Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is a famous French painter, associated with the Impressionist movement along with his friends Monet, Sisley, and Bazille. His paintings are probably the most popular, well-known, and frequently reproduced images in the history of art. Almost everybody has heard of Bathers, The Umbrellas, Luncheon of the Boating Party and many others. They present a vision of a forgotten world, full of sparkling color and light.

Renoir once said: "Why shouldn't art be pretty?There are enough unpleasant things in the world."

By the seashore, 1883

Woman gathering flowers, 1872

Young girl sleeping

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006
Mood:  party time!
wISHING eVERYBODY
a vERY hAPPY aND pROSPEROUS
nEW yEAR 2006

Beyond circumstances
daily motivator November 18, 2005

No circumstance has the power to distract you from the direction you have chosen. Anything that knocks you off track does so because you have allowed it to. Keep in mind that you give power to your circumstances. You imbue them with your life, your purpose and your meaning. They are your reflection, not your essence.

The world around you can influence you to the extent that you allow it. There is a part of you that no one, no thing can ever touch without your participation. The direction in which you point and focus that essential core of your being will largely determine the quality of your life.

Pain and pleasure may both be quite compelling, yet they are outside of who you really are. Circumstances may be very alluring or terribly frightening, yet you exist beyond those circumstances. Keep that ever in mind, and be true to your greatest possibilities.

This is just too funny!!
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO TOILET SEX IN MALAYSIA
by TV Smith
12/11/05

In the recent 2005 Durex Global Sex Survey, Malaysians overwhelmingly picked the toilet as the preferred place for shagging outside a bedroom. In view of this prevalent practice, Dua Sen presents the definitive guide to toilet bonking...

Where:
Recommended:
• Unisex toilets: Beach Club, Passion, Loft, Thai Club, Liquid KL
• Spacious toilets: Imbi Food Court, KL, Press Club of KL.
• Lonely toilets: Shell Station, Batu 13 Ulu Langat.
• Artistic toilets: Pudu Complex (excellent erotic graffiti on doors).

Not recommended:
• Rajooz Curry House PJ - Stack of dirty dishes inside.
• The Mall KL - The doors are about 3 or 4 feet high.
• Boutique Toilet KLCC - Will people who won't pay for a room pay RM 4 for a toilet?
• LRT Stations - Gadget mounted to prevent squatting over bowl hinders smooth sex.
• Zouk KL - Bouncers get upset.
• Toilets for the handicapped - Peter Tan gets really upset.

Precautions:
• Due to the foul smell in most of our public toilets, it is advisable to SKIP foreplay.
• Bring along an aerosol can of air freshener and flush BEFORE sex.
• KEEP handbag safely around neck as snatch thieves strike from adjacent cubicles.
• Most of the cheap porcelain break easily, so go EASY on the acrobatics.
• Some toilets/cubicles come with built-in urinals. They usually stink. DO NOT push your partner's head in that direction.

Positions:
While most (understandably) prefer an oral quickie, many copulating positions are possible depending on your dexterity and state of desperation...

Kitty Style

Bhangra Style

Lazy Style

Handbag About To Be Stolen Style

When Tomorrow Starts without me
Topic: Poetry

When tomorrow starts without me
and I'm not there to see.
If the sun should rise and find your eyes
all filled with tears for me;
I wish so much you wouldn't cry
the way you did today, while thinking of
the many things, we didn't get to say
I know how much you love me,
as much as I love you,
and each time you think of me
I know I'll miss you too.
But when tomorrow starts without me,
please try to understand, an angel came
and called my name and took me by
the hand and said my place was ready
in heaven far above. And that I'd
have to leave behind all those I dearly love.
But as I turned to walk away a
tear fell from my eye, for all my life
I'd always thought I didn't want to die.

I had so much to live for,
so much left to do
It seems almost impossible that I am
leaving you. I thought of all the
yesterdays, the good ones and the
bad and all the fun we had.
If I could relive yesterday, just
even for a while, I'd say good-bye
and kiss you and maybe see you smile.

