I first heard of the pepper spray story via Kitty Go's blog (http://chichitsthefan.blogspot.com/2008/11/let-us-spray.html). For those of you who didn't know, this is about 2 socialites who had a pepper spray incident (one spraying the other) at Embassy.
Apparently, the matter is now resolved ---> http://www.pep.ph/news/20298/FIRST-READ-ON-PEP:-Socialites-bury-pepper-spray-scandal:-Trish-apologizes;-Neny-drops-suit
On the side, Kitty kept on saying on her blog that PEP steals stories from her blog. Well, in my personal opinion, I would rather read stories on PEP than Kitty's blog. Why? When I read them on Kitty's blog, I have no idea who she's talking about. I can barely understand the struggling grammar as well as the always changing text font. Besides, she tends to hide information that PEP have no problems divulging.
Notice on this latest PEP article the title is started w/ 'First Read on PEP.' PEP need not be defensive. They are better in delivering news, or gossip.
Monday, December 29, 2008
When it's on Oscar, Don't Watch It!
This has been my motto eversince I've seen the movie Leaving Las Vegas. There was so much Oscar buzz for that movie. I quickly learned that the critics have very much 'developed' taste for movies. Remember the days when we loved alternative music? We were young, too much into radio, too much time to appreciate music that we found pop to be too common or boring, & we went into alternative & the like. I think that's how critics go. See the fashion shows? Most of them really, where can you really wear them?
Really, these Oscar buzz movies are too weird for the common people. Including me, really. I do not like watching movies that will make me feel depressed, what is the point? Wasn't I doing that for fun? For entertainment? Really, there are just too many movies w/ Oscar buzz that has disappointed me which is why I utterly created this rule for myself "When it's on Oscar, Don't Watch It!"
Here is an article...
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2008/12/the-obvious-case-for-benjamin-button.html#entry-more
The Obvious Case for "Benjamin Button"
by John Lopez
December 27, 2008, 2:17 PM
For the Academy to nominate a film for Best Picture, it's not enough for it to simply be one of the best pictures of the year. (Just try and cross-reference the critics' top-ten lists this year with the perceived front-runners.) A Best Picture nominee has to feel like a Best Picture nominee, which requires satisfying a number of commandments. Going through them one by one, it become clear why The Curious Case of Benjamin Button strikes the perfect balance, making it a 100 percent lock despite its 69 percent Metacritic rating.
First, a Best Picture has to have intellectual prestige, but not too much. So, Wall-E is out because, as beloved as Pixar is, animation doesn't seem weighty enough. On the other hand, a Borgesian brain bender like Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, is just too cerebral.
Second, the film has to have cachet. Indie darlings Ballast, Shotgun Stories, and Wendy and Lucy don't have a prayer because their combined budgets wouldn't pay the catering for Iron Man and the biggest name between them is Michelle Williams. Then again, an Oscar film can't be too overtly commercial. So, The Dark Knight's runaway DVD sales might make the Academy feel like it's bending to the will of the people.
Finally, a Best Picture has to be about something somber and grand—but not utterly depressing. Thus, light-hearted confections like Vicky Cristina Barcelona or Happy-Go-Lucky are as unworthy as a bitter pill like Revolutionary Road. (Sure, last year the nominees went nihilist, but still, No Country for Old Men beat out There Will Be Blood. The difference: No Country For Old Men had good guys).
If any movie this year is shouting its Oscar cred from the mountaintops, it's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: it's adapted from an F. Scott Fitzgerald story (there's the prestige) but directed by a commercial director like David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) who's not too brainy (Alien 3, Panic Room); it's got the A-list cachet of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, but the indie cred of Tilda Swinton and Julia Ormond; and finally, writer Eric Roth has given it the sobriety of grand themes like loss and the cruelties of time but tempers them with the eternally redemptive power of true love.
Before you start spending your Oscar pool winnings, don't forget the final and greatest commandment in Hollywood. How'd it do this weekend at the box office? Hmm... not bad.
Really, these Oscar buzz movies are too weird for the common people. Including me, really. I do not like watching movies that will make me feel depressed, what is the point? Wasn't I doing that for fun? For entertainment? Really, there are just too many movies w/ Oscar buzz that has disappointed me which is why I utterly created this rule for myself "When it's on Oscar, Don't Watch It!"
Here is an article...
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2008/12/the-obvious-case-for-benjamin-button.html#entry-more
The Obvious Case for "Benjamin Button"
by John Lopez
December 27, 2008, 2:17 PM
For the Academy to nominate a film for Best Picture, it's not enough for it to simply be one of the best pictures of the year. (Just try and cross-reference the critics' top-ten lists this year with the perceived front-runners.) A Best Picture nominee has to feel like a Best Picture nominee, which requires satisfying a number of commandments. Going through them one by one, it become clear why The Curious Case of Benjamin Button strikes the perfect balance, making it a 100 percent lock despite its 69 percent Metacritic rating.
First, a Best Picture has to have intellectual prestige, but not too much. So, Wall-E is out because, as beloved as Pixar is, animation doesn't seem weighty enough. On the other hand, a Borgesian brain bender like Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, is just too cerebral.
Second, the film has to have cachet. Indie darlings Ballast, Shotgun Stories, and Wendy and Lucy don't have a prayer because their combined budgets wouldn't pay the catering for Iron Man and the biggest name between them is Michelle Williams. Then again, an Oscar film can't be too overtly commercial. So, The Dark Knight's runaway DVD sales might make the Academy feel like it's bending to the will of the people.
Finally, a Best Picture has to be about something somber and grand—but not utterly depressing. Thus, light-hearted confections like Vicky Cristina Barcelona or Happy-Go-Lucky are as unworthy as a bitter pill like Revolutionary Road. (Sure, last year the nominees went nihilist, but still, No Country for Old Men beat out There Will Be Blood. The difference: No Country For Old Men had good guys).
If any movie this year is shouting its Oscar cred from the mountaintops, it's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: it's adapted from an F. Scott Fitzgerald story (there's the prestige) but directed by a commercial director like David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) who's not too brainy (Alien 3, Panic Room); it's got the A-list cachet of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, but the indie cred of Tilda Swinton and Julia Ormond; and finally, writer Eric Roth has given it the sobriety of grand themes like loss and the cruelties of time but tempers them with the eternally redemptive power of true love.
Before you start spending your Oscar pool winnings, don't forget the final and greatest commandment in Hollywood. How'd it do this weekend at the box office? Hmm... not bad.
Friday, December 26, 2008
The Perfect Crime
Hahahahha! Interesting read...
http://listverse.com/miscellaneous/top-10-tips-to-commit-the-perfect-crime/
Top 10 Tips to Commit the Perfect Crime
Every year in virtually every country, crimes go unsolved - and sometimes undetected. When someone commits a crime of this type it is called a perfect crime. This is a list of ten tips to perpetrating the perfect crime. I am sure it doesn’t need to be said, this is not meant as a reference for criminals, but rather as an entertaining look at crime and detection.
1. DNA
DNA is the surest way to prove you committed a crime. It is absolute imperative that you do not leave ANY DNA behind you and that is very difficult. The best solution to this is to commit your crime in a place that is likely to have a lot of DNA from strangers. For example, a park, a mall, anywhere that a lot of people tend to gather. Finding your DNA will be like finding a needle in a haystack.
2. Relationship
The large number of crimes committed are committed by someone close to the victim. The police know this well and they know who to question. Your best bet here is to pick someone as random as the victim. This is especially true if murder is your crime of choice. Don’t be tempted to commit your crime against someone you only know in passing - it must be a total stranger.
3. Proximity
This ties in to point 2 - commit the crime in another town. You don’t want to travel so far that you can be connected because you took a trip - just far enough that you are outside of the main area of interest to the police. You also don’t want to be on the road for hours before the crime as you may become tired, or after the crime as you may still be on the streets when the big investigation begins.
4. Type of Crime
Chose your crime carefully. For example, you are almost certain to get caught if you try to rob a bank. Chose a crime that can be committed in the early hours of the morning or that can be done very discretely during the daytime.
5. Evidence
Most criminals are caught because they tried to hide the crime - what they should have been doing is trying to hide any connection they have to the crime. It doesn’t matter if the police know the crime happened. If your crime involves a gun or weapon of some kind, use it and drop it. Leave it at the scene. If you follow point 7 this will not be a problem. If you kill someone, leave the body there. Do not touch the body at all. Do not move the body and do not try to hide the body. And just in case you haven’t understood that last part - that includes using a vat of acid. If you have stolen something, you need to get rid of it as quickly as possible and if it is money, don’t start spending up large - you will draw attention to yourself.
6. Timing
Timing is everything. The best time to commit a crime is in the very early hours of the day when most people are asleep. If you do follow this instruction, remember that you need to look like you are not out of place on the street. That means no full face coverings. The selected time is important when you come to purchase your tools.
7. Tools
First off, you need good thick gloves. The thin ones are not good enough as they can split and it is possible to leave fingerprints if they are sufficiently thin. Do not use anything you own and do not buy brands you normally buy unless they are very generic brands. This means you need to go shopping. Shop out of town and shop in large department stores where you are less likely to be remembered. Remember: very common brands only. You must pay in cash and you must destroy any receipts, or shopping bags. After the crime is committed, destroy everything you bought as quickly as you can and don’t do it in an obvious way, like having a bonfire in your back yard when you have never done so before. Wait at least one month from buying your goods to committing your crime.
8. Alibi
It is wise to have an alibi - though not essential if you have followed all the other rules. It doesn’t hurt however. One way you can do this is to plan an out of town trip and book your hotel and rental car with your credit card. Sign up for a convention and attend. Try to use a hotel with no cameras. In the early hours travel to the place of your crime, commit it, and return. Enjoy the remainder of your holiday (on your credit card) and return home the next day.
9. The Getaway
If you are committing the crime in the early hours, the best mode of transport is by bike. This will enable you to get off the roads if you need and to travel quickly. You do not want to be seen on the street walking (remember, the Zodiac nearly got caught this way) and you don’t want to be the only car on the street at 2am! Take regular cycle clothes and wear them. In the case of murder, if you have dumped the murder weapon you should not need to worry about evidence if you do get picked up. Wear an iPod and maybe a fresh packet of cigarettes - you can always say you were out getting smokes as you couldn’t sleep.
10. Aftermath
First of all, do not watch the television and avoid the papers. The police can use these as tools to try to psych you out. Avoid these things for at least a month. Do not celebrate in any way - continue about your every day life. Do not brag about your crime to anyone (that includes posting here in the comments!)
One final tip: if you do get arrested, this does not mean you have failed to commit the perfect crime. If this happens, do not speak. The police need evidence to convict you - if you have done the job right, there won’t be any. Don’t help the police with testimony. Remember, the court needs to find you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Oh - and if you do get convicted, you might want to read this article on the top 10 tips to surviving prison.
In case you are wondering how I know all this… re-read point 10! Okay, I am kidding. Really
http://listverse.com/miscellaneous/top-10-tips-to-commit-the-perfect-crime/
Top 10 Tips to Commit the Perfect Crime
Every year in virtually every country, crimes go unsolved - and sometimes undetected. When someone commits a crime of this type it is called a perfect crime. This is a list of ten tips to perpetrating the perfect crime. I am sure it doesn’t need to be said, this is not meant as a reference for criminals, but rather as an entertaining look at crime and detection.
1. DNA
DNA is the surest way to prove you committed a crime. It is absolute imperative that you do not leave ANY DNA behind you and that is very difficult. The best solution to this is to commit your crime in a place that is likely to have a lot of DNA from strangers. For example, a park, a mall, anywhere that a lot of people tend to gather. Finding your DNA will be like finding a needle in a haystack.
2. Relationship
The large number of crimes committed are committed by someone close to the victim. The police know this well and they know who to question. Your best bet here is to pick someone as random as the victim. This is especially true if murder is your crime of choice. Don’t be tempted to commit your crime against someone you only know in passing - it must be a total stranger.
3. Proximity
This ties in to point 2 - commit the crime in another town. You don’t want to travel so far that you can be connected because you took a trip - just far enough that you are outside of the main area of interest to the police. You also don’t want to be on the road for hours before the crime as you may become tired, or after the crime as you may still be on the streets when the big investigation begins.
4. Type of Crime
Chose your crime carefully. For example, you are almost certain to get caught if you try to rob a bank. Chose a crime that can be committed in the early hours of the morning or that can be done very discretely during the daytime.
5. Evidence
Most criminals are caught because they tried to hide the crime - what they should have been doing is trying to hide any connection they have to the crime. It doesn’t matter if the police know the crime happened. If your crime involves a gun or weapon of some kind, use it and drop it. Leave it at the scene. If you follow point 7 this will not be a problem. If you kill someone, leave the body there. Do not touch the body at all. Do not move the body and do not try to hide the body. And just in case you haven’t understood that last part - that includes using a vat of acid. If you have stolen something, you need to get rid of it as quickly as possible and if it is money, don’t start spending up large - you will draw attention to yourself.
6. Timing
Timing is everything. The best time to commit a crime is in the very early hours of the day when most people are asleep. If you do follow this instruction, remember that you need to look like you are not out of place on the street. That means no full face coverings. The selected time is important when you come to purchase your tools.
