Sweeet...11, 21 and 34 are the only ones I need to improve on...

1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did the previous year.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink plenty of water.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
26. What other people think of you is none of your business.
27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
28. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
29. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
30. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
31. The best is yet to come.
32. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
33. Do the right thing!
34. Call your family often.
35. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
36. Each day give something good to others.
37. Don't over do. Keep your limits.

Overview of 2008

Not a shabby year. Lots of fun with the bow. Hung out with many interesting people. Moved to London, halfway through my PPE diploma. It's all gravy, so I'm just going to throw in a couple of pics...







Kaiser Cheifs































Ricky dicking about...







Bring me the Horizon. Musics not my bag, but good people.
























Thankyou 2008!

Essay's

I have finally realised why I hate so very much to write essays! Even though I jot down missives constantly. Yearn to learn with a great insatiability, and give an commendable performance in the classroom (if I do say so myself!). It is because the consumption, and digestion of information is as satisfying as devouring food. Consuming unusual, and Moorish foodage is my favourite thing. Fortunate as it is compulsory if I care to stay alive. Now also the same as with food. Preceding a large delicious meal if someone was to demand I regurgitate, or even vomit the contents of said wonderful meal would you blame me should I resist or disdain!! Please! The requirement of essays only entertains society, and it's necessary evils. Where have the traditional pleasures of having an mentor and mastering you craft gone? The amount of people I meet in roles that have required degrees, who are the equivalent of fencing champions in the art of essay's, but struggle to apply what they know and be remotely efficient in any role, let alone the one they have acquired! I should have been born in Athens, or Italy, England even. But not at this time, not with this system.

Beyonce.

There's not many people I look up to. Not because there aren't a lot of great people, but because it's all relative to comparison. I'm always going to be morally sounder than Hitler, but not o good as Gandhi. Looking up or down in status seems sometimes a wasted effort. However there are those that aren't better than others, but inspire. I like how Beyonce (apart from the outfit)seems to have disregarded the generic 'sexy video' and just outright shows us what she's really got. Unconventional style of dancing too, but undeniable that it has taken a shed load of skill to execute. Awesome.

Sorry about quality only embedded one available.

Ahem...

..Okay so since I last talked to myself on the WWW in the form of a blog Barrack Obama was voted president of US. Enjoyed a murder mystery party at Halloween, turned out I was the murderer, awesome!!

James and I did a shoot with BMTH. I got to smear the showers with blood to try and replicate a scene from Saw. See-saw. Also smear a bit of blood on the boys(older than me yet still more vulnerable), and tie them up. They are also featured on Jims site where I do all the wordy bits.


Haven't seen my Nephew for a while (few months), but apparently he's taken a liking to saying 'hey gorgeous' to everyone, and has befriended a girl called Sienna at Nursery. Shall I warn him now, or let him learn from his own mistake?



Some preaching...

Kids at school made fun of me for being able to milk a cow. Pretty funny, as it is only recently that I have been becoming more aware of the cultural difference between myself and the city kids. I feel saddened sometimes, as many would have benefited from the privilege of fresh air, healthy food, strangers always saying hello to one another, and basically a belief that life in it's most basic of form still has it's benefits. Unfortunately all many have come to know are the Selfridges window arrangements. Eg this year it is themed 'More is More', as opposed to the obvious 'less is more'. Consume, consume, consume I hear them cry. "How fabulous to drape ourselves in the misfortune of others". Really people everything in moderation. I know this month I treated myself to some £200 Firetrap boots (paid £80) and a Vivienne Westwood tank top £100 (£10 Cancer Research), regardless there must be a limit?


Even though I said I would put some positive stuff on here I hope by making people aware that is a form of positivity, so on that note if you like to know about conspiracies (real ones), then you'll love this...WARNING, educational value, may be unsuitable for the American featured on it!

What?

I have just scanned my blog, andit's been looking a bit bleak recently! I will spice it up with pictures of me bumming around with famous folk soon...

Quote

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
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Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude