Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
emily ratajkowski
GQ has released a behind the scenes clip of Emily Ratajkowski’s November photo shoot with renowned photographer Terry Richardson. The “Blurred Lines” supermodel discusses the best place to pick someone up, who should pay on the first date, and her biggest misconception about men.
Monday, November 4, 2013
Marriage Isn’t For You?
Having been married only a year and a half, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that marriage isn’t for me.
Now before you start making assumptions, keep reading.
I met my wife in high school when we were 15 years old. We were friends for ten years until…until we decided no longer wanted to be just friends. :) I strongly recommend that best friends fall in love. Good times will be had by all.
Nevertheless, falling in love with my best friend did not prevent me from having certain fears and anxieties about getting married. The nearer Kim and I approached the decision to marry, the more I was filled with a paralyzing fear. Was I ready? Was I making the right choice? Was Kim the right person to marry? Would she make me happy?
Then, one fateful night, I shared these thoughts and concerns with my dad.
Perhaps each of us have moments in our lives when it feels like time slows down or the air becomes still and everything around us seems to draw in, marking that moment as one we will never forget.
My dad giving his response to my concerns was such a moment for me. With a knowing smile he said, “Seth, you’re being totally selfish. So I’m going to make this really simple: marriage isn’t for you. You don’t marry to make yourself happy, you marry to make someone else happy. More than that, your marriage isn’t for yourself, you’re marrying for a family. Not just for the in-laws and all of that nonsense, but for your future children. Who do you want to help you raisethem? Who do you want to influence them? Marriage isn’t for you. It’s not about you. Marriage is about the person you married.”
It was in that very moment that I knew that Kim was the right person to marry. I realized that I wanted to make her happy; to see her smile every day, to make her laugh every day. I wanted to be a part of her family, and my family wanted her to be a part of ours. And thinking back on all the times I had seen her play with my nieces, I knew that she was the one with whom I wanted to build our own family.
My father’s advice was both shocking and revelatory. It went against the grain of today’s “Walmart philosophy”, which is if it doesn’t make you happy, you can take it back and get a new one.
No, a true marriage (and true love) is never about you. It’s about the person you love—their wants, their needs, their hopes, and their dreams. Selfishness demands, “What’s in it for me?”, while Love asks, “What can I give?”
Some time ago, my wife showed me what it means to love selflessly. For many months, my heart had been hardening with a mixture of fear and resentment. Then, after the pressure had built up to where neither of us could stand it, emotions erupted. I was callous. I was selfish.
But instead of matching my selfishness, Kim did something beyond wonderful—she showed an outpouring of love. Laying aside all of the pain and aguish I had caused her, she lovingly took me in her arms and soothed my soul.
Marriage is about family.
I realized that I had forgotten my dad’s advice. While Kim’s side of the marriage had been to love me, my side of the marriage had become all about me. This awful realization brought me to tears, and I promised my wife that I would try to be better.
To all who are reading this article—married, almost married, single, or even the sworn bachelor or bachelorette—I want you to know that marriage isn’t for you. No true relationship of love is for you. Love is about the person you love.
And, paradoxically, the more you truly love that person, the more love you receive. And not just from your significant other, but from their friends and their family and thousands of others you never would have met had your love remained self-centered.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
10 must see places in the world!!
No matter
how advanced our cities and technology is, eventually we get tired of all the
noise, stress and crowd of the city and want to be in the nature. Humans have
transformed Earth beyond recovery, but luckily not everything is lost yet.
Beautiful mountains, blue water lakes, magnificent oceans with fabulous islands
– our planet has many breathtaking places and awe-inspiring sceneries just
waiting for you to discover them. However, life is short, and the funds are
limited, so we have to narrow down the selection. Knowing that you are just
another lazy panda, we’ve done it for you!
1. Antelope Canyon, USA
Antelope Canyon is the
most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is
located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon includes two
separate, photogenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as Upper Antelope
Canyon or The Crack; and Lower Antelope Canyon or The Corkscrew. The Navajo
name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tsé bighánílíní, which means “the place where
water runs through rocks.” Lower Antelope Canyon is Hazdistazí, or “spiral rock
arches.”
