Risk

I'm making a heap of all my winnings

and risking it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss.

If I lose, I'll start again at my beginnings

and never breathe a word about my loss.

It's Not If, But When

How will you treat them

How will you see yourself

Will it strengthen your resolve

Will you rationalize loosing who you are

Remember you were prepared, Remember who you are

Remember through the darkest times you shine the brightest

You will get your opportunity

Because it's not if, but when.

Exploring

It's not cooking beef, tuna and peas together,

it's exploratory cooking.

It's not being weird to make awkward situations,

it's adventurous socializing.

It's not trying to be different for the sake of it,

it's discovering existence.

Measuring Oneself

Chris Mccandless

Life is only experiences.

You can't have your own

if you are on Autopilot.

Defense mechanisms

I didn't get it so people would look at me.

I got it so people wouldn't look too deeply.

Not everyone's defense mechanisms are visible.

Id, Ego & Super Ego

I sat them both down,

Big Brian on my left,

Small Saul on my right.

Brian began to speak."He doesn't exist. It makes no sense, its improbable scientifically, paradoxical logically, philosophically contradictory, inconsistent morally, unobservable historically."

I looked over at Saul,

who sat quiet, thinking.

Doby came and sat by my feet, panting.

Brian continued. "You're wasting your time, relationships, guilt and energy. All because you 'must' believe in something, you've been blackmailed into compliance! I'd bet my life that He doesn't exist!"

Looking timid, Saul blinked and looked up.

"He does exist.

I've met him."

It's that Moment

Sitting there on a train, in my suit

Looking sharp, its dark outside,

train is in the station, without thinking

I started making the most ridiculous faces

at myself, reflected back by the glass windows.

And it's that moment after you've gone

through the most embarrassingly hilarious

faces you have in your repertoire, you notice

the group of girls standing on the platform

looking straight at you.

too late to play it cool.

What if Everyone in the World were good Friends?

Would the world be a better place?

Would we revert back to strangers so that we could walk down the street?

Would there still be poverty?

Would there still be need for money?

Would countries still exist?

Limits

Ancient China was one of the most advanced nations of its time.

Yet in a short space of time, Europe overtook China in many areas.

This is due to the invention of Ceramics in China, which meant that

China never needed to invent Glass, which was used in Europe for

bottles, windows, mirrors, microscopes and glasses for vision giving

European Scholars 15-20 years more time with eyesight.

There are only two kinds of deceiving limit;

Diffidence tells us we will never reach our potential.

Complacency tells us there are no more limits to break.

Learning to Be Happy No.1

I'm working my way through my list.

Olives

Football

Person at School

Wine

Rock Music

Seafood

Cloudy Weather

Roller Coasters

Classical Music

Modern Art

Jogging

Early Mornings

Wildlife

Sweet Potato

Modern Jazz

???

The more I learn to enjoy,

The more I enjoy living.

Games

Memories of a 7-year old;

"Okay you pretend to be ducky,

and I'll pretend to be be peetree!

and, and you gotta hop and I can fly, okay?"

I dictated enthusiastically.

"Yeaahh!" she replied.

"Swoooosh, follow me, swooosh" I shouted with spread wings,

running fast down a hill.

"Owww!!" She cried behind me.

Turning I saw her lying at the bottom of the hill.

"Oh no, you've got a cut!

Lets stop pretending now, I'll go get a grown-up"

and I ran off.

"I'm going to stop pretending that I didn't break your heart" - Eels

No.1

Put down that mirror

so that you can look

at someone else for a change

then, they can tell you

how you actually look.

Potential Heroes

Alot of men

spend alot of time

browsing alot of sites

watching alot of videos

of alot of ladies

taking off alot of clothes.

when it's over,

will alot of men

wish they'd spent alot of time

changing the world?

Alot of potential heroes

never made it out of their chair.

Credit

Can I really take credit for an Idea?

Because it was only by serendipitous chance

that it came into my head.

News-flash

January 10th, 2010

Top 3 BBC News stories.

1. Man dies after 'queue jump row'
2. Woman dies after 'walk in snow'
3. Man killed chasing bag snatchers

After all the words, smiles, arguments, plans, chores, ideas, love.

End Scene.

Runcible Lessons

They didn't tell us

as we obediently learnt

word by word, every line.

But I suspect

that when he wrote

'The Owl and the Pussy cat',

he was on smack.

Read 'The Owl and the Pussy cat'

Perspective

memories of a 7 year old.

