“Our intense need to understand will always be a powerful stumbling block to our attempts to reach God in simple love [...] and must always be overcome. For if you do not overcome this need to understand, it will undermine your quest. It will replace the darkness which you have pierced to reach God with clear images of something which, however good, however beautiful, however Godlike, is not God.” — cloud of uknowing

To be success, sometimes you need to sacrifice. (checked)

To be old and wise, first you need to be young and stupid (checked but still not wise)

A fool is a person who makes the same mistake, over and over again (checked)

You think you’re smart? (not checked)

I really hope people’s mistakes could be forgotten… because i want others to do the same thing.g I caused a lot of trouble particularly to a person that has been helping me out so much, be it financial or whatever things i am affiliated with. I’m kinda ashamed to be a friend that friend of mine, because i felt that i’ve been given so much help, mafan-ing so much. A person could grew tired of such things.

I’ve learnt more things today.

I can’t sleep, right now. Still digesting all that has happened today. I guess this is the spicy part of kan mien. Life’s rhapsody… bitter sweet sour salty.

I’m gonna work.

Walmart has a bunch of FREE SAMPLES available! Go here to sign up for FREE SAMPLES of Tampax Pearl, Benefiber Orange, Pampers Extra Protection, Always Infinity, and Prilosec OTC!

this week has been difficult enough for me to already wish it was january.ive been trying to avoid some things because honestly they havent done it for me lately.i should stay away and give everything and everyone the space they needfrom me,im thinking of being like those people who go “m.i.a” just for a while.anyways ill probably post one last post later since i have last thoughts but im off to clear my head and get ready to work,

My favourite songs.
Enjoy it

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I spotted this at the dope spot…I know a Muhsinah fan or two…..

               I’ve heard a couple of  ole girl’s projects before….I’ll just say the “do it yourself” attitude doesn’t always pay off. She has a new joint, titled “The Oscillations: Triangle” which dropped on Itunes today.  According to the Itune’s reviews…this is a joint she already dropped with an extra song….oh well, support. The joint with the beat she jacked from Exile’s “Radio”  (“Stay Here”) puts the instrumental to good use.

Not only in times of despair must we have hope, but also in times of progress must we resist regression.

A teacher is first and always a student, only then a teacher.

Who looks inwardly hasn’t the time to point outwardly.

Avenging breeds only revenge.

Whether you are a man or a woman, losing your hair is never an easy thing to go through. Many people choose to accept what Mother Nature has decided about how much covering they need on their heads, whereas others decide to take a more active approach to their hair loss problem. Hair loss prevention shampoo is an excellent option for people out there who are experiencing hair loss problems and want to do something more about it.

In theory, hair loss prevention shampoo should be used before the balding process has gone out of control, but it can be used at any time. It is designed to hinder or slow down the balding process, hopefully preventing hair loss altogether although that is not always the case. There are many types of shampoos to choose from. Shampoos can be purchased in many drug stores and is widely available on the internet. It ranges in price from $15 to $50, or even more for more exotic or imported brands of the shampoo. Many brands even help with itchiness and dry scalp conditions often associated with hair loss.

Remember that balding patterns are often based on a genetic factor, and they are not always guaranteed to be able to be cured. Some baldness is simply not curable, and even hair loss shampoos cannot prevent every type of baldness. However, if you have noticed your hair thinning or that you are losing more than usual, look into hair loss prevention shampoo as an option for your hair loss needs.

Always la marque intime des filles a lancé sa communauté. En partenariat avec Tampax et Vénus, le site Beinggirl.fr regroupe des jeunes filles pour parler puberté. Sans s’inscrire, le site regorge déjà d’informations, certes ciblées car, le groupe Vénus doit faire sa promotion, mais au final qui se révèlent utiles.

Celles qui désirent être membres pourront bénéficier de conseils plus personnalisés par des spécialistes sur les questions intimes. Elles pourront aussi partager leur avis avec les autres membres.
Le site a donc gagné son paris, il réussi à la fois la promotion d’Always, Tampax et Vénus, mais aussi renseigner et faire aimer cette communauté aux jeunes filles. Aujourd’hui 12 millions de visiteurs uniques par mois et en moyenne 15 min passé sur le site.

Les jeunes filles peuvent enfin s’exprimer et sans tabous.

To sum up my first month’s work on helium will be exciting because I will get to look through the first things I’ve written on helium.com and see my growth and progress through a critical lens and then share it with you!

Please enjoy!!

Always and forever

Based on three separate poems, I’ve created this poem which is basically what I consider to be an engagement, newlywed or recommitment poem about marriage, being together and loving each other always and forever and the prospects of this new way of life. Helium has rated it 2/37.

