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Reality Shows

November 12th, 2008 | Article by Felrna | Culture and Society, Hobbies, Other, Recreation and Leisure

There aren’t too many reality shows that catch my interest.  There is something about a show where people do anything possible to get money.  Sure there are some good reality shows out there that change lives like the Biggest Loser and Extreme Home Makeover.  VH1 has jumped on the reality show ban-wagon and seem to have the most reality shows than any other network.  From shows like Flavor of Love and Rock of Love to Charm School and The Pick-up Artist.  I have to admit some of their shows has caught my attention and I don’t miss them for anything.  The two that I watch each week are Rock of Love Charm School and The Pick-up Artist.  Both are come on on Sunday nights Charm School at 9 o’clock eastern and Pick up Artist at 10 o’clock eastern.

The Rock of Love Charm School is hosted by Sharon Osborn, no one is better to whip rocker chicks into shape than her.  They take the girls who acted the worst and could use the most help from the show Rock of Love where girls compete to win the love of rock star Bret Michaels.  These girls get lessons each day from people from the business teaching them different things such as style and grace to how to manage a band which is what many of these girls want to do.  After the lessons, they have a task to complete and of course the winners get immunity while the losers are on the chopping block.  Each week as they learn new things someone goes home and less girls get to move on a learn how to become better women and how to act like women with class and grace while working in the rock and roll genre.

Rock Of Love Charm School is a great show to watch because you watch these girls grow from what some circles would call trash or other inappropriate words for an article.  Sharon takes them from dressing like strippers to dressing like fashionable women.  Sharon said it was a place where women could change themselves for the better and become the women they need to be.  There is everything that makes a great show great: drama.  There is honestly more drama than in a soap opera.  Girls are constantly fighting with each other, trying to manipulate each other without even trying to change their lives.  Some don’t even want to change and see this as an opportunity to either get on television or earn money at the end of the show.  Sharon makes the show one of the best shows on this season.  She sets the rules and doesn’t take crap from anyone.

The Charm School had another season, which was done with the Flavor of Love girls that really needed the work.  One girl didn’t even really make it to the show because she got into a fight with another girl.  The girls that come on the show surprise you and shock you at times because they do not act like women.  One even admits she wants to be a trophy wife and wear bikinis everywhere she goes while her friend wears lingerie wherever she goes.  Sharon does her best to whip these girls into shape.  If you like shows like Jerry Springer where there is a fight at every corner, then Rock of Love Charm School is a good show for you to check out.  There are one or two girls that may not need the charm school because they seem like they have grace and class already, but don’t let looks and sweetness deceive you.  It’s the quiet sweet ones  that need to be looked out for the most.

Another show that has caught my attention is The Pick-up Artist hosted by the pick up artist himself: Mystery.  The basis for the show is Mystery takes ten men who are relationship challenged, meaning they have a hard time getting close to women, getting them to talk to him let alone getting their number or even a date.  He gives them lessons of course to teach them different things about picking up women.  Mystery shows the guys how to gain the confidence they need to be able to walk up to a women they find attracted to even talk to her and open up the possibility to get a phone number and a date.  These guys are shy, awkward and so many other things.  Some would call them geeks or freaks but by the time Mystery is done with them they are master pick up artists.

The Pick Up Artist is probably my favorite reality show because it isn’t all about playing a game.  It has more to it.  You see the guys growing and becoming more confident and better men through the experience.  It is fun seeing how they react to different situations and some of the tasks that Mystery has them do throughout the weeks.  Some can be a little rough while others seem to the viewer something so simple.  I first caught The Pick Up Artist in a marathon of the first season.  They take the guys and give them makeovers to help them look their best and I have to say, they do a great job, some of the men I wouldn’t consider dating, then the makeover happens and many of them get cuter and don’t look as creepy as they did when they came into the show.

