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While Josh Baskin in Big was not Tom Hanks's first major role, it began to transform the star of Bachelor Party and Dragnet into one of the leading movie actors of the 1990s. Director Penny Marshall and screenwriters Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg tell their story with understated intelligence and a marvelous feel for the mind of a 12-year-old, a time when adolescent obsessions are just starting to edge into the child's psyche. Both physically and emotionally, Hanks does a nearly flawless job of putting the soul of a 12-year-old boy into the body of a 35-year-old man. His awkward gangliness and clumsy over-enthusiasm look and feel as if he's not yet used to the body he's grown into, and his naivete is convincing, unforced, and utterly winning. Josh never seems childish, but rather like a child who is out of his element and determined not to let it show (which, of course, just makes it show all the more). Hanks also had the good fortune to be cast alongside Elizabeth Perkins, whose sharp but sneakily charming personality has rarely been used to better advantage, and Jared Rushton, who in his scenes with Hanks achieves the goofy rapport of two kids talking after school with someone almost three times his age. Hanks's and Marshall's feel for details and willingness to take a subtle approach raise the film well above Vice Versa or Like Father, Like Son, two similarly themed films which took a much broader tone, making clear how big a difference a light touch can make.
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SingTel Needs Sale to Unlock SE Asia
Peter is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Singapore Telecom (NASDAQOTH: SGAPY.PK), or SingTel, is Asia's largest multi-market mobile operator with major investments in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan and Bangladesh. SingTel provides telecommunication services to more than 26 countries and served more than 445 million mobile customers last year. It owns the second largest telco in Australia, Optus, whose satellite division the latest reports have SingTel looking to sell for around $1.9 billion. KKR and the Carlyle Group are reportedly interested, according to Reuters. SingTel has great growth opportunities around ASEAN and needs capital to make that happen.
Earnings Review
Group revenues fell slightly (-3% YoY) to S$18.183 billion ($14.55 billion USD) for the quarter ending March 31, 2013. While the Group's FY13 operational EBITDA margin grew for the first time in eight years, to 28.6% (29.3% ex-digital business), net profit after tax fell 33% YoY to S$868 million ($694.4 million USD) as foreign exchange fluctuations, spectrum investment and digital initiatives in FY13 cut into the bottom line. The S$0.10 per share final dividend was higher than expectations, pushing FY2012 total payouts to S$0.168 per share, implying a 74% payout of free cash flow, compared to S$0.158 per share in FY2012, a 69% payout. This works out to a current yield of 4.5%, which is attractive compared to the Singapore market as well as regional telcos. OCBC cut its rating on the sector to neutral from overweight on May 21, and SingTel's shares declined 2% on the news. It has corrected recently off its highs.
The Group leveraged its combined procurement, network and IT capabilities across geographies, delivering impressive efficiencies, and its investments in regional carriers across Southeast Asia are where much of the company's earnings came from. Earnings from Indonesia's Telkomsel (SingTel has a 35% stake), Thailand's Advanced Info Services (a 23.32% stake) and the Philippines Globe Telecom (a 44% stake) saved SingTel's earnings this year due to growth in both subscribers and mobile data.
Among these investments, Telkomsel had the largest contribution to the Group's profit after tax -- 14% of the total. Meanwhile, AIS's contributions were further bolstered by the Thai baht's 2% against the Singapore dollar and lower corporate taxes. AIS is a stock that I have been high on for a while (see here and here). However, India's Bharti Airtel (a 32.25% stake) continues to be a drag due to higher depreciation and amortization in Africa and the 11% depreciation of the Indian rupee against the SingDollar.
New Models Emerging
In Singapore, despite significant industry challenges from competitors, SingTel still manages to remain a robust foundation for continued profitability. Starhub and M1 are both much smaller in terms of scale, market cap and subscribers. And while overall revenue growth has been difficult, post-paid mobile subscriptions rose overall for all three carriers -- SingTel (+1.4%), M1 (+1.1%) and Starhub (+0.8%) -- but it is the rise of over the top services such as Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Google, WeChat and Whatsapp.
Nokia's (NYSE: NOK) bundling of Facebook with their Asha phones in India and other emerging markets will help to sell data packages in the long run as it introduces feature phone customers to what is possible with a low-end smartphone. This is an enormous development that will help drive the conversion of customers from minute plans to data packages. The result will be very good for both Nokia and Facebook in the short term, but the effect for the carriers will be felt in the longer term as the conversion rate will take time. Package minutes are a dying business model outside of emerging markets with only 2G service.
The impact of this will be felt more so in emerging markets than in developed ones; as carriers move into new areas new opportunities are presenting themselves, and the challenge for all carriers is to simply not become a dumb wireless network but rather a true value-added service. To that end, SingTel plans to spend $1.6 billion in three years to acquire companies specializing in digital advertising, content and entertainment. As markets like Thailand build out their 3G and LTE networks, there will be a higher percentage of customers ready to make the switch up to an entry-level smartphone. For Nokia, that means selling low-end Lumias running Windows Phone. For Facebook that means more mobile ad and game revenue.
With the deployment of the Australian National Broadband Network, competition is expected to increase as new entrants enter the market. Optus is the only telco company that owns and operates a fleet of five satellites in Australia, while a sixth is scheduled to be launched this year, used by broadcasters and government organizations, including the Australian Broadcasting Corp. and the Australian Department of Defense. But, Australia and Singapore are mostly saturated markets, and margins there are slipping on the need to upgrade to 4G/LTE while data rates are likely to drop.
In the last six months, Telstra, the number on telco in Australia, added around 600,000 new customers of which half are for 4G service, while Optus only added 53,000 new customers. In Q4 2012, its operating revenue and net profit were down to 5.4%, to A$ 2.7 billion (US$2.59 billion), and 6.9%, A$249 million (US$239.2 billion) respectively. For this reason and the potential growth offered by the developing ASEAN countries and India, SingTel is looking to sell its stake in Optus, offering a financing package at around seven times Optus' EBITDA. That low-growth capital can then be shifted to its higher growth potential markets.
The Data Plan
Right now SingTel needs a strategic shift in its priorities to push back towards a growth model versus its current value one. Any large cap producing a 4+% yield is nothing to sneer at, but it is positioned perfectly to build on its current base by fostering growth of its partners around the region. Investors can and should look at SingTel as less of a service provider and more of a private equity firm at this point. Its structure is like that of a REIT that rents digital real estate. Selling the satellite division of Optus would put it in a better position to pivot towards Thailand and the Philippines, which have not begun to show their promise as mobile computing powerhouses.
Net margins improved to 19.3% in Q1, reversing four quarters of margin erosion. With the recent correction in price and the potential of unlocking significant value from the Optus sale value investors are looking at a good opportunity to grab yield from a firm where the dividend payout is not threatened by current or future cash flows.
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Mere Haath Mein_Covered By Gautam Parekh
Lyrics & Chords
30 July 1973, SONU NIGAM's Birthday…. Presenting a song for Birthday greetings to my Ideal Sonu Nigam. I inspired for singing from my two idol singers. First one is Rafi Sahab & then Sonu Nigam….
