out of the world images

I was browsing the POW from one of my favourite websites
and came across this image.
Posting it here to share with my dear readers.

essentials of a relationship

I was driving back to work from a Solaris summer picnic today, when I turned into KCBS when I heard a Lexus radio commercial. One of the catch lines in it was "Some people say that one of the essentials of a healthy relationship is 'compromise'..."

Um. I don't quite like the word 'compromise', especially when it's used in the relationship terms. I think this word carries with it a very passive and involuntary feeling, more like a shrug and "whatever!". I would want to use a more pro-active strategy -- synergy!

Synergy -- Etymology: New Latin synergia, from Greek synergos working together
1 : SYNERGISM; broadly : combined action or operation
2 : a mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct business participants or elements (as resources or efforts)

Columbia Ice Field Parkway

breath taking, my vision of heaven on Earth!

Remember: "take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints"

K2 Alexis skates

ice skating => roller blading. [K2 Alexis skates]

Periodic Table of the Internet

got this from a friend's blogsite, quite interesting:

Periodic Table of the Internet

Quotes I like

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Frank Moore Colby

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

http://www.bored.com/findquotes/cate_527_Adventure.html

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art17598.asp

"plan as if you will live forever, and live as if you will die tomorrow"

red stilettos

Stiletto -- according to Wikipedia:

A stiletto is a short dagger, with a narrow, hollow grind blade with a triangular cross-section. This dagger is designed as a stabbing weapon rather than for cutting, since it doesn't have a sharp edge, and because it's narrow shape allows it to penetrate deeply in a point.

The stiletto began to gain fame during the Renaissance when it was popular as a tool against heavily armoured knights. The thin blade could easily pass through most chainmail, or find its way through tiny gaps in a knight's armour.

The stiletto was also favoured amongst assassins because it was an easily concealed weapon. This tactic occurred repeatedly, from the Zealots of 1st century Judaea, to the Venetians, to the Assassins of Alamut.

The word stiletto may sometimes be used in American English to refer to a switchblade, and is the origin of the term stiletto heel for a very thin, pointed heel on footwear.

Stiletto may also be used specifically for a knife exhibiting the same triangular cross-section and hollow grind as a small sword.

Stiletto also means a pointed needlework tool to push open fabric to make an eyelet in cloth.

[[my thoughts: Umm.... maybe it WAS designed as a self-defense weapon for women walking down the dark alley, and it's MEANT to be a weapon against guys after all! ^_^ ]]

Ok ok, here is the Wikipedia for the "stiletto heels"..

Pooh history

Pooh comprehensive info on Wikipedia:

Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. He appears in the books Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included several poems about Winnie-the-Pooh in the children’s poetry books When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

The hyphens in the character's name were later dropped when The Walt Disney Company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of Winnie the Pooh featurettes which became one of the company's most successful franchises worldwide.

The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, notably including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the first foreign-language book to be featured on the New York Times Bestseller List, and is the only book in Latin ever to have been featured therein.

more things stolen!!

I am going to start to take a full inventory of the items in my car,
apparently the thief also took 3 sets of hair styling curling irons that I just purchased, and two massagers, these items were all new and in a bag in the back seat, now I will have to recall what else was in that bag!

I am quite upset! @_@!

GPS STOLEN!!

Arrhh!! Someone came into my car and stole my GPS system! This occurred at the mall, beware that thieves are lurking around near holidays and prying on unsuspecting general mass.

I can't believe this! I feel so violated, as one's car is as personal and private as one's house... Not to mention the loss of the GPS system, which was so convenient to rely on for guidance in the past 9 months for me..