"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." Steve Jobs
Wordstipation: (n.) A condition suffered by writers when what they want to write is all there in the writer's head, but the words just won't come out onto the page.
As far as I know, I am the first person ever to have used this word, but I won't be so arrogant as to claim ownership of it exclusively. It's a word, and it should be used.
Last night, we recorded Australia's Got Talent 1st Semi Final and watched it back over lunch today. I have got a few favourites at the moment, and 15 year old, Bobby Andanov is one of them. He's also pretty popular with the judges. Brian Macfadden (Westlife) declared himself "A fan" when Bobby finished his semi final performance.
I've posted the video of Bobby's Audition, and his Semi Final appearance. You can judge for yourselves.
Bobby Andonov Australia's Got Talent Audition (Hallelujah)
Bobby Andonov Australia's Got Talent 1st Semi Final (Heartless)
Today was Labor Day and Sandra and I went to her mum's place for lunch. We had a delicious lamb roast with veges and for dessert, this...
Strawberries with custard and cream in a brandy snap bowl with chocolate flake.
On the way to lunch, I needed to stop at the supermarket to pick up some items, and we went into town to see if Woolworths was open. It wasn't, but the local IGA which is just across the road was open. So where did IGA put their specials of the week sign?
Only an Aussie could be this cheeky!
suggested by Testube
"If you could select one song to best describe what kind of day you are having, what would that song be?"
Well, since I only just got up, I haven't had much of a day, as yet. The coffee I had for breakfast was good, though. :) That's always a good way to start the day.
The song that is stuck in my head at present is "If" a cover that Damien Leith has done on his Album: Catch the Wind.
If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?
Why this particular song is in my head at present, I don't know, but it is in Damien's voice, so that's not a bad thing. For those who don't know Damien won Australian Idol back in 2006 and I've been following his career ever since.
He's also a writer with one book to his credit so far:One More Time.
Despite the musical sounding title, the story isn't really about the music industry. It is a very interesting tale about a young man who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I bought the book when it was released not long after Damien's leap to fame as Australian Idol.
Anyway, all of that does nothing to explain why that particular song from his album is stuck in my head this morning. Perhaps, I am just obsessed with Damo! *g*
On the writing front, the current WIP has begun to progress again after a brainstorming session with my faitful shotgun, Iris last night. I'd gotten hung up on a plot point but she helped me to work through it.
It's now officially past the 50,000 words mark with maybe another 10k needed to finish it.
I'm excited!
In Australia, April 25th "ANZAC Day" commemorates the sacrifices of the men and women who have served The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in various wars over the years. It is a public holiday and many people turn out to honor the memory of the fallen in dawn services and by attending parades. It is probably one of the busiest days of the year for our RSL (Returned Soldiers' League) Clubs as men and women get together to raise a glass in memory of bygone days and battles.
On this ANZAC Day 2010, I would like to take the opportunity to remember and to thank all those men and women who sacrificed their lives, to ensure our continued freedom.
The National Library of Australia holds many archives and articles from both the first and second World Wars, many of them 'on the scene' accounts of famous landings and battles. I thought that I would post an excerpt from one article here.
Between the first landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 and the evacuation which began eight months later in December, some 43,750 allied soldiers lost their lives. At least 85,000 Turkish soldiers died.
The casualty figures were small compared to the later catastrophic losses in France and Belgium but nonetheless devastating for families at home as the true extent of the losses began to emerge.
The Australians had been training in Egypt, where the name Anzac, for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, was adopted. Some 18 000 of them had sailed from Albany in the south of Western Australia on 1 November 1914 expecting to disembark in England. Canadian troops had already arrived in England and the British were unable to accommodate the Australians-and New Zealanders-who were instead re-directed to Egypt. There they received their unexpected orders to go to Gallipoli-their first battle orders-following the failure of British and French naval assaults on Turkey in the Dardanelles.
At the setting of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them. Lest we forget.