7. Tools
First off, you need good thick gloves. The thin ones are not good enough as they can split and it is possible to leave fingerprints if they are sufficiently thin. Do not use anything you own and do not buy brands you normally buy unless they are very generic brands. This means you need to go shopping. Shop out of town and shop in large department stores where you are less likely to be remembered. Remember: very common brands only. You must pay in cash and you must destroy any receipts, or shopping bags. After the crime is committed, destroy everything you bought as quickly as you can and don’t do it in an obvious way, like having a bonfire in your back yard when you have never done so before. Wait at least one month from buying your goods to committing your crime.
8. Alibi
It is wise to have an alibi - though not essential if you have followed all the other rules. It doesn’t hurt however. One way you can do this is to plan an out of town trip and book your hotel and rental car with your credit card. Sign up for a convention and attend. Try to use a hotel with no cameras. In the early hours travel to the place of your crime, commit it, and return. Enjoy the remainder of your holiday (on your credit card) and return home the next day.
9. The Getaway
If you are committing the crime in the early hours, the best mode of transport is by bike. This will enable you to get off the roads if you need and to travel quickly. You do not want to be seen on the street walking (remember, the Zodiac nearly got caught this way) and you don’t want to be the only car on the street at 2am! Take regular cycle clothes and wear them. In the case of murder, if you have dumped the murder weapon you should not need to worry about evidence if you do get picked up. Wear an iPod and maybe a fresh packet of cigarettes - you can always say you were out getting smokes as you couldn’t sleep.
10. Aftermath
First of all, do not watch the television and avoid the papers. The police can use these as tools to try to psych you out. Avoid these things for at least a month. Do not celebrate in any way - continue about your every day life. Do not brag about your crime to anyone (that includes posting here in the comments!)
One final tip: if you do get arrested, this does not mean you have failed to commit the perfect crime. If this happens, do not speak. The police need evidence to convict you - if you have done the job right, there won’t be any. Don’t help the police with testimony. Remember, the court needs to find you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Oh - and if you do get convicted, you might want to read this article on the top 10 tips to surviving prison.
In case you are wondering how I know all this… re-read point 10! Okay, I am kidding. Really
Lindsay Lohan is still Hot!!!
I can't help but notice how hot she looks here! And the hair...lovely!!!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Hayden & Raymond
Early today I was scrolling through the channels & chanced upon Hayden Kho being interviewed on GMA. I stopped 'coz I saw a rather interestingly handsome man (I didn't recognized him). And my attention was caught, partly because I heard that he & Vicky were having troubles, I was wondering what happened. He actually admitted on the interview that Vicky left him & it's his fault. He denied an affair w/ Ruffa Mae but actually 'admitted' an affair w/ Katrina Halili w/c is why Vicky left him! He went on saying that the affair was only for their ego & had no emotional involvement. He also admitted that he tried to commit suicide & wrote 'I love you Vicky' on his body when he did. He sounded so sincere & innocent. According to the news, he has no plans of continuing his showbiz career for now & is instead planning on practicing medicine again. He was very apologetic & begged for Vicky to forgive him & take him back. (I was really surprised to find someone in local showbiz admit an affair! Maybe because he's not that showbiz yet?)
Haaay, if I were in Vicky's shoes I probably would've taken him back. Hmmm, considering I have a rule that I will 'never' tolerate cheaters. But he sounded so sincere.
Looking back, Vicky probably wouldn't take him back. I read before why Vicky left his husband (a Henares or Ynares?). She said she will never tolerate a cheater or polygamy (and I admire her for that!). And she doesn't understand why most women (especially in the Philippines) tolerate such. So she left him. That is, considering they have kids & the man is actually from a rich & well-known family, I mean, most married women in Philippines high society actually tolerate their husbands' philandering, since it's probably just the money they want anyway. Hayden, Hayden, all Vicky wanted was love. If it was just money, fame, prestige, she already had it, but she didn't settle for it 'coz she wanted love. It's just that, we all know she's the rich & successful one & you're the young hunky boyfriend, haaaaay!
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And then I switched channels & saw Living it Up, I think on Q? And saw Raymond Guttierez. I initially didn't recognize him. I just learned he turned into a pig (i.e., overweight!)!
Haaay, if I were in Vicky's shoes I probably would've taken him back. Hmmm, considering I have a rule that I will 'never' tolerate cheaters. But he sounded so sincere.
Looking back, Vicky probably wouldn't take him back. I read before why Vicky left his husband (a Henares or Ynares?). She said she will never tolerate a cheater or polygamy (and I admire her for that!). And she doesn't understand why most women (especially in the Philippines) tolerate such. So she left him. That is, considering they have kids & the man is actually from a rich & well-known family, I mean, most married women in Philippines high society actually tolerate their husbands' philandering, since it's probably just the money they want anyway. Hayden, Hayden, all Vicky wanted was love. If it was just money, fame, prestige, she already had it, but she didn't settle for it 'coz she wanted love. It's just that, we all know she's the rich & successful one & you're the young hunky boyfriend, haaaaay!
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And then I switched channels & saw Living it Up, I think on Q? And saw Raymond Guttierez. I initially didn't recognize him. I just learned he turned into a pig (i.e., overweight!)!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Quote of the Day - from Shaq
"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to." - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player, on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece
Monday, December 22, 2008
Today I am posting 2 news about 2 very similar men. They are similar in that they were both dubbed as 'kept men' basking on the fortunes of their 'sugar mommas.' But are they really kept men? Meaning, were they really gold-diggers & got their sugar mommas because of money or did they just fall in love w/ extremely wealthy & successful women?
The 1st of the 2 is Guy Ritchie. Everyone saw him as a gold-digger. A young & good-looking lad who married Madonna. But, we now know the divorce was so quick, why? Because Guy never wanted anything from Madonna, not a cent of her fortune, so divorce was quickly settled! And how is he now that Madonna has so shamelessly flauntered her affair w/ A-rod?
http://www.celebitchy.com/27657/guy_ritchie_dating_jemima_khan/
I know who Jemima Khan is for two reasons: she dated Hugh Grant and Vanity Fair won’t shut up about her family, The Goldsmiths. Seriously, Vanity Fair has been stuck on them for a couple of years- there’s been several articles about the passing of her father, Sir James Goldsmith, and his various restaurants, properties, affairs, personal issues. So by this rationale, I’m thinking the late Sir James Goldsmith was like the English landed-gentry version of Donald Trump. And my idea of knights and lords is stuck in Jane Austen-ville, by the way.
Apparently Jemima Khan is more than a Vanity Fair’s fetish and “one of the best-dressed women in the world”. She’s also making eyes at Madonna’s ex, Guy Ritchie. Judging solely from Khan’s general prettiness, I’d say she is a vast improvement for Guy.
Just as their divorce settlement was making news, Madonna’s ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, appeared to be celebrating his freedom and the holidays with someone new – millionaire heiress Jemima Khan.
The two attended a London dinner party together earlier this month at the home public-relations honcho Matthew Freud and his wife, Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, reports London’s Telegraph newspaper.
Khan, 33, is the socialite daughter of Lady Annabel Goldsmith (for whom the London nightclub was named) and the late financier Sir James Goldsmith. In 1995, she married Pakistani cricket player (now retired) Imran Khan, and they had two sons, now 12 and 9. The couple divorced in 2004, and she was later attached to actor Hugh Grant, though that relationship has ended, say British newspapers.
Returning to the Freuds’ home for a Christmas party this weekend, Ritchie and Khan joined such other holiday revelers as Stella and Mary McCartney, Lily Allen, Mick Jagger and Kevin Spacey, reports the Mirror.
At that earlier dinner party at the Freuds’ Notting Hill home, says the Telegraph, another of the guests was Trudie Styler, wife of Sting – and the matchmaker who had first introduced Ritchie and Madonna in 1999.
Is this definitive proof? Absolutely not. But it makes some kind of sense. We know Guy has a type - rich women who behave like aristocrats. It’s Guy’s Achilles heel. Flash some cash and throw a drink in someone’s face, and Guy will be trying to get into your pants. We need to save him from himself. I’ll give him credit, though - at least he chose an authentic “aristocrat” (my Class-Warrior Meter is going crazy, by the way), rather than some chick from Detroit with bigger (gristlier) muscles than him.
I’m also going to go out on a limb and say that I want to be invited to these cool parties. Guy Ritchie, Mick Jagger, Lily Allen and Kevin Spacey? Who will go home with whom at the end of the night? I wonder if “matchmaker” Trudie Styler was working that night.
And below are the blog readers' comments:
Wonder how he feels to be with someone that looks like a woman? *Hahaha! I never realized people looked at Madonna as a man! I looked at her as a granda who can't get over the 'tanga' era!
I ran into Jemima Khan once when she lived in Pakistan with her then-husband, the cricketing legend Imran Khan. She is absolutely beautiful in person. Guy would be lucky to spend time with her. Her ex-husband is a national hero in Pakistan not just for his cricketing prowess but for his social philanthropy work - he set up a cancer hospital in honor of his mother who died of the disease. Jemima came out here and married him at the age of 21, converted to Islam, and really threw herself into life here, but in the end the social and cultural differences were just too much, and people said she missed the glittering life of London. It’s really a fascinating story, actually.
Good for guy. Hope he finds happiness. *Agree!
Definite upgrade. Of course, anything would be an upgrade over gristly vadge. *I think it's madge? But really, super upgrade...
And here is another short story (I know I previously posted that K-fed is back w/ Britney but apparently, he's not...).
The 1st of the 2 is Guy Ritchie. Everyone saw him as a gold-digger. A young & good-looking lad who married Madonna. But, we now know the divorce was so quick, why? Because Guy never wanted anything from Madonna, not a cent of her fortune, so divorce was quickly settled! And how is he now that Madonna has so shamelessly flauntered her affair w/ A-rod?
http://www.celebitchy.com/27657/guy_ritchie_dating_jemima_khan/
I know who Jemima Khan is for two reasons: she dated Hugh Grant and Vanity Fair won’t shut up about her family, The Goldsmiths. Seriously, Vanity Fair has been stuck on them for a couple of years- there’s been several articles about the passing of her father, Sir James Goldsmith, and his various restaurants, properties, affairs, personal issues. So by this rationale, I’m thinking the late Sir James Goldsmith was like the English landed-gentry version of Donald Trump. And my idea of knights and lords is stuck in Jane Austen-ville, by the way.
Apparently Jemima Khan is more than a Vanity Fair’s fetish and “one of the best-dressed women in the world”. She’s also making eyes at Madonna’s ex, Guy Ritchie. Judging solely from Khan’s general prettiness, I’d say she is a vast improvement for Guy.
Just as their divorce settlement was making news, Madonna’s ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, appeared to be celebrating his freedom and the holidays with someone new – millionaire heiress Jemima Khan.
The two attended a London dinner party together earlier this month at the home public-relations honcho Matthew Freud and his wife, Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, reports London’s Telegraph newspaper.
Khan, 33, is the socialite daughter of Lady Annabel Goldsmith (for whom the London nightclub was named) and the late financier Sir James Goldsmith. In 1995, she married Pakistani cricket player (now retired) Imran Khan, and they had two sons, now 12 and 9. The couple divorced in 2004, and she was later attached to actor Hugh Grant, though that relationship has ended, say British newspapers.
Returning to the Freuds’ home for a Christmas party this weekend, Ritchie and Khan joined such other holiday revelers as Stella and Mary McCartney, Lily Allen, Mick Jagger and Kevin Spacey, reports the Mirror.
At that earlier dinner party at the Freuds’ Notting Hill home, says the Telegraph, another of the guests was Trudie Styler, wife of Sting – and the matchmaker who had first introduced Ritchie and Madonna in 1999.
Is this definitive proof? Absolutely not. But it makes some kind of sense. We know Guy has a type - rich women who behave like aristocrats. It’s Guy’s Achilles heel. Flash some cash and throw a drink in someone’s face, and Guy will be trying to get into your pants. We need to save him from himself. I’ll give him credit, though - at least he chose an authentic “aristocrat” (my Class-Warrior Meter is going crazy, by the way), rather than some chick from Detroit with bigger (gristlier) muscles than him.
I’m also going to go out on a limb and say that I want to be invited to these cool parties. Guy Ritchie, Mick Jagger, Lily Allen and Kevin Spacey? Who will go home with whom at the end of the night? I wonder if “matchmaker” Trudie Styler was working that night.
And below are the blog readers' comments:
Wonder how he feels to be with someone that looks like a woman? *Hahaha! I never realized people looked at Madonna as a man! I looked at her as a granda who can't get over the 'tanga' era!
I ran into Jemima Khan once when she lived in Pakistan with her then-husband, the cricketing legend Imran Khan. She is absolutely beautiful in person. Guy would be lucky to spend time with her. Her ex-husband is a national hero in Pakistan not just for his cricketing prowess but for his social philanthropy work - he set up a cancer hospital in honor of his mother who died of the disease. Jemima came out here and married him at the age of 21, converted to Islam, and really threw herself into life here, but in the end the social and cultural differences were just too much, and people said she missed the glittering life of London. It’s really a fascinating story, actually.
