I am rich, I am rich, I AM RICH!!!!!!!

Money is a good servant, and a bad master. It is the duty of every person to be rich, and it is a sin to be poor. So why is 97% of the world poor? I suppose that it comes due to the great amount of hate, ridicule, dislike, dishonesty, jealousy, in the world. Basically the great amount of negativity. If you want to, you can do anything you want, every person on earth has the exact same chemical make up as every other person, and still we think of celebrities, and millionaire of being different. They are not different, they were born just like you, they were also children without care once, just like you, and they also had to obtain their wealth and or fame just like everyone else.

So why do most people live mediocre lives? Because they think mediocre thoughts, and do not expect anything more than that. If you always want more and more and more, you will get more and more, if you hang out with people who are rich and you live your life as they do, you too will become rich. Thinking about becoming wealthy will make you wealthy. If every day you wake up and think; I have no money, how am I going to pay for gas, how am I going to eat, how am I going to do anything fun, I can't do anything because I have no money. And every month you will notice you get more bills, more stress, more and more and more of being poor. It will keep coming to you as you keep thinking so negatively.

If you wake up every day thinking; I have so much money, I am happy, I am wealthy, I am successful, I can do anything I want, I can have anything I want. These things will come to you! Just because you think about them, and they make you feel good. Haven't you ever had one of those day where everything went just the way you wanted it, right into the smallest detail? And haven't those days been some of the best days in your life? That it because your entire consciousness was in line with what you wanted, you were positive the whole day and only got more and more of it as you went on. This is something everyone has encountered, you’re a child, you don't want to go to school, you tell your mom you feel sick and act like your sick. Mom believes you and puts you in her room, AC on, TV on, a glass of water or milk next to you and your favorite TV show on, and all of a sudden you start to feel sick, groggy, and it keeps getting worse! That is because you set yourself, your mind set, to being sick, you wanted it, so acted it out, and you felt it, just so you can stay home, and then you are it. Saying, acting, and convincing yourself, in order to portray your character to your will, and getting what you want, you’re sick in bed.

So if you want to get anything in life, anything good or bad, think it, say it, feel it, will it, and then get it. Just like when you were a kid.

Irresponsibility behind the wheel

Every day I get into my car drive around and come across people who seemingly, do not know how to drive! Just this morning I was going to work and it had rained a bit, driving calmy I was comming to a part of the road with some dirt on it, there was a car comming opposite me and at the dirt came onto my lane in order to avoid the pot holes. All good and fine in my book, as I was still a good distance from the car and the dirt, I got concernd when the car got off the dirt and contineud to drive on my side of the road. I quickly turned on my brights and honked at the car as I went to move to the right to go around the car. Having been nearly run off the road, I waved my arm in protest, at what I now know to be a woman in a wine red old mitsubishi lancer. As I waved my arm I look straight at the woman to see what she looked like, and seemingly the woman was yelling at me; "Wak bo kaya!" (Watch the road). Confused at the crazy lady who thinks she lives in the UK, I went on toward work as normal leaving the crazy lady in the back of my mind.

Some people drive as if they found their licence in a cerial box as a prize, and this seems to be the norm here somehow. I concider myself a definsive driver, always looking out for crazy people on the road who don't know how to drive. But this lack of driving skills is not limited to just pedestrians, bus drivers, taxi's, and bikers also exhibit the symtoms of crazy drivers. Not so long ago, I had to swerve around a small 9 pasenger bus, the driver saw a customer at the last moment and wanted to stop for her. Not concidering he was on a busy raod going 70km/h, he slamed on the brakes in the middle of the road, the car dircetly behind him did not react fast enough and went staright into the bus, I was had a bit of distance from that car and the bus and had to go around them in order not to crash into the both of them. Just an other case of crazy drivers.

One thing we have here on the Island that bothers me constantly, is people who don't use their indicators. Instead of moving their finger a few inches to let others know what direction they are going, people just stop and turn with no thought of using the left or right indicator. Subsequently, I've seen plenty of accidents where using an indicator could have helped avoid the crash in the first place.

