Holstee Manifesto

This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.

If you don’t like something, change it.

If you don’t like your job, quit it.

If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV.

If you are looking for the live of your life, stop;
they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.

Stop over analyzing, life is simple.
All emotions are beautiful.
When you eat, appreciate every last bite.

Open your mind, arms and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences.
Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them.

Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.
Some opportunities only come one, seize them.

Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them so go out and start creating.

LIFE IS SHORT. LIVE OUR DREAM, AND WEAR YOUR PASSION.

Dear Friend,

First, watch the video above, then join me in helping to make tracks for penguins!

On April 30, I’ll be participating in the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Run for the Wild, a 5K run at the Bronx Zoo. This year’s event is dedicated to these beloved seabirds, which are increasingly treading on thin ice. All the funds I raise will go toward the Wildlife Conservation Society’s projects to protect imperiled penguins and the places they call home.

Did you know that some penguin species could be facing extinction within this century? Of the world’s 17 penguin species, 12 are experiencing serious population declines as climate change, overfishing, pollution, and unregulated tourism conspire against them. WCS is committed to ensuring a future for the largest colony of Magellanic penguins in the world at Punta Tombo, Argentina.

With your support, I hope to raise my target of $1,000. Even $10 will make a big difference for penguins. The donations I collect will go toward WCS’s efforts to monitor the penguins of Punta Tombo during the most vulnerable times in their lives?the feeding season, which begins in April. With your support, WCS will continue to help regulate oil pollution and commercial fishing that imperil the birds at sea. WCS will also work towards creating new protected areas to safeguard the birds? nesting grounds, like the Parque Marino Isla Pingüino, or Penguin Island Marine Park, that WCS helped create in Argentina last winter.

Please visit the donation page and make a tax-deductible contribution to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

https://secure3.convio.net/wcs/site/Donation2?idb=1940899098&2982.donation=form1&df_id=2982&FR_ID=1060&PROXY_ID=2052425&PROXY_TYPE=20

Please also consider joining me for the event! You can register at http://www.wcsrunforthewild.org.

Thanks in advance for your generosity and your commitment to protecting penguins.

With sincere thanks,

Pas

By Chef Nikki Cascone
Octavia’s Porch

Assorted house made pickles
Wild mushroom knishes
Beer mustard

Paired with Innis & Gunn Canadian Cask

Soup & Salad
Beets
Goat cheese, lamb bacon

Potato escarole soup
Paired with Original Innis & Gunn

Smoked fish with red onion
Cucumber relish and cauliflower puree
Paired with Innis & Gunn Winter Brew

Apple cake with beer ice cream & rum sauce caramel
Paired with Innis & Gunn Rum Cask

Beer egg cream
Paired with Innis & Gunn Rum Cask

So what merchs that you want to get from Tron Legacy? I’ve been to the popup store in Culver City and although some of those stuff are nice I just don’t have real use for it. Then I come across this motorcycle jacket by Universal Design and I say “YES!”vI have to have it. Probably not getting the whole outfit since my leather pant days are over, but the jacket look awesome. The jacket has CE body approved armored. The pattern is just reflective surface so if anyone know how to rig LED on it let me know. Limited edition of 1,000 and I have to order it by Jan 7th. Let me know if you like this or think I’m just crazy! LOL

http://www.udreplicas.com/ud-products/tron-legacy/sam-flynn-tron-suit/

If you like to join me, the tickets are still available. Go to http://bit.ly/brdJGi and use code SHECKYS to get $10 off until Aug. 6th.

REDs

Chateau de la Ferrandiere Cabernet Sauvignon (France)

Aroma: black currant, blackberry, green pepper
Palate: blackberry, coffee, Provencal spice
Pairings: cold meats, smoked sausages, soft cows-milk cheeses

Chateau de la Ferrandiere Malbec (France)

Aroma: ripe blue berry, wild rosemary, tobacco
Palate: plum, cherry, nutmeg
Pairings: sausage, mixed-grilled barbecue, poultry, soft-ripened cheese

Terra Andina Pinot Noir Reserva (Chile)

Aroma: red cherry, cinnamon, wild strawberry
Palate: red cherry, baking spices, black cherry
Pairings: grilled salmon, pork chops, spicy tuna rolls

Terra Andina Carmenere Reserva (Chile)

Aroma: roasted plum, cardamom, smoke
Palate: boysenberry, plum, roasted red pepper
Pairings: pulled pork bbq, sticky ribs, fried chicken, dark chocolate, stuffed mushrooms