Good for guy. Hope he finds happiness. *Agree!
Definite upgrade. Of course, anything would be an upgrade over gristly vadge. *I think it's madge? But really, super upgrade...
And here is another short story (I know I previously posted that K-fed is back w/ Britney but apparently, he's not...).
Kevin Federline goes out with his new girlfriend, volleyball star Victoria Prince, at a bowling alley in Los Angeles.
If you search about Victoria, she's not really richy-rich but...she's hot! So maybe K-fed is not a gold-digger after all! And Victoria seems to have a clear head, & is not gonna show her vajayjay in public anytime soon...
Friday, December 19, 2008
Audrina's Ceiling Eyes
I've always wondered what's wrong w/ Audrina, I mean, she's pretty & all but there's just something wrong there. Well, Perez Hilton put it very well, she has 'ceiling eyes'Above: photo of Audrina w/ old & new lips
J-Lo the Ho
Ok, now J-lo's relationship w/ Marc Anthony is over. No wonder, she just stole him from his wife Dayanara, when they were actually family friends who usually dine out together!!!
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/jennifer-lopez-marc-anthony-marriage-at-breaking-point
EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's Marriage at "Breaking Point"
The new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands tomorrow, reveals the behind-the-scenes crisis going on in Jennifer Lopez's third marriage to Marc Anthony.
Rumors swirled that Lopez's marriage was on the rocks after she showed up to the premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last week without her 8-carat diamond engagement ring, wedding band - or ever present husband, Marc Anthony (who was spotted in Las Vegas sans wedding band the weekend before).
Multiple sources confirm to to Us Weekly their marriage is at a breaking point.
"They both didn't wear their rings on purpose," a mutual pal of the married couple of four years (who renewed their vows in October) tells Us. "Nothing Jennifer does is without purpose."
While Anthony's rep insists to Us, "They are doing great," a source tells Us deep trouble has been brewing.
"He's very, very controlling of her," a close Anthony pal tells Us. "The skirts aren't as short. You don't see so much of that booty anymore." The new Us Weekly also reports that Anthony also picks out Lopez’s clothes and keeps tabs on her phone calls.
But Lopez -- who once claimed she "loved getting his opinions" -- has become less interested in his approval since the birth of their 10-month-old twins, Max and Emme.
"She walks in from work, washes her hands and grabs the babies," a longtime friend tells Us. "With him, it's almost like, 'Ugh, they're crying again?'"
Another problem: Lopez -- who once commanded $15 million per film -- "blames Marc for her career going down the tubes," says a mutual pal, adding that she's bitter about the failure of their 2006 drama, El Cantante, which only grossed $7.5 million. (Her 2002 flick Maid in Manhattan earned over $94 million.)
"Jennifer looked around and said, 'This is my life now? I'm a Long Island housewife?'" a pal says. "She hates that everything she worked for went down the tubes."
Lopez isn't the only one with growing resentment toward her husband. Her best friend, Leah Remini, also can't stand him.
"It if was up to her, Leah would just break them up today," a pal says.
Anthony has also been badmouthing his wife. One night after their tense family Thanksgiving in which the couple "didn't sit together," Anthony hit NYC hotspots Bungalow 8 and Marquee, where he was spotted with his hand on a woman's thigh and overheard complaining about his wife to a group of women, "telling them, 'She's making me miserable,'" a source says.
His club spree didn't stop there: The next night, he was photographed by TMZ.com partying sans wedding band with pal Eva Longoria Parker and Russell Crowe in Las Vegas. (A source says, "According to Jennifer, he didn't cheat.")
The pair, who hadn’t been spotted together since Oct. 23 -- and the very public removal of their wedding bands -- had dinner Tuesday at Beverly Hills restaurant Luau, which they left holding hands.
(Lopez is no stranger to shows of strength, though: after she and Ben Affleck called off their first wedding, they had dinner at the paparazzi-laden Ivy restaurant in L.A.)
For more details on Anthony's creepy control issues and how they drive Lopez to tears, pick up the newest issue of Us Weekly, on stands tomorrow.
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/jennifer-lopez-marc-anthony-marriage-at-breaking-point
EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's Marriage at "Breaking Point"
The new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands tomorrow, reveals the behind-the-scenes crisis going on in Jennifer Lopez's third marriage to Marc Anthony.
Rumors swirled that Lopez's marriage was on the rocks after she showed up to the premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last week without her 8-carat diamond engagement ring, wedding band - or ever present husband, Marc Anthony (who was spotted in Las Vegas sans wedding band the weekend before).
Multiple sources confirm to to Us Weekly their marriage is at a breaking point.
"They both didn't wear their rings on purpose," a mutual pal of the married couple of four years (who renewed their vows in October) tells Us. "Nothing Jennifer does is without purpose."
While Anthony's rep insists to Us, "They are doing great," a source tells Us deep trouble has been brewing.
"He's very, very controlling of her," a close Anthony pal tells Us. "The skirts aren't as short. You don't see so much of that booty anymore." The new Us Weekly also reports that Anthony also picks out Lopez’s clothes and keeps tabs on her phone calls.
But Lopez -- who once claimed she "loved getting his opinions" -- has become less interested in his approval since the birth of their 10-month-old twins, Max and Emme.
"She walks in from work, washes her hands and grabs the babies," a longtime friend tells Us. "With him, it's almost like, 'Ugh, they're crying again?'"
Another problem: Lopez -- who once commanded $15 million per film -- "blames Marc for her career going down the tubes," says a mutual pal, adding that she's bitter about the failure of their 2006 drama, El Cantante, which only grossed $7.5 million. (Her 2002 flick Maid in Manhattan earned over $94 million.)
"Jennifer looked around and said, 'This is my life now? I'm a Long Island housewife?'" a pal says. "She hates that everything she worked for went down the tubes."
Lopez isn't the only one with growing resentment toward her husband. Her best friend, Leah Remini, also can't stand him.
"It if was up to her, Leah would just break them up today," a pal says.
Anthony has also been badmouthing his wife. One night after their tense family Thanksgiving in which the couple "didn't sit together," Anthony hit NYC hotspots Bungalow 8 and Marquee, where he was spotted with his hand on a woman's thigh and overheard complaining about his wife to a group of women, "telling them, 'She's making me miserable,'" a source says.
His club spree didn't stop there: The next night, he was photographed by TMZ.com partying sans wedding band with pal Eva Longoria Parker and Russell Crowe in Las Vegas. (A source says, "According to Jennifer, he didn't cheat.")
The pair, who hadn’t been spotted together since Oct. 23 -- and the very public removal of their wedding bands -- had dinner Tuesday at Beverly Hills restaurant Luau, which they left holding hands.
(Lopez is no stranger to shows of strength, though: after she and Ben Affleck called off their first wedding, they had dinner at the paparazzi-laden Ivy restaurant in L.A.)
For more details on Anthony's creepy control issues and how they drive Lopez to tears, pick up the newest issue of Us Weekly, on stands tomorrow.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Britney & Kevin --- Reunited!!!
Below is an article about Britney & Kevin's current relationship.
http://www.showbizspy.com/180540/britney-spears-want-to-live-with-kevin-federline
Britney Spears Want to Live With Kevin Federline
Britney Spears has asked her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, to move back in with her.
The Womanizer hitmaker - who has sons Sean Preston, 3, and Jayden James, 2, with Kevin - has reportedly decided to give her relationship with the rapper - who currently has full custody of their children - another chance.
A source says, "Kevin has been staying over a lot but I don't think it will be long until they are living together full-time again. They have slipped back into their old relationship really easily.
"Kevin is excited about living with Britney again because he finds it tough being a single dad. She is thrilled because she can have her kids back and a relationship with someone she trusts.
"Britney and Kevin have come to realize they still love each other. They have been seeing a counselor and have drawn up a list of rules so they can improve their relationship.
"When Kevin was with Britney, he spent his days golfing, going on holidays and driving the Ferrari she bought him. But Kevin maintains it's Britney - not her money - he cares about. He is proud of Britney and how well she is now.
"He thinks she is the girl he fell in love with again. He really believes they have a future together."
I'm happy for this news! I had no problems about Kevin before. And Britney really was 'ok' when they were together (no downward-spiralling brouhaha).
http://www.showbizspy.com/180540/britney-spears-want-to-live-with-kevin-federline
Britney Spears Want to Live With Kevin Federline
Britney Spears has asked her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, to move back in with her.
The Womanizer hitmaker - who has sons Sean Preston, 3, and Jayden James, 2, with Kevin - has reportedly decided to give her relationship with the rapper - who currently has full custody of their children - another chance.
A source says, "Kevin has been staying over a lot but I don't think it will be long until they are living together full-time again. They have slipped back into their old relationship really easily.
"Kevin is excited about living with Britney again because he finds it tough being a single dad. She is thrilled because she can have her kids back and a relationship with someone she trusts.
"Britney and Kevin have come to realize they still love each other. They have been seeing a counselor and have drawn up a list of rules so they can improve their relationship.
"When Kevin was with Britney, he spent his days golfing, going on holidays and driving the Ferrari she bought him. But Kevin maintains it's Britney - not her money - he cares about. He is proud of Britney and how well she is now.
"He thinks she is the girl he fell in love with again. He really believes they have a future together."
I'm happy for this news! I had no problems about Kevin before. And Britney really was 'ok' when they were together (no downward-spiralling brouhaha).
Shoe Bush!!!
Apparently, Bush was in Iraq recently & a shoe was thrown at him by an Iraqi reporter (no surprise there!).
And in the link below you can 'shoe Bush' as well.
http://respectuk.blogspot.com/2008/12/shoe-bush.html
Have fun!!! ;)
And in the link below you can 'shoe Bush' as well.
http://respectuk.blogspot.com/2008/12/shoe-bush.html
Have fun!!! ;)
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Angelina's Varicose Veins
Why does Angelina have a huge varicose vein on her forehead? Is Brad pretending not to notice?
Friday, December 12, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Philippines' Obama --- definitely not Binay!!! (Puhleez!!!)
Just got this on email today, hahaha!
But seriously though, I'd rather vote for this guy (whoever he is) for President than Binay!!!
Peeping Toms
I discovered this site recently on pep: http://blogs.pep.ph/peepingtoms/
It is a blind item blog w/ illustrations. The illustrations pretty much give away what the blind item is about.
Check out this pic, it really made me laugh so much.
It is a blind item blog w/ illustrations. The illustrations pretty much give away what the blind item is about.
Check out this pic, it really made me laugh so much.
The dog is obviously Jobert Sucaldito, hahahha!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Brad & Angelina --- of the same breed
I read an article of Brad defending Angelina.
Here is the article about Angelina.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/business/media/21angelina.html?_r=1
Angelina Jolie’s Carefully Orchestrated Image
LOS ANGELES — When Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt negotiated with People and other celebrity magazines this summer for photos of their newborn twins and an interview, the stars were seeking more than the estimated $14 million they received from the deal. They also wanted a hefty slice of journalistic input — a promise that the winning magazine’s coverage would be positive, not merely in that instance but into the future.
According to the deal offered by Ms. Jolie, the winning magazine was obliged to offer coverage that would not reflect negatively on her or her family, according to two people with knowledge of the bidding who were granted anonymity because the talks were confidential. The deal also asked for an “editorial plan” providing a road map of the layout, these people say.
The winner was People. The resulting package in its Aug. 18 issue — the magazine’s best-selling in seven years — was a publicity coup for Ms. Jolie, the Oscar winner and former Hollywood eccentric who wore a necklace ornamented with dried blood and talked about her fondness for knives before transforming herself into a philanthropist, United Nations good-will ambassador and devoted mother of six.
In the People interview, there were questions about her and Mr. Pitt’s charity work and no use of the word “Brangelina,” the tabloid amalgamation of their names, which irks the couple.
Through a spokeswoman, People magazine, which is owned by Time Inc., released a statement denying that any conditions were placed on coverage. “These claims are categorically false,” the statement said. “Like any news organization, People does purchase photos, but the magazine does not determine editorial content based on the demands of outside parties.”
While all celebrities seek to manipulate their public images to one degree or another, Ms. Jolie accomplishes it with a determination, a self-reliance and a degree of success that is particularly notable. The actress does not employ a publicist or an agent. The keys to her public image belong to her alone, although she does rely on her longtime manager, Geyer Kosinski, as a conduit.
Jennifer Lopez, who sold pictures of her twins to People for an estimated $6 million in February, has a team of eight to help her navigate such situations. Ms. Jolie, 33, has her cellphone, a lawyer and Mr. Kosinski (and, of course, the counsel of her partner, Mr. Pitt). Getty Images handled the photography and some negotiations.
“She’s scary smart,” said Bonnie Fuller, the former editor of Us Weekly and Star magazines. “But smart only takes you so far. She also has an amazing knack, perhaps more than any other star, for knowing how to shape a public image.”
Ms. Jolie did not respond to interview requests and neither did Mr. Kosinski. Her lawyer, Robert Offer, declined to comment. But through interviews with nearly two dozen people who have worked directly with her over the years, a picture emerges of how she skillfully works the press.
