Yes i have finally come around to compiling all of my quotable quotes. :D Funny isn't it? How Saying something obvious in a few cool sounding words can make a guy(or girl) seem oh-so-clever and ... well ... wise. ;P So anyways, Enjoy!
P.S. Watch this space as i will be updating it as i continue to find even more clever-sounding things to say! XD!
"I Fear not Certain Death, For for all Death is Certain"
"I am neither a candle to God, nor a rod to the Devil"
"Sticks and stones can break my bones, But i can break yours too"
"Life is a river, Go with the flow"
"A wrong decision now, is better than a right one too late"
"Never defend, For to do so is to lay bare your plans, Attack and do not cease initiative"
"Procrastination is to do yesterdays work tomorrow"
"By Zeus's Iron Balls!"
"Hi Miss, I'm gay, Think you can change my mind?"
"We always ask 'Why?' when 'How?' is so much more fun"
"How am i supposed to know? I just work here!"
"You take the thingamajigger and you connect it to the whatchamacallit and then ..."
"How do you stop a running Bhai? You don't. You just try and get out of the way"
"You feeling lucky? ... Punk!"
"Theres not much more thats worse than getting shot at with a .45 cal Magnum, except of course getting shot at with a .55 cal Magnum"
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;;Decapitation has been burned into our minds as cruel and unusual punishment. It's gruesome nature will always be used as a tool to terrorise people. But here is a miracle linked with decapitation (internal) which is testament of the will to survive.
Shannon Malloy was involved in a car crash in Nebraska on Jan. 25 which threw her up against the vehicle's dashboard. In the process, her skull became separated from her spine. The clinical term for her condition is called internal decapitation.
Quotes from Malloy:
"I remember the impact and then I had no control over my head,"
"I wasn't focused so much on the pain. I just kept thinking, 'I have to stay alive.'"
"My skull slipped off my neck about five times. Every time they tried to screw this (the metal halo which still supports her skull) to my head, I would slip,"
"It only took about 8 minutes to take the whole thing off,"
"Oh my God, it's a miracle,"
Read about this miracle here. Anyway, her doctor stated that her will to survive was what saved her.
Miracles do happen you see. There are so many wonders that is made possible by God. Stop worrying too much for an instant, just take a deep breath and cherish your existence in this sometimes sad yet wonderful world. One day you may be granted a miracle to continue in the world. Show your gratitude to the world and God soon....
~multum in parvo~
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;;Mr. Burns once told me that
It's not about what we did in the past, but what we can continue to do in (the) future.
Since I have nothing better to do lately (I'm lying about that honestly), I'm going to compensate for what I haven't contributed by posting at least 3-4 posts in a week. Therefore, I'll be shooting two birds with one camera, haha! And posting that little/much in a week isn't that difficult when I have shitloads of pictures to share! Okay, not shitloads. That's not really an adjective, but you get the gist, yes?
If any of you RANDTSters or RANDTS supporters read my blog, you would know that these pictures (they're my personal favourites of the lot, taken during the Ching Ming festival celebrated a month ago...) have been posted in my personal blog, but if you don't, then sit back, relax and enjoy!
Joss sticks and a candle.
Texture.
An easy chair.
One of my many cousins.
I'll be posting more of my favourites in RANDTS soon. Feedback and comments are welcomed with open arms!
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;;Sex could kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent, it's ugly and it's messy, and if God hadn't made it unbelievably fun, the human race would have died out eons ago. [pause to breathe deeply] Men are lucky they can only have one orgasm. Do you know that women can have an hour long orgasm?
- Dr Cameron, from the TV series House [more quotes here]
Sex aside, I'm typing this as a response to Comrade's post [RANDTS To The Next Level].
I guess I did say I wanted to have a dynamic group blog sometime back then. However, it must be said that I think we do have that environment now, to some extent. Judging by the posts' content, we have an extremely varied level of topics relating to current issues and even personal problems on the blog.
...just my two cents' worth...
But for our blog to be truly 'dynamic', there needs to be some degree of engagement, comment-wise, with our audience - the readers of RANDTS. Blogger-wise, we're getting loads of comments from the people who contribute to RANDTS, but near nothing from the readers of the blog.
I was made to understand that RANDTS does have a substantial following from around the country (although these statistics are by no means comparable to the more established blogs out there). Somehow though, there doesn't seem to be a very enthusiastic response here from them, despite them telling me how much they enjoy reading the posts we put up here.
Personally, I'm against imposing a quota at all for a number of reasons. One of them is because I'm not as frequent a poster as Comrade. Another is because some readers mentioned that coming to RANDTS actually gives them an information overload (due to the large number of posts that crop up when they don't drop by the site for a few days).
In the end, it all boils down to the question of 'quality vs quantity'. Too many posts may not necessarily be a good thing. I'd prefer it if we let things stay as they are now. We'll definitely streamline a few things here and there, but we can always work those out later.
~verus rara avis~
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;;Here's a question: what do you think this is?
Brian and I, along with several others, were arguing about how the owl died. Some said it hit the wall behind the dustbin and landed there. Others suggested that it'd died somewhere else and someone had placed it there. I can't remember who suggested that the owl was fake though...
But one thing's for sure, someone did put it there. And who would've thought that the first owl I got to touch was a dead one?
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.It'll be awhile before my mind escapes this grim reminder of our mortality. This owl probably didn't achieve much in life, yet it has immortalized itself in death in a gruesome way it never intended at all.- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus[courtesy of The Quotations Page]
~verus rara avis~
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We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less common sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom and lie too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space; we've done larger things, but not better things; we've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; we've split the atom, but not our prejudice; we write more, but learn less; plan more, but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes, but lower morals; more food but less appeasement; more acquaintances, but fewer friends; more effort but less success.
We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; we've become long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are the time of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure and less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the show window, and nothing in the stockroom.
-- Attributed to George Carlin
~multum in parvo~
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;;Courtesy of StampAndShout.com:
From The Star Online "Attacks kill 112 Shi'ite Pilgrims in Iraq" and Iraq Body Count (as of 1200 hours; 7th March, 2007):
Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq: 60,689 on average
...for our children's sake, say NO to war!
~verus rara avis~
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"The most valuable thing in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith." Bertrand Russell V.Delong
P.S. Since everyone else is posting lots of words, I shall post photographs and less words, haha. The photograph above is of my bracelet, taken on Wednesday, 7/2/07'.
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