The end of each show is the final task, the task where if they win they get immunity.  They go into a club and try to pick up women.  The change the guys have from the first show to the fourth show is drastic.  They go from constantly being shut down to getting numbers and even a kiss from a girl or two.  When the guys talk in like a video you can see the change and sometimes the pain in their voices.  One of the guys even cry when he realizes he is failing a little or when he gets frustrated.  I honestly think he could go far as long as he is able to get past his own insecurities.  Another guy is too energetic that creeps women out and then they turn him down.  This is a great show because other guys who are in the same situation can learn from them and see what they can do to change things and become men that women would want to be with, and be interested in at least getting to know better.

Reality shows seem to be the big thing in television.  As they start to lose their cool and go to more change based shows like Biggest Loser, VH1 keeps the cut throat reality show alive with all of their shows.  If you like shows that women or men compete for the love of someone there are shows like that, if you like shows where people learn how to better themselves them Charm School and Pick Up Artist are for you.  Even if you like seeing celebrities doing something different and tough, Celebrity Fit Club is a good show to watch which is something like Biggest Loser, but for celebrities.  Vh1 has seemed to start stretching for shows to keep their audiences entertained and they are really keeping them entertained with shows like these.

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Career as a movie director

November 6th, 2008 | Article by Alien | Career, Hobbies

How do you become a movie director? A movie director is the person that directs the movie and everyone involving in it. He will be in charge for a lot of things and the movie will be what he wants it to be with the agreement of the producers. A movie director is a hard job. It’s very demanding and stressful and with long hours.

It’s also very competitive because there are so many directors out there trying to get a job. In order to be competitive you have to have more education and more experiences and know more people in the industry. Sometimes it’s all about who you know too. If you’re good friends with a lot of producers then they will give you a chance when they need a director. I have seen how it works.

Some actors will work with the same director over and over again or with certain producers over and over again. This is because they know each other’s work and they can count on each other more. The nature of movie making is so versatile that you really need a stable team all the time so that all can go as plan. In Hollywood they change location and crew all the time and as often as every two days.

It’s fast pace and tiring. The average hours of a director are about 17 hours a day. How do you get enough sleep with 17 hours a day. They then have to wake up around 5 or 6am the next day. This is how many film crew works. They work for very long hours day after day and then they get the weekend off and head to Vegas. They then come back and work long hours and sleepless nights again.

They do get a very nice income for all of their hard work. Most directors make in the millions. Film crew make as much as a thousand dollars per day. Generally people make a pretty decent income in Hollywood. The nature of their work is completely different then normal people. They work more hours and under stressful condition. They have to drive all of their equipment to an on location site and film there. Sometimes they have to work under cold and very hot weather. They then have to move all of the cars back to the studio after their filming. It’s very stressful and redundant sometimes.

If you want to become a director you have to enjoy working under all these harsh conditions. It’s also very difficult to get a steady directing job. There are so many directors out there without a job. The job goes to the best candidate. You don’t really stay with the same company from years to years but once you have done a film you’re pretty much looking for a next film to work on. Therefore, the more networks you have the better it is for you.

There are some directors out there that have made their success without a college degree like Steven Spielberg. He is a very wealthy man and he just barely got his BS after he made his fortune. Unless you know people, you will need to have a college degree and experiences. The more experiences you have the better. You will need to attend many events in Hollywood in order to network more.

After you have obtained your degree you can start working on projects to get experiences. You can join the union because you’ll need to be a union member with the director guild in order to receive union pay. Most films are union and it’s a requirement that you obtain a union status. Once you have your union card and your experiences you can now get an agent or start hunting for things yourself. There are so many freelance opportunities for directors. You can even have your own productions and put stuff on Myspace or Youtube for some exposure and ads revenues. There’s many business opportunity for you too.

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We Need To Read More

October 31st, 2008 | Article by Felrna | Hobbies, Other, Personal Development, Publishing

In Thoreau’s third chapter he talks about reading and the importance of reading.  Too often now a days reading has become something that we see as boring and un-entertaining.  We don’t want to read a book when it rains and the sale of books seem to have gone down a little, especially if the book is a collection of poetry.  We don’t want to read anymore because it seems to take to long.  We want things now at this very moment and it is so hard for us to get entertain with a book.  Novels don’t seem to hold our attentions anymore which is why it is so hard to get teens to read a good book like Walden.  That is why too many people think Walden is boring that it is hard to understand.  Thoreau sys many different things about reading and what reading can do for us.  His ideas in this chapter are just as powerful and thought provoking as the past two chapters.