Ms. Jolie expertly walks a line between known entity and complete mystery, cultivates relationships with friendly reporters and even sets up her own photo shoots for the paparazzi.
Most skillfully, she dictates terms to celebrity magazines involving their coverage of her and her family, editors say, creating an awkward situation for publications that try to abide by strict journalistic standards.
Ms. Jolie showed her skill at handling the news media in other negotiations. People magazine bid successfully for photos and an exclusive interview after she gave birth to her first child in 2006. Those pictures sold for an estimated $4.1 million, a sum that she and Mr. Pitt said they donated to charity.
In a separate 2006 negotiation with People, Ms. Jolie invited magazine editors — through her philanthropic adviser, Trevor Neilson — to bid on exclusive photos of her and her adopted Cambodian son, Maddox. But she made coverage of her charity work part of the deal.
“While Angelina and Brad understand the interest in their family, they also expect that the publications who purchase these photos will use them in a way that also draws attention to the needs of the Cambodian people,” Mr. Neilson wrote in a December 2006 memo to editors.
He went on to promise that Ms. Jolie would provide “exclusive quotes” to the publication that purchased the photos. “Publications are invited to comment on their editorial plans when submitting their bids,” Mr. Neilson wrote.
Time Inc. won the photos, paying an estimated $750,000. In the Jan. 8 issue of People came an article headlined “Angelina Jolie: Mission to Cambodia.” As in other instances, the company paid the money to the photography company, Getty Images, which took its fee and split the rest in payments to companies operated on behalf of Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt. Those companies in turn funneled the money to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
Mr. Neilson, the president of the Global Philanthropy Group and a former executive at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said, “She is used to sell magazines and newspapers, so part of why we wrote that memo is that we wanted to use the interest in her personal life to influence people to pay attention to important issues. If Angie can use the interest and redirect it, she wants to do that.”
The persona that Ms. Jolie projects on screen tends to be intimidating and physical. She is not the girl next door. She won a supporting actress Oscar in 2000 for “Girl, Interrupted,” in which she played a mental patient.
But more recently, she has emphasized her philanthropic work, and her growing family. Ms. Jolie, with Mr. Pitt, now has a clan of six. There are three adopted children — Maddox, Pax and Zahara — and three biological children: Shiloh and the twins, Knox and Vivienne.
But she cut a very different, wilder figure in Hollywood during her marriage to the actor Billy Bob Thornton. After their divorce in 2003, Us magazine asked Ms. Jolie if she would agree to an interview and be photographed. According to two people involved, she declined — but then offered the magazine another photo opportunity. Ms. Jolie informed it what time and place she would be publicly playing with Maddox, essentially creating a paparazzi shot.
The resulting photo, the origin of which was not made public to Us readers, presented Ms. Jolie in a new light — a young mother unsuccessfully trying to have a private moment with her son.
Shifting the focus is one of Ms. Jolie’s best maneuvers, magazine editors and publicity executives say. When she became romantically involved with Mr. Pitt, for instance, she faced a public relations crisis — being portrayed in the tabloid press as a predator who stole Mr. Pitt from his wife, Jennifer Aniston.
This time, it was Ms. Jolie’s charity work that helped turn the story. Long interested in international humanitarian work, Ms. Jolie appeared in Pakistan, where she visited camps housing Afghan refugees, and even met with President Pervez Musharraf. Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt made a subsequent trip to Kashmir to bring attention to earthquake victims.
“Presto, they come out looking like serious people who have transformed a silly press obsession into a sincere attempt to help the needy,” said Michael Levine, a celebrity publicist and author.
That is cynical nonsense, counters Mr. Neilson.
“People don’t realize the complexity of what Angie is doing,” he said. “A lot of her charity work is done quietly and not in front of the media.”
According to federal filings, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, the entity through which Mr. Neilson says the couple distributes photo money, has given grants of about $2 million since its creation in 2006. Mr. Neilson said that filings run more than a year behind and that the foundation has additional commitments of about $5.6 million that that are being paid as the organizations receiving the funds structure their programs.
Among the grants are $2 million for an AIDS clinic in Ethiopia and $2.6 million to Make It Right, an organization devoted to rebuilding New Orleans, Mr. Neilson said. Smaller grants include $500,000 to groups focused on helping Iraqi schoolchildren.
The New York Times recently ran a feature article about Ms. Jolie; there were no restrictions on access.
Ms. Jolie’s attempts to lasso the media have occasionally backfired. In 2006, when she sought the privacy of Namibia to give birth to Shiloh, the government refused to grant visas to journalists unless they had written permission from the couple. Magazines complained harshly.
More recently, she insisted that journalists at the premiere of “A Mighty Heart,” a movie about the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, sign an agreement limiting their questions and the use of her answers. In part, the document stated: “The interview may only be used to promote the picture. In no event may interviewer or media outlet be entitled to run all or any portion of the interview in connection with any other story.”
And, “the interview will not be used in a manner that is disparaging, demeaning or derogatory to Ms. Jolie.”
Ms. Jolie blamed an overzealous lawyer for the demand at the time, saying he was “trying to protect me.”
Still, such blunders are rare, and Ms. Jolie’s Q score, a measurement of a star’s likability, has continued to increase. Around the time she won her Oscar, 13 percent of people surveyed viewed her positively, according to Marketing Evaluations Inc. The average rating for female stars is 18 percent.
Today, about 24 percent of respondents view Ms. Jolie positively.
***I couldn't agree more on this article. Angelina is definitely not the person she tells people she is (someone who just follows her gut). She is a controller!
Here is Brad's comment:
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/brad-pitt-im-scared-to-death-of-dying
"It sounded to me like the story made Angie out to be manipulative in some way," he says. "She is savvy."
He continues, "I get defensive. [They're] talking about not only the woman I love, but one of the people on this planet who I have the greatest respect for. I think she's as honorable as anyone I've ever met."
And below is an anonymous comment I completely agree about.
To idolize people like Angelina and Brad is doing oneself a disservice. Angelina broke up Laura Dern and Billy Bob....becasue she "fell in love" (more like in bed) with him on the set of Pushing Tin. Then she did the same thing with Brad and Jen. And those are the two circumstances we know of. Melanie Griffith was concerned about Angelina when Antonio was filming "Original Sin" with her and Melanie was on the set A LOT. So...it's common knowledge Angelina is a bit of a home wrecker. For Brad to say one, single thing negative about Jennifer Aniston, considering his inexcusable behaviour while they were married, says a lot about who he really is. The Brad and Angelina situation is not ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR...so those who defend them and talk about the do-gooders they are ...you've already lost the debate here. People like Brad and Angelina who have an obscene amount of money for "pretending" for a living (what a joke) and can do good things with it....(because THEY SHOULD) are basically bored. Why not give as much credit to the average person who dedicates much more time and energy to greater causes and who DO NOT have all the money that people like Brad and Angelina have. Those are the people we should admire. Those are the people that matter. Those people are true role models and "givers" from the heart....not the wallet. They don't do it to be politically correct. They do it because it means something to them...because it defines who they are......because they seek NO glory from it. Those are the people that matter and who should be recognized....not people who have too much money with nothing better to do besides cheat, showboat their relationship and act as if they are the authority on "do-gooding" and continue to set a horrible example for the youth of this country. Get real people.
Here is the article about Angelina.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/business/media/21angelina.html?_r=1
Angelina Jolie’s Carefully Orchestrated Image
LOS ANGELES — When Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt negotiated with People and other celebrity magazines this summer for photos of their newborn twins and an interview, the stars were seeking more than the estimated $14 million they received from the deal. They also wanted a hefty slice of journalistic input — a promise that the winning magazine’s coverage would be positive, not merely in that instance but into the future.
According to the deal offered by Ms. Jolie, the winning magazine was obliged to offer coverage that would not reflect negatively on her or her family, according to two people with knowledge of the bidding who were granted anonymity because the talks were confidential. The deal also asked for an “editorial plan” providing a road map of the layout, these people say.
The winner was People. The resulting package in its Aug. 18 issue — the magazine’s best-selling in seven years — was a publicity coup for Ms. Jolie, the Oscar winner and former Hollywood eccentric who wore a necklace ornamented with dried blood and talked about her fondness for knives before transforming herself into a philanthropist, United Nations good-will ambassador and devoted mother of six.
In the People interview, there were questions about her and Mr. Pitt’s charity work and no use of the word “Brangelina,” the tabloid amalgamation of their names, which irks the couple.
Through a spokeswoman, People magazine, which is owned by Time Inc., released a statement denying that any conditions were placed on coverage. “These claims are categorically false,” the statement said. “Like any news organization, People does purchase photos, but the magazine does not determine editorial content based on the demands of outside parties.”
While all celebrities seek to manipulate their public images to one degree or another, Ms. Jolie accomplishes it with a determination, a self-reliance and a degree of success that is particularly notable. The actress does not employ a publicist or an agent. The keys to her public image belong to her alone, although she does rely on her longtime manager, Geyer Kosinski, as a conduit.
Jennifer Lopez, who sold pictures of her twins to People for an estimated $6 million in February, has a team of eight to help her navigate such situations. Ms. Jolie, 33, has her cellphone, a lawyer and Mr. Kosinski (and, of course, the counsel of her partner, Mr. Pitt). Getty Images handled the photography and some negotiations.
“She’s scary smart,” said Bonnie Fuller, the former editor of Us Weekly and Star magazines. “But smart only takes you so far. She also has an amazing knack, perhaps more than any other star, for knowing how to shape a public image.”
Ms. Jolie did not respond to interview requests and neither did Mr. Kosinski. Her lawyer, Robert Offer, declined to comment. But through interviews with nearly two dozen people who have worked directly with her over the years, a picture emerges of how she skillfully works the press.
Ms. Jolie expertly walks a line between known entity and complete mystery, cultivates relationships with friendly reporters and even sets up her own photo shoots for the paparazzi.
Most skillfully, she dictates terms to celebrity magazines involving their coverage of her and her family, editors say, creating an awkward situation for publications that try to abide by strict journalistic standards.
Ms. Jolie showed her skill at handling the news media in other negotiations. People magazine bid successfully for photos and an exclusive interview after she gave birth to her first child in 2006. Those pictures sold for an estimated $4.1 million, a sum that she and Mr. Pitt said they donated to charity.
In a separate 2006 negotiation with People, Ms. Jolie invited magazine editors — through her philanthropic adviser, Trevor Neilson — to bid on exclusive photos of her and her adopted Cambodian son, Maddox. But she made coverage of her charity work part of the deal.
“While Angelina and Brad understand the interest in their family, they also expect that the publications who purchase these photos will use them in a way that also draws attention to the needs of the Cambodian people,” Mr. Neilson wrote in a December 2006 memo to editors.
He went on to promise that Ms. Jolie would provide “exclusive quotes” to the publication that purchased the photos. “Publications are invited to comment on their editorial plans when submitting their bids,” Mr. Neilson wrote.
Time Inc. won the photos, paying an estimated $750,000. In the Jan. 8 issue of People came an article headlined “Angelina Jolie: Mission to Cambodia.” As in other instances, the company paid the money to the photography company, Getty Images, which took its fee and split the rest in payments to companies operated on behalf of Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt. Those companies in turn funneled the money to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
Mr. Neilson, the president of the Global Philanthropy Group and a former executive at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said, “She is used to sell magazines and newspapers, so part of why we wrote that memo is that we wanted to use the interest in her personal life to influence people to pay attention to important issues. If Angie can use the interest and redirect it, she wants to do that.”
The persona that Ms. Jolie projects on screen tends to be intimidating and physical. She is not the girl next door. She won a supporting actress Oscar in 2000 for “Girl, Interrupted,” in which she played a mental patient.
But more recently, she has emphasized her philanthropic work, and her growing family. Ms. Jolie, with Mr. Pitt, now has a clan of six. There are three adopted children — Maddox, Pax and Zahara — and three biological children: Shiloh and the twins, Knox and Vivienne.
But she cut a very different, wilder figure in Hollywood during her marriage to the actor Billy Bob Thornton. After their divorce in 2003, Us magazine asked Ms. Jolie if she would agree to an interview and be photographed. According to two people involved, she declined — but then offered the magazine another photo opportunity. Ms. Jolie informed it what time and place she would be publicly playing with Maddox, essentially creating a paparazzi shot.
The resulting photo, the origin of which was not made public to Us readers, presented Ms. Jolie in a new light — a young mother unsuccessfully trying to have a private moment with her son.
Shifting the focus is one of Ms. Jolie’s best maneuvers, magazine editors and publicity executives say. When she became romantically involved with Mr. Pitt, for instance, she faced a public relations crisis — being portrayed in the tabloid press as a predator who stole Mr. Pitt from his wife, Jennifer Aniston.
This time, it was Ms. Jolie’s charity work that helped turn the story. Long interested in international humanitarian work, Ms. Jolie appeared in Pakistan, where she visited camps housing Afghan refugees, and even met with President Pervez Musharraf. Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt made a subsequent trip to Kashmir to bring attention to earthquake victims.
“Presto, they come out looking like serious people who have transformed a silly press obsession into a sincere attempt to help the needy,” said Michael Levine, a celebrity publicist and author.
That is cynical nonsense, counters Mr. Neilson.
