Hello, hello, and welcome to today's video. My name is Laura and this is my channel Laura's little library Excited I am having this is my first time filming this intro. So welcome to my Vlog for thrill till the weekend. This is a read-a-thon happening September 1st Wednesday for 72 hours So that's until September 3rd on Friday and they have different events happening Wednesday It was a movie night. So we have movie night coming up tonight, and I'm really excited Thursday is a Reading sprint and chat kind of time, which I'm very fortunate to take part in So if you haven't seen that go check it out. It'll probably be up by now And then Friday is a book discussion for the group book for this little mini read-a-thon I kind of decided last minute that I was gonna vlog it just because it seemed like a fun thing to do But it's already a little past five on Wednesday. I just got home from work So I haven't been able to and it's my first day of work, too So like I got up early and I went to work and I haven't been able to like actually do much today Yet, but there are plenty of things I need to do because we're in our brand new apartment So there's obviously a lot of setup that's gonna happen Which is perfect for audiobooks, which is perfect for this read-a-thon because I will be focusing on two audiobooks I have my sister the serial killer and this should only take me about two hours to get through so I'm really excited to just kind of plow through that get it read and then the other Audiobook that I have that I want to read is the cabin at the end of the world So I am really excited to read that one as well and hopefully I'll be able to finish them both during this read-a-thon And then maybe also a physical book who knows because I do have to work All three days of this read-a-thon. I have to work my eight hour shifts every day So we'll see if that actually happens, but that's why I'm like focusing I really just want to get the audiobooks done because I have no excuse to not listen to them while unpacking in the evenings so Yeah, that's that's kind of the beginning. That's what's happening here It is Wednesday, and I realized I have not had time to film tomorrow's video Which is going to be my bullet journal for September and I switched my theme last minute So I have to like redo all the planning so I am going to plan that video and then film that video and Edit it and upload it for tomorrow. So that's kind of the top priority I'll be able to listen to my audiobook during this, but Yeah, so that's what I'm gonna do now. I Just realized I left a turkey sandwich at work that I wanted to eat for dinner That's a bummer Anyway, I will check it with you guys Probably when I finished filming those videos and have actually read something for this read-a-thon Okay, it's much lighter. It's it's 12 o'clock And I'm tired and I should go to bed But here's the thing So I did finally start reading a book. I started reading my sister the serial killer. I'm almost halfway through it I really like it. I think it's very fun. Very interesting I'm waiting for it to pick up just a little bit like it had a really good intro But I feel like it's about to go into a wall not because Like it's a lull in the book. I think it's just a lull in what I'm interested about It's not quite taking the turn. I was hoping but that's okay Because I'm hoping to get through it very quickly. I'm hope I'm gonna finish it tomorrow I'm like I'm gonna finish it tomorrow. It's gonna be finished tomorrow for sure But the thing is is that my my clips just uploaded on my computer So I I want to edit them, but I'm also just so tired and I just want to go to bed So tomorrow's video might be late because I have to wake up early to go to work and I work all morning. So my video for sure will not be going up at the normal time Unless I stay up really late tonight to do that, but that's just too much work. So Yeah, tomorrow's video is gonna be up late, but it is gonna be up probably after work and Yeah, isn't it's not much of an update. I did do the movie watching event with the thrill till the weekend Discord chat and I Agree with most things that were said in that discord chat of There are some things that were interesting and I liked but many things where it's big eye roll classic horror movie So yeah, I watched that's what I did. I watched the movie. I started a book. I started editing I'm gonna go to bed and I probably won't update you until after work tomorrow When I am about to edit or when I've hopefully finished my book So then I think about my sister's serial killer is that it's only a four four and a half hour long audiobook So let's think to it at two point speed. I get it done in just a little over two hours. So I'm almost Halfway through so I've listened to it for about a little over an hour to get it to two hours Ish But yeah, I'll update you later tomorrow with this fun little thing Good night. I'm a person because I did not update you yesterday like I thought it would or that I was planning to Basically, I got home from work and I was really really tired and I realized that my video wasn't ready to go up yet and I had the live show for thrill to the weekend and I was really excited and I was preparing for that and then it Got to a point where I was ready to go to bed and I didn't update you at all and Then here we are so now I'm gonna update you I did finish a book I finished my sister the serial killer and I liked it a lot. I rated it four point five out of five stars There were just a few little things that I wish had been added or better explained in the book Like I wish there was a little bit more of the sister relationship and I wasn't really satisfied with the ending but Still phenomenal book still highly recommend. It's a nice short Perfect intro into spooky season read And I feel like I don't need to give too much of a description because when I listen to the audiobook And it's only four hours long and the title is my sister the serial killer You kind of you kind of get the idea that There are two sisters one knows that the other one is the serial killer She just also happens to be the one who cleans up at the crime scenes So Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I loved it I am gonna start listening to the cabin at the end of the world For the thrill to the weekend even though that ends tonight and it's a nine and a half hour audiobook And I don't think I can finish it in one day But I'm gonna try I did also let me grab the book. I did also restart reading where the briars sleep I am 70 pages into it and I'm pretty much to reach the point where I stopped reading it last time And I stopped reading it last time Because it wasn't the finished copy and I was really enjoying the book and I'm still really enjoying it But now I have the finished copy and I was told that certain plot holes were fixed So I wanted to start from the beginning to see if there were any like important changes due to Like plot holes being fixed and there were so I'm very glad I started from the beginning But I'm all caught up now, so I'm about to head into new territory and I am super super excited for it I'm also thinking this may not just be a thrill till the weekend vlog just because I don't Have a lot of footage of just these three days because these were the first three days that I started work And I do work full-time so And I did just move into this new apartment as well, so we're still unpacking some things So this might also include the weekend because exciting things are happening on Sunday So and I kind of want to capture that so it's gonna be like an extended weekend vlog like a Wednesday to Sunday type Thing it's the intro to spooky season vlog That's what it will be intro to spooky season, which is gonna be great, so Yeah, like I said, I have a ton of things to do and I hope to listen to more the audiobook I probably won't finish so then I've only read one book for the 72 hour read-a-thon, but you know what I read a book The shortest one you can get because it was a novella, but it still counts so Yeah, I'll catch up with you guys later when I've actually done some reading and hopefully that will be Later today and not like two days later Hello, so it is 1115 and I did some more reading I well listened to the first three hours of the cabin at the end of the world and Enjoying it, but it's not unique So Basically, I I started listening to it and I was hooked and I didn't want to stop listening to it But I ran out of things to do while listening to it So then I would get fidgety and then I would zone out and that Doesn't work obviously when you try to listen to an audiobook. So I Stopped listening to it three hours in and I started watching only murders in the apartment The new show with like Martin Short and Celine Gomez and Steve Martin and blah blah blah on Hulu and I'm loving that more than I'm loving the book a little bit just because the cabin at the end of the world So they're unrelated like they're they're they're not related in the slightest the cabin at the end of the world so this happens within the first three hours is that There's this family vacationing in a cabin And then these four random people with like weapons come and basically say you have to choose one of your family members to kill And then you have to kill them or the apocalypse comes and all of humanity dies Which it's not that it's been done before except that it's been Done before in very similar ways Like it just doesn't seem Unique at all or fresh or new or anything and so I'm kind of struggling I still have six six and a half hours left in the book So I'm really hoping it will pick up and I will continue to read it probably tomorrow But for now I'm gonna watch the TV show because I love it and then I'll go to bed And hopefully I'll update you tomorrow when I'm more interesting things and can spend more time reading Morning, it is Saturday morning. It's just past 9 30 and I have the whole apartment to myself For a large chunk of the day So my plan for today is So first off, I'm gonna eat breakfast and then I might do a couple things on my computer But I'm going to largely hopefully spend the day listening to my audio book the cabin at the end of the world and