Never too late

Time is a runner in disguise

Why else would it run so fast

That before you realise

Another year has passed?

This ceaseless run can scare

Make you feel afraid to move

Survival of the fittest isn't fair

You loose if you don't improve.

To achieve your innermost dreams

You'll have to conquer mind and body aches

Keep on running and you'll win

Remember: it never is too late!

Which path to choose?

It may not always be clear which path to choose, but there is only one way up.

40 words you will never use vol. 2

Second edition of the compilation of words that most of us either never use or straight up don't know. Coming from my literary wanderings of the past 6 months here is 40 words you will never use volume two.

Impervious ● Sagacious ● Fornicate ● Excrescence ● Aberration ● Insouciance ● Provenance ● Dilapidated ● Confounding ● Conspicuous ● Ramification ● Disavowal ● Transience ● Disparagement ● Onerous ● Recalcitrant ● Outre ● Implacable ● Comeuppance ● Confluence ● Ephemeral ● Bequeath ● Indignation ● Incestuous ● Conduit ● Transcendent ● Connivance ● Heinous ● Indefatigable ● Obsequious ● Obeisance ● Petulant ● Egregious ● Sycophancy ● Volubility ● Insatiable ● Unruliness ● Effeminacy ● Vituperative ● Adamant

Definitions after the break.

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Bez tytułu

Krzyczę glośniej niż ryk lwa
Byleby zagłuszyć myśli o niej
Tylko że ta myśl wciąż trwa...
Kiedy wreszcie przestanie!?
Kiedy krew zasklepi się na mego serca ranie?
Gdzie odnaleźć ukojenie?
Jak ujarzmić ten huragan we mnie?
Jak powrócić na mój szlak
Muszę się dowiedzieć.
Tak mi jej brak.

Meaning of freedom

Riding my bike

A pigeon was flying by

Right by my side

He got me feeling like

I too was flying high.

Flying stands for freedom,

But what does freedom really mean?

This question's like a demon

That's always chasing me.

Trying to tie my wrists,

Trying tying my feet

But I keep on clutching my fists,

Keep on extending my leap.

Refusing to loose my beliefs,

As long as I breathe

I will always be me.


PHOTO: By AHMED..., available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license

Meaning of life

Psychologists say that human motivation to undertake any action comes from knowing why this action should be taken. In other words, we first need to know why we should do something before we would want to do it. Following this train of thought, how can we live without knowing why are we living? Survival of the species aside, there should be another, deeper meaning to our existence. Could there be a simple answer to this question? Well, consider this: what if life didn’t have a real meaning, but instead the meaning of life was to be looking for its meaning? Paradox, you will say. Maybe. But who said life wasn’t paradoxical?

For some more existence-inspired photos from my mate Andy Shannon go here.

Way to go

Giardino Autunnale
Vincent van Gogh

I jumped into a river,

How do I get out?

I thought it'd cool my fever,

It only filled my heart with doubt.

I ran into a forrest,

Don't ask me where I'll go.

It'd be hard to give an answer that is honest,

I simply wouldn't know.

Where to go in life is seldom clear,

There's a lot to think about.

But trust me, one day you WILL get near!

Just keep on following your route.

Infinity redefined

Sterrennacht boven de Rhône
Vincent van Gogh

Imagine you could look at the universe from far, far away, from a distance so huge that it would appear as tiny as a grain of sand beaming with light. Now imagine that there were many such tiny dots of light, some of them larger, some of them smaller, but from the distance, none of them appearing much bigger than our grain of sand. Wouldn't that look just like our sky on a starry night? But how much more vast and enormous this realm would be! Millions upon millions of universes scattered around the abyss of nothingness. Every single one as unending as ours. Infinity?

40 words that you will never use

Whenever I’m reading and I come across a cool sounding word I didn’t know, I try to write it down. Here is a selection of the most interesting ones coming from the notes I made in the past 12 months. Funnily enough, I still have no idea what most of them mean. Come to think about it, should we really bother?

Precarious ● Implore ● Irascible ● Predicament ● Providence ● Assuage ● Furtive ● Drubbing ● Tempestuous ● Usurpation ● Castigated ● Febrile ● Haranguing ● Delineation ● Rudimentary ● Insipid ● Inebriated ● Germane ● Concision ● Elucidate ● Demarcate ● Inexorable ● Salubrious ● Ambivalence ● Steadfastness ● Newfangled ● Obsequious ● Scrupulous ● Pernicious ● Compulsion ● Extenuation ● Refractory ● Laudatory ● Corroborate ● Precipitate ● Nebulous ● Imperceptible ● Concomitant ● Condescending ● Tendentious

In case you are wondering, descriptions after the break.

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A few words about the iPad

With the world buzzing about the iPad launch I couldn't help but to drop a few lines about Apple’s latest marketing proposition as well.

When the iPad was first unveiled a lot of people where asking: what is this device actually for? To be honest I don’t understand what is getting all the people so confused.

First, Apple done a very good job when they said at the outset that iPad was neither a smartphone nor a laptop. This was a brilliant move because straddling would most likely not lead to the product being viewed as a legitimate player in either category.

Second, there is a very powerful consumer goal that the iPad satisfies, namely, casual use of the web and media. Yes, casual - a lot of people seem to overlook that there is a growing crowd out there that doesn’t use computers for work, but for communication and entertainment. The iPad finally gives those folks a way to do this comfortably rather than being confined to maladroit desk- and/or laptops. And with the snowballing use of the Internet in our daily lives I can only imagine this group of people become larger and larger over time, making way for a good source of revenue for tech companies in the years to come.

With the iPad mystery put to rest, I am now a lot more interested to see how the competition (Google, MS) is going to respond!

¡Hola Madrid!

Plaza Mayor

Visited Madrid last weekend, and what an amazing city it is! Spanish culture is really one of a kind. There is a lot to be learnt from the Spaniards. Especially on how to take it easy and just enjoy life.

The experience was just a glimpse of Spain and its people, though. Many more discoveries remain to be made - I shall be back.

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2010

2010 is going to be a truly remarkable year. Don’t doubt it for a moment. And just in case, here is a short verse quoted in “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. Keep it in mind whatever you do this year.

“If you think you are beaten, you are,

If you think you dare not, you don’t

If you like to win, but you think you can’t,

It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll loose, you’re lost

For out of the world we find,

Success begins with a fellow’s will -

It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,

You’ve got to think high to rise,

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the man who thinks he can!”