Douglas Green Shiraz (South Africa)

Aroma: ripe berry, black pepper, oak vanilla
Palate: raspberry, blackberry, oak
Pairings: grilled fillet, rump or sirloin, oxtail, lamb shanks, full flavored cheeses

WHITEs

Tablelands Sauvignon Blanc (New Zealand)

Aroma: passion fruit, nectarine, lime zest
Palate: nectarine, apricot, lime
Pairings: goat’s milk cheeses, light fish dishes, sushi

Tablelands Chardonnay (New Zealand)

Aroma: white nectarine, fresh citrus, melon
Palate: crisp apple, pineapple, minerals
Pairings: scallops, lobster rolls, pork, chicken

Zum Riesling QBA (Germany)

Aroma: peach, nectarine, citrus
Palate: racy lime, apple, honey
Pairings: scallops, grilled halibut

La Fiera Pinot Grigio (Italy)

Aroma: peach, melon, lemon peel
Palate: peach, apple, minerals
Pairings: salads, grilled chicken, seafood

Chateau de Paraza Rose (France)

Aroma: strawberry, raspberry, cinnamon
Palate: strawberry, peach, clove
Pairings: ceviche, tuna nicoise, mussels

So this is what happen in our little office. Enjoy

While receiving the Nakarach Award in Supporting Male category, Pongpat gave a speech in support of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. It was so emotional to me that I was in tears. I wish that all the violence would stop so that we can start to rebuild our country again. And Long Live the King.

Since I have receive this award because of the role of father.

Let me tell you a little bit about the father.

Father is the main pillar of the house

I live in a big house…very big. We have many family members.

It is a beautiful house, I love it.

Beautiful and warm.

But before it has became this beautiful house many of the ancestor had sacrificed their life, their strength.

Fought for everything with their lives to build this beautiful house.

Until these days, the father still watch over this beautiful house.

And taking care of every member in the house.

If you don’t love the father anymore.

Angry at something the father didn’t do, and blame him, hate him.

Try to make him leave this house.

I will walk to that man and tell him.

If you don’t love the father anymore please leave this house.

Because this is our father’s house.

Because this is our FATHER’S land.

I love my king.

I believe all of you here also do.

We are all the same color.

This life of mine I give to my king!

Thanks You!

Zeze Na Pombejra

Dear Sirs/Madams,

Recently, CNN Thailand Correspondents Dan Rivers and Sarah Snider have made me seriously reconsider your agency as a source for reliable and accurate unbiased news. As of this writing, over thousands of CNN’s viewers have already begun to question the accuracy and dependability of its reporting as regards events in Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, etc., in addition to Bangkok.

As a first-rate global news agency, CNN has an inherent professional duty to deliverall sides of the truth to the global public who have faithfully and sincerely placed their trust and reliance in you. Your news network, by its longtime transnational presence and extensive reach, has been put in a position of trust and care; CNN’s journalists, reporters, and researchers have a collective responsibility to follow the journalist’s code and ethics to deliver and present facts from all facets of the story, not merely one-sided, shallow and sensational half-truths. The magnitude of harm or potential extent of damage that erroneous and fallacious news reporting can cause to (and exacerbate), not only a country’s internal state of affairs, economic well-being, and general international perception, but also the real lives and livelihood of the innocent and voiceless people of that nation, is enormous. CNN should not negligently discard its duty of care to the international populace by reporting single-sided or unverified facts and distorted truths drawn from superficial research, or display/distribute biased images which capture only one side of the actual event.

Mr. Rivers and Ms. Snider have NOT done their best under these life-threatening circumstances because many other foreign correspondents have done better. All of Mr. Rivers and Ms. Sniders’ quotes and statements seem to have been solely taken from the anti-government protest leaders or their followers/sympathizers. Yet, all details about the government’s position have come from secondary resources. No direct interviews with government officials have been shown; no interviews or witness statements from ordinary Bangkok residents or civilians unaffiliated with the protesters, particularly those who have been harassed by or suffered at the hands of the protesters, have been circulated.

Why the discrepancy in source of information? Why the failure to report all of the government’s previous numerous attempts to negotiate or invitations for protesters to go home? Why no broadcasts shown of the myriad ways the red protesters have terrorized and harmed innocent civilians by burning their shops, enclosing burning tyres around apartment buildings, shooting glass marbles at civilians from high altitudes, attacking civilians in their cars, and worst of all, obstructing paramedics and ambulances carrying civilians injured by M79 grenade blasts during the Silom incident of April 24, 2010, thereby resulting in the sole civilian casualty? The entire timeline of events that have forced the government to take this difficult stance has been hugely and callously ignored in deference to the red ‘underdogs’.

