Go to the Limits of Your Longing

The Inner Voice, Auguste Rodin

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

From the Book of Hours I, 59

lalala ;D

finally, i got my new hair!

and i love it so much ><

new look for the chinese new year ;)

dycka, ayu said that i fit in with this hair, thank you :)

many people said that too haha

so satisfied with this style

what do you think? :)

***

and yeah! accepted in sinlui haha

in B category, quite hard i think

so thankful of that :)

In bed

Since I'm still not feeling very well, I am already in bed. I'm going to try to do some study questions on Dvärgen, but then I'm off to bed. With some beauty sleep I will hopefully look and feel better tomorrow.

Oh, and I didn't puke today in school. Just in case someone was wondering. ^^

Daily Thoughts 1/31/2011 (Power Why Some People Have It, WEDC)

Ōta Nampo (大田南畝,1749-1823) was a late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer.

Daily Thoughts 1/31/2011

Talked to the Women's Enterprise Development Center in Yonkers about setting up a presentation in February.  I rather like their programs.  I also spent some time weeding in the storage area.

I am also looking at ereader equipment, apps, and ebooks which would part of an ebooks loan.

Today is a quiet, steady day. I put the book, Marshall McLuhan : you know nothing of my work! by Douglas Coupland on hold.  It was in the January 9, 2011 New York Times Book Review.  Our budget is slim these days, so there is not much to order.

I also checked out Power Why Some People Have It-- And Others Don't by Jeffrey Pfeffer.  It is an attention getting title. It is about organizational politics.


Web Bits

Library Posters http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbradley/sets/72157625923493122/

Sick :(

I don’t get it. This morning I literally had to drag myself out of bed due to the worst hangover-headache ever and now I can feel how soar my throat has become as well. :s I didn’t drink anything yesterday and yet I feel like alcohol is still running in my veins…Not good! :o

I’m going to go to school anyway and see what happens. The worst thing is that I might puke, but then…oké let’s not go there…hehe. I’ll just go to school and see what happens.

The One Who Is Coming

Fruit Garden in Pontoise, by Paul Cézanne

Why not think of God as the one who is coming, who is moving toward us from all eternity, the Future One, culminating fruit of the tree whose leaves we are? What stops you from projecting his birth on times to come and living your life as a painful and beautiful day in the history of an immense pregnancy? Do you not see how all that is happening is ever again a new beginning? And could it not be His Beginning, for to commence is ever in itself a beautiful thing. If he is to be fulfillment, then all that is lesser must precede him, so that he can fashion himself from out of the greatest abundance. Must he not be last, in order to include everything within himself? And what meaning would be ours, if he, for whom we yearn, had already existed?

Rome, December 23, 1903

Letters to a Young Poet

Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley

Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley.




Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley combines the genre of alternate history with thriller writing. The Real is an America where Alan Turing created the theories which led to gates to alternate histories called Turing gates. There are some wonderfully dry thoughts on Schrodinger's Cat in association with the Turing gates.



This is Paul McAuley's best book. I like the main character Adam Stone, an orphan who is recruited into the CIA to change the course of different alternate histories preventing fascism, communism, and rebuillding where there is nuclear war. The descriptions of the visits to alternate America's are wonderful.



Paul McAuley successfully creates a sense of different Americas. There are descriptions of the art of The American Bund where for a short time the "Dear Leader" created monumental art, or the space where an atom bomb fell devastating areas of Manhattan.



I also like that the story starts in the past in 1983 when Carter is elected in the Real. This makes it feel like both a historical novel and an alternate history novel. The novel touches on so many different styles of writing.

Adam Stone is a very hardcore character. He shoots, interrogates, suffers beatings, and keeps on going. He is after a secret plot to change the alternate histories timeline. His actions are extreme, violent, and polemical. This may turn some people off, but I found it interesting.

Most of the technology is todays technology. The money is similar, the guns are similar, the art and culture are different. The differences are often philosophical. Adam Stone describing his past actions as an agent of the "Real" is describing a form of imperialism which can be hard to stomach. He kills for his countries beliefs.

The novel hinges on many philosophical and political ideals. Is it right to create one America under many skies? Is it manifest destiny to push your will in different worlds?

This is a fantastic story. It is full of constant surprises, strongly opposed ideals, and constant tension. It does not end they way you might expect it would. This book will create strong opinions for and against the story.

Are the kids alright?

You might not guess this at a glance, but somewhere underneath the Hollywood styling, designer accessories and buoyant coiffing is a little girl of ten years old.