The very first line in the chapter is one that makes you really think about what it says.  With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students.  What Thoreau is saying is that we are all students no matter if we are in school or not.  Everyday we live we are actively learning new things.  Whenever we decide to do something we learn everything we can about that thing.  We become students to that specific thing.  For example I know someone who has been studying tuba playing for ten years or more and one who has been studying pipe organ performance for longer than ten years.  We chose or pursuits in things and we become students of those things.  We are always students no matter the age, gender, income level, or occupation.  We are students of the world.  Students of life and no matter what there is something more us to learn each day and there is a saying that follows that idea: you learn something new everyday.  Learning is something we constantly do.  Learning doesn’t end when we graduate from high school or college.

With more deliberation we can become better people based on the things we decide to do or not do.  We can decide to take time a hike through the woods and learn about the different trees and see how different animals act in the wild.  We need to take an active role in learning, but even if we don’t we still learn new things just by talking to the people around us.  We are deliberate in our choices of what we want to learn and pay attention to, even if we don’t think about it.  We still make choices about what we want to do and what we want to learn.  We need to be deliberate in our learnings and the things we allow to take up our times.  When we become students of the world we pay attention to different things and the dependence on the luxuries like computers and televisions wouldn’t matter and would become less important.  The quote continues to say and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.  Is Thoreau saying when we make it a point to learn more we become more interesting?  I should say so, because we will be able to have more to talk about on many different subjects.  We become someone interesting to talk about because of our ideas and theories based on what we learned.

Another quote that can make a difference is A written word is the choicest of relics.  It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.  It is the work of art nearest to life itself.  When he says the written word is choices of relics means that the written word will be around forever.  No one can stop the written word from being produced as long as we have writers and we always will.  The written word was seen as a way to preserve a person, making them almost immortal because they were written about.  Literature is more intimate with us because we need to think and form our own ideas with it.  It provokes our imagination and makes us imagine the setting, characters and time.  Nothing else can make us do that, sure art is thought provoking and makes us think about the work itself.  But it doesn’t make us think of other things the way literature does.  A written word is the choicest of relics.  The written word is something that people will keep going back to in order to learn about the past.  We read classic literature to help us understand things of the past.  Thoreau’s book, even if he didn’t realize it helps us understand the thinking of transcendentalists in his time because the movement was big then.

Literature, according to Thoreau is the only form of art that is closest to life because it is life itself.  People have written about life no matter if it is non-fiction or not.  Even if a story is fiction, there are still some non-fiction elements to it.  “The Awakening” for example is a great work of art that displays the norms and values place on women during the time that Kate Chopin wrote it.  While it is a fiction novel the expectation of women were still true.  When an author writes something they put a little bit of themselves into it, making it life itself.  No matter who you are, you will find something to relate to in almost any story that you read whether it is a mystery, romance or Christian fiction.  While artwork (paintings, sculptures) have reallife aspects, it doesn’t come to life the same way literature does.  He says that it is the work of art is the nearest to life is because it makes us think about life the most.  There are books and novels that provoke emotion in our hearts and makes us pay attention to what has happened in the past.  Books like Eli Weisel’s novel “Night” help us understand what it was like to survive the Holocaust, Malcolm X’s biography helps us understand why he did the things he did and why he believed what he did.  Langston Hughes’ poetry makes us think about the struggle African Americans had to endure to get the rights the so deserved.

