Where does he find this stuff...?

Funny by because secretly we all think about this, and yet most of the time we are too polite to do it...

Check out how cupcakes should be at Eclecticity Light

The festive season (in Sydney)

This Christmas tree is beautiful! Thanks to Nicholas Bate for pointing me to it. Christmas is different in Sydney, ten years on, and I’m still finding it a bit challenging to get into the spirit of things. Isn’t it amazing how much weather has to do with how you feel (or is it more to do with the traditions one learns growing up)?
I have a ‘tree’ but it doesn’t even reach knee height. A little gaze over it just then, and I have to admit, that even describing it this way makes it feel higher than what it really is… It’s a symbol never the less and will keep us going until we’ll be celebrating white Christmases in the not so distant future hopefully. Until then, bring on Santa on Bondi Beach!

Austrian Parliament’s response to immigration

For someone to express such level of emotional intensity, they must have been robbed of their tolerance in its entirety. This doesn’t happen overnight, neither without any reason.

thanks to CulturalOffering.com to post this video:
Cultural Offering.com: "Your devotion to freedom of religion is pure hypocrisy. . ."

Execupundit.com: Three Worthy Resolutions for Every Day

sheer brilliance.
Execupundit.com: Three Worthy Resolutions for Every Day

Seth's Blog: The world's worst boss

With hundreds of likes in Google Reader, 1,824 re-tweets (at the time I read it), this one is clearly a winner with the Seth-tribe. For a thought provoking and (hopefully) motivating read, check out Seth’s blog post on ‘The world's worst boss’.

Quote of the day

‘Beware of any rule that is written by those who are exempt from its effects.’

More Michael Wade at Execupundit.com: Random Thoughts

In love with Cornwall…

Pictures courtesy of Nicholas Bate:
It must be Cornwall 1
It must be Cornwall 2
It must be Cornwall 3
It must be Cornwall 4
It must be Cornwall 5
It must be Cornwall 6
Thank you!

A Yuletide Gift of Kindness | Smithsonian Magazine

What an amazing true story about genuine giving just before Christmas in the middle of America’s Great Depression of 1933. (A Yuletide Gift of Kindness | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine)

Thanks goes to Execupundit for posting it.

What? We can’t see the Great Wall of China from space?

List of misconceptions from Wikipedia:

‘It is commonly claimed that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the Moon.^[42] This is false. None of the Apollo astronauts reported seeing any man-made object from the Moon. The misconception is believed to have been popularized by Richard Halliburton decades before the first moon landing.’

Courtesy of E. (Eclecticity). Thank you, amused. Again.

Next at Microsoft

cool new blog and hub by Steve Clayton.

14 Ways To Be More Successful - Nicholas Bate

The master list here: 14 Ways To Be More Successful

When you don’t know what to do or say…

Cultural Offering.com: Cancer etiquette
A useful read, because when it happens to you, or to someone in your family, in the shock that’s sure to follow, all of life’s wisdom seem evaporate... You are near or apart, and want to do (something, anything) and help, but not sure what and how and don’t have the words. Only the cliches.
And to know that it doesn’t matter what you say, just showing support is enough, and is best and it’s sometimes all you can do is reassuring… even if that’s an email, a text or chat if you are twenty thousand km’s away from the loved ones who are suffering… and from those who are suffering no more…

Don’t be childish

be childlike. Seth Godin explores the difference.

What a lesson…

We can all learn from Gerald, the cabbie. Check out the story at CulturalOffering.com.

Flattery perfected

Thanks to CulturalOffering.com for posting this on The art of brown-nosing.
Sheer genius. I have doubts in being able to use it, but at least now I can see who does!!

There is nothing…

I don’t love about this picture:
From My iPhone: It May Be NY, NY - Nicholas Bate

Execupundit.com: The Other Side

‘The best managers, like the best lawyers, know how to argue the other side of the case.’
Execupundit.com: The Other Side

Execupundit.com: Each Action

Think before you do. Why?
Here is why: Execupundit.com: Each Action

Agree…

with Execupundit. It’s plain nuts indeed: a concert in Japan where the performer is a hologram…

Why do people say cats have nine lives?

This is why…
The post that took me there in the first place is High alert by CulturalOffering.com.