... And if that's not scary enough, this photo was actually taken when she was nine. Her name is Willow Smith, and she's widely touted as the Next Big Thing on the pop music scene after the success of her first single, Whip My Hair. She's not the first child in her family to hit the entertainment scene in a big way before she even hits her teens;

Recognise him? That's Jaden Smith, as he appeared opposite Jackie Chan in the remake of The Karate Kid. If the parental penny hasn't dropped yet, here's a family portrait to jog your memory:

Yep, Will Smith's kids are looking to end up as famous and successful as their Mum and Dad. And not everyone's happy about it.

Author Terry McMillan recently tweeted that:

The Smith children already act like child stars. There's an arrogance in their demeanor and behavior. I find it incredibly sad. It feels like the Smith children are being pimped and exploited. Or, they're hungry for fame. What about 4th grade?

She further hit out against the gushing descriptions of the children in public media - often from the children's parents - describing their prodigal talent and enthusiasm:

These kids don't already know what they "love". Total bullshit. They're not prodigies. They think Hollywood is real.

And it was in this comment that she tapped the vein of the issue. The coverage of the Smith children has always been carried out with a considered, kid-glove professionalism that ensures a message of their empowerment and stomps upon the merest suggestion of exploitation. The army of managers, choreographers, songwriters, agents, stylists and make-up artists behind the scenes are played down as far as possible, and the resulting efforts touted merely as each child's "individual style", as though it was arrived at in the usual course of nine year-old experimentation, during an afternoon with Mum's pilfered makeup and jewellery.

Not pictured: realistic styling by a 9 year old.

In September 2009, then aged 9, Willow Smith told radio host Ryan Seacrest, "just be an individual, you can't be afraid to be yourself... and you can't let anybody tell you that's wrong". Neat, both in the sense that it would seem to both prove the child's utter commitment to their public image, and absolve any adult stakeholders in Willow's career should things go down the proverbial shitter. Listen to the child, people! She's not being exploited or marketed, she's a talented child, expressing her individuality!

Now, naturally the world is full of little girls and boys who would love to be actors, singers, rappers or the like. In fact, this trend is so common that in a recent survey of British schoolchildren, the most frequent answer to "what do you want to be when you grow up?" was simply; "Famous". Many of us remember our abortive childhood fantasies of rock stardom or Oscar acceptance speeches, and dreamed feverishly of "real" parents who would pick us up one day and turn out to be rich and famous, paving our way to the red carpets and superdomes of the glamorous people.

No doubt, offered the deal that the Smith children have been born into (mega-star parents, unlimited access to the gears of fame creation) we would have jumped at the chance as well. We would have recorded the singles, we would have starred in the movies. We would probably have loved it - and we probably would have said so just as enthusiastically as Willow and Jaden.

We probably would have thought pretty highly of ourselves, too. Not in our scene, the busboy actors and taxi-driving musicians looking for a break in an industry where it's always been about who you know. Not for us, the cattle-call auditions where children are seen and dismissed in their hundreds per hour. Not for us, the agony of forging a new brand in an industry already splitting at the seams; the talented rubbing elbows with the mediocre, the beautiful frantically exercising their advantage over the ordinary, the rejects by their thousands lining the exit corridor, bitterly stroking the fantasy of a big break that never came.

I can imagine any of us, styled to perfection and adopting our image as our individual style, sitting on a couch with Jay Leno, saying how we were "born to do this", speaking of our love and passion for our work. I can imagine us believing in the adoration, in the money, in the fame, perhaps even until it became integral to who we were. Would we ever be able to be happy without the flash of the cameras and screams of the fans? Would we ever know another desire for our future lives?

So is this exploitation? Or, as McMillan would have it, pimping? Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith didn't respond publicly to McMillan's tweet, but it's clear that their intention is to give their children the best possible foothold in the slippery Hollywood market. Talented though the children undoubtedly are, it is understandable to criticize the way that coveted movie roles and recording contracts have fallen to them as a birthright, and at an age where they will be more likely to internalise their success as the deserved recognition of serious talent than to recognise it as a lucky side effect of their parentage.

But yet, the sheer volume of tickets and albums sold seems to speak for itself in that, for now, the Smith children are at the top of their games, and we are happily spending plenty of money to see them play. Perhaps someone is being exploited, and perhaps it is us.

What do you think?