"COOL!" yawped Sam,

"that is the coolest thing I've ever seen!"

"mhmm" grumped rachel,

"doesn't look so great to me, theres nothing to look at"

"Where?!" I questioned

"I can't see it, I can't see anything good!"

"Thats because you're not looking at it right!"

said Sam.

"Here, stand exactly where my feet are,

and put your eyes exactly where mine are"

He shuffled out the way

and I carefully moved into position.

"COOL!" I yawped.

Gotta Catch 'Em All!

After many complex experiments,

Regression analysis and hypothesis testing.

Demographic surveys, quadratic equations and much deliberating.

I have concluded, that;

Girls are not like Pokémon.

If I sound clever...

it doesn't mean anything.

Looks like rain

My Dream.

Standing in a desert

dry and parched lips rip apart for a breath.

Lifting a dusty hand to my brow

watching just as the glaring sun is blocked

from the west.

The largest, pitch black cloud that I've ever seen

charges through the sky.

Scanning the distance,

I see the dark storm beat down on to every horizon.

"Looks like rain."

Waking up, I sighed to myself.

"mhmm not a good sign, but

I'm glad I learnt to enjoy getting wet."

Time Travel

Time Travel can be very dangerous.

Nostalgic people living in the past, remembering their glory days.

Anxious people trying to freeze time, not wanting to lose what they have.

Eager people waiting, preparing for their real life to start in the future.

It's important to remember, whether travelling to the past, or the future or even trying to stop time,

You can only live,

today.

Perspective

If you ever want to know

how I often see the world.

Walk through a crowd

wearing noise cancelling earphones

listening to classical piano music.

Start again

Yesterday, I watched a sunset
It was beautiful, but

it was cold and windy

Staring at it made my eyes hurt.

Wondering if people thought that

I had nothing better to do.

When I was cold and tired,

I had to walk home in the dark

because I had waited for the sun to set.

Start again.

Yesterday, I watched a sunset.

It was beautiful.

Religion

I don't like religion that much,

because I don't think men

with such authority and influence

should be allowed to riff,

the way they do.

Sleep

Most people go to sleep and start dreaming

I think I go to sleep and stop dreaming.

Best laid plans

I made an irony detector

but it seems to detect everything

except for irony.

A Powerful Song

makes you remember feeling something

that never actually happened to you.

giving you thoughts

you didn't know you were thinking.

relating to situations

you wouldn't usually be able to relate to.

like shattered a mirror

you look at it

and see bits of yourself.

Shoes

it might take some work, but.

I can do anything that anyone else can do.

I can enjoy anything anyone else can enjoy.

I can create anything anyone else can create.

I can damage anything anyone else can damage.

I can withstand anything anyone else can withstand.

I can be anything I want to be.

because you can be the same as anyone else.

You're just wearing different shoes.

Bigger than my Daddy

When he was my age, the world economy totaled $9.74trillion.

Though it seemed impossible

by gazing at my hand, engulfed by his

hands like mountains, exactly 6ft of man.

Cheekily exclaiming without a hint of proof.

"One day daddy, I'm gonna be bigger than you!"

Grinning ear to ear, jumping to appear taller.

with only 18 teeth, front ones were loose.

the world economy now produces $60.6trillion.

and I stand six foot two.

It seems a lot of other boys

aspired to be bigger than their daddies.

too.

People Grow.

how you annoyed me

we were kids, but you were younger

with your smart comments,

taunting laugh, attention seeking

how you poked and prodded me

we walked home, but you skipped

sticking your tongue out,

knotted my tie, and pulled my hair

how you've changed.

from the girl you were then,

I turned my head for a moment

and now you stand, a woman.

I should change this.

I don't think I could date a girl

who had a sister who was prettier

but just as nice.

Because every Christmas,

I'd think I had settled

for second best.

This is the last time.

that I can say.

"I will be 20 next year."

HaHa.

What did sushi A say to sushi B?

Wassa-B?!

Why does snoop dog carry an umbrella?

Fo Drizzle!

Who is the coolest guy in the hospital?

The Ultra-Sound Guy

Who is the Second coolest guy in the hospital?

the hip-replacement guy

Who is the Third coolest guy in the hospital?

the RAD-iologist

How does snoop dog clean his clothes?

BLE-ACH! (said with gangster swagger) ;)

How does snoop dog wash his car?

His hoes

What are marios jeans made out of?

