Some more Quotes!

• If you’re lonely, get to know yourself - Fairly Legal
• You’re beauty will take you there. But your character will bring you back – Jacob’s Cross
• You know you’ve hit middle age when your memories become more important than your dreams – Susan Delfino (DHWS)
• A crime eats its own child.
• Sometimes a good woman can save a bad man – Diana Palmer.
• Life sorts itself out, given the opportunity – Diana Palmer.
• Love is a gift. One should not throw it away – Diana Palmer.
• A man should think with his heart, not his head when he loves – Diana Palmer.
• Sex is a bad basis for a relationship – Diana Palmer.
• Husbands tend to limit a woman’s adventures.
• Some things are going to work out as they were destined to be. As if they were meant to be.
• Money doesn’t buy happiness. It just makes misery easier to bear – Johanna Lindsey
• Never underestimate the importance of friends you can’t see.
• Greed makes people stupid. And stupid people are easy to fool- Jacob’s Cross.
• You should dream of a thing before you make it happen.
• A roaring lion kills no game – Jacob’s Cross.
• A termite can do nothing to a stone except lick it – Jacob’s Cross.
• No matter how much perfume you use you’ll never hide the stench of your sins.
• We have to stop being afraid of our past. Everybody’s history is good.
• The human eye can see what the heart wants to see.
• Courage is more important than talent.

I Love Technology: Adobe Digital Editions.

 Remember the post I did about my love for technology here? Well…I am falling more and more in love as I continue to discover.
A couple of days ago, I downloaded a torrent file collection of all Sandra Brown’s work that is Novels. When I tried to open it and get to reading, the file could not open due to the format and I lacked the proper program to open the .epub and .mobi extensions. I looked at all the titles I’d been dying to read as the thought of having to delete everything reared its ugly head!
I was so crushed, demoralised, tired and frustrated. Downloading the torrent had been done at my last hour of being online. Weird is I cannot spend more than three hours online contrary to some of my friends’' beliefs. It tires me out. Since I didn’t have the proper program to open the books, I put off the attempt to search for one, the prospect of deleting the entire collection and decided to sleep on it.
The first thing I did when I got online the next day was to look for the right program and download it. Don’t you marvel at how everything is available on the internet if you have the patience and will to try find what you want? Moments like these make me more appreciative of our generation’s technology advancements.
So, I read through some of the relevant information and suggested programs in my quest to finding the right one. I came across a list of all the programs one might need to open the .mobi and epub file extensions and Adobe Digital Editions caught my eye. I settled on downloading it simply because I am registered at acrobat and not only familiar but also a user of most of their programs.
After the download and installation, you know what happens next, Right? TESTING!! I got down to it since it was my first time and I love! love! love! it.
It comes with a virtual bookshelf for all the digital books. I was excited! I went on to insert all the books I had so far downloaded like a greedy kid trying to eat everything on the plate all at once! If this had been  a physical feat, I’d be exhausted for days.
Unlike Adobe Reader x, Adobe digital editions also comes with the book mark feature which enables you to bookmark where you left off in the book. You do not have to take a mental note of the page number or search for it when you return to the book. How cool is this? The reader in me is in book heaven though I can’t help but muss the days where I’d curl up with a paperback and lose myself in it til the end.
I love this Adobe Digital Edition because it is exclusively for the .mobi and epub file extensions and not pdf. Adobe Reader X IS still my number one love for pdf extensions and I can do so much with it. I don’t have to keep the book indefinitely on my laptop for one which Adobe Digital Editions encourages with its virtual bookshelf.

Hello! Hello… Hello?!

This is so random and out there but uh…I always reflect on people’s ‘hello’ whenever I receive and end a phone call. It is something I am sort of fixated with and find vastly amusing, I have observed they are different due to tone and level of excitement.

These are the types of ‘Hello’ I have observed amongst my friends and family during phone calls. For the fun of it, I am going to name the culprits so they can know where they fall.

Hello! My favourite ‘Hello’. The caller says it with a lot of gusto and an underlying pleasure. To me, it suggests; I know who I am talking to and it is a pleasure to do so. My brother Sad, friends Emma, Belle and O fall in this category. I find their tone and excitement very infectious and never fails to make me smile.

Hello… This is a funny one. The caller here says it in a small unsure voice and leaves it hanging as if they are not sure of who they are talking to and want the reply to be a confirmation. This Hello says; “I know who I have called but not sure if I am speaking to the right person?” Clare, Tracey and Ronald are the culprits in this category.

Hello?! A rude one if I say so myself. I say that because I am known to offend a lot of people by how I answer the phone sometimes. My uncle has taken me to task over this on more than one occasion.  So, yeah…I am the culprit here. This hello is said with a lot of curtness and annoyance at the disturbance. It says, ‘WTF do you want?’ IF it is an unknown number and to someone I hardly want to talk to.

Much as I am guilty for using the third Hello,  The first Hello is usually where I fall when and if it is someone I want to talk with.

Are you wondering now where you or your friends fall? Bet you’ll start noticing after this!