He is widely regarded as one of the most versatile singer in India. He has established himself as one of the best live performers in India. He has won many awards….
His every harkat, lots of variations and expressions in any songs which is not an easy for followers. That's reason he is ideal for many young learners….
Here is my attempt for song with Sunidhi Chauhan. She is also popular female playback singer in India. Very talented….
This time i have mixed my vocal with original song. This time i have found ready made track. It's my old recorded vocal. Which was sung at many months ago. Hope my friends will liking my attempt. Please listening in your spare time and leave your valuable remarks….Thanks….
(Better audio quality too)
Song Details:-
Song Title: "Mere Haath Mein…."
Original Singer(s): Sonu Nigam & Sunidhi Chauhan….
Movie: Fanaa….
Music Director: Jatin Lalit….
Lyrics: Prasoon Joshi….
On Screen Actor: Aamir Khan & Kajol….
Covered & Mixing: Gautam Parekh….
Saroj Nair said
thanks for the video…
enjoyed your singing in your husky voice…
Nouman Khokhar (busy! will be back soon) said
very well sung gautam bhai!!
you have rendered this song really well! i enjoyed it! :)
Dj Wazif said
Very nice selection Gautam bro…. not an easy call but you managed well…. fitting vocal in this vocal cut was good too but a bit echo on your side would do further great…. keep sharing like that.
Wish you Gr8 Luck!
Please listen to my original here: Dekho Mausam
DJ WaziF
Jivan Kohli (will be away for long--other commitment's..--busy on a learning mode---) said
Lovely Dedication to Sonu'ji…………,Yesterday,Only,I happened to Hear in One Radio Channel About it & the Same time too, Heard, that the next Day ie Today 31'st july,is Rafi-saahab's Death Anniversary……
A lovely Song & Good Vocal-Cut track you Got Hold of,Along with fine Dialogues….So well Composed Originally……This song is Sung in the First "Mandra-Saptak"—lower-Octave Mostly…Hence for Some-body with Sharper Vocal's Have to Sing with that Base Voice & Becomes slightly Difficult for them….Here you have Given a Good Attempt to Get the feel & Scale Right…….loved the presentation……All the Best…
Muzaffar Naqvi said
Seedha Video clip per chala aaya. Very good quality audio and very nice matching vocals with the female voice. Lovely tribute to Sonu. Bohut achha gaya Gautam. Video bhi umdah lagayee….mazza aaya. Ab koi Rafi Saab ko bhi tribute ho jaye?
Chandrasekharan Nair(always with music) said
Goutam very beautiful melody of Sonu Nigam. You have rendered it nicely with Sunithi Chauhan. Enjoyed so much your singing this melody.
Be always with a music mind to be a good person
Rajesh Pandya ( kuchh naya har bar ) said
I consider you as a lovely fan of SONUJI. You are trying to sound like………………….every harkat……………on every foot-step. Nice………bhai. Good singing and sweet in your own voice. Liked your this try a lot & enjoyed.
Rajesh Pandya
Don't forget to visit for new uploads of friend's who are visiting your page for real inspiration.
Sami said
Gautamji- Very nice attempt with your melodious voice ans mixing part also great…
Thumbs up….Wonderful effort
Ramesh Tadi said
Gautam bhai… nice gift to Sonu your 2nd guru…
very nice rendition pairing with Sunidhi…. very well sung with nice expression and feel… not an easy song for sure… liked it alot buddy…
Ramesh Tadi
Jaya Ganapathy said
Dear Gautam,
Only today afternoon I heard its Original!
You too have done very beautifully!
What a coincidence,
30th July, Sonu's Birthday, and
31st July, Rafisaab's Demise!
As if Rafisaab left us hoping,
Sonu will take up His step!!
God Bless you!!!
Neil swanson.. Still not doing well but keeping the faith .surgery looking re october thanks for the prayers and well wishes ! said
HI Gautam another wonderful display of ur
superb singing…i always enjoy ur uploads…
very pleasing to the ear…agree with comments
god bless NEIL.!
My Newest originals
Gautam, What a lovely and fitting tribute to one of the versatile singer of India!!I love this man for singing!!!You said it right the track was well made with Female voice and your vocal was also well adjusted…Lovely performance my brother…Goes to Fav!!
Thanks and Regards,
Pls check my latest upload
latest Song
Thinkal govind kumar said
Nice B'Day gift to Sonuji by way of this soulful rendition in your expressive voice !!!!
LOVED & enjoyed this !!!!
Kudos !!!!
GOD Bless !
Loving Best Wishes,
Thinkal Govind Kumar.
Anand Sawkar said
Excellent Presentation a song for Birthday greetings to Great singer Sonu Nigam ,very nice rendition pairing with Sunidhi…. very well sung with nice expression and feel…
Hema Shamal said
Gautam Bhai-Beautiful B'Day gift for Sonu Nigam ji and wonderfully sung and very nicely mixed,enjoyed video clip as well.Very well done.
Sandeep G nair (away & busy for a while!!) said
Hi Gautam bhai… Liked this song in ur voice… At places, felt close to the original…
Hemanth Kumar said
Nice one, Gautam bro :-)…. I have attended a live concert of Sunidhi once at Dallas for a Diwali celebration gig. She is an awesome entertainer indeed. Sonu Nigam is a super duper artist too…. Enjoyed the video clip as well….
Many thanks and kind regards,
>>mushy<<- said
gautam bhai …
bahoot hi pyaara gana chuna aur bhoot hi achcha gaya …
bas ek cheez bar -2 khatak rahi thi… Jannatein was coming out like Jhannatein…
good one…
take care
Music has no country, no religion , Its Universal
Shivani Zenith. said
swt gautam bro :D
HOW ARE YOU? superb duo… one of my most favs!! lovely singing bro… liked it !! best wishes to u always :)
god bless…
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Not sure what to think of this. Don't know if they plan on fighting again or not. Just a funny mishap while shooting this vid. Will let you know if I hear anything else.
Don Frye vs James Thompson 1 fight video Here.
Best video since Don dressed up as Magnum P.I. for Halloween.
is he dead? maybe just a broken neck and parolized from his shoulders down
Don Frye is a beast.
Don Frye would kill Thompson.
They were rehearsing for a "real" interview where during the interview, it apparently went south and led to a "real" altercation.
wtf lol
Propper posh.
That's just how much of a badass the Predator is.
P.S. I REALLY hope this doesn't happen. Can't say the same about Tank vs Warpath, though… ♠
Don't do it Frye… THompson will kill you now!


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Daily Links: Question Kiyosaki Edition
Published on - April 4th, 2008 (by J.D. Roth)
Robert Kiyosaki is perhaps the best-selling personal finance author of the last decade. His Rich Dad, Poor Dad was one of the books that spurred me to take control of my own personal financs. However, Kiyosaki has many vocal critics, some of whom have valid complaints. His ideas are unconventional and controversial.
Kiyosaki has agreed (in principle) to participate in an e-mail interview with me. I'd love to use questions from readers. I intend for this interview to be informative and constructive, not investigative, so I'm not going to pass along confrontational questions. If you have something you'd like to know about Kiyosaki and his methods, now's a great chance to ask.