Denim Denim Denim (mario underground theme)

What did the dog say when he sat on sandpaper?

Rough!

What did snoop dog say when he saw 50-cent's sweater?

Gee-You-Knit?!

Two cows in a field, one says "moo", the other's exclaims "AH man! I was about to say that!"

Two fish in a tank, one says to the other "do you know how to drive this thing?!"

Two muffins in an oven, one says "Cor it's hot in here!", the other shouts "AHH a talking muffin!"

7 dwarves in a shower all feeling happy, happy left so they started feeling grumpy

Which are the funkiest animals?

brown-chicken-brown-cow! (bowchickabowwow)

What do gay horses eat?

HAA-AYYY

What comes before Part B?

PAAARRTTAYYY!

Billy was a chemists son,

but now he is no more,

what he thought was H2O

was H2SO4!

What is a chickens favourite composer?

BACH!

What do Mozart and Beethoven turn into when they die?

de-composers.

Whats brown and rhymes with snoop?

Dr. Dre

The calendars days are numbered

Today I crossed a road

then I walked into a bar

then I screwed in a lightbulb

then I realised, my life is a joke!

Why are elephants big, grey and wrinkly?

cos if they were small white and hard, they'd be paracetamol

Knock Knock

Who's there?

I eat p

I eat p-who?

ha.

What do you get if you throw a piano down a mineshaft?

A-Flat Minor

What cheese is just not your's?

NOT-YO CHEESE! (nacho)

What did the egg say to the saucepan?

it'll take me a while to get hard, i just got laid by a chick

A man and a giraffe walk into a bar and the giraffe goes and lies on the floor.

the barman asks, "whats that lyin' there?"

The man replys "thats not a lion! thats a giraffe!"

Two cats on a hot roof, which falls off first?

the one with the smallest μ ('Mew' Coefficient of friction)

I have a dream, a dream of a better world. That one day chickens may cross the street and not have their motives questioned.

Moonlight & Boardgames

To me, there is nothing so romantic as an idea.

in the early hours, damp weather, freezing temperatures,

rough seas, worried families, tired eyes,

moonlight, flasks of earl grey,

trivial pursuit.

To me, there is nothing so romantic as an idea.

3-Point Turn

How low is our expectation of the tolerance of others

that we wonder if people get annoyed

when cars do a 3-point-turn in front of their house.

Dying to Live.

Some people measure every penny,
to minimize their costs.

Some people shield their hearts,
to ensure their love isn't lost.

Some people bottle their laughter,
to protect them from a happiness drought.

Some people cap their talent,
to stop it from all falling out.

But, some people do not clench their fists,

to hold on to what they have.

Life can be Drenching,

Soaking,

Dripping,

Sopping,

Flowing,

Splashing.

It's wasn't meant to be contained or merely remembered.

more only flows in,

when you let go what you have.

"When I was One"

"When I was One,

I was just begun...

...But now I am Six

I am clever as clever,

So I think I'll be six now

for ever and ever." - A.a.Milne

...But now I am Nineteen

I am clever as clever,

thinking that I'll be Nineteen

for ever and ever.

俳句 - Haiku

富、力　　

我々要るか？

愛要るね。

此れわ私の初俳句が日本語で書きました。

楽しかったでした。

Wealth, Power

Do we need?

Love - We need.

This is my first haiku that I've written in Japanese.

It was fun.

Cruel Irony

Running swiftly through the forest,

panting, rushing past rustling leaves.

Hand in hand, you and her,

burst from the undergrowth into moonlight.

Suddenly you hear the thunder of falling water

you skid to a stop at the edge of the waterfall.

Your assailants have you cornered now,

emerging from the dense undergrowth

their snarls revealing sharp teeth.

Only 2 options.

1. Jump and get separated, possibly drown.

2. Fight to stay together, sacrificing yourself to gnashing teeth.

Because there's only so long you can stand on the edge of a cliff.

By fighting she will definitely lose you.

But if you're brave enough to jump.

You just never know...

Pick 'n' Mix

Memories of a 7-year-old.

"There's so many to choose from!

must be about 100 different kinds,

still, I'm going to get all fizzy cola bottles

they're the best!"

shouted Tom with a twinkle in his eye,

shoving cola bottles into his small paper bag.

"Ow yuck!" shouted Alice.

"I'm going to get half chocolate buttons,

and half marshmellow mushrooms"

she began to carefully count them into her bag.

and me. with a smile,

and a cheeky tongue sticking out to the side

"I think I'll have one of each."

