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If I earned $1 every second. This would be my earnings:
$100 — 1 minute and 40 seconds
$1,000 — 16 minutes and 40 seconds
$10,000 — 2 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds
$100,000 — 1 day, 3 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds
$1 Million — 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds
It has always puzzled me what all the cheering is for. Perhaps it’s simply the fact that I can still walk upright—most of the time. Or maybe it’s just that I walk at all.
A new list of the 100 best vocalists of all time was just released. On top, #1 Freddy Merkury and I couldn’t agree more. I am a Freddie Fan for life, since a lifetime, so it seems. Aretha Franklin came in second. Not an argument from me here either. I love her, but then I got lost. Why was Barbra Streisand not mentioned in the first top 10?
I took a long blogging break here, unintentionally. So much is happening all the time, everywhere, on many levels – and ACTUALLY, I would have something to say about many of these topics. So why don’t I do it?
Like every year, we watched a couple of Oscar movies, but none of them knocked our socks off or left us wishing for more; the opposite.
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“The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight.
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I was a translator. I chose this line of work because I wanted to see and understand the world. I wanted to help build bridges between nations. My best childhood friend spoke four languages at the age of ten. I wanted to be just like her.
Once upon a time, there lived a good king who ruled his land wisely.
He used the taxes his citizens paid to build schools and universities so that young people could learn all trades and study all sciences, thus better serving one another. He also built hospitals and trained doctors so that his citizens would not suffer from more illnesses. He had roads and railways built so that goods produced in one part of the country could be quickly transported to all other parts of the country where they were needed. He urged his judges to judge fairly and forbade his officials from accepting bribes.
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I’m in the Christmas spirit this year; I’ve been fortunate this year. However, I recall last year, when it wasn’t so good, as we faced the new year with uncertainty.
