LIFE WHEN I WAS "4"

I USE TO PLAY,I USE TO FIGHT
THEIR WERE MANY FOR MY SINGLE SIGHT.
NO WORRIES,,,,,NO HURRIES........
WITH NO AIM & NOTHING TO CLAIM




I WISH TO BE SAME..

I WANT TO BE 4 AGAIN




      WITH EVERY 1 TO PAMPER,NOTHING TO TEMPER,
 WITH PARENTS LIKE A SHELL AROUND
         WHEN GREED WAS ON GROUND,,,

                       CAN I GO BACK AGAIN??

WHERE ARE THOSE GENIUS?
GRANT ME MY CLAIM
CAN'T THEY SEND ME TO THE SAME GAME

I WISH TO BE ON SAME FLOOR....

I WISH TO BE 4"

FURY: THE WAR

Director: David Ayer

Cast: Brad Pitt, Shia Le Beouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena

The bloody World War II action film “Fury” takes its name from the sobriquet of a Sherman tank, its barrel emblazoned with — and its mission defined by — that angry word. But it’s inside the battered vehicle, among the members of its tight-knit crew, where the movie’s real action takes place. It has a crew which may seem sinister and grotesque at times but is actually battle tired and are almost mentally doomed.

Set in 1945, during the Allies’ final push into Germany — an endgame marked by desperation and moral compromise on both sides — “Fury” is a tale whose message can be summed up as follows: “Ideals are peaceful; history is violent.” But the better and more hard-hitting story centers on the man who delivers that nihilistic assessment, the battle-scarred tank commander known as Wardaddy (Brad Pitt), and his relationship with his four-man crew. As his nickname implies, Pitt’s character has a demolished father figure, tough and tender in equal measure.

As rendered by filmmaker David Ayer the combat narrative in “Fury” makes for the more familiar of two competing story lines. Although filmed with a visceral — and often shockingly grisly — beauty, as well as pulse-quickening drama, the movie is only passably interesting as a war movie, especially when measured against classics such as “Paths of Glory, Saving Private Ryan, and Apocalypse Now”.  Still, it’s engaging and watchable, even as it marches toward a seemingly suicidal climax.

It heavily narrates the physical and mental torture of the soldiers in this hell-like battleship, arguing the right and wrong humanity subjects, stresses on the horror and darkness consequences of war towards those heroes who fight rather than questioning their heroic aspects. Pitt is riveting as the film’s antihero. Wardaddy’s successes and failures as a parent and leader are the most engrossing and novel things about “Fury.” What enticed me most was the confrontation scene of US Sherman tanks to Germany’s heavily armored but slow Tiger Tanks. It is a well shot scene in which the truth of war: Death is celebrated.

Wardaddy’s success is evident in the fact that the crew has survived three years of fighting with only one casualty, in a war notable for its American Tank losses. Having rolled from Africa to France to Germany, the weathered crew consists of Boyd “Bible” Swan (Shia LaBeouf); Trini “Gordo” Garcia (Michael Peña) and Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis (Jon Bernthal). As the film opens, an untested clerk-typist named Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman) has just joined them, replacing a dead gunner.

His first assignment? Swabbing out his predecessor’s blood and guts from inside the tank. As with all his films, Ayer doesn’t shy from graphic imagery. Unlike the other crew members, who are known almost exclusively by their “war names,” Norman hasn’t yet taken on a nickname, though he will by the end of the movie. He also will take on more than that. Also the movie is true in facts and staying true to history, also the movie shows one lesson: Wardaddy is just a man, and in some ways a very poor role model. A key interlude in the middle of the story, set in the home of two German women (Ana­marina Marinca and Alicia von Rittberg) whose apartment has been commandeered for a meal, is particularly telling.

In it, Wardaddy allows his men to misbehave, at times grotesquely — the implication being that he turns a blind eye to actions approaching the criminal out of expedience. In another scene, Wardaddy forces a reluctant Norman to execute a captured S.S. officer. The uncomfortable dynamic is an obscene parody of a father back home, teaching his son how to kill and yes the low value of human life.

With the general exception of the Nazi fighters — only one of whom is shown to have any compassion — few characters in “Fury” are depicted as wholly good or wholly evil. It’s easy to see the movie as a story of how war makes monsters out of men. But it’s a good deal more complicated than that. The film suggests that it isn’t war that does that, but people like Wardaddy. This is a man who knows the price of keeping his men alive to fight, or to die another day, and is willing to pay for it.

It is a good watch, but in my view cannot be compared to classics I mentioned earlier in the article, Nice action, gory details, nihilism, drama, grief all are depicted in colors of war. A good flick to watch once.

The Power of Being a NOBODY

Being born into this world a nobody just might be the best thing that ever happened to me. 

The world undervalues the economic nobody, and grossly over-values the wealthy somebody. On this point the world is wrong.
You have nothing to lose when you are a nobody. And because you realize that 'you can’t fall from the floor,’ you’re not all stressed out about whether you are going to actually fail at something or not. Everyone born as a 'societal nobody’ has the exact same middle name, inserted sometime after birth, which translates roughly: DO SOMETHING.
Most wealth, and especially the now big companies or enterprises behind that wealth, originated with what we would call 'relative nobodies' at the time. They may be a big deal now, but when they started, no one took them seriously. A nobody is often under estimated, until they aren’t. That’s how I feel the pattern is: 

First they will ignore you. 
Then they will criticize you. 
Then they will try to copy you. 
And then you will win. 