“People don’t realize the complexity of what Angie is doing,” he said. “A lot of her charity work is done quietly and not in front of the media.”
According to federal filings, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, the entity through which Mr. Neilson says the couple distributes photo money, has given grants of about $2 million since its creation in 2006. Mr. Neilson said that filings run more than a year behind and that the foundation has additional commitments of about $5.6 million that that are being paid as the organizations receiving the funds structure their programs.
Among the grants are $2 million for an AIDS clinic in Ethiopia and $2.6 million to Make It Right, an organization devoted to rebuilding New Orleans, Mr. Neilson said. Smaller grants include $500,000 to groups focused on helping Iraqi schoolchildren.
The New York Times recently ran a feature article about Ms. Jolie; there were no restrictions on access.
Ms. Jolie’s attempts to lasso the media have occasionally backfired. In 2006, when she sought the privacy of Namibia to give birth to Shiloh, the government refused to grant visas to journalists unless they had written permission from the couple. Magazines complained harshly.
More recently, she insisted that journalists at the premiere of “A Mighty Heart,” a movie about the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, sign an agreement limiting their questions and the use of her answers. In part, the document stated: “The interview may only be used to promote the picture. In no event may interviewer or media outlet be entitled to run all or any portion of the interview in connection with any other story.”
And, “the interview will not be used in a manner that is disparaging, demeaning or derogatory to Ms. Jolie.”
Ms. Jolie blamed an overzealous lawyer for the demand at the time, saying he was “trying to protect me.”
Still, such blunders are rare, and Ms. Jolie’s Q score, a measurement of a star’s likability, has continued to increase. Around the time she won her Oscar, 13 percent of people surveyed viewed her positively, according to Marketing Evaluations Inc. The average rating for female stars is 18 percent.
Today, about 24 percent of respondents view Ms. Jolie positively.
***I couldn't agree more on this article. Angelina is definitely not the person she tells people she is (someone who just follows her gut). She is a controller!
Here is Brad's comment:
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/brad-pitt-im-scared-to-death-of-dying
"It sounded to me like the story made Angie out to be manipulative in some way," he says. "She is savvy."
He continues, "I get defensive. [They're] talking about not only the woman I love, but one of the people on this planet who I have the greatest respect for. I think she's as honorable as anyone I've ever met."
And below is an anonymous comment I completely agree about.
To idolize people like Angelina and Brad is doing oneself a disservice. Angelina broke up Laura Dern and Billy Bob....becasue she "fell in love" (more like in bed) with him on the set of Pushing Tin. Then she did the same thing with Brad and Jen. And those are the two circumstances we know of. Melanie Griffith was concerned about Angelina when Antonio was filming "Original Sin" with her and Melanie was on the set A LOT. So...it's common knowledge Angelina is a bit of a home wrecker. For Brad to say one, single thing negative about Jennifer Aniston, considering his inexcusable behaviour while they were married, says a lot about who he really is. The Brad and Angelina situation is not ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR...so those who defend them and talk about the do-gooders they are ...you've already lost the debate here. People like Brad and Angelina who have an obscene amount of money for "pretending" for a living (what a joke) and can do good things with it....(because THEY SHOULD) are basically bored. Why not give as much credit to the average person who dedicates much more time and energy to greater causes and who DO NOT have all the money that people like Brad and Angelina have. Those are the people we should admire. Those are the people that matter. Those people are true role models and "givers" from the heart....not the wallet. They don't do it to be politically correct. They do it because it means something to them...because it defines who they are......because they seek NO glory from it. Those are the people that matter and who should be recognized....not people who have too much money with nothing better to do besides cheat, showboat their relationship and act as if they are the authority on "do-gooding" and continue to set a horrible example for the youth of this country. Get real people.
Heels or no Heels??!
Oh my gosh, I can't imagine the pain these stars are willing to go through just to get noticed!
And how does Posh stand? Does she have to lean on David all the time?
And how does Posh stand? Does she have to lean on David all the time?
Monday, December 8, 2008
Chris Tiu is not human!
Ok, ok, I know I had a previous post where I was wondering if Chris Tiu was gay. But after I read an article (& more, since it got me interested so I googled more) about him I want to redeem myself. I mean, I don't care anymore what his gender is. Besides, even if he is gay I don't think he'd ever practice it, as I've read, he's a very religious guy. And if you know everything about him (& you probably do 'coz I'm delayed sa balita, especially in local showbiz & basketball, 2 topics I don't really care about), you probably really wouldn't mind his sexuality, considering all that he is about.
Ok, the title, the title of this post is not a negative ok? I mean it in a positive way, like, he's not like the rest of us. Consider all these stuffs I've read about him:
1. He graduated Management Engineering in 2007 (ok, in another article I read it was Management Economics, but it doesn't really matter does it? I think --- though I'm not really sure --- these are 'hard' courses in Ateneo --- although I know someone na Management Eco grad dun who worked in a callcenter 'coz he can't find another job, anyways, this is already 'too much' for a 'typical' baller, I mean, I know from LaSalle, since I went there in college, I did have a barkada who has a baller for a bf, she told she's not really looking into any future w/ him, because he doesn't plan on graduating, & all the ballers, she said, are like that, when they are finished playing in the UAAP, they'll just drop out of school, they have no intention of finishing, I know as well as I've had classmates who are ballers --- basket players --- & they rarely show up in class, once in a blue moon lang...I also had close friends na UAAP players --- o diba, dami ko friends pero I still don't watch basket --- & same din, they really don't take their studies seriously --- so Chris Tiu is definitely a cut above the rest --- or are Ateneans just like that?)
2. He is currently finishing his second major in Applied Math and Finance, with a minor in Chinese Studies (ok, so he is on his 2nd course! My gosh, I'm not really sure as well if mahirap itong course na toh but I heard that BS Math in LaSalle is hard, & they get really good jobs afterwards, I also heard other Ateneo players graduate in college & take MBA to continue playing for the UAAP --- I heard this from news as well as from classmates in Ateneo --- I took MBA there, although 'chicken' lang talaga MBA dun, hahaha! Anyways, Chris Tiu is different kc nga he's on his 2nd course, & of course, so much different from other basket players!)
3. He was elected barangay kagawad in Urdaneta Village, Makati City after his term as Sangguniang Kabataan chairman for five years. (oh my gosh, another thing he's doing w/ his life, where does he find the time? 'yung ibang basket players nga they will justify their shortcomings on academics, or on dropping out of school, because of basket, pero this guy, super dami & he can handle!)
4. He has a business called Chinky Chicken, which sells rice chicken meals in Ateneo and neighboring Miriam College campus. (I'm speechless!)
5. He plans to pursue his MBA abroad and start his own restaurant business. (Ok now this is the biggest plus for me, his life does not revolve around basketball, also read he's not yet decided on pursuing the PBA because it's only temporary, so smart! Unlike others who think that basket is their world! He knows what's important!)
6. He is working on a foundation together with Ateneo’s Center for Education Development, to provide scholarships and help schools set up their curriculum. (ok, I'm not a fan of charity except for those helping educate children --- because for me charity is 'enabling' yung katamaran or other negative na pag-uugali ng mga tao, but, if it's for children, & education, I'm all for it, education is the foundation of a good future)
Ayan, syempre busy pa sya sa ibang bagay like his blog & hosting job, but his story inspires me, as in super good role model sya, buti na lang nagchampion sila at sumikat sya!
Good luck Chris! When I read about you sabi ko I wanted to meet you at hingan ka ng advise sa mga problema ko sa buhay, haha! I don't have a crush on you (kc type ko mga maiitim at mga tamad mag-aral, hahaha!) but sana pag nagkaanak ako katulad mu :) Medyo nadepress din ako kc parang compared to Chris sinasayang ko ang buhay & talents na binigay ni Lord, wala akong ginawa kundi matulog! Hahaha! At plan ko pala na pag may anak na 'ko d ako papayag mag-basket sya, dapat concentrate sa studies (pangarap ko magkaron ng mga anak na super mag-excel sa academics & makapag-aral sa Ivy League schools or MIT! --- wala nga lang akong pang-tuition!), pero I realized 'nasa tao talaga un' baka sabihan pa ko ng anak ko "anong akala mu sakin mommy, bobs? kaya ko un ipagsabay no!", ok basta dapat dean's lister sya at hindi walang kwenta ang course (like sports & recreation management??? hahaha!)
Ok, the title, the title of this post is not a negative ok? I mean it in a positive way, like, he's not like the rest of us. Consider all these stuffs I've read about him:
1. He graduated Management Engineering in 2007 (ok, in another article I read it was Management Economics, but it doesn't really matter does it? I think --- though I'm not really sure --- these are 'hard' courses in Ateneo --- although I know someone na Management Eco grad dun who worked in a callcenter 'coz he can't find another job, anyways, this is already 'too much' for a 'typical' baller, I mean, I know from LaSalle, since I went there in college, I did have a barkada who has a baller for a bf, she told she's not really looking into any future w/ him, because he doesn't plan on graduating, & all the ballers, she said, are like that, when they are finished playing in the UAAP, they'll just drop out of school, they have no intention of finishing, I know as well as I've had classmates who are ballers --- basket players --- & they rarely show up in class, once in a blue moon lang...I also had close friends na UAAP players --- o diba, dami ko friends pero I still don't watch basket --- & same din, they really don't take their studies seriously --- so Chris Tiu is definitely a cut above the rest --- or are Ateneans just like that?)
2. He is currently finishing his second major in Applied Math and Finance, with a minor in Chinese Studies (ok, so he is on his 2nd course! My gosh, I'm not really sure as well if mahirap itong course na toh but I heard that BS Math in LaSalle is hard, & they get really good jobs afterwards, I also heard other Ateneo players graduate in college & take MBA to continue playing for the UAAP --- I heard this from news as well as from classmates in Ateneo --- I took MBA there, although 'chicken' lang talaga MBA dun, hahaha! Anyways, Chris Tiu is different kc nga he's on his 2nd course, & of course, so much different from other basket players!)
3. He was elected barangay kagawad in Urdaneta Village, Makati City after his term as Sangguniang Kabataan chairman for five years. (oh my gosh, another thing he's doing w/ his life, where does he find the time? 'yung ibang basket players nga they will justify their shortcomings on academics, or on dropping out of school, because of basket, pero this guy, super dami & he can handle!)
4. He has a business called Chinky Chicken, which sells rice chicken meals in Ateneo and neighboring Miriam College campus. (I'm speechless!)
5. He plans to pursue his MBA abroad and start his own restaurant business. (Ok now this is the biggest plus for me, his life does not revolve around basketball, also read he's not yet decided on pursuing the PBA because it's only temporary, so smart! Unlike others who think that basket is their world! He knows what's important!)
6. He is working on a foundation together with Ateneo’s Center for Education Development, to provide scholarships and help schools set up their curriculum. (ok, I'm not a fan of charity except for those helping educate children --- because for me charity is 'enabling' yung katamaran or other negative na pag-uugali ng mga tao, but, if it's for children, & education, I'm all for it, education is the foundation of a good future)
Ayan, syempre busy pa sya sa ibang bagay like his blog & hosting job, but his story inspires me, as in super good role model sya, buti na lang nagchampion sila at sumikat sya!
Good luck Chris! When I read about you sabi ko I wanted to meet you at hingan ka ng advise sa mga problema ko sa buhay, haha! I don't have a crush on you (kc type ko mga maiitim at mga tamad mag-aral, hahaha!) but sana pag nagkaanak ako katulad mu :) Medyo nadepress din ako kc parang compared to Chris sinasayang ko ang buhay & talents na binigay ni Lord, wala akong ginawa kundi matulog! Hahaha! At plan ko pala na pag may anak na 'ko d ako papayag mag-basket sya, dapat concentrate sa studies (pangarap ko magkaron ng mga anak na super mag-excel sa academics & makapag-aral sa Ivy League schools or MIT! --- wala nga lang akong pang-tuition!), pero I realized 'nasa tao talaga un' baka sabihan pa ko ng anak ko "anong akala mu sakin mommy, bobs? kaya ko un ipagsabay no!", ok basta dapat dean's lister sya at hindi walang kwenta ang course (like sports & recreation management??? hahaha!)
Friday, November 21, 2008
Twilight vs. Harry Potter
I recently found out that the lead man of twilight was also in a Harry Potter movie. And guess who asked me? My mum! She asked me which character he was on HP. I was surprised & said, "oh, the one that died (you know, Cedrick Diggory)." Now, after a day of knowing, I'm getting more & more interested w/ this guy & I dunno why. I wasn't excited to see the movie, you know, I don't like scary movies. I wouldn't want to go through w/ the discomfort of getting scared at night & not being able to sleep! But now, I dunno. I really dunno. I never liked him in the HP movie either. I thought he was boring. I mean, he looks 'perfect' but, I don't really like guys like that. I was 'gaga' over the guy who played Viktor Krum (I like bad boy types & 'kalbo' types). Hey, I'd even take Harry Potter himself over such a boring Mr. Perfect.
Wala lang...
Wala lang...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Movie
Ok, the latest HP movie was supposed to be shown today (at least in the U.S.) but producers decided to move again to...July!!! WTF!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Brian Gorrell on Urban Dictionary
From Urban Dictionary.
