i was watching a Episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit, in this episode they dealt with a serial killer who abducted woman and tortured them and then killed them. he then dumped the bodies in remote locations. then he went back to see the dead bodies, the profilers said, that made him feel like God. after he had killed 12 or 13 victims the FBI profiler working on the case killed himself in depression. His protege a young female agent works with SVU after the 23 victim who was found along with a young man shot in the head. Its later discovered that the young FBI agent found the serial killer and killed him, but she realised that he had another victim some where and needed help finding her.
The SVU finds this out and tries to Convict her, in the end during a face off with the SVU the agent says
"Those Who Fight Monsters, Should Make Sure That They Don't Become Monsters Too"
and takes her own life.
That and the movie Shoot Out At Lokhandwala movie set me thinking. I mean i have always been a huge proponent of the way the Israelis have lived. situated in a hostile corner of the globe they always took the threats to them selves or their land head on. they took out the Iraqi's Nuclear plant before it was completed or be it the rescue of the Hijack victims of the Air France 747, or taking Golan Heights, they always followed an aggressive policy of protecting their own, any where in the World.
So the question I asked my self and i have asked it at every instance when a case against any criminal takes ages and ages to resolve or a conflict over capital punishment arises, is it really that wise to keep confirmed criminals on trial for ages and then put them away in jails, i.e. if they cant wriggle out of it using their political influence or by throwing around their money, first, where they get fed, clothed, and get more protection than any of their respective victims, while the families of the victims try and cope with the loss of a loved one or the trauma of the incident. is it such a bad idea to summarily execute multiple murderers, or rapists or child molesters or terrorists. is the idea of rapid response squads that have the right to shoot to kill terrorist cells that bad?.
most of you will point out that such measures will remove the thin line that differentiates us from such criminals, or that since we cant give lives we cant take lives, but dont we have the right to protect our selves from fanatics, sickos and psychopaths. Why should society pay for the up keep and well being of these people who were a menace, why should we take the risk that a pardon or a jail break will release these people back into the mainstream of society?
I don't claim know every thing and any thing about life, but is it right that our forces and police constantly loose people to terrorist attacks because they are not actively allowed to follow the enemy home and destroy the base. is it right that the perpetrator of the Nithari killings is still alive after taking the lives of all those children?
so my question is when does it become right to kill a person who has been proven beyond doubt to be a criminal when can we bypass the criminal justice system because the crime is so repugnant that hardened law enforcement officers gag at the sight, or one of our soldiers defending our territory while keeping all those international treatises in mind, is captured and tortured to an extent where his own family and comrades can not recognise the body.
I don't pretend to know the answers to all these questions but i do support the statement that to keep our own sanity in check and to protect our own, if we do have to become monsters to hunt down monsters i dont see the wrong in that.
A lone dew on the long lost leaf,
Greener than a thousand dusty cactus...
They call my name...yearn my touch,
Whisper in my dreams
"When will you come back to us?"
... A lone tear on the wrinkled cheek...
Brighter than a thousand splendid suns,
A forgotten name, lost in its shame...
Say "ash to earth, we meet again brother"
URMI
Hawaiian roller coaster ride ..... Song for the day
0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 7:19 AM'Ano 'ai ke aloha e
Aloha ae aloha e
A nu ay ki aloha e
There’s no place I’d rather be
Then on my surfboard out at sea
Lingering in the ocean blue
And If I had one wish come true
I’d surf till the sun sets
Beyond the horizon
A wiki wiki mai lohi lohi
Lawe mai i ko papa he'e nalu
Flyin by on the Hawaiian roller coaster ride
A wiki wiki mai lohi lohi
La we mai iko papa he na lu
Pi'i na nalu la lahalaha
O ka moana hanupanupa
Lalala i kala hanahana
Me ke kai hoene i ka pu'e one
Helehele mai kakou e
Hawaiian roller coaster ride
There’s no place I’d rather be
Than on the seashore dry, wet free
On golden sand is where I lay
And if I only had my way
I'd play til the sun sets
Beyond the horizon
Lalala i kala hanahana
Me ke kai hoene i ka pu'e one
It’s time to try the Hawaiian Roller coaster ride
Hang loose, hang ten, howzit, shake a shaka
No worry, no fear, ain't no biggie braddah
Cuttin' in, cuttin' up, cuttin' back, cuttin' out
Frontside, backside, goofy footed, wipe out
Looking for the wipeout
Let's get jumpin', surf's up and pumpin'
Coastin' with the motion of the ocean
Whirlpools swirling, cascading, twirling
Hawaiian roller coaster ride
There’s no place I’d rather be
Then on my surfboard out at sea
Lingering in the ocean blue
And if I had one wish come true
I’d surf till the sun sets
Beyond the horizon
A wiki wiki mai lohi lohi
Lawe mai i ko papa he'e nalu
Flyin by on the Hawaiian roller coaster ride
A wiki wiki mai lohi lohi
La we mai iko papa he na lu
Pi'i na nalu la lahalaha
O ka moana hanupanupa
Lalala i kala hanahana
Me ke kai hoene i ka pu'e one
Helehele mai kakou e
Hawaiian roller coaster ride
"@#$$@#" i mumbled to myself. i hate Bangalore autowalas, well i had left work late at night and these autowalas were asking like almost a 100 bucks for barely a 4 kilometer trip, and to top it all it had started raining and i resigned my self to a long walk home. then i saw this girl, standing a little down the road and trying down to flag an auto, too. i didnt give it much thought and started my hike. but as i passed her another auto stopped and we told him our destination at the same time which coincidentally were close by so i suggested we share an auto and pay the preposterous amount they were quoting , it was ten in the night and we were getting wet and hungry,but when they saw two of us together the prices went up accordingly, we we then decided to take a walk, we got to talking and we realized that we had a lot in common. She was a Mallu working in oracle, and was living barely a kilometer from my place, we ultimately hitched a ride on a returning cab from one of the thousands that roam Bangalore, shuttling Staff of one multinational or the other, half way into our trek. drenched and soaked to the bone we gratefully climbed into the back of the cab and settled down for the journey down Airport Road. we got of at Domlur and we went our separate ways. i thought she was smart, talented and intelligent. I really liked her and I thought I had gained her as another friend in this city.
Well it wasn't meant to be i called her a few days after the walk in the night. but she told me that she had too many friends and didn't want another one and any way she didn't like coffee much. so hey If your reading this it was fun to take a walk in the rain and i still think you should have taken my jacket it would have kept you slightly dry and oh I'm sorry i think that i blabbered a lot that day.
i read a new year blog by a fellow blogger named Smriti. and it set me thinking about my new year celebrations over the years. Well most of the new year parties were spent with my family some with friends and some with cousins. but two stand out. two years back i was in the deepest shit any one could imagine. life was crappy, every thing that could go wrong had gone wrong or was progressively going down the drain, well 2005 was ending and the year had been shitty, the only high point was my birthday party and the internship in bombay Local trains and all. that should tell you how bad the year was. i mean dont get me wrong the intership was good the company was good to me and i really made some really nice friends but the comute was a bitch. so i had pretty much resigned my self to the fact that my life had gone down the fox hole and i could never ever get it back, infact i didnt think i wanted it back. so i was brooding in my room, didnt want to go home even and then moose came along, asking me what plans i had.well i told him the truth i had no plans, our town was, well is a small one and there are only a few noteable parties and one was at a place called On The Rocks, and he said he had a friend who could get us in, no girls no dates just us guys. well with a lot of reluctance and a ton of misgivings i gave in to his insistance and off we went. we waited for about one hour for Moose's friends to show up and they didn't so i knew the night was going the way like the rest of the year and was resigned to home finally that he had dragged me out of campus. though i wasn't thrilled about the fact that id have to face my parents after i'd blown them off earlier that evening.
But Moose wasn't going to give up and neither was he going to let me give up and we waited another fifteen minutes, when one of our friends showed up, and we decided to get our own tickets and finally go in, so we went in got our complimentary drinks got a table in a corner and sat and chatted for a while when our friend joined us, three tables down there was a trio of ladies, one Indian and two foreigners, and well they were real cute looking, and Moose and Jassi wanted to dance but as usual they wanted me to front the operation, so i got up with the two hulklings flanking me, i walked upto their table and the moment i look around hulkling one was still at our table and hadn't moved and hulkling two was at the buffet table, well i asked Claire to dance and stated that my mates would like to ask Shaheen and Breeda to dance too well we danced they joined us for dinner later and we brought in 2006 with them, it was fun we went home and found out that even though i had said i wasnt coming home earlier that evening, dad had got vodka for me and mom had kept food out for both of us, the next day was sunday we met those guys at church again in the morning it was a good new years, it wasn't good because we picked up Foreigners, or we had fun with some really awesome girls, it was good because i realized no matter how bad things were good friends will always be around to help u out, push you around or even bug you when your down, they will never let you be alone, second no matter how bad things are and how bad you've been your family will still be around.