This reading, in a high sense, not that which lulls us as a luxury and suffers the nobler facilities to sleep.  What Henry David Thoreau is saying in this part is that reading no longer is a luxury.  It puts people to sleep because they see it as boring and many do not give it half a chance.  It is already in the mind set that it boring and will put us to sleep so it does.  Reading was once such a luxury, something done as a past-time and it was seen as a high honor if someone read your work.  It was a desired quality in women to be readers and read to their husbands or children.  Now a days there aren’t too many men who would want a woman who reads a lot.  It is even rarer to find a man who reads for the fun of it.  Reading is no longer seen as a great quality; no longer a luxury for some, but a hinderance and burden for some.  Students in high school or college groan and complain when they need to read and then write about what they read.

As we see reading can have great advantages and helps us form ideas about things we wouldn’t normally think about.  Going back to the quote about the written word being the choicest of relics, it should be seen as a luxury and a accomplishment to be well read in many genres of literature.  Instead of reading a book we turn the television on.  Television and computer softwares have taken the place of luxury that books once had.  Reading was once considered something that you did to show you education, and standing but now a lot of people think reading is a sign of geekdom or being a shut in.  People relate reading to something that like their grandmother would do or something that “old people” do.  It is rare for someone in their teens to want to read and then really discuss what they read the way it was done in the time Thoreau wrote “Walden.”

When it comes to our level of reading, Henry David Thoreau is a little harsh.  He says yet we learn to read only as far as Easy reading, the primers and class-books, and when we leave school, the “Little Reading and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level.  He basically says that our reading level has become the equivalent to grade school.  He thinks that we learn to read only for the basics, only the minimum of what we would need to get a job or something.  He thinks we don’t increase our reading level to read more challenging books other than beginner books and story books that young children would be reading.  He says we learn easy reading and don’t really challenge ourselves with something harder than say Little Red Ridinghood.  And honestly how many of us can say we read and understand Shakespeare?

When our reading is on a low level, Thoreau says our thinking and our conversation levels become lower in level as well.  Which would make sense because the lower your reading ability is, the less you will be able to talk about.  It takes us back to the quote about being essential students.  When we read we learn and our reading level increases as well as our thinking and conversation levels.  So as students we learn to increase every level which helps us grow as people; but when we spend too much time focused and dependant on the so called luxuries of life like watching television all the time or spending the day on the computer instead of reading we don’t really grow higher.  We are stuck at a certain level and it is possible that the level can decrease as well.  I mean the more you read Shakespeare, Thoreau, Emerson, Euripides and others the easier it is to understand them.

Thoreau talks about so many different things in his novel.  He goes from luxuries hindering us, to us needing to cut back on things in our lives to the importance of reading.  And we are only in the third chapter! What else could this man talk about simply from spending two years in nature.  He thought about everything he dealt with on a daily basis and how the things in oure lives effect ourselves for good or for bad.  It is how we use the things we have in life that matters.  Sure computers are a luxury and they can help us keep in touch with friends and family, some use it to earn some money, others use it to shop, but it can also hinder  us because we can spend too much time on it and waste away the day doing frivolous things like watching videos on youtube.  It has become so difficult for us to sit down with a book on the porch to read.  We cannot spend two minutes away from the computer or television, so our cell phones have internet capabilities and video messaging so we can watch different things via our cell phones and other hand held things.  We need to get back to reading more.

One thing we can do to help inprove those levels, is we can <gasp> read more.  We can pick up different books and read them.  We can read a little Emerson, then a little McCourt.  If we really want a challenge try Dante’s Divine Comedy and something easier with John Grishom.  There are always things we can read to learn more and improve our reading levels and the more we read the better our levels in everything can become.  When we read the newspaper we can improve our knowledge in politics, economics and more.  We need to be more well rounded with the things we read and have for conversation purposes.  When we read more we can develop our ideas and theories more.  I have noticed the more I have read the more developed my theology has become.  Read more and become more well rounded.  I know we all have something we find interesting to read.  We can be deliberate as Thoreau said and become well versed in mystery novels.  Read.  Develop those conversation skills and thinking levels.  Thoreau was harsh, but for a reason.

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Story Review: Heads up down under

October 30th, 2008 | Article by insulin | Hobbies, Other, Publishing, Writing

Author: Bill Bryson

Atmosphere of the story: Extremely Dangerous

Central Characaters:

Deirde Macken- A journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald.