While we gather questions, how about a few links to other sites?
First up, GRS-reader rhbee from Finance is Fun has some thoughts on the current real estate market. After the turmoil of the past few years, he notes, those who followed the tenets of smart personal finance are in a position to take advantage of the decline in housing prices:
These are the ones who lived within their means. They spent less, worked at earning more. They set aside emergency funds and put their extra cash into index funds. When they did buy a house, it was with the traditional mortgage.
Meanwhile, No Impact Man has a story about conspicuous unconsumption, making a show out of not buying into consumer culture. Colin writes, "I like to think that when any of us UNconsumes conspicuously, it helps motivate and give permission to other people, too."
Unclutterer posted a great article on saying farewell to a hobby. Hobbies can be excellent pastimes, and some can even make you money. But they can also be money sinks or, eventually, simply a source of clutter in your life. Just this morning I gathered all my photography equipment together; I haven't used it in a year. It's time for me to decide what my plans are.
Finally, Free Money Finance shared how to have half a million dollars at retirement by controlling wedding costs. "Half a million?" you might ask. "How is that possible?" Through the power of compound returns, naturally. Everyone wants a nice wedding, but if you take the time to control costs, you can give yourself a head-start in life.
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What property type does Robert recommend as the best en tree into commercial real estate – especially in today's market?
I would say Kiyosaki is partly responsible for today's sub-prime crisis. I wouldn't be surprised if many of those who cannot make mortgage payment bought their property after reading his book(s).
I question for Robert is:
"If you had $5,000 to invest today toward PASSIVE returns, what asset class would you select, and even better name a specific investment (TIPS, S&P 500 Index, Single Family Real Estate, etc)."
When you want to talk about your future in photography, feel free to use me as a sounding board. I'll try to not be an enabler.
I would like to know his feelings on what happened with real estate in the past 7 years. Was it a result of the tech bubble bursting, or does he think it came from somewhere else?
Better still, are people going to be scared of investing in real estate for the next decade?
Finally, what kind of regulation would he like or expect to see come out of the sub-prime mess?
I'm currently reading a book called the Middle Class Millionaire. According to the authors one of the characteristics of this type of person is a willingness to risk failure. In fact, their surveys showed that 'middle class millionaires' actually had a more positive view of their truly serious failures—in other words, they learned from them—than did regular 'joes' like us.
I'd like to know if Robert Kiyosaki feels the same way—-did he experience any setbacks that made him consider giving it all up and taking a 'regular' job? Or did he turn his failure into something positive, and if so, how?
Having read some of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series a few years ago, I feel that this type of investment is out of my reach for the moment, but would be interested to see the answers to your questions, J.D., about how 'regular people' can get started (my guess is that he'll tell us to leverage the equity in our existing homes to buy a small rental, and move up from there).
I would ask Robert what his thoughts were on someone looking to actually buy and live in their home in this market. When does he think the best time to buy and hold is?
I also am curious if Robert is still feeling that commodities are the place to be for 2008. I remember him saying that in his 2008 Forecast video posted on his website.
Looking forward to reading the interview!
I haven't read his book(s), but I saw a clip on PBS about him, and I've heard *about* his books, and flipped through Rich Dad Poor Dad at Borders.
My question:
Doesn't the use of debt as an investment instrument introduce an inappropriate amount of risk? Ie, borrowing money to invest in real estate, especially in today's market?
My question:
Does Robert think application-o-ramas are a good idea? If so, where would he invest the borrowed money this year?
I loved Rich Dad Poor Dad and wrote a favorable review on my blog.
However, I find his subsequent works, especially the ones on buying rental properties, to be a bit risky for my investment tastes!
One good question is about the dollar :
What does he thinks about the value of the dollar? Where is it going?
Kiyosaki's best book is definitely his first. His main message of "Grow passive income" is an excellent one, and it didn't just inform all his (many other, passive income generating, future books) but also seemed to fuel an explosion in this kind of writing.
In fact, maybe that could be the question: "What do you feel about the huge number of books and Internet resources now devoted towards growing passive income – do you feel you helped inspire them, and do you wonder if there's a natural limit to just how many people can be landlords/business owners?"
Keep up the excellent work etc.
I look forward to reading the interview. Obviously with my moniker I am a strong believer in developing passive income streams.
Best Wishes,
Does Robert thinks the "Rich Dad's Prophecy" is upon us earlier than expected?
Most of The Rich Dad series focus on offensive strategies to wealth: create assets, leverage debt, start businesses, etc. What defensive strategies would he recommend?
I'm not meaning this to be snarky. I'm stating this just to express my dismay that you're actually interviewing him.
I don't like RK (I think he's a fraud and I agree with another poster that he's got culpability in the mortgage mess along with Robert Allen), so I'm not interested in his thoughts on anything.
I don't think people like Kiyosaki or Tim Ferris are bad advisors per se, but I do think it's important to realize that only maybe one in a thousand will succeed using their methods, whereas 100 out of 100 people can succeed using the methods of Dave Ramsey or Joe Dominguez/Vicki Robin.
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Ask Kiyosaki why he needs a veritable army of lawyers and disclaimers, lest he be prosecuted for who knows how many counts of fraud and deception.
I'm practically his biggest fanboi, and I've followed his advice religiously for the past six years… I've managed to get into debt so large that I'll still be paying it off 30 years from now. I'm also one phone call away from being shipped to a jail cell.
Other than all that, Kiyosaki is awesome…
I would just like to say him "thank you"
He simply changed forever my way of thinking about money..
I read R. Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad & Poor Dad" series through the recommendation of my senior officer.It has become a milestone in the quest of my knowledge about finance and investment.i am very thankful for his revolutionary ideas but my question for him is what kind of investment would be appropriate for the people of developing countries were stock market is a game of few broker companies.
RK is a total hack.
Read this review of him:
Ask RK why he changed his basic message in Rich Dad Poor Dad (build assets/avoid liabilities) into get-rich in real estate schemes.
I've read two of his books, and Rich Dad, Poor Dad, although mostly a fabrication (see the Wikipedia entry on Kiyosaki), is a good read for the beginning investor.
To his credit, Robert did make the right call in April 2006, on the upcoming bust in the Real Estate bubble:
and Robert does have a fine piece on MSN, posted about a month ago, which those believing we have seen the bottom, should read…
My question would be, "When will the commodity bubble burst?"
Two questions for Kiyosaki:
1) Why is the price of his board game Cashflow so high? (Something like $195, I think.)
2) What are the names of the companies he started/ or was an is major shareholder in, as he talks about on Yahoo! Finance?
Hey JD,
My wife, T, and I have been using the Cashflow 101 game as a focus of our once a month personal finance club meetings for the past year. We play, discuss, bring in books to report on and generally teach each other about how investing, personal finance and real estate work. The game lets you play a personality and its finances and I swear the discussion and the help we give each other as we play are really worth the $195 investment. But that being said the game cards and the current economy are no longer in sync. So how about asking Robert when he plans to update the game for today's market?