the second memorable one was last year, well now the year before last, end of 2006 i had had a good year i was straightening my life out my friends had helped me a lot and i did not want to spend the new years with any one else but people i held really close to me and for some reason or the other most of them including mom and dad couldn't be there so it was me Mudassir, and Vineet on top of a hill we sat there with Kurkure, Lays, and Pepsi we chatted about things, listened to music and talked a little more, we were there till nine, then the others went home and i went to the station to pick Mini up she came down from Delhi for new years, we bought a bottle of Mr. Smirnoff's finest, Orange twist to be exact, a Big bottle of more Pepsi and a bunch of movies. we got Casablanca, Pretty Woman, Die Hard, Lilo And Stitch, A Walk In the Clouds, Titan AE, and Schindler's List and A Street Car Named Desire, Me and Mini Dragged the couch to the Dining room popped the Movies into the DVD player and got Cosy in a blanket, opened the bottle and talked talked about a lot of things the movies, past girl friends, boyfriends, and the future.
Well again i don't know much and im not into partying much I'm not with my really close friends oh and this new years i spent in an hotel lobby wearing my Favorite Tommy jacket and reading a book in Bangalore, and it was fun too i missed my friends and most of them were alone too spread as we are through out the country. I missed mom, dad, and all my friends. but life just seems to be getting better, there's a long way to go, hey but as a friend recently reminded me "A journey of a thousand miles Begins with But one step"i believe i've just started running again. So here's to another year and Cheers to every thing that makes life worth living.
song for the day -- Burning Love - Elvis. for you Bhavna
0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 8:54 AMI feel my temperature rising
Higher higher
Its burning through to my soul
Girl, girl, girl
You gonna set me on fire
My brain is flaming
I dont know which way to go
Your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
I feel my temperature rising
Help me, Im flaming
I must be a hundred and nine
Burning, burning, burning
And nothing can cool me
I just might turn into smoke
But I feel fine
Cause your kisses lift me higher
Like a sweet song of a choir
And you light my morning sky
With burning love
Its coming closer
The flames are reaching my body
Please wont you help me
I feel like Im slipping away
Its hard to breath
And my chest is a-heaving
Lord almighty,
Im burning a hole where I lay
Cause your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love
With burning love
Ah, ah, burning love
Im just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
and daced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward i've climbed, and joined the tumbling of sun-split clouds
and done a Hundred things you have not dreamed of,
wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.
hovering there, i've chased the shouting wind along
and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air .....
up up the long, delirious,
burning blue i've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
where never lark nor ever eagle flew
and while with silent lifting mind ive trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space,
put out my hand, and touched the face of GOD
2008 F1 Calendar ..................... curtesy lone wolf and Mobil
2 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 2:41 AM
2007 season in review: Fines, flips, parties ... and a whole lotta racing
2 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 2:24 AM• Biggest news story -- The FIA fined McLaren $100 million for its involvement in the Ferrari spy scandal. The massive fine made headlines even in the non-racing world.
• Friends and enemies award -- While the McLaren and Ferrari teams feuded over the espionage scandal, McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari driver Felipe Massa remained good friends.
AP Photo/Fernando Bustamante, file
Former McLaren teammates Fernando Alonso, left, and Lewis Hamilton during happier times prior to the start of the 2007 season.
• Party of the year -- Red Bull's massive blowouts before the first race and the night after the final Grand Prix have become legendary.
• Highest-paid driver -- Kimi Raikkonen reportedly earns $45 million in straight salary.
• Best team -- Ferrari, which, unlike McLaren, kept internal politics between its drivers from boiling over into the public domain. And Ferrari won both the constructors' and drivers' championships.
• Best car -- It was mighty close between the Ferrari F2007 and the McLaren Mercedes MP4-22, but the Ferrari had a slight overall edge.
• Good guy award -- Remembering how he was snubbed by drivers when asking for autographs as a kid, Lewis Hamilton vowed not to be the same way when he made it to F1. Indeed, he often took time to wave to the crowd and sign autographs for the fans.
• Most improved team -- McLaren Mercedes, winless in 2006, had eight victories and was a championship contender.
• Most improved team II -- Compared to 2006, Williams gained a lot of points and respectability.
