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FB Likes

2012-01-15T22:28:00.000-08:00

I have been trying to get the Facebook Like to appear on an application. It was getting somewhat stressful because the Like would just not take the whole URL, but would take the base URL.

I started using the XFBML first because the way to integrate it is so nice.

Add

<html xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">

as the namespace and then use

<fb:like href="http://google.com/" send="false" layout="button_count" width="450" show_faces="false"></fb:like>

Easy enough. The application used a lot of Ajax and therefore the these likes need some refreshing. To do this I used the Javascript method available

fb.xfbml.parse()

Function and it started working. But the likes were happening only for the base URL and not the href in the fb:like. This is when I saw the statement in the documentation which said 'The XFBML version defaults to the current page.' if href is used.

urghh

I went on to use the iframe way so that I could get likes for the particular URL. It seems its important that the url end with '/' and only then Facebook identifies the absolute URL.

Image Cropping With Rails 3

2011-12-28T08:27:00.000-08:00

I was looking at some options for the Image Cropping functionality with Rails 3 and got many great solutions on the net. This Rails Cast is the best place to start if you have the images stored as local. If you have it as s3 storage there are some changes you need to make.

My main haml file has these contents -


#cropperpopup.lpopup.x

%a.ccloser

  %p.large
    Image Cropper

.cropper
    = image_tag @user.avatar.url(:medium), :id => :cropbox
= form_for @user, :html => {:class => 'edit_user_two'} do |f|
    - for attrbt in [:crop_x, :crop_y, :crop_w, :crop_h]
      = f.text_field attrbt, :id => attrbt, :class => :coordinate

    = f.submit 'Crop'

When on calls the popup, one should call the code for the Jcrop method

$('img#cropbox').Jcrop({
onChange: update_crop,
onSelect: update_crop,
setSelect: [0, 0, 168, 202],

  aspectRatio: (168/202) });

My aspect ratio setting is with respect to the configurations I did for the has_attached_file :avatar.

The thing you will have to do specifically for s3 is in the avatar_geometry method.


  def cropping?

!crop_x.blank? && !crop_y.blank? && !crop_w.blank? && !crop_h.blank?

end

def avatar_geometry(style = :medium)
@geometry ||= {}
path = (avatar.options[:storage]==:s3) ? avatar.url(style).split(' ').join('%20') : avatar.path(style)
@geometry[style] ||= Paperclip::Geometry.from_file(path)

end

Inside the model.

I'm having issues with the cropper processor and its not cropping fine. Will have to fix that. This is the Cropper

module Paperclip
class Cropper < Thumbnail
    def transformation_command
     if crop_command
       r = super
       if r.class == Array
         r = r.join(' ')
       end
       crop_command + r.sub(/ -crop \S+/, '').sub(/-resize \S+/, '')
     else
       super
     end
   end
   def crop_command
     target = @attachment.instance
     if target.cropping?
       "-resize \"168x202\" -crop #{target.crop_w}x#{target.crop_h}+#{target.crop_x}+#{target.crop_y} "
     end
    end
end

end

Orientation changes for iPad - Secha & PhoneGap

2011-09-20T08:34:00.000-07:00

I was working on a mobile application developed for iPhone. The application was built using Sencha Touch and PhoneGap. Its great what these guys have done to bridge the gap between Objective C and HTML/JavaScript/CSS. The application now wants to be run on iPad.

The orientation was something that caused a problem here. The call back for the orientation, onorientationchange, was not being called for some reason. I went through most of the content in the web which described the problem. Solutions were limited.

I tried putting window.onorientationchange, added event listeners for orientation and even added Objective C code ! Did not work ...

Thats when onWindowResize came into picture. The code started working. But just once. You change orientation and that works just once. The code goes something like :


 var or = function(){

    // alert( Ext.getOrientation());
    var width = (Ext.getOrientation()=="landscape") ? window.innerWidth-1 : window.innerWidth;
    panel.setOrientation( Ext.getOrientation() , width , window.innerHeight );
    panel.el.parent().setSize(width, window.innerHeight);
    // return 0;
    panel.doComponentLayout();
}

Ext.EventManager.onWindowResize(or);

The alert function caused a lot of issues for me. Firstly it creates an exception on the Objective C side. Signal Exception of some kind which says arguments are expected of a different kind. The setOrientation call is necessary for the panel to know the orientation. This did not update the width and height of the panel for some odd reason. So I did it manually by calling the setSize and to make sure I called the doComponentLayout.