Glent Hunt- Young photographer.

Plot:

It so happens that Australia has more things that will kill you than anywhere else on earth. And oddly enough, these dangers seems to be sought after by its natives. On one trip, they had an interesting offer of guidance from a journalist on the Sydney morning  herald named Deirde Macken. An Alert and cheerful lady, Deirde met me at my hotel with a young photographer named Glent hunt, They  are the two Sydneysiders,as residents of the great city are quantity known. They showed all.

Australia really is extraordinary lethal. It is a tough place. Of course, if you can always do what I finally did, go off to a museum to look at the material and minerals. They aren’t so exciting but they that compensating virtue that almost never if they attack you.

The climax part is really cool because there was an attack of a wild shark and it is suspense. Most of the character believe that they can survive in the situation they encounter.

Symbol: Shark

Why to read it:

The story is really nice and very useful and suspense. Everyone will love reading it and it is cheap and not so think book.

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Tips on How to Create Your Own Christmas Card

October 30th, 2008 | Article by insulin | Hobbies, Writing

INTRODUCTION

It is already October month now and sooner or later Christmas is coming to put some smile to our faces. Santa Claus is getting ready for his gifts and yes we need to get ready for our Christmas cards now and why don’t we create our original Christmas card for our love one. Did you know that they will appreciate it more that the ready made one? I always love making original stuff and give them to my love ones and they really appreciate it so much that really makes my heart melt too.

Now, I will share you how to create your own Christmas card and it will be cheap even priceless because we can use any materials that we want to use.

MAKE A SKETCH OR PLAN

Before anything else about the materials. First, we need to have a plan on how we will create it so you will be needing a pencil,erase,and a long or short bond paper.

Try thinking of what design you want and then sketch it and after making it then start thinking for the materials that you need.

PREPARE YOUR MATERIALS

After planning what card you will make then its time to ready the materials that we need and start making it. Making it that comes from the heart will make your card more colorful and sweet.

I will share you one of my original card and I called it “Christmas dawny”

Materials:

1 red colored paper, cottons, scissor, glue, pen

Procedures:

- The first thing you need to do is fold the red colored paper into 1/2 and then decide where will be the front page.

- Create a  Christmas tree  shape using the pentel pen and then start gluing it with the cottons.

- Cut each sides of the main page and cut the 1/2 christmas tree shape so that you can open it inside and then you can start putting you message inside it and now you will have the “Christmas dawny”

You can do anything that you want in your original style and I am sure you will enjoy making it. Make as many as you want and send them to your relatives, friends and love ones.

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We Need Smaller Proportions

October 30th, 2008 | Article by Felrna | Culture and Society, Hobbies, Personal Development, Publishing

Henry David Thoreau did something we today would cringe to even think about: he spent two years living in the woods, away from any civilization.  He spent those two years almost as a hermit living off the land and learning how to survive solely on the things that nature provided.  Why did he do such a thing; and then write about it?  He wanted to learn all that nature could teach him and he wrote about it so that future generations could understand his ideas.  Many of his theories and ideas came to him while he spent those two years in the woods.  He talks about different things in his book: “Walden.”  But barely anyone reads his work.  I hope to be able to help people understand his purpose more, and see into a mind that is long gone.  With his quotes we can understand why nature was so important to the transcendentalist movement, and the importance nature still has today.  Let us take a look into the world of Henry David Thoreau and see what he was talking about.  I have already talked about what he was trying to say in his first chapter of the book.  In the second chapter and on he talks about being changed and how nature could be what helps a person change.  He talks about different things in each chapter as we go through each chapter we will see the difference and similarities between his time and our own.

Throughout the book of Walden, Henry David Thoreau has many quotes that are powerful and will stick in your mind.  One of the first quotes that makes an impact is not far from the beginning of the second chapter.  Thoreau states We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.   What he is talking in this quote is that we need to reawaken ourselves to not relying on modern conveniences not just to wake up in the morning, but to generally live our daily lives.  Thoreau already thinks that modern conveniences hinder us from advancing and really appreciating things.  He thinks we need to stop relying on things and learn to do things on our own.  Somewhat of listening to our bodies.  When I think of that quote and what he talks about, I think of the Amish and how they live their lives with no modern luxuries.  They provide for themselves and they are happy and entertain themselves without the need for cars, movies, television and the such.  Why can’t we do the same thing?

