Goooood morning! ^_^ : morning wisdom

Good morning all!! ^_^

Have a lovely day!

Goooood morning! ^_^ : love

Good morning, all!! ^_^

This morning I would like to show you one of the cutest pictures I recently found surfing the net.
Hope it will give you a smile as it did with me!! ^_^

Have a love day and remember to SMILE! ^_^

No info found - if anyone knows who took this pic, please tell me! ^_^

Goooood morning! ^_^ : poem

Good morning fellas!! ^_^          

.....Sunday Morning!!!! I-l-o-v-e-i-t!!!!

Here it is a little poem (I could not find who wrote this.. if anybody has a clue, please tell me!!!), a good way to start our sunny Sunday!

Wake up, wake up,
It's morning time,
Stretch yourself,
Freshen up your mind.

It's a new start,
Make the most,
Live it with smile,
And enjoy to the core.

Have a good day. ^_^

Goooood morning! ^_^ : Snoopy

Good morning!!! ^_^

First of all I need to say that...  I LOVE SNOOPY!!!! He is genial!
So this morning I would like to share this sketch with you. Hope you will find it great as I did!!

Have a lovely day! ^_^

Goooood morning! ^_^ : No rain

Good morning all!! ^_^

It's a beautiful day, isn't it?
Here in Dublin sky is blue, it's cold, yes, but there is a lovely sun waiting for me to go outside.

It was a great weekend..it was grand!!!!  I spent it with my elder brother (he doesn't live here in Ireland) and I miss him everyday.

By the way, he reminded my a song that we used to listen to and sing together when I was around 11. This souvenir makes me smile and be happy.. I want to share it with you.

Have a lovely day!

Goooood morning! ^_^ : let's sing together!

Good morning sweethearts, how are you today?

This morning I received a very nice e-mail from a dear friend of mind. He said I needed to absolutely ready the words of a popular carol he found in a children book.

Here it is:

Smiling is contagious,
you catch it like the flu,
When someone smiled at
me today, I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner,
and someone saw my grin -
When he smiled I
realized, I'd passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile,
then I realized its worth,
A single smile, just like mine,
could travel round the earth.
So, if you feel a smile begin,
don't leave it undetected -
Let's start an epidemic quick
and get the world infected!!!

Isn't it perfect? It made me smile - sure smiling is contagious -  and I thought I wanted to share it with you. 
Then , doing some research, I found that there is a nice singer, Rochelle Hanson (She has a beautiful, contagious smile), who posted a nice video on Youtube, lyrics based on this carol. I hope you like it. I am still singing it..  ^_^

Thank you. 


Have a lovely day! ^_^

Goooood morning! ^_^ : I can..

Goooood morning people!! ^_^

How are you today? 

Hope you like this new column!! 

This morning I would like to share with you this nice draw I found online:

Isn't it cute???

It's true that we don't have always the will to smile, and for sure we cannot force it. 

BUT it's nevertheless true that when somebody smiles at us life is happier and easier! ^_^

Have a lovely day! 

Goooood morning! ^_^ : Haiku

This morning I would like to share with you this Haiku by Kobayashi Nobuyuki, knows under the name Issa. 

雪とけて
村一ぱいの
子ども哉

yuki tokete 
mura ippai no 
kodomo kana

Translated in English sounds like: 

snow melting
the village brimming over...
with children!

(translation by David Lanoue , http://haikuguy.com)

I found it very inspiring today. Can you imagine it? 

A small village, all white, covered by snow that slowly blankets everything.  You are alone, watching outside from your window. You have just woken up, still in your pyjamas, still rubbing your eyes with your left hand. Feeling sad, maybe you won't be able to go outside, start your day as scheduled. 

But suddenly - last row- a splash of colour, then two, three, four, painting the white quilt. 

Sound of laugh. Cries of joy.

Children playing all around.

Have a lovely day! ^_^

"Goooood morning" column! ^_^

Good morning everybody,

Today I wish to inaugurate a new venture for this blog, the "Goooood morning" column!  ^_^

Every morning one thought, picture, draw, poem and so on,  to start our day with the positive mood!

I wish you all a lovely day!! With love.