We also receive his ongoing video series via email and we couldn't help but notice the glee he and his group appeared to be feeling about the way rents have gone up since the bubble burst. Ask him, if he sees anything more positive about this event than the money it means for his own pockets?
Do you think it's really a good idea to advise hard working, undersaving Americans that investing in a 401(k) is nothing but mere gambling. GAMBLING at a riverboat casino is like gambling! Saving for retirement is not gambling.
It is amusing how many think they know what he is saying and then want to blame him for their screw-ups. Even his own books are littered with their examples from which they learn nothing. Like the example of the real estate investor who bought a negative cashflow property because 'she liked it' and blamed him for it not working out.
You should just drop the interview. You are not going to get any interesting advice from his answers and will only draw attention to his books full of fluff.
Read the criticisms in the wiki articles.
For more in depth information, read John T. Reed's analysis of Robert T. Kiyosaki's book
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Read the nonsense in his latest Yahoo column. How much do you want to bet that he recommends silver just so he can end the column with a "silver lining."
Check out the 20/20 segment where he was unable to give any concrete help to entrepreneurs.
I've read his books. He's a hack. I'd rather you didn't give him additional credibility by interviewing him, especially if you won't ask him the really tough questions.
The one thing that overrides the critics is the fact that so many people have come to look at the difference between working for money and having your money work for you through reading and hearing what he has to say. Add to that the analysis that he brings to personal finance by providing us with the Cashflow Quadrant as a prism and you have more than enough reason to let us hear what he has to say when you (and we) ask the questions. As far as the John T Reed criticism is concerned, curmudgeons are useful but need to be taken with a grain or two of tequila.
The danger is that his advice is tailored more to what people want to hear (and buy in book form) than is shown to work. For example, he suggests not getting an education, not getting a job, and using your friends for insider stock tips.
Expert advice is usually sought from someone who has experience in the field of discussion. His experience, as portrayed in the books, has been shown to be invented.
If you must ask him questions, ask if he has any advice for others that want to become best selling self-help authors. What publishing failures has he had in the past?


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i hate autocorrect so much
i hate autocorrect
i just do
it doesn't help when i need it
it only helps when I don't need it
"probly" turns into prostitutes or just stays the same
and "y'alls" turns into yelp, which I didn't even know was a word
i would tell you more, but there is no time
the battery on this thing will die,
like my ipod because I had to keep correcting autocorrect
but seriously, i would turn autocorrect off, but I need it most of the time
sania habiba is probably less than half your age
après l'ouragan
walter mackey is a 22-year-old boy from canada that likes sour candy, ice cream, high fives, high times, and lesbian orgies.
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A Post-Ejaculate Half-Wit enters the 7/11
He's in heaven
Remembers the unsuccessful flirts
Asked a Father how old his daughters were
That ended surprisingly well
Right in front of him is an Altoids box
Clean spearmint helps freshen up his life
Clean spearmint reminds him of his childhood uncorrupted before he corrupted it
Puts it in his pocket, he pays for nothing
Outside the 7/11 he remembers the after party
Drinking the groom's wedding gifts, Patron, wine, whatever he could find
Everyone invited him back
People laughed at his Karaoke rendition of 'I can't get no satisfaction'
Halfway through the song he ejaculated on the 'OH'
Nobody noticed or everybody noticed
Does Karaoke even matter?
Does anything even matter?
The Post-Ejaculate Half-Wit thinks to himself
But not for too long
He has places to go
Parties to crash
Texts to send out connections to forge
With a planet he is moderately satisfied with
Waits for a train on a platform in a well-to-do neighborhood, the sort of place that breeds his kind
The sort of person who has no idea what's going on and it doesn't even matter
It is a post-manners world
The world where people shoplift out of boredom instead of need
The world where people hide in bathrooms to avoid paying fare
Post-Ejaculate Half-Wit searches for a bathroom
And when the time is right
As the conductor comes down the aisle
Just like the groom came down the aisle
He hides in the bathroom
Because he owes the world everything
Yet is afraid to pay up
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Beauty Regimen
rub salt
over that face yours have
feel seawater
feel Mariana Trench
feel sunburn volatile
lick water off your face
seawater you have
performed magic
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bee killer
You said you had a dream about me last night.
This made me feel guilty because I had never dreamt about you.
Before going to bed, I looked at your facebook pictures and repeated to myself, 'I'm going to dream about you tonight.'
That night I dreamt I was a detective. I had a more experienced partner, a forty-something year old with bags under his eyes, smoked cigarettes, had wrinkles on his forehead.
We were looking for a serial killer dubbed 'The Bee Killer'.
My partner did not respect me because I got the case through a technicality.
imagine being dead
but no one knew you were dead
sounds lonely doesnt it
imagine a person
who takes the bus to work
who is sad all the time
but smiles at you when you look at him
after work he stares at his wall
and he tries to imagine
being someone entirely different
but he cant and so he just
stares at his wall after work
he likes reading a book about a person
who finds addresses of people
who he does not know
and he mails them letters
always a couple of pages long
the letters are usually about his dog
who only a couple of years beforehand
had died of an enlarged heart
that was my dog
and that was a true story
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TEXAS TOWNSHIP (WKZO) -- A building that served as Texas Township Hall for most of the 20th Century has been damaged beyond repair by a wayward driver who went off the road and into the old wood framed structure.
Fire Chief Mike Corfman says it was constructed around the turn of the last century and served as Township Hall until the 60's
He says it was being renovated by someone planning to put in a brew pub.
He thinks the car hit a rock and began flipping, and flipped right thru the building, tearing out two of the four walls.
The driver, a woman from Grand Rapids, was belted in and protected by airbags and suffered non-life threatening injuries.


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Most of our users would like to get more attention to their quizzes, exams, surveys, or assessments made with Watu / WatuPRO. So here we go, we created a short SlideShare presentation:
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There are several elements that make contact pages work. Of course you'd rarely have all them combined into your contact page. Some contact pages contain only one of these elements while other implement more. See them and figure out which will work best for you.
These contact pages usually contain your picture, a link to social profiles, street address and a map. It's a good way to build a contact us page if you are willing to share your location. It shows you are a real person or company, and builds trust.
Here is this example with only the person's picture missing.
Design might not be the first you think about when building your contact form. Too bad! It's one of the most important pages on your site. A "contact us" page that looks amazing does few amazing things:
There is no joke. A "headset hottie" can draw some attention and give the feeling there will be someone to answer. People know they are fake but they still like them. There is even a whole site dedicated to headset hotties.
It's better however if you put your own picture or a picture of your real staff (if you have any).
Please don't leave us hanging on a contact form or email only. You must have at least one social network profile where I can reach you. Twitter, Skype, and/or phone number are also highly positive. The more options you give to connect, the more likely your visitors are to do it.
The reason you build a contact page is that you want people to contact you. You know how bigger are your chances to make business with someone who already contacted you than with a stranger.
So, make it clear where the contact form is (you do have a contact form, right?) and make that button big and appealing. Make people crave to click it so badly that they won't get bored by the rest of the fields they have to fill.
I'm not talking about the "thanks for contacting us" auto-reply. Sometimes it's useful to confirm that the message has been delivered and to keep your address in the prospect's mailbox. Don't rely too much on this however as people barely check their read mail again. It's a lot more important to reply to their inquiry.