In the very next paragraph Henry tells us why he went to live in the woods which he says he did deliberately.  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.  Henry David Thoreau went into the woods to see what nature could teach him about living the simplistic life.  He wanted to be able to think that he really lived a full life, which he thinks can be done by living simplistically.  He wanted to learn the essentials of life, the basics of living life almost like survival of the fittest.  How many of us can say that we would know how to survive without certain luxuries if we had to?  I mean if we didn’t have stores to buy our food, would we be able to go out and get it ourselves?  Many of us don’t even know how to us a gun to hunt for our food, or know which kind of plants are poisonous and which aren’t.  These are the kind of things that Thoreau basically learned during his two years in the woods.  We should learn everything that nature has to teach us no matter what it is.

Thoreau didn’t want to die and learn that he really didn’t live his life to the fullest, and I think he felt that succumbing to the luxuries of life meant he didn’t live it to the fullest.  I see it in my life and the lives of others.  Instead of going out and taking a hike in the woods, we would rather stay in and sit on the couch.  We walk on treadmills while watching television instead of going outside getting fresh air and seeing the nature around.  That is one thing we can cut out of our lives the exercise equipment we don’t need.  Who needs a treadmill when you can walk around your block, or go to the part and walk the track, or better yet, find a hiking trail at the park and hike in the woods.  Save the money and go outside and see what nature has to teach you while you are getting the exercise that you want to get.  There are always ways we can find something to help us learn everything we can through nature and the educational system.  I am like Thoreau, I don’t want to die and then learn that I didn’t live my life to the fullest.

The chapter goes on to say that we need to simplify, simplify, simplify.  By that he means we need to cut down on things.  We need to cut down our expenses, instead of having twenty purses ladies should have at most five.  He says we should have dealings with two or three companies instead of ten or more.  That can be done today; there are companies where you can have your cable, telephone, and internet in one instead of a different company for each one, but Thoreau would see all those as luxuries that we don’t need.  We need to limit our portions of everything we acquire in life; Thoreau uses the example of food saying instead of three meals a day eat one, or instead of five meals reduce it to five.  He says that everything in our lives can be reduced so that we can become more sufficient on ourselves and not the modern comforts of the day.  We need to make our lives more simplified and easier.  Too often we complain of things being hard and busy, yet nine chances out of ten; we are able to make things simpler by limiting certain things in our lives.  Making smaller proportions in our daily lives with everything we can see things changing.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.  Just one word repeated, this could be one of the most powerful quotes in the book, there are plenty of them.  Simplify…simplify.  It seems like he is answering a question not in the book.  It seems so easy doesn’t it.  Simplify.  Make things easier on yourself.  Cut out things that you don’t need, stop buying knick knacks that are useless.  People complain about being in debt, but we use credit cards and buy things on credit instead of just using the money we have.  I have heard a motto that I agree with and if Thoreau heard it I am sure he would agree as well: If you don’t have the money don’t buy it.  As I stated Thoreau was saying we needed to have smaller portions in things that we don’t need.  I look around and wonder do we need everything within our lives/homes.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life.  This quote comes from near the end of the second chapter which was called Where I Lived.  Thoreau asks many questions throughout this chapter and the entire book for that matter.  He asks us why do we waste life by being in such a hurry.  Why do we live lives that are so crammed with busy-ness?  We busy ourselves with things that he considered fruitless.  Many times we get up and are don’t stop until the end of the day when we get to bed.  When is it that we have time to enjoy the fruits of life?  Do we know the fruits of life?  Thoreau thought many things in life helps us waste our time, and I am sure if he lived today with these same ideas he would have a slew of things that he would see as time-wasters such as television.  In fact many people think watching television together is a good thing to do for quality time.  But according to Dr. Gary Chapman, author of “The Five Love Languages,” it could take away from the relationships in life.  What Thoreau and Dr. Chapman would say we should do is spend time talking to each other and finding ways to connect.

