At the rate I’m going, I should be done by the middle of next week. Looking forward to it.
Rating: 4/5
UPDATE: I’ve finally completed it. What can I say? The season ender was majorly anti-climactic. What a bummer!
Month: June 2007
I’ve been taking the stairs at the office intermittently since Aby brought to my attention this practical and inexpensive way to keep fit. I’ve been pushing myself harder partly to beat my own best time and partly to at least reach my officemate’s own best time which was way better than mine. Yesterday, I had all but given up on that second goal. But this morning, I was rewarded by a time of 1 minute and 36 seconds! To think I wasn’t even planning to take the stairs.
Rating: 5/5
by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of Circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of Chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
*Whenever life’s adversities come my way I always keep this poem in mind. But what inspires me more is that writer, William Ernest Henley, was able to survive great adversity– the poem was written from a hospital bed– and even succeeded in life. So whatever it is facing you, something worse is facing someone somewhere, and they are taking it. You can do the same.
by Mack David, French original by Edith Pliaf
Hold me close and hold me fast,
This magic spell you cast,
This is La Vie En Rose.
When you kiss me, Heaven sighs,
And though I close my eyes,
I see La Vie En Rose.
When you press me to your heart,
I’m in a world apart,
A world where roses bloom;
And when you speak, Angels sing from above;
Every day words seem to turn into love songs.
Give your heart and soul to me
And life will always be
La Vie En Rose.