I don't even want to start about people with out safety belt, texting while driving, or women putting on their make-up behind the wheel. But one thing I do have to say about irresponsible parents, is please, plaese put your child their seat, with the seatbelt on! Everyday I see kids playing, jumping looking out the back window, and leaning over the fromt seat, and some times I can't help but voice my dislike of this to the parents in the car. And I think that when the day comes that one of these kids goes flying out the front window will be the day parent will take better care of their children and make them sit down while in the car.

So if you love your kids, please, have them buckle up and sit still while your driving.

Black or Green?

Going 'Green' is much more than buying a hybrid car, or putting a solar panel on your roof, or installing energy efficient light bulbs in your house. You have to do them all, every thing you can do to go 'Green'. Whether it is to save money, or save our planet, you do it because of the guilt we all have for polluting our world.

Here in Curaçao our new government wants to go 'Green' as well, new wind turbines, cleaner gas, and so on. One problem though, we have the biggest oil refinery in the western hemisphere sitting in our harbor, good for the rest of the world, bad for our Island. How can we here go 'Green', if we are one of the most polluting places this side of the world? Well simple, we get rid of the refinery. Now allot of people would say, we need it for our economy, cleaning the mess in the harbour is impossible, jobs will be lost, and so on. Yet these arguments are all false, some jobs will be lost, but many others will be created by the project of disassembling the whole place and building something else. Cleaning the harbour is not impossible, with such a small entrance to the harbour blocking it off and draining the whole thing would be relatively easy, this step is crucial to cleaning as the deep layer of oil sitting on the bottom would have to be dug out in order to go any further with the cleaning process. And concerning the economy, all the jobs from cleaning to dismantling, and rebuilding would give money to those in need of a job, which intern supports our economy, and I don't think we actually make that much money from the refinery in ht first place.

If you look at the harbour you can see how much pollution comes out of it daily, so much so that going 'Green' would be a farce and a joke if not done to the highest degree.

What would be good to have replace the oil refinery? A truly 'Green' project, hotels, apartments, beaches, coral reefs, and all of it done in such a way that it would remain 'Green'. Hotels running on purely 'Green' energy from wind turbines, solar panels, any other form of clean energy. Rejuvenating the coral reefs in the harbor, springing life back into it and creating a beautifully addition to the Island. Beaches stretching along the coast of the harbour bringing in a clean way to have people enjoy the water, to go diving, boating, swimming, and playing beach games, a far sight from the giant oil tankers and smoke stacks rising out of the ground and water, killing any thing nearby.

Would it not be better for everyone to have the oil refinery disappear and in its place see and beautiful clean harbour teaming with life from all sides, underwater and above. Seeing beach going tourists instead of clouds of smoke and poison, setting an example for other countries around the world sowing how the worst of places can be turned into the most beautiful of them all, made by the combined efforts of humanity to do the right thing instead of just leaving it at what it is and thinking we can still go 'Green'.

If we put it there we can take it away, and if we take it away, clean it up and bring it back to its former glory, our planet will thank us. Because what is more important than our mother earth?

For more information and pictures on the Curaçao Oil refinery please visit; http://www.gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=92

Than send an email to our government, voice your opinion, and make a differance!

The buddy system

Does being friends with rich people intern make you rich? And does hanging around poor people have the opposite effect? You could argue that the rich person, who hangs out with poor, drug abusing, bums, will eventually spend all his money on alcohol drugs and junk food and thus become poor. But can you argue that the opposite is true? If a person, who comes from a family living in poverty, becomes friends with a person whose family has mansions, wealth and stature in society, will that person later on in his life be better off because of his association?