Henry David Thoreau had his ideas and theories based on what he learned in while living in the woods, and we haven’t cracked the surface of the book just yet.  His ideas and thoughts can be applied to how we live our lives today and even further into the future.  He talks a lot of living a simpler life and that is something we all need to try and do.  We are too focused on having the newer things and the best of those things, and that is what Thoreau says we can do without.  He went as far as to say that he could do without the post office because he didn’t receive letters often enough and he didn’t send letters often enough. We can access the internet with our desktops, laptops, cell phones, blackberries, palm pilots (do people still use those or is there something bigger and better?) why do we need to access the internet with our mobile phones?  Can’t we go a few hours away from home without access the internet?  Not to mention that instead of using a phone to call people, we use it to text message each other even if we are in the same house!

We can learn so much from Henry David Thoreau’s words and ideas.  He was so insightful and when you are reading “Walden” you feel like you are reading something that is talking about today not at least one hundred years ago, “Walden” was published in 1854.  You cannot read his words and not think about your own life and wonder if there was something you can do to make things easier on yourself and simplify things to live a better life and not waste your time as Thoreau asks.  “Walden” is such a powerful piece of literature that needs to be read.

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Tips on how to design your walls

October 30th, 2008 | Article by insulin | Hobbies, Home

INTRODUCTION

Why don’t you try designing your own walls instead of hiring someone? I’m sure you can do it because there are lots of way on how to design it. I am actually designing my own room and actually my own house and then lots of my friends saw my work so they let me design it. It will be cheaper and it is enjoy to do just like your taking up interior designing course.

Making your own style will be sweet and unique and then let your friend watch on how you create it and then it will be interesting. I will share you one of my style on how I design my walls.

THINGS TO DO

Choose any paint color that you want and then ready some old foam that you have. Cut the foam in any art do you want like heart, guitar, moon, star shape or more.

Start mixing the paint that you read and then prepare some old newspaper to protect your floor to the paint. Make sure that all you stuff is outside the room so that there will be no mess at all and then you can work easily.

After that, try to use the shape stuff as your brush and just stamp it to the wall. Try to spread it all over the wall with different kinds of shapes and colors then you will have a unique design of your walls.

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How to enjoy your life

October 29th, 2008 | Article by insulin | Hobbies, Other, Personal Development, Relationships

INTRODUCTION

Our life is very meaningful and it is really impossible that we will not enjoy it. I don’t understand why there are so many people saying that they are board with their life and there is million things to do in this world. We are born to be lucky to see the universe, stars, moon, sky and all the natural life around us. Problem is just the part of life and just need solution.If you will see in the other side, life will be boring without problem and that is a fact. We live to have problems to solve it and that is a challenge or a mission that we need to finish.

I myself got lots of problems and I really don’t mind them so much. I have problem financially, I have problem with my health, family and many more but what I am thinking is that it is just part of my life or a mission that is given to me and I need to be successful with it.

I will share to you how to enjoy your life freely to make your feelings more great and better. This is based on my experience and I hope this will help.

MY STORY

I am actually dealing with unknown disease for almost nine years and I taken almost 6 options with the experts but all of it are useless but I am not still surrendering because I know that one day I will past to this problem.  What I am doing is that making myself happy in many ways. To forget what I got, one thing that I am always doing is:

TRAVEL- Traveling helps me forget everything and enjoy the rest of the moment and every new places. It add smile to my face every time I go to a new place and that is one factor to enjoy my life.

HAPPY MUSIC- While traveling, I always listen to happy music that matches the place where I go, for example, beach, then I will listen to reggae music.

EATING WITH FRIENDS- Eating really makes me enjoy and talking lots of things with my friends is another way to make your life more colorful.

Earning friends- The more you know many people, the more your life will be colorful. Always remember that a person cannot live by itself so be friendly and make friends.