Well, the code works now. This is for reference for all those people who have not still got the answers for this question.

Kudos !

Rails Again

2011-07-30T11:36:00.000-07:00

I started digging into Rails again. The stuff I started to do was quite straight forward. The DB access, change routes etc. But the things I want to talk about was Haml and Coffeescript.

Haml :
Wow ! Just Wow !
I always wanted a templating engine which I could use to write easy code. Writing HTML was never so fun. The syntax might seem to be complex but trust me it gets to be fun.

Just add a
config.generators do |g|
g.template_engine :haml
end
in application.rb after adding the haml gem and the haml-rails gem.

Coffeescript :
This is an intermediate compiler which converts a file into javascript. Eliminate your braces and semicolons with coffeescript. The compiled output is readable and pretty-printed, passes through JavaScript Lint without warnings, will work in every JavaScript implementation, and tends to run as fast or faster than the equivalent handwritten JavaScript.

You will have to install barista, bisttro_car, coffeescript and coffeescript-script gems. I found an article which would be useful here.

Have Fun coding !

Oatmeal

2011-07-27T00:12:00.000-07:00

The oatmeal has been one of the best sites for satirical humour. Just pasting one of their comics :)

Exciting but anxious

2011-06-19T22:57:00.000-07:00

Its been some days since my wedding. Those moments where is some sense anxious. Some times one just feels if something went wrong. My being somewhat of a pessimist, had these kind of thoughts very frequently. The engagement, which happened long back, was pretty easy and I had a good time. People commented on me being too easy and laughing a lot. Therefore I decided to act matured. Dont like it, but still. Acting childish makes it easy being young at heart.

I smiled less during the wedding. The pics told it all. :)

I sweated like a pig, but the ceremony went fine. No hassles. No confusion. Everyone seemed to have a blast, even though the travel from my house to the temple was a long one.

After that started the visits to the relatives. Short ones except for Govindan's house. A dear friend, I felt it necessary for her to know the people who stayed there. Reshma's relatives were also visited.

Then it was off to Shimla. 10 hours of travel from Delhi to Shimla was tiresome, even if it were in a Swift Dezire. Shimla was not as cold as we expected. But the hotel stay was excellent. Great people at the Woodville Palace and excellent food.

More tours yet to come

Bangalore Superfast Express timings changed ??

2011-05-16T02:36:00.000-07:00

" Train services partially cancelled
STAFF REPORTERSHARE · PRINT · T+
The following trains will be regulated/partially cancelled for 12 days from Monday. However, the trains will run on Wednesdays. This has been necessitated due to hoisting of girders for the superstructure of a railway overpass between Devaragudda and Byadagi stations, a release said.
Accordingly, the Hubli-Bangalore City Passenger (train no. 56516) will leave Hubli at 8.45 a.m. instead of 7.15 a.m. Bangalore City-Hubli Passenger (56911) will terminate at Harihar and be partially cancelled between Harihar and Hubli. Arsikere-Hubli Passenger (56273) will be regulated at Ranebennur from 9.25 a.m. to 10.50 a.m.
Change in serviceErnakulam-Bangalore City Bi-weekly Superfast Express (train no. 12863) will leave Ernakulam on Wednesdays and Mondays instead of Wednesdays and Sundays with effect from July 20.
In the return direction, Bangalore City-Ernakulam Bi-weekly Superfast Express (train no. 12864) will leave Bangalore on Thursdays and Tuesdays instead of Thursdays and Mondays with effect from July 21."

Excerpt from the Hindu

What do I do so that this is taken off ???

Anybody agrees and knows what to do ?

Web access in Vajra

2011-02-28T22:30:00.000-08:00

I was back from Delhi after visiting some of my old friends. I was sitting on the Vajra bus from the airport. These Vajra buses have these touch screen powered by Android which could be used by the passengers to play games and browse. To browse you are required to enter your mobile details. The gateway sends an sms with a code which is to be entered to the system which will then allow you to browse.

There should be a workaround !

I noticed these advertisements which scrolled at the bottom. Clicking on them opened a page on a browser. The WiFi was on allowing me to see the page. Unfortunately, the address bar was disabled from typing. Hmm .. The advertisement for Bharat Matrimony had a link to Facebook !! Hurray !! I logged in Facebook and checked out the messages and statuses :)

Could there be another hack perhaps ?

