In case you are wondering the cute kid is my cousin's baby so I guess I am his aunty!! He is gonna be a heart breaker one day ;)
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Saturday, 17 March 2012
some photos 2
In case you are wondering the cute kid is my cousin's baby so I guess I am his aunty!! He is gonna be a heart breaker one day ;)
Friday, 16 March 2012
Be a Realistic Optimist
"4. Be a realistic optimist. When you are setting a goal, by all means engage in lots of positive thinking about how likely you are to achieve it. Believing in your ability to succeed is enormously helpful for creating and sustaining your motivation. But whatever you do, don't underestimate how difficult it will be to reach your goal. Most goals worth achieving require time, planning, effort, and persistence. Studies show that thinking things will come to you easily and effortlessly leaves you ill-prepared for the journey ahead, and significantly increases the odds of failure. "
Nine Things Successful People Do Differently - Heidi Grant Halvorson - Harvard Business Review
Monday, 5 March 2012
some photos
Pink check converse
Rebook Classics
Uggs
Leopard skin heels from topshop
Saturday, 3 March 2012
I Choose You
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Victoria and Albert
Queen Victoria became the Queen of England at the age of 18 after her father’s three elder brothers died without leaving a male successor to the throne. Her father Prince Edward had died about 17 years before that in 1820 the same year her grandfather King George III died leaving her with her mother who she did not get along with. Her reign of 63 years and 7 months is currently the longest any Monarch in Britain. I am not going to go into too much detail about her reign but I am here to capture the love story of her and Prince Albert. Prince Albert the love of Victoria's life happened to be her first cousin. Yes!!!! she married her first cousin, his father was her mother’s brother I think the word we are looking for here is incest. Apparently Victoria was being pressured to marry once she became Queen but she was in no rush. When Victoria met Albert for the first time when he visited from Germany she was drawn to his education and intelligence and thought Britain could benefit from his ideas. The second time he visited she was by then already been Queen for about a couple of years, she was even more captivated that she proposed to him. Talk about unconventional not only did she marry her cousin she was the one who proposed to him. WHEN THE QUEEN ASKS YOU TO MARRY HER YOU BETTER SAY YES!! Okay it was nothing like a one sided affair or a "I command you to marry me situation" he actually shared the same fondness she had for him.
On Victoria's wedding evening she had a headache and wrote in her diary while lying down "I NEVER, NEVER spent such an evening!!! MY DEAREST DEAREST DEAR Albert ... his excessive love & affection gave me feelings of heavenly love & happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms, & we kissed each other again & again! His beauty, his sweetness & gentleness – really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a Husband! ... to be called by names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before – was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life!"
I do not know about you but forget about the incest going on here and join me in "Awwing" this is so cute! This is so adorable I hope to feel this way someday you know if and when I get married but not to any of my cousins or anyone related to me!
This marriage remained strong and produced 9 children however sadly Albert died 21 years after the marriage when he was only 42. Albert’s death hit Victoria hard as she went into deep mourning and refrained from public appearances. Her seclusion had a negative impact on her but regained later on in her reign on both her silver and golden Jubilees she made public appearances.
Sunday, 26 February 2012
After the snow
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Trial and Failure
Monday, 23 January 2012
Lowkey
Crazy love
Thursday, 12 January 2012
get up!
Life has no remote. You have to get up and change it yourself.
— ♛ ΛBDO ♛ (@ItsLifeNotes) January 12, 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
the past is gone
Don't cry over the past, it's gone. Don't stress about the future, it hasn't arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful.
— FactsAboutBoys.Net (@FactsAboutBoys) January 9, 2012
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Up coming posts
1. Its been 60 months since I thought about you...
2. Not so little anymore
3. Beautiful Dreams
4. Pray with me
5. Diary of a Glad African Woman --- Part 5
AND MUCH MORE this 2012!!
Stay Tuned!... (you can follow the blog by email, so you will be notified when new posts are published, emails from this blog are anti spam!!)
with love,
Rita Diamonds xx
Saturday, 26 November 2011
COMING SOON!!