Having a pet-It is true that when you are a pet lover or you simply want to have pet then it will be there to make you happy and forget your problem for a moment and this will help you thing better on how to solve it. Dogs are really sweet and cats too. Any kind of animal that is close to you is good.

Video games- Take a break and play some adventure games. Play kid games and it will make you enjoy more.

Plan for adventure- Have a extreme adventure with your friend just like me. I honestly don’t plan my day and I always want to flow whatever happens. Let the time decide for you.

The key to have a happy life is full of activies and friends and family. Try having a piece of paper and list down all the things that you’ve never try before and make it as your mission. It will make you busy and active and then your life will be meaningful.

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The Incredible F4 Phantom Jet Fighter

October 29th, 2008 | Article by Giovanni Di Nardi | Hobbies, Men's Issues, Other

More than 40 years ago, on May 27, 1958 the first Phantom F4 fighter jet took to the skies.   This incredible aircraft the first one used as an interceptor by the U.S. Navy, was also capable of flying as a ground support bomber for the United States Marine Corps.  The aircraft has flown an infinite variety of missions such as, air superiority, close air support, interceptor missions, air defense suppression, long range strikes, attack and reconnaissance.  It still holds records today in a variety of categories that no other aircraft can challenge.

Its main form of notoriety was its use during the Vietnam War.  Nothing was more comforting to the soldiers of the Vietnam conflict, than to see this beautiful aircraft come to their aid with its fearsome and deadly accurate fire support.  There has been a multitude of lives saved by the timing and precision of this awesome aircraft.  It has also been used with great success in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.

The Phantom was the first multi-service aircraft, having flown with the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marines.  It is the first and only aircraft to be flown concurrently by both the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.  From 1958 until its retirement in 1996, it has flown more than 17 million miles and is still active today in the defense of 11 nations worldwide.

The Phantom was built by Mc Donnell Douglas Aircraft in St. Louis, Missouri.  There were 5,057 of the planes built in the United States, and it still holds the record for the largest production run of any supersonic jet fighter built in the United States.

The jet fighter seated two pilots, and flew at Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) and could carry a payload of up to 16,000 pounds of bombs, rockets, missiles and guns.  The pilots that flew this incredible fighter praised it for its reliability, effectiveness, and most of all its safety.

The F4 Phantom today, remains one of the most popular aircraft of all time with both pilots and aircraft buffs of all ages.  Its popularity is evident by the fact that many of the airshows conducted within the United States each year features the mighty Phantom F4 as its headliner.

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Design your dream house

October 29th, 2008 | Article by insulin | Hobbies, Home

INTRODUCTION

Some of us focus on how to design and enjoys it very well but how will you improve it if you don’t have enough time for it because of some reasons?.. Well I am sure there are lots of ways to improve them and the only thing that you need is a little bit time and interest to it.

All of us love to design our own house but how? Where? and when? Each of us dream to have a native style house or modern style house or unique house with all the things that we want to put there. Deciding what color of tiles or curtain and more. I myself always want to have a plan dream for my house and luckily, one of my friend referred me this programs and now I will share it to you.

There are two programs that I will share to you and all of this are really useful to all of the plans that you want from your house.

MYMINILIFE - This program is really enjoy and funny. It is like a game that you will design your own house and name it. They will give you a minimum of 10,000 gold and decide how many square meters of lot you will buy. You will also decide what kitchen wear, chairs and tables do you want. This is an 3d screen and you can zoom the house. Now they have new features where you and you friends can create your own village or neighborhood for the rest of the team. You can even sell your house here and connect with your friend using offline messaging.

GOOGLE SKETCH - In this program, you can create anything you want, a dog, a house, a robot, a chair and more. You need to download it to your computer and start sketching. Practices your skills here and for sure it will improve. I myself made some robot sketch here and all the things that I want to sketch.

I hope you guys will have fun by designing your dream house. Me and my fiancee already made about 8 houses here and share them to my friends and embed some of it in my own site.

Good luck for your dream house and Godbless.

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