Sunday, February 27, 2011

Fantasy of time traveling with "Visions of the 60's" ;)

Looking at the "Time: Visions of the 60's" magazine you can see a lot of good times, bad times. Me and friend of mine reading this magazine could only imagine traveling in time and go back to 60's. Riding hippie bus with Hog Farm commune to the Fourth of July parade in New Mexico, joining the March to Pentagon against Vietnam war in 1967, listening songs about freedom by Joan Baez at Berkeley in 1964. How about the moment when Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar in 1967!?





All these wild dates putting 60's in my list of the decade I would Time Travel, which is possible and I hope really soon. 60's it's definitely experience I want to try, livin' positive ;)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Our bad habits... that keep us down...

"New York's City Council voted last week to pass a law extending city's smoking ban on parks, beaches and plazas where pedestrians congregate like in Times Square and Union Square." - says Time magazine's "Healthland" online rubric.
Even though smoking was accepted in Western society for a centuries, now (may be in 90 days when ban will be in effect), many New Yorkers have to face this problem of giving up this "bad habit". Is it going to effect city's lifestyle and bring sunshine to parks and streets of Big Apple City? Not sure. But for one thing I know for sure, that many people at least will consider of giving up this bad and now expensive habit, and certainly it's gonna collapse their feelings. What I mean is quitting cigarettes is really make people happier. Nicotine and Tobacco research done by scientists from Cancer Research UK Health Centre of University College London showed that 69% of 900 surveyed ex-smokers felt happier than when they were smokers, only 3% reported to feeling less happy.
What can I say? It's your choice. You think giving up this bad habit is really necessary to become happier? Well I smoke and a lot, and if it will make me happier I can put it in my list of how to live happier. Livin' positive ;)

And I got a song for you, those whose lungs are already tired doing their work but still you can play it here.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Can technology make us happy? really?

Question: Can technology make us happy?
"I think technology could be quite relevant to our happiness. That is, we could use technology to improve it. But I don't think we do..." - said Dan Gilbert, Professor of Psychology in Harvard University.

Human is the only animal which can use specific power called intelligence on the daily base. We build cities, and by the fact I know we create technologies. I remember when cellphone used to be only for calling and playing Snake. There was no internet, no Facebook, no twitter, nothing that connects old-fashioned phone to our new world smart phones. Even nowadays we expect new technology releases every half year, making us buy more updated and interesting pieces, but people never could ask whether technologies make us happier or not. How I believe buying technologies, lead us to happy feeling of acquiring something new but it's not what we could call happiness. Do people know what make them happy? No. We don't (I'm sorry mom, but we really don't). ;) That's probably why our technologies don't make us happy. What Dan Gilbert suggested to us is to start make technologies that "can" make us happy, effecting brain physically, like happy pills... So, having the cure, the technologies, there is only one question... Do we want to use them? Do you want to use happy pills? I've been on them for a year or less, and I'm saying it's not happy at all ;) It makes you feel little different than happy, sometimes it even makes you even happier than you want. Also it leads to some unexpected mental problems, which about I really can't write, since I'm not a pharmacists. So will technologies go to my list of "happy things"? I cannot tell yet, since I want to observe this theme a little more. Only thing I would say about technologies is. Think about it, only technologies that make us happy are technologies that connect us to our family, lovers, friends, that's a real happiness. Love people surrounding you, kids stay out of drugs, livin' positive ;)

For you to stay out of drugs, another app I found here ;)

Friday, February 18, 2011

Tribute to creativity...

Isn't it hard to do at the fast food where you partly work? (photo by Gareth Davies)

We know how it's important to be creative. Even living in our modern world of Globalization, working at job which is full of "alienation" we just forget what it's like to be creative, bring creativity in your job, make people smile, that's another secret of happiness... So why won't we be creative today and see how world around us change, happy creative day, livin' positive ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdlBJ-q-4JE

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Drugs that can make you happy...

