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Dec. 18th, 2002
Quizilla, tidbits and tadbits of life...
Dec. 18th, 2002 04:30 pmAh, Quizilla...where would we be without it?
What Disney heroine are you most like?
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You're Belle! You're the beauty who sees past your counterpart's beastly exterior and in the end gets the guy. You don't care how hot the guy is, if he's conceited and unintelligent he hasn't got a chance. You're a dreamer and a bookworm. You can hold your own in an argument but you're a softie at heart.
Hmmm...not bad. I wonder if there's a Mulan in the Disney Heroine panoply. I like Mulan...not the least because she's Chinese...
( A little bit of...? )
* * *
Hey, we all need to get in touch with our dark side once in a while...
...and some of us never let go of it once we have it in our hot little hands!
Otherwise, I'm getting the distinct feeling that I should actually be getting my work done tonight. Work? What a novel idea...
What Disney heroine are you most like?
brought to you by Quizilla
You're Belle! You're the beauty who sees past your counterpart's beastly exterior and in the end gets the guy. You don't care how hot the guy is, if he's conceited and unintelligent he hasn't got a chance. You're a dreamer and a bookworm. You can hold your own in an argument but you're a softie at heart.
Hmmm...not bad. I wonder if there's a Mulan in the Disney Heroine panoply. I like Mulan...not the least because she's Chinese...
( A little bit of...? )
* * *
Hey, we all need to get in touch with our dark side once in a while...
...and some of us never let go of it once we have it in our hot little hands!
Otherwise, I'm getting the distinct feeling that I should actually be getting my work done tonight. Work? What a novel idea...
We have a vision...or not...
Dec. 18th, 2002 06:16 pmWas reading the Sydney Morning Herald online just now and found an article regarding the Australian Government's lack of priority towards developing a viable source of clean energy.
I'm not a big fan of the current Australian Government, Little Johnny Howard and the wimps he has in cabinet are big losers in my book. I blame it on the eyebrows. ( high-brow ponderings )
The most dangerous thing I'm looking at regarding the current state of world leaders (I'm not very enamoured of Dubya's policies regarding 'how to curb terrorist acts by making people of a specific racial origin feel like they're dirt') is their lack of forthright, uplifting vision.
Sure, they talk about 'where they see this country going' but usually it's nowhere new. They don't see the country going forward they just see it sitting stagnant. We shouldn't look at new ideas for renewable energy resources because people would rather pay cheaper prices for energy now and breathe pollution later. We shouldn't introduce too many 'foreigners' into the country - sure, a lot of them will become hard-working citizens of the country whose children will provide a valuable intellectual resource and add to the collective cultural wealth of your nation, but right now, they might be terrorists. Especially since they happen to be a different colour, follow a different religion to the nominal national one, and had to pay money to get over here instead of taking the correct diplomatic path while their children starved, the bus-stop bombs exploded around them, and the dictators or military regimes of their country abused them.
Y'know, if nothing else, these people have more vision than some politicians ever will!
And the country with a vision and a means to get them there will be the winner in the coming century. They'll stand on top of the others and wave their flag to say: "We had a vision and look at what we've achieved!"
Isn't that one of the key reasons why the USA is where it is? Because of the immigrants who arrived over hundreds of years with their family around them and their possessions in their carpet bags and not a bloomin' cent to their name but a vision of where the opportunity of their country could take them. Sure, economic wealth and population - if you have a vision, but no means to get there then the vision doesn't do much good. But the economic wealth and the population would mean shit without the vision that the waves of immigrants had of a better future for their children.
Maybe it's just a hazard of the white western world. We're so used to having the best of everything, we forget to make the best of the amazing stuff we have!
But sometimes it seems like the current batch of national (Aussie) and international politicans don't have any vision at all. Their litany is to maintain the status quo, keep your head above water while pushing the downtrodded back under, and never look beyond where you are lest you see where you could be and be shamed by it.
That's the risk of having a vision - you gotta be prepared to chance that it might not come true. You gotta be prepared to put your heart and soul into it and dream a little of how good it might be to have achieved what you set out to do.
