Monday, March 24, 2008

Catching up

Yeap time to catch up.

1994 Lillehammer, Finland, Olympic Games launched a superstar, at least in my book of accomplished athletes. Introducing, Phillipe Candeloro, known for his Godfather, D'Argatan, Braveheart, Rocky and many other routines. He is the only figure skater with Named routines.
Needless to say I had to see him in the flesh when he was in my proximity. Well I even got to touch him. More than anything else, my family and I relived history when Candeloro performed Olympic history with his Musketeers routine. Ahhhhh ... I was the loudest in the crowd with shouts of "BRAVO!! BRAVO!!"

(Pictures to follow)


To add more good news, another artist we adore is also coming to this side of the pond. My dearest George Michael will appear on the tele on Thursday. Above the tele appearance, GM will also tour North America. Maybe I can score some tickets close by too.

Saturday, March 08, 2008

Oops!

*cracking fingers
*scratching head
*hmmmm
*blow off the dust from the blog covers

My apologies to those who eagerly check this site for updates. (*rolling on the ground, holding stomach, laughing and tearing.) My daily schedule begins too early and ends too late, leaving little or no time to venture to this keyboard. There are still opinions and thoughts, generated during the hour long daily commute. There are plenty of notes in the mental closet, which is at the brink of overload.

Note to self:
The next time ANY presidential candidates calls my house at dinner time, make sure to invite them for dinner. Nothing is more irritating and disruptive than the sound of the telephone during any family meal. So heed this voice, no mercy will be shown, regardless of the poll ratings if you interrupt my dinner again.

On the topic of Presidential Candidates, none qualified to be in my book of hopeful. All the candidates have not proven sufficient earnest and sincerity to sit on the Throne of the World. Nightly news coverage depict a race for a performance award, ala Oscar or a Grammy; the Oscar goes to the best performance for smear campaigns. Palely painted are the issues pertinent to the health of the economy, the end to terrorism, educational standards. Instead the flamboyant he said she said, race and sex have taken center stage instead.

Ronald Reagan will be shaking his head in dispair. The airways are filled with "Ending the War."
Never have I heard, "WINNING the war." Sure end the war with tails between legs, that is an open invitation to the psychotic Islamic fascists to continue their terror acts another 9/11, end the war without winning is telling the kids it is okay to go to school but not graduate.

"IF we don't fight for Freedom, some day we will tell our grandchildren how is was like to live Free." Ronald Reagan.

Another note to self:
This Winter has been a triple threat, length, temperature and volume. Here into the month of March, we are clearing off inches of snow in subzero temperatures. Amidst all the wraths of mother nature, emerged a few good things.
* 4 wheel drive RULES!!
* The dogs are rolling in the yard.
*The dogs are rolling in the yard and they do not smell.
*The kids are rolling in the yard and do not smell.
*The kids are making snow men and fortresses with little or no cleanup.
finally.... a good thing with inches of snow in the backyard....
*SADIE is rolling and rolling and rolling in the backyard and do not smell.

Another note to self:
Kudos to King Hussein of Jordan, your parents have raised you well. In the midst of a divided Middle East, you stood up for a cause that is not yours. Let me add to the pool of little praise you have received, *clap, clap. King Hussein have brought forth the need to end the strife in the Gaza Strip. For those who are oblivious of the happenings beyond borders, Palestine and Israel have been fighting over the Gaza Strip for too long, and the true reason for the conflict is long lost amongst time, people forgot why there started fighting in the first place. Terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah find any reason to begin a battle, even if they are unaffiliated by a galaxy. Similar to the tune of Al-Qaeda, who took on PLO's name to justify 9/11. Until Yasser Arafat publicly condemned Al-Qaeda and castigated Osama for his actions and taking on an unrelated fight. King Hussein is a good neutral observer in the Middle East, warning the world about the dangers if the coalition withdraws from Iraq prematurely. This action will result in a collapse of a country that we have all sacrificed to help build, think of it as taking away the wood forms before the concrete fully dries and cure. Slowly help Iraq stand tall and strong as a democratic country before letting go her hand, warns King Hussein.