If someone asks you to listen to this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwGLJk_bySc
then you read that the lyrics say... this...
Girl, You'll be A Woman Soon
"Girl, you'll be a woman... soon
I love you so much,
can't count all the ways
I've died for you girl
and all they can say is
"He's not your kind"
They never get tired of putting me down
And I'll never know when I come around
What I'm gonna find
Don't let them make up your mind.
Don't you know...
Girl, you'll be a woman soon,
Please, come take my hand
Girl, you'll be a woman soon,
Soon, you'll need a man
I've been misunderstood for all of my life
But what they're saying girl it cuts like a knife
"The boy's no good"
Well I've finally found what I'm a looking for
But if they get their chance they'll end it for sure
Surely would
Baby I've done all I could
Now it's up to you...
Girl, you'll be a woman soon,
Please, come take my handGirl,
you'll be a woman soon,
Soon, you'll need a man
Girl, you'll be a woman soon,
Please, come take my hand
Girl, you'll be a woman soon,
Soon but soon, you'll need a man
what do you think?
BOH
*La Magia del Mondo...e Me!*
"Let the world change you,
and you can change the world"
Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 16:36
Question
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 21:03
So.. where to start?
Things change... life is unexpected... nothing usually goes how you think it would?
Does everything happen for a reason?
what do you do when for the millionth time you have to start from scratch?
You just do it...
Start afresh
... maybe this explains a bit better how I feel at the moment
I Think ".... Come what may...."
and "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return"!
YES Moulin Rouge - Kitsch? Maybe... but very true may I add!
I'm in a recovery period.... convalescing I guess you could call it... I need to decide whether to be cold or warm though... it's tough...
for now I leave you with a song which is a hope of good times coming back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PVOSefh24U
I've been sitting in the darkness
But the sunlight’s creeping in
Now the ice is slowly melting
In my soul and in my skin
All the good times my friend
Are coming around again
Oh yeah
I been thinking reminiscing
Of better nights and better days
Hiding in a refuge
Of memories I've made
I got a feeling within
It’s coming around again
[CHORUS][
It's coming around again]
We been so long waiting
For the all time high
We got a damn good reason
To put your troubles aside
And all your winter sorrows
hang ‘em out to dry
Throw it away[
Gotta throw it away
All the colorful days my friend
Are coming around again
That’s right
Yeah yeah Mmm
I got someone waiting for me
It's been so long since we met
And I may not be your salvation
but I’ll offer nonetheless
And if like me
u wanna take that chance
It's coming around again
Ooh yeah
[CHORUS]
Yeah yeah
Mmm
I can feel a change of fortune
No more riding on my love
Feel the weight is off my shoulders
As my feet become unstuck
And all the good times
on which we do depend
Oh it’s coming around again
Things change... life is unexpected... nothing usually goes how you think it would?
Does everything happen for a reason?
what do you do when for the millionth time you have to start from scratch?
You just do it...
Start afresh
... maybe this explains a bit better how I feel at the moment
I Think ".... Come what may...."
and "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return"!
YES Moulin Rouge - Kitsch? Maybe... but very true may I add!
I'm in a recovery period.... convalescing I guess you could call it... I need to decide whether to be cold or warm though... it's tough...
for now I leave you with a song which is a hope of good times coming back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PVOSefh24U
I've been sitting in the darkness
But the sunlight’s creeping in
Now the ice is slowly melting
In my soul and in my skin
All the good times my friend
Are coming around again
Oh yeah
I been thinking reminiscing
Of better nights and better days
Hiding in a refuge
Of memories I've made
I got a feeling within
It’s coming around again
[CHORUS][
It's coming around again]
We been so long waiting
For the all time high
We got a damn good reason
To put your troubles aside
And all your winter sorrows
hang ‘em out to dry
Throw it away[
Gotta throw it away
All the colorful days my friend
Are coming around again
That’s right
Yeah yeah Mmm
I got someone waiting for me
It's been so long since we met
And I may not be your salvation
but I’ll offer nonetheless
And if like me
u wanna take that chance
It's coming around again
Ooh yeah
[CHORUS]
Yeah yeah
Mmm
I can feel a change of fortune
No more riding on my love
Feel the weight is off my shoulders
As my feet become unstuck
And all the good times
on which we do depend
Oh it’s coming around again
Monday, October 29, 2007 at 18:56
Freedom...
Any one of you that can see tihis post... watch this video... use internet freely... think freely... is Free
We take so many things for granted...
Something we should thank the heavens for (whoever may be up there)
Just Smile...
Work for those that aren't free...
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 22:54
just thoughts.. as usual
Living in the North of Italy is consumin.... thinking too much is consumin....
I am doing both of the above...
My life is one big ball of things going on at the same time and for the first time ever it is a challenge to do it. Obviously I will not give up on anything, what I start I finish... but I am sometimes worried the things I do not want to finish will do so alone....
It's tough to realise you are not completely independent
In these months I've realised my happyness no longer solely depends on me. I was alone for so long, I was also positive alone, but was I ever really ahppy? Am I really happy now? How can one be happy when he's worried the other isn't?