I don't really agree w/ the meaning. Should be more like:
1. To be a victim of a social-climbing, jealous gay
2. To be a victim of an ex who can't get over
3. To be a victim of someone who's a fame-whore
I don't really agree w/ the meaning. Should be more like:
1. To be a victim of a social-climbing, jealous gay
2. To be a victim of an ex who can't get over
3. To be a victim of someone who's a fame-whore
Paris & Benji Madden Split
So Paris & Benji have finally split. No surprise. Paris must be over her phase of wanting the twin of her bff's man. She must be over her fantasy of being a loyal partner to a simple guy. She just can't go to where Nicole is now. Nicole's party days are over, she's becoming more & more like a real mum, wife...Paris is now over that desire, moving on to the next.
No surprise here. Paris was recently seen flirting w/ one of her ex's Stavros.
No surprise here. Paris was recently seen flirting w/ one of her ex's Stavros.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Scared of Happiness
Whatever happened to Alicia Silverstone???
Well, here she is now folks. Looking more like she's living on the streets than ever!
Remember when she was the 'it' girl right after the Clueless movie? Well, she didn't handle fame very well did she?
She seems to be weird based on her interviews, her opinions, etc.. I guess that brings a person down, I guess, in society's standards. Sometimes some people are just plain psychos. Oh no, I'm not just talking about her but about myself as well. There are times when life just seems so perfect, when you just have everything, & yet, it bores you out of your wits! I remember days when I 'leave' the most popular barkada in school just because I felt like it. You know, when you have it all, you just want to push that 'all' away. Maybe some people are just like that. I hope I've already changed though.
Already seen 'The Women'? Meg Ryan's character said something like "I believe we can have it all but the question is, do we want it all? Not me." To w/c Anette Bening's character agreed (ok, I'm too lazy to check if her name is spelled correctly ok???). Anyways, something like, people who are too scared of success, I dunno. Just some thoughts...
Well, here she is now folks. Looking more like she's living on the streets than ever!
Remember when she was the 'it' girl right after the Clueless movie? Well, she didn't handle fame very well did she?
She seems to be weird based on her interviews, her opinions, etc.. I guess that brings a person down, I guess, in society's standards. Sometimes some people are just plain psychos. Oh no, I'm not just talking about her but about myself as well. There are times when life just seems so perfect, when you just have everything, & yet, it bores you out of your wits! I remember days when I 'leave' the most popular barkada in school just because I felt like it. You know, when you have it all, you just want to push that 'all' away. Maybe some people are just like that. I hope I've already changed though.
Already seen 'The Women'? Meg Ryan's character said something like "I believe we can have it all but the question is, do we want it all? Not me." To w/c Anette Bening's character agreed (ok, I'm too lazy to check if her name is spelled correctly ok???). Anyways, something like, people who are too scared of success, I dunno. Just some thoughts...
Tyra: Everyday is Judgment Day
I had a chat w/ 2 of my friends about Oprah's career or show w/c is cooling down in the last couple of years. They said they felt that Oprah has changed, that she has become judgmental, w/c is why they (& they think other people as well) refrained from watching the show. I'm kinda surprised. If there is one talk show host (or 1 celebrity at all!) who is judgmental, it would be Tyra Banks, as shown everyday on the Tyra Banks show. I pity all her guests. Why do they even go there? Ok, they have their own reasons, popularity, career, exposure, whatever! But they put themselves & their images on the line. Tyra is little Miss Perfect (or, at least she thinks she is...or make that 'Huge' Miss Perfect!). Tyra is just gonna go on throughout her show condemnning her guests, whichever side she's on! She'll never listen to anyone. No wonder she's going to old maid 'dom! And is she a good judge? Hell no! Any winner from AMTM ever made it big? Hell no! No one w/ talent could ever win on that show! What you have to do to win Tyra's heart as the next top (???) model is to be as geeky & awkward as ever!!!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Interesting Facts
I came across below site. It was funny, especially the comments...
http://www.dysan.net/weird/show/646.html
INTERESTING FACTS 1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it) 2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it) 3. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (In my next life I want to be a pig) (How'd they figure this out, and why?) 4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Still can't get over that pig thing) (Don't try this at home...maybe at work?) 5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Is that why Flipper was always smiling?) (And pigs get 30-minute orgasms? Doesn't seem fair) 6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmmmmm........) 7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?) 8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (From drinking little bottles of...?) (Did taxpayers pay for this research??) 9. Polar bears are left handed. (Who knew....? Who cares? How'd they find out, did they ask them?) 10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?) 11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes...can you imagine?? And why pigs?) 12. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. (Creepy) 13. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. (Honey, I'm home. What the....) (Well, at least pigs get a break there...) 14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (In my next life I still want to be a pig ... quality over quantity) 15. Butterflies taste with their feet. (Oh, Geez) (That's almost as bad as catfish) 16. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (I know some people like that.) 17. Starfish don't have brains. (I know some people like that too.)
Below is a continuation of his post. Lemme try commenting myself ;)Interesting Facts II 1. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. 2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. 3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. 4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. 5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. 6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. 7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. 8. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. 9. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. 10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. 11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. 12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. 13. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. 14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. 15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. 16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. 17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. 18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor) 19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. 20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. 21. Pearls melt in vinegar. 22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. 24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. 25. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. (Or does it? http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm) 26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. 27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton. 28. Turtles can breathe through their butts. 29. Butterflies taste with their feet. 30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined. 31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. 32. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. 33. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. 34. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. 35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 36. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 37. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you? http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow2.jpg) 38. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 39. A snail can sleep for three years. 40. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.' 41. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. 42. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!! 43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 44. All polar bears are left handed. 45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. 46. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 48. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. 50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 52. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
http://www.dysan.net/weird/show/646.html
INTERESTING FACTS 1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it) 2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it) 3. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (In my next life I want to be a pig) (How'd they figure this out, and why?) 4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Still can't get over that pig thing) (Don't try this at home...maybe at work?) 5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Is that why Flipper was always smiling?) (And pigs get 30-minute orgasms? Doesn't seem fair) 6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmmmmm........) 7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?) 8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (From drinking little bottles of...?) (Did taxpayers pay for this research??) 9. Polar bears are left handed. (Who knew....? Who cares? How'd they find out, did they ask them?) 10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?) 11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes...can you imagine?? And why pigs?) 12. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. (Creepy) 13. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. (Honey, I'm home. What the....) (Well, at least pigs get a break there...) 14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (In my next life I still want to be a pig ... quality over quantity) 15. Butterflies taste with their feet. (Oh, Geez) (That's almost as bad as catfish) 16. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (I know some people like that.) 17. Starfish don't have brains. (I know some people like that too.)
Below is a continuation of his post. Lemme try commenting myself ;)Interesting Facts II 1. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. 2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. 3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. 4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. 5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. 6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. 7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. 8. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. 9. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. 10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. 11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. 12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. 13. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. 14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. 15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. 16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. 17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. 18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor) 19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. 20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. 21. Pearls melt in vinegar. 22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. 24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. 25. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. (Or does it? http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm) 26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. 27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton. 28. Turtles can breathe through their butts. 29. Butterflies taste with their feet. 30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined. 31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. 32. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. 33. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. 34. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. 35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 36. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 37. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you? http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow2.jpg) 38. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 39. A snail can sleep for three years. 40. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.' 41. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. 42. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!! 43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 44. All polar bears are left handed. 45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. 46. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 48. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. 50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 52. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
Separated at Birth
Couldn't really understand how they are considered a fashion couple...
But then again, must be just because of their fame!
Couldn't agree more w/ Perez Hilton!!!
But then again, must be just because of their fame!
Couldn't agree more w/ Perez Hilton!!!
Monday, November 17, 2008
Angelina Jolie Hopes to 'Fade Away' from Movies
I really hope she becomes successful...
I really don't like watching bitches, ho's, homewreckers...
Hope she can fade away really soon like Regine Velasquez...Regine who???
I really don't like watching bitches, ho's, homewreckers...
Hope she can fade away really soon like Regine Velasquez...Regine who???
Friday, November 14, 2008
Listen to your Body
I was pondering on this topic (Listening to your body) & have researched some articles.
Below are the ones I found. My personal comments are on *(asterisks).
http://www.selenati.com/articles_your_body.htm
Our body is in constant communication with us – we just need to pay better attention to its messages that steer us towards joy and aliveness. The non-verbal communication of our Inner Self can appear as an intuitive hunch that might urge us to take an overdue vacation or spend some time outdoors. Sometimes a dream can catch our attention leaving us wondering how it relates to our waking life. Other times the Inner Self communicates through a tension headache, chronic back pain or an upset stomach.
*Note that I did see a show on National Geographic regarding Chess Masters. The show said that the intuition is actually real. It is not intuition per se but our brains restore data from past experiences. When we react to situations intuitively it is actually based on recorded past experiences on our brain, what has worked or not worked before. This is why when we watch chess masters they are very quick on moving the pieces. They do not think on their next move. The chess pieces' positions are already stored on their brains from past games & so their brain gives them a signal what move should work for the current game being played
None of these non-verbal messages occur by chance. They are messages from our Inner Self helping us to arrive at the insight or experience that we need to regain balance and wholeness. By listening closely to these hunches, feelings, dreams, pains, and other body signals we learn to understand these messages. Valuing these messages allows us to build a loving and trusting relationship with our Inner Self.
Unfortunately we don’t know how to listen to our bodies, our hearts, or our spirits. In our western culture we have been conditioned by our parents, teachers and authority figures to deny our feelings, medicate our symptoms, and discount the importance of our dreams and intuition. Since we have been so consistently trained to look outside ourselves for logical answers from authority figures, the Inner Self is ignored. If we ignore these subtle messages we receive continually from our bodies, in the long run we may end up getting sick or developing chronic pain without a clinical explanation.
*I have one contradiction on this. Lately I have found how so much useful denying one's feelings is. For example, why cry over spilt milk? There is nothing you can do, so just don't feel those regrets & anger anymore. Personally, an attitude like that left me more alive & eliminated wasting my time on worries & useless problems. Also, doesn't it always say that a person who is healthy emotionally is someone who can control his/her feelings?
*Personally I never go to the doctor or drink medicines as long as I can still tolerate whatever I am feeling. This is because I believe that all medicines (& even vitamins) have side effects. The only time I will risk having another disease (caused from the side effect) is when my current disease is intolerable anymore. Also, I can consider going to the doctor but if he gives me another remedy that is not medicinal then I would take that, & I would only take medicines when I really need them. Of course, antibiotics need to be completely finished, else, they won't work!
*Personally as well, I trust myself more than the doctors. It is I who feels what I feel. It is I who is present at all times in whatever I do. It is I who can eventually determine what is causing my sickness.
The process of listening to our Inner Self can be simple once we know how and if we value the signals we receive. It can also be frightening at first to open up to feelings we have avoided for years, but reconnecting to our Inner Self is worth any effort. As with any meaningful relationship, it takes time and consistent effort to build the relationship with our Inner Self and to learn to trust the feedback.
Some of the things we can do to tap into the wisdom of our Inner Self:
- Create moments of quiet time either during a morning meditation, a solitary walk in nature, or just before falling asleep at night, and ask your Inner Self: “What is my body saying to me?”
- Ask your dreams at night, “What might I need to see clearly now?” or “What in my life am I not paying attention to right now?”
- Keep a dream journal and write down your dreams when you awake. Use the dream images to do some drawing or sculpting and see what emotions arise. Ask the images what messages they have for you.
- If you have chronic pain, sit quietly and relax into a meditative state and ask your Inner Self ”What might my body be saying to me through this pain?”. Focus on your breathing and listen for a word, a feeling sense, or an image to come to mind.
- At times it might also be helpful to merely focus on the pain. Rather than avoiding, resisting, or denying it, try to befriend it instead. By letting your attention rest directly on the pain in a soft, non-judgmental way, you can begin to notice its inner qualities. What sensations are there? Is it throbbing, pinching, pulling, dull aching, or burning? Often if we have the courage to get to know all aspects of our pain it diminishes its grip and decreases in intensity.
Focusing directly on our symptoms and pain is the opposite of how most of us respond to illness, which is to avoid it. By changing the way we view our illness or pain, we can begin to see our symptoms as a potential ally. Opening to the negative feelings and painful sensations by simply accepting what is true in the body, allows healing to occur within the Inner Self. This permission to feel whatever is present creates a sense of freedom inside, and allows us to look at feelings of justified anger or repressed shame and grief that are carried in the body from past experiences. The body remembers and the Inner Self guides us to the areas that need healing.
Learning to listen to your Inner Self and its messages is a gift not a distraction that needs to be medicated away. This relationship with your Inner Self is potentially the most loving relationship you will ever experience.
http://naturalhealthperspective.com/antiaging/listening.html
Taking the time to properly listen to your own body is one of the most important natural health self-help tools available. Yet, many of us do not take the time to listen to what our own bodies are trying to tell us. Macho people wrongly think that the objective is to inflect as much self-abuse as possible without complaining.
Highlights of Listening To Your Body:
Listening to your body is an important self-help tool that is worth developing.