But why not go further than this? You could also subscribe everyone who contacts you to a mailing list or autoresponder. Of course you'd better let them know in advance and request email confirmation before doing this. This can be implemented with the PRO version of BroadFast Autoresponder for example.
Because these people already made the effort to contact you they are likely to be interested in what you offer. So your autoresponder may work well on them. Just don't look at hard selling – better include them in informative newsletters or autoresponders and build trust over time.
If you have more than one site (and they are related to each other), your "contact us" page is a great place to share them. Here is why:
List the other sites gently under the main contact info and make sure they open in new tab.
Having Flickr account, Youtube or Vmeo channel, shared Delicious list, or Behance profile? Your contact page is a good place to share them too.
Don't forget that people have to actually fill that form to get in touch with you. Although some will use the other contact options most will fill the form. So make it easy and simple:
Follow these practices and let me know the outcome. If we can help you with autoresponder software or designing your contact page, contact me via my contact page. I know it badly needs rework! (Goes in my to-do list)
With the current rate of spam and promotional emails people get all the time, all of the following is getting harder for legitimate marketers:
People who tell you building a mailing list and using it as a source of customers is easy, are simply lying (and trying to get you subscribe to their list), or just have no idea what they are talking about.
Still, the mailing list is one of the most sustainable, most responsible, and least expensive ways to build traffic and have your offers seen and heard.
Here's a list of good resources that will help you get the most of your list – from building it, to sustaining it and getting results from it.
While the resources in each category are not exactly ordered, I've tried to put the best ones first so in case you get tired by one topic, you'll have learned the most important about it. Some of the advice may overlap or even contradict. Marketing is not exact science, you know.
All links open in new window.
Building your list – that's where you want to start. And if you are working hard or paying for visitors on your squeeze page, you want to make sure the conversion rate of opt-ins is good.
- 20 Giveaways For List Building – This Is Email Marketing On Autopilot – a great list of ideas. Just don't forget that all these things require time and/or money to create.
– Why List Building WORKS & how I wasted 2 Years – includes a video
– 12 Lead Capture Squeeze Pages Elements of Success – basic but important tips
– Are Pop-Up Opt-In Forms Still Effective? Part 1 and Part 2. I'd be very careful with those as they can increase your site bounce rate. They are very irritating for me.
– How To Build Your Email List Without A Big Website (Video) – includes a video from Jim Cockrum
– List Building 101: Why And How To Build Your List
– How to Build an Email List – 7 "Cs" to Supercharge Your List Building
– 5 Steps You Can Start Implementing Right Now To Explode Your Subscribers Base
– Increase Your Subscriber Opt-In Rate With These Useful Tips
– How To Build Your Email List Fast
– How I Gained 200 Blog Subscribers Fast!
– Build a Email List? – Why & How
– How to Get More Feed Subscribers: 10 Tips
– 12 Ways to Build Your E-mail List
– How to build your email mailing list
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If you bombard your list with offers, most will unsubscribe, others will delete and some may even report you for spam. Make sure your newsletter content is useful and interesting or your offers are really amazing.
- How to Write Effective Email Newsletters
– To Write A Top-Quality Newsletter, Study Michael Campbell – a bit old but still valid
– A Way to Repurpose Content and Grow Your Email Marketing List – repurposing content is always a good idea.
– Electronic Newsletter (Ezine) Resources. Usually I don't recommend using such kind of basic content for your newsletters. In some niches it may work however.
– How To Write An Email Newsletter
While good content is required, you need to make users open your mails first. Subjects and your reputation will play the big role here.
- How to Write The Best Email Subject Lines. This one is good. Subjects matter the most so I would pay the most attention to it.
– Email Marketing Design – Helpful Tips To Improve Your Email Open Rates
– Write the Perfect Email Subject Line – and again on subjects
– Increase Email Click Through: Avoid Distractions
– 10 Email Newsletter Design Tips
– 6 Rules to Improve Email Deliverability
– Improve your email open rates
– How to Improve Your Email Newsletter Open Rates
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I've been stupid not to test for years. In 2010 I started A/B testing and discovered how many of my assumptions were so wrong.
– A Beginner's Guide To A/B Testing: An Introduction. A must read article by Kissmetrics. Don't miss it.
– Optimize Your Email Marketing Newsletter through A/B Split Testing
– How to Measure the Effectiveness of E-mail Newsletter Ads
– A/B split testing
If you are running a content site maybe you don't have a product or service to offer. Then read these articles:
- Monetize Your Blog's Subscriber List
– 4 Ways Video Makes Email Marketing More Profitable
– How to Run a NON-Scummy, Profitable Email Marketing Campaign
– Five Strategies to Monetize a Mailing List
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These posts don't fit to specific category or cover more categories at once. They are also good:
- Email marketing: A Beginner's Guide (PDF inside)
– Email Marketing Census 2011 (PDF inside)
– Internet Marketers' Dictionary – a good list of words and language you may want to use too.
– What the Gmail Priority Inbox Means for Marketers. With the increasing number of Gmail users you definitely need to read this.
– The Problem With Autoresponders (Video)
– 5 Uncommon Ways to Use Auto-Responders to Grow Your Business
– Email Marketing – Is it Still Effective?. The short answer is yes. For the long answer read the article.
– How to Handle User Unsubscribe to Your Advantage?
– Affiliate Emails: How To Prevent Spam Complaints – very important. You really don't want to be labeled as spammer.
– Is Your Email List Really Small? Read This Now.
– 6 Goals You Should Have For Your Email Marketing Campaign
– Why Successful Affiliate Marketers Use an Autoresponder
– eMail Marketing Tips – Valuable eMail Marketing Information
– 22 Rapid Tips On Email Marketing For Bloggers
– That's not SPAM, That's My Newsletter!
That sums it up for now, but I may add resources over time. If you think there's anything missing, feel free to comment.


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March 6, 2003
Albany -- The Dougherty County Board of Education wants to know where you think a new elementary school in Northwest Albany should be built. There are 8 to 10 sites under consideration, including this piece of land on Home Drive.
The board turned down Home Drive after public objections, but the new school could still built there.
Dougherty County School Finance Director Robert Lloyd said "Home Drive is one of the sites we are currently looking at, because we own it. We must look at it, and compare it with other sites that are out there. Therefore it would be foolhardy not to look at it, but it may not be the ideal site for the school."
Sherwood Acres, Magnolia, and Lake Park elementary schools are all overcrowded, and the Board says the new elementary school needs to be open by the fall of 2005.
A public hearing will be held at 6 o-clock Thursday night at Robert Cross Middle Magnet School.