CHRISTMAS IS COMING SOON PEOPLE!!!! get into the christmas spirit :-)
Sunday, 16 October 2011
Random Photos
Jack Daniels
I can boggie better than you in my 7inch heels
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Not How I would have done it!
Not How I would have done it!
Sunday, 14 August 2011
When you see me
There is a particular phrase I hear many a time "you have not changed one bit". Normally depending on who says this to me I feel nervous or actually very delighted. If its said from a long lost very special friend because of what we shared I am usually certain its meant as a compliment. Have you ever reconnected with someone that was close to you in the past and find that time has changed the current of the friendship. It may be because the other has developed into this whole different person, not a bad person but just not your ideal type of company. So when I see this long lost friend and we are within five minutes talking like we were never apart, it an awesome feeling of comfort and relaxation.
Monday, 20 June 2011
Communicating with Lyrics
Showing you all the cards Giving you all my heart
This time I’ll take the chance This time I’ll be your man
I can be all you need This time it's all of me
It got you feeling like this can't be right
But, I won't hurt you, I'm down for you, baby
My money is yours, give you a little more because I love ya, love ya
With me, girl, is where you belong
Just stay right here, I promise my dear I'll put nothin' above ya, 'bove ya
Yet everyone around Thinks that I'm going crazy, maybe, maybe
But I guess it shows
When you look into my eyes
What you did and where you're comin from
I don't care, as long as you love me, baby
You love me too, these three words
They could change our lives forever
And I promise you that we will always be together
Till the end of time
Boy: As I write this letter
Send my love to you
Remember that I'll always
Be in love with you
Treasure these few words till we're together
Keep all my love forever
P.S. I love you
You, you, you
Saturday, 14 May 2011
With You-You mean to me what I mean you and...
Saturday, 16 April 2011
Facebook Identity
"Dear Facebook , one day they will abandon you too. Sincerely Myspace"This is a famous tweet I have seen so many times on twitter . I am not so sure I agree with Myspace, well till I see Facebook getting abandoned too. Although I used to go to Myspace often I never ever created a personal page as I never thought I needed one. Furthermore Myspace is really for people looking to pursue a music career, and although I have been told more than twice that I have a nice singing voice I am not so sure about making it a career (I mean everyone has a nice voice in the shower and when singing in church). Yes I have been in choir and done a few solos but that was when I was more selfless.I have used Facebook for almost 6 years now. There are very few traces of things I had put up initially and I frequently clear things off from my profile. I remember the early days of Facebook it was like a form of heroine. I was an addict!, I would update my status often, upload pictures mostly of me posing in my room. I kept intouch with friends wrote on their walls, commented on their pictures, posts, etc. I would read friends wall to wall and find out random information that I would use for nothing. I joined a number of interesting groups. I was so pleased with the fact that I could reconnect with long lost friends. Its was an invitation to peoples cyber life's. 6 years on I am now less active on Facebook, less openly expressive and most of my Facebook conversations happen inbox and not on my wall. I upload pictures sparingly and try to be discreet about my life in the most possible way. I hardly write on friend's walls and hardly update my status. And I am now more cautious about what I comment on Facebook because it would broadcast on my friend's newsfeed. I try to be as inactive as I can, I even removed my wall for a about year because I knew people would not make an effort to inbox unless it was very important. And also I feel that what people write on Facebook sometimes is superficial because they know other people will see it, but in inbox I realise that people are more real, relaxed and less pretentious.Sometimes on Facebook I laugh when I see what people that I know quite well post. I am thinking no no no that is so not you, you do not sound like that.Below I have categorised 6 different Facebook identities that interest, bewilder and even annoy me.The Religious Facebooker: Every status of this type of Facebook user is religious (may be a quote from the Bible or Koran). This person writes long posts giving religious advices subliminally telling us they are spiritually ahead of us and are in the position to preach the word. This person also goes round liking every religious post they see on Facebook. They comment on all religious posts they see on their newsfeed giving their own insight on the particular topic. Some of them also have some Facebook applications that post religious posts on all their friends newsfeed. This sort of person normally has conservative pictures on Facebook, nothing scandalous (hallelujah! we prefer it that way no one wants to see the half naked