Danlee will be travelling to Singapore/Korea!

Hey guys,

Just been under the snow with getting my stuff together for my trip to Singapore/Korea.

Will be there till August the 6th. So bear in mind if posts come slow or perhaps even faster than usual!

I’ll try and post up as many pics as I can for you guys!

Hope you had a good weekend!

Up up and away!!!!!

Movie Review: Don’t mess with Zohan 3 Lessons

Movie Review: Don’t mess with Zohan

First Lesson: Don’t watch it. If you do…leave after 30 minutes, because no it does not get better…it gets worse.

Second Lesson: Adam Sandler is still alright…while he does roll out many a lamer movie these days…We all still love him for about 2-3 awesome moves. (Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore come to mind)

Third Lesson: This is not a date flick. I repeat do not think comedy of this calibre will win the hearts of a woman that you desire haha

Out of 10…. 0.5 there were its ups and downs but they were all used in the trailer so nothing was uber awesome.

If you really have nothing to do and you want Adam Sandler to educate you on the Israel and Palestine war…this is what you’ve waited for all your life.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this slender review it’s all you need.

Enjoy your week!

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Bad Guys get the girls: the scoop

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Bad guys get the girls and the nice guy always finish last right? We’re always told that this is a myth and that being a gentlemen and being uber nice wins in the end. Perhaps it does but according to this article (LINK) bad guys really do take home the ladies.

The bad traits are ‘narcissism, the impulsive, thrill seeking behaviour of psycho-paths…with a deceitful and exploitative.’ Basically what most people hate in a person.

This is pretty interesting stuff as it means that perhaps being not so nice can get you the girl of your dreams or watever the hell you’re after.

While this may hold true, the choice to change oneself away from who they really are into a ‘prick’ is perhaps not very advisable. I can understand that adding a little banter to spice things up is fine but really switching up who you are is rather messed up.

I think keeping who you are and just adding assertiveness is fine. Assertiveness is a form of confidence that takes one over the line of fight or flight…and we all know confidence is a plus.

No need to ‘mack’ your best friends girl, take the girl that your friend was after…all these friendship breakers are compromised in this ‘prick’ role. Which I see happen often…for all those newly or current pricks while it’s all good to get your ‘game’ on, just remember to never forget to be human and respect the basic codes of friendship.

Apart from that you can mack all you want! Losing real friends that’ll stick by you is worth a lot more than a fling.

So the final word I guess is…

Seduce with a human conscience.

Have a great week all you mack daddies and mummies  :p

Enjoy the accompanying track haha

jayz-ft-punjabi-mc-beware-of-the-boys

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Firefox3 love

Hey guys,

Just a quick post, I’m using Firefox3 now and it’s alot better in the speed and usability, although some add-ons do get chopped off - which is a concern.

So if you haven’t downloaded it please do HERE

And also here’s a power users guide to help your experience with firefox3 that much better. (LINK)

Enjoy and have a great week!

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A new saying “We meet to Depart” - how are we treating friends?

The original post is from John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity blog (LINK)

A Korean friend of John told him this saying:

We meet to depart.

These past few weeks I’ve been thinking about human contact and the way how one interacts with another determines the whole relationship.

For example, you have 2 friends - Friend A is a close friend so you will go out of my way to meet up with them and hopefully they feel the same way.

Friend B however is one of our usual suspect ‘outer fringe’ friends, sure we don’t mind the occasional drink with them but we don’t go out of our way to really meet up with them, and to be honest we may find it irritating if they asked us to meet up with them more than ‘desired.’

Now both A and B want to meet with you the same amount but obviously more time and resources are invested into A of whom you enjoy the company thereof.

I’m quite sure each of us have these relationships at simultaneous relationships, the question is how are we treating A and B?

My ideal way would be to keep hanging out with A as usual but perhaps at least give B one (or three) chances to see if it dawns on you that they may just be a really cool person underneath that outerfriend circle.

I’ve found this true as I meet many unique people through bboyin aka breakdance. I am more accustom to chuck most people that aren’t in my ‘clique’ into the B basket.

My suggestion to us all (myself included of course!) is that we perhaps give a shot to the people that go out of their way to try and become our friends, that want to become an A from a B.

I tried it on Tuesday and you find that the more good company that one has around them where a more equal appreciation is the foundation is one of the best environments to be in.

Well that’s enough of my huge rant, try it out! Let me know what you think of this thought whether you think it’s good to sometimes jump out of our comfort zone to meet others, or personal shell comfort is sometimes the best in certain circumstances.

OH! and the meaning of today’s saying (We meet to depart.) is explained by John Maeda below:

“Somewhat sad, but ever so true. The implications are to treasure (or withstand) experiences with other people in the present as conditions will always change.”

Have a great mid week!

Dan

One way to Good Road Etiquette

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Hey guys,

Just a quick blog about roadside etiquette and how it can make OR break someone’s day…

So yesterday I’m driving in the city and it was peak traffic, I was waiting in a lane to get onto a main road with all the cars piled…out of all the people to give way to me and let me in was a bus.

That little gesture, even tiny as it may seem totally changed my mood and day.

Has this ever happened to you? Made your day?