First of all I would like to attempt you considering the word that I used in this post. No, I'm not advertising bad habits or writting anything about addiction or any bad things considering illegal drugs. Keeping it PG-13 I want to write about experience I lately faced searching for the drugs that could make you happier. So, I typed a phrase "Drugs that can make you happy" on Google when definition of word "Ecstasy" suddenly popped up on a first line of results. So far, Urban 75.com says "Ecstasy is a powerful stimulant and mood changer that speeds up your body system and alters your perception of the world" but what does it really means!? Can it make you happy!? I mean it got a really cheap price and mostly lasts up from three to six hours, that's exactly what people looking for! They are looking for cheap prices and good amount of time in the "paradise". Looking at side effects we can say that this ILLEGAL and STRONG drug make you talk bullshit, do wild things and forget about them next day. Health risks section on this website couldn't encourage me neither. Just think about it... Are we really looking for that? Is your life is really boring to do that? I mean it's understandable that you as a human want to try new feelings but there are lots of people could enjoy life not even trying ecstasy even once.  So far, in this journey of finding the "real" happiness, ecstasy is sadly out of my list.

I still got something interesting for you that I found long time ago (almost forgot about it ;)). It's a flash game made by students of The University of Utah including all information you want to know about different types of illegal drugs. Kids stay out of drugs, their parents drive safely, "livin' positive" ;)

Game is here folks, livin' positive ;)

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Science says...

Checking out "Yes! magazine" I stopped on Interactive Graphic that shows "10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy". Interested in answering philosophical question "what makes us happy", father-son researchers Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky and ethicist Stephen Post have studied people all over the world to find out how things like money, attitude, culture, memory, health, altruism, and our day-to-day habits affect our well-being. For me, research showed some things that most people wouldn't follow, but hey, we not perfect, but I believe at least, we have to try. Everybody can try because it's so simple. Let's quickly go through it together ;):

Savor Everyday Moments - Everyday life gives us different circumstances, sometimes you just don't see them ;)

Avoid Comparisons - I know that b**** Emily talked sh** about you in the bathroom, but hey, start the change in yourself first ;)


Put Money Low on the List - I think it's quite hard to do in our times, I would paraphrase it into: "Remember, you don't live for money."


Have Meaningful Goals - it says “As humans, we actually require a sense of meaning to thrive.” Get your life together and find you ;)


Take Initiative at Work - Creativity, creativity and creativity ;)


Make Friends, Treasure Family - That's what we do ;)


Smile Even When You Don’t Feel Like It - You think I put smileys automatically!? I really smile everytime I do it ;)


Say Thank You Like You Mean It - Just remember that some words are more than just sounds ;)


Get Out and Exercise - That's what I forgot about ;)


Give It Away, Give It Away Now! - Don't start giving all your stuff to people around you, but "Researcher Elizabeth Dunn found that those who spend money on others reported much greater happiness than those who spend it on themselves." Livin' positive ;)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Stressing over Valentine's...

Today one of my friends came to me and started to talk how stressful it was to be a single on Valentine's day. Being in her late teen's she has ended up not being in love for a year. Switching from one relationship to another, she would never think how it's to be lonely on St. Valentine, calling her mom, telling how she loves her. Just after she hung up the phone she said: "that's only person I can call right now".

I've been single for a years so I'm use to being lonely . . . But after years I've learned that you cannot disturb your own vibe by over stressing things, so what I suggested is to keep your flow, how they said "hope dies last"...

Valentines Day is a time to observe the ones you love . . not to observe love that you don't have. . . ;) livin' positive

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Love Day, Good Day...

Today is Valentine's day and I've realized it when I woke up and have seen all this e-mails I've received. Personally I wrote a text message to my mom, since I didn't want to wake her up, telling her how i love her and wish would spend this day with her and my sister. Story of St. Valentine, the priest from Rome who gave his life in the name of love was told by lovers across the world for many years now. I would only say, please love each other, spread love, remember this power that can build new hopes, that can bring happiness... ;) livin' positive

Saturday, February 12, 2011

What do we watch...

So the weekend is almost over, and there is no place to party . . . again, it's time to prepare for the busy week. People are getting depressed remembering what they have to do for the week, like pay for bills - deadlines are close enough to worry about them, and you must do assignments which you wish you did the previous Friday,  oh yeah don't forget to call your mom since you miscalled her on Friday night... But Sunday wouldn't be called Sunday if we had all these problems facing us in the morning. First of all it's a sunny day, secondly Sunday is a day for friends to get together, remembering all parties they had this weekend, order pizza and watch a movie. Which movie you'd be watching tonight, depends. Hey, you don't want any drama with all the same "bullshit!" you see everyday, let's watch some adventures, some cartoons, some throw backs. I'm thinking about  a movie from the 80's "Airplane!" is one. Only in this movie you can hear Steve McCroskey saying: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines." Just watching trailer makes friend laugh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaXvFT_UyI8