Sunday's tip of the day

Follow your crazy ideas people. Just do it ;)

Alone

Adam, Auguste Rodin

No. Of my heart I will make a tower
and stand on its very edge,
where nothing else exists—just once again pain
and what cannot be said, and once again world.

Once again in all that vastness
now dark, now light again, the single thing I am,
one final face confronting
what can never be appeased.

That ultimate face, enduring as stone,
at one with its gravity,
drawn by distances that could dissolve it
into some promise of the sacred.

New Poems

Sem grandes post hj

Acho que já magoei muita gente, acho que já perdi a amizade de alguns. Eu reconheci que errei, que fui chata, e tal, mas pedi perdão, agora não posso obrigar ninguém a me perdoar.
Realmente não to boa com esse história, espero não magoar mais ninguém, realmente estou triste como nunca imaginei que estaria, .
Sei-lá estou bem por alguma coisa, e ruim por outras, espero que tudo isso se resolva, ou que pelo menos pare de martelar na minha cabeça.
Estou irritada por gostar de alguém que me quer como amiga, estou irritada por magoar amigos, estou irritada com algumas coisas de família.
Este post é para que eu possa desabafar, dizer o que eu to sentindo, pois alguém uma vez me disse que escrever  melhora, então pois bem aqui estou eu.

Obs; não precisa comentar dizendo que vai ficar tudo bem, quando sei que não vai ficar, ou que está tudo bem quando não está.

Daily Thoughts 1/29/2011 (Ebooks, Book Applications)

Teodor Axentowicz (1859–1938), Reading, 1899, Pastel on Paper.

Daily Thoughts 1/29/2011 

There are piles of snow everywhere outside.  I had to dig my car out.  Anyways, back to books.  I have been reading http://www.teleread.com   The site has a section on libraries in the top menu bars.  I am gathering more ideas about how important ebooks are to libraries.  I also read some of No Shelf Required which is about digital content in the library setting. http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/

What perturbs me sometimes when I read about ebooks is the almost total lack of conversation about digital music.  There are far fewer services for digital music in libraries than bookstores.  I have wondered when the amount of digital music available to libraries will increase.  I see an increase in book applications, but very little movement towards enhanced ebooks with music.  This would be a tremendous combination.  Books on musicians with digital music would be a very good idea.

There are other ideas which have come up.  How would you lend a book application in a library setting.  Libraries already have tremendous problems with lending computer programs.  Book applications are basically computer programs.  I think it would have to become more device focused.  You might want to lend an Ipad with a set of applications on it.  Eventually there will be tablets affordable enough for this. It is something which librarians should be thinking about.  I would like to be able to lend Ipads with book applications on them.  We already have laptops that are used inside our library.

Craaazy

There are no other words to describe last night but CRAZY. I have never experienced a night like this ever before…my gauuud...:o

The main highlight of the night though was that I got to meet one of Sweden’s biggest, prettiest, and super friendly blogger - Kenza Zouiten!!! :D

She was soo tiny in reality, but her personality is sooo big and sweet. That girl is simply awesome :)

You Come and Go

Rilke by a Window, by Gerolf Van de Perre

You come and go. The doors swing closed
ever more gently, almost without a shudder.
Of all who move through the quiet houses,
you are the quietest.

We become so accustomed to you,
we no longer look up
when your shadow falls over the book we are reading
and makes it glow.

From The Book of Hours I, 45

Estou triste.

Estou triste Hoje,pois acho que magoei uma amiga, sabe não queria que ela ficasse triste comigo, amo muito ela, mais que uma irmã.
Estou triste, pois estou com saudade dele, (segunda chega logo Pow).Triste porque minha encomenda não chega,triste de ver minhas amigas triste, triste de ver a falta de respeito aleio.Triste de ver que alguns amigos estão distantes,Triste com tanta coisa.
Mas creio que tudo vai se ajeitar aos poucos, tudo vai tomando seu caminho.
Peço desculpa a quem eu fui chata, chereta, entrometida.
Luana me perdoa . Minha best, minha mais que irmã, eu te amo minha parenta da lua crescente, maggot forever.
Te amo muitão.

LOBBY tonight :D

After 3 whole weeks of clubbing rehabilitation, I am free. Awesome. :D

Daily Thoughts 1/28/2011 (Ebooks)

Painting of Russian writer Evgeny Chirikov by Ivan Kulikov, 1904.

Daily Thoughts 1/28/2011

I finished reading Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley this morning.  I would call it an alternate earth thriller.