The system had the Application Monitor / Quitter installed. Touching on it opened the interface where one could selectively stop applications running in the system. There was also the application's own advertisement system which popped a small ad at the bottom every now and then. Clicking on that opened the actual browser. Only now the address bar was editable.

Eureka !

World Cup Calendar

2011-02-16T22:04:00.000-08:00

Delegation Drag

2011-01-18T03:22:00.000-08:00

Its been some time since I have written something and its simply because there is not much to write about. But now I have something :P

The application that I'm working on currently use a lot of drag and drop features for many objects. The number of these objects in the UI varies from user to user. The code has been written to create a DragDrop object for each of these UI elements. Therefore if you were supposed to have many elements, the page would stall thus making actions damn slow. I was told to improve performance by changing this to a delegation model.

The delegation model would find the event attachments done to the main container and not the individual elements. The event would bubble up to the container which would be handled by the handler written for this. The container would be specified as well as the css selector for the elements which would have the drag and drop feature.

To make this work was pretty easy with YUI3. A delegation class was present which gave me the initial stuff to get started. But then came problems.

The application would have different drop targets at different points of time. An ajax action would change the UI which would then have different drop targets. Now if you were using delegation, you need to specify the drop objects in the constructor. I did not find a way where I could add/remove drop targets dynamically. This is when I saw a post from an author who did a work around for this. He had created the drop targets inside the mouseover action of the drag, thus scoping it :). I put these drop objects inside a scoped variable so that when the UI changed, I reset this variable.



YUI().use('dd-delegate', 'dd-constrain', 'dd-proxy', 'dd-drop', function(Y) {



var del = new Y.DD.Delegate({

container: '#container1',

nodes: '.appt',

target: true,

dragConfig: { groups: ['default']}

});



del.dd.plug(Y.Plugin.DDConstrained, {

constrain2node: '#container1'

});



del.dd.plug(Y.Plugin.DDProxy, {

moveOnEnd: false,

cloneNode: false

});



del.on('drag:mouseDown', function(e){

if(_self.createdDrops.length ==0){

var drops = Y.all('td.day');

Y.each(drops, function(v, k) {

var tar = new Y.DD.Drop({

node: v,

groups: ['default']

});

_self.createdDrops.push(tar);

});

}

});



del.on('drag:start', function(e) {

_self.delDragStart(e, Y);

});



del.on('drag:end', function(e) {

_self.delDragStop(e);

});



del.on('drag:drophit', function(e) {

_self.delDragHit(e,Y);

});



del.on('drag:over', function(e){

_self.delDragOver(e);

});



del.on('drag:exit', function(e){

_self.delDragExit(e);

});



_self.del = del;

});

I also required there be different drag objects. Those which went to specific drop targets. I started specifying the 'container' parameter instead of the 'cont' parameter and that solved some issues. To have another set of delegates, I just took the above code and changed the 'container' parameter to get the correct set of draggables. I also change the groups parameter bit that did not seem to make a difference ...

References
http://yuilibrary.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17845
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/dd/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/examples/dd/

Backup the Pod

2010-10-28T04:23:00.000-07:00

I have found it very hard to backup the music from the iPod to the system. Especially when the music inside is encrypted in some weird fashion. To see this go to /Volumes/Ipod/iPod_Control/Music from the command line and look at the contents inside. They are categorized in a weird fashion and make no sense.

I was done with those softwares which let me backup only 100 songs or so. Therefore I tried what I could do programmatically to get those lost song names (file names) right.

I went through those Meta Data accessing libraries written by brilliant people and managed to find a good one. The Library had very much of what I wanted. It could access those meta tags like title, artist and album. All I needed was a API thing for Ruby (I love Ruby :P ). TagLib also had language bindings for the ruby language !

You need to download the package and then run



./configure

make

sudo make install

make clean

Thats it ! You have installed the C stuff. Now do a



sudo gem install rtaglib

for the ruby package. The help docs are here. Try it out in irb and you will be pleased.

Now for the backup. I did a



cp -r **/*.mp3 /My/HOME/NEWDIR/.

to get all the encoded mp3s in a directory from the iPodControl/Music directory.
Now came the ruby code ....



require 'rubygems'

require 'tagfile/tagfile'



f = Dir.glob('/My/HOME/NEWDIR/*mp3')



f.each{|i|

begin

tag=TagFile::File.new(i)

nn = i.split('/')

nn[-1]=(tag.title.to_s + '-' + tag.artist.to_s + '-' + tag.album.to_s).gsub('/','') + '.mp3'

nn=nn.join('/')

p 'Renaming file '+i+ ' to '+ nn

File.rename(i,nn);

sleep 2

rescue

print "An error occurred: ",$!, "\n"

break

end

}

This gave some warnings and stuff but generally did the trick for me. I now have an organized view of my files !!!!