DAMN! Question questions questions... so many of them....
wish i had answers
I am doing both of the above...
My life is one big ball of things going on at the same time and for the first time ever it is a challenge to do it. Obviously I will not give up on anything, what I start I finish... but I am sometimes worried the things I do not want to finish will do so alone....
It's tough to realise you are not completely independent
In these months I've realised my happyness no longer solely depends on me. I was alone for so long, I was also positive alone, but was I ever really ahppy? Am I really happy now? How can one be happy when he's worried the other isn't?
DAMN! Question questions questions... so many of them....
wish i had answers
Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 03:37
Casa dolce Casa....Philosophy for nostalgics
So strange... life I mean!
As time goes by I slowly realise how home, (Malta) is really HOME, when you finally realise who your real friends are, who it is you really care about, then you finally understand where your heart will always be!
I'm out of my reflective phase, the one that let my mind dwindle in various thoughts, out of which many were negative, and not to post on my blog. Although this space often reflects my state of mind I also do think that it's not the place to post problems. I want to share my positive thoughts with the world, and today as I drove home I collected them....
Malta with all its narrow-mindedness, problems, nepotism etc. still remains the home of my family and friends... it's the place I come to for sunshine, for smiles and laughs with my relatives, to hold my baby cousin (who's now three months old) and be reminded of the miracle of life (not in the religious way, but in the fascination of birth...), to walk home to my car at 3am and know I'm safe doing so (how taken for granted is that?!), to dance with Justin, jump around, spin with our eyes closed, laugh, fall on the floor, and laugh again, till both head and heart hurt...
How wonderful Malta is in October, where the morning can be spent by the sea in the sun watching majestic sailing boats sail off into the wind, whilst in the evenings feel fresh and smell the carob trees as they float along on the back of the breeze... how energising and at the sametime relaxing to drive along an empty road at 3am, with music in the background, wind blowing through my hair, caressing my face, so carefree that nothing could harm me...
How fantastic to always feel like there is someone waiting for you, looking forward to hug you and have a chat over a capuccino, splurge out news, updates, be they in work or love life... Coffee somehow does that to people... throw in a Cafetteria, a cigarette and a good friend, and it's a basic essential for a happy life...
Lastly, Malta, home to the people who show me what life can be about, how ageing gracefully boils down to smiling, how age is seriously a number, a figure for the sake of classification, how life is a constantly changing cycle, that sometimes returns to a previous situation, othertimes spirals and renews itself...
My smile is back, shining more than ever... now is time to return to "work", to my better half, to my aspirations and ambitions, that for now take me away from my first home, and hopefully will take me soon to my second one...
Good night and good luck - most of all to me...
As time goes by I slowly realise how home, (Malta) is really HOME, when you finally realise who your real friends are, who it is you really care about, then you finally understand where your heart will always be!
I'm out of my reflective phase, the one that let my mind dwindle in various thoughts, out of which many were negative, and not to post on my blog. Although this space often reflects my state of mind I also do think that it's not the place to post problems. I want to share my positive thoughts with the world, and today as I drove home I collected them....
Malta with all its narrow-mindedness, problems, nepotism etc. still remains the home of my family and friends... it's the place I come to for sunshine, for smiles and laughs with my relatives, to hold my baby cousin (who's now three months old) and be reminded of the miracle of life (not in the religious way, but in the fascination of birth...), to walk home to my car at 3am and know I'm safe doing so (how taken for granted is that?!), to dance with Justin, jump around, spin with our eyes closed, laugh, fall on the floor, and laugh again, till both head and heart hurt...
How wonderful Malta is in October, where the morning can be spent by the sea in the sun watching majestic sailing boats sail off into the wind, whilst in the evenings feel fresh and smell the carob trees as they float along on the back of the breeze... how energising and at the sametime relaxing to drive along an empty road at 3am, with music in the background, wind blowing through my hair, caressing my face, so carefree that nothing could harm me...
How fantastic to always feel like there is someone waiting for you, looking forward to hug you and have a chat over a capuccino, splurge out news, updates, be they in work or love life... Coffee somehow does that to people... throw in a Cafetteria, a cigarette and a good friend, and it's a basic essential for a happy life...
Lastly, Malta, home to the people who show me what life can be about, how ageing gracefully boils down to smiling, how age is seriously a number, a figure for the sake of classification, how life is a constantly changing cycle, that sometimes returns to a previous situation, othertimes spirals and renews itself...
My smile is back, shining more than ever... now is time to return to "work", to my better half, to my aspirations and ambitions, that for now take me away from my first home, and hopefully will take me soon to my second one...
Good night and good luck - most of all to me...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 at 20:52
I'm kind of reflective lately... I wish I had a hammoc and a view from where to do it from, my reflection process that is...Im thinking so much, so often about my future... I've realised I've always been a "take it as it comes" person but I do realise that there are a few things I'd really like to be able to have and to accomplish in the next two years! My life is always moving at the pace of two-year blocks... let's see if this phase lasts or not...
