In The Name Of Love

Pyramus and Thisbe

Pyramus and Thisbe lived in the city of Babylon which Queen Semiramis founded after having killed her husband King Ninus of Assyria and founder of Nineveh. At the time the city was surrounded by a wall made of baked brick and bitumen bound with iron, which was one of the wonders of the world.

Another wall separated the houses of Pyramus and Thisbe which were side by side. The young man and the girl loved each other, and would have married, but their parents forbade. Not having a go-between they communicated just by nods and signs. Later, their love discovered a slender chink in the wall which became the channel of their speech, and they talked to each other until night came, printing in each side of the wall the kisses they were prevented to give each other.

Not being able to endure the separation, they decided to escape one night and to meet at Ninus' tomb under the shade of a mulberry tree. Thisbe was the first to arrive with her face well veiled, but as she was waiting for Pyramus, a lioness came for water to a neighbouring spring. Her jaws dripped with the blood of the cattle she had slain, and at this sight Thisbe escaped to a near by cavern, but as she hastened to elude the beast, she left her cloak on the ground behind her.

The lioness quenched her thirst and by chance came upon the cloak, tearing it with her bloody jaws. A little later Pyramus arrived, and seeing the lioness and the cloak, he assumed Thisbe to be dead, and in desperation, grief, and guilt, plunged his sword into his side, drawing it straightaway from the wound. As he lay stretched, the jets of blood leaped high, turning into dark red the white fruit of the tree.

When Thisbe came out of her hiding fearing her lover would miss her, she found Pyramus lying under a tree with colours she did not recognize. Pyramus saw her in a last effort, and when he died Thisbe lamented:

"O wretched parents, mine and his, grant those whom love and death has joined to be laid together in the same tomb." [Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.155]

"O tree, who now shade with your branches the poor body of one, and soon will shade two, keep the marks of our death and always bear your fruit of a dark colour as a memorial of our double death." [Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.160]

Having said so, she took the sword and killed herself. But the remains of both funeral pyres rest together in the same urn, and ever since the colour of the mulberry fruit is dark red when ripe.

Darel - The Sophisticated Rebel

"I'm not a bad dream,I'm just you're worst nightmate"

Jake Gyllenhaal - The Leading Man

The Magic of St.Tropez

Set on the blue waters of the Golfe de Saint-Tropez, this modern version of a medieval town is most popular for the line of luxury yachts in her harbour and the facing line of terrace cafés, divided by a parade of strolling tourists and slowly cruising sports cars.
Night life is very lively and often one can see helicopters bringing elegant guests to private parties, in one of the many luxurious villas in the bay. "People watching" is a favourite sport in Saint-Tropez in the summer. Visitors like to sit in the outdoor cafés, hoping either to be seen or to see someone else.

Imelda Marcos : 24 Carat

1. Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
2. God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
3. I am beyond logic and rationality.
4. I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
5. I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
6. I HATE UGLINESS.YOU KNOW IM ALLERGIC TO UGLINESS.
7. I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
8. I HAVE NEVER BEEN A MATERIAL GIRLl. MY FATHER ALWAYS TOLD ME NEVER TO LOVE ANYTHING THAT CANT LOVE YOU BACK.
9. I think that's a very kinky issue with the panties and bras. That's the thing that they will display: shoes, panties and bras.
10. I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.
11. IF YOU KNOW HOW RICH YOU ARE, YOU ARE NOT RICH. BUT ME, I AM NOT AWARE OF THE EXTENT OF MY WEALTH. THAT'S HOW RICH WE ARE.
12. It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.
13. It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
14. My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
Imelda Marcos
15. Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
16. PEOPLE SAY IM EXTRAVAGANT BECAUSE I WANT TO BE SURROUNDED WITH BEAUTY. BUT TELL ME, WHO WANTS TO BE SURROUNDED WITH GARBAGE?
17. The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
Imelda Marcos
18. They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
19. WE PRACTICALLY OWN EVERYTHING IN THE PHILIPPINES.
20. When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
21. WIN OR LOSE, WE GO SHOPPING AFTER THE ELECTION.