I checked the displays this morning.  I also spent some time planning for the website for Twitter and the survey on the website.  I am reading more on ebooks to get better grasp of what I will say in the grant we are working on.

I have been thinking on recent reasons I have run into for ebooks in libraries.  Some of the things which come to mind are:

• Transmedia literacy the ability to handle information across a variety of different devices.
• The digital divide does not just apply to computers, it also applies to other electronic devices.
• There is a need for greater information literacy.
• Libraries are not prepared for enhanced ebooks or book applications.
• The Ipad is more than just an ebook platform it has many other functions.
• Children need to be shown ebooks early to prepare them for the digital future.
• Libraries are just starting to build ebook collections. It will take time to match their book collections.
• Libraries need to be renewed so they can be ready for a digital future and not be perceived as obsolete.

Web Bits

DBW Library-Publisher Panel Makes the Case for Ebook Lending
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/888975-264/dbw_library-publisher_panel_makes_the.html.csp

Ebooks and Immediate Gratification from Overdrive's Library Blog
http://overdriveblogs.com/library/2011/01/24/ebooks-and-immediate-gratification/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OverdrivesDigitalLibraryBlog+(OverDrive's+Digital+Library+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Media mental matters

"...People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue--a highly intellectual virtue--out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt." --

"For if there is more tragic a fool than the businessman who doesn’t know that he is an exponent of man’s highest creative spirit, it is the artist who thinks that the businessman is his enemy.“ Composer Richard Halley. --

-- Ayn Rand, from Atlas Shrugged

lee joon in C.N. BLUE? how come? :O

today there was english exam

the topic is about noun clause, conjunction, and report text

guess what, the report text is about the talented band

i must complete the text given to make a report text

linda, dycka, sonia and i were so confused haha

because we don't remember who is the name of the member,

where they come from, what are their albums etc

so, we use C.N. BLUE

but the funny part is, we don't remember all of C.N. BLUE members haha ;)

so, we agree to change the member's name :p

we only know jonghyun, yonghwa, and minhyuk

the last one? actually his real name is jeongshin

but we change it to LEEJOON! 

HAHAHA! ROTFL.

we don't have any choice, so we use it

nobody will know :p

actually, leejoon is the member of MBLAQ

ahaha, so far from C.N. BLUE ><

just hoping now so i will get the good mark

because, i've done the best :)

today was unforgettable!

Am I Not the Whole?

Rodin, 1902, by Edward Steichen

God, are you then the All? And I the separated one
who tumbles and rages?
Am I not the whole? Am I not all things
when I weep, and you the single one, who hears it?

From The Book of Hours II, 3

Que falta.

Como é triste, muito triste não te ver, sinto tanto a sua falta, eu preciso de você do meu lado, preciso de seu carinho, de seu jeito.

Perceber que você está tão longe, e pode estar com outra, me deixa tão irritada, com ciúmes, fico sem chão só de pensar.
Me diga quando você volta? me diga quando você vai trazer minha inspiração?, me diga que não a ama, que não a deseja, mais que realmente está balançado por mim.Queria ouvir tantas coisas sairem de seus lábios, tantos sentimentos sendo mostrado no seu olhar.
Sonho em te encontrar, e um dia e poder olhar em seus olhos, e saber que o que eu sinto é real, e você também sente o mesmo.
Eu sei que você sente quando penso em você, que você sabe que preciso de você do meu lado, que sinto sua falta como nunca senti na minha vida, espero que você sinta minha falta.
Não me resta opção, esse sentimento cresce a cada dia, não posso esconde-lo, aprisiona-lo; prefiro que você saiba que eu , sim eu Realmente sinto algo por você, algo que ninguém é capaz de sentir como eu.
Você é tão especial, tão diferente de todos, não é só isso, você é único, um em um milhão.

Distractions

After a cup of hot chocolate and really nice & valuable talk at Café Linnéhörnan with Lisa, I was just going to walk through town to catch my bus...but somewhere along the shops I got distracted. Hihi ^^

Bought the coral mini-tee (H&M)

Before I went to Lindex and added these two to my panty collection

Also found an adorable bag! Will use it tomorrow when I go out with my chicas :D

Daily Thoughts 01/27/2011 (Web Content, Cowboy Angels)

The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement," 1866, Paul Cezanne

Daily Thoughts 01/27/2011

On the way to work, I read some more of Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley.  Some of the alternate Americas are very interesting. 