born again). This person normally blocks their tagged pictures so we do not see that they also have fun, (and if their tagged pictures show there will be boring anyway as they would untag all the interesting stuff). Please I hope this does not mislead anyone to thinking that I am not religious, as I am a devoted Christian but some of these people just come across as hypocritical to me and just plain annoying (especially when you find out certain true unflattering things about them).'My life is so interesting' Facebooker: Okay when I am bored this is my favourite type of Facebooker, but when my life is moving smoothly not so much. This person will upload pictures every week of all their adventures. These pictures always comprise of the same group of friends, doing exactly what they do every weekend just in different clothes. This person gives updates of their life on their status, like 'yesterday night was fun' and then the friends who you know through the weekly pictures will all come and comment on the status and by the time you are done reading all the comments you know exactly how 'yesterday night' went. This person puts up the current youtube videos on their wall (by current I mean the youtube video that is going viral globally at the particular point in time). Well for those boring days you my dear are my favourite Facebooker.Political/News reporter Facebooker: First of all thank you for keeping me so updated. I actually appreciate the efforts of this Facebooker constantly posting all the important news and events happening in the world. Some choose certain things in the news to always post about , some post about sports (football, basket ball, tennis, cricket), some post about the hilarious parts of the news (like prime minister in sex scandal), some post all the financial news (like Goldman Sachs invests in Facebook), some post the political news (like will America re-elect Obama), and some focus on a particular country(like Nigeria, UK, Palestine, China, Japan, India). Then sometimes if you read the comments on such posts you see interesting debabtes going on between friends and colleagues. Its always the same people that comment on these peoples posts and its just very interesting if the particular post in question interests you. Keep up the good work! although sometimes I want to tell you to go find a job in CNN and leave us on Facebook alone."Why so serious" Facebooker: This person has their whole CV on their Facebook profile. They are also a combination of the 'religious Facebooker' and the 'political and news reporter' Facebooker. All their statuses are so serious and apparently deep. They try to sound intellectually able and use very big words all the time. They only comment on serious and deep Facebook posts. They definitely have a picture of them receiving an award on Facebook. Why so serious especially if you are still that young (by young I mean below 60). I am not even going to waste time writing about this person because life is too short and I wish they realised that too.Empty Facebooker: This person's last update on Facebook was 5 months ago. The last three wall posts which are about 1 month old all say basically the same thing 'where are you'. You have seen all the pictures on the profile before as they are all about 2 years old. The tagged pictures on this profile are all blocked, basically its a dead end. The ironic thing is that some of these so called empty Facebookers log on everyday and even stalk you that cannot get any update from them. You think you can fool me that you actually have a life interesting enough to avoid Facebook. Okay I do admit you have fooled me keep it up!.No game plan Facebooker: you never know what to expect from this Facebooker. Everything they post is so intriguing and unique. You do not even realise that you look out for their posts on Facebook and their comments on other peoples post. They have a sense of humour too. Infact they are all rounders they upload interesting different pictures that do not always feature the same people and place. They also put youtube videos, have the odd political post and even have some religious posts. You realise when this person has not done anything on facebook for a while as your news feed is just left with the other types of Facebookers. I like this Facebooker, interesting surprises never gets old. Although some of these Facebookers are pretentious as they are always trying to do the unexpected instead of relaxing and being themselves or being Empty Facebookers.It is often said that if Facebook was a country it would be the largest country or second largest country in the world(something like that basically emphasizing how many people use Facebook). Facebook constantly changes its format to attract more users, but how long can they keep us glued to the blue world before we go somewhere else. May be next century Facebook would still be very active and will write back to Myspace saying "Dear Myspace, I wonder if you went to heaven when you died, tell me how it is there as I may never see it as I doubt I will ever die, Sincerely Facebook".
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Once in a while ...
So little helps to make the world a better place...