Mac on Lenovo

2010-10-25T22:34:00.000-07:00

Franki just did the most amazing thing by installing OS X - 10.6 on a Lenovo. He tried out with Pally Sir's CD at first but that did not go well. I would confer with him and convince him to write about the set up and hacks here. Stay Tuned.

Pune Post

2010-09-28T00:14:00.000-07:00

I went for a short trip to Pune this friday. To meet up with Amit and Gitesh and to see how Pune was.

I was startled to find Pune to be developing. I had thought that it would be some what like Noida, but it was not. They say the people in Pune are generally lazy and traffic is all haywire. The roads are being made and water rises when theres rain. There are places where you see malls and greenery but otherwise its all dust and the locals. IT is the main source of income for the people there I would suppose.

Minimum diff between dates of a week

2010-08-30T23:20:00.000-07:00

Problem statement:
The UI contains a set of checkboxes. Each signifies a day. The list starts from a Sunday and goes upto a Saturday. The task is to find out the minimum difference between the selected days.

Eg:
If Mon, Thur and Fri were selected, then the minimum days between the selected days would be 1 (Thu and Fri).

Take into consideration that if Sun and Sat were selected, the difference would be 1. :)

Scratch

2010-08-05T22:01:00.000-07:00

Bangalore is a crowded place and therefore traffic is a killer. Today when I was coming to the office, I overtook a car guy right on the side. I took the at-most care in not touching his vehicle. The guy comes out after a couple of minutes and blasts me. He says that I had scratched his vehicle, 2 times ! I start think when I had done so and if I had done it wouldn't I know ? He goes back after lecturing me about responsibility and stuff and I take it. After I overtook him, there was a guy on an old bike, who came in quite fast. He had also overtook me, took his bike on the pavement and had gone further. The guy must have probably scratched him and then taken it further to avoid a clash.

To the car guy:
It was good that you were very calm during the whole incident. But before you start giving lectures and blaming people, you would want to make sure that you have got the right person. You would also want to check your eyes.

Inception

2010-07-21T22:50:00.000-07:00

I and Jayasurian went for 'Inception' yesterday. We reached 10 minutes early and watched all those people, you know what I mean, going around all excited about watching the movie. The movie started off confusing. Where are these guys, what are they trying to do. Why is there so much chaos ? Then as the story slowly starts to reveal itself, the complexity of the script is exposed. Wonderfully crafted and nicely told. It closely knits to the stuff that we have experienced. Like waking up in the middle of a dream when you life is threatened.

Adding other people to a dream is like social networking :) . Some parts where confusing as well. Like the part where Arthur constructs a loop to defeat an assassin when he is not even in his dream. But those things are trivial when you consider the effort put in for the movie. Visually it was a treat, it made you think.

Joseph Gordon Levitt was awesome. I loved him from the days of '3rd Rock from the Sun'. Ellen Page was ok. Ken Watanabe was great as always. Leo did justice to his part. A surprise was Tom Hardy, who I thought did a nice work.

Memento is still a better movie !

World Cup Frenzy Too

2010-06-28T23:42:00.000-07:00

The Germany - England match was a treat to watch. Germany played a fast paced attacking game and England helped them with having very little defending. The Argentina - Mexico game was also tight. But Argentina came out all guns blazing with a smashing second goal from the right foot of Tevez. Yesterday's Brazil - Chile game was wonderful as well. Chile really played great even though they were 3 goals behind. They played aggressive and attacked. But the Brazilians were too much for them. A great team performance complimented with extravagant passing and finishing saw Brazil win by 3 goals to nil. Im eagerly waiting for the Spain - Portugal match today. Torres would want to come out and exhibit his skills, period.