To discover if you can fly, you need to spread your wings and step off the ledge. It's scary, it's risky, and it's dangerous. People will laugh at you for sure. Even once you've stepped off the ledge, the work's not over. You have to pump your wings as hard as you ever can to see if they'll hold you up. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. If they don't, then you scrape yourself off the tarmac (like a blob of strawberry jam?) and find another set of wings with more uplift...or a rocket thruster!
If you've got somewhere to go, and you want to get there bad enough - if you have a vision for your life or your nation's future or the whole world, then you'll find a way to get there.
But if all you can see is about a metre in front of you, with nothing changed and nothing new, then you won't bother to change anything - you'll just hang onto the status quo and pull the curtains over the windows 'cos the light's too bright.
Oh, for some leaders with VISION!
I'm not a big fan of the current Australian Government, Little Johnny Howard and the wimps he has in cabinet are big losers in my book. I blame it on the eyebrows. ( high-brow ponderings )
The most dangerous thing I'm looking at regarding the current state of world leaders (I'm not very enamoured of Dubya's policies regarding 'how to curb terrorist acts by making people of a specific racial origin feel like they're dirt') is their lack of forthright, uplifting vision.
Sure, they talk about 'where they see this country going' but usually it's nowhere new. They don't see the country going forward they just see it sitting stagnant. We shouldn't look at new ideas for renewable energy resources because people would rather pay cheaper prices for energy now and breathe pollution later. We shouldn't introduce too many 'foreigners' into the country - sure, a lot of them will become hard-working citizens of the country whose children will provide a valuable intellectual resource and add to the collective cultural wealth of your nation, but right now, they might be terrorists. Especially since they happen to be a different colour, follow a different religion to the nominal national one, and had to pay money to get over here instead of taking the correct diplomatic path while their children starved, the bus-stop bombs exploded around them, and the dictators or military regimes of their country abused them.
Y'know, if nothing else, these people have more vision than some politicians ever will!
And the country with a vision and a means to get them there will be the winner in the coming century. They'll stand on top of the others and wave their flag to say: "We had a vision and look at what we've achieved!"
Isn't that one of the key reasons why the USA is where it is? Because of the immigrants who arrived over hundreds of years with their family around them and their possessions in their carpet bags and not a bloomin' cent to their name but a vision of where the opportunity of their country could take them. Sure, economic wealth and population - if you have a vision, but no means to get there then the vision doesn't do much good. But the economic wealth and the population would mean shit without the vision that the waves of immigrants had of a better future for their children.
Maybe it's just a hazard of the white western world. We're so used to having the best of everything, we forget to make the best of the amazing stuff we have!
But sometimes it seems like the current batch of national (Aussie) and international politicans don't have any vision at all. Their litany is to maintain the status quo, keep your head above water while pushing the downtrodded back under, and never look beyond where you are lest you see where you could be and be shamed by it.
That's the risk of having a vision - you gotta be prepared to chance that it might not come true. You gotta be prepared to put your heart and soul into it and dream a little of how good it might be to have achieved what you set out to do.
To discover if you can fly, you need to spread your wings and step off the ledge. It's scary, it's risky, and it's dangerous. People will laugh at you for sure. Even once you've stepped off the ledge, the work's not over. You have to pump your wings as hard as you ever can to see if they'll hold you up. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. If they don't, then you scrape yourself off the tarmac (like a blob of strawberry jam?) and find another set of wings with more uplift...or a rocket thruster!
If you've got somewhere to go, and you want to get there bad enough - if you have a vision for your life or your nation's future or the whole world, then you'll find a way to get there.
But if all you can see is about a metre in front of you, with nothing changed and nothing new, then you won't bother to change anything - you'll just hang onto the status quo and pull the curtains over the windows 'cos the light's too bright.
Oh, for some leaders with VISION!
Dunno whose idea it was...but it's a bad one!
Sel is now in charge of delegating aaaaaall the work for an overseas office that comes in. She has to check up the list of problems, check them out and pass them on to someone who knows how to fix it! It's...::shivers::responsibility...
All together now:
::tries to remember how to breathe::
Sel is now in charge of delegating aaaaaall the work for an overseas office that comes in. She has to check up the list of problems, check them out and pass them on to someone who knows how to fix it! It's...::shivers::responsibility...
All together now:
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!
::tries to remember how to breathe::