In the meantime I also think I'm happy, I have almost all I need, so why do I question so often? Why do I doubt so much? Am I such a coward? I guess I am more of a coward than I thought emotionally... Self defence, the rubber-wall strategy I adopted for a long time no longer carries, and things do not seem to bounce off when they come at me from particular senders....
Who knows!
I think sometimes I am way too abstract for this blog, I think if anyone out there reads me and doesn't know me must think Im seriously unsettled!!
I think sometimes I am way too abstract for this blog, I think if anyone out there reads me and doesn't know me must think Im seriously unsettled!!
I like this picture it reminds me of home... It looks like my memories! Have you ever closed your eyes and thought of your early childhood memories? When I do that I remember so many things, and somehow it looks like its all in Sepia. I remember the evenings my aunt used to take my sister and me out on the promenade, for a walk, a cycle or a roller blade. At the time my grandma was still alive... who will ever forget Imqaret, or Tartufo ice-cream, and the day she got so upset because she could no longer eat them cos of her diabetes, not funny you'll say, NO not at all, but its a fond memory. I must have been no older than 8 or 9 and I remember it so clearly... I remember, so much... memories are my treasures, nobody can touch them or harm them, they're locked in my heart and the best thing is that only time will ever have the chance of taking them away. Time, be aware, Stay back, for a Loooooong time to come!
night to all who those who reflect with me
xxx
Monday, October 01, 2007 at 22:34
Finally MUSIC
Hey hey world, whoever reads me that is
I finally managed to add some music here! Glad to bring to you the chance to read to the sound of some selected songs. They're sadly not All great, but some are. The program so far only allows me to include music from selected songs already in the site's database, we'll see if eventually we can modify that, but for now... bonne nuit as I return to my latest friend Mr Alain de Botton and his amazingly identifiable writing. Got to love it!
Simply enchanting!Ta' ra souls of slumber
Goodnight angels of sleep
See you later stars
;Moon? You're mine to keep...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 01:22
Waiting On The World To Change
gotta love this...the video's aweome, listen to the words too....it's got to make ou think!!!
at 01:11
good question...
"How do we change the world??
One little Act of Random Kindness at a time"
Morgan Freeman as God in
Evan Almighty - a film to see!!!
One little Act of Random Kindness at a time"
Morgan Freeman as God in
Evan Almighty - a film to see!!!
Monday, September 17, 2007 at 19:45
Can Your Film Change the World?
I liked this.... I love movies, especially when they recount something real, when they let you see through the eyes of another, see what for them is reality, what for them is the truth...
We should all take a minute to think, how differently we'd see things if we changed point of view. I often wish i could have the power to pack up people and send them places, when they make statements, stigmatise, generalise, criticise, despise, what they don't know, or twhat they think is the truth.. I'm sure the same goes for me somtimes.... but I enjoy taking time to think-. I'll keep an eye open for this event, it might become something big, who knows!
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 12:42
now...
I was looking for pictures to use as a desktop... put "mist" into my search engine... Why mist? Well many things in my life are unclear at the moment.... and this is dedicated to them. I also love the gazebo and can imagine me sitting there reflecting over a cup of tea, or reading a literary classic... evokes quite a dreamlike atmosphere... or possibly I'm thinking about something weird, like an animal dance... panda's and monkeys swirling and twirling...in the background notes of Keith Jarrett, or Chopin, or on a sunny day as they swim in the lake... maybe something more upbeat!!
So this is what it feels like
This is how it feels, now I'm finally smiling on the inside
This is what it looks like
This is how it looks from the outside staring in
This is how it looks from the outside staring in
And it's glorious just to laugh like us
And the world will turn, it'll never stop
'Cause I've got nothing to hide
And we've got nothing to lose, oh yeah
And it's glorious, and it's all I see
On a day like this you know it's meant to be
Now i've got nothing to find
And I've got nothing to lose but you
And it's glorious
at 11:02
Update
I lately have had so much time to think. Not that I have lots of time, but talking to my room-mate I thought about alot of things lately. Well the first one was how crap of me to have a blog and update it so little. I'm sure all those who used to read it before have stopped doing that now!
So let's put it this way, now i have a post-it with "POST" written on it....
So let's put it this way, now i have a post-it with "POST" written on it....
This is gonna be a long one :)
Nah just kidding.. I just want to share some photos of the past weeks...for more interactive things such as Video posts and whole photo albums check out my facebook profile
So if uneventful is my life these days since it mainly is work and study, while my brain rumbles in various thoughts (that I'll share later)... going back a few weeks I had a rather eventful Summer....
What with a bunch of guys to take around Malta (As you see on the right....)
What did we do? Apart from party, drink, go to the beach, and sight see... we had long philosophical discussions between two tiny balconies overlooking Paceville..we laughed... they taught me how to play Texas Hold 'em... and I LUV it!!!
A highlight of the week...MTV Party in Malta, hilarious for the state my boyfriend got himself into! WICKED because I finally got to see Maroon 5 LIVE and in Malta hahahaha
What to say I spent ten days with a bunch of lunatics, but to say the truth I loved every minute, I loved enjoying things I hadn't done for years, like play with the waves on a rough day, or play jokes (innocent jokes) on people!
