Pattern Recognition
by Dhamaka
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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"........ Albert Einstein
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........ Ben Moor
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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race"
........ H G Wells
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better"
........ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Luck favours the prepared mind"
........ Louis Pasteur
"Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, and somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery."
........ Rebecca Solnit
"Give, give, give -- what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine."
........ Isabel Allende
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
........ Harold Thurman Whitman
"The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes...."
........ Marcel Proust
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.. you have no such accurate remembrance of a country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle...."
........ Ernest Hemingway
"Ambition leads me not only father than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for man to go."
........ James Cook
"The grand show is enternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapour is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
........ John Muir
"The bicycle is the most civilised conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart."
........ Iris Murdoch
"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your picture...."
........ Don McCullin
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otra dia ocupada
,cat blogging,choir,clerkenwell,covent garden,drinking coke from cup,knightsbridge,london,mica,next time it will be champagne,prize giving
Dhamaka says:
hehe - sorry - it was great and I'm really proud of her
(edit) but the day was busy too
walla_walla says:
Love the title.
Parece como una buena tarde y bien ocupada tambien D, felicitaciones para tu aijada.
Dhamaka says:
Thanks Walla_Walla
Muchisimas gracias walla_walla, ella esta tambien aprendiendo el espanol y puede leer tus felicitaciones
the title has a triple reason - firstly because it was, secondly because she translated 99% of a difficult Spanish text on alternative medicine for me after less than 2 years of Spanish lessons!! and thirdly because I was talking to a Spanish speaker while posting it :-)
Geodyne says:
She certainly is a stunning young lady. And such a delight to meet, based on the one time I've met her.
monkey_finger says:
she certainly is a stunning young lady - i especially like the 'drinking from the cup' picture.
Dhamaka says:
I don't know whether to smile and say thank you or say stay away from my god-daughter! lol
Dhamaka says:
M_F - that's what I'm afraid of
Mandy - that's because she is special
Sprocket says:
Love the shot of drinking milkshake out of the cup. he he he
Congratulations D's god daughter, I wish you lots of success – and milkshake :-)
Gael says:
sweet - wtg god daughter : )
we have to sit through the whole speech day/prize giving thing, Lord Newton was this year's guest, but pity the kids that don't win anything ...
Dhamaka says:
indeed. Our guest was a lady who had been in Tiananmen Square who gave a moving, modest and inspirational speech.
Gael says:
We've had a real motley crew, ; old boys, diplomats, a guy who climbed in the Himalyas with an artificial leg and Simon Weston. The best ones keep it short, but manage to appeal to the kids - not just the adults. Being a product of a Comp myself, i stil find the whole thing a bit baffling
Dhamaka says:
I went to grammar school and comp. The first had prize givings but they weren't grand affairs in Knightsbridge with interesting guests and harp-playing ex-pupils. Actually, maybe they were. I don't remember any of them which means I probably managed to avoid even the ones where I had been awarded a prize.
I was invited back once for a school birthday celebration and felt so hypocritical that I left the assembly hall and walked around the school grounds till it was over and the tea and cakes were served.
Dhamaka says:
it was great Viv. I'm still dead proud of her and have found a couple of competitions for her to try her hand at..