• Team that fell the farthest -- Honda had a victory and was fourth in the 2006 constructors' championship with 86 points. In 2007, it was eighth with only six points.
• Team that fell the farthest II -- Renault had eight wins and 201 points, plus the drivers' and constructors' championships in 2006. In 2007, the team had one podium finish, no wins and was third with 51 points.
• Dumbest team mistake -- The Ferrari crew forgot to put fuel in Felipe Massa's car during qualifying in Hungary.
• Worst news for U.S. F1 fans -- After eight years at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the U.S. Grand Prix won't be back in 2008.
• Worst news for U.S. F1 fans II -- Scott Speed, America's only F1 driver, left the series because of deteriorating relationships with Toro Rosso team bosses Franz Tost and Gerhard Berger.
• Best news for U.S. F1 fans -- The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is negotiating to get the U.S. Grand Prix back in 2009.
• Best driver -- Kimi Raikkonen was the best overall driver of the season, but Lewis Hamilton aces him out because of his amazing performances as a rookie against much more experienced drivers.
• Rookie of the year -- Lewis Hamilton. Among the many rookie records he set was one for nine straight podium finishes (including two wins) in the first nine races of his F1 career.
• Most welcome comeback -- After a year's absence, the Belgian Grand Prix at the daunting Spa-Francorchamps track was back on the schedule.
• Best race -- The European Grand Prix at Germany's Nürburgring circuit was a wild and crazy action-filled race because of a sudden rainstorm.
• Ostentatious motor home award -- Still called motor homes, many of the F1 hospitality units now are portable prefab buildings. McLaren's new "Brand Center" is three stories tall, 59 feet wide and 52.5 feet deep. It travels on 12 trucks.
• Worst paint scheme -- Renault's hodgepodge of mismatched colors.
• Most innovative paint scheme -- The Hondas carried an image of Earth to raise awareness of environmental issues.
• Best disguise -- Kimi Raikkonen and his buddies dressed up in gorilla suits to enter a speedboat race in Finland.
• Worst traffic -- The Turkish Grand Prix. Many a frustrating hour was spent on the bottlenecks leading onto the bridge across the Bosphorus Strait, which separates the city of Istanbul from the circuit.
• Best pass for the lead -- Fernando Alonso barged by Felipe Massa at the European Grand Prix. The on-track battle continued afterward with bickering in front of the TV cameras.
• Best race battle -- Robert Kubica and Felipe Massa fought it out for sixth place like a couple of dirt-track racers on the final lap of the Japanese Grand Prix.
• Craziest moment -- Thanks to having rain tires fitted when everybody else was on dry tires, rookie Markus Winkelhock grabbed the lead in his first (and probably only) Grand Prix start. Winkelhock led the world's best F1 drivers for six laps at the Nürburgring.
• Best strategy decision -- See craziest moment above.
• Worst strategy decision -- McLaren left Lewis Hamilton out on the track too long on worn-out rain tires in China. The rear tires were down to the cords when his team finally told him to pit. With so little grip, it didn't take much of a mistake for him to slide off into a gravel trap at the pit entrance.
• Best schedule change -- Friday's two 60-minute open practice sessions were expanded to 90 minutes each, giving the fans more on-track action.
• The moment the beginning of the end began -- After qualifying in Hungary, during which McLaren teammates Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso upset each other with their nefarious tactics, a furious Alonso told team boss Ron Dennis that he had secret Ferrari data on his personal computer. That set in motion the chain of events that led to McLaren's $100 million fine and getting tossed out of the constructors' championship.
• Best fan deal -- While a number of tracks offered "pit walkabouts" to allow fans to see the F1 cars in the garages, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's full day of entertainment -- including autograph sessions and the chance to hear drivers interviewed on stage -- was by far the best.
• Never say never award -- Everybody left the French Grand Prix thinking they would never return to the unloved track because of its remote location and grubby hotels. Several months later, the race was reinstated for 2008.
• Costliest 30 seconds -- In the season finale in Brazil, Lewis Hamilton's gearbox went into neutral for 30 seconds, which dropped him from sixth to 18th. He finished seventh and lost the championship to Kimi Raikkonen, who took the title by a single point.
curtesy ESPN
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write the name of the song no matter what - no cheating ;) - wish i
could do with some cheating...
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY?" YOU SAY?
