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re: haters

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Quote:“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”     — James Baldwin    

“If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea about how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” —The Alchemist

“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.” — Buddha

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
— Henry Drummond

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.End quote.

p.s. I had to google to make sure that Henry Drummond wasn’t the dad on Different Strokes.  He definitely was not.

 

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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
— Steve Jobs
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“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
— Steve Jobs
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Fmylife

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My Twistori obsession has subsided and I am now fond of wasting my time at Fmylife.com.  I’m still flying high from the news in yesterday’s post, so I’m not feeling particularly schadenfreude-istic right now.  That being said, I still get a kick out of FML.

According to the site…

Fmylife.com contains a daily dose of short anecdotes, based on a simple recipe: in a few sentences, users can tell everyone the shitty moment which ruined their day. These short stories must begin with “Today” and end with “FML”. On top of being a huge release for the person telling their story, delightfully proving that “f*** ups” happen to everybody every day, fmylife.com also aims to be funny for everyone involved, as well as a way to share your misfortunes with other unlucky individuals, bearing in mind that self deprecation and a sense of irony are essential!

Many of them cause me to lol and smh.  Here are a few random fmls.

Today, while at the Golden Gate Bridge, I spotted a large group of asians trying to take a picture. Trying to be a diplomat, I slowly say “You... want me... take picture?” while using hand motions. The man looks at me and says “No thanks asshole. I got it.” in plain english. FML

Today, I was mowing the lawn of my brand new house, located in a very nice neighborhood (I am a hispanic male), and a lady in her nice white cadillac drove up and asked me, in extremely broken spanish, if I could mow her lawn too. FML

Today, the girl whom I have loved for 4 years told me that she loved me too and would like to spend her life with me. This was before she told me that God did not want us to be together. FML

Today, at lunch I ordered a coke. The waiter replied “diet coke?” and I corrected him saying, “No, regular coke.” He shook his head and said again, “diet coke.” FML

Today, I babysat for two little girls, who wanted to play ‘mermaids’. I smiled, and said that I would love to play with them. The older girl laughed, saying “You can’t be a mermaid. Mermaids are pretty.” FML

Today, I got a letter from Princeton that said i got accepted. I jumped for joy screaming at the top of my lungs.My little brother walks in laughing with his camcorder on record. He played a joke on me and gave me the real letter. I was denied. FML

Today, I texted my college boyfriend to tell him how terrible I felt about cheating. He replied saying he was so relieved because he had been cheating on me with a girl in his dorm. I was talking about my math exam. FML

 

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If you’re feeling blue, check it out. Someone is bound to be having a worse day than you.

twistori

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i don’t twitter (or is it i don’t tweet on twitter?), but i am now officially obsessed with twistori!

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Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb.com describes the site so well…

Twistori, according to the site, is the “first step in an ongoing social experiment.” Twistori pulls tweets from Twitter  containing specific keywords: i love, i hate, i think, i believe, i feel, and i wish. It then publishes the tweets it finds anonymously in a non-stop, auto-updating river of news. The result is a continuous stream of feelings from the Twitter community….. a stream of consciousness view of the Twitter emotional landscape.

right now i am glued to the wishes of twitterers. recent favs-

“i wish i had the guts to go to the store in my robe. but i don’t think i do.”

“i wish my mind had the courage to stop tearing me down. goodnight.”

“i wish my name was ariola.”  

you can check it out at www.twistori.com.

heart

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Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m not a big believer in this Hallmark holiday, but will take the opportunity to reflect on the fact that we are all part of the human heart. That’s what the mulatto diaries is all about. On this Valentine’s day my heart goes out to the families of those who lost their lives on Flight 3407.

wings

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the other day i took my first flight since the miracle on the hudson. of course it was a us airways flight. out of laguardia. some of you may have seen a little video i made about the cause of my flying anxiety. well, this has added a whole new dimension. that plane in the water spoke to so many of my irrational fears! i have to do it again on wednesday. i find it mildly amusing that i select a seat in a row closest to the wings so that i can be first in line to stand on them. i no longer want the exit row tho. too much pressure.images-20

games

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so you know how i mentioned that i was feeling over-saturated in “biracial” the other day? well, that evening i went to visit some friends that i hadn’t seen in a long time. i was excited not only to see them, but to leave “biracial” at home and just enjoy the night. about 15 minutes after I got there my 6 (almost 7) year old friend, Ben goes to get something to show me. he comes back with the game “othello”. now Ben and his younger brothers might have more toys than any kids i know. i just could not believe that of all of things he’s acquired in the year since I’ve seen him the first thing he wanted to show me was this game where one person “is black” and one person “is white” and you make strategical moves to overtake the board with your color. i guess there’s just no escaping it.

after othello we made an origami ball. Ben is already a master origami-ist (i am sure that’s not what it’s called), and he taught me how to do it. He made four sides in the time it took me to make two. that being said, i think i did a pretty good job. and it was really fun!