Quote for today
"Follow your heart, but while on that path, please use your brain!" © Ole 2005
posted by Ole @ 5:17 PM
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Quote for today
No rebounds ...
"You should never look for a relationship to make you happy and complete, it is best to be content with yourself as an individual and then find a relationship in which you can share yourself." © Ole 2005
"You should never look for a relationship to make you happy and complete, it is best to be content with yourself as an individual and then find a relationship in which you can share yourself." © Ole 2005
posted by Ole @ 1:32 PM
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Back to the real world!
Ok, so I'm back from holidays, where I visited the mother country of India ... and as always it was an experience, with many stories to tell!
Firstly, Quote for the day:
"There's no place like home. There's no place like home." - Judy Garland (Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz) 1939
Ok, where do I begin ... Well went over to India for a friends wedding, so let's start with that ... Now I'm told the wedding was quite a typically South Indian Hindu wedding, personally I wouldn't know, but I did find it quite stranger for the Bride & Groom to get rushed on and off a small stage (which was outside the actual temple) for a ceremony lasting just under 10 minutes, with dialogue that could barely be heard, let alone understood, while standing in a packed crowd that resembled a mosh pit more than a wedding gathering. Nonetheless I did enjoy the wedding and the more drawn out reception that immediately followed :)
Now if you think that was bad, visiting the actual temple was a far greater shock to my system. Firstly, I had to wear particular clothing to even enter the temple, which found me wearing a "mundu" (aka. "lunghi"), which is kinda like wrapping a bedsheet around your waist so it looks like a long skirt, and since wearing a shirt of any kind was not allowed I donned the matching garment which I can only describe as a shawl ... tucking the mundu into a pair of shorts (I discreetly wore underneath) so as to not have it embarrassingly fall down, I left my sandals behind at the hotel and headed off bare foot for the temple which was a 5 minute walk away ...
Now that's not the strange part! ... With the shear number of people wanting to attend this particular temple (apparently on any day) there was an amzingly long line to get into the inner sactum ... thankfully, I had vip connections and we skipped through to where the line was just about 20-30 people in front of us ... but the experience was unbelievable ...
Why? - not for some greatly spiritual feeling or enlightenment, not for any wonder or awe, but from the unbelievable lack of respect shown by the ever surging crowd pushing one another forward like people desperate to get out of a burning building ... I found myself being pushed by two middle-aged women behind me, eventually into some men in front of me, as there really was nowhere to go, but we were basically pushed and shoved all the way, finally getting the briefest of glimses of the idol that all had come to worship and stand before ... or rather be pushed past! ...
Personally, I found the experience an invasion of my personal space, not to mention rude and completely unreligious ... maybe I misunderstand their intentions, but surely at a place supposedly so religious and spiritual, people would show some respect ... but apparently that's not the way things are in India.
Firstly, Quote for the day:
"There's no place like home. There's no place like home." - Judy Garland (Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz) 1939
Ok, where do I begin ... Well went over to India for a friends wedding, so let's start with that ... Now I'm told the wedding was quite a typically South Indian Hindu wedding, personally I wouldn't know, but I did find it quite stranger for the Bride & Groom to get rushed on and off a small stage (which was outside the actual temple) for a ceremony lasting just under 10 minutes, with dialogue that could barely be heard, let alone understood, while standing in a packed crowd that resembled a mosh pit more than a wedding gathering. Nonetheless I did enjoy the wedding and the more drawn out reception that immediately followed :)
Now if you think that was bad, visiting the actual temple was a far greater shock to my system. Firstly, I had to wear particular clothing to even enter the temple, which found me wearing a "mundu" (aka. "lunghi"), which is kinda like wrapping a bedsheet around your waist so it looks like a long skirt, and since wearing a shirt of any kind was not allowed I donned the matching garment which I can only describe as a shawl ... tucking the mundu into a pair of shorts (I discreetly wore underneath) so as to not have it embarrassingly fall down, I left my sandals behind at the hotel and headed off bare foot for the temple which was a 5 minute walk away ...
Now that's not the strange part! ... With the shear number of people wanting to attend this particular temple (apparently on any day) there was an amzingly long line to get into the inner sactum ... thankfully, I had vip connections and we skipped through to where the line was just about 20-30 people in front of us ... but the experience was unbelievable ...
Why? - not for some greatly spiritual feeling or enlightenment, not for any wonder or awe, but from the unbelievable lack of respect shown by the ever surging crowd pushing one another forward like people desperate to get out of a burning building ... I found myself being pushed by two middle-aged women behind me, eventually into some men in front of me, as there really was nowhere to go, but we were basically pushed and shoved all the way, finally getting the briefest of glimses of the idol that all had come to worship and stand before ... or rather be pushed past! ...
Personally, I found the experience an invasion of my personal space, not to mention rude and completely unreligious ... maybe I misunderstand their intentions, but surely at a place supposedly so religious and spiritual, people would show some respect ... but apparently that's not the way things are in India.
posted by Ole @ 11:44 AM
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Friday, August 19, 2005
Pay It Forward
Quote for today: "Pay It Forward" - Catherine Ryan Hyde
Not sure why this came to mind today, but I remember this movie I watched "Pay It Forward", based on the novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde ... not the greatest movie I've watched or anything, but it had this amazing ideal, of paying it forward.
