Rich and Poor

I got this forward which I thought was interesting, so I decided to post it here. How do you see the world?

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from their trip, the father asked his son,
"How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked.
"Oh yeah," said the son.
"So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.
The son answered:"I saw that we have one dog and they had four.We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them."
The boy's father was speechless.
Then his son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are."
Isn't perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have. Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!
Pass this on to friends and acquaintances and help them refresh their perspective and appreciation.
"Life is too short and friends are too few."

Dum de dum dum dum

Hmmm... not much to say today. I have lots of work to do which is annoying but I'm sure I'll survive. Played badminton yesterday which was fantastic, we're going again tomorrow, and then after badminton went shopping! Ended up spending basically all my money and buying 6 books. I just read 'The little lady agency' which is a fantastic book! :)

O yes, one thing I have to do is rewrite a letter I sent to my best friend. This is because she recieved the envelope in a bag, with a note saying 'I'm sorry but the contents of this have been lost'. Grrrr! I sellotaped it shut thinking I was being paranoid as it wasn't likely anything was going to fall out and now, aarrgh! But anyway, hopefully I can remember some of the stuff I wrote in that letter...

Ooo, just checked my e-mail and got this interesting forward. Thought I'd share it with you:

You may not know this but many non-living things have a gender.

1) Ziploc Bags are Male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.
2) Copiers are Female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again. It's an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can wreak havoc if the wrong buttons are pushed.
3) A Tire is Male, because it goes bald and it's often over-inflated.
4) A Hot Air Balloon is Male, because, to get it to go anywhere, you have to light a fire under it, and of course, there's the hot air part.
5) Sponges are Female, because they're soft, squeezable and retain water.
6) A Web Page is Female, because it's always getting hit on.
7) A Subway is Male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people up.
8) An Hourglass is Female, because over time, the weight shifts to the bottom.
9) A Hammer is Male, because it hasn't changed much over the last 5,000 years, but it's handy to have around.
10) A Remote Control is Female. Ha! You thought it'd be male, didn't you? But consider this - it gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying!

You know you're a 90's kid if...

(Reposted from my sisters blog - Avocado Thoughts - Finally)

"You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air""
Can't say I can, I know the tune but not all the words...

"You've worn skorts and felt stylish"
Nope, not done that.

"You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club"
Never particularly yearned to join it, but I did enjoy the books, thought they were really good, loved the idea of Claudia's original outfits and Stacey's smartness. Never particularly wanted the pressure of taking care of someone else's children at such a young age...

"You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons."
Definately! Smurfs were my favourite, don't remember much else apart from Sailor moon, watched that too...

"You wore a ponytail on the side of your head and had fluffed bangs"
Not the ponytail, what the heck are "fluffed bangs" I assume 'bangs' are a fringe, and I did have an odd fringe but... not sure if they'd count as "fluffed bangs".

"You remember reading "Goosebumps""
I knew the series, never read it though, wasn't encouraged to and wasn't and still aren't particularly into horror. I read some stuff that is horror but I aim mainly at other things I really like fantasy books and some of that includes horror but is not actually horror itself.

"You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off""
What?

"You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf."
Nope, never really thought about it. Just thought she was cool.

"You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school."
Yep, I had a red plastic lunchbox with a yellow handle and a picture of teddy bears on the front.

"You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books."
Not sure what slam books are, used to have slap bracelets one or two, might still have one somewhere... Never knew they were banned...

"You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not..."
Can't say I do.

"You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together."
Who? Power Rangers isn't one of my strong points.

"You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates"
I remember that I did skate in four wheeled skates but I thought there were inline skates by that time...

"You wore socks over leggings scrunched down"
Not sure bout the socks... Don't have a strong memory bout that, I did used to have some black and white checkered leggings with sunflowers on them (I really liked them), though, looking back I think they weren't my best look but then again, they weren't the most hideous leggings in the world.

"You remember boom boxes vs. cd players"
Nope sorry not sure bout that one...

"You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare""
I've only the vaguest recollection of Care Bears and it's only the 'they were cartoons in different colours weren't they?' rather than detailed memories.

"You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool"
Huh?

"You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell""
I did love 'Saved by the Bell', Screech was really funny, and Kelly and Zack... but I wouldn't say I could recall their life stories though.