Without the key factor of being able to loan money easily, a person’s prospects seem to dwindle. A bank is not always open to loaning money to those who seem to not have any themselves. If a homeless person stumbles upon a new concept, something that he knows will not only bring him riches, but also happiness to others, would simply his idea be enough to get a loan? No, a bank would not and probably never loan money to a homeless person.
Now let’s say the homeless person has one friend in the world, a person with a job, a home, and a car, he approaches that person and shows his idea and asks for help.
This friend cannot do much, few would put up their house as collateral, or give an out of pocket loan to even a friend, homeless or not. Yet if that friend happened to be rich with multiple cars, houses, and a large amount of money, he could give a loan without having to worry about himself falling into financial issues. Than the homeless man can have his idea turn into a prototype, than a product and then with good sales, he will no longer be homeless.


So if you want to get rich, or just better off? Start meeting rich people and become friends with them.Knowing the right people has always been an important part of human status, making it big means knowing others who are already big, and can help you up. When you want a better job what do you do? You go to a company dinner, and you start to mingle with the higher-ups, smooth talk them into liking you and having them either offer you an opportunity, or simply convince them to take a look at your portfolio. Thus giving you a head start over you competition. Going from rags to riches would need some kind of connection to a more financially able person, even with a genius idea; a person is nearly unable to profit from that idea without having the means to make it available to others. That is where a rich friend would come in, helping you with popularizing, advertising, and producing your idea, so you can make a profit, and possibly also become very wealthy.

Kids have all the fun!

Our modern world, in this time of high speed everything, it is unlike any other time that humans have ever seen, technology that was only dreamt of 15 years ago, travel possibilities that could not have been comprehended a 100 years ago, and most of all, communication that has only developed in this last 10 years. We are all privileged to live in this modern age.

Can you remember the first mobile phone, when your parents, came home with it not so long ago, those brick shaped, sized, heavy phones you could knock someone out with? That was not so very long ago, and from that brick that was only for the businessman or rich person, to today where we give our children cell phones, starting at an age when we assume that they can operate it properly in order to call if there is an emergency, or to call their friends. And those computers that could only use a wordprossesing program, today everyone needs a laptop or desktop with Internet and games. A far cry from what people had "back in the day". And it is not like we've slowed down ever since we've gone high speed, no, we're only gaining more speed and momentum, computer power doubles every 2 months, so in a year your brand new desktop is going to be called slow and useless. In a year that super cool blackberry will be replaced by a hand held super computer, or hand top as I like to call it, and you will share not only pictures, but you can have your entire family follow you the entire way to your ski vacation in the Swiss alps while you take your first lift up to the top of the mountain, talking to your parents while you and they look at the stunning view as you go further up.

This sharing comes at a price though, your privacy. Yes you can still turn everything off sit on your couch and do nothing. But would you even want to turn everything off? No! Your T.V. has to be on, your cell phone has to always be accessible to others, your computer can't go too long without being opened and lodged in to FaceBook, and the same goes for the person next to you. We share everything in your daily lives, or as much as we can that is not embarrassing, what we think of something, how we feel a bout someone, what we just did a minute ago, what we're going to do in a bit, every second of your life can, and someday will be uploaded for all to see, share and ultimately ridicule.

If you are worried about your loss of privacy, your kids won't be, because they've grown up with out it, they won't know what it is like to go without constant communication, or what it means to even log out. When my children will be my age, what will they say of our time? That it was slow and pitiful? That is was sad that we weren't as modern as them? Yes, they will say that, don't we say that about our parents youth? With their no Internet, no cell phones, no high tech anything, we would not want to go back in time and stay there...admit it.

Science fiction is quickly becoming science fact, and we don't even realize it. But I can't wait for the day when my kids are older, have the newest Xbox, or what ever they'll have, and family time will no longer be boardgames, but rather, video games. Oh wait that's already here, well ok, than I can't wait till my Xbox in outdated and it will be called a piece of junk that only I want to play, while the kids are jumping around en front of a motionsencor and playing a new version of Mario. Wait, also already here...

Okay okay, I can't wait for the day when skate boards will be replaced by hover boards and crossing a small lake is no harder than taking a single step. Yea that's what I'm waiting for! BRING ME MY HOVER BOARD!

I give the hover board 10 years to be available, and then be replaced by the fly-board, and then the space-board, and then anything else kids will get their hand on.

Will you be my friend?