What does that mean, well I think the author describes it best as a "plan to change the world for the better ... by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them to 'pay it forward' by doing a favor for three more people, who in turn would help three others, and so on, each act a link in a chain of human kindness."
What it means for me, is a simple idea of passing on good will. If someone does something nice for you, sure thank them personally, but try and do something nice in return to them and others, so that the chain of kindness goes on. If everyone thought like this, imagine how different our world would be! :)
Well, that's it from me for a while, as I'll be on holidays for 2 weeks and probably won't have any chance to blog in that time, but when I return I shall be back to regular blogging ... until then remember to "Pay It Forward"! ;)
© Ole 2005
Not sure why this came to mind today, but I remember this movie I watched "Pay It Forward", based on the novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde ... not the greatest movie I've watched or anything, but it had this amazing ideal, of paying it forward.
What does that mean, well I think the author describes it best as a "plan to change the world for the better ... by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them to 'pay it forward' by doing a favor for three more people, who in turn would help three others, and so on, each act a link in a chain of human kindness."
What it means for me, is a simple idea of passing on good will. If someone does something nice for you, sure thank them personally, but try and do something nice in return to them and others, so that the chain of kindness goes on. If everyone thought like this, imagine how different our world would be! :)
Well, that's it from me for a while, as I'll be on holidays for 2 weeks and probably won't have any chance to blog in that time, but when I return I shall be back to regular blogging ... until then remember to "Pay It Forward"! ;)
© Ole 2005
posted by Ole @ 12:18 PM
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Thursday, August 18, 2005
Quote for today
"Shin: device for finding things in the dark." - Anon
posted by Ole @ 8:21 PM
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Quote for today
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer is in the rghit pclae. The rset can be
a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe."
-Anon
in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer is in the rghit pclae. The rset can be
a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe."
-Anon
posted by Ole @ 11:40 AM
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Quote for today
"You believe what you want, I know the truth!" © Ole 2005
posted by Ole @ 6:58 PM
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Monday, August 15, 2005
From bad to worse ...
Ok, so I failed in my attempts to bring you up to speed, and worse still, I never did "fill you all in on more details tomorrow" ... so I throw myself on the mercy of my blog readers (if indeed there are any left!)
So I plan to start blogging regularly again, and hopefully have an audience of readers who aren't disappointed. I won't even attempt to catch you all up on what's been happening, I'm just gonna clean the slate and start from right now ...
Today is Monday, a good day to start new things ... so here I shall start a (hopefully) regular thing, My quote for the day:
"Life's too short, I'll sleep when I'm dead!" © Ole 2005
And for my more personal side, I'll also be updating The Secret Life of Ole, so feel free to check it out too :)
So I plan to start blogging regularly again, and hopefully have an audience of readers who aren't disappointed. I won't even attempt to catch you all up on what's been happening, I'm just gonna clean the slate and start from right now ...
Today is Monday, a good day to start new things ... so here I shall start a (hopefully) regular thing, My quote for the day:
"Life's too short, I'll sleep when I'm dead!" © Ole 2005
And for my more personal side, I'll also be updating The Secret Life of Ole, so feel free to check it out too :)
posted by Ole @ 6:05 PM
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Attempts to bring you up to speed ...
Ok, so here's trying to bring you up to speed on why I've been sooooo incredibly slack ... I'm loathed to use the excuse that I haven't been at work and on the internet ... so I shall delve deeper into more understandable reasoning ...
For those of you who haven't been reading "The Secret Life of Ole", I've been busy with the "special someone" who did come down to Melbourne to visit lil' old me for New Years!!! :) :)
Now to fill you in, you're best off reading my original posts, like "the weekend I met her", and here's why I will refer to her as "Baby Doll (or BD for short)" from now on ;)
So how does all this justify my dumb-founding slackness ... well, if you've read "the weekend I met her", you'll know I entered into a contract with BD, and have vowed not to be an IT Geek ... thus I shall only be posting while I am at work, and not in my own free time!!! ... particularly not when BD was down here to see me! ;) ... so am I forgiven? ... do you all hate me now? ... is this all too lame? ... well, I shall fill you all in on more details tomorrow ... until then, BD makes me smile :)
© Ole 2004
For those of you who haven't been reading "The Secret Life of Ole", I've been busy with the "special someone" who did come down to Melbourne to visit lil' old me for New Years!!! :) :)
Now to fill you in, you're best off reading my original posts, like "the weekend I met her", and here's why I will refer to her as "Baby Doll (or BD for short)" from now on ;)
So how does all this justify my dumb-founding slackness ... well, if you've read "the weekend I met her", you'll know I entered into a contract with BD, and have vowed not to be an IT Geek ... thus I shall only be posting while I am at work, and not in my own free time!!! ... particularly not when BD was down here to see me! ;) ... so am I forgiven? ... do you all hate me now? ... is this all too lame? ... well, I shall fill you all in on more details tomorrow ... until then, BD makes me smile :)
© Ole 2004
posted by Ole @ 6:32 PM
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Thursday, December 23, 2004
More sleep...
Amazing things do happen, and I was off the phone before 3am (well, 2:55am), and having come in late to work, I've had a good 6 hours sleep and I'm surviving without a coffee ... although, I think I'll need one *soon* ;)
© Ole 2004
© Ole 2004
posted by Ole @ 11:26 AM
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