Coming Home

It's not where you live,
but where you're Understood.

It's not building that provides comfort,

but where you're soul finds rest.

It's not even the people that live there,

but just where you're accepted.

It's not making a goal-orientated environment,

but where all genuine efforts are appreciated.

It's not a place where you can't cry,

but where you can slide along the floor in you're underwear singing 'Journey'.

I'ts not a place where things are expected of you

But where they are eager to see great things of you.

I think I'm coming home,

In my own skin.

Knot Together

the dry texture of coarse braided string

and the soft flick of lace.

Hands tug each side

and begin to dance.

Over and under

Round and through

the best knots

are doubled and pulled tight

as time passes the tangle gets shaken and tugged

the string becomes wet and frayed

Some laces become undone

Some get tighter. More as one.

it takes two hands to make and maintain a sturdy knot

it only takes one to pull the whole thing apart.

Meet- The Greys

it was 7:30pm when Working Grey decided it was time to turn in and go to bed. "Night guys" signaled working. "see you tomorrow" said the rest.
at 10pm Exercise Grey announced, "i'm pretty tired guys, i'm gonna schnooze", and off he went.

The rest now too apathetic to move, talked amongst themselves. Chatty Grey became exhausted after everyone had left Skype and at midnight decided to turn in. Inquisitive Grey finished his encyclopedia at 2am, slammed it shut and on his slow walk to bed murmured "Night Creativity Grey".


Creativity Grey (the most bashful grey) had remained largely silent and restrained until the others had left. Whilst the Grey house was silent, Creativity Grey painted abstract colours on the walls, opened up the windows, and wrote a strange blog about a Family of different Brains before turning out the lights and going to sleep at 4am.

Playground

Colours and textures

seasons and swirls

those having fun

are lost in that world

King of the castle

fall and get bruised

cry and get up again

not ready to lose

the future is unsure

but just having fun

treat the game playfully

and in a way, you've won.

Funny how great a Playground can be

its like life in that way.

"The world's a playground, somewhere along the way everyone forgets it" - Yes Man

Animals

Nature has a huge variety

many are similar.

But some,

Some are just soo alien, so unbelievable, flamboyant and strange.

these rare species live different lives, set apart, they eat strangely, act weridly, and move in ways you wouldn't expect.

But.

in the end they're all just animals, ultimately they're all the same.

they live, eat, sleep and die.

the crazy ones don't half shake it up though!

Belief

belief is drunkenness to a sober man.

it will make you happier and more self confident as long as you don't live in reality.

or is it soberness to a drunk man?

Blogs:

Private, Public Windows,

you look through them,

to see a shattered mirror.

Because thats what they really are; Shattered mirrors.

You look at them and see bits of yourself.

I the Shady Salesman, I the Credulous Consumer

Inhaling clogging dust, brushing grubby clothes,
the familiar twinkling, gently draws my eyes.
A perfect diamond, so pure, that glows.
Enticed, Infatuated, I move to pick my prize.

A moment later my reward is blocked,
cape and coat of a thin man sway,
as they hide my trophy, my efforts mocked.
He looks at me with a grin, and says,
"Good Sir, Good Sir, how are you?
What I offer sir, only a fool would refuse.
Not one, but four apple diamonds new,
the cost? One handshake! thats all! its true!"

Backstepping he thrusts the goods to my palms
and blocks an attempt to survey my original jewel,
perhaps these gems bear equal-a charm,
not accepting this deal would brand me a fool!
My first love now, a forgotten trinket,
so hesitantly I present a hand.
with a smirk and both palms he boldly shakes it
granting all diamonds, just as planned.

Clasping my spoils, I revel in their beauty,
the thin man turns and dissapears from sight
and Thats when it began to happen to me,
the treasure in my grasp blazes white.
Reduced to my knees, with a yelp of pain
I relinquish the fakes as they turn into dust
the burns on my hands tell of the shame.
Again I pick myself up; I must.

Inhaling clogging dust, brushing grubby clothes,
the familiar twinkling, gently draws my eyes...
Encounter him again I shall, although.
You can only fail, if you fail to try

Aspire to Inspire

humbling Awe drenches,

drowns and suddenly dwafed.

crippling Beauty clenches,

lost but held, in its palm.

fearful Courage roars,

caused gravel, under foot to grate.

re-freshing Hope flickers,

enticed, flying closer, to fate.

burning Passions afire

and I, aspire to inspire