Its A Beautiful Day - U2
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace
It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
Could you whisper in my ear
The things you wanna feel
I'll give you anything
To feel it comin'
Do you wake up on your own
And wonder where you are
You live with all your faults
Chorus:
I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't you slide
Yeah we're gonna let it, slide
Don't you love the life you killed
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma disowned you
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Everything I Do -Bryan Adams
Look into my eyes - you will see
What you mean to me
Search your heart - search your soul
And when you find me there you'll search no more
Don't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
You can't tell me it's not worth dyin' for
You know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you
Look into my heart - you will find
There's nothin' there to hide
Take me as I am - take my life
I would give it all - I would sacrifice
Don't tell me it's not worth fightin' for
I can't help it - there's nothin' I want more
Ya know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you
There's no love - like your love
And no other - could give more love
There's nowhere - unless you're there
All the time - all the way
Well isnt this supposed to be the other way around ????
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Rock and Roll all nite -Poison
Mr Rocket...Thank You.
Come on Boys!!!
You show us everything you've got
You keep on dancin' and the room gets SO hot
You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy
You say you wanna go for a spin
The party's startin' babe, I'll let you in
You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy
You keep on shoutin', you keep on shoutin'
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every
dayhm.. at last, something not so bad - yeah, i want to go out for a ride...
feeling locked up in my cube.. :)
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
I Love Rock And Roll - Joan Jett
I saw him dancin' there by the record machine
I knew he must a been about seventeen
The beat was goin' strong
Playin' my favorite song
An' I could tell it wouldn't be long
Till he was with me, yeah me, singin'
I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come an' take your time an' dance with me
He smiled so I got up and' asked for his name
That don't matter, he said,
'Cause it's all the same
(now this game is going some where)
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
U make Me wanna - Blue
(funnily enough :P)
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
King Of Wishful thinking - Go West
I don't need to fall at your feet
Just 'cause you cut me to the bone
And I won't miss the way that you kiss me
We were never carved in stone
If I don't listen to the talk of the town
Then maybe I can fool myself..
I'll get over you.. I know I will
I'll pretend my ship's not sinking
And I'll tell myself I'm over you
'cause I'm the king of wishful thinking
I am the king of wishful thinking
I refuse to give in to my blues
That's not how it's going to be
And I deny the tears in my eyes
I don't want to let you see.. no
That you have made a hole in my heart
And now I've got to fool myself..
(do they really ------ i wonder )
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
I Knew I Loved U before I Met You - Savage Garden
Maybe it's intuition
But some things you just don't question
Like in your eyes
I see my future in an instant
And there it goes
I think I've found my best friend
I know that it might sound more than a little crazy
But I believe
I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life
(Yeah i love them more than i can explain)
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Making Love Out of Nothing At All - Air Supply
know just how to whisper
And I know just how to cry
I know just where I find the answers
And I know just how to lie
I know just how to fake it
And I know just how to scheme
I know just when to face the truth
And then I know just when to dream
And I know just where I touch you
And I know just what to prove
I know when to pull you closer
And I know when to let you loose
And I know the night is fading
And I know the time’s gonna fly
And I’m never gonna tell you everything I gotta tell you
But I know I’ve got to give it a try
Some thing is wrong some where i swear
WHAT IS 2+2?
Something to Believe in - Poison
Will I see him on the tv
Preachin bout the promised land
He tells me to believe in jesus
And steals the money from my hand
Some say he was a good man
But lord I think he sinned, yeah
Twenty-two years of mental tears
Cries a suicidal vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore
To find his country didnt want him back
DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Bebot - Black Eyed Peas
I have No idea wht that song means ... and wht it means here but she isnt Phillipno
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Hysteria - Deff Leppard
Out of touch, out of reach yeah
You could try to get closer to me
I'm in luck, I'm in deep, yeah
Hypnotized, I'm shakin' to my knees
I gotta know tonight
If you're alone tonight
Can't stop this feeling
Can't stop this fire
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Invisible Man - 98 degrees
You can hardly
wait to tell all your friends
How his kisses taste sweet like wine
And how he always
makes your heart skip a beat
Every time he walks by
And if you're feeling down
He'll pick you up
He'll hold you close when
you're makin' love
He's everything
you've been dreaming of
Oh baby
I wish you'd look at me that way
Your beautiful eyes
lookin' deep into mine
Telling me more than
any words could say
But you don't even know I'm alive
Baby to you all I am
Is the invisible man
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
SunScreen - Buzz luhrman
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97
Wear sunscreen
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be
it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering
experience…I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you
imagine.
Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing everyday that scares you
Sing
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with
people who are reckless with yours.
Floss
Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes
you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with
yourself.
Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe
you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever
own..
Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
(Brother and sister together we'll make it through
Someday your spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting, and I know I've been waiting to be there
for you. And I'll be there, just tell me now, whenever I can.
Everybody's free.)
Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for
good.
Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out.
Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will
look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen…
(Brother and sister together we'll make it through
Someday your spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting, and I know I've been waiting to be there
for you. And I'll be there, just tell me now, whenever I can.
Everybody's free.)
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Ride The Wind - Poison
Hearts of fire
Streets of stone
Modern warriors
Saddle iron horses of chrome
Taste the wild
Lick the wind
Like something they never saw before
Their jaws dropping to the floor
Steel made of soul and sin
Rebels born without a care
And the day he listens
Only to fly where eagles dare
And the night she whispers
kinda funny if u think about it
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Another Day in Paradise - Phil Collins
She calls out to the man on the street
sir, can you help me?
Its cold and Ive nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?
He walks on, doesnt look back
He pretends he cant hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there
Oh think twice, its another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, its just another day for you,
You and me in paradise
I am Sure they think that :D
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Summer time - Bon Jovi
Feels something like summertime
Top down ain't nothing but time
Radio's on and you're by my side
Feels something like summertime
These days life goes like this
Wake up, check that off of some list
Gotta be a little something more than this
The botton of my coffee cup
I keep a, postcard in the back of my mind
White sand, sunshine
And you sining like a brand new daimond
It's keeping me for giving up
Thinking like I had enough
You make me feel something like summertime
Top down ain't nothing but time
Yeah Baby ........ summer time :P
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Its Only Love - Bryan Adams
When the feelin' is ended
There ain't no use pretendin'
Don't ya worry - It's only love
When your world has been shattered
Ain't nothin' else matters
It ain't over - It's only love
And that's all - yeah
When your heart has been broken
Hard words have been spoken
It ain't easy - but it's only love
And your life ain't worth livin'
And you're ready to give in
Just remember - that it's only love
I wonder ......
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Fall Away - Better of Dad
New band Nice song
dont know what it means though
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Come rain Come shine - Tata Young
Unsuspecting, the way you cross my mind
Who could've known you'd be so real
But unrelenting, the grip that lives around you, give me a sign
So I can rescue you, and save the day, yeah
Bring in the rain, bring in the shine
Let it go stop wasting time, I'm calling out to you
And don't chase the sun, don't race the sky
Let it go stop wasting time
And I'm calling out to you
I'm calling out to you
Fascinating, how moments feel sublime
Seems like I'm glowing when you're near
But unavailing, when you pay no mind
or you're twisting every other line
baby say the words I'll rescue you and make you mine
No scerets no regrets
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Feel It - Black Eyed Peas
We gonna make y'all feel it
Make y'all feel it
Make y'all wanna jam
Fellas in the place just clap your hands
Ladies in the house just grab a man
We gonna make y'all feel it
Make y'all feel it
Make y'all wanna move
Lades in the place just show 'em proof
Fellas in the house you know what to do
We gonna make y'all feel it in a special way
A event full of action and exposé
Ladies in the house looking ready to play
And I'm waiting for the right one to pass my way
And in the mean time I'm about to roll up The Hague
We got drinks on the table, tied up our lay
And it's time to unwind if you've had a low day
And ladies, I got something to say
Can u feel it .... umm
WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
I used to be crustaceanIn an underwater nation
And I surf in celebration
Of a billion adaptations
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave
I feel the need
Planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
The oceans size?
Defining time
And tide
Arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind
1. Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got it.
Ok 35 stitches on my back ......... fell of a rock formation called a balcony while trying to climb the cliff. have one stitch for every feet i fell, was paralysed and bed ridden for a year, had to learn all those things that we do when we are one year old all over again. twelve across my chest on the right side when while mountain bikin on my cycle the fron wheel came off and the handle bar twisted round and the brake lever went in thru the front of my chest and come out the side
and about a dozen or so inside my nose for the times when i break it and my friends dad , an amazing ENT surgeon has to set it right again so that it does wahts it is meant to do namely breath
2. What does your phone look like?
moto slivr L6 silver color screen and handy tuff
3. What is on the walls of your bedroom?
Nothing ...............
