Penny #3

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
~ Tom Blandi

I have absolutely no idea who Tom Blandi is (Wiki doesn't have a page for him), but I think analysing the human psyche is interesting in general. I think Tom Blandi is trying to tell us to learn how to control ourselves, reign in our emotions and don't overreact too much - you might do something you'll regret. People react towards things differently and people have different strengths and weaknesses. We just need to learn how to harness them. :)

Penny #2

"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver."
~ Tom Peters

As promised here is another quote for the week. And have some info while you're here:

Thomas J. Peters is an American writer on business practices, best known for In Search of Excellence, one of the biggest selling and most widely read business books ever, selling 3 million copies in its first four years, and being the most widely held library book in the US from 1989 to 2006.

Wiki knows all. But a bestselling book on business? Really? o.O

Drinking Games

This will be much, much less about drinking games and much more about the aftermath. Just to warn you. :)


Now yesterday, my uncle got married. I have to say, it was a pretty hectic day, but by the time we got to the reception, we were all pretty tired. Now my dear brother, the eldest one (because, yes, I have more than one brother), had set out with a goal to reach by the end of this reception:

He wanted to get smashed.

In some ways, that's okay. We're all pretty young and I'm pretty sure everyone goes through that experience eventually. But then again, not everyone was a groomsman at their uncle's wedding. Nor did they drink an entire bottle of Hennessy in less than half an hour without eating or drinking anything else throughout the whole day.

Yeah, he was gone by 9:30. We found out that he was a pretty happy drunk, at the start. He tried to drink more because he said he couldn't feel the effects but we managed to stop him. Less than an hour later he'd disappeared along with my other two uncles (not the one getting married). We found them outside where he was crying like hell and babbling some crap about how bad he felt about something. Then he went on to the whole drunken, "Thanks guys. You guys are great, man, just great."

I've gotta say, it was hard not to laugh.

We left at about 11pm. He ended up throwing up in the car. All over his suit, too. And my jacket. And then, he passed out. As if that wasn't enough trouble, he'd stopped moving. We had to literally drag him into the house. We ended up leaving him on the bathroom floor. Luckily for us, someone in the family is studying medicine and knew exactly what to do (not to mention he'd apparently gone through this himself). Apparently a person can get permanent nerve damage when this happens to them. That's how far he'd gone. We had to keep watch over him too. Just to make sure he doesn't choke on his own vomit or anything. This would've been fine if it weren't for our mother (also drunk to some extent), who over-reacted in an extremely annoying way and wouldn't leave him be. Somehow I think she caused just as much trouble as he did. *sigh*

Well, there's a portion of my life I felt the need to rant about.
Have a nice day.
:)

Pennies

Here's something to get this blog going: Every week I'll post a quote. For anyone who knows me on Gmail, it's something I've been doing for about 10 weeks now. I call them "Words to Live By", but they're just slowly turning into something more like "Quotes I like that are Remotely Positive". So, I'll just call them Pennies. You know, like the ones for your thoughts. Here's the first penny:

"In three words I can sum up what I've learned about life: It goes on."

~ Robert Frost.

Indeed it does, Frost. His poetry is lovely, by the way.

Have a nice life. :)

BAM!

This is funny. I've started another blog. I won't be touching that other one ever again.
:P

It doesn't snow at all here, for your information. Well, it does snow... Somewhere else. Anyone reading this can wonder why I chose to name this blog what it is currently named. I intend to blog at least once a week; intend being the operative word. I'll try, that's all that matters.

Anyways, I have a lot of homework that needs doing (which I'm probably not going to get done since chances are I'll fall asleep while working), so that's it for now.
:)