What with a bunch of guys to take around Malta (As you see on the right....)
What did we do? Apart from party, drink, go to the beach, and sight see... we had long philosophical discussions between two tiny balconies overlooking Paceville..we laughed... they taught me how to play Texas Hold 'em... and I LUV it!!!
A highlight of the week...MTV Party in Malta, hilarious for the state my boyfriend got himself into! WICKED because I finally got to see Maroon 5 LIVE and in Malta hahahaha
What to say I spent ten days with a bunch of lunatics, but to say the truth I loved every minute, I loved enjoying things I hadn't done for years, like play with the waves on a rough day, or play jokes (innocent jokes) on people!
WELLLLLL..... I guess the other best part of my holidays was going home... spending time with my family.....This is my "little" cousin who's not so little anymore... If someone had to ask me what is my achilles heel, it would probably be her. It's so strange to grow up, and see how you start thingking like those adults whose thoughts you used to hate, especially when they'd tell you "oooooh I remember you a little baby, runnig around naked in the paddling pool" That sort of thing used to freak me out! But now... strangely enough, because I am able to go far back in my memories, I start to feel a little weird! This June to amplify this feeling, my other aunt had her second child, another cousin!! 23 years YOUNGER than me! Creepy to think I could be her aunt, or biologically speaking even her mother!!! but let's not think of that right!
Well another joy of summer.... Reading! I finally picked up Harry Potter 6, yes laugh at me you may! Either because I'm a book backwards, or because I'm a sorry soul that reads Harry Potter books. The thing is, I love to feel like a kid... to imagine, to think that magic could be real, I love to dream still and somehow these books are just perfect imaginary events, and dreams.... BUT I also bought other books DUH, my queue is compiled of
- Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother
- Oscar Wilde - Portrait of Dorian Gray
- Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother
- Oscar Wilde - Portrait of Dorian Gray
- Alain de Botton - Essays in Love and How Proust can Save Your Life.... two books which simply gripped me as soon as I read the first page... You see I have a terrible habit, I buy a book only if after reading the first page or two it takes me in straight away. I have to like the style of writing, for its descriptive power, or for its quirky manner. The demure of a book has to be partially revealed to me at first hand... or really I might just shelf it!
Well last but not least, actually probably top of the list.... my fantastic friends... My real friends, my old friends, my school friends... who whenever I come home, make sure that home is home!
Some are away (Tara, miss you!) others are changing their lives, others came back to visit just like me... (pictures of my whole clan as soon as Lorrie sends them!)
I laughed so much
I talked
Some are away (Tara, miss you!) others are changing their lives, others came back to visit just like me... (pictures of my whole clan as soon as Lorrie sends them!)
I laughed so much
I talked
I relied on them during an awful week of stress
I was strengthened by their hands that reached out, as always when I needed them
I sat in silence in good company, and couldn't help but smile...
I thought over and over, that your friends are truly the family you choose for yourself...
Here are some members of my"other" family!!!!
Ella, Martina, Christine
Ella, Martina, Christine
friends since we were 6...
17 years ....WOAH
wouldn't exchange them for the world!
and more of the people I care about.....
Crazy is an understatement :P One in a series of MOOD PICTURES :) I'll spare the worse ones here (but they're on facebook!) Christine, Justin and Moi...
One of those drunken nights
Christine, Me and Martina (the tongue nose and chin hers at least hehehe!)
Christine, Me and Martina (the tongue nose and chin hers at least hehehe!)
Here well one of us... fra loves this pic... I do to, but I eat my nails off cos sadly I'm not that suntanned anymore :)
Hopefully that was a fully comprehensive update! :) (Thank god I wrote this last night!!!) After posting back to IPM work! toodles!
Hopefully that was a fully comprehensive update! :) (Thank god I wrote this last night!!!) After posting back to IPM work! toodles!
Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 22:36
The Fray - How To Save A Life (Version #2)
This song... the start of everything... Piazza Venezia long ago on the 16th of March 2007... one mp3 player but two ppl :)
Wednesday, July 04, 2007 at 20:44
Go to this link and listen to my soundtrack to Mumbai
http://ww.smashits.com/player/flash/flashplayer.cfm?SongIds=46768
Listen... Read... but more importantly Listen :)... imagine seeing the world scroll bye from a car window... there you have a taste of my roaming mind....