Do you know what is normal for your own body?
Macho people excel at ignoring important warning signs when they continue to abuse their own bodies rather than listening when their body starts complaining.
Sudden radical changes in your body could be important enough to be worth discussing with a qualified health care professional.
When you are sick, listening to your body means finding out why you got sick.
The Natural Health Perspective is not a medical web site. It is a site on health that offers evidenced-based commonsense solutions that will improve your health, wellness, and longevity. Therefore, no attempt will be made to list specific warning signs of medical emergencies since there are scores of medical sites offering that approach.
Sure we all listen, when our bodies tell us it is time to go to the bathroom and snack when we are hungry. And, we all know when are experiencing a bad day. But, many people are ignoring important messages being sent to them by their bodies. Are you sensitive to what your body is saying, when your body starts to complain, or are you totally numb to these bodily sensations?
The basic premise of this web site is that if you provide your body with what it needs, it will naturally heal itself. Likewise, when you are doing something wrong that your body does not like; your body will complain about it. Are you listening?
"Unless you learn to notice and be bothered by the early, subtle stages of illness, you will lose your chances of managing your body through its changing cycles by simple means and will find yourself more and more dependent on outside practitioners and the costly interventions of modern hospital medicine."
-- Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil, MD
You should become more aware of what is normal for your own body, so that you can hear your body complaining when something goes wrong. Are you listening to your body? We all have aches and pains, but what is unusual, what is different should motivate us to find out what a strange new feeling, sensation, or whatever, might be about. Anything that you may be experiencing which feels different to you could be important enough to be worth discussing with a qualified health care provider of your choice.
You listen to your body by focusing on what you are doing, throughout the day. Many people call this being centered. The practices of meditation helps people to become more centered and live for the moment rather than always for the future.
When you come down with a headache, for example, you should be able to make a connection between your behavior and your headache. How many times have you just automatically reached for a OTC drug pain reliever when you got a headache? But, have you ever asked yourself what might have caused that headache in the first place? Have you ever observed, how often you get headaches? Could it be related to what you ate or drunk? Have you ever observed on what days of the week you usually get headaches?
In other words, healthy people are healthy rather than sick. And, when a healthy person gets sick it is because they did something wrong. So, when you get a headache something went wrong. And, it is your job to figure out what that something might have been. Correct, the problem and you should not get that type of a headache again.
There are many opportunities to increase your sensitivity to, and awareness of, the true needs of your body. These include when to be active and when to rest, when to sleep and when to get out of bed, when to work and when to relax and enjoy yourself. There is more than one way to listen to your body. Periodically, measuring your body weight, waist size, body temperature, blood pressure and pulse rate are objective ways of listening to your body. The list of opportunities for listening to your body is quite long. Listening with greater interest should be part of any program of natural healing and health.
When you have symptoms, treat them with OTC medicine if you must, but also learn to ask yourself what those symptoms might mean. Do they indicate that there is something more serious that should be investigated? In natural health this is called a constitutional imbalance, while conventional medicine refers to them as underlying disease processes which if left untreated could lead to a serious lifestyle disease. Are your symptoms telling you that you are an experiencing a medical emergency? Or, do they mean that you should simply slow down or alter your lifestyle in some way?
Learning to answer these challenging questions is a part of dealing with the problems of living a good life.
In conclusion: everybody must decide for themselves, including physicians, when something is wrong, and whether or not it is a medical emergency. The natural health way of doing this is called listening to your own body. Find out what is normal for you. And, learn to recognize when your body starts to complain.
Below are the ones I found. My personal comments are on *(asterisks).
http://www.selenati.com/articles_your_body.htm
Our body is in constant communication with us – we just need to pay better attention to its messages that steer us towards joy and aliveness. The non-verbal communication of our Inner Self can appear as an intuitive hunch that might urge us to take an overdue vacation or spend some time outdoors. Sometimes a dream can catch our attention leaving us wondering how it relates to our waking life. Other times the Inner Self communicates through a tension headache, chronic back pain or an upset stomach.
*Note that I did see a show on National Geographic regarding Chess Masters. The show said that the intuition is actually real. It is not intuition per se but our brains restore data from past experiences. When we react to situations intuitively it is actually based on recorded past experiences on our brain, what has worked or not worked before. This is why when we watch chess masters they are very quick on moving the pieces. They do not think on their next move. The chess pieces' positions are already stored on their brains from past games & so their brain gives them a signal what move should work for the current game being played
None of these non-verbal messages occur by chance. They are messages from our Inner Self helping us to arrive at the insight or experience that we need to regain balance and wholeness. By listening closely to these hunches, feelings, dreams, pains, and other body signals we learn to understand these messages. Valuing these messages allows us to build a loving and trusting relationship with our Inner Self.
Unfortunately we don’t know how to listen to our bodies, our hearts, or our spirits. In our western culture we have been conditioned by our parents, teachers and authority figures to deny our feelings, medicate our symptoms, and discount the importance of our dreams and intuition. Since we have been so consistently trained to look outside ourselves for logical answers from authority figures, the Inner Self is ignored. If we ignore these subtle messages we receive continually from our bodies, in the long run we may end up getting sick or developing chronic pain without a clinical explanation.
*I have one contradiction on this. Lately I have found how so much useful denying one's feelings is. For example, why cry over spilt milk? There is nothing you can do, so just don't feel those regrets & anger anymore. Personally, an attitude like that left me more alive & eliminated wasting my time on worries & useless problems. Also, doesn't it always say that a person who is healthy emotionally is someone who can control his/her feelings?
*Personally I never go to the doctor or drink medicines as long as I can still tolerate whatever I am feeling. This is because I believe that all medicines (& even vitamins) have side effects. The only time I will risk having another disease (caused from the side effect) is when my current disease is intolerable anymore. Also, I can consider going to the doctor but if he gives me another remedy that is not medicinal then I would take that, & I would only take medicines when I really need them. Of course, antibiotics need to be completely finished, else, they won't work!
*Personally as well, I trust myself more than the doctors. It is I who feels what I feel. It is I who is present at all times in whatever I do. It is I who can eventually determine what is causing my sickness.
The process of listening to our Inner Self can be simple once we know how and if we value the signals we receive. It can also be frightening at first to open up to feelings we have avoided for years, but reconnecting to our Inner Self is worth any effort. As with any meaningful relationship, it takes time and consistent effort to build the relationship with our Inner Self and to learn to trust the feedback.
Some of the things we can do to tap into the wisdom of our Inner Self:
- Create moments of quiet time either during a morning meditation, a solitary walk in nature, or just before falling asleep at night, and ask your Inner Self: “What is my body saying to me?”
- Ask your dreams at night, “What might I need to see clearly now?” or “What in my life am I not paying attention to right now?”
- Keep a dream journal and write down your dreams when you awake. Use the dream images to do some drawing or sculpting and see what emotions arise. Ask the images what messages they have for you.
- If you have chronic pain, sit quietly and relax into a meditative state and ask your Inner Self ”What might my body be saying to me through this pain?”. Focus on your breathing and listen for a word, a feeling sense, or an image to come to mind.
- At times it might also be helpful to merely focus on the pain. Rather than avoiding, resisting, or denying it, try to befriend it instead. By letting your attention rest directly on the pain in a soft, non-judgmental way, you can begin to notice its inner qualities. What sensations are there? Is it throbbing, pinching, pulling, dull aching, or burning? Often if we have the courage to get to know all aspects of our pain it diminishes its grip and decreases in intensity.
Focusing directly on our symptoms and pain is the opposite of how most of us respond to illness, which is to avoid it. By changing the way we view our illness or pain, we can begin to see our symptoms as a potential ally. Opening to the negative feelings and painful sensations by simply accepting what is true in the body, allows healing to occur within the Inner Self. This permission to feel whatever is present creates a sense of freedom inside, and allows us to look at feelings of justified anger or repressed shame and grief that are carried in the body from past experiences. The body remembers and the Inner Self guides us to the areas that need healing.
Learning to listen to your Inner Self and its messages is a gift not a distraction that needs to be medicated away. This relationship with your Inner Self is potentially the most loving relationship you will ever experience.
http://naturalhealthperspective.com/antiaging/listening.html
Taking the time to properly listen to your own body is one of the most important natural health self-help tools available. Yet, many of us do not take the time to listen to what our own bodies are trying to tell us. Macho people wrongly think that the objective is to inflect as much self-abuse as possible without complaining.
Highlights of Listening To Your Body:
Listening to your body is an important self-help tool that is worth developing.
Do you know what is normal for your own body?
Macho people excel at ignoring important warning signs when they continue to abuse their own bodies rather than listening when their body starts complaining.
Sudden radical changes in your body could be important enough to be worth discussing with a qualified health care professional.
When you are sick, listening to your body means finding out why you got sick.
The Natural Health Perspective is not a medical web site. It is a site on health that offers evidenced-based commonsense solutions that will improve your health, wellness, and longevity. Therefore, no attempt will be made to list specific warning signs of medical emergencies since there are scores of medical sites offering that approach.
Sure we all listen, when our bodies tell us it is time to go to the bathroom and snack when we are hungry. And, we all know when are experiencing a bad day. But, many people are ignoring important messages being sent to them by their bodies. Are you sensitive to what your body is saying, when your body starts to complain, or are you totally numb to these bodily sensations?
The basic premise of this web site is that if you provide your body with what it needs, it will naturally heal itself. Likewise, when you are doing something wrong that your body does not like; your body will complain about it. Are you listening?
"Unless you learn to notice and be bothered by the early, subtle stages of illness, you will lose your chances of managing your body through its changing cycles by simple means and will find yourself more and more dependent on outside practitioners and the costly interventions of modern hospital medicine."
-- Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil, MD
You should become more aware of what is normal for your own body, so that you can hear your body complaining when something goes wrong. Are you listening to your body? We all have aches and pains, but what is unusual, what is different should motivate us to find out what a strange new feeling, sensation, or whatever, might be about. Anything that you may be experiencing which feels different to you could be important enough to be worth discussing with a qualified health care provider of your choice.
You listen to your body by focusing on what you are doing, throughout the day. Many people call this being centered. The practices of meditation helps people to become more centered and live for the moment rather than always for the future.
When you come down with a headache, for example, you should be able to make a connection between your behavior and your headache. How many times have you just automatically reached for a OTC drug pain reliever when you got a headache? But, have you ever asked yourself what might have caused that headache in the first place? Have you ever observed, how often you get headaches? Could it be related to what you ate or drunk? Have you ever observed on what days of the week you usually get headaches?
In other words, healthy people are healthy rather than sick. And, when a healthy person gets sick it is because they did something wrong. So, when you get a headache something went wrong. And, it is your job to figure out what that something might have been. Correct, the problem and you should not get that type of a headache again.
There are many opportunities to increase your sensitivity to, and awareness of, the true needs of your body. These include when to be active and when to rest, when to sleep and when to get out of bed, when to work and when to relax and enjoy yourself. There is more than one way to listen to your body. Periodically, measuring your body weight, waist size, body temperature, blood pressure and pulse rate are objective ways of listening to your body. The list of opportunities for listening to your body is quite long. Listening with greater interest should be part of any program of natural healing and health.
When you have symptoms, treat them with OTC medicine if you must, but also learn to ask yourself what those symptoms might mean. Do they indicate that there is something more serious that should be investigated? In natural health this is called a constitutional imbalance, while conventional medicine refers to them as underlying disease processes which if left untreated could lead to a serious lifestyle disease. Are your symptoms telling you that you are an experiencing a medical emergency? Or, do they mean that you should simply slow down or alter your lifestyle in some way?
Learning to answer these challenging questions is a part of dealing with the problems of living a good life.
In conclusion: everybody must decide for themselves, including physicians, when something is wrong, and whether or not it is a medical emergency. The natural health way of doing this is called listening to your own body. Find out what is normal for you. And, learn to recognize when your body starts to complain.
I've Never Been to Me
I've Never Been to Me is one of my most favorite songs. The lyrics are so great & true! See below.
I've Never Been To Me
( Charlene )Hey lady, you lady, cursing at your lifeYou're a discontented mother and a regimented wifeI've no doubt you dream about the things you'll never doBut, I wish someone had talked to meLike I wanna talk to you.....Oh, I've been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could runI took the hand of a preacher man and we made love in the sunBut I ran out of places and friendly faces because I had to be freeI've been to paradise but I've never been to mePlease lady, please lady, don't just walk away'Cause I have this need to tell you why I'm all alone todayI can see so much of me still living in your eyesWon't you share a part of a weary heart that has lived million lies....Oh, I've been to Niece and the Isle of Greece while I've sipped champagne on a yachtI've moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've gotI've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't supposed to seeI've been to paradise, but I've never been to me[spoken]Hey, you know what paradise is?It's a lie, a fantasy we create about people and places as we'd like them to beBut you know what truth is?It's that little baby you're holding, it's that man you fought with this morningThe same one you're going to make love with tonightThat's truth, that's love......Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children that might have made me completeBut I took the sweet life, I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweetI've spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that costs too much to be freeHey lady......I've been to paradise, (I've been to paradise) But I've never been to me(I've been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)I've been to paradise, never been to me(I've been to Neice and the isle of Greece while I've sipped champagne on a yacht)I've been to paradise, never been to me(I've been to cryin' for unborn children that might have made me complete)I've been to paradise, never been to me(I've been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)I've been to paradise, never been to me
Researching about the songs meaning re-assured me of my choices in life. To always choose love instead of money, looks, or fame. To always think of what makes me happy & not what other people would say. To always trust my choices & not get swayed by what society seem to give wrong value on.