But then I fully realized that this
could never be, for emptiness and
memories would take the place of me.
And when I thought of worldly things,
I might miss come tomorrow, I
thought of you and when I did my heart
filled with sorrow. But when I walked
through heaven's gates, I felt so much
at home. When God looked down and
smiled at me, from his great throne,
He said: "This is eternity and all I've
promised, today your life on earth is past,
but here life starts anew. I promise
no tomorrow, but today will be the last.
And since each day's the same way
there's no longing for the past.


You have been so faithful, so trusting
and so true. Though there were times
you did some things you knew you
shouldn't do. But you have been
forgiven and now at last you're free.
So won't you come and take my hand
and share your life with me?

So when tomorrow starts without me,
don't think we're far apart.
For every time you think of me,
I'm right here in your heart.

by Erica Shea Liupaeter


A touching poem expressing undying love for the loved one. As I read and tried to picture myself as the persona...I can't help but to feel the sadness deep down inside my heart and without realising it tears rolled down my cheeks...

Rest In Harvest
My favourite painting by Adolph William Bouguereau.

Seeing the problems
Topic: Quotes
Daily Motivator

Indeed life is difficult, but how do we know that? It is only from our absolute certainty that life can be beautiful and fulfilling, that we are able to see it in any one moment as difficult.

It is your very real capacity for wealth and abundance which causes you to see yourself as lacking in any area. Your frustration is made possible only by your overriding perspective of joy and fulfillment. Your doubt would have no meaning if you were not able to believe.

Within the feeling that things are bad is a powerful and compelling desire to make them better, and a certainty that you can indeed make them better. Discontent is a positive indicator. In it is the fruitful seed of progress and achievement.

That you are able to recognize problems as such, means you have already in some ways transcended them. Take heart. You are better than anything which could bring you down. Let the troubles and difficulties move you forward as they are there to do.

You know you are driving too fast when.....

COOL!!
Mood:  lyrical
Topic: Lyrics
Gwen Stefani
Cool

It's hard to remember how it felt before
Now I found the love of my life
Passes things, get more comfortable
Everything is going right

And after all the obstacles
It's good to see you now with someone else
And it's such a miracle that you and me are still good friends
After all that we've been through
I know we're cool
I know we're cool

We used to think it was impossible
Now you call me by my new last name
Memories seem like so long ago
Time always kills the pain

Remember Harbor Boulevard
The dreaming days where the mess was made
Look how all the kids have grown, oh
We have changed but we're still the same
After all that we've been through
I know we're cool
I know we're cool

Yeah, I know we're cool

And I'll be happy for you
If you can be happy for me
Circles and triangles
And now we're hanging out with your new girlfriend
So far from where we've been
I know we're cool
I know we're cool

C-cool, I know we're cool
I know we're cool

...been hearing this song over the radio for the past few days..cool song..

Positive Quote of the Day

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher

Daily Motivator November 11, 2005
YOUR CHOICE

The things that happen to you are not nearly so important as the things that happen from you. Today you have a long list of choices. In fact, every moment is a choice.

Will you choose to be healthy or will you choose to pursue illness? Will you choose to make a difference or will you choose to be indifferent? Will you choose to create value or will you choose to create excuses?

Whatever happens beyond your control is, for the most part, no more than a background for your own will and actions. Your circumstances are not what make you or break you -- it's what you choose to do about them.

Think of each moment as a choice. Don't fool yourself into thinking that you're just automatically reacting to the world around you. Each thing you do is the result of a choice you have made at some point. To get where you would like to go, make the choices that will take you there.

So, What if I don't care...
'Punish students who smoke in public'

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8:

Students caught smoking in public should face disciplinary action.
"We should take disciplinary action against these young smokers," suggested the Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk G. Palanivel.
"Now, action is only taken when they smoke in the school compound. It should be extended to include those who smoke outside the compound as well."
The move would further strengthen the anti-smoking campaign, he added.
"We need to be more pro-active in enforcing the campaign. Otherwise it will just be posters on the wall and advertisements in the papers, having little or no effect.
"Times have changed, and our culture with it. In the past, smoking in front of the elders is considered uncouth. Now, parents are sharing cigarettes with their children.
"The campaign must go on and we must improve upon it. Education on the hazards of smoking should start from kindergarten," he added.