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Uncovers the strange and unexplained parallels Jesus's sermons, Buddha's sayings, and the koans of Zen Buddhist mastersThrough his teachings, Jesus not only created the Christian heritage, he also transcended traditional Western thought to reveal many of the universal truths of Buddhism. As a result, the sayings of Jesus and Buddha are often nearly identical. In Jesus and Buddha, these sayings, as well as equivalences between Jesus and later masters of Zen Buddhism, are presented in parallel fashion on facing pages."It is easy to see the fault of others but hard to see one's own", Buddha remarked. "Why do you see the splinter in someone else's eye", Jesus asked, "and never notice the log in your own?"At the heart of these amazing parallels lie two mysteries How could Jesus, living 500 years after Buddha in a land 3,000 miles from India, teach the same ideals? Some historians believe that Buddhist principles were known throughout the Roman Empire. Certain fringe theorists claim that Jesus was trained in Buddhism and some even insist that he visited India!Since there's little evidence to support these claims, most scholars dismiss them, leading to the larger mystery, if Jesus was not subject to Buddhist influences, why do so many of his sayings parallel these teachings? Is it possible that the wisdom of Jesus led him not only to lay the foundation for the West's predominant religion but also to communicate many of the truths upon which Eastern beliefs are based?Jesus and Buddha delves into the mysteries surrounding Christ and the Buddha, traces the life story and beliefs of both, and then presents their dual teachings in a beautifully formatted fashion.
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Fire crews were busy battling a blaze just west of the village of Chesaning early Tuesday morning.
The fire broke out around 7 a.m. at the two-story home at 14300 Brady Road or M-57. One person was at home at the time of the blaze. That person made it out of the home safely.
Officials say the home did not have heat.
The blaze caused traffic problems on M-57. The area is about a mile and a half west of M-52.
Eight different units were called in to help truck in water to fight the fire because there were no water hydrants in the area.
The home was a rental property. It is believed that the tenants did not have rental insurance.
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I have a small family so I cut this recipe in half (except for the cheese of course). This was gone in a flash and I realized I should have more. Delic..... Next time I will do the full recipe and (hopefully) have enough to take leftovers to work. Thanks for a great recipe!!!
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I'd eliminate the nacho's and used side of sweet potatoe instead to make more healthy.
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I know this isn't diet food by any stretch, but it would still be nice if you would post nutritional information. It''s something that I have come to expect from MyRecipes; if I want a less healthy splurge now and then, it would be nice to know how much of a splurge it is! BTW, haven't tried it, but it looks great - thus the rating.
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Wherever best friends Tyke Tiler and Danny Price are, there is usually trouble - stolen money, a sheep's skeleton, fights in class - and it's mostly trouble that Tyke has to sort out.
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How Jessica Biel Stays Fit
Jessica Biel is about to be seen on the big screen in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry with Adam Sandler. She's also about to start shooting Powder Blue -- where she plays a stripper -- so she is being "super strict with her diet" and "really sticking to her workout" regimen (as you would if you had to walk around in underwear on camera!).
How do you stay in such great shape?
I work out like three times a week with a trainer (Jason Walsh). I also do yoga and I play volleyball in the summer. I walk my dogs all the time. I love to be outdoors.
Do you still play soccer?
I haven't played on a team in such a long time but I'm considering joining a women's league with my old teammates from high school.
Do you avoid any food -- do you keep healthy?
When I'm working or when I'm preparing to work I'm pretty dedicated and I'll keep a pretty healthy diet but not always. I defiantly have sweets and French fries.
What's on the iPod when you are working out? What tunes get you going?
I work out to 50 Cent for some weird reason. I listen to "Get Rich or Die Trying" -- that pumps me up.
What else?
What was I listening to the other day -- Nelly Furtado's new album -- that's a good one to work out to.
- Keep mentally stimulated. "I'm a big advocate of recreational sports and stuff. If someone can get out there, even if it's a hike or something like that, just to break up the monotony of going to the gym...I really like that."
- Hard work is even better. According to Walsh, Biel's workouts are intense. "We do full body movements. You are pretty much using as many muscles at once, which in turn will jack that heart rate up."
- Food is not the enemy. If you're out and about as Walsh recommends, you need snacks and drinks to give you sustained energy. He suggests "really organic and clean foods, all natural, like nuts." Also, "an amino acid drink, so that you're not burning up a lot of your muscle, or protein."
- Everything old is new again. Walsh loves to use medicine balls with his intermediate- to advanced-level clients. "Get a medicine ball and do a lunge with a twist while you are holding the ball. Those are great. You are activating so many muscles at once, and you are using those muscles over so many different planes."
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Just coming back to say that I'm en route back to England. My heart is already there, in the hands of a handsome young man whom I will get to see shortly. I hope. Graduate schools are also yonder across the ocean, as are the green grass of Yorkshire and the shopping jungle of Manchester (ugh) and the sully, grey, rainy skies that I do miss nonetheless. Toronto has treated me well for the past two and a half months, new jobs, old friends, same love of an education that I wish I could channel in such a way that won't make me feel at conflict with the crappy Canadian education system. Well, here I am returning to England for a short ten-day sojourn - if Toronto has the warmth that I feel from the group that I keep around me England has the kindness of strangers.
On this trip: London - Diss (don't ask) - Leeds - York - Colne - Liverpool - Manchester - Shrewsbury - Ely, then home.
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The Uno restaurant that will open Thursday in Boston's Downtown Crossing is going to be unlike any Uno restaurant you've seen before.
West Roxbury-based Uno Restaurant Holdings Corp. has long heralded its broadened menu by changing the name of its primary business from Pizzeria Uno to Uno Chicago Grill.
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This Large Cap Manufacturer Is a Steal Below Liquidation Value
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It is not often that you come across a large cap stock trading below liquidation value, but that is exactly the case with Corning (NYSE: GLW). The company sells right at, or slightly below, tangible book value, which is a rough approximation of what shareholders would receive if the company decided to close its doors and sell its assets today.
Although Corning is unlikely to liquidate in the near future, the fact that the stock trades for less than it is worth in liquidation presents investors with an interesting opportunity: investors simply need to judge whether the company is worth more dead (i.e., liquidated) or alive. If it is worth more as a going concern, then investors have a bargain on their hands.
Mr. Market is getting this one wrong
Corning is a low-cost producer of durable glass for smartphones, tablets, and televisions. It is benefiting from the worldwide growth of smartphones, tablets, and touchscreen technology.
However, Corning's stock price has fallen substantially since it traded for over $21 per share in May of 2011, and now trades for less than $15 per share. Intense competition is currently putting pressure on margins, but the stock is oversold for a number of reasons.
For one, Corning has ample manufacturing capacity that will allow capital expenditures to fall dramatically even as the company expands its business. This will lead to even greater free cash flow production, which the company has historically used to repurchase a significant amount of stock. Since the company trades below liquidation value, share repurchases will undoubtedly benefit current shareholders.
In addition to higher free cash flow on the horizon, the company maintains a fortress balance sheet. It has positive net cash and investments, which means there is room to lever up the company and produce greater returns on equity.
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Corning is not the only manufacturer whose margins have been under pressure as of late -- and it is a much better deal for new investors.
For instance, TE Connectivity (NYSE: TEL) is the world's largest connector manufacturer and has a significant share in each of the markets in which it competes. Like Corning, TE Connectivity produces ample free cash flow -- even during cyclical downturns. However, the company has had to undergo a restructuring due to sagging margins and a bloated cost structure.