Woh lamhe
Those moments
woh raatein
Those evenings
koi na jaane
Nobody knows
thi kaisi baatein
What sort of words (those were)
woh barsaatein
Those rains...
woh bheegi bheegi yaadein
Those wet, wet memories
woh bheegi bheegi yaadein
na main jaanu
I don't know
na tu jaane
and neither do you
kaisa hai yeh aalam
What sort of state is this?
koi na jaane
Nobody knows...
phir kyon hai yeh tanhai
Then why is there this loneliness?
kaisi hai yeh ruswai
What sort of dishonour is this?
ghum ho gaye kyon
Why have we become sad?
kho gaye hum
We've become lost...
woh lamhesagar ki in lehro se
Greater than the waves of the ocean
gehra hai mera pyaar
So deep is my love
sehraon ki in hawao main
In these winds of deserts
kaisi aye gi bahaar
How will spring come?
phir kyon hai yeh tanhai
kaisi hai yeh ruswaig
What sort of dishonour is this?
hum ho gaye kyon
Why have we become sad?
kho gaye hum
We've become lost...
andhi ho ya tufan ho
Whether there is a tempest or a storm
mere mann main rahe tu sada
You will always be in my heart
koi apna ho ya paraya ho
Whether someone is mine or a stranger
dusse dhoondo main kaha
Where shall I search for her?.
phir kyon hai yeh
tanhaikaisi hai yeh
ruswaighum ho gaye kiyun
kho gaye hum
Listen... Read... but more importantly Listen :)... imagine seeing the world scroll bye from a car window... there you have a taste of my roaming mind....
Woh lamhe
Those moments
woh raatein
Those evenings
koi na jaane
Nobody knows
thi kaisi baatein
What sort of words (those were)
woh barsaatein
Those rains...
woh bheegi bheegi yaadein
Those wet, wet memories
woh bheegi bheegi yaadein
na main jaanu
I don't know
na tu jaane
and neither do you
kaisa hai yeh aalam
What sort of state is this?
koi na jaane
Nobody knows...
phir kyon hai yeh tanhai
Then why is there this loneliness?
kaisi hai yeh ruswai
What sort of dishonour is this?
ghum ho gaye kyon
Why have we become sad?
kho gaye hum
We've become lost...
woh lamhesagar ki in lehro se
Greater than the waves of the ocean
gehra hai mera pyaar
So deep is my love
sehraon ki in hawao main
In these winds of deserts
kaisi aye gi bahaar
How will spring come?
phir kyon hai yeh tanhai
kaisi hai yeh ruswaig
What sort of dishonour is this?
hum ho gaye kyon
Why have we become sad?
kho gaye hum
We've become lost...
andhi ho ya tufan ho
Whether there is a tempest or a storm
mere mann main rahe tu sada
You will always be in my heart
koi apna ho ya paraya ho
Whether someone is mine or a stranger
dusse dhoondo main kaha
Where shall I search for her?.
phir kyon hai yeh
tanhaikaisi hai yeh
ruswaighum ho gaye kiyun
kho gaye hum
Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 17:18
So If I should sit down now and tell you all what's been going on in the past month? A rush of blood to the head would be the best way to describe things! I've seriously not managed to get to grips with the fact that I've moved house, taken on a 6 month position, changed my life's course again! I'm so happy to have done it though! I now have day to day satisfactions, I need to get this degree out of the way but a step at a time! Now all I'thinking is... MESS! hehe no not really.. but do you know what I mean if I tell you that I'm used to having orderly thoughts. Although I'm not an organised person, my head is disorganised! It used to be like an archive, now.... hmmm new feelings, new experiences, new questions, new reflections.... Requests from life of greater flexibility and introspectivity from my part...Now...I'm also a year older! What is age seriously? Should I continue listening to my granmothers' wisdom who like any other person who loves life, who enjoys the beauty of company, considers age as merely a number? I do too, but sometimes I wonder... when weird looks come your way when you seem to be out of place, too old for a certain context... Why are people so used to having things as they are used to them? Why is different look down at so many times? So one doesn't fit into your predetermined categories, and so you decide to pass judgement? I'm living it on my skin... but you know what I say? I'm sorry for them...
Because I'm happy not being normal
I'm happy living my life how I want to live it!
I'm responsible for my decisions and their conseguences!
And if I live in a dream-like bubble for only a short while then OH well! Tough luck to me...
For now... my dreams are reality... and I'll float in the bubble till it bursts, because my bubble unlike what people think, floats high, but doesnt escape gravity ...
at 17:14
...
Aren't we all "un po butterfly" inside?
I know I am more than a little...
To my Team.... For you
"Every day ...
Like A Butterfly"
Like A Butterfly"
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 17:45
MC House life
Me in MILAN, full time 9.00 to 18.00 .. woah... honestly I tried so many times to get into this house, to be a full time member of an MC ... something I ended up doing for a project I believe in so deeply... I'm Project Manager for International Presidents' Meeting 2009 ... I haven't written on my blog for a while.. I tend to fall in and out from really hectic writing spells... to empty ones.. Today in my lunchbreak I decided to update my facebook profile, add pictures... dunno just fill it up... Ihave a sudden breath of fresh air in my life...
I've left Padova, I love the place, but my place is here... I'll finish this course soon enough.. then we'll see
I'm gonna try post some more
... bye world!
see u soon
I've left Padova, I love the place, but my place is here... I'll finish this course soon enough.. then we'll see
I'm gonna try post some more
... bye world!
see u soon
Friday, March 30, 2007 at 13:13
L'extranjero
Camus - Lo Straniero...
