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Lost Taken Over The World! 1st Stop: Washington DC!!!!

It's official, I am heading stateside the middle of the month in March! I I am pretty excited. Has definitely been way to long since I last stepped foot on American soil and of all places to go, Washington DC! Perfect I have been tell you all along, DC is fondly lingering in my memory pallets. 

I was hoping to catch a flight back to SA before coming home, but well not so sure now I will be able to managed that, but hey for all those I have disappointed, fear not this isn't the first or the last trip back and well I am pretty determined to make my way back. 

And yes I do miss you terrible and already thinking of when and how I can make '"IT'" happen!!

Any ideas folks???? I am giddy and smitten with the idea of all the exciting things we could do and will do! I keep trying to convince a certain someone, who I shall not name at this point...I wish you were here, even in silence, with nothing to say, nothing to rebut as much as I absolutely love your rebuttals!

Well, I have attached the Global Meeting On Civic Engagement for those who are wondering where I am headed to and why!!! hehe

Citizen Voices will focus on citizen engagement and feedback systems that strengthen the quality of policy making and the science of service delivery, and where the impact on the poor is most direct.  

The conference will bring together tech innovators, development specialists, government officials, academics, civil society representatives, World Bank staff and the private sector where experience with client feedback systems is the deepest. Sessions will include discussions exploring how innovative uses of technology can be transformational, how governments can be more responsive and how we ensure citizen feedback is robust.  The conference will close by generating ideas for how we proceed as a collective in advancing the citizen engagement agenda.

The conference will be held Monday March 18, from 8:30-6:00 pm at the International Finance Corporation Auditorium, 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

Virtual participation is open to the public; physical participation will be by invitation only.

For more info please follow links below!

• Visit the Event Site for more information
• Draft Schedule of Events

Love is more than skin deep, it is eternal and innately us!

This is another fun song!! On the eve of Saint Valentines Day, with loads of people rushing to buy there loved ones something special on this day of lovers and those they love, this song takes the notion of love and hate to the extreme. Have you ever loved someone who absolutely drove you nuts at time?

We love to hate or is it the sadomasochistic in us that drives us to the edge? What about the notion that love isn't suppose to be complicated? Crazy right? Absolutely, everything about love and human being is complicated from our gene encoding and physical chemistry down to our essence of who we are psychologically, I mean what makes us tick:-)

I for one have always been a die-hard romantic and mere notion of being in love and the process around falling in love is one of the many passions that fuel my desires and my being. In the recent past, I have tried to view love from varying perspectives, but have always come back to the raw notion of love being the fully charged emotion that is explosive and can even be a highly volatile emotion that has the potential to erupt. It's how we choose to harness and tame that emotion that's tricky, but to mute it or play it down does it no justice, in fact its an injustice to humanity and to the very meaning of the word! So, love like you live, without fear and without hesitation!!! Love is simply, beautiful!

This is a rendition of the song sung by Maroon 5, '"One More Night'" Happy Valentines Day! Enjoy!

Just for Laughs Cuz Heck, I am in a great mood!

This is morbidly funny in a twisted quirky way! But hey it gives a new meaning to bleeding heart! I mean literally bleeding for you from the inside out. Now that's love for you..hehe! I cut my heart and hope to die, poke a needle in my eye! I love you, more than words can say and express. I love you so much it hurts!! How would you react to a declaration of love so strong it became borderline masochistic? Or would your innate response be, drop everything and run for the hills? Or OMG! He does love me!!!!! haha....Food for thought and pain as the icing on the proverbial cake of Undying love!!!! XXX

-Lost Enamoured 

Stupid Cupid!!!!

 This is a fun song! Enjoy!

My Mystical Lover

My mystical lover, you mesmerize me

With your penetrating stare you violate me

Piercing, scorching gaze that sees through me

But I beg you, can you see the real me?

Open your eyes and see me for all that I have been

For all that I am, for all that I will be.

Can you see past those walls?

The walls that I have spent years building

Which surround all around and keeps most at bay?

Are you not afraid of the rough exterior?

Can you see through to the struggling interior?

Exposed, raw heart that’s been torn and shredded

Held together by tape that barely holding thy mending heart.

