QUEENTERESTING

Your music lives on..

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:41:00 +0000

One of the best video tributes to the King of Pop
This was originally made for BET Awards but they never got to air it

Gone too soon
RIP, MJ

Michael Jackson dies at the age of 50

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:30:00 +0000

R.I.P King of Pop.

You will be missed. Terribly.

To think you even recently planned a comeback. I guess it's a comeback to the Father you're headed to now.

Remember this everyday

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:05:00 +0000

Insomnia on Piano

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:55:00 +0000

I found this cool video of a Korean guy playing Craig David's hit "Insomnia" on the piano.

I've learned...

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:30:00 +0000

By Omer B. Washington

I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is be someone who can be loved.
The rest is up to them.
I’ve learned that no matter how much I care,
some people just don’t care back.
I’ve learned that it takes years to build up trust
and only seconds to destroy it.
I’ve learned that it’s not what you have in your life
but who you have in your life that counts.
I’ve learned that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes.
After that, you’d better know something.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t compare yourself
to the best others can do,
but to the best you can do.
I’ve learned that it’s not what happens to people,
It’s what they do about it that matters.
I’ve learned that no matter how thin you slice it,
there are always two sides.
I’ve learned that you should always talk to loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you’ll see them.
I’ve learned that you can keep going
long after you think you can’t.

I’ve learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done
When it needs to be done,
regardless of the consequences.
I’ve learned that there are people who love you dearly,
but just don’t know how to show it.
I’ve learned that sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry,
but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.
I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.
I’ve learned that just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.

I’ve learned that no matter how good a friend is,
they’re going to hurt you every once in a while
and you must forgive them for that.
I’ve learned that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I’ve learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken,
the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
I’ve learned that our background and circumstances may influence who we are,
but we are responsible for who we become.
I’ve learned that just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other.
And just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do.

I’ve learned that sometimes you have to put the individual
ahead of their actions.
I’ve learned that no matter the consequences,
those who are honest with themselves go farther in life.
I’ve learned that your life can be changed in a matter of hours
by people who don’t even know you.
I’ve learned that even when you think you have no more to give,
when a friend cries out to you,
you will find the strength to help.

I’ve learned that writing,
as well as talking,
can ease emotional pains.
I’ve learned that the people you care most about in life
are taken from you too soon.
I’ve learned that it’s hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice
and not hurting people’s feelings and standing up for what you believe.
I’ve learned to love
and be loved.

Didgeridoo

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:41:00 +0000

Playing the didgeridoo in Clark Quay.
It's an Australian aboriginal insrument.
Pretty cool!

Breaktime

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:31:00 +0000

Pedicab drivers in Singapore

Singapore

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:42:00 +0000

The clean & tidy land of $1 street ice cream, deep fried street food, Asian fusion dishes, bird park, underwater world, night safari, boat quay, Singapore flyer, cleanest Chinatown ever, and family memories. It was just great to be able to visit again.

Chicken Ala Carte

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:36:00 +0000

A sad but true story about how people irresponsibly add to the problem of world hunger.

Who says we don't have enough? We have more than enough. We just don't know how to share. People have to really start to become more selfless and think of ways to reach out to the less fortunate.

Watching this video brought tears to my eyes. A friend shared it to me and now I hope to get the message to you too.

This short film won the Berlin Short Film Festival.

Buddha says..

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:33:00 +0000

Slumdog Lovin'

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:19:00 +0000

Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel, visits co-star Freida Pinto at her filming location in Israel.

A little birdie.. oh wait.. Dev's mom confirms their offscreen romance.

Mom Anita said :“First it was the film and now everything else seems to have slotted into place.

“Life can’t get any better for him. Freida is really beautiful and I am really happy for them. Yes, we knew he was flying to Israel to see her.”

And this also tells us that age doesn't matter in love. Dev is 18 and Freida 24.

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Human Tetris

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:27:00 +0000

Who said Tetris is just for game consoles or your cellphone?

See how the Japanese tried to make it more interesting:

Comics Picks

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:54:00 +0000

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Snakes escape on the plane

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:43:00 +0000

On a flight in Australia, 4 baby Stimson pythons escaped their container box. They were to be transported from Alice Springs to Melbourne and were about 6 inches long.

When the plane landed and it was realized that the snakes had escaped, a team had to search for them in the plane causing airline to cancel 2 flights after that. The snakes were not found so the plane was fumigated so it could resume operation on Wednesday.

The snakes weren't endangered and weren't venemous. Whew.

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The woman who impressed Simon Cowell

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:48:00 +0000

.. was Susan Boyle at the show Britain's Got Talent.

See how people made fun of her at first and just a little after be in great awe once she started singing onstage. Click here to watch video

Hands down to you, sister.