World Cup Frenzy

2010-06-12T09:44:00.000-07:00

We, at our flat, constantly follow the FIFA World Cup 2010 with great enthusiasm. Most of us support Argentina, 1 Italy and 1 Brazil. We saw 4 matches up until now. The France v/s Uruguay match was a total waste of time. South Africa proved to to be a great match for Mexico and managed to draw a match which was thought to be Mexico's. South Korea destroyed a poor Greece by 2 Goals to register the first win for a team in the World Cup 2010. Argentina could have easily scored 6 goals in the match against Nigeria if it were not for the Nigerian Goal Keeper Enyeama. Great work from Nigeria anyway and they would give South Korea a run for their money.

Javascript Debug

2010-06-10T00:57:00.000-07:00

I started working with Javascript some years back and at those times to get hold of a js issue was hard. Then came firebug. The tool analyzed the js stuff, gave a console where we could assign new Javascript variables, call functions etc. The Dom tab gave the variables currently declared in the DOM so that analyzing a variable got easier. The Net tab gave all the access made by the page. This included the images, css, js files and even XHR ! Debugging a script became easier with the Script tab.

But that was not enough, as for all things. YSlow came along which gave you a precise idea of the stuff that made your web page slow. Page Speed from Google also gave a great idea of the same. Cookies was introduced which let you view a cookie and modify it.

The debugging in IE was also some thing that developers looked forward to. Developer Bar gave many of the options that Firebug gave. Companion JS is a great tool that let you debug Javascript. Fiddler let you act as a proxy between IE and the server so that you could change a request to fetch a file (js/css) from the local disk.

Smush.it is something that I got to know recently which gives you a compressed version of images thus increasing the response time for a web site. Javascript compression and obfuscation are techniques that we use every time for the js response time reduction.

Many stuff to keep in mind and many to implement to create a great web app.

Dependencies

2010-05-19T03:38:00.000-07:00

The last two weeks were hectic. Deployment and making the sufficient stuff necessary for deployment is tough. I tend to really appreciate those people who stay the whole night resolving production issues. May it be Garbage Collection issues with the server/java or CPU spikes. These seemed to be problems which took most of the time.

Packaging is also a problem not to be taken lightly. Resolving the dependencies and making sure that no major update goes unnoticed is a tedious job. Just to look into the set of packages is boring and one tends to lose patience quite frequently. I still think that having test packages and using them on a QA machine makes sense only if the QA is not meant to replicate the actual production instance. If they do, then the packages that must be installed must be stable packages. YUM is be given great credit for the fantastic work they do.

Back after a wait

2010-05-02T08:39:00.000-07:00

Its been some time since my last post. And frankly I had a lot of work. Getting systems to work in Yahoo is a tough job. To understand a system, evaluate and determine the best approach ought to be a highly paid job. I have been thinking about the growth and progress of my career and Im still uncertain.

We, in the BTM house, have been discussing a lot about investments in land and real estate. Tourism is an industry which is starting to catch up in parts of Kerala aand having some land and setting up a small tourist spot is an ideal way to earn a return.

The personal life is starting to suck a bit and ideas are hard to come by. Telling stories to Binil has been something that I have been doing for some time. It might pay off one day and probably I would publish a story.

Happy Birthday

2010-04-06T12:00:00.000-07:00

Vella Kuuraan

2010-03-31T08:52:00.000-07:00

It was at a very young age that I had first witnessed what an after death ceremony looks like. My grand mother had passed away while she was washing her face. She fell on my mother and ma tried desperately tried to wake here up. Dad was working in Dubai and had started from there along with his brothers when he heard the news. I still remember the blood shot eyes that my Dad had when he came in the big room where grand ma laid. He did not cry aloud like all the women did but the eyes told a lot.

The second time was when Dad's brother, Unni Krishnan Kunjachan, died. He had high blood pressure and tensions of his own when he passed away. I dont actually remember where I was when he passed away. The one thing I remember clearly was Prasanth walking around with the 'sheesham' tied around his waist. Dad was there taking over all the after death rituals and their setups.

The third time was shocking. It was my own Uncle's death. He was one of the best guys I had seen so strong with the english language. He had the capability of doing stuff of on his own. He would help you no matter what and you could trust your life with him. His life was full of desperation and loneliness. This might be the reason why he thought to go to God on his own. My youngest uncle had taken the phone and started crying on hearing this. Mom could you keep it to herself and started crying aloud. Everyone but me when to Chalakudy where the body was supposed to come. Dad had gone to take the hanging body from the hotel as the hotel authorities did not want to touch the body. I remember Murali Uncle, pretty drunk at that point of time, telling me that after seeing the half degraded body that he had to get drunk as he could he forget the scene.

