1. Register your full name as a web domain if you haven’t yet.You never know when you’re going to want your personal website.If www.[yourname].com is already taken, don’t worry - there arealternatives.For example, who owns jamesjoyce.com? Answer: A bar in Dublin beatthe author’s estate to it. But there are always other options, likehyphenating the name and getting james-joyce.net or james-joyce.org
(check those sites now if you’d like), or choosing less commonTLDs (or end letters) like .ws or .me. For more information,godaddy.com and networksolutions.com are among the most popularsites to register domain names.
2. Call your cell phone provider. Ask if you can get a bettercalling plan based on your usage. This way you can afford to do thenext item on this list.
3. Subscribe to a newspaper or magazine. Choose a topic that youdon’t know about - be it politics, fashion, culture, or technology- and sign up for the best periodical covering that topic. Rather
than choosing the most popular magazine, select one that offersthe most in-depth and interesting coverage, like Wired fortechnology or Foreign Affairs for politics or Mental Floss forculture. Yes, you could read it all online, but it’s great to havea physical magazine to read when you’re on the subway or on anairplane or waiting in line somewhere.
4. Get a passport if you don’t have one. If yours has expired, getit renewed now. You never know when that great travel opportunityis going to occur, and you don’t want to get stuck at home whileyour friends are at some great concert at the Acropolis in Greece.If you’re in America, you can simply go to most post offices withtwo acceptable photos of yourself, proof of U.S. citizenship, and avalid form of photo identification. You can find more informationhere: http://travel.state.gov/passport. And, for those of youwho’ve read Emergency and qualify for a passport to a secondcountry (if, for example, you have a parent or grandparent who wasborn in Ireland), take advantage of that opportunity now, beforethe rules change.
5. Back it up. Most people don’t take the time to do this,and regret it later. So copy your entire hard drive onto anexternal drive immediately; if possible, download a program likeAcronis True Image that will simplify the restoring process andregularly make backups (or for Mac owners, start using TimeMachine or SuperDuper). Also backup your cellphone, PDA, andany other personal-information-storing device.
6. While you’re at it, make photocopies of your creditcards, passport, drivers license, social security card, birthcertificate, and other important papers. If you keep a journal oranything similarly irreplaceable, photocopy that. Keep these in asafe deposit box, parent’s house, locked file cabinet, or any othersecure location, preferably outside your own house. They’ll beinvaluable in the event of theft, loss, fire, or any otherunplanned incident.
7. Look through your refrigerator and cabinets. Read the labels onthe food. Stop buying anything high in saturated fats, trans fats,cholesterol, and sodium. And start shopping healthier today. Here’sa handy free e-book from the government on how to eat healthy:http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/pdf/DGA2005.pdf
8. Get business cards. Don’t have a business? It doesn’t matter.Sites like vistaprint.com will send you 250 free ones (thoughthere’s a shipping fee of under $6). Never hurts to lookprofessional. And if you know the number close from Rulesof the Game, these will come in particularly handy.
9. Sign up for US Airway’s E-Saver, Southwest’s Ding, or any otherairline program that offers last-minute, low-cost travel options soyou can take quick weekend getaways whenever you feel like it.Flights can be as low as $15.
10. Check your credit report for identity theft, or any othermisinformation or errors that could harm your financial status andoptions. You are entitled to one free check a year atwww.annualcreditreport.com.
11. Learn how you work: I’m often asked at signings what books Ifound the most useful for learning The Game. Here are the onesI’ve recommended:
Mastering Your Hidden Self by Serge “Kahili” King; The Art ofSeduction by Robert Greene; Introducing NLP by Joseph O’Connor andJohn Seymour; and a book on evolutionary psychology, such as TheRed Queen, Sperm Wars, or The Selfish Gene.
12. Make an appointment to get a physical checkup. Head off anypotential medical problems that may hinder an active, fun year.Also recommended: make an appointment with a dentist to get yourteeth cleaned if you haven’t done so in the last six months. Youmay also want to call for an eye exam if you haven’t had one in thelast five years.