How motherhood changes a woman

A friend of mine laughed at the fact that when I started on helium, most of the articles I had written were in their Parenting & Pregnancy channel, even though I am not a mother. I just wrote to titles that stuck out to me when I joined helium and this was one of them. I found that this was a title that was part of a writing contest helium was writing and it placed me at #14 in the list of publishers who wrote for the selected titles of the contest in the topic of Parenting & Pregnancy. I don’t quite recall how I first even found the title but I want to say that through rating, I came across many titles that stuck out to me, which I then would look up in order to write for.

This article has been 1/51 but the ratings went down and I could not understand why but when I was honest with myself, I knew that the couple of typos I’d corrected weren’t the only thing wrong. I realized my article was missing key information when it comes to physical and when it comes to professional, occupational and career changes that motherhood has on a woman. So, I “leapfrogged” the article (revising, adding to and editing an article and submitting it to be rated by the helium community as compared to your original article for the approval to, ultimately, leap over and literally replace the former article), which actually resulted in it going from two pages in length to four but all I knew was that I was making sure I put what I needed to say there in order to reflect my real take on the title. Needless to say, it reclaimed its rightful place in rating!

Should teachers have a right to deny a students need to use the bathroom?

Now, I came across this title and saw that it was a debate title, meaning you can come on the page and vote yes or no and can write an article relaying your argument for your side and your stance. A writer who wrote for the “No” side had a post on her blog/helium zone with a link to vote to “protect” children in public schools. Even though I actually loved her article [even added her to my favorite helium writers list on my profile] as well as her heart, I wrote for the “Yes” side. After writing, I learned that the channel category was for Secondary Education so I leapfrogged this article as well in order to ensure it reflected high school students and high school life at a more in depth capacity than it had previously. The article is rated 1/2 for the No side. In case you’d like to know and would find it to be valuable information, there are currently 4 articles on the yes side as compared to the 2 on the no side.

The impact of father-mother relationship on children’s well-being

This is something I’ve felt extremely strongly about and am glad to have gotten off of my chest exactly what and how I feel about it. Now, others can see and learn from it and they obviously appreciate since it is rated 3/14.

Is there too much sex on television?

I definitely had no choice but to write to this title. Everyone who I know who has read the article I wrote has thoroughy enjoyed it and thought it to be accurate and insightful as well as humorous and very debate-worthy. It is fact-driven and shares personal accounts as well as it challenges and raises questions. Enough of that, though, because what I want to say to you is that it shouldn’t be a question and I think that whoever wrote for or even just believes in the No side should “go spank themselves,” as someone I know says from time to time. Needless to say, I wrote for the Yes side and all I can say now is to just, please, read it yourself. Formulate an opinion if you have not yet done so. Lastly, fight for what you believe in because change does start with one man…every one man makes things how they are and every individual man is needed for things to change, so why not just go ahead and start with you?!

This article was numer 1/54 and was leapfrogged after a while because new information arose. It still sits at the top!

So, there we have it — a poem, two debates and two parenting articles and that sums up the best of  eDITORcHRIS/Christina Bernice’s helium.com writings from October 2009.

“Certa vez me disseram que Beatles foi a melhor banda de rock da historia, nesse momento fiquei muito puto e coloquei pra tocar o clipe de ‘Always’ pra tocar. ‘Isso sim é rock’ disse na sequencia. Todo o ambiente ficou mudo reconhecendo merda que tinham falado.”

Jon Bon Jovi

I blog I’m blogging I blog while I blog I can’t stop blogging I always blog constantly blogging I am

Here is a list of the samples and coupons I received in my mail last week:

• Sample and Freebie: Sample of Green Mountain Coffee and FREE travel mug (I don’t think this one is available anymore, but the link is still working, so maybe they’ll post a new offer soon!)
• Free Magazine: Baby Talk Magazine – This magazine is a division of Parenting and subscriptions are FREE!
• Coupon: FREE Little Debbie Cupcakes (This offer is no longer available, but go here to print a coupon for $0.75 off Little Debbie Cupcakes. You can also enter for a chance to win a Sweet Ride!)
• Coupon: Home Made Simple – Click here to sign up for a Home Made Simple coupon book. You will receive a booklet by mail with over $35 in savings on great home care products!
• Sample: Victorinox Swiss Army Cologne
• Sample: Total Blueberry Pomegranate Cereal (no longer available)
• Sample: glo-minerals glo-loose eye shadow (no longer available)
• Sample: Garnier Skin Renew (no longer available)
• Sample and Coupon: Stayfree Ultra Thin (no longer available)
  • Walmart still has the Always Sample available

The sack of Sinterklaas,
Sinterklaas,
Sinterklaas,
The sack of Sinterklaas,
Oh boy, oh boy,
It’s such a boss

…

Enig idee hoe vreemd het is aan een Amerikaans meisje uit te leggen wat voor liedjes wij zingen voor Sinterklaas? Enig idee hoeveel lol ik daaraan heb? Enig idee hoe vervelend is dat ik op die momenten de enige ben die er lol om kan hebben? 