This week witnessed yet another loss in the form of the loving Ganga uncle, Dad's 2nd brother. He was the silent type, who will not complain even if you hit him with a pole. The calm and down to earth person who would help even if he were sick. Dad had just undergone a minor operation and we needed to go to the hospital. As we did not have a vehicle, we called Uncle. He still came even though he had fever. It was by evening that we understood this and by night he had to be admitted in the hospital. It was by 5:30 the next morning that he passed away due to a heart failure. He was analyzed with pneumonia and it had spread very bad to his lungs and heart. I remember every time I used to visit him that he would come down the stairs and say hi and then say nothing at all unless I spoke to him. He used to stay with us when we were in Dubai and he used to make fun of this north Indian friend of mine who was very fair. HE used to call him 'VELLA KUURAAN'.

Lists

2010-03-22T05:18:00.000-07:00

50 Lists to Write to Lift Your Spirits from http://demandingjoy.com/?p=1027

1. People who have influenced or inspired you
Dad, Mom, Sis, Ravindra Sir, Sony

2. Things you are grateful for
Health, All the things that my parents gave me including education, love and life.

3. Places you have been
Dubai, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu, Kerala, Bangalore, Trichy.

4. Places you want to go
Europe, Leh-Ladakh

5. Books you’ve read
Just the one I remember clearly is Dirty Harry

6. Your favorite things – what brings you joy?
Spending time with friends and having a good time.

7. Good things that happened this week
NONE

8. The best things that happened in the last year
I loved.

9. The best days of your life.
June 21 2006 - Sept 4 2009

10. The songs for the soundtrack of your life
take it easy - eagles.

11. Acts of kindness you’ve committed
Helped Sony and Teddy.

12. Things you want your children to know about you
That I love them very much.

13. Reasons why you love your significant other
Unknown

14. The high points for your autobiography
I tried to become what people want but failed miserably.

15. People who love you
Dad and Mom

16. The cutest things your kids ever said
Waiting

17. Everything you would do if money were no object
I would travel.

18. Favorite gifts you’ve ever received
A coffee Mug from Gitesh and Srinath.

19. Favorite gifts you’ve ever given
A perfume to Shilpi

20. Occupations that you have ever wanted to have (including when you were a child)
Being a pilot

21. The best advice you’ve gotten.
Learn to say 'No' from Srinivas

22. The worst advice you’ve gotten.
Try to do this another way from many people.

23. Things you’re procrastinating
Getting the bike to my name.

24. Ways you calm yourself down when you’re angry.
Think of something else.

25. The best ideas you’ve ever had
Take a short movie

26. The best projects or organizations you’ve ever been involved with
Globallogic.

27. The ways you have grown since your early 20’s
Intellectually, physically.

28. The most beautiful things you’ve ever seen
Snow @ Patni Top

29. The greatest lessons you have learned
You cant change who you are but you could adjust to other people.

30. Life’s lessons that you learned the hard way
People are not what they seem to be.

31. Things that have mad you laugh until you cried.
None

32. Qualities you most admire in others
Patience, openness.

33. Qualities others most admire in you
None

34. The elements of an ideal year
No mental tortures, no allegations and no health problems

35. All the compliments you’ve ever gotten
None

36. Foods that you have eaten that are so good that others could hear you enjoying them
None

37. The times you have asserted yourself
Many.

38. Things that inspire and energize you
Work, games and short talks.

39. The places where you feel completely comfortable to be yourself
Home.

40. The most important turning points in your life
Getting admitted to NITC

41. Times when you looked and felt your absolute best
None.

42. The things you’re good at
None

43. What you would do with the power of invisibility
Cant say.

44. Things you want to teach your children
To be independent and learn stuff the hard way.

45. Things you still want to do in life
Travel.

46. Bits of trivia that most people don’t know about you
I love to walk.

47. The things you love about your body
I could exert myself.

48. Accomplishments you are most proud of
Performance award from GL.

49. The things you love about your home
Dad and Mom's there.

50. Who (living or dead) you would invite to your dream dinner party
Everyone who understands me.

Something that I stumbled Upon

2010-03-22T03:56:00.001-07:00

I've Learned. . .
Author Unknown

I've learned. . . that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
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 true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
I've learned. . . that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
I've learned. . . that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
I've learned. . . that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I've learned. . . that you can keep going long after you can't.
I've learned. . . that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
I've learned. . . that either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I've learned. . . that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.