The Liebster Award #3

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Thank You a very many Dr Eleanore for this honour!
Please check her magnicifant site of Dr Eleanor to find out more about her writing.

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Here are the Award rules to follow:

Once you are nominated, make a post thanking and linking the person who nominated you.

  • Include the Liebster Award sticker in the post too.
  • Nominate 10 other bloggers who you feel are worthy of this award. Let them know they have been nominated by commenting on one of their posts. You can also nominate the person who nominated you.
  • Ensure all of these bloggers have less than 200 followers.
  • Answer the ten questions asked to you by the person who nominated you, and make ten questions of your own for your nominees.

Lastly, COPY these rules in the post. The word Liebster is German for the following:

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Here are my nominees:

Each of the following bloggers posses one or more of these traits.
Click on the links below to see find out for yourself and marvel in their linguistic acrobatics:

https://butismileanyway.wordpress.com/
https://stilllifewithgradstudent.wordpress.com/
http://baliinfoblog.com/
http://runwildshalan.com/
http://theharridiaries.wordpress.com/
https://imthebeginning.wordpress.com/
https://cynk.wordpress.com/
http://kaitkingthewriter.wordpress.com/
https://whenmybrainfarts.wordpress.com/
https://robertcrisp.wordpress.com/

My ten questions to answer:

    Why do you write?
    If I didn’t I would be sad.

    What is the difference between writing and blogging?
    Not much difference. Writing is writing.

    Why do think education is or is not important?
    Definitely is. It’s only complicated if you are stupid/uneducated
    Given one million dollars and your choice of how you spend it, what would you buy?
    Pay of my house loans.
    What is your favorite song or recording artist/group and why?
    Luck be a lady, Frank Sinatra. It just speaks to me.
    What is your passion?
    To become an excellent writer and a photographer.

    Cat or dog (or other pet) and why?
    Cat. Independent, personality, and they ignore you when it’s not feeding time 😛

    You are on a deserted island with a huge villa and all the comforts you could possibly wish for. What is missing, and why do you desire it?
    Nothing!

    Do you prefer sunsets or sunrises, and why?
    Both.

    Which is your preference: photographic art or hand-produced visual art (any media you choose)? Why is this your preference?
    Photographic. Check my site 😉
    You have the power to change the world. How would you proceed?
    Free lobotomy for all!

 

Nominees, please check your ten questions:

  • If someone were to make a movie about your life, who would you hope would play you?
  • What’s one of your favorite questions to ask new friends or to get a conversation going?
  • Would you ever sky dive or bungee jump?
  • Have you ever been in a fist fight?
  • What’s the best prank you’ve ever pulled?
  • What did you do on your 16th birthday?
  • What do you think is one of the most undervalued professions right now?
  • How would you explain your basic life philosophy?
  • Would you rather be hated or forgotten?
  • If you knew you would die tomorrow, would you feel cheated today?

 

Let’s keep the games going!

Stuck Between a Poem and a Hard Place

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An homage to Poetry

“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry” Muriel Rukeyser

Stuck Between a Poem and a Hard Place

I am a poet
But did not know it
Now I am writing
Lyrics without biting
The bullets
My mind to the fullest
Hammering the keyboard
Not a big chore
No, not anymore

Ever since I started
I cannot be parted
From the blank page
That clean slate
Words pouring
My heart roaring
I feel elevated
Totally animated
Full of excitement

I am completely and utterly
Lost in Poetry

A poem a day keeps the Shrink away!

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Some Social Media Bullshit

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‘Connecting people – The artist formerly known as Nokia’

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Some Social Media Bullshit

You don’t have to like it, but have to be in there: The social media of the world wide web. After all, who wants to be a complete social outcast!

Here are a few examples of what can be used for keeping in touch with family, friends and even your favourite movie stars!

* Assbook: Like opinions, everyone has more than one
* Angstagram: I post photos of myself and my eating habits, therefore I am
* Bitter: You would be too if no one is following you, right?
* Benchpress: For every self aware blabber, but more artistic ;P
* Tiedup: A must for professionals, endorse endorse endorse until you drop!
* You-boob: You did something stupid, maybe flashed a body part usually hidden, it got on video and uploaded on the internet and now you are the star of your own show!

A typical modern person’s day

@In the morning
The alarm clock is going off, it’s time to get up.
What is the first thing you do?

#Pick up your phone from the night stand and:

A) Check your social media apps
B) Check your email

@Driving in the car to your place of work.
Listening to the radio and the DJ is urging you to snap a photo and upload it to their site:

#uploadfunnypic

A) You are snapping selfies and almost bumping into the car that stopped in front of you. (The other driver possibly doing the same thing as you).
B) You are twatting your social media buddies of what you just did.

@Lunch time everyone with their phones in their respective hands. Not one word is spoken to anyone ‘live’, but they all are:

A) Chatting (and oh yes, there are actually office use approved ones too: Yank!)
B) Updating statuses on various social media apps.
C) Uploading photos of what they ate (of course, a must for every self aware social medialite).
D) Someone shared a funny video and twatted the link to everyone else around the table.
E) Everyone watching the video.
F) Everyone twatting feedback to each other.

@Coffee break everyone is:

A) Uploading photos of coffee and doughnuts they will consume.
B) Chatting with the people around the coffee table.

Back home from the office.

@Dinner table the family is sharing a meal and their respective day:

A-F apply here too.

@Midnight, bedtime:

A) Time to recap today’s event in your “blab”.
B) Latest friend updates to be checked (so not to miss any important things such as what your friends ate or what they were watching on TV, etc.)
C) Twatting everyone

#g’night!

Sometimes though, you have to be more low tech. For example in the situation, where your respective spouse is not quite on the same level of enlightenment regarding the social conventions of the social media as you are. Then you have to resort to archaic methods like the SMS.

Wishing your spouse

#sweet dreams xoxo

Lesson learnt:
Getting anything done; 3% is talent, 97% is staying off the internet.

 

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Let the rantings begin!

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Let the rantings begin!

The old adage ‘Life is something, that happens when you are busy making other plans’ applies in most situations. Whether it is something you planned for the day or a bigger plan like your career from the time you finished school and started work life, the one thing you can be sure of is that nothing will go exactly the way you planned.

Rather than dwelling on the bigger plan, I would like to share some of the day-to-day experiences and how the adage ‘Well begun is half done’ does not always add up!

Sometimes something as simple as buying groceries may end up being a little more than you bargained for…