Boring post

I dunno what to write about, so I will just start writing and hope something that isn’t totally boring will come up eventually. What is in my head right now? I’m thinking about writing something but I dunno what could I write that would be sort of interesting for ppl who might (I’m an incurable optimist :P), against all odds, come across this post.

I used to blog about Brian Joubert (Bijou). He is a sexy French skater, who is as old as me. And since I didn’t (and still don’t) have a boyfriend I had to obsess about someone. This sexy skater won every competition he entered in the 2007 season, but this year it seems he isn’t in the same top shape. He competed in the European Figure Skating Championship and came out third. The disappointing part about the performance (for me) was that he didn’t prepare a new program. He competed with the same outfit, music and moves as last year, and if I’m not mistaking, and the year before. It would have been nice to put a little more effort into it :P.

But the point of this entry isn’t Brian Joubert (if you’re still with me thanks for holding on) and this last passage was a sort of goodbye from that “obsession”. I still like him and I will eagerly watch his competitions, but I think I will blog about some other toys of mine.

Good bye, sexy skater. Take care!

PS: This entry isn't a keeper, it might not be here tomorrow too... I'll be my old self again shorty... To be continued

Don't Give Up

"Don't give up, it's just the weight of the world"

HARD WORK QUOTES

• Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.

• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

• Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

• The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

• God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

• When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

• Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

• There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

• He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.

• One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
  

• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

• Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

• If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

• It is never too late to be who you might have been.

• I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.

Katie Melua – The New Kid on the Block!

Katie Melua, the 22-year-old songwriter/singer was born in Georgia and moved to Belfast at the age of 8 because of her father’s profession. I find her songs very simple and honest. She is inspired by everything that surrounds her; she writes love songs. I consider her the next Norah Jones.

She brings a fresh, new feel in her songs and this is accomplished with the simple (yet magical) elements she clings to. Needles to mention, her polished voice is the main reason I listen to her music. She is a full time artist (she writes her own songs), listening to her songs is like she is sharing her life with us. I can’t help analyzing her lyrics, I feel she is telling us her own stories trough the metaphors used in her songs.

Check her out. She is worth the 3:49 minutes.

How to win the Lottery?

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I decided to buy a Lottery ticket today… The probability of me winning with a single ticket is 1 in 14 million. The only known trick is to play impossible numbers, like 1, 2, 3,4,5,6, and win. The idea is that if you do win (with 14 million to 1 chances), nobody will be crazy enough to play these numbers and you won’t need to split your winnings with anyone else. The chances of these numbers to come up, are exactly the same as with any other numbers.

So, good luck…

Should Brian Joubert open up a can of “Walking the walk”?

I was browsing trough blogs earlier today, checking out what others think of Brian Joubert, and came across some pretty harsh notes. One of these notes, on the Shot to Nothing blog, states (basically) that Brian is self-centered and his gold medal at the 2007 Europeans is pure coincidence, given that Plushenko is not competing this year and Lambiel pulled out of the competition last minute.

Watch his statement and decide for yourself.

“Well I never refuse a fight, even if I’m not on top form. It’s a shame really, quitting competition because we don’t feel good. I think it’s too easy to do that.”

Brian’s words translated by the EuroSport reporter

My best guess is that this statement came from the bitter feeling left by the failure at the 2006 Olympics. He might not have been in top form and still decided to take part of the competition, a decision he ultimately came to regret.

I agree that Brian Joubert’s performance at the European Championship was far from a gold medal, but there was nobody better to claim the throne. After his short program, he came up only second and the free program wasn’t as planned either.

My question is: Should we give up on Brian because of this statement? Let’s not forget that he was the first skater who was able to face up to Plushenko, and force him to skate better. After his screw-up at the Olympics last year, he was criticized and bad-mouthed by many, but I think the most painful hit was the criticism coming from the French people. As if, he didn’t do his best at the Olympics… He tried and failed. “Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” One mistake shouldn’t be rubbed in like this. Brian proved to be strong, even when his own father opposed to his career and stated that he would rather see Brian as a soccer player.

About Jupiter, the Most Successful Planet in the Neighborhood

Hello, my name is Jupiter, and I am a victorious planet.

I have four wives Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io, 60 children and 3 adopted kids. I am also the most popular in the neighborhood and most successful in my field of work.

When I purchased the piece of territory where I decided to build my life, I made a good deal with my landlord, the Sun. He can be pretty obnoxious sometimes, but really helpful when needed, so I took the parcel that was far enough to keep me out of harm’s way, but close enough to enjoy the benefits of the Sun. The benefits of the deal didn’t show off at the beginning, but later on, the minerals of my terrain led to my growth in size and popularity. Now, the neighbors closer to the Sun, Mars, Terra, Venus and Mercury suffer the consequences of parking too close to the landlord. Because of the constant pressure of the Sun they weren’t able to cultivate their properties well, they remained limited to the boundaries set up by the owner. Some of them have wives, but none of them have children.

The dwarf planets like me because they are the ones that most often receive my protection. Sometimes, hooligan intruders come to our street trying to reach the Sun, and they vandalize everything in their path. I always do my best to intercept them and teach them a harsh lesson. The latest attempt to vandalize our neighborhood was in 1994, when a comet named Shoemaker-Levy raced towards the Sun. I used my atmosphere to stop him, but it wasn’t enough. Shoemaker-Levy was a stubborn comet, and my atmosphere had just thorn it in pieces and speeded it up to encounter me. I wasn’t about to give up, but neither was Shoemaker-Levy. The dwarf planets watched closely as Shoemaker-Levy went down in a blaze of glory, they calmed down when they saw that the intruder was defeated.

The neighbors further away - Uranus, Neptune and the tiny Pluto – didn’t hit it off with the Sun. They found his dominative and bossy qualities too much to bear and moved as far away from the Sun as possible. They didn’t benefit from the Sun’s heat, which eventually led them to become cold and lonely.

I persuaded my best friend, Saturn, to move right next to me. He followed my advice, and he is very contented with his decision. We are very similar in many ways, we both worked very hard to be where we are today, but Saturn is more outgoing. This is why he has seven wives Iapetus, Titan, Rhea, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, Mimas and 50 children.

Lately I have been receiving visits from one of my neighbor’s spies. This neighbor, Terra, was infested with bacteria four billion years ago, which has evolved to interesting life forms. I cannot help feeling guilty for this, because the bacterium most likely arrived to Terra trough one of the comet intruders I failed to stop. However, the evolution of Terra since the infestation was unique and very interesting. If this comet hadn’t hit the Earth, it would surely be a dull planet now.

My wife Io, also nurtures bacteria, we are open-minded about the life form exchange program and we encourage it. Terra hasn’t made up its mind about the program yet, but in a little time, like 100 years or so it will come around.

For a better inside on our Solar System please visit Wikipedia.