Cleaning our room slash organizing slash unpacking the last two boxes in our room. We're super excited Brennan Put together the two nightstands that we got from Ikea the other day so I can actually Finish unpacking and put things in places, which is really nice and one of those nightstands I think we'll be replacing a desk, which is really interesting not that we're gonna use it like a desk, but It's gonna keep all of our desk like things on there so That yeah, that is kind of the loose plan for the day And I'm really excited and hopefully I mean it'd be really nice if I could finish the audio book today And I think if I stay focused I can so and Then when all that is said and done If I don't continue to work on my computer or even after I continue to work on my computer I'm gonna read where the briars sleep. I will finally be able to actually read more of this book and Yeah, I'm really excited for that. So hopefully this day will be full of reading and productivity. I really really hope All right, let's get to work wanted to stop and say that I got this from an antique store and this is what I'm gonna keep all of my baking recipes in because It's a treasure chest. They're my treasure. I finished Unpacking both of the boxes, but now I got to put everything away The hard thing is that one of these night stand needs to go on the other side of the bed But there's no room for it, and I don't think I can move our queen size bed alone because I am weakling So I'm gonna try and do a little bit more work in here listening to the audiobook. I am enjoying it I'm three and a half hours in I've got like six hours left Um It's fine. It's kind of a little slow at the moment because it's just like the the the people who have them captured are Doing something Kind of but then everyone in the chair is just kind of sitting there And I'm just like, okay, when is something gonna happen here like this is a tense moment Have something happen here Resolve the tension don't draw it out because you're starting to lose me here doing it so far So I'm gonna keep working on this and I'll catch up with you later. This is exciting So it is now what time it's now four o'clock and I've got a lot done I've been very productive, and I'm quite proud of it. And also, this is the first time I'm sitting in front of my bookshelves in the new apartment to like sit in the film And it's Wonderful so Yes, I did get new glasses and I've been wearing them all day for like the past couple of days minus at work Because I still wear my old ones. So I need buy vocals technically. I'm supposed to But I refuse because I hate them So I have one pair for far away things and one pair for close-up things So like the far away things I wear at work when I'm driving when I'm like watching TV across the room But these are my close-up glasses They're what I use for reading and looking at computer screens and phone screens blah blah blah anyway But yeah, I just wanted to in case anyone was curious that it's a new thing on my face, but Anyway, so I decided that in this vlog. I'm going to include a mini haul Because I'm going to do a large haul in a couple weeks, but I'm gonna do a go book buying with me plus haul in That video and it's going to be spooky season themed So subscribe if you haven't already so that when I upload the spooky themed videos You could be ready for it So I have a stack of books right here of non spooky Books or books that will not be included in it Why did the lighting just change? Oh? So I'm gonna quick run through these books there are quite a few of them So I'm just gonna share title author and live one or two sentences about of what they're about so we're gonna try and keep it brief, but yeah, I'm really excited to share these books with you and That I have this nice little Set up also the lighting keeps changing during this video It's because the Sun keeps going behind clouds, but not but I have a ring light here So you'll always be able to see in my face Anyway, so let's get started with the books first up is Beauty Queens by Libba Bray And I got this from a friend of mine. She read it and loved it and said I had to read it And she says this is about the contestants in the Miss Teen Teen Dream pageant Was gonna take a trip to the beach and then they get stranded so they have to survive But they're all a bunch of beauty queens, so I think it's entertaining I definitely think this would have been a perfect summer read, but I'm kind of heading into Fall reads and spooky reads So I don't know if I'll read any more summer reads this year or if I'm going to wait until next year or until I am longing For a sense of summer which will probably happen sometime in December No, I'll be excited for Christmas, which will happen in January And then I have this this is Briar Heart by Mercedes Lakey or Lackey And this book I believe comes out next month in October of this year So it is an art. It was not sent to me by the publisher. It was sent so To explain some of these books will have not been released yet, but weren't sent directly to me They were sent to a friend of mine who has since then gifted them to me either because she hasn't read them and Wants me to and tell her about them or she's read them and she wants me to read them So I'm getting these but not directly from the publisher not in exchange for a review or money or anything like that All opinions are my own But anyway, this is a feminist retelling of sleeping beauty. This basically follows sleeping beauties half sister who Has been tasked to protect princess Aurora so that Aurora can rule the kingdom and I believe she not only has to Physically be able to protect her sister like a badass But also wield some sort of magic or has to be able to magically Protect her sister as well from threats from like the faith Hmm, gee, I wonder why so I'm really excited to read this and I always love more fairy tale retellings anthology type So I hope to be picking this up pretty soon Moving on the next book that I would like to talk about is called the other side of luck by Ginger Johnson And this also is an advanced readers copy, but it did already come out in July So don't worry. This is a middle grade and it's really I'm really excited because I've been wanting to read more middle grade I've been saying, you know, I want to read middle grade and then I just flat out haven't So this follows a princess and after her mother dies her father basically says, you know Anyone in the kingdom must go out find this flower whoever does gets a hand at the princess and she's like Excuse you and so she also goes in search of this flower for herself And it so it follows her that also follows one popper who does go and try to find the flower So, yeah, it's it's not too thick, which will be kind of nice Just a short little made middle grade to hopefully kick off a long Line of reading middle grids, I can't speak anymore The next book a season of sinister dreams by Tracy Bankhart and she's the author of grace and fury which I have not read Again another arc that I got from my friend that is already out. It came out in June of this year So go ahead and read it this also has two characters that we follow and one is a princess who Does not who has magic and then the other is a farm girl who doesn't have her magic And they end up going on a journey together and they both want to save the kingdom because the men are destroying it So sounds like fun the next one that I have here is spindle and dagger and this is by J. Anderson coats and This one I believe is out. Yeah, this one came out last year and This is very interesting because the summary has a lot of plot points in it, but it's not that big of a book so basically we're in Wales way back in 1109 and These this person her kingdom gets taken over by this horrible king and she ends up all of her family dies And so so she convinces him that he needs her that she is very valuable to him and Then other political things are happening between him and another country and she's trying to find ways to influence While not giving herself away of someone who's actually not important in the eyes of the court, but I think it'll be very interesting I think this will be a nice Like addition to political intrigue books without being too deep because it's not that big so Yeah, so be a good winter book I feel like I don't know why I feel like that But I think it will be and then I got somewhere between bitter and sweet and this is by lake and zea kemp and This is a contemporary and I believe it has to do with rivals who make food So she wants to own her own Pastelleria, which is right next to her family's taco shop, but that's not what her parents have in mind They're like no you're going to be a perfect Mexican daughter and you are going to go become a doctor or lawyer or whatever and Then there's this guy who has just been trying to find a job And so he finds a job at her family's taco shop, but I believe Issues of immigration come up for him and his family. So this will be a really good one I was going through a bit of a contemporary food bean phase This past summer So moving on to the next and last contemporary that I have on this list is instructions for dancing by Nicola Yoon I have heard good things about this one So our main character is able to see people's Relationships but also how the relationships end and so because she sees all this heartbreak and sadness she's not very motivated to have her own relationship and Then the love interest comes along and that's all I know about it And that's all I really need to know about it. Um, I love the colors of it though. It's so Pretty it's definitely going to Brighten up continue to brighten up the corner of my shelf where I have all my contemporaries Fucking right along through here trying to go as quickly as possible. The next book here is Sunshine and this is by Marion Dain Bauer. I think that's how you say her name. It's a sad story I know this is gonna be a sad story that just rips my heart out And I don't know if I'm ready for it and because of that I feel like and because of how short it is like it's Only like not even 200 pages I feel like this is a book that I'm gonna need to sit down on like a Saturday or a Tuesday Like