I got to work a little late because of the snow today.  I spent some time working on a grant for ereaders.  I still have quite a bit to do.  I have been looking at the Sony Reader Program for devices and ebooks.  http://ebookstore.sony.com/library-program/  I also spent some time on the Overdrive site looking at compatible devices for the ebooks which we get from them.

I also took a few minutes to look at the new library survey which we have.  We are going to look at it a little more.  It needs some work. http://www.mountvernonpubliclibrary.org/node/111

I put the Web Content Strategists Bible by Richard Sheffield and The Content Management Bible by Bob Boiko on hold through interlibrary loan.  No libraries in our system currently have them.

On the way home, I read some more of Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley.  It has gotten even better, there is now a twist in the turing gates.  The main character adds an element of time travel to the ability to travel to alternate histories.  This makes the reading captivating.

Making the call as "the man"

Last night the rain/sleet/snow/sleet/snow/ICE cycle hit Richmond again right at rush hour.  This sort of situation create a major decision point for leaders all over the region.  

To cancel, or not to cancel Wed night activities?  churches, schools, music lessons, sports practices...

Make the call earlier friends. Remember the hundreds of dependancies in your constituency...

Forge ahead and trust your gut, but remember that you are accountable for your mistakes, and apologies are welcome where bad calls are made and then "reversed" at the last minute. Last minute emergency reversals are worse in many cases because they increase the drama unnecessarily, in every household, every mind.. distracting with little value. 

My advice, ALWAYS err on the side of safety.  One injury or accident is too many. Calls of "it wasn't that bad", "in my day".. will be there regardless. 

Toughness in leadership is sacrificing the institution and the programs for the people's safety... not forging ahead with the thought of 4 wheel drives, and "oh, they will be fine". It is only raining here... Weather is a fickle thing.. but not as fickle as people..

To end on a humorous note:  Making a weather call takes perspective, resources, research and knowledge that most small org just don't have..  As for me and my house.. we generally just follow the Chesterfield County Public Schools.. but not always... ;-)  If my street looks treacherous, my wife and kids are staying home.. no matter what "the man" says... 

Ebooks, Ereaders, and Digital Content Publishing, The First Digital Show and Tell. January 20, 2011 3:30-6:30 p.m.

Ebooks, Ereaders, and Digital Content Publishing, The First Digital Show and Tell. January 20, 2011 3:30-6:30 p.m.

This was an interesting event to go to. It was at Sotheby's Institute of Art on the sixth floor. The program was sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group and Sourcebooks. The space was very nice. It had a clean, professional comfortable feel to it. This was the first of a planned series by The Book Industry Study Group.

There were two sessions where presenters were doing a round robin going from table to table giving seven minute presentations. A round robin is where you move from person to person in a circle and give a short presentation.

Both the presenters and the daters were an interesting crowd. I sat next to Paul Biba from Teleread which was interesting. He was using a Mac Air book which was incredibly thin and light. Margaret Harrison who is an acquisitioins manager from Vook was also at the table.

It was interesting. The first presenter at our table was Autography LLC. Autography had a way for authors to autograph ebooks. It also allowed them to date and add other identifying marks to ebooks. They showed us some signed ebooks. Thomas Waters and Robert Barrett were the presensters. Http://www.autography.us.com Autography won one of the audience choice awards which was a free ticket to Book Expo America.

The next person was Wendy Bronfin, Directory of Product Management from Nook Color. She demonstrated the Nook Color. It was very interesting watching her scroll through magazines as well as show childrens books on the Nook. The color was the best part. Http://www.nook.com

Mike Violano VP of business development presented a bookstore application for the Iphone called the iFlow reader . It used a rotating slideshow presentation for the books both horizontally and vertically. I liked the look of the reader. https://www.iflowreader.com/app.aspx

Michael Edson, the Principal of the Deti Group gave a brief presentation. He was talking about how to integrated social applications with publishing sites. He showed a twitter screen flow that took up the right side of a screen, next to a publishing article. This reminds me that Twitter is an open API which allows developers to do unusual things with it. http://deti-group.com/

Jonathan Bertfield CEO of Peroozal talked about his new website. This is an author site where authors recommend their favorite books. It is a way to give a unique form of readers advisory. The main authors on the site were thriller authors. I can see how this would have an appeal. I even signed up to the site to look it over more. I think this could be very useful for publishers. Http://www.peroozal.com It won one of the audience choice awards.