I have been teaching for more than 10 years and this problem has existed for as long as I can remember schools. Educators, parents and the community have been urged to take various actions to overcome the problem but without success. A lot of prevention programme have been designed to reduce the number of young smokers especially students but to this very day I didn't see if any of them were really much of a help. So, what should we do? Take more sternuous actions against the offenders? Or just let it be?

In my opinion, we have done whatever necessary actions to prevent them from smoking and now it is really up to them to decide whether to lead a life free 0f- or full Of-smoking kind of business. I'm not suggesting that we should ignore them in their choice but if we have done everything we could and still they are going for it, then at that point we should just let them be. Nagging and scolding them will only turn them into rebels.

There were some cases in my school where the students were caned in public (during the school assembly)after they were caught red-handed in the school toilet. And guess what??? Did they become better afterwards? Did they stop smoking? Suprise! Suprise! They definately did change BUT not for the better but for the worse. They became "heroes". They were untouchables. And in the end, all of them were expelled from school. There goes their future!

If only we know what triggers a person to start smoking and live with that, we might have an idea on how to overcome this problem. Most people say it is because of peer influence. But I believe it is more than that. It should have came from within the person himself, an internal urge.

Anyway, whatever it is..the choice is really ours to make.

Have a nice day!

Jerat Percintaan
Siti Nurhaliza

Dalam pertemuan ini
Kita terperangkap sudah
Dalam jerat percintaan
Yang tidak disangkakan
Aku telah jadi lupa siapa diriku ini
Engkau juga dihanyutkan
Oleh arus percintaan
Tapi pabila aku sedar diri siapakah aku ini
Aku tertanya sendiri apakah akan terjadi
Oh apakah kita kan teruskan
Di dalam arus percintaan
Perlukah kita untuk berkorban
Demi pertahankan kebahagiaan
Dalam persimpangan ini
Ku masih terus menanti
Dalam rasa keharuan
Di manakah akhirnya

...I've never really paid attention to this song until recently when I saw Siti's concert at Royal Abert Hall in London (on tv of course!) What made this song so special now???? Well, I believe it's because the persona in the song is just like my own self right now....

Goodbye Endon......
Mood:  sad

I still can't bring myself to read the newspaper on the late Datin Seri Endon especially those stories and memories while she was alive and the words she said to Pak Lah. The sadness inside is overwhelming.

Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas roh allahyarhammah. Amin.

A Great Loss to the Nation
Mood:  sad
It came as a shock to me when I heard of the demise of PM's wife on the radio early this morning.

She was such a lovely lady and the last I heard she was recovering from her illnes that she has been battling with for quite some time.

May her soul rest in peace and
may Allah grant her a place among His faithful disciple.
Al_fatihah.

A glimpse of today's news:

Prime Minister's wife dies
The Prime Minister's wife Datin Seri Endon Mahmood died at 7.55 am today at the Prime Minister's official residence in Putrajaya after fighting a long battle with cancer. Endon, 64, breathed her last about 18 days after returning from treatment for breast cancer in Los Angeles, United States.

Endon's death - which comes less than two months after she and Abdullah marked their 40th wedding anniversary - is the biggest personal blow to the Malaysian leader since he took office in October 2003 following the retirement of his predecessor, longtime leader Mahathir Mohamad, the AP meanwhile reported.

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said Abdullah has accepted his wife's death, even though the family was surprised when Endon's condition worsened suddenly early Thursday.

"He was very calm, he is very religious, he has come to terms with it,'' Najib said.

Thousands of people filed past Endon's body, which lay in state wrapped in white linen on a table while Muslim clerics recited verses from the Quran.

Abdullah, Malaysia's fifth prime minister since the country achieved independence from Britain in 1957, had been married to Endon since Sept. 4, 1965.

Abdullah has often called Endon his "No. 1 supporter.''

When his mother died of natural causes in February 2004, Abdullah telephoned Endon in the United States, where she was undergoing treatment.

She later told reporters that he said: "I've lost my mother and I don't want to lose you too.''

Endon was respected for her humble, unassuming personality.

She was popularly referred to as "Kak Endon,'' or "Elder Sister Endon.''

Abdullah and Endon often showed public displays of affection, including hugs and kisses on each other's cheeks.

AL-FATIHAH