Just finished reading a 150 page book that gave me the shivers... and that's simply an understatement... Too many questions come to mind after a story as relevant now as it was in 1942! How do we live our lives? Do we waste time? But if we do waste time, are we happier wasting it as we do, or would we like to live differently? What is it that renders a life more worth living than another? What are the real joys of living? Death... we live waiting for death... what difference would it make if it arrived today or in 20 years. To whom would it make a difference? To you? Or to those around you? Would society care? And if so for how long? What if you had to take your life away, or someone else's life away? To whom do you need to answer? To GOD? Who does life belong to? Who does your life belong to? Can the state dispose of it as it pleases, to repay society for your bad deeds? How hypocritical are those that profess themselves as faithful and ascribe to the death penalty? If life is really a gift, then who are we to take it away from anyone? Guillotine, Hanging, Electric Chair, Lethal Injection... all human conjectures to go against what any coherent person believes... Amazing how capable we are of torturing others, we - the human race - human to a certain extent. Inflicting pain, torturing, humiliating, murdering, executing.... INHUMANE! What a contradiction in terms.... I can't help but realise that we live in a wonderful world, a weird wonderful world full of contradictions... Strange how we can all become Strangers in the Familiarity of our home... Read it! Trust me!... those weak of heart, sit down while you do!
at 13:07
Again older photos - 15th to 17th December 2006
Lately I keep posting some photos which date back a little bit.. but I think they're worth it! This is a week before christmas, most are taken in Torino... my sister, a few friends and myself. Can you spot her?
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 08:20
Walk or Fly?
at 08:03
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Un Post Con Dedica,A little note, a little thought, for someone you!
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 14:12
un po di tempo fa avevo scritto questa cosa...
Che effetto vi fa un mondo che ammazza il suo future?
Inspired by a newspiece on TV these days…
I am the enemy, I want to destroy you, I could kill you, but that does not make the news anymore. I want to hurt you to be in the news so I could kill you, but that’s old now, I could rape your wives, but that’s already been done, I could give you an electric shock and drop you to your knees, but that’s not painful enough. In this world today a broken smile no longer counts for much, not even the innocent smile of a child. There’s your soft spot. How about your children? That’s who I have to hurt to hurt you. I’ll kill your child, stop the future.
This year has been the worst after many. When was the last time that so much death in the news stopped your stomach jumping as it became the norm? When was the last time the news was absent from suffering? When was the last time you read international crisis articles to the end?
In this world where over 30 wars are currently being fought over 500 children die every day. 500,000 infant soldiers fight, hundreds of thousands die of AIDS, poverty, starvation, is that not enough? No you have to see me find my way into your lives, into your news to see me steal sweets from your children, or worse even give sweets to your children for them to like me and in their innocence trust me, just for me to betray their trust and scar them for the rest of their life. This year was the year of Bezlan, I am a terrorist, you know something, my hurt didn’t skip a beat. Did yours? Did you do something about it? Did you even stop to listen? Stop to pray? Stop to thank the world for being unharmed, untouched, stopped to thank that your child is fine!
Think about it, how much is it harming us? Do we realise how far near rock bottom we’ve reached? For how long will this continue? What effect does a world that kills its future have on you?
Inspired by a newspiece on TV these days…
I am the enemy, I want to destroy you, I could kill you, but that does not make the news anymore. I want to hurt you to be in the news so I could kill you, but that’s old now, I could rape your wives, but that’s already been done, I could give you an electric shock and drop you to your knees, but that’s not painful enough. In this world today a broken smile no longer counts for much, not even the innocent smile of a child. There’s your soft spot. How about your children? That’s who I have to hurt to hurt you. I’ll kill your child, stop the future.
This year has been the worst after many. When was the last time that so much death in the news stopped your stomach jumping as it became the norm? When was the last time the news was absent from suffering? When was the last time you read international crisis articles to the end?
In this world where over 30 wars are currently being fought over 500 children die every day. 500,000 infant soldiers fight, hundreds of thousands die of AIDS, poverty, starvation, is that not enough? No you have to see me find my way into your lives, into your news to see me steal sweets from your children, or worse even give sweets to your children for them to like me and in their innocence trust me, just for me to betray their trust and scar them for the rest of their life. This year was the year of Bezlan, I am a terrorist, you know something, my hurt didn’t skip a beat. Did yours? Did you do something about it? Did you even stop to listen? Stop to pray? Stop to thank the world for being unharmed, untouched, stopped to thank that your child is fine!
