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Monday, 12 December 2011

Greatest Speech Ever

I just wanted to share something so beautiful with everyone.

I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate;
has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in:
machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical,
our cleverness hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little:
More than machinery we need humanity;
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish. . .

Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written:
"The kingdom of God is within man"
Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

. . .

Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up.

Saturday, 17 September 2011

C'mon, lad, shiver me timbers!

So I would like to talk about a favorite day of mine that I will be partaking in!

Yes September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Not only will I be at work (not talking like a pirate to customers but to coworkers ARRRRRR)
I'll also be dressing like a pirate! Why not right?!

Check out this super cute video this website made

So as far as costumes go I am not planning on going all crazy such as for like I would on halloween. But I am thinking something simple and easy I could normally do...

Since I will be at work it has to be professional yet cute. Also, I'll probably end up wearing a bandana instead of a hat ^_^

So tell me friends... would you or ARE YOU going to participate in International Talk Like a Pirate Day?

If so I'd love to get your pictures sent to me and I'll upload them also along with mine the following Tuesday!

Send me a message on here and I'll give you my personal e-mail so I can upload pictures!

-xoxo JRC

Tuesday, 06 September 2011

Grammar

I do not know what it is about a person who can eloquently present themselves in a conversation. Okay, maybe they do not have to be an expert but, even understanding the proper use of their, there, they're would suffice. Or just plain punctuation in their sentences and not TyPiNg LiKe DiZ 2 eRrY1 dEy KnO. Seriously, if a guy tried to hit on me in a text message typing like that I am pretty sure I'd go berserk.

I have included an example of right and wrongs with punctuation too!

Okay so it can be pretty funny sometime but, honestly I would want to rip my ears off if I had to be subjected to horrible grammar all the time. I will not say that I have perfect grammar because, I do not (I blame my asian side and the lack of interest in English and always excelling at Math). I use as many resources as I can to help keep my grammar skills up and read.

I can say proper grammar and education is quite attractive.

Does anyone else have this sort of mind set? How important is grammar to you?
Rudy Francisco

“I want you to bite my lip until I can no longer speak. And then suck my ex girlfriend’s name out of my mouth just to make sure she never comes up in our conversations. I’m going to be honest, I’m not really a love poet. In fact, every time I try to write about love my hands cramp… just to show me how painful love can be. And sometimes my pencils break, just to prove to me that every now and then love takes a little more work than you planned.

See I heard that love is blind so, I write all my poems in brail. And my poems are never actually finished because true love is endless. I always believed that real love is kind of like a super model before she’s air brushed; it’s pure and imperfect, just the way that God intended. See I’m going to be honest, I’m not a love poet. But if I was to wake up tomorrow morning and decide that I really wanted to write about love I swear that my first poem… it would be about you.

About how I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless with no training wheels or elbow pads so my scars can tell the story of how I fell for you. You see, I’m not really a love poet. But if I was I’d write about how I see your face in every cloud and your reflection in every window, you see I’ve written like a million poems hoping that somehow maybe someway you’ll jump out of the page and be closer to me because if you were here, right now, I would massage your back until your skin sings songs that your lips don’t even know the words to.

Until your heartbeat sounds like my last name and you smile like the pacific ocean, I want to drink the sunlight in your skin. If I was a love poet, I’d write about how you have the audacity to be beautiful, even on days when everything around you is ugly you see I’d write about your eyelashes and how they are like violin strings that play symphonies every time you blink.

If I was a love poet I’d write about how I melt in front of you like an ice sculpture, every time I hear the vibration in your voice so whenever I see your name on the caller ID my heart, it plays hop scotch inside of my chest. Yo it climbs on to my ribs like monkey bars and I feel like a child all over again. I know this sounds strange but every now and then I pray that God somehow turns you back in to one of my ribs just so that I would never have to spend an entire day without you.

I swear, I’m not a love poet. But if I was to wake up tomorrow morning and decide that I really wanted to write about love, my first poem it would be about you. And after all of that she was like, so how do you feel about me? And I said, put it like this: I want to be your ex boyfriend’s stunt man. I want to do everything that he never had the courage to do like… trust you.

I swear that when our lips touch I can taste the next sixty years of my life. And some days I want to swallow stacks of your pictures just so you can be a part of me for a little bit longer. If I could I would sample your smile and then I would let my heart beat, do the bass line, we would create the greatest love song of all time. Whenever, we stand next to each other, love I was the only one made for you and you can be at last my Etta James. I’ll be oh child when you’re in pain or you could be candy coated drops of rain even though it never rains in Southern California. And together, we could be music.

And when my friends ask if you’re my girlfriend, I’ll say no. She is my musician. And me… I’m her favorite song.”

I wanted to share this with anyone who has never heard of Rudy Francisco. He is amazing... People who have a way with words is just beyond me. I love it.

OHAI, I'm back but in random spurts <3

-xoxo JRC

Thursday, 28 July 2011

Trance

Download my friends new mix again ^_^

Trance listeners cannot be without this wonderful mix.

TRANCEformersession 012 - DJ Dseptikon

Photik - Inspire (original mix)
Headstrong feat. Stine Grove - Tears (Aurosonic progressive mix)
Morgan Page, Sultan, Ned Shepard & BT feat. Angela McCluskey - In the air (extended mix)
Marco V - Reaver (Save The Robot remix)
Robin S. vs. Save The Robot - Show me love (Ben Nicky Ibiza mash up)
Katy Perry - Last friday night (Carlos Cid & Greg Bahary's hott 22 vocal club mix)
Wynter Gordon - Dirty talk (Laidback Luke remix)
Alice Deejay - Better off alone (Laidback Luke remix)
Stoneface & Terminal - Rush (original mix)
Grace - Not over yet (Max Graham vs. Protoculture remix)
D-Mad vs. Arty. vs. Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford - She gave me the sun & moon (Lavisse Den Bosch bootleg)
W&W - Three o'clock (original mix)
Protoculture feat. Shannon Hurley - Sun gone down (original mix)
Kyau & Albert - A night like this (original mix)
Signum feat. Julie Thompson - Never be the same (Myon & Shane 54 monster mix)
Marcus Schossow & Reeves feat. Emma Hewitt - Light (Kris O'Neil remix)
Ronski Speed & Cressida - Glueck (club mix)
Menno De Jong feat. Ellie Lawson - Place in the sun (Ronski Speed remix)
DJ Shog - Come back (original mix)
Tiddey feat. Lyck - Keep waiting (Tiddey's uplifting mix)
Jorn Van Deynhoven & Talla 2XLC - Avalon (Talla 2XLC mix)
Aly & Fila feat. Jwaydan - We control the sunlight (Alex M.O.R.P.H. remix)
Defcon Audio feat. Julie Harrington - Lost in you (Jamie Walker remix)