Enough IS Enough!

I have had it up to here with boys on Facebook! I have reached my limit! I am tired of being terrorized in my messages inbox and chatted up for no reason. My participation doesn’t mean I love it. On the contrary, I am being courteous by indulging you because I don’t want to be rude which is going to change from now on.
A friend once told me I throw tantrums on Facenook-it should have offended me but not quite because why not throw a tantrum in the same place that ignited it?With the crap I have been dealt, I think they are well deserved tantrums and also warnings to those who might get it in their heads to want to disturb me.
I go on Facebook most of the time to play Farmville-yes, I am addicted to this game, maintain a Facebook page my and Emma started up and also to chat with my friends (people I know). Unfortunately some of that time is compromised by random boys who want to chat me up with nonsense. The things they say; well…to sum it up, they get hot and heavy, wax lyric within a day of my having accepted their friend request. The wise wait a little and then all of a sudden launch a full fledged attack! Fun-knee how they terrorise me in my messages inbox and then get all huffy and pissy when I tell them I Am Not Interested!
I sometimes wonder what sort of girl they think I am cause honestly, who in their right mind goes to meet a random stranger within a day or hours of being chatted up? I am neither looking for sex nor selling anything! And they are not worthy the death of a random cat out there for me to kill!
Another thing, boys who get all hot and heavy at once creep the f**k out of me. Flattery in my books never takes you anywhere when you know nothing about me. And always liking my status updates, pictures and comments doesn’t give you the right to terrorise me in my messages inbox nor poke me!
I know people use facebook for sex, relationships etc but I don’t fall in either of those categories. I NEVER want to meet facebook friends and boys on purpose. NEVER! It is one thing I never and still don’t entertain as a thought. The fewer people I know the better.
Because I don’t want to entertain anyone, I try not to get caught up in the senseless chats. I know I can block and restrict everything but I feel I have outgrown all that. So please, do me a favor and LEAVE ME THE F**K ALONE while I am on my farm or not. IF I do so much as bestow on you the pleasure of chatting with me, try and keep your nefarious intentions and purposes to yourself by neither macking on me nor soliciting meetings. Thank you!

Smile...Even When...

"Laugh even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. 

Smile, even when you’re trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision. 

Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.

Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.

Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.

Frolic, even when you are made fun of.

Kiss, even when others are watching.

Sleep, even when you’re afraid of what the dreams might bring.

Run, even when it feels like you can’t run anymore.

And, always remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don’t live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started."

- Alysha Speer.

How beautiful is that? I got it from one of the people I follow on twitter. It was a RT and as usual I took the time to read it in its entirety. I hope you like it too.

The Alchemist…FINALLY!

 I finally got round to reading Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. I am proud of myself considering the fact it has taken me almost three years since I said I would? The first time I failed because it was an audio book which didn’t work for me. There is no question mark against Morgan Freeman’s voice. I am simply a paperback girl. I decided to wait until I could get my hands on either a soft copy that is Ebook or paperback.

I downloaded the Ebook version, sat on it for months and remembered it after all the fluff reading I had done. I have to say it is a very good book. It reminds us of what we already know, think and teaches us more. I don’t know if any of you believe in omens but I do. I believe in a cock’s crow, the black and white lizard and the odd bird poop on your person. It never crossed my mind that butterflies and crickets are good omens. In fact, I thought otherwise. The book talks so much of believing and following omens such as butterflies etc implying they are good omens and how you must always look out for them to guide you on to the right path in your quest to achieving your dreams.

Essentially, it is about dreams -the beauty of following them and believing in your heart and yourself. We were all created with an intention and a purpose. He talks about Santiago’s journey as a Shepherd from the mountains of Spain to the pyramids of Egypt in search of his treasure. The struggles he faced, lessons he learnt just to achieve his dream, how he finally becomes The Alchemist and also later finds his treasure in the one place he left in the beginning.

I found it quite relative and reflective of human nature. We all have dreams, the strong are the ones who follow their hearts and fulfil their dreams whilst the weak are the ones who sit on them or give up once they encounter obstacles as it says, ‘Before a dream is realised, The Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so we can learn, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we have learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up.’ and at the end of it all blame the world for all our failures. I can’t say it had a huge impact on me, it was more like an affirmation of what I already know and then some.

The book has so many quotable quotes and profound texts but for me it has to be, ‘Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears…’ Reading this reminded me of the conversation I had with my sister and the post I did about dreams here. I cried during that text session like no man’s business. And the quote brought back the same emotions and a little tear to my eyes. Dreams are everything, they are the driving force behind who we are and without them, we are nothing.You can decide to be like the Arab crystal seller whose dream is to go to Mecca- he’d rather dream about the possibility, work towards it and not see it through because he doesn’t want to find another dream or be like Santiago and go after what you want.

I do recommend the book if you have not had the pleasure of reading it. What next as regards my reading list? I guess Don Quixote. It sounds English which I love. I think English (British) writers are the best!! My aunt recommended it. On to the business of looking for it.