one of the days I have walked from work and just sit down and read it all through it once Because I'm not gonna want to be stopped through it It's it's been it's this little boy his dad and his dog and that's all he has and so he struggles with the loss of his mom not in death But in she left them as well as this feeling of rejection from his dad so he finds comfort in his dog And it's just gonna be so sad and heartbreaking So I'm just gonna need to sit down and read this one day Probably at the end of the year when I'm like, oh shoot. I did not complete my good read school I better read something short and quick. This is probably what I'll jump to and I'll make me cry and Okay, and I just now noticed that the outline of the picture is the dog like Getting all emotional. Let's move on to the next book because I'm getting all emotional So this next book is The Wicker King and this is by K. Ancron And basically all my friend told me about this when she gave it to me is Phenomenal queer story Okay Interesting, you know, we're always here for queer stories especially because I think this is a queer romance Which for it being a mostly black cover you wouldn't really think Queer romance when you look at this but what I what struck me about this book is The format it's like normal. It's got some pictures and then as you go in the pages get all like So I feel like this will be another quick read that I don't need to know a lot about or I'm not going to Because I know I'm just gonna sit down and read it because she told me to read it. I'm gonna read it I'm sorry. I know that's not very motivating for you to go out and pick up the book, but That's what I got now this next one. I'm really excited about I was so excited when she gave this to me And that is the Hawthorne legacy and this is by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. This is the second in a Series, I don't know if it's a duology or if there's even gonna be another book after this But I know that the inheritance games is the first book and I listened to that on audio like last Fall or winter or spring? I don't know I listened to it a while ago and I loved it everyone is every I've only heard good things about it I'm only really preaching good things about it.  Why what connection do I have to this billionaire? So she has to go down to Texas Live with the family in that house for a year So she can officially inherit everything and she's like I mean me and my sister need this But like and so I absolutely loved that. I love the ending. I didn't know there was gonna be a second book But now there is a second book and now that's in my hands. I am so excited What does this come out and this comes out this month? I don't know if it has come out or not because I'm filming this on September 4 I feel like it either has come out or is about to but I know it comes out this month So if you haven't read the first one the inheritance games, it's got the green cover Read it so you can pick this up because oh my word. It is so much fun the next couple books are still books I got from my friend and They're kind of spooky-ish But I don't know if I'm gonna have time to read them this spooky season because my spooky season TDR is Gynormous and I already have it all planned out and that will be explained in a future video So again subscribe if you're curious about what my spooky season reading plans are because those will be coming out In a week or two. I think yeah, maybe next week or maybe week after I don't know I need to look at a calendar But these could be good spooky reads if I have time I'd love to fit them in but they're not my top priority And so that is we are the ghosts by Vicki Skinner So basically the main characters brother died in a car accident and she is Investigating it and as she gets close to the people around her brother secrets unfurl Things happen and she figures stuff out and is like Whoa So it's yeah, it sounds interesting and Like like I said, maybe I'll read it if I have time But it's not exactly at the top of my priority list, but if you have read this Please let me know It says it's an advanced readers copy And but it came out in August of 2019 So if you have read this Please let me know what you think if you think it's worth the read if you enjoyed it If you think I would like it if I should make it more of a priority for this year's spooky season Let me know in the comments below. I would love to hear your thoughts Same goes with like any of these books Some of them may be arcs that like just came out or about to come out But like if you've read any of them, let me know your thoughts because I would love to hear other people's actual Opinions about these because so many of them I didn't I hadn't heard of until my friend was like here Take this entire stack of books and I was like, okay. Next one is verify by Joel Sure, but no Joel is show me no if you want to the French way Joel Sure, but no And this one too. So this is another like could be spooky book and it follows our main character Who lives a great life? Oh, it says a world without lies like it's very peaceful She's very happy now. I'm son her mother dies and when she has these questions that no one is answering. She's like Yo, wait, what's up with this? And then she realizes that there are so many questions that nobody is wondering or finding answers to and she's like This isn't right. So she goes down this long investigation to figure out what happened to her mother and what's going on I don't know if it's kind of like a dystopian or if it's just Murder mystery II. I'm not sure But again, it's another one of those like I would love to read it if I have time now this last one I have heard people Briefly mention on Instagram or people talk about it on Instagram But I'm just not super sold on it but just the fact that other people are reading it and loving it are making me question my Ideas about this book and that is mercury boys by Shandra Prasad and so this is a recent release and The synopsis is kind of hard for me to understand, but it seems kind of dark academia ish I think but it's the idea that these girls figure out that using mercury that can go into really old Portraits and need these boys Pass that I don't quite understand what the like plot of the book is if they're trying to keep It is secret of how they're meeting these boys if there's something suspicious going on with these boys. I Don't know, but they start a club. It's the mercury boys club It sounds like a really cool idea in premise I just don't see the plot of it, which is why I'm having a hard time picking it up But you know what if other people are reading it and loving it. I should also give it a chance If you know anything about it, please let me know down below Please I'm begging you because I have no clue about this one. Obviously now We're actually gonna get into the books that I bought that I spent my own money on Yeah, the first one I'm gonna talk about I am super excited about and I'm gonna try and pick it up this month it's on my TBR for the read-a-thon that's currently going on the Magical read-a-thon through a rillium with G and I have I'll link my TBR video down below and in the description of that I do have the announcement video Linked in that description. So if you want go ahead and click on my video And then you can get to the original or you could just sit there and watch my video So I'm really excited to pick it up and I'll probably be picking it up once I finish my current physical reads Anyway, it's Curse of the Spectre Queen and this is my Jenny Elder Moke Celtic mythology That's all I needed Celtic mythology and I am sold. I believe that she does start off in a bookstore as well Like I've heard that this is Indiana Jones with Celtic mythology with a female lead That's all I needed to get hooked on it. It's got a little one here So I'm assuming it's gonna be a series, but I am super excited to pick this up I I saw it and I saw this knot and I was like, hmm That's like Irish kind of Celtic-y and I looked up the description. I was like So I will be reading this very soon if I can help it Then I've got two more books in a series and I have already read them I I bought them and Instantly read them because I have the first book and I love it and those are so those books are the T-Dragon books that we have the T-Dragon Festival and the T-Dragon tapestry and their seasons summer and fall and I don't know if more are coming out, but now I'm caught up in these and I adored them five stars each I just can't do anything but rate them five stars and love them and talk about them So I am finally caught up on those And those are all the books that I have to talk about I did buy more books but like I said those will be featured in a haul coming in a week or so and Yes, so stay tuned for that. Yes, the lighting is changing again. It is the Sun. It is out of my control but I Also figure I should probably give you a reading update while I'm here because I have been doing a lot of listening to my Audiabug I have been cleaning up the apartment finish unpacking the boxes Put away the boxes because we're keeping them for when we move again in two years Don't you love? Don't you love it when you move into a new place? And you know that you're eventually going to leave and it's not even like an eventual in like five or ten years Is that it's a soon-ish thing? Yeah, like that's my that's my favorite But anyway, I think I've gotten lots of good productive things done. I'm excited to put these books on my shelves I've got about an hour and a half left in the cabin at the end of the world And I gotta say it's done a pretty good job of keeping my attention like for there to not be a twist so far It's done. It's done pretty good because like everything that's happened has like made sense It hasn't been surprising. It hasn't been twisty like kind of knew what was going on from the beginning But they've done a great job of capturing my attention I guess I did hit a big twist that I wasn't expecting but like Okay, so there was one good twist, but I don't even see it as like a twist I would say it's a surprising event happened rather than like a twist But yeah, so it's captured my attention. I am completely