4. What is your current desktop picture?
oner of my graphics art works ........ that i made for friend on photoshop
5. Do you believe in gay marriage?
Why not. to each his own
6. What do you want more than anything right now?
I want to chase sunsets ........... and race across the world
7. Last person who made you cry?
don’t remember, people don’t usually make me cry. well some one did but dont want to talk about it. but learnt one thing don't give some one so much power over you that they can hurt u
9. What is your favorite perfume/cologne?
Addidas sport
10. What are you listening to?
Golden Earrings, Bon jovi, Gratefull dead, moby, jesse mccartney
11. Do you get scared of the dark?
nope
12. Do you like pain killers?
hate when im forced to take them . but the help reing in the cronic back pains i suffer when the weather changes
13. Are you too shy to ask someone out?
Nope nada neyt
14. If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?
hm........ what about Caramel rum and raisins cake my moms recipe
15. Who was the last person who made you mad?
Stupid clients
16. Who was the last person who made you smile?
Vishuruti
17. Is someone in love with you?
No idea and i hope to god that, that isnt the case
Jeremy Clarkson's tribute to Steve Fosset
I spent some of my summer holiday on a small Caribbean island. Created by a volcanic burp at some point in our ever-changing world's past, it was what most people would consider to be paradise.
Surrounded entirely by the sort of sea you normally find in airbrushed travel brochures, it was ringed by an uninterrupted
sliver of perfectly white, perfectly deserted beach and, further out,
a tropical reef blah blah Jacques Cousteau blah blah etc.
There were no hotels and the only other house I could see from ours belonged to Bruce Willis.
Hopefully, you have a mental picture of the scene because now we move onto the meat and potatoes. You see, the island in question was only a few miles long and a few miles wide. So how do you get about?
It's too far to walk from the one shop to the little dock where people keep their boats. But it would be ridiculous to drive. And so, while there is one pick-up truck - used to pull boats out of the water when a hurricane is coming - the residents move around in a collection of communal golf buggies.
It's all very communist. You help yourself to a cart and then, if you're the last to use it at night, you have to plug it into the mains and charge it up.
Brilliant. No noise, no fumes, no pollution, no jams, no sense that Bruce's golf cart is bigger than mine and I must respond. And of course, absolutely no chance of anyone being even slightly killed...
You'd think. But that ain't necessarily so because, you see, sticking its oar into this Liberal Democrat's idea of heaven comes something called youthful exuberance. Mix that with a T-junction and someone's going to need the flying doctor.
If the golf buggy had had an engine, the person going the other way would have heard it coming. But it didn't. So he came round the bush, and bang. Of course, you may argue that a golf buggy can only do 15mph and that no harm can come to a driver at this speed. True enough.
But when it has a head-on with another buggy, also travelling at 15mph you have a 30mph impact. Doesn't sound like much? Really? Well try running face first into a wall and then send me an email explaining how things turned out.
Did the accident bring everyone to their senses? Yes... we thought. But wait, what's this? Why, it's a teenager attempting to do a donut in his buggy. And over there, there's an 11-year-old trying to jump his over an iguana.
This is the problem, the concept that our friends in the yellow and green parties just can't seem to understand. That for some, taking risks is fun.Of course, they'll say that the people I'm talking about are yobs. They'll point to someone called Darren in a Nova, doing handbrake turns in a Tesco car park. But me?
Well I'll point to Steve Fossett.
As I write, the American adventurer is missing in the Nevada desert. There are fears that he's crashed his plane and that he's dead. It'll be a terrible shame if it is true, because Steve to me is what the baby Jesus is to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
I met him once many years ago and he didn't really fit the profile. I knew, from reading his biography, that he'd made a fortune on Wall Street and since retiring had raced at Le Mans, swum the Channel and beaten the world speed record for crossing the Pacific in a sail boat.
So I was expecting him to be a cross between Gordon Gekko, Thomas Crown and the Terminator. I was expecting him to break every bone in my fingers when we shook hands and for him to slap me on the back with such force that my spine was shattered.
This turned out to be wrong. "Can you tell me where Steve Fossett is?" I said to a man in tatty combat trousers, sweeping the floor in a big aeroplane hanger. "That's me," he said quietly.
He was a rubbish interview, stammering and not quite being able to enunciate what drove him. But when the cameras were off and we were just chatting, he was funny, extremely kind and driven by a quest for adventure so powerful that if you took out his soul, it could be used to light the world.
Since our meeting, he's gone properly berserk, setting 23 world sailing records and nine distance race records. And when he breaks a record, he doesn't do things by halves: when he crossed the Atlantic in 113 hours, he shattered the previous record by nearly two days.
