a friend informed that she'd be performing at No Black Tie, so i got aristo along.. captured just a couple of vids.. hope u all enjoy.. i personally think it was 2hours+ of awesomeness.. i was seated on the staircase alone before aristo showed up.. and there was this really friendly girl started talking, giggling and just laughing silly.. i found out only later that she is a vocalist!! woo.. see the girl in blue in this video below? it was an impromptu performance from her.. i was so thrilled having to share the same staircase seats with such a great performer! woohoo..!
& impromptu appearance by: zalila
we got aristo a small cake.. & managed to write on it!
"i wish for long time love, much happiness, good health & good wealth for everyone.." (yay!)
the remaining feliners.. ;-/
hope u had a Happy Birthday, aristo.
Home"love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action"
Family"if u look deeply into the palm of your hand, u will see ur parents & all generations of ur ancestors. all of them are alive in this moment. each is present in ur body. u are the continuation of each of these people."
Friends"though our communication wanes at times of absence, i'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background" (this applies for kitty too)
My mom gave me a very personal mother-daughter gift just before we left my place to the airport and I want to share some things that she has ultimately shared with me too. These few quotes I find are worth pondering about.
Enjoy :)
"I've learned...
that just when one person saying to me 'you've made my day', makes my day."
"I've learned...
that being kind is more important than being right"
"I've learned...
that sometimes all a person need is a hand to hold and a heart to understand"
"I've learned...
that opportunities are never lost, someone will take the ones you miss"
"I've learned...
that a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks"
"I've learned...
that I can't choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it"
hee hee hee.. :D
hahaha..
and then came the time when poosy started crying.. right after she got ben's call.. uwaaaa.. =( *thunder strike & heavy pour*
i will miss u so ever much. this will be a good beginning for u in another chapter of ur life.. have a safe & wonderful future.. continue spreading ur love & stay strong as u've always been.. whenever u feel otherwise, u know that ur family clan and we, the feliners will always be there. u can count on me for that. we aren't the hugging type of people and that evening was probably our first time having a real hug and at that instant, tears just kept flowing all the way as i was driving off.. didn't notice my fuel meter running low & dropped all my spare coins in the car.. all i could remember was that my heart felt really heavy.. =( and, look! look what u did to my eyes!
swollen as hell..
i decided to erase that image; to cancel off that heavy, heavy feeling. =(*whistle* *whistle* *whistle*
*walks towards the windows*
*waves* *chat for a short while* *waves*
*whistle* *whistle* *whistle*
i was reading this and thought of sharing:-
THIMPHU, Bhutan — If the rest of the world cannot get it right in these unhappy times, this tiny Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains says it is working on an answer.
“Greed, insatiable human greed,” said Prime Minister Jigme Thinley of Bhutan, describing what he sees as the cause of today’s economic catastrophe in the world beyond the snow-topped mountains. “What we need is change,” he said in the whitewashed fortress where he works. “We need to think gross national happiness.”
(at this point, i was thinking, "happiness?! is that all?")
The notion of gross national happiness was the inspiration of the former king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, in the 1970s as an alternative to the gross national product. Now, the Bhutanese are refining the country’s guiding philosophy into what they see as a new political science, and it has ripened into government policy just when the world may need it, said Kinley Dorji, secretary of information and communications.
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Specifically, the government has determined that the four pillars of a happy society involve the economy, culture, the environment and good governance. It breaks these into nine domains: psychological well-being, ecology, health, education, culture, living standards, time use, community vitality and good governance, each with its own weighted and unweighted G.N.H. index.
All of this is to be analyzed using the 72 indicators. Under the domain of psychological well-being, for example, indicators include the frequencies of prayer and meditation and of feelings of selfishness, jealousy, calm, compassion, generosity and frustration as well as suicidal thoughts.
“We are even breaking down the time of day: how much time a person spends with family, at work and so on,” Mr. Dorji said.
Mathematical formulas have even been devised to reduce happiness to its tiniest component parts.(now, coming up is the formula, which, i think, is ingeniously reasoned out)
“One sum of squared distances from cutoffs for four psychological well-being indicators. Here, instead of average the sum of squared distances from cutoffs is calculated because the weights add up to 1 in each dimension.”
This is followed by a set of equations:
= 1-(.25+.03125+.000625+0)
= 1-.281875
= .718(uh.. *blank face*)
Every two years, these indicators are to be reassessed through a nationwide questionnaire
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Bhutan is pitting its four pillars, nine domains and 72 indicators against the 48 channels of Hollywood and Bollywood that have invaded since television was permitted a decade ago.
“Before June 1999 if you asked any young person who is your hero, the inevitable response was, ‘The king,’ ” Mr. Dorji said. “Immediately after that it was, David Beckham and now it’s 50 Cent, the rap artist. Parents are helpless.”.....
click here to read the whole article.