Get Chinese, get comfy, enjoy your movie and good week, livin' positive ;)

Friday, February 11, 2011

What we listen this weekend

Happy weekend finally came and we shouting out new artist from Brooklyn, New York, who is doing big and international now. His name is Theophilus London who made couple appearances on GQ magazine (this week he had second photo shoot and interview for new GQ magazine release) and this week he came out with his new EP "Lover's Holiday", which positive old-school instrumentals and classic rap flow bumping in speakers of many youngsters. Open your windows watching beautiful ladies passing by, and just bump this EP taking shower, getting prepared for a big day. Today is a good day, everyday is a good day, and Theophilus London remind us about it with his new EP, thank you @TheophilusL and good work ;)You can listen and enjoy it here, buy it from iTunes and find his previous works on internet.

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Simple life: "Hot Wheels"

Hot wheels... I started to collect these pieces recently, but what did really made me to buy my first "Hot Wheels" car? I've never been interested in cars but every time I was watching hip-sop music videos I was dreaming how I'm driving these hot cars with beautiful girl on the freeway of Atlanta or some other "hood". My last purchase was for the rapper known as "Young Jeezy", when he was riding his light green Ferrari on the freeway of ATL in his music video for song "I Luv It"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUjfWwqFcFI

That's why I thought why we wouldn't come back to the childhood and play some cars. Everybody got their dream car, no matter if it's Ferrari or Bentley, you always can get it on http://www.hotwheels.com/  For me, since I'm little bit grown from Gangsta Music videos I want to buy Mini Cooper. So catch your feeling when you buying another Hot Wheel model of your dreams, no matter you play it or not, just one look on car of your dream can bring your motivation to the maximum. That's what helps me ;)



Talking about Mini Cooper. Look how cute it is ;)

Monday, February 7, 2011

Interviewing Zachary Corrigan (crazy piano man)

Writing about Zachary Corrigan (Facebook)

Occupation: Student, Theater major.

Couldn't wait to post this post after interviewing friend of mine, Zachary Corrigan. The guy I've met in one of those crazy nights drinking and just enjoying music on St. Patrick's. You can find this youngster cruising around campus, playing on piano in random places, like one of his favorites spots might be chapel or mansion, even with people working there, doing their everyday routine, Zach plays beautiful sounds on classic or any other piano. When I've met him there for the first time he implied: "Hey, they enjoy music, I enjoy good music bruh." So after talking about crazy nights in New Orleans, I've decided to interview him in order to know what might be his pursuit of happiness, what he defines as being happy, being a student in acting major and being musician in soul.


Zach, what you doing right now, on weekdays, weekends?
What am I doing? With my life... I play piano, piano in my room, play burnout on Xbox, play jazz, listening jazz, giving the wife ice cream.



Pretty simple life, ha, how do you define happiness? I mean, what are characteristics of love for you?
What? Oh, god, it's hard one. I'm happy when I'm with friends, family, wife and hookers. (laughing) You know, it's a joke.

So talking about wife, can you see building a new family as one of the main characteristics of happiness?
Yeas, but in the future... I need Zach to grow potential, because I ain't one hit wonder.

How about bad days? What do you do when you upset? When you feel like it's not your day?
Oh it's simple, I usually play piano surrounding myself with person who have sort of positive energy. I like people with positive energy.

What do you do for fun?
At daytime I usually make art, at nightime "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with a beer.

So, basically you a crackhead? (laughing)
How dare you say that!? ...Methhead boy, ha, it's just a joke bro. (smiling and lighting his cigarette)



He welcomes, anybody who wants to contact with him on FB to talk or chill...

Hello young world!

Hey young world! I always wanted to use Slick Rick's phrase at any possible chance introducing myself to the new public. My name is @zfromdagalaxy and I'm a person just like a guy living next door to you, walking with his dog in your neighbourhood, ordering Chinese on Fridays, listening music so you can hear it bumping through your walls. We all people, and I love people, and I love life, but we all feel moody some days, we all have a bad days (especially for me, they come instantly), sitting in your room looking for your friends or not. I had years of depression and after my life changed radically I thought why not all be friends help each other feel better. I'll be meeting interesting people, interviewing them, researching what happiness is, looking for stuff that can make our life much better. I'm a help you, you help me. So anytime you feel happy, upset, sad, and just stuck, come through to my apartment over here on the web, "Livin' Positive".wordpress.com, you always welcome here and be free to feel casual here.