Think about it, how much is it harming us? Do we realise how far near rock bottom we’ve reached? For how long will this continue? What effect does a world that kills its future have on you?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 22:37
Foto delle ragazze qua a Padova - 28th February - 1st March
at 13:25
Ecco un paio di foto arretrate - Christmas and New Years with my buddies in Malta
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 00:16
Train of Thought
09/03/2007
So we’ve kind of established rather easily that I’m dreadful at keeping this blog properly updated, I’d like to think that now having a steady internet connection again it might be possibile.So what’ s been up? Really and truly my life is a constant roller-coaster ride as any person who knows me very well knows. Since January I’ve been hard at work with my studies taking a whole one-month period to attempt 5 out of which 4 went rather well I’d say! Apart from this I took a well-deserved break in Naples, check out some photos soon.This relaxed week was followed by a brief (but intense) visit by two friends from Malta. Take a look at the film loop if you wanna have a good laugh, look at what Maltese girls DO NOT SEE at home…People-wise, things have changed I’d say. CLosed some ties, sadly to an extent further than I’d hoped consideringthe basics, but t was a choice that didn’t reside in my hands. If it were for me although I did get a nice slap in the face, as usual I would have taken it for the sake of history.Now I somehow find myself walking down a new road, an interesting, but different one. Never expected to be where I am at the moment.Beyond all this… AIESEC… yes still at it, gettino into my fifth year of activity, currently in Election Process for VP on the Italian MC. Could anyone believe it? Not even I can… is it a bug? An incurabile disease? Certainly it’s one that keeps teaching me so much, bringing new people into my life that somehow I can’t live without for the time being.Now writing to you from my Train to Rome (halted for technical work in Florence) on my journey to Naples. Nice and long… lately I seem to live in trains. It’s unbelievable how lightly I take long trips. Gone are the days where like my lovely Chhristine and Nat I couldn’t bear the stretches of time sitting around doing almost nothing. Thank God for Lap Tops and MP3 Players, magazines and books!!! Yours truly has been devoured, am back into an incessant destre to read. Obviously not anything random…but so much, the world of words and wonders that reading brings into my life is a river of thoughts, of knowledge, of smiles… But besides this, gettino back to my train trips…
I think I’m addicted to this, watching the world go by my window, I sit there and smile stupidly as a song that brings tears to my eyes, or smiles on my cheeks, is next-up on my little box of Magic, my Zen MP3 player. As stupid this may sound to anyone else, my life without music is dull, and with it’s a constant smile. It makes me feel alive, how does a song bring gooseflesh? Shivers down my spine? Those tears again… I don’t know…. All I know for sure is that my brain works in a strange way, I recall memories in a stronger way when I smell a familiar smell, or hear a special song. I love it, can’t help living without it, and when I don’t wanna know, don’t wanna hear, just press “skip”.How great is it? How amusing to control one’s own mood thanks to two simple buttons on my little wondrous container. “Wonder” someone I love very much adores this word… It somehow brings to mind ideas of a mind meandering in thought…
The thing is I too often, maybe too often, Wonder…
I wonder…
So we’ve kind of established rather easily that I’m dreadful at keeping this blog properly updated, I’d like to think that now having a steady internet connection again it might be possibile.So what’ s been up? Really and truly my life is a constant roller-coaster ride as any person who knows me very well knows. Since January I’ve been hard at work with my studies taking a whole one-month period to attempt 5 out of which 4 went rather well I’d say! Apart from this I took a well-deserved break in Naples, check out some photos soon.This relaxed week was followed by a brief (but intense) visit by two friends from Malta. Take a look at the film loop if you wanna have a good laugh, look at what Maltese girls DO NOT SEE at home…People-wise, things have changed I’d say. CLosed some ties, sadly to an extent further than I’d hoped consideringthe basics, but t was a choice that didn’t reside in my hands. If it were for me although I did get a nice slap in the face, as usual I would have taken it for the sake of history.Now I somehow find myself walking down a new road, an interesting, but different one. Never expected to be where I am at the moment.Beyond all this… AIESEC… yes still at it, gettino into my fifth year of activity, currently in Election Process for VP on the Italian MC. Could anyone believe it? Not even I can… is it a bug? An incurabile disease? Certainly it’s one that keeps teaching me so much, bringing new people into my life that somehow I can’t live without for the time being.Now writing to you from my Train to Rome (halted for technical work in Florence) on my journey to Naples. Nice and long… lately I seem to live in trains. It’s unbelievable how lightly I take long trips. Gone are the days where like my lovely Chhristine and Nat I couldn’t bear the stretches of time sitting around doing almost nothing. Thank God for Lap Tops and MP3 Players, magazines and books!!! Yours truly has been devoured, am back into an incessant destre to read. Obviously not anything random…but so much, the world of words and wonders that reading brings into my life is a river of thoughts, of knowledge, of smiles… But besides this, gettino back to my train trips…
I think I’m addicted to this, watching the world go by my window, I sit there and smile stupidly as a song that brings tears to my eyes, or smiles on my cheeks, is next-up on my little box of Magic, my Zen MP3 player. As stupid this may sound to anyone else, my life without music is dull, and with it’s a constant smile. It makes me feel alive, how does a song bring gooseflesh? Shivers down my spine? Those tears again… I don’t know…. All I know for sure is that my brain works in a strange way, I recall memories in a stronger way when I smell a familiar smell, or hear a special song. I love it, can’t help living without it, and when I don’t wanna know, don’t wanna hear, just press “skip”.How great is it? How amusing to control one’s own mood thanks to two simple buttons on my little wondrous container. “Wonder” someone I love very much adores this word… It somehow brings to mind ideas of a mind meandering in thought…
The thing is I too often, maybe too often, Wonder…
I wonder…
Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 13:38
So little missing now
So here I am, 3 days after Christmas with a HUGE smile on my face!!! No presents are not the important part of Christmas, NO I couldn't be bothered on what I woke to find... for me these days back home were good old moments spent with the family. My aunts, uncles, cousins, grandma, parents and sis. I have a small family and the people I care about are seriously all that matters. Damn it's good to be back 
with my friends, enjoying the holidays in the warmth of home, and now it's even better since my new friend came into the picture...."Music makes you lose control"... "Music is the key" MUSIC just needs to be in my life, can't go on without a soundtrack and finally after three years of longing ZEN is in my life! Now I know why it's called ZEN, just somehow brings that touch of added peace!!!! SOOOOO to you guys who aactually read the rubbish I write here every now and again here'a wish to you all to fill your lives with music! And to who I did not get the chance to wish a Merry Christmas, here's a wing or two to look over you in these holiday times, and for the rest of the year. I might not be some orthodox catholic, but I am neither an irredentist, and if there is something I love and possibly belicve in it's angels... A little something, soul or being there to look over you... I wish you all to feel them by you sometime or other... ALL THE BEST!!!