When a self-knowing economic nobody wins at life, they almost never forget where they came from. They are often the kindest, philanthropic, most positive, confident (yet understated) people you will ever meet. Crazy as it sounds, it is often the off-spring of the one who created from nothing that then somehow gets it in their heads that they’re some kind of a big deal. And it is this other thing -- of becoming ‘important,’ or seeing oneself as a ‘so-called somebody,’ that is a really dangerous thing. It can ruin you in ways that poverty never could. 

Jan Koum, the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp, once lived on food stamps before Facebook made him a billionaire. 
Starbucks' Howard Schultz grew up in a housing complex for the poor. 
Born into poverty, Oprah Winfrey became the first African American TV correspondent in Nashville. 
Luxury goods mogul Francois Pinault (think Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent) quit high school in 1974 after being bullied for being poor.
Oracle's Larry Ellison dropped out of college after his adoptive mother died and held odd jobs for eight years.

These brilliant and hardworking folks were not sitting around thinking deeply about how great and noble they were. That had no time for any if that nonsense. And they weren’t publicly profiling either; trying desperately to look a certain way before a bunch of strangers. They weren’t sitting around, endlessly choreographing their every next big move in life. They just moved. 
They worked, hustled, did what it took to win. They were focused on getting the job in front of them done, rather than simply looking good for those standing in front of them.
But most of all — they just never took themselves seriously. Never. Taking yourself seriously is the kiss of death. I read somewhere “men fail for three reasons: arrogance, pride and greed.” Enough said.

I have a lot of experience with people who really believe that they’re somebody, and they’re really exhausting to deal with. It’s a lot of work dealing with someone who takes themselves so seriously. And if they don't change, they are doomed. It is simple, let go of your ego. The place where I work has clearly stated on a big poster, “Leave your ego at the Door” so true. 

People who believe they are ‘somebody’ are doomed, precisely because they believe they are somebody. A so-called nobody has any of this needless baggage. Those who have a nobody’s mentality actually have what they need to win, right from the start.
The power of being a nobody is an asset everyone on the planet owns from birth. It’s your birthright, to fulfill your God given destiny. It’s the new definition of freedom, called self-determination.
And you thought someone calling you a ’nobody’ was an insult.

Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel a Review

They had but one thing in common…

William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, Kane the son of a billionaire, Abel a penniless Polish immigrant – two men both born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths were destined to cross in an inevitable struggle to build an empire better than the other. An epic tale, spanning six decades, of two men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save… and finally destroy… each other.

Not only does this book have many pages (500+) but there is so much storyline put onto every page that you feel you are reading several books, not just one.  At no point does the storyline let up; it never drags or loses the pace for a moment.  I would say a lot of the story is descriptive rather than dialogue, but this suits the style of the book as you are taken through various decades and different parts of the world.  The book follows the two main characters from birth through their lives, dedicating alternative chapters to each character.  Some chapters are quite long, so you forget what has been happening with the other character when you return to him, but other chapters are so compelling that you doesn’t want to leave that character’s story line for one chapter.

What I liked about this book:  I really enjoyed this book from start to end but I think my favorite part is Abel’s early life.  He was born in a Poland controlled by Russia and then during the First World War he was held captive, suffering at the hands of the German army, then the Russian army after the war.  It is by far the most interesting part of this compelling story, even though in parts it is the most harrowing.  It gave me an insight into life in an occupied country, it was not something I had really come across in such depth before when reading on the subject of Europe during the First World War.  I also liked how you really felt time passing through the book.  As the book spans 6 decades there is a risk that you will not be able to comprehend this through the characters and the events in the book, but I did feel that is was clearly evident that both the main characters changed as they aged and the events they lived through changed them.

This books main success is that even though the two characters come from completely different backgrounds, they are essentially the same at heart and at no point in the book do you feel either of the characters have become a better person than the other.  There are times when Kane and Abel each act in an underhand or despicable way, but they also redeem themselves continuously so that you never feel that either one is to blame for the feud between them, more that it was all just a matter of circumstance.  I have never read a Jeffrey Archer novel before and perhaps never would have as I always viewed his novels as being more of a man’s book rather than an all-round novel.  The story was so compelling I struggled to put it down and it touched on subjects I have not read before in a book. A good read.

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MoonShine Love

One thing is certain, we are one of a kind

We are a match made in heaven, in a hell of a time

We are in the right moment, we are in right spots

We are right on the money, you have taken my heart

Your beauty is dazzling, your big eyes are great

my heart is pounding, I think it will break

You are my darling, I don't know how to explain

life long, I have kept this as a pain

People say I' m crazy, I tell them they are right

I have met an angel, she is the best thing that's mine

my friends say I have lost it, but this ain't a game

You're a hell of a beauty, just tell me your name

I want your phone number, you can even take mine

can drop you to your home, in the night when moon shines

this can run all life long

Our life, our togetherness is way to strong

I close my eyes only to meet you

In my dreams you reign, when in reality shall it be true

long are my days and cruel are nights

Waiting for you to arrive, this position is too tight

A night shall come when the sun shall shine in sky

A day shall arrive when moon shall smile in sky

Fireflies and fairy tales shall come to life

you will be in my arms, your soul shall sing to mine