My mystical lover, you mesmerize me

With your penetrating stare you violate me

Piercing,scorching gaze that sees through me

But I beg you, can you see the real me?

Open your eyes and see me for all that I have been

For all that I am, for all that I will be.

-Lost N Your Gaze

Lost Enamoured: There are two sides to every story

When I see you, I will know you are the one. The one that has stolen the missing piece to my heart. The piece, without which my life's puzzle remain incomplete.

How does something so simple allude us so overtly and even till this day plays tricks on us, tormenting us.

Destiny will bring us together. It is destiny that will bound us for a lifetime and into the next. It will be in your hands, for it is how it was meant to be, and how it will be.

I have waited a lifetime for someone like you, someone who understands me,  and accepts me, embraces me, faults and all. It is with you I find peace and bring calm to the chaos that ensues and threatens to engulf.

It is you, that holds the key to unlock my heart. The key that I have kept hidden away from those who have tried to lure me with their false charms and mislead me with their promises never ending. It is a the key that safeguards the secrets locked away in my heart. There can only be one keeper to key to my heart. 

For a lifetime I would wait, for a lifetime I would endure until destiny brings you to my door. Until then I will stare aimlessly into the distant skies in hopes that somewhere out there you are searching for me. Patience whispers my content mind  to solemn soul and to my eager heart which grows anxious with each passing day. He will come, he will complete the casting and then our story shall begin. For ever story has two sides.

                                                                          -Lost Enamoured 

Lost's Visit Down Memory Lane

This picture reminded me of someone from my distant past. We worked together at a local Japanese Restaurant back in San Antonio while I was studying. He was obviously of mixed Chinese and Hispanic decent. Such a cutie. I had such a crush on him. We spent many evening stealing glances at each other never really voicing how we felt or exploring the undeniable attraction that we felt towards each other. It was just fun and exciting, I guess to have this silent attraction for each other. Gave me goosebumps he did!! Distant memories still linger and tickle my fancy and I think of him each year around Chinese New Years. I wonder what has become of him? His smile and presence lit up a room and his laugh carried across the crowded room even with the bustling sounds of chatter and dishes. He used to come in with his costume so proudly displaying his ancestry and rich heritage. '*Sigh* Memories they are simply lovely!

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Lost's Perspective:There are no wrong choices, just not the best choices!!

Though sometimes I find myself questioning even ideas and thoughts that I have always revered and upheld, there are times I can't help but wonder have I done enough, do the people around me know how much they have impacted my life and helped kept me going even on those crazy days? Those who know me well and even may have had the fortune ( or misfortune which every prospective you may choose to view it from) to have work with me on any one of my many projects, know me well enough to know that I am not only a avid idealist, but conversationalist who loves to share her ideas. I believe that I help improve myself by helping others. Though it does sound a bit self-serving, trust me when I say I always put others ahead of myself. Especially, in situations where the interest of people I care about come into play. I am the first to admit that I am nothing without the support and love of my family, friends, and colleagues. Because lets face it, I do not live on an island with a population of one. Oh, contraire my dear! We in fact live amongst others in a global community of peers.   We cannot survive on our own isolated from the world. I know that some may find away to argue with me on this one, but I stand firm on my belief that this is true to the best of my knowledge and is based on my experience. For it is the love and kindness of others that feeds the flames of life that ensures the engine within us all continues to chug forward. Motivation and inspiration is all around as I have always claimed it to be. Sometimes the very thing that inspires us, ironically test our resolves. It pushes us to our very limit of tolerance and begs the question what now!!????  Which road do I take? What if its not the right decision? What if I make the wrong choice? But before you throw down the towel of despair, I genuinely believe that there is not '"real wrong choice'" just not the best choice. For things always workout for the best in the end whether it was as we imagined it to be or desired it to be. Those very choices are like breadcrumbs that are left along the pathway of life that leads us back to whence we came. Don't live life with regrets! Simply learn from those not to right choices and remember that bittersweet after taste that they have left linger in our mouths for the next time hopefully you will make the better choice if ever you are faced with the same dilemma again. This time you will not only be wiser, but more informed and prepared for what lies ahead. 

On the eve of this most auspicious Chinese New Year, I wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year and may love, happiness and good fortune continue to shower and fill your heart with contentment! XXX