here for it. I'm going to finish it today. So help me But yeah, I'm thinking It could be a four-star book I'm thinking it really just depends on how this ending goes because I do have some little critiques But I need to not let one small bad thing prevent the book from being a five stars Because the book would still deserve five stars, even if it's not perfect And plus it's just not fair for the book. So yeah I I'm gonna try and finish that audiobook and then I will do some actual physical reading But I do have a friend coming over super exciting. I am so excited Um, so we'll see where the evening takes us. But yeah, that is where I'm at so far Talk to you later So it is 11 30 at night and I'm about to go to bed But I did finish The cabin at the end of the world and I'm giving it 3.75 Because I feel like it was a very strong book But it also there were just so many things that would just like take me out of the story Or I felt like it would try and lean into the tension so much that it took forever to actually get anywhere So it would be like this tense-filled moment and it would keep talking about useless things as I'm sitting there waiting for things to go on and I felt like There it wasn't as twisty and turny as I hoped it would be there was one kind of big twist thing But I don't even consider a twist. I think it was surprising But also if you if you read thrillers, you'll see it coming Like I think because I'm new to the thriller genre. I like Like it didn't surprise me but I could have seen it coming had I read other Things, you know, like it just it was an interesting idea, but it was never fully I don't know Like I'd still recommend it like 3.75 stars. I'd still recommend it. I'd still say it was pretty good But I definitely think there's a lot more in the genre that I'm gonna like more But Yeah, so I just wanted to update you on that. I finished it. So now I'm gonna So now I'm probably gonna concentrate more on my physical reams. I do actually I just realized I do actually have beach read as an audiobook right now And I'm and I know I said I'm getting into the fall vibes like I'm like Starting to fall in spooky season like I'm where I'm reading another like Victorian gothic novel But I might just try and quick read beach read Like I feel like if I were to read it though, I would listen to the audiobook While following along in the book because I did start it physically And that's how I'd like to finish it But I don't want to take the time to read the entire thing physically because I want to hurry up and get into spooky season So I might do a mix of audio and audio follow along physically But we'll see I might just kind of give up and say okay next summer So But yeah, so it's Saturday night I finished the second book for this vlog, which is really exciting for me Because I've been in and out of reading slumps a little bit Or like not even in a reading slump But just like wanting to read but just not having the time and prioritizing like work and cleaning and sleeping and whatnot. So Yeah, it's kind of nice to have say like I finished two books Tomorrow is going to be really fun I have something very exciting happening tomorrow, which is why the vlog is being extended through sunday So I probably won't finish another book, but I'll keep you updated on my reading and this fun event that will be happening tomorrow. So See you in a couple seconds when it's done Hello, happy sunday. So we are We have finished running a couple things, but now we are in the midst of picking up our big surprise It's really well. It's not surprised to us because we know exactly what's happening, but we are super Super excited that this is happening. It is just absolutely wonderful And it's here in the car There's a glimpse So as you may tell it is pet related, but obviously it's not something too big. So I will show you clips when we have them set up at home as well as give all the information about it We're super excited Also I did finish the cabin at the end of the world last night I had listened all the way up until there were like four minutes left in the audiobook and then I Had to do some things that were time sensitive And then it took me so long before I could actually listen to the last four minutes And I got to say the ending was a little drawn out I think they had the same issue that I had with the tension where it was like, okay You're taking forever and you're losing my interest, but I was satisfied with the ending. I enjoyed it I rated it 3.75 stars. Um, so on Goodreads, it looks like a four star, but on Storygraph It is 3.75 stars because it was a solid book like it's a good thriller I think it's definitely a good beginning thriller like for someone like me who hasn't read a lot of thrillers, but was interested um Because it really did dive into the suspense and everything but Yeah So it's a solid book I would still recommend it for people who like the specific kind of thriller, but if you're unsure, but if You don't like this kind of thriller then like don't read it and I mean Yeah, but I feel like if you like thrillers in general, you'll probably like this book It was just it was just solid, you know, not too great not like bad at all. It was just it was a solid It was a book. It was worth my time So I'll let you know more about what I'm currently reading when I get home and I introduce you to our new little friend Okay, now we're home and I am ready to show you guys our new surprise say hello to haku He's our new russian tortoise. He's quite shy, but I mean that's kind of how tortoises are they like to burrow Yes, he enjoys getting Yes, so we got a tortoise His name is haku We are so excited to have haku with us We named him haku because of speared it away. It's one of our favorite studio ghibli movies and one that I grew up with and Yeah, so really excited to have him. We've been wanting to get a tortoise for a while now Well, we've really been needing a pet, but I'm allergic to fur and we just didn't feel like a cat would do well in our apartment So we got a tortoise and we're really excited We're gonna do some different things with his cage though because we don't want to keep him in a glass tank Because he keeps bonking his head and that's not fun So we are going to kind of do a cool homemade thing eventually so But yeah, just wanted to show him to you I haven't done any reading because I've been kind of preoccupied with haku Um, but so I will end out the vlog here Uh, I extended it to sunday purely so that you guys could meet haku But yeah, I read two thriller books Which is really exciting my sister the serial killer, which I really enjoyed and I cabin at the end of the world Which was a pretty good book So yeah, it's a great way to start off spooky season. I'm super excited And yeah, don't forget to subscribe if you're new And make videos every thursday However, not only will I be releasing videos on thursdays, but I will also be releasing bonus videos on Either mondays or tuesdays. I haven't decided which yet, but I will be releasing a second video every week during spooky season so all so Starting after this vlog goes up. I believe no starting before this vlog goes up. I'll have my first bonus video But yeah, so all through september and october I will be posting twice a week because I love spooky season and I feel like there's so much content to play with So I'll see you all sooner than normal and until then I wish you a happy reading


Now, here's one way to use this strip of foam and sticks. There will be more later. Ever had someone look at the moon in your scope and say, hey, it looks upside down? Here's a simple way to explain why. Hand your visitor a spoon. When you look in the bowl of a spoon, what do you see? You see yourself upside down. Why is your image upside down? The spoon's surface is curved. Just like this telescope has a curved mirror in it. Let's pretend this is a mirror. When you look in a flat mirror, the light comes straight back out at you. Here's your chin and here's your forehead. But a spoon is curved. Now, where's your forehead and where's your chin? The same thing's happening in the telescope's curved mirror. If it's still daylight and you have a reflector telescope, ask your visitor to stand about five to eight feet in front of the telescope and look down the barrel. They may have to look off-center. They will see their image upside down. The image is also reversed, right for left. On the back of the spoon, some people will notice their image right side up, but it's elongated. What's happening to the light? Okay? The easiest way to manipulate the foam is to hold it like this at either end. You can then use your fingers to position the sticks if you need to.


Bozio, Aye, Aloha, and Yat'e. This is just a small sample of greetings from the 65-plus indigenous nations represented on Purdue's campus. At the Native American Educational and Cultural Center, your heritage has a home, and you immediately feel that sentiment as you enter the lounge area, where students socialize, gather for meetings, and share experiences surrounded by historical and contemporary artwork representing a variety of indigenous communities. The NACC provides a safe and inclusive learning environment for Purdue students, faculty, and staff to engage in meaningful conversations regarding Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people. We proudly serve the campus community in providing a variety of programs and services throughout the year, and one of our signature programs is the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Program. This is designed to bring Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students who are pursuing a master's or PhD in a STEM discipline. You can discuss tribal nations in the multi-purpose room, grab a coffee from the kitchen, or hold a meeting in the fully equipped conference room. More educational opportunities can be found on the second floor library and university-supported computer lab. The Native American Educational Cultural Center is not only a home to Purdue's intertribal communities, but a place for everyone to explore. Please visit us to learn more about the many indigenous cultures that are part of Purdue's rich diversity.