"100 Things To DO Before Dying"

1.Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.
2.Throw a huge party and invite every one of MY friends.
3.Swim with a dolphin.
4.Skydive.
5.Have MY portrait painted.
6.LEARN ITALIAN,SPANISH GREEK AND FRENCH
7.Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.
8.Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
9.Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.
10.BE AN EXTRA IN A FILM.
11.TELL SOMEONE THE STORY OF MY LIFEe, SPARING NO DETAILS.
12.Make love on a forest floor.
13.Make love on a train.
14.Learn to rollerblade.
15.Own a room with a view.
16.Brew my own beer.
17.Learn how to take a compliment.
18.BUY A ROUND-THE-WORLD AIR TICKET AND A RUCKSACK, AND RUN AWAY.
19.Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.
20.Give my mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
21.Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
22.Put me name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.
23.SEND A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE.
24.Ride a camel into the desert.
25.Get to know my neighbors.
26.Plant a tree.
27.Learn not to say yes when I really mean no.
28.Write a fan letter to my all-time favorite hero or heroine.
29.Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
30.Learn to ballroom dance properly.
31.Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
32.Be the boss.
33.FALL DEEPLY IN LOVE - TRULY AND UNCONDITIONALLY
34.Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
35.Sit on a jury.
36.Write the novel I know I have inside me.
37.Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
38.Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).
39.Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
40.Be someone's mentor.
41.SHOWS IN A WATERFALL.
42.Ask for a raise.
43.Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
44.Teach someone illiterate to read.
45.Blow all my savings and take a flight on the Concorde.
46.SPEND A NIGHT IN A HAUNTED HOUSE -- BY MYSELF.
47.Write down my personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.
48.See a lunar eclipse.
49.Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
50.Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
51.Experience weightlessness.
52.Sing a great song in front of an audience.
53.Ask someone I only just met to go on a date.
54.Drive across America from coast to coast.
55.Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.
56.Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
57.WRITE MY WILL OF TESTAMENTl.
58.Sleep under the stars.
59.TAKE A RIDE ON THE HIGHEST ROLLERCOASTER.
60Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!
61.Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
62Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
63.FORGIVE MY PARENTS.
64Learn to juggle with three balls.
65.Drive the Autobahn.
66.Find a job I love.
67.Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
68.OVERCOME MY FEAR OF FAILURE.
69.Raft through the Grand Canyon.
70.Donate money and put MT name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
71.Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
72.Grow a garden.
73.Spend three months getting my body into optimum shape.
74.DRICE A CONVERTABLE WITH THE TOP DOWN AND MUSIC BLARING.
75.ACEEPT MYSELF WHO I AM.
76.Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.
77.SCUABE DIVE OFF AUSTRALIA'S GREAT BARRIER REEF.
78.Go up in a hot-air balloon.
79.Attend one really huge rock concert.
80.KISS SOMEONE I JUST MET ON A BLIND DATE.
81.Be able to handle: my tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.
82.GIVE TO CHARITY -- ANONYMOUSLY.
83.Lose more money than I can afford at roulette in Vegas.
84.Let someone eat my peeled, seedless grapes.
85.Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.
86.Fart in a crowded space.
87.Make love on the kitchen floor.
88.Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.
89.Create my own web site.
90.Visit the Holy Land.
91Make MYself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
92.Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
93.Create my Family Tree.
94.Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.
95.Make a hole-in-one.
96.Ski a double-black diamond run.
97.Learn to bartend.
98.Run a marathon.
99.LOOK INTO MY CHILD'S EYES, SEE MYSELF AND SMILE.
100.REFLECT ON YOUR GREATEST WEAKNESS, AND REALIZE WHAT IS MY GREATEST STRENGTH.

"Celebrity-Look_Alike's"

What a great way to update the blog again than to have your "Celebrity-Look_Alike's".It's actually too computer generated and not accurately true but still I didnt know that Scarlett and I have something in common.

"How to WIN a SHY guy!"

How to tell if he likes you
(and if he's flirting with you in his special own guy-way).

A lot depends on the type of guy and his individual personality.

Shy Guys
These are tough to crack sometimes...
* He'll look at you, until you turn around, then boom, he's looking the other way.
* You may 'feel' like he's watching you - but he's hard to catch at it
* He may do something physical - like grab you in a play way, poke you, play with your hair...
(Remember when you were really young and the guy you liked punched you or tackled you?)
He may be working really hard to pay attention to you, but doesn't quite know how...
* He may ask a friend of yours about you - he'll say it's just for "friend of mine" that wants to know about you.
* He talks to everybody else - but when you're around he turns silent, or chokes up.
* You seem to accidentally bump into him a lot of different places.
* He may not say a word to you, but he shows up in the same line, at the same movie, etc.
* He'll give you a little smile from across the room, but if you get near, he won't look up.
* Basically - the BIG clue is that his behavior changes when you're around (compared to when he's around with his friends)
* DEAD Giveaway - when you talk to him he turns red.


(Bingo - you can pack that puppy up and take him home...)