Month: August 2007

  • 20070815-Six Miners

    The progress for the rescue (or recovery) of the six trapped miners in Utah seems too slow for me. The third hole being drilled may be a hopeful sign but not convincing enough after one week of the accident. The recent crop circle formation dated August 12, 2007 of the Mayan symbol for the number six may represent these six miners, who may still be alive or may have been beamed up into heaven by friendly beings. Or maybe there is up to the date of Saturday, August 18, 2007 to find out the status of this mining incident.

    Accidents do happen at very risky jobs and noone should be at fault for not spending enough money to find out better ways to mine for coal. The extra money for preventative measures would ensure that future accidents do not occur and the trouble of any rescue and recover efforts is minimized. This includes improving the rescuing of any lost or trapped persons with improved GPS tracking system and escape (or evacuation) plans, for examples.

    We cannot predict when anyone’s time should come to an end. All we could do is to wait and see what will be the outcome of this unified effort of hope. Promoting hope is always better than a final conclusion without closure. I do not like waiting but this is the current technology.  I have entered my blog entitled 20070812-Circle Scroll as my original interpretation of strange events going on in this world.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070815-Profound Sadness

    My profound sadness on the evening Thursday, August 9, 2007 was indeed a death that I picked up from someone very, very distantly ‘related’ to me in spirit. Somehow, during my phone conversation with a caller today at around 12:50PM, I found out that there was indeed a medical condition possibly cause by cancer. My unfinished poem about cancer patient will be dedicated to ‘my relative’ of the deceased. I have entered my original impression under my blog entitled: 20070809-Daily Thoughts.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070815-Button Eyes

    An image showing a Shih Tzu with big button eyes!
    An image showing a Shih Tzu on a porcelain collector plate measures 8-1/4 inches in diameter and is available exclusively from the Danbury Mint.

    While looking through the TV guide last week to find the exact date I was watching ‘The Ninth Gate’ on cable, I came across the cardboard advertisement showing this cute picture of a short-haired Shih Tzu dog with the cutest button eyes ever. Below this picture is the following poem:

    You look at me with eyes of love;
    You never hold a grudge…
    You think I’m far too wonderful
    To criticize or judge

    I love this poem, which to me does represent what a good boy any dog with the look of devotion could do to melt my heart.  I love him! If I had a cute dog like him, I’d shower him with lots of hugs and kisses and spoil him with lots of cute bows in his hair and doggy treats, too. I would be very emotionally attached and treat this other life form as one of the family.

    During a phone conversation around 12:40PM this afternoon, I had told the caller, ‘I wish I could release all dogs [from their masters]. In my mind, I wanted to express to the caller (but couldn’t) that dogs do not always need to serve their masters. Dogs are meant to roam around freely in the wild as their love and affection for their owners. In return, the caretakers of dogs (or any pets) should be reciprocating.

    A ‘good dog’ should not be told what to do on command by their alpha leaders and be punished for not behaving within normal parameters. Cruelty to dogs or ultimate death should not result for the dog raised without love either. Dogs as with all animals have intelligence and other heightened senses that some of us humans have not fully developed.

    Some animals seem to exhibit human behavior, such as emotions of happiness when rewarded with love and sadness with the loss of a loved one. We must learn how to better communicate with other life forms in their language and to increase our understanding of why some animals capture our hearts better than others for domesticated purposes, such as food or companionship.

    Just like the two-dimensional photo of this dog, the eyes that light up and glisten is a sign of life and love. The eyes that tend to squint are dull, listless and otherwise creepy with redness may indicate something terribly wrong with the bio-unit. So, peer into the eyes and determine whether the feeling is warm and fuzzy or cold and clammy. The eyes are indeed the way to the soul, if any.

    Copyright © FVDF. All rights reserved.

  • 20070815-This Land

    The Native folks once brave and bold,
    Had lost their lands – ancestor’s gold
    Their trail of tears left opened wide
    By snaky oils: the pale ones lied.
    This prime real estate belongs to ‘God’ – His land.
    Nothing is possible without His helping hand.

    Marry a spouse, nothing to hold.
    Owning a house, nothing but sold.
    In this big box, there’s junk inside.
    Undying love, working with pride.
    Monthly mortgage payments — rents on a strip of land
    Until death do us part, by my hard working hand.

    Author’s note: First attempt at ‘Wrapped Refrain poetry of two stanzas with 8-8-8-12-12 syllables in aabbcc pattern.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070814-A Handful

    Talk to my hand and what do you see?
    Many shapes and sizes just like me
    Middle finger longest
    Shortest thumb is strongest.
    Contemplate this little poetry.

    Another limerick to show that everyone could be a ‘master’ at contemporary poetry.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070814-Human Alien

    I love this planet, inhabitants too.
    With all its beauty that I never knew
    While under the sun to burn red not tan
    An Asian female – hairy Malay clan?

    A lost foreigner – stranger to this land
    Strong medications lend a helping hand
    To sustain her system, while in this grand zoo
    Longer than needed, don’t know what to do.