Iedereen kent wel het principe van “I always get my sin”; Nederlanders die de meest vreemde constructies in de vertaling naar het Engels maken. De laatste tijd ben ik bezig met dit soort constructies met opzet te maken om te kijken of mijn vriendin er enigszins iets van begrijpt:

-          That hits like pincers on a pig

(Dat slaat als een tang op een varken)

-          That hits from pussy on drums

(Dat slaat van kut op drum)

Je kunt gelijk zien wat voor gesprekken ik met mijn vriendin heb.

-          Tonight we’re putting it on a booze

(Vanavond gaan we het op een zuipen zetten)

-          This wine is like an angel peeing over your tongue [niet van mij!]

(Deze wijn is alsof er een engel over je tong piest)

Ik zoek ze soms ook iets verder:

-          Are you bedrawertabled?

(Ben je belatafeld)

-          The ball is round

(Behoeft geen vertaling, maar in het Engels kun je de opmerking nooit duidelijk maken) (in het Nederlands volgens mij ook niet)

Enfin, tot zover onze correspondent.

I’m steadfast and spectral.
And a nice countenance describes me.
I can hand you the burthen of what I am. Sex.
Supernatural spirit distracting.
Seductive. Overpowering.
Maybe I am a matter spirit.
Sex is what I give to you, with my closed eyes. With beauty
in my eyes. Sex I give to you with extended hands, whilst you
with your face reclined don’t want to look at me.
Love in any position.
Love you’re looking for, nearly in any moment.
A most sensual sex. And sight and feel, most peculiar, with me,
they live in one another. And you see and you touch. And the level becomes
most gratifying. The world breaks down, yours signifying evermore.
I give you the sex off repose, and that one in,
I give you the most gratifying genitality, the terrestrial dream, and that one exoterrestrial.
I give you the tone you are after. The girl is the sweetness. And I have the intelligence
to see her, and to touch her, and to feel all that which my being gave me the power
to see, and to touch. I feel the design as a most mundane and genial sex.
Off with my dainty skin away from my past skin. I keep staying little and more, for
I am the sex-matrix. My hands are the most effectual weapon.
Most young and most mighty just as neither the most young nor the most mighty are,
because in the instant they are, I’m more.
I’m the distraction, the deviance, for those who believe
distraction and deviance exist. For those who don’t believe they exist
I am DEMOGORGON only, the unmerry daemon, the spark
dark, the being betwixt the numen and the human, perchance the phantom of the hero,
the instant growing ever more than the men living it or
being lived by. DEMOGORGON is your instant, teeny dimoites, when you work, when you rest,
when you study, when you entertain with the filamented presences round propagated and
strewn with themselves to keep the tissues compact, cohering and in solido.
And I, in spite of someone hesitating, am the Fiber. To keep united
the life internet.
I am always and evermore.
The common-felt world is my den.

Recently my daughter Sarah and her husband Sean celebrated their 9th wedding anniversary.  So today I am going to share the card I made for them.

I used the sampset Always, Whisper White and Perfect Plum cardstock and ink.  I stamped one heart in Versamark ink onto Perfect Plum ink and embossed with white embossing powder.  I then cut this out.  The other heart was stamped using versamark and Perfect Plum ink embossed with clear embossing powder and cut out.  To make the grid pattern I ruled up the back in 2cm increments and used my bone folder to make the score lines.  When turned over the pattern really stands out on the front.

This photo should show up the grid pattern much better.  My first attempt at this and I am so happy with the way it turned out.  I wrapped this piece with Whisper White Tafetta ribbon and tied a bow.  This piece was then mounted onto Perfect Plum and then a Whisper White card base.  The Perfect Plum heart was attached using dimensionals and the White heart was attached to the Perfect Plum heart using dimensionals also.  The word “cherish” was stamped in Perfect Plum ink onto Whisper White card and punched out using the Large Oval Punch.  I used the Scallop Oval (in the Spring Mini which finishes 30th November) to punch out the Perfect Plum piece.  Layered them together and attached to the card using dimensionals.

I finished the inside of the card by stamping with hearts also but I forgot to take photos will try to remember next time. 

I will try and get back with some samples from the new Summer Mini early next week.  Remember if you would like to know more about anything you have seen, then just contact me k.mcintosh1@optusnet.com.au.