On the other hand, Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX) manufactures flow cytometry and cell-imaging systems, among other products in the medical field. The company's strong brand and economies of scale allowed it to earn outsized profits for many years.
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Manufacturing is not usually a great business; even the best manufacturers go through periods of compressed margins and uncertain outlooks. But, while TE Connectivity and Becton Dickinson trade well above liquidation value, Corning trades at a discount to liquidation value.
In order to determine whether Corning is a good investment, investors must simply decide whether the company is worth more dead or alive; if it is worth more as a going concern, then buying it at less than its "dead" (i.e., liquidation) value is a great deal.
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Do you know the taste of the universe?One day, when you're five years old and made out of fractured sunlight and mirror shards, you sit down on the bench of the MAX train. You're dressed in your winter coat and boots that are too big and one of your parents has pulled your hat too close over your ears.You're sitting next to your mother, and on the other side is a man that smells like loneliness, something that you'll later know as cigarettes and alcohol and homelessness. He's crying quietly into the top of his jacket and you're scared to look because you've never seen an adult cry.The train ride goes on for five minutes, which is a long time to you, and eventually you sneak a look at the crying man who smells like Portland and loneliness, and he sees you. He leans down until you can see the red lines in his eyes and he whispers to you."Do you know the taste of the universe?"And you look up at him with your little-girl eyes and shake your head because you can't
SadnessI've been sad for about two weeks.When I say I'm sad, please know that it does not mean I am in absence of happiness. There is happiness here. It just has a very short half-life.The sadness lives in a little tiny circle that is under my skin. It's like a bruise. Right now it's sitting off on my right side between my seventh and eight rib.I've been sad for about two weeks.That's long enough to die of dehydration four times over.The sadness comes and goes, and the happiness comes and goes, and there's this emptiness that sits underneath it.People aren't talking to me too much because of how stressed we all are. Finals. But when they do talk to me, their words ping off like stones on a frozen lake.Hi.Ping.How are you?Ping, ping, ping.I have the scrape the words out of the back of my throat and my chest because they're stuck.Words like "I'm fine" are all glued up with words like "My dog just had chemo
Shadow DaughterI first noticed the girl in History.Craning my neck to get a better look at the inaccurate clock hanging slightly crooked on the wall behind me, I found myself looking at a girl that had not been in the class when attendance was called.She was standing with her back and palms of her hands against the wall, looking at my teacher with rapt attention. She was incredibly thin and her lips looked horribly dry. She didn't have a belt on, but when I looked closely I could see that two of her belt loops on her jeans were tied together and created a small bulge beneath her black shirt. It made them hang strangely, the zipper pulled too far to the right.I was sure she had came on the request of another teacher, and I had failed to notice her come in. Unusual, sure, but not unheard of.I forgot about her and began to focus on the lesson again, trying to push her small, sad smile out of my head.~~~I noticed her again when I was walking to my Math class nearly a week later. She stuck out, the
I want you to kiss meI want you to kiss me.Not because of youor me, or us.Not for a relationship.Not for the promise of another.But because I've lookedinto the mirror these last fouryears, and I've seen the same girl.Four years tiredand a lifetime weary,but the same.And I've never been kissed before,so I want you to kiss me.I'm not rushing to grow up,I don't want to.But I want to change.I want to grow,and still be the same.So I want you to kiss me.So I can grow, and still be me.I want to growand not grow up.Because growing upis leaving. Growing's justchanging.And if I must be known,remembered as a bitof broken glass as youage, If I must be rememberedwhen you die,I want to be beautiful.I want you to carve me beautiful.So I want you to kiss me.If I must be condemnedto melt into a dropof water, indistinguishable,I want to go a snowflake.I want to shift irrevocablyand still hold still.Then the fear of movement will fade.I don't w
Little GirlLittle meI let you wander in the woods,sent you out to playand told you I'd be back.Sweetheart,I said I was coming back,didn't you hear me?Youmust of thoughtI lied to you, Itricked you.And it's true,I've been gone far too long.Child me,I can't find you.The woods are confusing now,where do my feet go?Where are myeyes?I see traces of you,crayons andLegos andyour little shoes.Did you drop them?Little me,you've got to work on that.Why, when you're grown-Oh, I see.That's the problem.That was my job,wasn't it?Thatand to come get you back.Silly, I'm back now,where are you?I've come back.Didn't you miss me?Meghan?Where are you?I miss you,sweetheart.I miss you,little one.When I find you,I'll never let you go.That is,if you'll stillgive me your hand.
OrientationAs a child in Portland, I orientated myself by the placement of the mountains. No matter how many times I spun in circles in the fountain or how many parks I followed my mom to (counting the men on horses, the stag with the too-long-neck, Mr. Lincoln with his pointy-hard knee), if I could see those mountains I could tell you what direction we were facing. Mount Hood, tall, proud, regal and snowy (patchy-brown only in the height of summer). Mount St. Helens in its self-torn beauty (line your fingers up against the sides, children, then you can see how tall the mountain was), equipped with the center to learn and hear the rumbling explosion and that man's last words. Just so you can pretend you aren't knee-buckled and bile-flooded as you listen to him die.I used to listen to the rumble in my stomach and pretend it was St. Helens coming for me. But it didn't. Couldn't move. St. Helens was my north, ash-smelling, flowered, sliced across by the Morrison Bridge if yo
The Green of my Heartbeats5: Red, rude, a bully.She was bored, propping her face up on her palms. Her teacher, high-voiced and chirping in fuzzy green flurries, was writing rows of sevens on the board. White chalk. The sevens were glimmering in turquoise, and she smiled.Sevens were nice, friendly. Seven would never eat nine. Nine was just a baby, like her brother at home.She was only five. Fives were bullies, nasty. Bright garish red, like B. B was red, but he was not as rude. He forgot things though. Like his keys. Impatient.She sighed, her head slipping and resting on her wrist. She could feel her pulse on her cheek."Seven!" said her teacher, continuing to fill the board. "Say it with me. Seven!"Later, they got to practice identifying numbers. She had learned before, at home. Kindergarten was not meeting her new knowledge expectations.Sitting at the table, she strived to make conversation to ease the ache inside her brain. "I like sevens. Aren't they the prettiest color you've ever seen?"They boy next
InkYou found me asA mess of sharp cornersAnd smudged,Wrinkly fingerprints.Someone had wadded me upAnd shoved me in the corner,Trying to forget aboutOur shared past.I guess you were curiousEnough to take a second look,Smoothing out the worst of theWrinklesAnd speaking soothingly.You said you could fix it.And for a while, you did.I became smoother,Less wrinkled,And some of the rips knitted together.I was still a bit smudgedBy my past,And had some sharp edges.They made memeghan.And I had a crazy personality,An odd writing style,And a habit of not lookingPeople in theEyes.Those made meMeghan.But youHad other plans.You made me blunt my corners,Straighten my lines,And rip clean my ragged edges.You made me look at you,And made me bleed downTo the horizontal blue linesOf my soul.Red ink washed the lines awayAnd grew formless in your hands.I displeased you,And you crumpled me up,Still bleeding,And shoved me in my old,Dark corner.Why couldn't you realiz