with my friends, enjoying the holidays in the warmth of home, and now it's even better since my new friend came into the picture...."Music makes you lose control"... "Music is the key" MUSIC just needs to be in my life, can't go on without a soundtrack and finally after three years of longing ZEN is in my life! Now I know why it's called ZEN, just somehow brings that touch of added peace!!!! SOOOOO to you guys who aactually read the rubbish I write here every now and again here'a wish to you all to fill your lives with music! And to who I did not get the chance to wish a Merry Christmas, here's a wing or two to look over you in these holiday times, and for the rest of the year. I might not be some orthodox catholic, but I am neither an irredentist, and if there is something I love and possibly belicve in it's angels... A little something, soul or being there to look over you... I wish you all to feel them by you sometime or other... ALL THE BEST!!!Friday, December 08, 2006 at 18:05
Reflections
Tonight I closet my evening with a fantastic film, Truman Capote, why so wondrous?
How difficult is it for us to show our real self? Why do we sometimes stay back and not take that step forward?
Do as we feel, follow our hearts… that’s what we should do!!!
Really and truly the film seemed so much greater as I watched the Making of…
These documentaries always induce me to appreciate thrice over the film itself, the colours, the setting, the work… and then I thought... so often we work our asses off for something, but no-one realises the effort that’s gone into it.
Sometimes it’s enough to know for ourselves how much it was worth, but naturally how much greater is it if people appreciate your dedication with just a smile!
And then I thought…When you feel inspired everything else seems so easy… but why would someone want things to be easy? There is no fun!
In actual fact it’s not that life is easy, but passion and inspiration help you sail through ups and downs.
I love both the ups and the downs. I’ve just come back from 3 weeks of an emotional hurricane, a physical rollercoaster! And I loved every minute of it!
Life and its emotions are all worth living, whether positive or not, the bad makes you feel alive, hurting, crying, first off feel terrible, but how good do you feel once they pass?
Would the happy times feel as good if we had no bad times to compare them to?
I love life
I hope you do too!
Sunday, November 19, 2006 at 14:39
Airport Internet
How wicked is this
Currently I am writing to you all from the airport in bergamo on my way to napoli for 18 days of work
crazy
flying in 3
2
1
Currently I am writing to you all from the airport in bergamo on my way to napoli for 18 days of work
crazy
flying in 3
2
1
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 19:47
Good Times
Soooo
Every time I post I'm somewhere else in Italy. Last weekend was in Oulx a small town in Piedmont... freezing but wicked!
Today am in Turin AGAIN
Yesterday had a training session in Milan and today stopped over here
I saw the Olympic village and the Museo del Cinema ... Absolutely fantastic, one of the best set out museums i've seen so far...
Today got nominated as part of a small informal team within AIESEC... basically a female-empowering union! Support Team :)
The laughs add up... and now the excitement gathers before my departure to Naples next sunday
hugs
Every time I post I'm somewhere else in Italy. Last weekend was in Oulx a small town in Piedmont... freezing but wicked!
Today am in Turin AGAIN
Yesterday had a training session in Milan and today stopped over here
I saw the Olympic village and the Museo del Cinema ... Absolutely fantastic, one of the best set out museums i've seen so far...
Today got nominated as part of a small informal team within AIESEC... basically a female-empowering union! Support Team :)
The laughs add up... and now the excitement gathers before my departure to Naples next sunday
hugs
Monday, October 30, 2006 at 19:33
Straight from Milan... two words in a break from the AI Tutor's Visit
When not Working I...
Been catching up with people I haven't heard in ages... you know those contacts that you have on msn that you seem to stop cliccking on? I've vowed to put in some more effort and at least get updates!
Necessary
and GREAT
Reminiscing is always such a joy!
xxx
When not Working I...
Been catching up with people I haven't heard in ages... you know those contacts that you have on msn that you seem to stop cliccking on? I've vowed to put in some more effort and at least get updates!
Necessary
and GREAT
Reminiscing is always such a joy!
xxx
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