Sometimes you just GOTTA laugh at everything because Life's wayyy too short to worry about things that aren't going right.  

Getaway...

Just imagine being there!!!! It sure looks pretty interesting...for about an hour or two :)

A Tale of Love

A Tale of Love

A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it for the first time, virtues and vices floated around and were bored, not knowing what to do. One day, all the vices and virtues were gathered together and were more bored than ever.

Suddenly, Ingenious came up with an idea:

"Let's play hide and seek!"

All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness shouted: "I want to count, I want to count!" And since nobody was crazy enough to want to find Madness, all the others agreed. Madness leaned against a tree and started to count: "One, two, three!"

As madness counted, the vices and virtues went hiding. Tenderness hung itself on the horn of the moon, Treason hid in a pile of garbage. Fondness curled up between the clouds and Passion went to the centre of the earth. Lie said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of the lake, whilst Avarice entered a sack that he ended up breaking. And Madness continued to count:
"Seventy nine, eighty, eighty one..."

By this time, all the vices and virtues were already hidden - except Love. For undecided as Love is, he could not decide where to hide. And this should not surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide Love.

Madness: "95, 96, 97..." Just when Madness got to one hundred, Love jumped into a rose bush where he hid. And Madness turned around and shouted: "I'm coming! I'm coming!"

As Madness turned around, Laziness was the first to be found, because Laziness had no energy to hide. Then he spotted Tenderness in the horn of the moon, Lie at the bottom of the lake and Passion at the centre of the earth.

One by one, Madness found them all -
except Love. Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love. Envious of Love, Envy whispered to Madness:

"You only need to find Love, and Love is hiding in the rose bush."

Madness grabbed a wooden pitchfork and stabbed wildly at the rose bush. Madness stabbed and stabbed until a heartbreaking cry made him stop. Love appeared from the rose bush, covering his face with his hands.

Between his fingers ran 2 trickles of blood from his eyes. Madness, so anxious to find Love, had stabbed out Love's eyes with a pitchfork. "What have I done? What have I done?" exclaimed Madness. "I have left you blind! How can I fix that?!"

And Love answered: "You cannot repair my eyes. But if you want to do something for me, you can be my guide."

And so it came about that from that day on, Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness.

[It was an interesting tale and thought it worth sharing :) ]  

Virtue

"To produce things and to rear them,
To produce, but not to take possession of them,
To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,
To lead them, but not to master them -
This is called profound and secret virtue."

~ Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu  

lazy lazy lazy saturdayyyyyy...

It's just one of those days when my mind is asleep and everything is at a standstill. I guess that's why today is called Saturday.  

Illusions

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

~ Mark Twain  

JOKE

The Internal Revenue Service sent an auditor to a synagogue. As the
auditor reviews all the paperwork, he turns to the Rabbi and says, "I
noticed that you buy a lot of candles."
"Yes, we do," responded the Rabbi.

"Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?" He asked.

"A good question," noted the rabbi. "We actually save them up and
when we have enough, we send them back to
the candle maker and every now and then, they send us a free box of
candles."

"Oh," replied the auditor somewhat disappointed that his unusual
question actually had a practical answer.

"Rabbi, what about all these matzo purchases? What do you do with
all the crumbs from the matzo?"

"Ah, yes," replied the rabbi calmly. "We actually collect up all the
crumbs from the matzo and ! when we have enough,
we send them in a box back to the manufacturer; and every now and
then they send us a box of matzo balls."

"Oh," replied the auditor, thinking hard how he could fluster the
rabbi.

"Well, Rabbi," he continued, "what do you do with all the foreskins
from the circumcisions?"

"Yes, here too, we do not waste." The rabbi answered. What we do is
save up all the foreskins, and when we have enough we actually send them
to the Internal Revenue Service."

"Internal Revenue?" questioned the auditor in disbelief.

"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, "Internal Revenue. And about once a
year, they send us a little prick like you."  

Facts

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

~ Mark Twain  

...in pensive remonstration...

...Sometimes nothing goes as we planned for it to be. We sit and wonder, and ask an infinite number of questions as to the how's and why's, but still there are no answers. That burning desire for answers...that urgent need to know...makes it no easier to accept the predicament we find ourselves in. Yet, like slaves to the grind, it does not fade. But we can't give in...we have to hang on...and HOPE that before our time is up, we would have found the answers we need. In the meantime, the quest for those answers makes you face Life...

~ Rads  

Juve knocked out :(

A dejected Alex after Liverpool knocked them out of the UCL :(

Matchday 11 : [April 26th] Milan vs PSV

[April 27th] Chelsea x Liverpool  

Mind test : What do you see?

You saw a couple in an intimate pose, right?

Interestingly, research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such a scenario.

What they WILL see, however, is the nine dolphins in the picture!

So, I guess we've already proven you're not a young innocent child... now... If it's hard for you to find the dolphins within 6 seconds, your mind is indeed corrupted and you probably need help, you sicko! :P~  

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others, belong to us as well."

~ Voltaire  

Unanswered questions...

...It would indeed be a wonderful thing if we could have all the answers to Life all the time so that we may help out our dearest friends when they are in dire need of those same unanswered questions. Unfortunately, some questions never get answered till well beyond the first moment they are asked. Maybe the real lesson is not so much the answer to the questions, but what we have learnt along the way in the quest for those answers. I could be wrong, but to me it's better to believe that than a malignant fallacy that may only serve to break my spirit...

~ Rads  

Chelsea advances to SF

Chelsea's Didier Drogba celebrates after scoring vs Bayern Munchen. Despite goals from Pizarro, Guerrero and Scholl in the German club's victory over Chelsea, it was a case of too little too late as Chelsea advanced with an aggregate of 6 x 5.

Games resume tomorrow as Juve host Liverpool and PSV take on Lyon.  

UCL QF leg 2

INTER vs AC MILAN suspended after 75 mins when objects were thrown onto pitch after disallowed goal. Referee Markus Merk's report will determine if the Rossoneri's 3 x 0 lead will stand. 

Dewy Dawn

The air is heavy, everything lies still
Dawn has descended on this dew drizzled hill.  

...Truth...

"You never find yourself until you face the truth."

~ Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)  

Quote

"They can conquer who believe they can."

~ Virgil  

Words of Advice!!!

"Beauty fades . . . dumb is forever."


--Judge Judy  

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."

--Bernard Edmonds  

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."


--Franz Kafka  

...beauty...

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

--John Keats  

Thought...

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
--Oscar Wilde  

Rare bird

A male Bulwer's, or wattled, pheasant balances on a branch. The species as a whole is in a precarious position. Its Borneo habitat is being cleared, leaving the pheasant with little room to survive. Meanwhile, it is not reproducing well in zoos, where conservationists hope to keep population numbers up and generate concern for the birds' plight.

~ Photograph by Georges Dremeaux  

"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."

--Moliere (1622-1672)