What is a friend? Is it just a person you choose to talk to? Someone who you trust and believe? A person to whom you convulse your feelings, thoughts, issues and insecurities? Friends can be allot of things to allot of people, whether it is to just have fun with, help you in good and hard times, or always be there to give advice. A friend can be forever or just for a moment, it is what they do for you that defines them and their version of a friend.

A friend with whom you have a drink, talk to, help out, and trust is a good friend, they can be trusted, even if you don't know them that well. A friend to whom you tell your inner most feelings, is a friend who can hurt you the most, because they are so close to you and because they know you the best. A friend that is just there to have fun with is not always there and can come and go with the wind, there one moment and gone the next. Who are we to define the meaning of friendship? Can we be so judgemental to put a label on those around us? Old friend, good friend, best friend, BFF, terms in our lives so new that they hold many different definitions. Is a BFF, best friend forever, truly forever? Is an old friend a friend you had a long time ago, or a friend who is not a friend any more? Are good friends actually good, and can you actually trust them with your feelings? Is a best friend better than an other, or is he/she just there more than others at that time?

I've learned over time that friends can come and go, they are neither silver nor gold, good nor bad, forever and never. The friends you had when you were very young probably won't be there when you are older, the friends you have today may not be your friends tomorrow, and you best friend may turn into a great enemy, if things unfold so. Even an entire group of friends in vulnerable to such transitions, whole clicks of best friends divided and torn apart by just one discussion, misunderstanding, or fight.

And in the end, how much does a friend matter? Is a pitiful squabble enough to end the friendship? Can even the worst of actions be for given? Yes and no, depends who you are and what you personally find of the situation. I find a minor squabble forgivable, and depending on the person, even a great pain could be forgiven, given that the underlying reason be understandable. From a personal note; one of my "old friends" choose to remain friends with those who, pestered me, hacked my email, vandalized my car multiple times, and spread rumors about me, called my loved ones ugly names. such actions are not expected from friends, yet they did happen, and to this day I don't know what the reason was. That is what I mean by when I say, how good is a friend, as good as gold or as good as a news paper left in the rain.

Yet I find that even as some disappear in a cloud of distrust, other tend to arrive from out of nowhere, and stay for longer than you expected. And that is why we keep friends around us, not just for the moment, or forever, but for as long as they are there, and for as long as happiness is present.

And that is what it all boils down to, happiness.

So be happy, think happy, be happy, and be happy for your friends, you need them.

For the love of the game

For as long as I've been playing Xbox I've never loved a game as much as I love Assassin's Creed. I bought the first game years ago, first an old Friend was obsessed with it, before I ever started playing it, playing it every day for an entire weekend. I wasn't such a fan of that first game, but I did like to run around and kill people, rather than do the missions and investigations.

Now with the second instalment of the game I play it everyday for several hours and I've finished the entire game 3 times. A great improvement on the first one, it operates much better and the missions aren't as  repetitive, more fighting styles, weapons and moves, the whole game just flows with a good story line and a great new main character. Ezio, the descendant of the first games main character, is flung into a world of violence and conspiracy's that he's never heard of before, Templar's versus Assassins. Bringing down his enemy's with swift and stealth, he grows from being a young 17 year old noble man, into a master assassin, leaving a wake of dead Templar's behind him.

Now in 8 days, 6 if the game store was telling me the truth, the next game is supposed to come out, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. I've been researching, watching videos, checking with game stores what day they get it, and becoming as obsessed with the game as much as I am with the current game.

In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, you still play as Ezio, older stronger, more skilled, and wiser, he has become the leader of the assassins order. Ezio's villa in his town is attacked by the son, and general, of the pope, and every thing you worked for in the previous game is demolished and destroyed. You fight a loosing battle for your villa, and thus you take the fight to the heart of the Templar power, Rome. As the leader of the assassins, you get to recruit new assassins, bring down watch towers and bring the renaissance to Rome.

I need this game, so much that I dream about it sometimes and watch videos all day. If ever there was an addiction to gaming, I think every addict will be playing this game all day!

Just had to get that off my chest :)