Patricia Samara talked about Choice Book Interactive which makes multicultural childrens books. Their series is called Alphabet Kids http://www.alphabetkids.com/ They were there to make contacts so they could make both ebooks and book apps. Book apps are a fairly new innovation. I have not heard of any libraries lending Kindles with book applications.

There was a short break between presentations where we had a chance to wander and have a light refreshment. I took a diet coke. I found it kind of amusing that they had five ladies bathrooms and one mens bathroom.

The second round of presenters started with Bowker. Patricia Payton was presenting a tool for full content indexing for ebooks.. This tool allowed creation of metadata sets for books and magazine publishers. It identifies keywords, assigns relevancy scores to keywords, tags keyword by facet, classifies general subject, audience and reading levels, and identifies similar material. Http://www.bowker.com

Another presenter was Marc Jaffe, president of Cross-Platform Publishing Advisors. He showed an immersive version of Howard and the Purple Crayon for Ipad.

Aaron Travis and Miller Alber from Read Social presented their social book application that allowed people to share notes inside of ebooks. They are focusing on selling the application to developers in different segments of the book industry. This is a tool from Book Glutton. Http://www.bookglutton.com They won the audience prize.

Leah Hultenschmidt demoed a book application for The Fiske Interactive Guide to Colleges. It included video from the colleges, text, pictures of the campus and a variety of ratings. This is more than just a book. It allowed students to generate lists of schools and plan campus visits. I really liked how the application looked. http://www.fiskeguide.com/ They plan on releasing the application for Ipad later this year.

Vook is also an interesting book application. They combine books with video and audioclips. It was quite interesting to look at. One of the most popular items was a pilates exercise book which combined video on how to do the exercises, text, and pictures. It seemed like an excellent medium for how to books. Margaret Harris the Acquisitions Manager also had worked at Overdrive. They are planning on expanding their reach. This is something that I think would be of interest to public libraries. Http://www.vook.com

The final presenter was Andrew Malkin from Zinio. Zinio presents enhanced branding and applications for digital content. It was very pretty to look at. A lot of what they showed was fashion magazine material including catalogs for fashion. The main focus of Zinio is digital magazines.

http://www.zinio.com

I found the whole round robin presentation to be quite different. It was a chance to learn about new technologies and talk with people who used them. It was well worth going.

thanks dycka :)

big thanks for dycka! :*

your drawing is so cute, girl 

love it so much ;)

free!

yeah! freedom :D

free from try out 1 kabupaten haha

but test in sinlui is waiting for me

just relax quin,

no need to worry

my parents have paid for BPK Penabur 1 :)

so, if i can't pass the sinlui's test

of course i'll become BPK Penabur 1 student haha

ok, now i rarely online facebook

prefer twitter than fb :p

twitter is more fun than fb, 

check out my timeline and don't forget to click follow 

click here to go to my twitter :)

thanks♥

The Solitude We Are

Cathedral, by Auguste Rodin

To speak again of solitude, it becomes ever clearer that in truth there is nothing we can choose or avoid. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves and act as if this were not so. That is all we can do. How much better to realize from the start that that is what we are, and to proceed from there. It can, of course, make us dizzy, for everything our eyes rest upon will be taken from us, no longer is anything near, and what is far is endlessly far.

Borgeby gärd, Sweden, August 12, 1904

Letters to a Young Poet

Note about Rodin's hand sculpture, "Cathedral," found here:

Rodin was a highly original sculptural genius but he openly acknowledged his indebtedness to the artists who had preceded him; the masters of ancient Greece and The Renaissance; Phidias, Donatello, Michelangelo. He was also intensely interested in Gothic art, the cathedrals of France. After viewing and studying the Magnificent cathedral at Amiens he felt that the basic inspiration came from the voices of nature, from the trees with their strong limbs reaching upward. In the two right hands with fingers arching together he probably thought that he had discovered the source and inspiration for the gothic arch, that arch which with repetition and expansion led to the creation of the superb gothic cathedrals. The hands are obviously those of separate individuals. A spiritual communication between the two is expressed but the fingers and hands remain slightly separated. Could he, through that separation, have been expressing the aloneness of all human beings, the desire for a complete unification which is never realized?

Content Strategy Meetup, January 25,Tuesday, 7 p.m. (Winter Social Session)

Content Management Meetup, January 25, Tuesday, 7 p.m., Winter Social

The meetup was kind of interesting.  I went there to learn more about the profession of content strategy.  It is an emerging profession.