If we want to live well, both externally and internally, how well we live here simply depends on how well we manage our surroundings and how well we manage ourselves. Fundamentally, life is management. If you don't know how to maintain your body, your mind, your emotion, your situations, your life in general, your home, your communities, nations and the world, the quality of our life is just how well we manage things with ourselves. But generally we are thinking of management, we are applying ourselves to management only in terms of business management or industry management or… Generally we are talking management only with economic situations, not life as a whole. In many ways it's unfortunate that today the most predominant factor that rules the planet has become economics. The other aspects of life have been totally pushed to the corner. When economics rules, when economics is the only thing that we are thinking about, we will tend to become very gross and unhappy in so many ways. What I see is, you know we are conducting various levels of programs to very top level executives in some big corporations in the world, major corporations in the world. What I see is people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure.  If you suffer your failure, it's okay because failure comes easy. If you suffer your success, that is tragedy because success doesn't come easy.  But a large number of successful people on the planet are suffering their success. When I say suffering their success, if you look at people, look at yourself and see you are still young people, most of you. When you are five years of age, how happy you were and today how happy you are. If we make a chart out of it, a graph out of it, is it moving upward or downward? In twenty-four hours time, how many moments are you really happy? If you look at this, is it going up or down? Is it going up or down? Down.     After doing all that, if happiness is not multiplying, it is going down.  Anybody who does not know how to manage his own body, his own mind, his own emotion and his energies, if he is managing outside situations, he is only managing them by accident, not by intent the way he wants it. Because if you do not know how to manage your mind, how to manage your energies, how to manage your interiority, managing the outside is bound to be accidental. When you manage situations by accident, you exist as an accident. When you exist as an accident, you are a potential calamity. When you exist as a potential calamity, being anxious all the time becomes a natural part of life.  Especially a few years ago when I first went to United States, wherever I go, people were talking stress management. I could not understand why anybody wants to manage his stress. I can understand you want to manage your business, your finance, your family, your property, whatever, but why would you want to manage stress? It took me a while to understand these people have come to the conclusion that there is no other way to live. Somehow people have come to the conclusion that if you do things in the world, you are bound to be stressful. One is not stressful because of what they are doing. One is stressful because he is a bad manager of himself. He doesn't know how to manage his own systems. That is why he is stressful. It is not the nature of the job which makes one stressful. You ask a chaparasi, he is also stressful. You ask the top executive, he is also stressful. Everybody believes their job is stressful. No job is stressful. If you have no control over your own systems, you will be stressful. Whether you do something or you don't do anything, isn't it so? See management means, fundamentally management means we want to decide the course of our destiny. That's management, isn't it? We don't want to live here by accident. We want to take our lives where we want to go. That's management, isn't it so? If you are managing by accident, you are not a manager. Without you, things will run better. So once you say I am a manager, that means somewhere you have decided that you want to go in a particular way. You want to have a certain kind of situation, both inward and outward. So everybody is a manager in his own capacity, but in different levels and different types. Whether you manage a kitchen, where you cook for four people, or you manage a large industry where ten thousand people work, fundamentally if you want to have a good kitchen or a good industry, you must be a good manager of that situation, isn't it?   But if you have no management over your own mind, you managing ten thousand minds is going to be a disaster. In the process of doing something, if we are destroying human beings, which is happening right now, in the process of managing a situation, the man is broken, then this kind of management is no good because after all every management that we do is only for human well-being. If we are doing management for human well-being, in the process of doing something, in the process of managing situations, it is not only about producing something or making profit, human beings should rise to their full potential. If we manage a situation properly, in simple process of working, you and the people who are working with you should be able to raise to their full potential. When I say rising to full potential, not just work potential, but as human beings they must be able to rise to their full potential. If people work together, then people should be able to rise to the peak of their love, peace, compassion within themselves. If this doesn't happen, then it's bad management because all management, the basic intent is human well-being. If that is not happening, you are just producing something, you are making little profit, but human beings are getting broken in the process. It doesn't mean anything. So if this kind of management has to happen, that just in managing a business, you find people around you raised to their peak, then you have to spend a certain amount of time in focusing on your inner management. If this doesn't happen, you will only manage situations by accident. Lot of people have understood management as a way of throwing their weight around.  Are you okay? On a certain day, a lion was really feeling great within himself. He just was walking and a little rabbit was going, he caught him and roared at him, who is the king of the jungle?  He let him go, swaggered around a little bit. Then he found a fox, caught him, who is the king of the jungle?  Then he swaggered around a little bit, caught a few more animals, everybody screamed out of fear, you are the king of the jungle. Then he was in full swagger, like a manager, king of the jungle. Walked into a clearing in the jungle, there there was a huge tusker standing.  The tusker took his trunk, rolled him up, picked him up, twirled him around, smashed him to the ground. His back broke. Then the lion said, you could have just told me. But the tusker said, you see, I had to make my point. So lot of people generally are thinking management means just throwing their weight around. Throwing your weight around is not management, any fool can do that. If you manage a situation, not just things happening there, people should feel elevated, just being in that space, otherwise it is not management.  If that doesn't happen, you are not a good manager. So if this has to happen, you need an inner dimension. When I say inner dimension, what is inner dimension? When I say inner, I am not just talking about the body or the mind, because both this body and mind, you gathered from outside in certain ways, isn't it? For example, this physical body, when you were a child, this body was only this much. Now it's become this much. How did this happen? How did this happen? That's a question. How did this happen? Hmm? You grew up? How did it happen? I am asking. I am sorry? How did it happen? How did all this body happen? Food that you ate, isn't it? What you call as my body is actually a heap of food that you gathered. What you call as food is just a piece of earth that you converted to food and make it into body, isn't it? So this body is just a heap of food that you gathered over a period of time. What you call as my mind is a heap of impressions that you gathered from outside. Now you have a heap of food and a heap of impressions. If this much gathering has to happen, something more than this much exists, isn't it? If you are capable of gathering such a large body and so much mind, there must be something more fundamental than this. But that never comes into your experience. You are just lost in these two heaps trying to make some sense out of it. Now as there is a science, as there is a management science for external well-being, there is a management for science for inner well-being. It is just that most of the time we have not approached it scientifically. We are just believing by doing something, somehow everything will be okay. Right now people are thinking by educating themselves they will live happily ever after, which you will discover after sometime it's not so. By getting a job they think they are going to be happy ever after, which you will discover it is not so. By making money you think you are going to be happy ever after, you will discover it is not so. Somebody thinks by getting married they are going to be ever after and they know it is not so.  Though repeatedly it has let you down, still you believe that something else, some other miracle will make everything okay. It will not be okay. It once happened on a certain day a bull and a pheasant were grazing on the field. You know a bull, pheasant, a bird. The bull was grazing on the grass, the pheasant was picking ticks off the bull, their partners you know. Then the pheasant looked at a huge tree which was at the edge of the field and very nostalgically said, Alas there was a time when I could fly to the topmost branch of the tree, but today I do not have the strength even to fly to the first branch of the tree. The bull very nonchalantly said, That's no problem, eat a little bit of my dung every day. You will see within a fortnight's time you will reach the top of the tree. The pheasant said, Oh come off it, how is that possible? The bull said really please try and see. The whole humanity is on it, you could try to. Very hesitantly the pheasant started pecking at the dung and low on the very first day it reached the first branch of the tree. In a fortnight's time it reached the topmost branch of the tree. It just went and sat in the topmost branch and just looking at the scenery enjoying it. The old farmer saw a fat old pheasant on the top of the tree. He took out his shotgun and shot him off the tree.  So if you are seeking, if you are seeking a life of fulfillment, if you are seeking a life of joy and peace and well-being within yourself, don't try to bull yourself in some way. You must do the right thing, otherwise it won't work. Now that you are managers or to be managers probably definitely I hope they have taught you that unless you do the right thing it doesn't work without sight. The same goes with the inside, unless you do the right thing it just doesn't work.  Yes for a moment, but the next moment you crash. Please see, successful people, unsuccessful people, just look at their lives and see in twenty-four hours how many moments are they really joyful, how many. You go on the street and see how many joyful faces do you see on the street. Very, very few, isn't it so? Yes? If you see any, usually they are young faces. Over thirty faces are all long faces. What's happened to them? For most of them their lives have worked out far better than they ever imagined. If you look at yourself as a generation, never before another generation of people have been this comfortable and this well physically as you are right now, isn't it? Isn't it so? We are the most comfortable generation. No other generation has known these kind of comforts and conveniences, but still are we any happier than what people were? This is simpler because we did not do inner management. We just did external management, no inner management. In the process of creating what we want, the very source of our life, this planet, we are just destroying, isn't it?  But still we are not satisfied, nor are we any more joyful than what we were five hundred years ago as people were, isn't it? So somewhere we have neglected the interiority. So to turn inward, what is needed? One reason why most young people here have never made any effort to turn inward is because today any thinking person, the moment he can read ABC, speak English, and he has extra alphabets next to his name, he develops an allergy towards anything spiritual. This is not your fault. These so-called spiritual people have made such jokers out of themselves. They have presented spirituality in such terrible ways, ridiculous ways that anybody who has any sense doesn't want to go anywhere near it. See, a spirituality means to know something which is beyond the physical. Right now if you exist as a physical entity, as a body, as a mind, because both these things are accumulations from outside, whatever happens outside will happen inside.  