TransitionMy blankets are knotted around my limbs, tangled and sweaty, mixed up with limp hair and cold, coiling skin. The pillow is smashed between the headboard and bedframe. I can hear my eyelashes scratch on the sheets.I try to untangle myself with cold fingers, shuddering arms. It's hopeless. Tugging the corner up to my forehead, I shield my face.The blankets on top of my face are being plucked, the threads skimming my nose and cheek."Hello?" I whisper. I try to force my legs out of their skeletal curl, but they stiffen against the cloth resistance. The silence stretches but does not break. "Hello?"Pluck.I push the blankets off myself, heaving, the bones in my elbows pushing towards my eyes. Finally released, I pant, focusing on the blue, night-lit eyes of my childhood self. The bruises around her eyes and down her neck highlight her pale hair and the untarnished portions of her face, turning her into a strange nighttime mask of pain and innocence. I have no pictures of her, we took no
DieDie:Such a simple word, spewed without thought."I wish you'd die, I wish you'd be killed."But what if we actually gave meaning to those words?Can you understand the emotion, the magnitude, the weight,Of actually seeing the life of an individual depart?Can you look them in the eyes, as they bleed into your hands;Observing their final moments, as the light fades from their eyes?Or are you simply a soft-hearted coward,Sitting fat behind a computer, wishing death upon others?To say that one is deserving of death,Suggests that you are ready to kill.And if indeed you are ready to kill,Then you too must be prepared to die."Now please, stop those tears my good man, we've only removed three of your toes so far (^_^)"-Chen Yuan Wen, 9th July 2013
At The Other End of the BulletThey say your life flashes before your eyes when you die. Well, that didn't really happen to me. I remember it hurting; a searing pain in the back of my mind, and then it was all over...I found myself floating, drifting high above the battlefield. My feet touched something that felt like an invisible glass floor, and soon I found that I was able to stand on it. It took awhile to get over my fear of heights, but once I did; I opened my eyes and just, watched, as the entire world carried on.Funnily enough, I didn't feel much of anything at the time. I guess they tend to play it up in the movies. They always show that people remain angry, that people have feelings of wanting to do something or to accomplish something. But once you're gone, you don't actually feel much of that. Instead, I remember being calm. I was very calm after that final moment. I would poke my head every now and again, thinking that the skin would feel raw, but other than that; I was alright. I
You should never attack a poet,we are the best at exploiting weakness.the night you took a scalpel to my chest& fed my heart to the stars,you told me i could hate youif i needed to.with an exorcismi tried to cast you outof my body. i was contorted limbs:the language of tonguestrying to find myselfin the cosmosof lit kerosene fingertips,& the kinds of habitsthat only choke me at 3am -when my eyes aren't yet heavyenough for sleep;my mind tells me to do awful things.between fucking &i-don't-know-who-i-am-anymore,you are the caloriesin the mathematical equationscribbled & scratched outof me.i think of shy moonsand i don't eat for three days.admit it;you only liked mewhen this poetic tonguelicked complimentsup & downyour scars. but,space shrapnel aside-you're too far down nowfor even the starsto graph you into their maps.
listen:1.People will let you down.You'll love them, anyways.Don't let anyone romanticizethat.It won't be beautifulwhen somebody breaks your heartthe first timeor the secondor the eighteenth.Pain is not beautiful.Maybe on paperbut not inside of younot in numbers.A million peoplekill themselvesevery yearbut you're still here,and that's important.You're doing somethingright.2.My father told me"Be selfish –if you don't take care of youwho will?"I liked to thinkthat this is the reasonhe ignored megrowing up.(I'm sorry.I don't have good adviceon this one.Because the people who let you down,you'll find,are the ones promised to save you.Are the ones promised to love youand protect youand I'll tell you,nothing quite hurtslike waking up in the morningto the police in your doorway.Nothing quite hurtslike being elevenand hearing a cop say"Poor girl had to live wi
infinite/opposite.being an adult means knowingthat there are things much scarierthan spiders, or snakes, or clowns.the ocean, for one.losing your parents.empty tequila bottles.unanswered questions.waking up, still reachingfor someone who left youa long time ago.--i live like there's an end for mebecause there is.look,plants will wilt.forests will burn down.eventually, even the stars will burn out.people will come to us.they will touch us. they will hurt us.they may keep us. they may not.but i never hold on too tightbecause when it's time, my time,i'll only be letting go.--the heart has valvesthat constantly open and closegiving love, taking love.and my best adviceis to be selfish.know when you've had enough.know when you deserve better.close the valves andkeep some love for yourself.know that you are perfecteven if you eat that second cheeseburgerbecause there's magic in this world.we're proof of it.--apeirophobiais fear o
Winter was never my favorite season.It's 3:05 a.m.and I am thinking I justmade you up to hurt myself.Remember last winter:they blamed the snow in our handsfor our blue flesh,ocean snow settledwhere they used to swim.It's 10:33 in the morningand I am winter.I am ice;snow and sunrise;chilly mornings from another time.Tales of my winter heartbeckon like a big, flashing,neon sign that says steal compass,sail north,and disappear.It's 4:15 p.m.The snowfall is so silent.I know a place whereeven the crickets can't be heard,winter air chokingeverysilence.It was a cold,winter morning when you left:when we realized it was a different kind of coldcaused by 3mm of distancebetween our fingertips.This is about forgetting your silenceand my vague memories.The weatherman didn't fail me –when love grows cold,ice shards crystalize on the blacklake surrounding my heart.
My AnxietiesI wonder to myselfas often as fear for myselfthat they can smell it.My burning inadequacyand my fear, quiveringlike a bow-string drawntoo tight,If they can feel thebrittle reverberationsof my hollowed bones.In moments like these,I wonder if they listenas I hate myself.I wonder how they must see me.Although I comfort myselfthat they can't think anyless of me than I do.After all, it's true,you're your own worst critic,for you shred the best.However, granted,you're the one who has tolive with the results.No one willcome and dig you out ofof the holethey put you in.You're the coffinfor the frequent funeralsfor other's feeling.At times I ponderwhether people can see theirfaces in my eyes.And if so,are they as terrifying to themas they areto me.I hope they cannot,I am aware that they don'tintend to scare me.Just the same as Idon't intend to be frightenedby their own voices.I wonder if my anxietymakes
Poetic PsychosisIn thirty seconds, the next shell would fall. Every night was the same, but every night Lorenzo experienced it as if it were the first time. His throat felt swollen; breathing was hard. He glanced around at the others; young men like him who had been shipped out in the name of honour and freedom. There was no honour in this, no freedom. Only death behind your eyelids, and a fear so gutting, that it carved out your innards and left you a hollow husk. Lorenzo tried to breathe, tried to assure himself that he was still whole, still made of flesh. They had lied when they told him he was ready.Matteo ran towards him, arms out, rifle swinging uselessly at his side. He shouted for him to run, but Lorenzo remained motionless, unable to move as his friend's warning was lost in the constant blare of gunfire. None of them were ready."The cycle is repeating. It is not safe." The voice was soft and weak, yet it carried over the gunfire and battle cries without impediment.Lorenz
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