Cappuccino in Tokyo @Cav - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

Morning inspiration

It was 1982 when a little 11-year-old redheaded orphan girl started singing "you are never fully dressed without a smile".
I'm talking about the Broadway musical "Annie",  based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie , with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin and the book by Thomas Meehan.
(source wikipedia)

Anyway, this morning, I found on Facebook a picture that I would like to share with you all:

Hope you will like it!!

I wish you a lovely day! ^_^

Attempt no. 2 : my neighbour (part 2)

 “Happiness only real when shared” is a sentence written by Christopher McCandless, before passing away in the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992 (have you seen the movie "Into the wild" directed by Sean Penn? that story..).

 “Happiness only real when shared” ... is it true? what do you think about it?

I have thought about it for a long time. I believe that we can find happiness into ourselves. However, yes, I think that our happiness is more real and "tasty" if shared.  

For this reason this below has been my second attempt: 

Yesss!! It's me in the photo together with one of my best friends!!

So.. next step, as for attempt no.1, has been to hang it on the bulletin board of the building I live in, and wait for my neighbour reaction. 

To be honest, it hasn't been as successful as the first attempt. I think it is because it was too similar, no surprise effect no more. However, after 2-3 days, all smiles were taken, and I am still very happy about it!! 

Thinking about something different next time. I hang in there, you bet! ^_^

Smiling and... laughing!!!

Hello everyone!!
Just the night before attempt no. 2, I would like to share a video with you all. It made me smile and laugh, hope it will give you some nice moments as well.
The video is called "Amazing people and amazing animals". Watch the video and you will know why!!!

I wish you a good night and sweet, lovely dreams! <3

Good morning! ^_^

Good mooooooooorning!!!

I am getting things ready for "attempt no.2". Really hope you will like it.

In the meantime, I would like to show you a picture I found surfing the net. I am sorry, I could not find the source, if anyone knows please let me know and I will be glad to add all related information. ^_^

I wish you all a lovely day and enjoy the pic! Byeeee

Attempt no. 1 : my neighbour

It's about ten months I am living in this building in Dublin. It's a nice place and sometimes I meet my neighbour when I take the lift, check my mailbox. But it's all. The usual "Hi, how are you", "Thanks", "Sorry". Nothing more, I don't even know a name. It's not good but.. where could I start from?


So yesterday afternoon I prepared this:

Then, late at night like a ninja, I went at the ground floor, at the bulletin board  just beside the main entrance and I hanged it there.
If just one person will smile reading my announce, I thought, it would be a success.

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The morning after, when I went downstairs I felt so surprised and happy finding this:

And this at 7pm, before going out with some friends:

I was completely amazed. A big success, more than expected! 

I still feel so glad I have such great neighbour, and I feel more close to them now. 

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However, I received the biggest gift ever when I came back home around midnight. Turning my key to open the main gate I found two messages waiting for me:

I don't know who wrote these messages, but thank you so much. Thank you. 

A blog like this... why?

This blog was born from the idea I had speaking with some friends while we were eating a gorgeous piece of cake (and I seize this opportunity to tell an ancestral truth: all best ideas come from eating cakes!!!! ^_^). Anyway, we were there, our mouths full of a delicious chocolate cream and some of them were complaining about job, boyfriends, parents, life in general. I heard comments like "People is so rude sometimes" or "I would like him not just focus on himself".  So, since I feel we have at least to try to find a solution when we have a problem, I asked smiling (a diabolic angel I would say..) : "What are you doing to solve the situation? What are you doing to understand people around you?".
The air litterally freezed.

"Me? What could I do?" - one of them replied. 

"There is nothing I can do to change them" - the other said. 

(..I am going to avoid describing my eyes launching fires and flames for this time.. )

Well.. this to say that a couple of hours later, once I felt myself more quiet, I took this opportunity to stop and reflect: "what do I do to understand people I share my life with?",  and above all: "What can I do to create a connection with people I meet everyday?

If it's true that a nice gesture produce a positive reaction (this video will explain it more than one thousand words: boomerang effect ), why shouldn't I make an attempt?

That's the idea: do something just for the pleasure to see somebody else smiling. Nothing acrobatic or expensive. Nothing elaborate. Just a tiny, simple act to say "I care".

So I started.. and results have been amazing so far, after just one day!!!

Stay tuned!!!