I've Never Been To Me
( Charlene )Hey lady, you lady, cursing at your lifeYou're a discontented mother and a regimented wifeI've no doubt you dream about the things you'll never doBut, I wish someone had talked to meLike I wanna talk to you.....Oh, I've been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could runI took the hand of a preacher man and we made love in the sunBut I ran out of places and friendly faces because I had to be freeI've been to paradise but I've never been to mePlease lady, please lady, don't just walk away'Cause I have this need to tell you why I'm all alone todayI can see so much of me still living in your eyesWon't you share a part of a weary heart that has lived million lies....Oh, I've been to Niece and the Isle of Greece while I've sipped champagne on a yachtI've moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've gotI've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't supposed to seeI've been to paradise, but I've never been to me[spoken]Hey, you know what paradise is?It's a lie, a fantasy we create about people and places as we'd like them to beBut you know what truth is?It's that little baby you're holding, it's that man you fought with this morningThe same one you're going to make love with tonightThat's truth, that's love......Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children that might have made me completeBut I took the sweet life, I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweetI've spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that costs too much to be freeHey lady......I've been to paradise, (I've been to paradise) But I've never been to me(I've been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)I've been to paradise, never been to me(I've been to Neice and the isle of Greece while I've sipped champagne on a yacht)I've been to paradise, never been to me(I've been to cryin' for unborn children that might have made me complete)I've been to paradise, never been to me(I've been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)I've been to paradise, never been to me
Researching about the songs meaning re-assured me of my choices in life. To always choose love instead of money, looks, or fame. To always think of what makes me happy & not what other people would say. To always trust my choices & not get swayed by what society seem to give wrong value on.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Boredom vs. Satisfaction
I have found that I am getting too bored w/ life recently. I was thinking it has something to do w/ satisfaction. You see, I am at a point in my life where I am completely satisfied. Anyways, the only aspects of my life I consider are my lovelife & my career (& I mean professional career). And right now I can say that I am satisfied at both. I was thinking this might be the reason that I am getting bored. Because it feels like I have nothing more to strive for, I am satisfied.
And so I searched the net for any article. I'm quite surprised there's actually almost none.
Here is one article I found though: http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/boredom-krishnamurti.html
Excerpt from the book COMMENTARIES ON LIVING SERIES II
Chapter 6 'BOREDOM'
Jiddu Krishnamurti quote
She said she had always been active in one way or another, either with her children, or in social affairs, or in sports; but behind this activity there was always boredom, pressing and constant. She was bored with the routine of life, with pleasure, pain, flattery, and everything else. Boredom was like a cloud that had hung over her life for as long as she could remember. She had tried to escape from it, but every new interest soon became a further boredom, a deadly weariness. She had read a great deal, and had had the usual turmoils of family life, but through it all there was this weary boredom. It had nothing to do with her health, for she was very well.Why do you think you get bored? Is it the outcome of some frustration, of some fundamental desire which has been thwarted?"Not especially. There have been some superficial obstructions, but they have never bothered me; or when they have, I have met them fairly intelligently and have never been stumped by them. I don't think my trouble is frustration, for I have always been able to get what I want. I haven't cried for the moon, and have been sensible in my demands; but there has nevertheless been this sense of boredom with everything, with my family and with my work."What do you mean by boredom? Do you mean dissatisfaction? Is it that nothing has given you complete satisfaction?"It isn't quite that. I am as dissatisfied as any normal person, but I have been able to reconcile myself to the inevitable dissatisfactions."What are you interested in? Is there any deep interest in your life?"Not especially. If I had a deep interest I would never be bored. I am naturally an enthusiastic person, I assure you, and if I had an interest I wouldn't easily let it go. I have had many intermittent interests, but they have all led in the end to this cloud of boredom."What do you mean by interest? Why is there this change from interest to boredom? What does interest mean? You are interested in that which pleases you, gratifies you, are you not? Is not interest a process of acquisitiveness? You would not be interested in anything if you did not get something out of it, would you? There is sustained interest as long as you are acquiring; acquisition is interest, is it not? You have tried to gain satisfaction from every thing you have come in contact with; and when you have thoroughly used it, naturally you get bored with it. Every acquisition is a form of boredom, weariness. We want a change of toys; as soon as we lose interest in one, we turn to another, and there is always a new toy to turn to. We turn to something in order to acquire; there is acquisition in pleasure, in knowledge, in fame, in power, in efficiency, in having a family, and so on. When there is nothing further to acquire in one religion, in one saviour, we lose interest and turn to another. Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress."Is interest always acquisition?"Actually, are you interested in anything which doesn't give you something, whether it be a play, a game, a conversation, a book, or a person? If a painting doesn't give you something, you pass it by; if a person doesn't stimulate or disturb you in some way, if there is no pleasure or pain in a particular relationship, you lose interest, you get bored. Haven't you noticed this?"Yes, but I have never before looked at it in this way."You wouldn't have come here if you didn't want something. You want to be free of boredom. As I cannot give you that freedom, you will get bored again; but if we can together understand the process of acquisition, of interest, of boredom, then perhaps there will be freedom. Freedom cannot be acquired. If you acquire it, you will soon be bored with it. Does not acquisition dull the mind? Acquisition, positive or negative, is a burden. As soon as you acquire you lose interest. In trying to possess, you are alert, interested; but possession is boredom. You may want to possess more, but the pursuit of more is only a movement towards boredom. You try various forms of acquisition, and as long as there is the effort to acquire, there is interest; but there is always an end to acquisition, and so there is always boredom. Isn't this what has been happening?"I suppose it is, but I haven't grasped the full significance of it."That will come presently.Possessions make the mind weary. Acquisition, whether of knowledge, of property, of virtue, makes for insensitivity. The nature of the mind is to acquire, to absorb, is it not? Or rather,the pattern it has created for itself is one of gathering in; and in that very activity the mind is preparing its own weariness, boredom. Interest, curiosity, is the beginning of acquisition, which soon becomes boredom; and the urge to be free from boredom is another form of possession. So the mind goes from boredom to interest to boredom again, till it is utterly weary; and these successive waves of interest and weariness are regarded as existence."But how is one to be free from acquiring without further acquisition?"Only by allowing the truth of the whole process of acquisition to be experienced, and not by trying to be non-acquisitive, detached. To be non-acquisitive is another form of acquisition which soon becomes wearisome. The difficulty, if one may use that word, lies, not in the verbal understanding of what has been said, but in experiencing the false as the false. To see the truth in the false is the beginning of wisdom. The difficulty is for the mind to be still; for the mind is always worried, it is always after something, acquiring or denying, searching and finding. The mind is never still, it is in continuous movement. The past, over shadowing the present, makes its own future. It is a movement in time, and there is hardly ever an interval between thoughts. One thought follows another without a pause; the mind is ever making itself sharp and so wearing itself out. If a pencil is being sharpened all the time, soon there will be nothing left of it; similarly, the mind uses itself constantly and is exhausted. The mind is always afraid of coming to an end. But, living is ending from day to day; it is the dying to all acquisition, to memories, to experiences, to the past. How can there be living if there is experience?Experience is knowledge, memory; and is memory the state of experiencing? In the state of experiencing, is there memory as the experiencer? The purgation of the mind is creation. Beauty is in experiencing, not in experience; for experience is ever of the past, and the past is not the experiencing, it is not the living. The purgation of the mind is tranquillity of heart.
Although, it didn't really give any answer as to what to do next after 'acquisition.'
And so I searched the net for any article. I'm quite surprised there's actually almost none.
Here is one article I found though: http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/boredom-krishnamurti.html
Excerpt from the book COMMENTARIES ON LIVING SERIES II
Chapter 6 'BOREDOM'
Jiddu Krishnamurti quote
She said she had always been active in one way or another, either with her children, or in social affairs, or in sports; but behind this activity there was always boredom, pressing and constant. She was bored with the routine of life, with pleasure, pain, flattery, and everything else. Boredom was like a cloud that had hung over her life for as long as she could remember. She had tried to escape from it, but every new interest soon became a further boredom, a deadly weariness. She had read a great deal, and had had the usual turmoils of family life, but through it all there was this weary boredom. It had nothing to do with her health, for she was very well.Why do you think you get bored? Is it the outcome of some frustration, of some fundamental desire which has been thwarted?"Not especially. There have been some superficial obstructions, but they have never bothered me; or when they have, I have met them fairly intelligently and have never been stumped by them. I don't think my trouble is frustration, for I have always been able to get what I want. I haven't cried for the moon, and have been sensible in my demands; but there has nevertheless been this sense of boredom with everything, with my family and with my work."What do you mean by boredom? Do you mean dissatisfaction? Is it that nothing has given you complete satisfaction?"It isn't quite that. I am as dissatisfied as any normal person, but I have been able to reconcile myself to the inevitable dissatisfactions."What are you interested in? Is there any deep interest in your life?"Not especially. If I had a deep interest I would never be bored. I am naturally an enthusiastic person, I assure you, and if I had an interest I wouldn't easily let it go. I have had many intermittent interests, but they have all led in the end to this cloud of boredom."What do you mean by interest? Why is there this change from interest to boredom? What does interest mean? You are interested in that which pleases you, gratifies you, are you not? Is not interest a process of acquisitiveness? You would not be interested in anything if you did not get something out of it, would you? There is sustained interest as long as you are acquiring; acquisition is interest, is it not? You have tried to gain satisfaction from every thing you have come in contact with; and when you have thoroughly used it, naturally you get bored with it. Every acquisition is a form of boredom, weariness. We want a change of toys; as soon as we lose interest in one, we turn to another, and there is always a new toy to turn to. We turn to something in order to acquire; there is acquisition in pleasure, in knowledge, in fame, in power, in efficiency, in having a family, and so on. When there is nothing further to acquire in one religion, in one saviour, we lose interest and turn to another. Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress."Is interest always acquisition?"Actually, are you interested in anything which doesn't give you something, whether it be a play, a game, a conversation, a book, or a person? If a painting doesn't give you something, you pass it by; if a person doesn't stimulate or disturb you in some way, if there is no pleasure or pain in a particular relationship, you lose interest, you get bored. Haven't you noticed this?"Yes, but I have never before looked at it in this way."You wouldn't have come here if you didn't want something. You want to be free of boredom. As I cannot give you that freedom, you will get bored again; but if we can together understand the process of acquisition, of interest, of boredom, then perhaps there will be freedom. Freedom cannot be acquired. If you acquire it, you will soon be bored with it. Does not acquisition dull the mind? Acquisition, positive or negative, is a burden. As soon as you acquire you lose interest. In trying to possess, you are alert, interested; but possession is boredom. You may want to possess more, but the pursuit of more is only a movement towards boredom. You try various forms of acquisition, and as long as there is the effort to acquire, there is interest; but there is always an end to acquisition, and so there is always boredom. Isn't this what has been happening?"I suppose it is, but I haven't grasped the full significance of it."That will come presently.Possessions make the mind weary. Acquisition, whether of knowledge, of property, of virtue, makes for insensitivity. The nature of the mind is to acquire, to absorb, is it not? Or rather,the pattern it has created for itself is one of gathering in; and in that very activity the mind is preparing its own weariness, boredom. Interest, curiosity, is the beginning of acquisition, which soon becomes boredom; and the urge to be free from boredom is another form of possession. So the mind goes from boredom to interest to boredom again, till it is utterly weary; and these successive waves of interest and weariness are regarded as existence."But how is one to be free from acquiring without further acquisition?"Only by allowing the truth of the whole process of acquisition to be experienced, and not by trying to be non-acquisitive, detached. To be non-acquisitive is another form of acquisition which soon becomes wearisome. The difficulty, if one may use that word, lies, not in the verbal understanding of what has been said, but in experiencing the false as the false. To see the truth in the false is the beginning of wisdom. The difficulty is for the mind to be still; for the mind is always worried, it is always after something, acquiring or denying, searching and finding. The mind is never still, it is in continuous movement. The past, over shadowing the present, makes its own future. It is a movement in time, and there is hardly ever an interval between thoughts. One thought follows another without a pause; the mind is ever making itself sharp and so wearing itself out. If a pencil is being sharpened all the time, soon there will be nothing left of it; similarly, the mind uses itself constantly and is exhausted. The mind is always afraid of coming to an end. But, living is ending from day to day; it is the dying to all acquisition, to memories, to experiences, to the past. How can there be living if there is experience?Experience is knowledge, memory; and is memory the state of experiencing? In the state of experiencing, is there memory as the experiencer? The purgation of the mind is creation. Beauty is in experiencing, not in experience; for experience is ever of the past, and the past is not the experiencing, it is not the living. The purgation of the mind is tranquillity of heart.
Although, it didn't really give any answer as to what to do next after 'acquisition.'
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