    Two more samples of quatrains with ten syllables in aabb, bbaa pattern.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070814-Comes Around

    What goes around comes around. On August 29, 2006, a 20.00USD note has been given to a homeless lady with very clear blue eyes and dirty blond hair. On August 14, 2006, the same 20.00 USD note came back to me somehow. I reached down to pick up the note and quickly stuffed it into my black fanny pack.

    I noticed that a white guy in dark sunglasses walked behind my car prior to getting into his broken gray car also. I am assuming either him or another white guy had planted that note underneath the right wheel tire of my gray Mustang, which was parked to on the street to the left of Jon Jon’s BBQ place nearby our neighborhood.

    This discover was after Paw and I had returned from our second run to purchase the number eleven meal of Tri-Tip, Spear Rib, Chicken, two slices of white bread and two small samplings of red beans and potato salad. This was my idea — a quick inquiry to Brat if he and Twit wanted to eat for lunch prior to their going on vacation.

    Earlier, we had bought a half slab of ribs (of five pieces) for over 12.00USD notes after tax. This seemed expensive and I thought this would be enough for the twosome but was sent back to order for our dinner (the number 11) by Maw, who was waiting inside my car. I thought one piece per person of ribs would feed us well for lunch. I miscalculated again for the ones with heartier appetites.

    So after the second run, we left to drop off the food at home after my purchasing another full tank of gasoline. Then off we went to drop off the lunch at the twosome’s place. I passed on my blessed note to him. He placed that on the counter then stuffed it in his left back pocket of his rotting sweat pants. At the same time, I got the main key and code to their house. I suppose I am a trusted one and the obvious pick for convenience as well, since I’ve not work or other responsibilities at hand.

    Later, the three were at the Great Mall in Milpitas, CA. After two walks around the mall with Paw, Maw was talking with another older Filipina, who was living on her own. Their stories happens to be similar those elderly, who choose to not live with their children (due to the in-laws mostly).

    I sat almost motionless for about an hour before my rear end protested to get up and go. My vitamin supplements helped reduce the tingling feeling in my lower extremities – toes, ankles and knees. I did nothing else but stare at the water fountain and held my palms upward with the middle fingers mocking a flicking position.

    Around 01:30PM, the sun worked its way from left to right across from my seating area. The skylight provided good visibility of the place where children played as their caretakers and strange goons looked behind shades to dark to be worn indoors. Those I flicked off discretely, of course.

    We went home and then ate lunch. Then I blogged as the day of clear blue sky and warm days continued to provide me comfort from my upstairs bedroom and with a view of the westward skies. After few more hours later I played the roll of taxi driver to the twosome.

    Our travel began around 05:05PM after they bade Paw and Maw their farewells and while I waited in the car. Our arrival at the San Francisco airport was around 05:55PM. Brat encountered a male friend directly in front of us. The traffic didn’t start until after thirty minutes of driving around 70 miles per hour on the carpool lane.

    My travel home was about one hour as well. The radio was turned off because I needed to concentrate on my driving behind my very dark shades. The ride was enjoyable as I drove calmly on the slow lanes to the right of northbound HWY 101. The air conditioner worked fine to cool my brain, too.

    Dinner was taken and more blogging was done. Today was done without motives. My projected anger at the twosome has been replaced with a temporary ego of giving – food, a note and a free ride. Their handshakes of thanks (first the boy and then the girl) through my passenger window was sufficient.

    Copyright © FVDF. All rights reserved.

  • Spam-Aug 13, 2007 5:35 PM

    from: Forrest Mackey
    time: 5:35 pm (6 hours ago)
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    Be both the gardener and the rose.
    Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
    The slow man with integrity will ultimately catch the swift one who has none.
    Children need love, especially when they don’t deserve it.
    In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
    That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
    My ”fear”… is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
    The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
    Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
    Nobody can be successful if he doesn’t love his work, love his job.
    He receives comfort like cold porridge.
    One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
    Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

  • 20070813-Daily Diary

    Sent text message to [cellphone here] from [cellphone here].

    Where is my money, dammit?!? Why have you not called me today, huh?!?

  • Spam-Aug 13, 2007 12:37 AM

    from: Cherie Blake
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    I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
    To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
    It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
    A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
    In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
    Where there is no law there is no transgression.
    She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
    All art is an imitation of nature.
    A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
    Presence is more than just being there.
    A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics.
    Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
    An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

  • Spam-Aug 13, 2007 8:21 AM

    from: Rena Mccain
    time: Aug 13 (15 hours ago)
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    Birth, copulation and death. That’s all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
    When a fantasy turns you on, you’re obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
    From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
    Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
    Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
    I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.
    Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
    Follow your own star!
    The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
    To innovate is not to reform.
    I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
    I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
    If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

  • Spam-Aug 13, 2007 6:41 AM

    from: Lacy Martinez
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    He was distinguished for ignorance for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
    I can’t be bitter. No one has a contract on life.
    Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
    You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
    When all is said and done, more is said than done.
    With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
    If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
    All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
    Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
    Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
    I suppose some editors are failed writers but so are most writers.
    There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
    I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.