Hike of Hope.. Hiked

A few months ago I wrote about a journey a friend and his buddies were about to embark, Hike of Hope. Click here for a recap. They climbed mount Kilimanjaro and it all went well..
Just wanted to share the video of that journey with all of you.

Hopeful,
Bambi

No sense of Bravura!

Good morning! I woke up in a good mood today. Had 7 hours of sleep and I'm having Starbucks. Long live caffeine! Wasn't going to post anything today until I came across something a friend posted on facebook, thought it was funny enough to share with all of you! Aren't I just lovely??

Karl Lagerfeld’s top 5 tips for surviving the credit crunch

1. Don't eat. Eating is so Seventies and this is today. I eat only celery and even that I am not enjoying. Pale green is so uninteresting.
2. Dismiss your assistant chauffeur. No one has an assistant chauffeur anymore. Assistant chauffeurs are so yesterday.
3. You do not need more than 200 white shirts at any one ti,e. Anything more is excessive. I threw the rest of them away when I hear of the arrival of the credit crunch, and I tell you I felt so good about myself.
4. Forget charity. Do you want to encourage beggars, hmm? Of course, you do not! It would be different if they possessed any sense of bravura, if they styled themselves on the Ballets Russes or they came out onto the streets with the Audrey Hepburn look. But they do not. The only charity that is acceptable is Save the Tiger, because - at all costs - we must not let lose the real tiger fur. I just adore it. It's so chic.
5. Never travel first-class. It is so common. No one should travel first-class, with all those strangers with their coughs and their germs.
   No: a private jet or nothing at all.

The website I got the above from is pretty cool, if you haven't come across it already then I insist you do. It's called adinnerguest. Ok people and now for the music part of this entry, I've never mentioned him before but I am today. He's Lebanese and he lives in Canada and he is absolutely effing brilliant. His name is George Azzi, and while today's song is a cover for Damien Rice's Blower's Daughter, you have to check outt his YouTube channel and check out his other covers (such as Jazson Mraz's I'm Yours.. it's better than the original.. I promise) and his original songs. He's going to be big I tell ya!

And so it is,
Bambi

She's Madonna!

Good morning fashion-obsessed people? And how are we on this awful Tuesday morning? Sorry about my overwhelming enthusiasm but really my insomnia is getting ridiculous and my inability to get up in the morning is worse. Did I mention the fact that I take power naps in the toilet or in an empty office just to survive the day? Yes it's that bad.

Anyway, enough about my one out of many disorders, and let's move on to something more exciting. Like what you may ask? Well, how about Dolce & Gabbana's Autumn/Winter 2010 ad campaign. I am aware it was release a few months ago, but yesterday I was checking out their collection in Beirut, when I decided to browse through the website this morning and really paid attention to the campaign. I'm a Madonna fan. BIG TIME Madonna fan.. wanted to be her when I was younger, and secretly want to be her now. She's got it all. My point? She looks effing fantastic. Never thought the legendary M would be the type to inject her face with bottox, fat (extracted from... ermm... certain areas in the body) and such, butt it suits her (pun intended... obviously). Now the series of photos are snapshots replicating the movie "Mamma Roma" and according to S.G., “We wanted to continue pushing our current message that shows fashion’s more human nature and our heritage. This is yet another tassel of that mosaic. We believe the campaign is comforting and that people will somehow identify themselves in the images, which again display a more human and approachable side of Madonna.” There is no human and approachable side of Madonna people.. She's MADONNA.. She's like the female version of Michael Jackson (in terms of fame), she revolutionised the music industry, influenced millions of people, changed the way men view women, pushed the boundaries of sex in terms of explicit lyrics and racy videos and wrote a book about her fantasies called SEX, had songs written about her, and she became the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time. So please explain to me how a woman like that is not intimidating and is approachable?? Hmmm?!? Nothing?? Exactly. Because she's not! Plus, as beautiful as the campaign turned out to be and as fabulous as she looks and really.. I mean.. FABULOUS.. I don't get why she or anyone else for that matter would wear a Dolce & Gabbana outfit to clean the floors or catch a chicken. But that's just me. I'm posting the pictures below.

Am I right?? Doesn't she look fabulous with a capital F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S! Anyway, this song may not go with the campaign, but Coma asked me to listen to it and I loved it and I felt like sharing. (Fanks luff)!

Edgy and Wired,
Bambi

Regrets.. I've had a few..

It's been a long long loooongggg week. I feel like I've aged 10 years. Actually I got that comment 3 times in the past couple of days. Not good. Not good at all. Just read something that got me thinking about my life and the choices I have made. How I would've done things differently perhaps. What I would have done with my life.. My career.. the decisions I've made that got me to where I am today. Maybe It would be the same thing all over again. Who knows. But it really got me thinking. So to all of you who are in college, or high school.. Read this. I got it off the NY Times I wish I had back then.

Advice for freshmen from the people who actually grade their papers and lead their class discussions.

College is your chance to see what you’ve been missing, both in the outside world and within yourself. Use this time to explore as much as you can.

Take classes in many different subjects before picking your major. Try lots of different clubs and activities. Make friends with people who grew up much poorer than you, and others much richer. Date someone of a different race or religion. (And no, hooking up at a party doesn’t count.) Spend a semester abroad or save up and go backpacking in Europe or Asia.

Somewhere in your childhood is a gaping hole. Fill this hole. Don’t know what classical music is all about? That’s bad. Don’t know who Lady Gaga is? That’s worse. If you were raised in a protected cocoon, this is the time to experience the world beyond.

College is also a chance to learn new things about yourself. Never been much of a leader? Try forming a club or a band.

The best things I did in college all involved explorations like this. I was originally a theater major but by branching out and taking a math class I discovered I actually liked math, and I enjoyed hanging out with technical people.

By dabbling in leadership — I ran the math club and directed a musical — I learned how to formulate a vision and persuade people to join me in bringing it to life. Now I’m planning to become an entrepreneur after graduate school. It may seem crazy, but it was running a dinky club that set me on the path to seeing myself as someone who could run a business.

Try lots of things in college. You never know what’s going to stick.

— TIM NOVIKOFF, Ph.D. student in applied mathematics at Cornell

Good luck,
Bambi