That's the nature of the life. Even if you are just two people in the family, still you don't have absolute control over the situation, isn't it so?  That's the reality of life. So if whatever is happening outside is happening within you, you being peaceful and happy in your life is a far away thing, it's never going to happen. Only when a person begins to experience a dimension beyond the physical within himself, then he can play with the physical world whichever way he wants. He can do the best that he can do with the outside world, but the interiority is undisturbed always the way you want it. The outside world will not happen the way we want it hundred percent. At least the inner world should happen the way we want it, isn't it so? The outside will never happen hundred percent the way we want it. That's the reality of life. But at least this one should happen the way we want it.  If somebody else decides what should happen around you, that itself you call it slavery, isn't it so? Yes? Are we in talking terms or no? Oh, that's fine. If somebody decides what should happen around you, that itself you call as slavery. But if someone decides what should happen within you, is it not a more horrible way of being a slave? But please see the whole world is in it. The only consolation is everybody is like this. Now, now that you're learning management as a science, I would like you to understand there is a whole science of inner management. If you don't learn that, you may manage businesses, you may manage industry, but still you will not live a life of fulfillment and well-being.   I did not go to my conocation. Somewhere right from my childhood, are you okay for a story? Right from my childhood, the education that I received, though they sent me to the best possible schools around, it didn't mean anything to me because my sense of listening and looking at people was such when the teachers were talking whatever, chemistry, biology or mathematics. One thing I could clearly see was whatever they were saying didn't mean a damn thing to them. And I was not willing to listen to anything from somebody who is talking something which doesn't mean anything to him. So I always looked at the teacher. If he put his heart into it, I'm willing to be there. Otherwise I'm out because somewhere I'm… I have so many things on my agenda for the day.  I'm not willing to spend an hour or even five minutes listening to someone who is talking something which doesn't mean anything to him. Even if he's talking nonsense, it doesn't matter. If it means something to him, I'm willing to listen to it. But if he's talking great things which don't mean anything to him, I am not willing to listen to him. So as a part of this, I spent… Your education is over so I can talk. I spent almost ninety percent of my college hours outside, only ten percent inside. Only when I saw somebody who is talking something with passion, I'm there. Otherwise I'm just out. Now, this education, I'm repeatedly telling Dr. Majumdar and a few other people around here, I'm happy to see somebody's talking with some passion about what they're doing. Somebody, it doesn't matter what they're doing is right, wrong, okay, perfect or not. But someone has put his heart into it. It's okay because human life becomes beautiful not because we do the right things. Human life's become beautiful because we put our heart into what we're doing. It doesn't matter what we're doing. Whether we're sweeping the floor or managing the country or what we're doing, if we're putting our heart into what we're doing, it's beautiful to be doing that activity. So I think it's a fortune that I've just seen a few people, everybody here is putting their hearts into what they're doing and living in an atmosphere where people are passionate about what they're doing itself is highly enriching. Now that you're stepping into the world, not that you don't know, but anyway, now you're stepping into the world in a different dimension than the way you have been till now. Once you step into the world, there's going to be a lot of filth. There is corruption, there is nonsense, there is so many things happening everywhere. There are some set of people, a certain set of people who will develop an allergy for this filth. They can't stand it. They usually run to the Himalayas because they're allergic to filth. They can't take it. They want everything pure. But such a thing will not happen because the filth of the world has one way or the other has entered our minds. Whether we empower that filth or not is all the option that we have, but we cannot avoid filth. It is there. All the nonsense that can happen in the world you know in your head, isn't it? So one set of people develop allergy and try to run away, which they can never do really. Another set of people, that segment of people unfortunately have come to their own kind of philosophies.  So they have joined that, they have merged into the filth. What we call as filth can also be great manure, you know. Indian spirituality has always used lotus as a symbolism. A lotus flower has always been the main symbolism for Indian spirituality. Why a lotus flower is? A lotus flower grows best where the filth is thick. This filth, which is stinking, which you can't bear, has transformed itself into a fragrant, beautiful flower. This option also is with us every moment of our life. If the atmospheres that we live in make us, we cannot call ourselves managers. If we make the atmospheres that we live in, only then we can call ourselves managers. Being a manager means that we are going to create whatever we see as the most beautiful thing to happen right now. Allowing situations to create you is not management at all. Creating the situations that we want is management. As many of them have said many things, this process of education, there is a certain acceleration now that education is over, you're stepping into a new dimension of life, the excitement and, you know, it's always beautiful to step into something new that you believe is going to be wonderful. But what we have seen with life with most people is, now let's say somebody got a job, the first day when they went and sat behind this table, this table was the most fantastic place in the world. But within a few years, behind the same table, they are manufacturing blood pressure, diabetes, ulcers and what not. This is not because there is something wrong with the jobs that we do. This is not because there is something wrong with the world that we live in. It is simply because we have not paid sufficient attention to ourselves. We have paid too much attention to what is outside. To succeed in the world, people are always thinking, great aspirations will make you successful. Aspiration is just an initial starting point. Just because you aspire for success, just because you aspire for prosperity, just because you aspire for well-being, it doesn't happen. Success, prosperity, well-being happens because you have made yourself capable of creating those things. Everybody aspires. Who is not aspiring for success in the world? Everybody is aspiring. Even a beggar on the street is trying to be a successful beggar, isn't it so? Every human being is aspiring for it, but only those who have made themselves capable will succeed. Making yourself capable, not only in terms of management skills and other things, but that is needed too, but making yourself capable as a human being to go through situations untouched, to be like a lotus flower, even if you are in the filthiest of situations to maintain your beauty and fragrance, if one has this, he will float through this life untouched. If one doesn't have it, life will eat him up in so many ways. It's my wish and my blessing that this new set of managers will manage this world, this country, this community, and the business and commerce, which is part of our existence today in the world in a much better way than the previous generations of people have done, because externally we are better equipped than ever before. If we make a little effort, it's a fortune that an institution has made an effort to equip you internally to whatever extent it was possible for them. If you equip yourself for internal management also, I'm sure that these group of people and many more who will pass out of this institution should definitely manage this world, this nation and the community is much, much better than the way it's been done till now. When it comes to management, there's no such thing as perfect management. It is just that if people give themselves absolutely to what they're doing, things will happen. Right now, the Isha Foundation, Dr. Karthikeyan, after seeing what's happening there, that's how he's been into this. It is run by all young people, the whole foundation. We have hundreds of centers in India and outside the country. Everything is managed by very young people. People who have been with us for fourteen, fifteen years, they're just in their early thirties now. Very, very young people. No senior people, no experienced people, just young people, raw hands. I took this as a challenge to make it happen through them, not using any kind of experience. I'm not against experience, I'm not against that, but I wanted to make a statement that incredible things can be done, not because we know how to do it. Incredible things can be done simply because we're committed that we want it to happen, that's all. Today, this has grown into a voluntary organization with over two hundred thousand active volunteers around the world and we have taken enormous projects of social significance. All these things are handled by volunteers, they're not paid for it, they're spent from their own pockets and do things. And you need to understand managing these people, managing volunteers is much more difficult than managing paid employees because you can't fire them. You can never fire them for inefficiency or indiscipline or whatever because they're there on a voluntary basis. So people who manage these situations, very young people without any qualifications, they are such fantastic managers of people. The way they manage the situations, the way they conduct thousands of people has set such a exemplary example in the community there. I would take this opportunity someday that when it's possible you visit Isha Yoga Center as to how things are managed so simply because management doesn't come. I know you need to learn about finance, this, that, banking and those kind of things. But fundamentally management is your ability to be capable of inspiring people to do their best. And that's all we can do. If everybody around us are doing their best, that's the best possible management that can happen. So this is not going to come with manipulation. This is only going to come with dedication. This is only going to come with love. This is only going to come because you are willing to give yourself 100% to the person who is next to you at that moment. Oh, is all this possible? Is it not all utopian? You think this is the reality in the corporate sector? I'm telling you, we are working in the prisons. We are working in rural areas. We are working with major corporations in the world. It doesn't matter what kind of person you meet. If you just learn to touch the core of his humanity, then you see every human being is willing to do his best for you, always. If you just learn how to touch the very core of a human being who is around you right now, then you will see everybody is willing to do, lay their lives down for you. Only if people around you love you and they want to do the best for you, you will not get ulcers doing management.  Isn't it so? If you do not create the people who truly love us and wanting to give their best, then management is going to be a pain. Management is going to be a huge suffering. Only when people around us really want to do the best for you, only then management can happen wonderfully. It's my wish and my blessing that all of you turn out as truly great managers of yourself and the world around you. Our lives become beautiful not because of what we do. Our lives become beautiful simply because we have included everybody around us as a part of our dream of well-being. I hope all of you become truly successful and well in whatever way, with inner technologies if you need any help, we are always available to you. It's been a joy to be here in this institution. I have been to any number of colleges, people are the same, but creating an institution with some sense of commitment for inner well-being in today's world is, I'm too happy. Thank you.