Most people would have had their work cut out keeping ahead of the game in the world of sailing. But not Steve. Because during this time, he set a new record for crossing America in a non military jet. His average speed was 726mph.
And then he turned round, went back to the West coast and set a Transcontinental record for turbo props. Then he broke the record for crossing Australia. And then he broke one for flying round the world. Of seven world records for fixed-wing aircraft, Steve has three.
I have nowhere near finished.On top of this, he's broken 10 of the 21 world records for gliding. He's gone further than anyone else and he's been higher. 50, 727 feet. And then, just last year, he got back into a powered plane and flew round the world again without refuelling in 76 hours and 45 minutes. The longest flight in history.
He has competed in several triathlons, is one of only eight men to have done all of the world's 10 toughest ski races, he has done the 1,165-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska and he has piloted an airship at 71.5mph. Another absolute world record.
And I haven't even got to the ballooning yet. He was the first to cross the Pacific in a balloon and, after six attempts, the first to go all the way round the world. You get the impression he's circumnavigated the globe more often than most 747 pilots. Oh, and he's climbed six of the world's seven highest mountains.
He disappeared while on a flight looking for somewhere in Nevada where he could break the land-speed record. He had the car, 47-feet long and powered by an afterburning jet engine from a Phantom F4. He just needed somewhere to drive it.
A menace? A one-man carbon snowshoe? I don't think so. I dislike using the word 'hero' because I think it should be mainly reserved for soldiers. Or at the very least, people who risk their lives to help others. But in a way, that's exactly what Steve Fossett did. He risked his life to show that there's still some hope in the Liberal Democrat's stupid vision of a perfect golf-buggy-and-cotton-wool world.
At the very least, that makes him an inspiration.
The 2007 formula one season began very much like any other. The teams had done their pre-season showing off of their new cars and announced their new driver lineup, however one team stood out. McLaren Mercedes announced their number two driver was a young Englishman by the name of Lewis Hamilton. Few people had heard of him until now and fewer expected what was to come.
Australia
The first race of the season and Lewis Hamilton qualifies 4th on in debut grand prix. Finishing only three tenths of a second behind team mate and reigning world champion Fernando Alonso he expressed his delight:
"I'm overwhelmed to be on the second row for my first Grand Prix," said Hamilton. "This weekend is what I have been preparing myself for during the past 13 years and I'm enjoying every moment. I think we are in with a good chance in the race."
The relationship between the two McLaren drivers began on a high note with Alonso quoted as saying "I'm pleased that Lewis is right up there with me which puts us both in the best position to score points for ourselves and the team, I can't wait for the race."
Living up to the massive hype surround Lewis Hamilton's entry into Formula one he managed to pull off a podium finish in his first race, finishing third behind Ferrari's Kimi Raikonnen and team mate Alonso.
Malaysia
Having qualified fourth on the grid Lewis finished in a respectable second place, managing to keep the Ferraris at bay and help team mate Alonso secure a race win and also completing McLarens first one-two since the Brazilian GP in 2005.
"That was the most difficult race I have ever had...I had Kimi hunting me down for most of the race. I can't explain how tough that was, it was getting hotter but I had to keep pushing and I made no mistakes."
Bahrain
LH qualified second between the two Ferraris with Alonso starting from fourth place. Hamilton pressured Massa for most of the race and eventually finished in second place to become the first man to take podiums in his first three grand prix.
Spain
Another second place in Spain mean't Lewis Hamilton was now leading the championship, just four races into his F1 career. He managed to keep team mate Alonso behind him to go two points clear in the title chase. Lewis was quoted as saying "Things just keep getting better and I continue living my dream" while things are not going so well for the reigning champion as the chance of winning his home GP disappeared as he tried to overtake Massa in the first corner, damaging his car.
Monaco
Things start to go right for Alonso as he manages to beat team mate and win the Monaco GP for the second year in a row. Hamilton settles for second place, saying "I knew we were both extremely quick, so I could only apply pressure, but he's a two-time world champion and he doesn't really make mistakes".
Canada
Lewis dominated qualifying and took his first pole position. In only his sixth race Hamilton drives his way to his first GP win after a race full of drama and incidents. Confidently Hamilton says "I've been ready for this for quite some time, ready for the win - it was just a matter of where and when". Meanwhile things weren't going so well for Alonso, finishing only 7th USA.