13. This is not for everyone, but some of you–and you know who youare–definitely need to do this: Throw out all your socks. Everylast one. Now go buy new pairs that actually match and don’t haveholes in them. You’ll feel like a new man. Remember, get blacksocks. White socks are for athletic activities only. I don’t wantto catch any of you guys here wearing white socks in the bars orclubs!
14. Get prepped: You’ve read Emergency by now, so go sign up fora local CERT class (or an equivalent if you live outside the U.S.).It’s free and will teach you the basics of survival and disasterpreparedness so you can be a local hero. Plus you’ll get a niftygreen uniform like in this photo: http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/While you’re there, enter your zip code in the box to find CERTclasses in your area.
15. Buy a suit. (Or a dress if you’re a woman.) But don’t just getany suit or dress. Get one that’s slightly closer to the size youwant to be this year, whether it be a little bigger or a littlesmaller than your current measurements. Try it on every Saturdaymorning as a reminder to yourself to get in shape this year;until, one day, it fits perfectly, and you wear it out and feellike a million dollars.
16. Then decide to actually become a millionaire. You can find outhow much money you’ll need to save here:http://partners.leadfusion.com/tools/kiplinger/savings01/tool.fcs
And, afterward, it’s always good to find out what you’re worth:http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/networth/networth.html
I’d smile and say,
You were a friend of mine.
“When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.
Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce.. I raised the topic calmly.
She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?
I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Dew. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her!
With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company.
She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Dew so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.
The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn’t have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Dew.
When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.
In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn’t want anything from me, but needed a month’s notice before the divorce.
She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.
This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day.
She requested that everyday for the month’s duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning.. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.
I told Dew about my wife’s divorce conditions.. . She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully..
My wife and I hadn’t had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mummy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don’t tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office.
On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time.. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her.
On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me.
On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn’t tell Dew about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.
She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.
Suddenly it hit me… she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.
Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it’s time to carry mum out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly;
it was just like our wedding day.
But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy.
I drove to office…. jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind…I walked upstairs. Dew opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Dew, I do not want the divorce anymore.
She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead.. Do you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Dew, I said, I won’t divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn’t value the details of our lives, not because we didn’t love each other any more. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart.
Dew seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away.
At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, I’ll carry you out every morning until death do us apart.
That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed - dead.
The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage!”
Northwestern psychology Prof. Paul Reber answers in Scientific American. Excerpt:
The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space, similar to the space in an iPod or a USB flash drive. Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes). For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.
Cool. Looks like our Med friends won’t have to worry so much about “too much mugging”. ALL THE BEST, FRIENDS! IGNORE THE SMU - accusatory look at Naing - PEOPLE! JIAYOU :D
“For those who don’t know, Chatroulette is a website that pairs random strangers for web cam-based conversations. Kinda creepy, IMHO, but the following video is HILARIOUS! Beware the swears.”
- http://somegirlwitha.com/2010/03/15/chatroulette-improv-piano-player-love/
Amazing stuff!
- A: You guys are stereotyping a lot of people here!
- B: Of course we are. Words do that; that's what words are for. Words generalize experience. But you only need to be offended if they apply to you directly.
1. You forget 90% of your dreams. Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
2. Blind people also dream. People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.
3. Everybody dreams. Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think, you are not dreaming, you just forget your dreams.
4. In our dreams, we only see faces that we already know. Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
5. Not everybody dreams in color. A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today, only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.
6. Dreams are symbolic. If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. Whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.
7. Emotions; The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.
8. You can have four to seven dreams in one night. On average, you can dream anywhere from one or two hours every night.9. Animals dream too. Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in a dream.
10. Body Paralysis.
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens.
11. Dream Incorporation. Our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams. This means that sometimes, in our dreams, we hear a sound from reality and incorporate it in a way. For example you may be dreaming that you are in a concert, while your brother is playing a guitar during your sleep.
12. Men and women dream differently. Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.
13. Precognitive Dreams. Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced déjà vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming is possible is even higher, ranging from 63% to 98%.
14. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.
15. You can experience an orgasm in your dreams. You can not only have s e x as pleasurable as in your real life while dreaming, but also experience an o r g a s m as strong as a real one, without any wet results. The sensations felt while lucid dreaming (touch, pleasure and etc..) can be as pleasurable and strong (or I believe even stronger) as the sensations experienced in the real world.
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