In the last several weeks, I’ve been hearing and reading a lot about augmented reality.  It’s as if it just popped out of nowhere all of a sudden and is now seemingly attacking with force.  Every marketer is now keen on knowing more and getting involved.  In China, there are increasingly more and more agencies exploring augmented reality innovation.

Augmented reality, simply put, is a mixed reality of real life + virtual computer generated imagery.  It has been used in other fields, such as military or architecture, but is now breaking ground in the advertising industry.  Marketers desperate to discover the next new way to connect with consumers are clamoring to get a piece of the action and see how it can be applied to their brands successfully.

It’s too early to tell whether augmented reality has staying power and will deliver ROI (how would it be measured though?) or if it’s merely a passing fad.  I don’t think there’s any way this is just a passing fad.  The implications and consumer involvement are far too interesting for it to simply come and go.  Plus the number of computers and smartphones globally are climbing with rapid speed.

Here are some cool examples of recent augmented reality examples by some of my favourite brands:

1. Coke Zero + Avatar
Firstly, I have to confess to being the biggest Coke Zero fan.  I was a Diet Coke drinker before Coke Zero came out and as soon as it did, I fell in love.  I tried it as soon as it came out and told everyone I knew about it’s brilliance (Diet Coke that tastes like real Coke… what’s not to like?!).  Anyway, I digress.  We’re talking about augmented reality, not my silly obsession with Coke Zero.

Coke has partnered with Avatar for a cool cross promotion that is taking place globally.  I recently noticed the ‘AVTR’ cans here in Hong Kong.

Coke Zero cans will be printed with the special AVTR logo and once you hold this in front of your computer’s webcam, you will see an interactive image appear on your computer screen and be able to “take a ride” on the Samson Helicopter from the Avatar movie.  Coke is hoping this will create great buzz (it already has been!) and resonate with youth.  Check out their TVC here for an example of how it works:

2. McDonald’s and Avatar
McDonald’s will be doing something similar, starting on Avatar’s opening weekend this December.  It appears that they are offering Avatar cards that achieve a similar effect as the Coke Zero campaign.  This time, with a robot.  See this clip to understand how it works (whooa!):

3. Always Infinity “Magic Show” campaign
This campaign came out earlier this year and supported by print and also via a page on their website.
Once again, consumers hold a sheet up to their webcam, but on-screen a magic show appears on the paper.  This is how it works (click here to see it in action on the Always Infinity site):

Still much more to see

There is still so much more in the wonderful world of augmented reality.  These are just examples of computer screen based campaigns and capabilities.  There’s the whole area of smartphone augmented reality that I haven’t touched upon yet.  Will discuss that in my next post, cuz there’s just so much to talk about with that (hellooo iPhone applications!)

But seriously – this stuff is exciting right?  It will change the way marketers think and interact with consumers for good!

As most of you know by now, Zara is becoming a big name in the fashion world. Bringing the world professional suits, flirty skirts, shirts and trousers in both men’s and women’s collection, this is one name that absolutely will not to be forgotten. Now, Zara is offering shoes that will blow your mind with a variety of colors, styles, sizes, and prices. The creators at Zara have brought something to the table for everyone to try, and have made it possible for just about anyone to walk the street in style with their affordable prices.

Some brand name shoes cost up to five hundred dollars if not more, you can find Zara’s brand name styles for as little as one hundred and sometimes less than that, I’ve seen as low as forty dollars online! However, these aren’t your run of the mill cheap shoes; Zara shoes are gorgeous and can make anyone look good. Zara offers women strapped heeled sandals, thick pumps, flats, and many other various styles. By offering so many styles, Zara is creating something for everyone and gives everyone a reason to check them out.

Zara also offers men’s shoes, and while this collection is less popular, it is still a decent collection. Zara shoes for men offers sandals, traditional laced up sneakers and more unique edgy sneakers for those looking to try a bolder look. The men’s collection of Zara shoes is quickly becoming a big trend, what’s most unique; the Zara trend is to wear sandals with long business like trousers. Shockingly enough, this trend has caught on and looks pretty good on men everywhere.

This season, it seems that Zara is experimenting with flats for both men and women. In bold colors like purple and yellow, both men and women are treading the streets with bold colored flat sneakers that look so awkward, it works for them. That seems to be the Zara way though, they have made a fortune off of making things that just shouldn’t work look fabulous on anyone and they have taken styles that are considered traditionally ugly, and made them stylish. That is what fashion is all about, and that is one of the biggest reasons people are clinging to Zara this season, everyone is oozing wondering what will be next for this daring clothing brand.

Thanks To : birkenstock sandals