Mr. Rivers and Ms. Snider’s choice of sensational vocabulary and terminology in every newscast or news report, and choice of images to broadcast, has resulted in law-abiding soldiers and the heavily-pressured Thai government being painted in a negative, harsh, and oppressive light, whereas the genuinely violent and law-breaking arm of the anti-government protesters – who are directly responsible for overt acts of aggression not only against armed soldiers but also against helpless, unarmed civilians and law-abiding apolitical residents of this once blooming metropolis (and whose actions under American law would by now be classified as terrorist activities) – are portrayed as righteous freedom fighters deserving of worldwide sympathy and support. This has mislead the various international Human Rights watchdogs to believe the Thai government are sending trigger-happy soldiers out to ruthlessly murder unarmed civilians without just cause.

As a current resident of “war zone” Bangkok who has experienced the effect of the Red protests first hand and is living in a state of constant terror and anxiety as to whether her family, friends, and home would get bombed or attacked by the hardcore anti-government vigilantes/paramilitary forces – I appeal to CNN’s professional integrity to critically investigate and scrutinize the misinformed news reporting of your above-named correspondents. If they are incapable of obtaining genuine, authentic facts from any other source except the Red Protest leaders and red-sympathizing Thai translators or acquaintances, or from fellow non-Thai-speaking journalists who are similarly ignorant of Thai language, culture, history, and society, then perhaps CNN should consider reassigning field correspondents to Thailand.

I implore and urge you to please take serious action to correct or reverse the grave injustice that has been done to the Thai nation, her government, and the majority of law-abiding Thai citizens and expatriate residents by having endorsed and widely circulated poorly researched and misrepresented news coverage of the current ongoing political unrest and escalating violence in Thailand.

Copies of this open letter have also been distributed to other local as well as international news media and social networks for public information. Please feel free to contact me further should you require any additional concrete and reputable evidence in substantiation and corroboration of my complaints and claims stated hereinabove.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Napas Na Pombejra, B.A., LL.B. (Lond.)
Bangkok, Thailand
May 17, 2010

Addendum

Enclosed herewith for your attention and information some examples of other quality international news bulletins by respectable foreign journalists so you may assess at your leisure the sub-par quality and misleading nature of Mr. Rivers and Ms. Sniders’ journalism:

1. New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/world/asia/16thai.html
2. Fox News/Associated Press:
(i) http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/16/chaos-continues-thailand-govt-rejects-talks-continues-crackdown-killed/
(ii) http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/17/thai-red-shirt-general-dies-chaos-continues/
3. Global Post: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/thailand/100514/thailand-protests-bangkok
4. NHK: http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_15.html
5. Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/2010/04/2010423171540981286.html
6. Deutsche Welle (English media in Germany):
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5575254,00.html
7. Local English daily newspaper’s chronology of events on Day 3 of “War in Bangkok”:
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/05/17/politics/What-went-down-30129533.html

Youtube Videos, images, articles showing what CNN has failed to circulate:

Red Shirt Protested attack solider.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_xg0l6-oHY
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGqZDvRa_U
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3tfBBSVJdU&feature=player_embedded
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=4hmSPbugDAA&feature=related
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6. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=XRi6m7QG06M&feature=related
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=Aws3ZMXzNjs&feature=related
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=giuEOQ62n6E&feature=related
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=yy3a73Y6fBg&feature=related
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLuffqnszIY
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqnXV2ltUlE
12. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=LXMmQReCKVg&feature=related
13. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=FWN7zYV7_Bo&feature=related
14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=005jYjmEAVE
15. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioOrreuQ94c
16. http://tweetphoto.com/22647514
17. http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/37395/put-an-end-to-this-rebellion?awesm=fbshare.me_AMdZh
18. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=333752&id=118996168116475
19. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=El-zPySi9cQ&feature=related
20. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=KzcVcHokaVM&feature=related
21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agLBIWDKWkI
22. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=34hSEPOC71g&feature=related
23. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=kuAQyc5d1HY&feature=related
24. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=Pv9Hpfb6gNE&feature=related
25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7yAVunxw1g&feature=player_embedded
26. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=328250&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=122351831122683&aid=-1&id=1785951766
27. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5959829&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=122351831122683&aid=-1&id=506055218
28. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5960844&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=122351831122683&aid=-1&id=506055218
29. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8684405.stm
30. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=428905841067&ref=mf

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