Holy Week Reminder

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:46:00 +0000

Since it's Holy Week, I thought I'd re-post this entry from my old blog. This is one of my favorite prayers:

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S HYMN OF LOVE

O GOD, I love thee, I love thee-
Not out of hope of heaven for me
Nor fearing not to love and be
In the everlasting burning.
Thou, thou, my Jesus, after me
Didst reach thine arms out dying,
For my sake sufferedst nails, and lance,
Mocked and marred countenance,
Sorrows passing number,
Sweat and care and cumber,
Yea and death, and this for me,
And thou couldst see me sinning:
Then I, why should not I love thee,
Jesu, so much in love with me?
Not for heaven's sake; not to be out of hell by loving thee;
Not for any gains I see;
But just the way that thou didst me I do love and I will love thee:
What must I love thee, Lord, for then?
For being my king and God. Amen.

This is such a beautiful prayer. What moves me is You being there on the cross.. not your promises of heaven or of escaping hell.

I love you simply because I love you.

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Gorgeous

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:42:00 +0000

Let's say that again.

GORGEOUS.

Life is ..

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

-- Mother Teresa

Fooled ya!

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:11:00 +0000

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S friends! :)

I did my share for today and it was so much fun. He said his jaw literally dropped so I guess I did pretty well with my "act".

I also wanted to share this compilation with you.

10 Very Interesting April Fool's Day Hoaxes in history:

#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

1957: The respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied, "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

#2: Sidd Finch

1985: Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch, and he could reportedly throw a baseball at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. This was 65 mph faster than the previous record. Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans celebrated their teams' amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. In reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the author of the article, George Plimpton.

#3: Instant Color TV

1962: In 1962 there was only one tv channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen. Stensson proceeded to demonstrate the process. Thousands of people were taken in. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.

#4: The Taco Liberty Bell

1996: The Taco Bell Corporation announced it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell was housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke. The best line of the day came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. Thinking on his feet, he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold. It would now be known, he said, as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.

#5: San Serriffe

1977: The British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement devoted to San Serriffe, a small republic said to consist of several semi-colon-shaped islands located in the Indian Ocean. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Only a few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that gripped the British tabloids in subsequent decades.

#6: Nixon for President

1992: National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of the show did the host John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon's voice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little.

#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi

1998: The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Soon the article made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly spread around the world, forwarded by email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by physicist Mark Boslough.

#8: The Left-Handed Whopper

1998: Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."

#9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers

1995: Discover Magazine reported that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had found a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sink downwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr. Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. "To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin," the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this article than they had received for any other article in their history.

#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity

1976: The British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.

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Healthy 25 yr old died while playing Wii

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:45:00 +0000

Tim Eves was playing jogging on Wii before he started keeling in front of his girlfriend and friend. He was declared dead on arrival at local hospital.

He was thought to be "fit and healthy" since he's been physically active, a scout leader, and always enjoyed cycling and fishing. They told his family his death might have been caused by something called "Sudden Adult Death Syndrome."

It definitely was sudden because his mom recalled talking to him on the phone and Tim saying he had a kebab and a glass of port just a few minutes before the collapse.

Worse, that was the same day he came home from Portugal to celebrate her mom's 50th birthday.

What a sad but real reminder for us to Carpe Diem!

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Time for the Testicle Festival!

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:12:00 +0000

Go to the annual Testicle Festival (yes, you read that right) at Oakdale, California.

400 lbs of fried bulls' testicles and $50 per meal! Proceeds from this event go to the Oakland Cowboy Museum. Hey, fans of the delicacy call it the "mountain oysters"!

They're inviting you to go because surely you will "have a ball"! A bull's ball at that.

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More babies for Brangelina

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:31:00 +0000

Looks like they're not yet done forming their team!

The new members?
They're thinking of getting 2 more: 1 adopted + 1 natural

After filming her new movie, Salt, Angelina will head out to find another baby to adopt and a new place where she and Brad can try at another natural baby.

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Happy Birthday Mom!

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:51:00 +0000

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BEST MOM IN THE WORLD!!! :)

MOTHER'S ARE THE SWEETEST.

Our mother is the sweetest and
Most delicate of all.
She knows more of paradise
Than angels can recall.

She's not only beautiful
But passionately young,
Playful as a kid, yet wise
As one who has lived long.

Her love is like the rush of life,
A bubbling, laughing spring
That runs through all like liquid light
And makes the mountains sing.

And makes the meadows turn to flower
And trees to choicest fruit.
She is at once the field and bower
In which our hearts take root.

She is at once the sea and shore,
Our freedom and our past.
With her we launch our daring ships
Yet keep the things that last.

~Nick Gordon~

la la la loooove you!

Reese, monsters and aliens

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:26:00 +0000

That's not a mini! That's a mini mini!

Reese Witherspoon at the premiere of "Monsters vs. Aliens" wearing a Rodarte mini mini and Balenciaga heels.

I wonder what happens when she sits down or bends down juuuust a lil bit.

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Twitter Twitter!

noreply@blogger.com (Antoinette) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:15:00 +0000

Since everyone's into this whole new thing, I've decided to hop on the bandwagon.

Catch me on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/Queenteresting

See you there! Bisous! xx