First we met and introduced ourselves. I am hoping I remember most of the people there. There was Peter Gallo who was information architect. Brian E. Kirby was one of the organizers. He works for AIG as a managing editor for web content. He explained his job is more to decide what people are going to do with content than editing. Another of the organizers was Anna Svahn who works for an advertising agency. There was also Elena Melendy who was an independent contractor, Lynn Bernstein who works as an independent consultant, and Liz Weintrob who works for Saatchi and Saatchi as a managing editor and John who works as a technology person.

The atmosphere was quite comfortable. The first thing that they mentioned was a conference called Confab 2011 http://www.confab2011.com/ Anna Svahn was planning on going. It is in Minneapolis on May 9-11.

I asked about content strategy and what it was. They told me that it can mean a lot of different things. The field was relative new. It was about two years old. There is some relation between content strategy and content curation. It is more strategy than data management.

I asked about books which you could read. The first thing they suggested was that I look at Joe Pulizzi who is establishing the Content Management Association. He has a book called Get Content, Get Customers.

Several other books were talked about including; The Content Strategy Bible by Paul Sheffield. This book gives a good introduction to the field. Anne Rockley also wrote Managing Enterprise Content, A Unified Content Strategy. On the more technical side, they mentioned the book, Content Management Bible by Bob Boiko. It is a technical book on how to build a content management system including building, implementing, running, and managing a CMS.

For something a bit simpler, they suggested reading Paul Krug's book about usability, Don't Make Me Think. I mentioned two books, Curation Nation aby Steven Rosenbaum and Letting Go of Words by Ginny Redish. It was interesting hearing about these books.

Most of the people were focused on corporate and advertising data. Liz Weintrob came from a publishing background and worked with Saatchi and Saatchi.

The field is very new. It is about two years old. When I mentioned that I was a librarian they suggested I might be interested in information architecture. I said, no, I am more interested in what goes into a website than the structure, I do collection development.

They described that they were dealing with enterprise content, not smaller systems like Drupal which they use in our library.

I was especially interested in some of the ideas about metadata. They only told me that they are often hired to go in and cleanup existing services which have inadequate descriptors for their records. The search engines and indexes are often not user focused. They are also involved in data mapping and data planning which means they plan out maps of all the data they are going to put in.

I think it was Lynn Bernstein who talked about how she often had to create descriptors for the records from museums and film which had not been properly labeled. It was often a focus on individual records being described. Their objective was to make it easy for the user not the creator. She mentioned three questions.

What do we have?

What are we doing?

What are we going to do with it?

There was an analogy that data was put into a cup. Then the content strategist asks who is going to drink from the cup?

It was a very interesting evening. I learned quite a bit.  As always, feel free to correct me, comment, and think on what was said. Please don't mind my functional, if somewhat personal grammar.

Um Dia ♥-♥.

Um dia vou ter coragem de dizer tudo o que eu sinto para você, vou ter coragem de te olhar no fundo dos olhos e dizer de minha alma o quanto te quero, o quanto quero te beijar, te acariciar, o quanto quero te ver feliz.
Sou meio das antigas, acredito no amor, no verdadeiro amor, não naquele que tudo acaba na cama,mas naquele amor que as pessoas podem sentir, que as deixam com cara de tonto, com o dia feliz, por mais ruim que tenha sido; e isso temos em comum, os dois são das antigas, os dois tem a mesma visão; talvez seja uma das coisas que me puxa mais para você
Quando eu gosto mesmo de uma pessoa, eu gosto, eu o vejo com os olhos mais puro, com os olhos de quem vê realmente a alma do outro, os mesmos olhos que eu te vejo.
Não sei como consigo passar tanto tempo longe de você, eu realmente odeio a distância.
Não vejo a hora de dormir e sonhar com você, o único jeito de matar a saudade quando você está longe é pelos sonhos.Sonho, meu mais novo companheiro, o que me faz feliz quando você não está.
Eu preciso de você aqui, ao meu lado, onde é seu lugar, a cada instante sem você é como se uma parte de mim faltasse,uma parte que acompanha você.Só de ver teu nome, ouvir teu nome, ou algo que me lembra você, faz meus lábios abrirem e mostrar um sorriso , como uma criança após ganhar um doce, um carinho.
Quanta falta você me faz, cada dia sem você, para mim é como um ano sem te ver, te sentir.
Espero que você possa entender, e talvez sentir o eu quero te dizer, o que eu quero que você saiba.Você é tudo o que eu sempre quis, o que eu sempre sonhei, você é maravilhoso do jeito que você é, especial para mim.
Talvez esse sentimento esteja se tornando algo mais forte do que a paixão. Uma vez um sábio me disse que a paixão não é amor e sim doença, mais o amor é  o verdadeiro amor, e sim, é o que eu talvez esteja sentindo, pelo menos quase um ano sentindo o que eu sinto por você, pode ter transformado em amor,será?  isso só o tempo e você vai me dizer.
Então me deixa te amar? Me deixa sentir algo mais forte?
Meu coração diz sim e o seu? ♥-♥


By: Solange Cristina Guerrini Sêga .