2. The Phi Phi Islands, Thailand
The Phi Phi Islands are
located in Thailand, between the large island of Phuket and the western Andaman
Sea coast of the mainland. Classic beaches, stunning rock formations, and vivid
turquoise waters teeming with colourful marine life – it’s paradise perfected.
3. Santorini, Greece
Santorini is perhaps the most fascinating and most talked
about island of Greece in the Aegean. Only the name of the island is enough to
unfold in mind pleasurable connotations, volcanic landscape, gray and red
beaches, dazzling white houses, terraces with panoramic sea views , stunning
sunsets, wild fun. All this, together with remnants of lost civilizations
discovered in the volcanic ash justify the epithets with which visitors
identify Santorini and fairly is called, magical, indescribable, astonishing.
4. Maldive Islands
The Maldives lies in two rows of atolls in the Indian
Ocean, just across the equator. The country is made up of 1,190 coral islands
formed around 26 natural ring-like atolls, spread over 90,000 square
kilometers. These atolls structures are formed upon a sharp ridge rising from
the ocean, making way for their secluded uniqueness. Maldives has deep blue seas, turquoise reefs,
white sandy beaches and palm trees. It is also a place full of character, where
its people have long spent their days languishing in the very essence of idyll
living. While it is the perfect place to sit on a beach and watch a sunset with
a cocktail balanced on your hand, it is also a geographical marvel, knowing
that there are thousands of fish swimming around the vivid corals just a few
feet away from where you sit
5. Machu Picchu, Peru
Machu Picchu stands 2,430 m above sea-level, in the
middle of a tropical mountain forest, in an extraordinarily beautiful setting. It
was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height;
its giant walls, terraces and ramps seem as if they have been cut naturally in
the continuous rock escarpments. The natural setting, on the eastern slopes of
the Andes, encompasses the upper Amazon basin with its rich diversity of flora
and fauna. The Incas started building
the “estate” around AD 1400, but abandoned it as an official site for the Inca
rulers a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known
locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to
international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham
6. The Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of
the world, was listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a
gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands,
mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 8,851.8 kilometers (5,500
miles) from east to west of China. With a history of more than 2000 years, some
of the sections are now in ruins or have disappeared. However, it is still one
of the most appealing attractions all around the world owing to its
architectural grandeur and historical significance.
7. Iceland
Fire and Ice offers a
stunning portrait of this island of extremes, where some of Europe’s biggest
glaciers cozy up to some of the continent’s hottest volcanic springs. [8] Every
season has its own unique charm and there are always opportunities to
experience new things, discover beauty and be mesmerized by the freshness and
colours of nature.
8. Bora Bora Island
Bora Bora emerged from the
waters 3 millions years ago. Like all the other Polynesian islands, this
volcanic island slowly sinking in the ocean. It currently presents particular
geological characteristics ranging in between a high island and an atoll
status. Island has unforgettable turquoise lagoon – where a multi-color aquatic
fauna (sting & manta rays, sharks, tropical fishes) can be observed by
outrigger canoe, boat or diving explorations. The coral reef includes a string
of islets and gorgeous white sand beaches surrounding the main island.
9. The Wave, Arizona, USA
The Wave is a sandstone
rock formation located in the United States of America near the Arizona and
Utah border on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes, in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion
Cliffs Wilderness, on the Colorado Plateau. Nearly 200 million years ago, this
region was a sandy desert where huge dunes migrated across the landscape pushed
by seasonal winds. Prevailing winds of that ancient Jurassic time can be
determined by examining the cross-bedding (layers) in the sandstone. What we
see today are some of the original crossbedded dunes shaped into dramatic
landforms and exposed by erosion from eons of runoff. The spectacular ribbons
of various colors called Liesegang Bands, were formed by movement and
precipitation of oxidizing materials such as iron and manganese by ground water.
Thin veins or fins of calcite cut across the sandstone, adding another
dimension to the landscape
10. Petra, Jordan
Petra, the world wonder,
is without a doubt Jordan’s most valuable treasure and greatest tourist
attraction. It is a vast, unique city, carved into the sheer rock face by the
Nabataeans, an industrious Arab people who settled here more than 2000 years
ago, turning it into an important junction for the silk, spice and other trade
routes that linked China, India and southern Arabia with Egypt, Syria, Greece
and Rome
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