What happens if you propose to your partner and they are not ready? Or what happens if you propose to and you're not ready? Ok, okisha propose ya demivi, she says no.  We'll find out why are you saying no, what's happening. We've been together for all this love. Why are you saying no? We are dating. Since you've been dating. Why are you saying no? Why are you expecting? First of all, because of you, we've been dating for 6 months. We've been dating for 6 months. We've been dating for 6 months. We've been dating for 6 months. What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? You are watching Friends Vibes. All feelings are represented. Friends Vibes. Good people welcome to Spm bars. This is Friends Vibes. And as always I'm joined by very great people. I'm gonna let them introduce themselves before we continue. Next is Chacunya Chahi. This is good for your health. Shaha, please talk to her. No need to speak to her. This is good for your health. How do you introduce me? Back to the offer. Be controversial. Be controversial. The viral. This is Khalondu Mosimu. What's your first name? My first name that is a no-go zone. Yes. Can you give me a name please? Zote. In the grave in the hospital. So let's get into the topic of discussion for today. The question is what happens if you propose to your partner and they are not ready or what happens if you're proposed to and you're not ready. So can you just be direct? Man, what happens when you propose and a lady is not ready? Uuh, kwa ni? Kwa ni ulu kun na propose dacha umpendii ama... A aa, beti. Umetie kwa umpira daka 90. Umetua penalti daka 90. Usipo funga game i naisu wenda jumbani. So kwa ui vo una manisha wuna tokat? Uu, nisa po an Arsenal, una left Arsenal, wuna enda maniu. Banda na kwanbo, kuna aga club uko inje. Sina manisha wenda aga opportunity. So aki kataa. By. Perfect example. Kido is a national fan. He's been disappointed over the years. Decade after decade, he has never left us and said, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? So, when she proposed to me, she says no. You're not going to go and then we'll find out why are you saying no, what's happening, we've been together for all this love. We are dating. Since you've been dating. That's why you're saying no. Yeah. What are you expecting? First of all, because you're not going to make a date for six months, you're not going to let her ring. What's wrong with you? When are you going to get a wedding? Yes, there's no time to let her ring. There's no way you're going to let her ring when she's not going to let her ring. I don't know.  That's why I'm going to tell her that I'm going to get a wedding when she's not going to let her ring.  I'm going to be a rikisha.  Yes! If you are not on the same page, that's why you're saying yes. You will still have problems. Proposal is me opening my page. You come and enter this page with you on the same page. What are you saying? No opinion. What are you saying? We propose by the kifika. It is yes or no. We leave to a turn. What kind of a proposition? Like no means we are not continuing with this. Apana, you can continue dating but we are not ready for marriage. Yes! That is what we can do. Yes! How long does someone need to take your proposal? You need to take as long as possible. Apana, do you believe you can't date for one weekend? No, I cannot date you for one weekend. Proposal. Apana, we you? No, but you honestly that would be so toki Aless. How can we say yes to someone you've known for one week? Kata umjui? Ati love happen? To marriage. Ta karam t'u one day you one week realize that the woman who can't do that.  Muha tato mera kuwa na huwa tata waz ya ziwa kitambo. Bro! We waran ya we, ya keki waka tama wo aza, na kini sini waka tambo? Bukati waa tawa akwa na social media, sayu na tafta teinda, una pata mu to anako mo. But let agree, you know marriage deserves level of tolerance. So, what you're looking at is we are in a position to understand each other. If things go wrong, this is how we can align things. Like that is what matters. So, if you say that it means what you want to take, that man will take to be the man you want. So, that you say? Yes. Yes, if me I'm looking for A, B and C, then Kalondo will take this A, B and C. So that, so that, so that what I mean is what you want to take, you propose. So my point is, if you have a point that you want to propose, you take down your same wangi and dani. I'm a muachane. But also there are mistakes we make during proposing, you know. First of all, you have to talk to this person, who you want to take ready for marriage. It's not like that kiddo. When you have your piloto, conversations, nini, nini, iso zote, pimiya, pimiya, onawu de mako ready kuolewa ama. You get, and that is how you will avoid getting a nod during a proposal. Sure. We have a simple thing to do. We have a simple thing to do.  We sit like this all day, sit for a while, I can't even propose her. I'll say to her, if she wants me to give her a proposal I only ask her to?! She gave her proposal, I can't even propose her to anyone, I'm so tired. Why do people propose? Get married To get married To get married We propose to get an answer Let me give you what you're looking for Get an answer whether they can get married Or not Not whether they can get married or wait But when you're ready When that woman is ready That's wana cheki Mademwengi wako like Anakuja chelya na kuja After a week neskiya Alivunja propose o dem Anakuja embaras Uko chinia maja Uko chinia maja I want a celebrity couple Unyu uyo dem Kenya hi kenya tu moja Uyo dem aku sema yes Lakin niya li pote na nioka social media Mi postiwa she said yes She's my fiance Good example Ume kana Umi kana na mimi na mimi na last nine years Una ngoja ni propose Misha na mimi ni propose Ute na henda Just they propose I'm just asking Misha na mimi na nine years Nani me ugoja wewa u propose Nani misha na mimi Na uko sawa na kuka vizuri Uko redi silio Uko redi na mimi na here for the last nine years Inama nisha uko redi We make it like official Because we're not happy Uko na mimi na nine years Even me Because women nowadays propose I will not propose to you when I know you're not ready Ita kuja nukulize kido mabituza harusi Mabituza propose Miki sema na ukiu na na sema Stop propose Misha na mimi na propose Misha na mimi na There is There is I can't even tell you I don't even propose I do propose You propose me Nani aupon I don't propose because I'm the prize I don't propose We have a conversation To joke we are ready for marriage I have never been in any marakasana It's not even a joke Marriage is not something you just get into it And you talk a kesho So, the moment we have a format, that's why we are going wrong, you see, to you, someone has made you, and now you are moving too big a tattoo mebaniwa as a movie show, you know, funny how me live, at the proposal, one of the same, no, un kwa jem kwa jem kwa kwe, at the un kwa jem kwe ready, you know, jema kama propote, like, see how selfish you are. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, just, you see, you're supposed to say, if kama onat kiri, oni baga kumpatia chance, kwa beta, say my yes. Then you work on it. Okay. Magi. Say my yes. You are not against the idea of you being together, together.  Beti, wajakuna wala uskia. Abadone zafik, hiyondokusuna kwan bia. Beti, wajakuna wala uskia, when popoziwa na bida na ma doshi, waka kata, sayo kukukuma beta kita wa nandia. Kino nisha kwan bia, awa tia na kipika. Ya, ina shida. Mika, iikimtani iilegeo shi penya, kuna kijana maskini. Mani tewa na iikimpliketi kuna kusila, unapa. Aa, jasu, you know, wala kijana maskini, mwanyali fanya rusia 100, sialisha fanya, na kaulewa. But let me tell you, butita, as much as there are women who may seem oh, I don't want to be proposed to me, I can just give birth and have babies. There is no woman who would not be interested to be, to feel taken care of by a man. You know me, I did a small research. Like I like researching about different things. So I was idle, I decided to talk about love. Now, any time, them, and I am in a relationship, ana kwangasha decide nende na yumba karmusho. Unless it is short term beneficial. So there is no yuta kwan na them for one year, three years. Na unia mbeye, atlaki mwa ni. Nini muna investi kiki kibisa kabisa kabisa kabisa na dani. Nini kama empendi mtu. Na yonda kondition ni make. Amu ntingi taim na hei. Kama ham daki kwen na mali na mtu. Atasinda kwa dien, ata kula ma bluti, ata pania ni. Yani atasinda, na mtu muna taka, hamu nanga kondition. Ata in two weeks uta olewa. That is so true. I agree with that statement. That is a lady who is in a relationship with you. Then she says no, she is in a relationship with me for three years. The moment she was with me for three years. So you know what is three years? Yes. What is three years? When you start doing some options, you can't do that. You may be at a treat venue and do three more. There are options. You can't point to anyone. There are many options. So we can't point to anyone. So that's why we decided to do this. operating entry When you're told no, would you feel the need to take at you know ah, an opportunity to just try and understand why this lady said nofeeding original point Finansali, kwa teva, mentali, fizikali Ya na bati, nuko jeniku rinemu wana So her feelings don't matter according to you If the material things are provided her feelings don't matter Your feelings is to say no Your feelings matter now when you say no We keep saying no Oni chi ki kumunzo kisha send ma yes Kona we tijizu na kuja wa kua kini Marwa wanzi ku cidiyu, kwanza kujiwa na cidiyu Na ma inloz, wanzi cidiyu kujwa Cidiyu kaltya yao So kuna taj maybe, mi personali nime send ma When will we send? If you propose to me before 3rd Na So after 30 do na kaiwi na miko Apo yon do time neza kwa na time ya Ya kujwa awa say wa ne shingi aje No no no no So when you are 30 now you realize time is good No it's not about time It's not about time It's not about time Andi wei wei do to king ya kwa relationship Na wei kwanza unafopu na jokin Propos ya in my 20s Isano, misano, misano And that's on high you know So it depends with how you want to Kamal you're not ready Please don't say mimi akwa dintu mi If you're not ready don't say yes Because marriage is not something you get into And get out tomorrow Akwa dintu mi no means Taku taku tumungine Siola jima propos Siola jima Well for me If you're not ready Say no No shame Ono me muavoid kupropozi hawa tu inpablik No just in case it's a no You don't get embarrassed inpablik But anyway guys this was friends vibe Kupropozi you're in private una pichua Afadali waliwa na pichu kukuliko kwa ibisha inpablik But anyway guys this was friends vibe Thank you for watching Make sure you subscribe until next time Goodbye Friends vibe All feelings are represented


