Just give a little love - Coca Cola Ad

I saw this commercial the other day and just had to share it with the world ... if only this were true ... I'd make everyone drink Coca-Cola!! :D

Carpe Diem

been awhile huh ... I'm sorry, but I sort of got caught up with scouts, school work and with actually having a life to live ;)
anyway, here it is ... my favourite quote... something I say at least once a day ... or at least it feels that way ... its in my head all the time ... as I'm sure you can figure out, it became my favourite quote after watching the movie Dead Poets Society, which is still one of my favourite movies ... today I felt like digging, so I wanted to try and find out where the phrase actually really came from ... and was quite surprised with the results (and the fact that the search didnt really take all that long) ...

Original usage from Odes 1.11, in Latin and English:

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi	Leuconoe, don't ask — it's dangerous to know —
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios	what end the gods will give me or you. Don't play with Babylonian
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati.	fortune-telling either. Better just deal with whatever comes your way.
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,	Whether you'll see several more winters or whether the last one
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare	Jupiter gives you is the one even now pelting the rocks on the shore with the waves
Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi	of the Tyrrhenian sea — be smart, drink your wine. Scale back your long hopes
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida	to a short period. Even as we speak, envious time
aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.	is running away from us. Seize the day, trusting little in the future.

(from Wikipedia, article on Carpe diem)

well, in my mind, the phrase is quite more optimistic ... its not a warning about the impending and inevitable 'doom', but more of the fact, that since we do not know what tomorrow brings, how bout we just use the time that is given to us as best as we possibly can... and instead of not trusting the future, how bout we just don't worry about it all that much, just dream our dreams and live our lives ... but especially, lets try to live our dreams ...


if i forgot to mention it yet, you really should see the movie Dead Poets Society in case you haven't seen it yet ... the complete line in the movie is actually "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." and I must say, if that movie doesn't get you thinking about your life and all the options you are given, I don't know what will ... the next segment is actually from a comment about the movie by just some guy, but since he talks about what I want to say, I'm just going to use his words :)


A powerful antidote to conformism, 22 August 2001

Author: Francisco Huerta (fjhuerta@hotmail.com) from Mexico City

There are certain films that get under your skin, never to come out. They change your life, subtly altering your perceptions of reality, almost always for the better.

Dead Poets Society is one of those few films.

I saw the movie back when I was in High School. I had a teacher who told us that we really needed to watch it; in fact, it was our "homework" for the day. We didn't need to bring back a report, or talk about it in class. All he asked from us was to watch it, make up our own mind about it, and that was it. As you can imagine, many friends of mine didn't watch it at all; I did. And yes, I feel I changed a bit from there on.

Back when you are young, you never really stop to think what in the world you are doing with your life. You simply live for the day, hope your grades will be enough to pass, and that's it. Long term thinking involves maybe flirting with a girl. Nothing more. What this film showed me was that we have the responsability and the joy of being alive in this planet. That we are dust, and we will go back to it, so we have precious little time to make a difference. That we have a moral obligation to "seize the day, and make our lives extraordinary" (my favorite quote in all movie history). That the world, basically is ours. That the only limitations are within ourselves, and that we owe it to us to fight, to rebel against conformity, to change what we hate and keep what we love. That living in this world is a beautiful responsability, and that only cowards dare not to change it for the better.

The fact that the cast was basically my age, and was passing through the same dilemmas and situations I was facing made it all so much more powerful.

So here I sit, 12 years from that day. I still don't think I have seized the day completely. But I keep on trying; I always will. I wonder how many people were transformed by this gem of a movie; I hope many.

10 out of 10. A definitive masterpiece.

(taken from IMDb)

in the end, my final 'words of wisdom' : GO WATCH THE MOVIE!!!!
(and in case you can't find it at your local videostore/library, you can always contact me ... I have my own copy and I am prepared to lend it to you, though it will come at a price ;) )

Just Think ...

When I born, I Black,
When I grow up, I Black,
When I go in Sun, I Black,
When I scared, I Black,
When I sick, I Black,
And when I die, I still black.

And you White fella,
When you born, you Pink,
When you grow up, you White,
When you go in Sun, you Red,
When you cold, you Blue,
When you scared, you Yellow,
When you sick, you Green,
And when you die, you Gray.
And you call me Coloured ?
- anonymous

Another Favourite

Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)


video by DM9DDB

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original video

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I have to say, sometimes we really manage to make a mess of our lives ... Even when we don't really have much to do with it all ...
Missing your hand ... *

Stupid Stuff

Isn't it funny how sometimes completely and utterly crazy things can make your day? Not like I actually believe in any of this, but at least it makes me smile ... a lot ... so here's the latest weird link I got: Which LOTR Character Are You? and I must say, I was quite surprised with the results...

"Aragorn-you are very tough and smart. You are very loyal to your friends, and will always be able to get them out of tough situations. You are a great leader, and an all-around cool person. Way."

Now I'm off to bed with something that actually resembles a grin instead of a frown ...

Trkaj - Rapostol

Just a little something that's been occupying my ears for the past few days... It's been quite awhile since the last time I actually bought an album so this just goes to show that i really like it... Trkaj is a slovene rapper with a genuine soul which transpires into his lyrics, making them speak directly to your soul.
If you would like to get a taste of his music, go to his myspace and just click away. One of my favourites is partly in English and was actually a project for Unicef. It's called Some of Them. You can read more about the project from Trkaj's perspective here.
Go forth and listen!

Icebergs

Do you ever feel like an iceberg? Like there are all these people around you, people you meet and talk to everyday, that don't have the slightest idea about who you are? About who you really are I mean. Deep down under all those masks you so carefully apply each morning. Do you ever feel like people only notice that small percentage that you show them, and never ever wonder about what lies beneath? What is hidden in those other 8/9ths of the iceberg, the ones that don't really surface?

Let's reverse this train of thought... Do you ever think that maybe, just maybe, there might be more to other people as well? That they're like icebergs as well? You probably never think about it, but that salesperson, who was just so rude to you, maybe she's usually extremelly kind and you just caught her on a bad day? She might have had a very difficult customer, you know, the kind that when you're retelling the story would be depicted as a dragon, or maybe she's having problems at home with a sick husband and a teenage daugther, who's just decided to go wild... Everything is possible. You can even think of the weirdest scenario, and it just might not even be all that weird in this day and age. Well, we all have things going on 'beneath the surface', so how about we start giving each other breaks on account of that? I know I could definately use a break every now and then. Or even more often.

So the next time you feel like you could use a break, why don't you start the trend? Be the first to give someone a break. And you never know, it just might come around. Ever heard of the expression What goes around comes around? So? What do you say? Are you going to be an activist or a passivist? It's that simple.