Daily Thoughts 11/26/2011

Capricho No 43, "The sleep of reason produces monsters." Francisco De Goya


Daily Thoughts 11/26/2011


Taking a break and resting today.

Hump Day Hunk: William Levy

I just discovered this hot cuban hunk while researching someone else. HOLY COW, how could I have never heard of him! He is PERFECTION!

William Levy

Bob Out

great story

today was english try out

and when i read the question no 29 i was surprised

the text is so touching!

ok, i'll tell ya ;)

The Importance of Time

The man came home from work late again. He felt very tired. His 5 years old son waited for him at the door. Then the boy asked,"Daddy, may I ask you a question?". "Yeah, sure, what is it?" replied the man.

"Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?"

"That's none of you business! What makes you ask such a thing?" the man said angrily.

"I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?" pleaded the little boy.

"If you must know, I make $20.00 an hour."

"Oh," the little boy replied, head bowed.

Looking up, he said,"Daddy, may I borrow $10.00 please?" the father was furious.

"If the only reason you wanted to know how much money I make is just so you can borrow some to buy silly toy or some other nonsense, then you'd better go to your room and go to bed. Think about why you're being so selfish. I work long, hard hours everyday and don't have time for such childish games." the little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

After an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think he may have been a little hard on his son. The man went to the door of the little boy's room.

"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.

"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier," said the man. "It's been a long day and I am very tired and say something rude to you. Here's that $10.00 you asked for." the little boy sat straight up, beaming. 

"Oh, thank you Daddy!" he yelled, then reaching under his pillow, he pulled out some more money. The man knowing the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up the man.

"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied.

"Daddy, I have $20.00 now. Can I buy an hour of your time?" the man couldn't speak for a moment and finally he realized his mistakes. He spent too much time to work. He didn't have much time for his son. With eyes full of tears, he hugged his son and asked for forgiveness.

touching rite? :D

yesterday, my english course teacher gave me some questions too

and between those questions, there's a funny story too!

read this then ;]

Lesson Learned

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people lived. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"

"It was great, Dad."

"Did you see how poor people live?" asked the father.

The son asnwered:"I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them."

They boy's father was speechless.

Then, his son added,"Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are."

LOL !

haha, funny isn't it? :p

ok, i think that's all for today

ciao :D

The Great God Sleep

 Lou Andreas-Salomé

That great god Sleep: I yield to him all greediness for time. What does he care about Time! Ten hours, eleven twelve — if he wants to consume them in his silencing and privileged way, let him. Alas, I seldom manage to retire early; evening is my time to read. Seductive books, aided by the improbably intensifying noises of the old house, usually keep me awake till past midnight. The personal errands of a mouse in the thick walls of some yet-to-be-cleared inner room deepen the mystery of the endless surrounding night.

Letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé
January 13, 1923

Desistir? Jamais

Já cheguei muito longe para desistir agora, já levei essa história longe demais, já enchi muito a minha cabeça com essas coisas, minha mente e meu coração. 

A cada dia que passo longe de você penso como as pessoas que o tem todo dia, como eles tem a sorte de te ver, de te ter por perto a cada dia, e talvez elas não dêem o mesmo valor do que eu dou e daria se te tivesse ao meu lado.

Eu não vou desistir de você, você não vai se livrar tão cedo de mim; talvez eu seja uma doentia, mais uma doentia que não desiste do que quer, pode demorar como pode vir rápido, pode ser que eu desanime ou que eu ganhe mais força, mais desistir de você vai ser muito difícil. Não desisti de você quando você menos pode, imagine se desistirei de você agora, não sou nenhuma menininha boba de cabeça fraca que desiste de algo que seja um pouco difícil de conquistar.

Minha inspiração foi embora com você aquele dia. Posso ir buscar você e ela? 

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"Não existe amor à primeira vista. O que existe é a pessoa certa, no momento certo. Você por acaso estava lá."

Não vou desistir de você. Mon amour