In a market that is absolutely flooded with choice right now, which is a good thing I reckon, there's plenty out there for you to choose from, and wedges are a major part of the game, and it really depends what you're looking for. But right now, Ping have just brought out what was a product that really stood out in its class. It's very much for me a players type wedge. It's a forge wedge, which is really interesting to me. It looks absolutely superb, and you can probably see alongside it, I'm reviewing the i59s as well. It sits extremely well in the bag with a set of them things. So we're down at a par three course, just at the back of four golf, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to try some sort of full wedges, which for 54 degrees, which is the one I've got in the bag, is going to be around 100 yards, and then we'll try some short stuff in and around the greens, and see how this thing performs in the hands of an average golfer. Is it a players wedge, or is it suitable for everyone? I'll soon find that I expect. I was just interested to see whether or not there's two shots you'll see over late years. A 54 degree wedge, don't forget that I've got it in hand. I played what is a normal, sort of from there for me, will be more of a chip and run style shot. And again, release quite good, not the best of shots from me, but then to play from exactly the same position and be able to lay the club face open a little bit without it feeling uncomfortable, sort of sometimes for me, I think one of the big improvements in wedges of late is that ability to lay them open and not feel as though the sort of club is not on the line and aim that you want. So it sits very naturally behind the club face, so it's easy to do that. And again, you've just seen that ball pop or pied, totally different ball flight. So plenty of flexibility within the club face itself and the way it sits on the ground, which again is a major plus, isn't it? Another reason why you'll have a wedge in your bag is often to get out of some heavy stuff, certainly around the greens, position you might find yourself certainly as an average golfer. And what I want to know from the lie I've got here, it's an okay lie, it's not great, but what I want to know is what kind of control I've got. One thing the glide wedges did incredibly well on their previous release was they performed extremely well in wet conditions. That's something they've done very well, ping wedges, and again, control from the rough. So we're not, like I said, it's not the worst lie in the world, but it'll be just be interesting to see how much this releases from this type of lie. It's popped out okay. You see a release. Greens are fairly firm here. This par three course is still lively enough in terms of the greens. It kind of, I think you've got to have a level of expectation. It didn't do any different than I would have expected it to. It came out of the rough. There was obviously grass. Well you can see where it hit there actually. You can see plenty of grass on the club and grass between ball that causes that problem in terms of spin or control rather. So we didn't learn a great deal if I'm honest with you from that shot. It did exactly as we probably expected to with no magic miracle in terms of being able to stop that ball from that kind of lie. So when you buy a wedge, I think what you've got to do right now is decide what is it you want from it? What are you looking for? What are the key features? So for me with this glide wedge, the big deal is that it's forged. So straight away I'm a golfer that likes to have great feel in terms of irons. So that takes a major box, but then you're looking at kind of like profile and you're thinking well this is very much a player's profile in terms of its size, but what I will say they've done really well with this. They've packed a little bit of mass in and around the backside of it that you don't really see. So it's sitting in the category now, although it's called a glide, it's a very much a pro wedge. I think it's a very playable wedge and it's got forgiveness in there if you like because of that sort of mass behind the ball. So I think it appeals to quite, could appeal to a wide range of golfers who are looking for a number of different things. So yet it'll appeal to a player, but also appeal to a player who wants more of a game improvement type wedge. And I think that's a big deal what Ping have done there. So we've just moved forward off the tee. It plays 130. This is probably, that's a little bit too far, but I think we've got about sort of 110 in us downwind. So this is very much obviously a full wedge, but something that you're going to be looking to play. Interesting to see the sort of contact and sound between club and ball. That's a really nice field, picks the ball up really well. Actually got the yardage a little bit longer than what I expected it to be, but we'd take that. But I think the key for me was the sound and feel. I mentioned in a previous clip, it's a big deal for me. It's something that Ping have got that others haven't in this category. And that's that forged feel and what resonates ultimately in sound. So yeah, loving that. So one of the key things is this is classed as a player's wedge. And I've already said about the back end, having a little bit of a meeting to it. They've done really well in terms of when they sit to the dress from the top line, it looks like a player's wedge. But what I will say they've done this really good job and we've seen it a lot is this kind of like chamfered back line, which really makes it look very, very neat to the dress, but in fact hides a little bit of mass that's in here. And I think it's not the widest sole unit. If we look down at the sole, it's kind of, but it's not a blade like it's not a player's like it's got a bit of mass there. And I like the fact that they do that. When it sat there though, the big noticeable difference sort of behind the ball is the heel to toe length and the actual shaping of it. That's when it becomes very much more into that player's category. So it's shorter in terms of the distance that we would normally see between like I said, a player's and a game improvement type iron. It's also got a sort of very rounded type shape on the whole wedge. And I think again, it's very much unique to their look that they've got going on right now because I think to be fair again, it's classic in its looks, but it's very much a pin glide wedge that you've seen before. And that is again, it's something that's a is it going to appeal to you or is it not because it is noticeably smaller address than a lot of wedges that are out there. So a couple of shots here play from what is really light rough. But again, you're not expecting this is a half a shot, one of the most difficult shots to kind of get some control on. And you'll see from both them pitch on the green, but still release that little bit. And I think it's a reminder that let's not kid ourselves that it's not, there ain't no miracles within these wedges. There ain't no things that are spin machines. This idea that, you know, something's going to come along with grooves that are effectively maybe a little bit claiming to be a little bit different than those on other wedges, but effectively it is all going to be about the quality of the strike that you and I put on them. And coming from that kind of rough, just that light rough, you'll see again, like I said, there's still that little bit of release there. And you can't forget that when you're buying these things. Like I said, there's no miracles out there. So a nice shot to finish it. I think we'll leave it there. There's only so much you can do in terms of wedge reviews. And we've looked at it in a number of different scenarios. And like I said, there's no magic ones. It all really does rely on your kind of strike. You see it there, that last shot was probably the best representation of a full shot, which sat and grabbed. It's coming in from the right kind of elevation. Some of the shorter three quarter shots always going to be difficult control. But if I was to assess the kind of what they've done, they've produced a really good looking wedge. First of all, the massive tick in the box for me is the feel from it, feel superb and sounds really good. The negative is, if there is any, it's just that size and profile. I suppose a negative in the fact that it doesn't appeal to the masses, but if you're that kind of player and that appeals to you, it's a massive bonus. But I still feel that if you can get over the kind of looks in terms of the smaller profile, there's plenty of help and assistance in there to play it as a game improvement type wedge, if you like. So, you know, this pro title that it's given, I'm not really sure it's sort of excluded itself from a number of golfers out there that'd be perfectly fine in playing that wedge in the bag. So that's me done. As ever, thank you for watching. Don't forget, if you're looking for wedges at the moment and you've seen a few of late that have come out, are these going to be on the wish list? That's the thing I would like to know from you. And also maybe another good one for me, because as I've gone round here testing this wedge, it's thinking, how many times or how often do you change your wedge? And another key factor is, how often do you clean your grooves on the way around your game of golf? Because that's another interesting bit for me. Right, thanks as ever for watching and I'll see you all very soon because we're carrying on and I'm going to hit some more shots with these I-59s, which hopefully you've watched that review already and they're pretty impressive too.