"You played and or collected "Pogs""
Haven't a clue what 'Pogs' is...

"You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger"
Not my thing.

"... and you owned a Skip It"
Nah, just nicked my sisters.

"You had at least one GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere"
I did have one sometime...

"Yikes pencils and erasers were fantastic"
Don't remember them by name.

"You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes."
Hey yeah! I remember those, they were cool, I only did use them on my ears and I got my ears pierced at 10 so didn't need 'em for long. I used to love these strawberry ones ...

"You know the Macarena by heart."
Doesn't everyone?

""Talk to the hand" ... enough said"
Heh, yeah...

"You thought Brain would finally take over the world"
Well duh, after all that planning...

"2 words ... SPICE GIRLS"
Never really was into them.

So I suppose I'm a late 90s kid, lol :)

Badminton!

Whooo! hehe, just got back from badminton, it was absolutely fantastic. I love badminton. Didn't realise what I'd missed for so long. I used to play it a bit in NZ with my family and others from our church but playing it today with the youthgroup was so fun. I came home feeling really bouncy like an energiser bunny. I don't understand why some people were knackered, we only played for two hours. I could have played for at least another hour. But it was fantastic, took a little while for me to get back into the habit of actually hitting the shuttlecock but once I had I was going really well - when we first got there I didn't remember how to serve (hey, in my defence the last time I played was when I was 11) but it was an awful lot of fun.

Heh, one of the rackets broke - I was playing with this racket and it was a bit wobbly - I mentioned this to my partner, Johannes and he offered to swap so I said alright and when he smashed the racket down on the shuttlecock the racket went flying towards Bec (one of our opponents) leaving him with the handle. So that was interesting, we had to go and rent a racket (this was Chris's racket - one guy in the youth group) so that we could keep playing. There were 9 of us in all playing on 2 courts (one person off per game(s))

But yeah, it was great fun, Wish I could play weekly, it'd definately up my fitness which would be fantastic, only problem is we're a bit tight with money, but if I can earn the money we might be able to... But I have to say badminton is fantastic :)

Now I'd better go to sleep - I might feel the exhaustion once I start relaxing...

Netball Tournament

Just played in the netball tournament. We lost all three games and I only played 6 mins - half of one game. We weren't expecting to win as we'd not practised together at all really. We've been focusing on exams and revision classes etc. rather than netball. But it was fun, there was quite a bit of annoyance and general mild bitchiness due to various things. We learnt how to shove your hand in the line of vision of a shooter, though I didn't really manage to do this. During the game when we were sitting on the sidelines Hayley said to our defence "Stab her eyes!" when she really meant to say "Cover her eyes!" so that was quite amusing... Yes, it was an interesting game and Nome wanted to moonie the courts on our way out but was in the wrong side of the minibus, it would have been an interesting way to end the 'friendly' tournament. I know not everyone was friendly, we've heard about the girl who said to Char "Move out my way, bitch" but you know, in general it wasn't bad. I envy the height of some of the girls, if I was taller I'd be far better coz generally I'm sort of the medium height that means I find it hard to play low and bounce passes are a bit tricky (with attackers between you and the person) and I find high passes hard and aren't tall enough to intercept that often. But hey, I'll survive.

Will come on when the outage is over and repost Carols '90s kid' thingy... Bit late to do it now - before the outage. Au Revoir.

I feel like Marvin

From Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I'm completely miserable, far too much work and too exhausted to do it. I just feel like I could collapse at any moment. Not quite sure what brought this on... I really need to get some Art work done but my brain isn't working well enough to complete the Art work to a very good standard. I've got such a short temper right now, I get so upset at the smallest things it's really annoying, I hope this phase will pass quickly. I should be ok by Wednesday as long as I get some of the work over and done with.
*sigh* I just want sleep...

Would Rant...

But I can't be bothered. I've ranted at my sister and in my letter to my bestest friend so I don't need to rant about an extremely annoying, unnecessarily so, man in my puppet group/church. AAARRRGH. But anyway, no time now. Me and Anna attempted to make an anagram for the books of the bible. We agreed on the first five, I made the rest and she's trying to remember them, hehe.

