex A. Williams -

Others

After Reading a Book of Old Chinese Poems, I Stay Awake Tonight and Write This Poem


A beautiful place is the little town of Claremont.
The quiet streets are lines by ancient trees.
Down the long avenues of old houses,
pepper trees, sycamores, cedars, oaks and elms,
eucalyptus, palms and jacarandas
translate sunlight into restful shadows.
Flowers are everywhere, and citrus trees.
Lemons and oranges ornament the gardens.
Students walk by, with their books, to the colleges.
Townspeople walk together to the village.
From parks and schoolyards, children’s voices call.
Sunday mornings, churches ring their bells.
On a clear day, you can see the mountains,
where children play, in winter, in the snow,
and long trails lead to streams and waterfalls.
Deer and mountain lions roam the mountains.
Rattlesnakes doze for hours in the sun.
Some days the ponds are visited by bears
who stumble home with their bellies full of trout.
Unable to sleep, I leave my house tonight
and sit at the wooden table under the trees.
Now the winds and birds have settled; the night is still.
The owl in the cedar tree begins to bell.
Rose and jasmine burn their sticks of incense.
Moonlight falls on Claremont through the clouds.
I remember Po Chui’s poem about the cranes.
In the early dusk, down an alley of green moss,
the garden-boy is leading the cranes home.
How strange and powerful, the love of home.
Stranger still to be alive at all,
to be anywhere, in all its endless detail,
and the millions of tiny locks that will be broken
before you can be released from where you are
to return again to the place,
so many years ago, you started from,
the nothing that is everywhere but here.


Michael Creagan

Collection of Fav Quotes 1

Hi guys and galz, besides writing on my first online story entitled The Ebb flows, I would like to include some quotes that i personally find fascinating from time to time. Here are some of them...

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark TwainUS humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Tweek Vs. Craig, 1999

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

Prologue of "The Ebb flows"

The Ebb flows
Prologue

A woman's powerful scream descended upon the eerie silence. It was a scream that spoke volumes about the terror and helplessness that she was experiencing. She was all alone at the jungle and her contractions are filling her with acute pain which made her wish that she had died than having to go through the pain that she has to endure.
About 10 minutes later, she gave birth to a very beautiful baby girl filling her lungs with high pitched cries. Only the thick and dense jungle and the creatures that dwell in it bear witness to the excruciating birth of the baby.
The woman, unfortunately, released her last breath after the aftermath of giving birth. The little baby was left to fend for herself. She had lain at her mother's feet for about 3 days before she was discovered by the construction workers who was just starting to build the latest housing project. Imagine their surprise upon the discovery at the site which they believed to be securely guarded by using physical means as well as by electronic devices.
When the news of the dead mother and her baby reached the developers' ears, they decided to bury the woman secretly and gave the baby away to one of their employee so that they can erase the scandal that may arise from this important project.
So, the baby grows up and was shielded from her facts of her mother and the mystery of her birth, and like the wheel that has to be spin, her life is starting to unravel before us.