Collecting hobby

Lots of people collect things as a hobby. People enjoy keeping collection of certain items based on a particular interest such as stamps, antiques, erasers etc.  My dad love collecting key chains that would represent the places wherever he travelled. I collect shoes. I got my little shoe-collecting hobby developed after I went to college, though I own almost 200 pairs of shoes now. My dad never understood why I have to have so many shoes. “You’re not a centipede, “said my dad, “How could you ever get chance to wear each one of those?” I don’t understand why he has to have so many souvenirs either, at least mine is wearable.  To my dad, three pairs of shoes are enough – one for work/ formal occasion, one for sport, and one for raining days. However, women would never feel satisfied with having only one style for different occasion.  Changing any one factor of three (silhouette, color and fabric) that determines a fashion item would create a new style for women to increase their wardrobe size. Here’re some good reasons I found for myself explaining why I love collecting shoes:
1. Shoe to an outfit is like sauce to a cuisine, or eyebrows to a person. It might not be the leading role, but it’s critical and could turn everything into a disaster if without it or when it goes wrong.
2. Unlike clothes when our weight changes from time to time we may not fit in our old clothes, for shoes we can always fit in the same size.
3.  Compared to those plastic surgery that make people taller by broken their leg bones (The surgery is illegal and has originally been used for people have uneven leg length), wearing a heel is totally a pain-free way for shorter people to gain some height.
Do you ladies love shoes?

Do you collect any other thing as a hobby?

“God Particle” feels too pressured

Well, readers, after the success of the last post about a letter from New Earth, I decided to share another one that just came in from the CERN lab from the “God Particle”.

Dearest Media,

I am the particle you so aptly named the “God Particle”. Whoa! Talk about pressure.  Now the Swiss scientist at CERN are gonna meet me and be pretty disappointed.

I feel overhyped by the media and in person I will not even come close to whatever you expect from me.  Kinda like a Facebook photo, I don’t look any better in person. People even thought, I could end the world.  I assure you that I am not able to end the world.  I can barely remember to return my Netflix DVDs.

In theory, could I give mass to matter by interacting with their sub atomic whatevers? I dunno? Maybe?  But, if everyone watches, I can’t.

Tell the scientists I’m sorry for leaving my garbage in their Hadron Collider.

Higgs Boson

Anyone excited to meet the God Particle?  Science!

 

Chris

 

 

 

They lift a vehicle to save the life of a little girl

Who was wrong here? The driver or the parents?

My 10 Favorites quotes

My 10 Favorite quotes

Life is like a box of chocolate , you never know what you going to get .

Movie- Forest gump

 

Why are you trying so hard to fit when you are born to stand out

Movie – What a girl want

 

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who

Matter don’t mind – Dr.Seuss

 

A man who dares to waste hour of time has not discover the value of life – Charles Dawin

 

Do not dwell in the past, Do you not dream of the future .Concentrate the mind on the present Moment – Buddha

 

Everything in life is luck- Donald Trump

 

The Price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it – Henry David Thoreau

 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. –Harriet Tubman

 

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us- Helen Keller

 

Happiness depends upon ourselves.- Aristotle

 

what is your favorite quotes ? Care to share with me?

“The Stillness Is The Move.”

I know normally when I post about music I get mixed responses or no comments at all lol but either way I post what I feel and recently I was shuffling through my MP3 player and I ran across a song by one of my favorite eclectic groups The Dirty Projectors and their song “Stillness Is The  Move.”

The song is one of favorites because it incorporates alternative/R&B/reggae and the video is strange. But the over all message of the song is amazing because it talks about even if sometimes when you feel like you have met a road block in life; that it is sometimes the best move at the time further implying that sometimes “The Stillness Is The Move.”

Best hangover remedies

How do you feel when you feel hangover.

I think everyone feel bad. I also feel like that. If you feel hangover. You can try this.

1. Eat before and during the drink session, not after.

Some people I know drink on an empty tummy, dummies! That contributes to early nausea, headaches, not regulating the quantity of food. You might think it a good idea to skip dinner and go straight to bed. Next time you do that, you deserve the ensuing hangover!

2. Eat lots of fruit and salads.

Alcohol in, vitamins out. So you need to compensate for those. So indulge in salads for side snacks, and drink glasses of orange and grape juice beforehand. I don’t know if the juice in your vodka counts, sorry.

3. Milk and Curds.

I learn this from my best friend. Before going out to wild parties, take in a lot of curds or milk. This gives an anti nausea lining to your stomach walls. Unless you want to be really wild!

4. Drink H2O.

Many of my hangovers were due to my not drinking enough water. So pour in glasses of water, before and after session.

6. Cut down on smoking.

Sometimes the smoke is the culprit. More the cigarette count, the worse you feel later.

7. Slow and Steady.

Space out your drinks, or go slow. The fewer your drinks within a time period, the less you are affected.

8. Dance, talk, sing.

Involve yourself in an interesting activity; don’t just sit there gulping down the drinks. You get less sizzled that way. Also cuts the danger of you dropping off to sleep, which is instant nausea when you wake up. And sing or dance only where you can. Though if you are bounced early enough, you won’t have a big hangover, so singing and dancing is a good thing!

Try it!

Christmas spirit

As I have said before, I am so excited to spend Christmas in the city for the first time. My family arrives on saturday and I can’t wait. I am counting the days and it is just impossible to study…!!!! I am always excited but this year there is something more and it is not only the smell of Christmas trees. I believe it is just how people celebrate Christmas here, there is a spirit that we don’t really find in France and I love it.

I keep listening to Christmas songs… Here are a couple :

And this one is just too funny, I can’t stop laughing. I really don’t get why they did that.

Am I the only one who has the Christmas spirit? I guess you are all excited to get a couple of days off! Is there anything I should do during holidays in the city?

What kind of parents, 2year old boy, smokes 40 cigarettes a day!

Even though this clip has been on youtube for 2 years, it is still disturbing every time I watch it. Check it out if you haven’t seen and please share the opinion what you think about his parents? What was in their mind and what made them give the  kid cigarettes?

 

 

12 Days ‘Til Christmas!

Christmas is right around the corner!!! What is everyone doing for winter break/the holidays?

I actually was raised Jewish and this time of the year was usually the least exciting for me because Christmas was never a big deal in my house.  All of my friends would be talking about Christmas as soon as October and it always sounded so exciting! As I got older, my family started to celebrate Hanukkah less seriously and start celebrating Christmas more.  This made my younger brother and I feel like we were like everyone else.  Now we usually celebrate Hanukkah on the first and last night and we celebrate Christmas on Christmas, obviously.  This year Hanukkah starts on Tuesday December 20th at sundown and ends on Wednesday, December 28th at sundown.

What are everyone ele’s family traditions? Does anyone not celebrate Christmas at all? How about Kwanzaa?

Can you do the Kuduro Dance?

Have you all heard about the Kuduro dance? Well the first time I actually saw someone dancing Kuduro was back in 2009.

Its funny that despite the fact that Brazil and Angola speak Portuguese I had no idea that Kuduro was a dance created by Angolan people.

In 2009 I had the opportunity to meet some Angolan people and they became good friends of mine. After that I tried to learn how to dance Kuduro, which is really hard.

Some famous singers have already recorded songs that were named Kuduro but they don’t really show the REAL Kuduro dance, they made something more commercial to sell in the US and in Europe. The real dance is way too hard and sexy most of the time.

You may not have an Angolan friend but you got me to show what Kuduro is all about haha.

Here are some videos showing the Kuduro music and dance! ENJOY