This is the acronym thingy:

God Extremely Loves Noble Deeds; Jealous Jews Ran; Strange Short Kings twice Chronically ill Eat Nice Eggs; Jews Pray; Perfect Eggs Sing In July; Lazy Eggs Don't; Hating July An Orange Juice Man Named His Zebra Haggai Zechariah Malachi.

Matey Meet Lovely Julie A Real Crazy toucan; Galactic Enterprises Pressure Colonies; There's two Towers; The People Hate Jellybeans, two Pouting, three Jellybeans Join Rejoicing.

Some day I'll add the actual books to this... Hmm.... now Anna's making me guess the book names without looking at anything but my acronym... bit stuck though I am up to Lamentation...

Boys are stupid, Throw rocks at them

This is an interesting comment which I've heard in relation to my day today.

Today was alright in general, the only thing that bothered me was break time and my way home from school. At first break I went to the library (the place I go every break, every day) and found it closed due to examinations, I was rather disappointed and decided I'd go outside by the sports hall where a large group of people gather every break to chat and enjoy themselves, many of these people are my friends and I feel very comfortable hanging round with them so I went out and talked with them. It just happened that this was the day when a large group of boys from our year thought it would be extremely funny to kick a football in our direction and see who it hit. The first kick hit me on my back/arm. This annoyed me strongly but there wasn't much I could do about it and I didn't think they'd start kicking it again and again, I happened to be wrong on this occasion. Another stupid boy was one in our group who managed to catch the ball once when it was thrown at them and instead of keeping it or stopping the boys from getting it, guess what he did, he threw it back to them in a casual manner. How very kind. They consequently began to kick it at us again. I was hit again on the same arm and I got fed up and so I walked off in the direction of the girls toilets, they were lucky that they didn't kick the ball at me again otherwise I think I'd have got extremely angry and done something about it. Not something rash like tried to fight them or something, that's stupid, but instead I would probably have simply identified all of them and tried to get them in as much trouble as possible which I would probably have been able to achieve seeing as all the teachers trust and believe me due to me being a nice honest little prefect, or something. The thing is that I don't really hold a grudge against any of the boys except Vinny, he's a complete idiot who should really have rocks thrown at him and I can't say I'd feel that much was lost if he was hit by a bus. The rest of my day went pretty well but at the end of the day I discovered that netball would not be taking place due to the fact that there were only about five of us from my year and so I started walking out of the school past the netball court. There was a group of boys partially in my way, some were on bikes and one of them was Vinny. I didn't see them as much of a threat due to the boys not generally having a grudge against me and plus they're not that smart but I suppose that adds to their dangerousness as they are ignorant of any proper manners. Vinny said to another boy 'Toss us the ball', terrible grammar, and feigned kicking the ball at me - vaguely realisticly, maybe he should try a career as an actor, maybe in a pantomine - I'm quite proud to say that I hardly flinched, I just continued walking and ignored them. Good thing really because I don't need to get stressed again, I've got enough stress at the moment. I often find myself wanting to scream. Or learn karate. Either way.

From the mouth of a child

I was amused today as I found a fantastic site with interesting quotes of childrens sayings, I thought I'd post them on here to amuse anyone else who think 'kids say the darndest things'. The comments in italics are mine.

How do you decide who to marry?
No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with.
Kirsten, age 10

What is the right age to get married?
Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.
Camille, age 10

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.
Freddie, age 6

How can a stranger tell if two people are married?
You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids.
Derrick, age 8

What do you think your mum and dad have in common?
Both don't want any more kids.
Lori, age 8

What do most people do on a date?
Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough.
Lynnette, age 8 (Fantastic word of wisdom, listen to this one)

On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.
Martin, age 10 (As far as my knowledge goes this appears to be true of many people)

What would you do on a first date that was turning sour?
I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns.
Craig, age 9 (Just imagine him ringing in the morning to ask "Have you put me in the dead column?")

When is it okay to kiss someone?
When they're rich.
Pam, age 7 (Unfortunately I know some people who'd agree with this one)

The law says you have to be 18, so I wouldn't want to mess with that.
Curt, age 7

The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do.
Howard, age 8 (Good morals)

Is it better to be single or married?
It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them.
Anita, age 9 (Children are not as ignorant as many believe)

How would the world be different if people didn't get married?
There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there?
Kelvin, age 8

And lastly,

How would you make a marriage work?
Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a truck.
Ricky, age 10