Hey People. Its time for ‘Wise Wisdom from yours truly’ since August is over and so is Summer (although technically it is not yet but who are we kidding, with UK’s weather, we count our blessing if we can see the sun two days in a row 😉 ). This August was hectic to begin with but it was a good kind of hectic. I went to lots of different places, experienced new things, felt new emotions. Different is good. Overall, learning new-thing wise, August will come in 1St place, no doubt. So lets begin the official wisdom list.
1.Lets begin with something simple. Bet you don’t know this one. Children ❤ Bruno Mars.OK, not him but his song ‘The Lazy song’. Mainly because of the monkeys and may be the merry tunes too. So next time around, if you want to impress a kid, play this song. No need to thank me ;).
2.This month, I caught the chef bug so I made ‘chicken hot pot’ from a cooking book gifted by my work colleagues (which was so nice of them). It is so easy to make and so very delicious. If you want to try, just leave a comment, will get right back at you. 🙂
3.As you know by now, I had a London vacation. This vacation taught me that London is full of amazing history. It makes you fall in love with all its hidden charms. But I also learned my feet doesn’t agree with seeing all those charms :(.
4.The man who designed the tube route needs to be showered with standing ovations. You, sir are a true genius. My feet said thank you too.
5.Oyster cards are the way to go unless you are a billionaire/cash wealthy or just in the mood to get looted by London transportations.
6.I feel ashamed to admit that I had never played UNO in my life before. But thanks to my cousin, I learned to this vacation and I love it. Without the t.v and internet, it was our favourite source of entertainment, a life-saver.
7.Many of you by now know the London-riot. It is such a sad thing that evils like that still lurks in our society. You realize that evil comes in all shapes & size. Doesn’t matter the age,gender or class. So does racism. But I do want to say one thing. The rioters should be punished but why drag the innocent family into it too?
8.You may not know this but I love dancing. So this summer vacation, me and my niece had a friendly round of ‘Just dance’ on Wii. It is so much fun to dance in crazy in love, girl-friend and I got the power (reminds me of Jim carrey). You should try them, also if you are competing and want easy-scores, just do crazy-in-love by Beyoncé. Minimum effort, maximum score-Oh yeah!
9. You know, how we get drunk and come tomorrow we have massive ‘hangover’ and keep hearing phrases related to alcohol like ‘one for the road’, well I got to know the true meaning/origin of those two words during my vacation to London on the open bus.
You see, back in the days, when there used to be capital punishment it was done in public. So people used to gather around to watch the hanging happen with alcohols to go with it (there is still the tree where people used to be executed & yes it looks erm hanged & all droopy). So when everything was over and morning came, they had massive headaches with all the drinking thus the word ‘hangover’ came upon.
‘One for the road’ is related with alcohol too. So, in the days, people who were going to be executed were allowed a last drink, so they would drink the alcohol before the hanging for some dutch courage and one for the road before they met their makers. Now you know the reasons, are you still going to use them?
10.I came upon ‘My library thing’ where you can write the names of all the books you have or read for that matter and put it in your blog. I was super excited to know that because to start with I love books and have an impressive collection to boost about. So I decided to make one for my blog but the happiness was short-lived because readers, My library thing doesn’t work with WordPress :(. To0 sad.
11.It seems to me like I am starting to lose my patience (I didn’t have much to start with). I love reading books (to the point, I am blind without my glasses) but this august I went to my local library after such a long time and bought lots of books to read. But I found myself rushing and hurrying when in the past I used to read slowly and actually enjoy it. I think it might be because of the internet. Instant gratification comes to my mind and is to blame, for now.
12. This august I got the highest views of all times, thanks to the blog I wrote ‘The show will go on’ but to be honest I don’t feel proud about it. When I published it, I was very proud of my work and thought I did justice to ‘The show’ which was such a success. But as the views increased, I started to get threatening comments about the guy I wrote on the last paragraph of that particular blog. Some people got upset and I am open to being corrected for what I did wrong but to swear is so not done.
The views were going off the roof but to me it felt like people were just coming to my blog, just to see the drama unfolding and all that because of one-damned paragraph when the point of the blog was ‘the show’. Although I removed the picture, I was hell-bent on keeping the paragraph but the stats made me question the reason behind all the views so I decided to cut that paragraph. I don’t want this blog to be about cheap dramas.
This august taught me one important thing-sometimes you just have to back out even when you feel wronged.
13.I want to give a shout out to Miss Guffadi too. The blog taught and made me sympathise with her. I applause her strong heart and courage of ignoring all the hate comments without so much as a flicker. How can she do that? Bravo to you.
So that’s it for this August’s ‘Wise Wisdom From Yours Truly’. Will see you next month with more.
Until then
Cretee
❤UntamedAsian❤ 