Hopefully it has, or you were the one doing the giving way. THANK YOU!

I know from now on I’ll definitely take that one gesture (OR MORE of course) to give way to those who definitely need the 2 metre space of the road more than I do for that brief 2 second wait while they drive on by.

Overall, let’s just keep our road etiquette to a high standard if we can, not only are we making people’s days happier in general, we’re also reducing the awful disease called road rage.

Have an awesome pending weekend!

If - Rudyard Kipling

A poem…how you take it is your freedom.

I hope you enjoy it.

IF…

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall

I know it’s a latemovie review, but it’s a review nonetheless.

I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall (LINK) tonight, it was freakin sweet, as in about a 7.7/10 which means the amount you paid to see it is justified.

It is the characters which took the cake for me, If you watch How I Met Your Mother and you like Jason Segel  who plays the main character, or love the humour of Knocked up  or Superbad, you’re going to enjoy this. It’s the mix of real life and comedy that has a distinct ‘human’ attachment that  makes it a easily watchable film. If you haven’t seen it by now, check it out or at least check it on DVD when it’s out.

anywho, that’s it for my super short film review check the links to see what it’s about because I don’t enjoy re-spewing a story. I can try it in one sentence though.

Girl actress breaks up with guy, guy meets new girl and they enjoy a complicated but somehow simple love.

DONE!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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The Strange Pattern of Dating…

Image via WikipediaDating. It seems we are all looking for or hanging with our ideal partner.

This post is more relevant to the single peoples out there.

OK.. is it only me, or does one’s dating scene fluctuate like a fat child’s belly flubber after a sturdy slap?  That’s a lot of movement!

One week one can feel like hanging out with a member of the opposite sex…then the next it’s like ‘meh’ I just want some ‘me’ time (I believe a new video game arriving from eBay can do this :p).

This can work both ways…one week you can be on fire and be the flavor of the month, then the next month it’s like you became the living rendition of Rob Schneider’s acting career lol.

At times we can believe that the opposite sex is being for real and is busy when they can’t hang out for a while… BUT I don’t know if you’ve wondered…if you actually REALLY REALLY like someone, even if it’s for a coffee and a chat you’ll make that 1 hour free to see them.

Therefore, if thinking totally logically here, if both ends meet regularly then we have a voila! A relationship with at least a seemingly mutual basis of affection towards one another.

The reason why these fluctuations occur is that to be totally honest, one party just isn’t into the other… the elusive feeling of this one has potential to be ‘the one’ or at least a good time isn’t there…so why waste time?  They’ll keep on pushing dates till one day the losing party will realise the true but sad fact that they just aren’t in that person’s frame of mind, attraction wise.

So I wish you all luck in your quest to find one that reciprocates your feelings and actions for them, that is unless you are already happily together with a person that fits the script!

Let me know what you think about this view!

Peace

Dan

Appropriate timing on my iTunes playlist

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Now playing: Amy Winehouse - He Can Only Hold Her
via FoxyTunes

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Our Purpose in life?

Religion  - a subject that is well swept under the carpet and that can a conversation awkward. It’s part of the designated ‘no-no’ talk topics. the others being sexual views (unless it’s between close people), politics, death, racism just off the top of my head.

My religion is Christianity (Protestant) - although many of us find atheism a comfort and to a certain extent find it comforting that all that we do in our lives whether it be good or bad, is all that happens and its over.

It is perhaps the ideal of being by judged by One that is higher that is most hard to accept to some.

We all love the idea that we can do all guilt-free and not feel the pangs of a conscience that’s instilled in us by a power apart from the state.

Care-free. We all hate having limits or parameters, whether it’s not being able to break the 10 commandments or just do things immoral set by society if it makes us feel good.

In the absolute sense: ‘we’re all human.’

While all these reasons to disbelieve a higher influence exist, I believe that the world nowadays is just lacking a lot of faith. From the small things to the large. Faith that one person in this world genuinely cares for them, faith to trust others, faith in what we used to believe was our calling, our vision.

Perhaps that’s why consumerism is so wonderfully rampant these days…we’re all so barren and dry inside that it’s the small and temporary pleasures we chase for week in week out, then becoming depressed if it goes in whack.

Today’s society needs a larger part of life to be satisfied, the feeling that we are following, being led and cared for by someone on whom we can depend on always and everywhere without fail. Our parents, friends and partners can lead us only to a certain way of the path, there are times when ’self’ reaches a moment of truth… most of the time we ignore it and continue with the small pleasures.

Now I am not implying we all MUST take on Christ or a religion to fulfill ourselves, but at least re-think (re-consider) our life structure.

What is our big picture?

Have we changed a life?

Our purpose?  Work, play…is that it?

We all have the strength and power to leave a mark on this earth, if you can affect one life, that is more than enough.

I think that’s all for now, if you’ve read this far THANK YOU!

Currently, I’m still struggling with where I want to go, where my road leads, what my purpose is…but I can trust that I am in good hands till I get there.

Is there any greater happiness? (maybe) for me right now…I think that’s more than enough to make my stay here with you all a wonderful experience.

Once again, thanks for letting me share what’s on my mind. I would love to hear what you all think.

Peace and God bless,

Dan

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