mondaze

11:37 AM 0 comments

nothing gives me more comfort than coffee and disclosure..... and a my inbox full of emails

the days dont stop and start to blend together... such an eventful weekend. finished it with my favorite movie of all time with my boy tkno last night. 

"When we meet then, we'll be different from what we are now.
We may become closer, or stay forever apart.
We can only choose one"

maybe im slowing falling away from this blog, ive bought a journal to physically write down some entries. maybe ill be back, maybe 




5-27

11:27 AM 0 comments


one of my favorite pictures i took on the way back from san francisco. the way the earth bends. the shades of blue to black, endless. sometimes it amazes me how humans build machines like airplanes that fly hundreds of mph in thousands of feet in the air..

ive been neglecting this blog for AWHILE, then I remember to come here and remind myself. THEN i get to thinking, THEN i have to blog again. what vicious cycle of thought blogging. But I guess, in a sense, this is why I made a blog, to write down something I was thinking and come back to it from time to time. The month of may is already over and I cant/can remember where the time went. Needless to say there was plenty of unexpected surprises and quite possibly one of the best 2 weeks spent. (Eurotrip, mothersdays, SF, MDW)

But with everything in my life going the way it should be, I cant help to be feeling lost lately? for quite sometime; I don’t know how to explain it, almost a lingering feeling that wont go away.  i dont know where it is coming from; i was confused and almost scared at first. but it turned into something i enjoy..... call me weird.... but life cant be all roses and sunshine ALL the time right? you need chaos and manageable discord. sometimes you dont like feeling lost but sometimes you do... its like excitement for the unexpected future...

anyways I do know one thing though. I know that my relationship with myself and others cannot be solely motivated/fueled/depended on me alone. I need help. I need to ask for help. And lean on my friends and family more importantly the man upstairs.  My spirituality cannot be running on just random thoughts and random articles I find, but active participation with everyone around me including church and GOD. Religion is always a tough subject to write about for me and here it is. I always pray and seek for a much greater good and happiness for my family, friends and myself. that I involuntarily help those who need, and allow my hubris to be set aside and be helped.

Like most of my blog posts, idk what I said half the time, I just let my mind just spit out whatever.. I guess that’s why its here J

Browsing the web and found a gem of a mike rowe from dirty jobs writing a response to a fan, asking about life/job choices. The last 2 sentences written.

“Many people today resent the suggestion that they’re in charge of the way the feel. But trust me, Parker. Those people are mistaken. That was a big lesson from Dirty Jobs, and I learned it several hundred times before it stuck. What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.



12:23 AM 1 comments

A/C is broken.

London Room is finally set up
I can breathe a little.

writing this post means a lot more to me to the future than right at this time. i read back to a post in february and i cant describe what i was thinking at the time. but i know that feeling. the goosebumps. the wide eye. the weighless-ness. a sigh. but not a sigh of sadness or disparity. a sigh of vulnerability. to express my deepest breathe outwards. to stare right in front of me and not think about anything. yet dangerously and beautifully think about everything. i cant say i have the hippie fire from few months ago. things are a lot different. i like different. maybe its the lack of sleep or one too many beers left from cinco. maybe i should write a book.... maybe not. 

whatever i do. im going 100%. no regrets. only lessons. dont emulate. revolutionize. keep doing hippie things to feed the happy inside be good, do good. 

STORM is COMING

11:28 PM 1 comments

March is almost over, thank the lord. it was a good month but my gosh April and May are going to be cray.

April 1st-6th
NCAA national Championship, march madness coming to an end
GAME OF THRONES coming back after a year

April 7th-14th
Camping with crew
Electric Adventure with peeps, first beginning of festival season. ive been itching for a show

April 16th-23th
Lent is over....
420 Fest and 5k with co workers
Easter
homeboy TK bday celebration

April 24th-30th
Counterpoint 2014!
Moving out of my hizouse

let have a safe and productive month

Next book on my shelf of things to read "Siddhartha" "Divergent" "Pillars of the Earth"


March 23

1:10 AM 0 comments



self portrait of DJANJ0

personified 

octane chilling

Annual Persian New Year - Sale-No Morobak

some of the best people i know

spring is in the air. filled with great people and great memories. im not going to even count down to lent of sobriety. realized i can go the rest of my life without beers or anything. but in life, all in moderation. :) 

things i realized
1. you have to rebel and do something crazy once in a while
2. dance and be foolish, no one cares or will remember
3. try and enjoy all type of cultures and foods.
4. theres a bat-mobile out there in atlanta with a working machine gun..





The Alchemist

11:19 PM 0 comments

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the
present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the
present, what comes later will also be better.” - Paulo Coelho



First time finishing a book since my guilty read of the Hunger Games few years ago. And WOW. The Alchemist was such an insightful read. Almost felt like a self help book, but amazing fictional story telling. Great characters. So parallel on how to live this so called life. I don't want to go off in those crazy tangents I normally go into at night. But I did find out something... I NEED TO READ MORE. NPR and news articles on Yahoo! are not enough anymore. There is just something about reading that is peaceful. The silence. Regardless I have to end it with one of my favorite quotes i found, towards the end of the book.



“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
When we strive to become better than we are,
everything around us becomes better too.” - Paulo Coelho

tbt

10:02 PM 1 comments


that one time my coworkers and i ate over 100 pizzas at cicis and i threw up at the office
i lost the competition and easily ate over 3k calories
#neveragain




1:03 AM 1 comments

"being rich is not about how much you have, but about how much you can give."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DUYlHZsZfc

in my life, i do know one thing is for sure. i want to be rich. 

i always thought being rich was so monetary in a sense. a lotta money = rich. but something struck me today. being rich isnt about money or even personal belongings. its how much you can give... i could be a poor man, with little money, but give someone something that is worth so much more than money. like friendship. love. hopefulness. passion. enrich those around me. give it to my family. give it to my friends. give it to the people who need it the most. i want to be rich. i want to make everyone rich. rich with happiness. 

i really cant comprehend what happened in the past couple of months. i always tell myself, 'janos you are such a damn hippie' and one day im going to wake up and go back to my normal self and this spiritual high will eventually wear off. but there is something burning inside of me. something that wants change. and i am giving in.... 

i've noticed there is so many 'wants' in my life right now. but for ONCE in my entire fucking life... these 'wants' are almost 'needs'... I NEED TO BE RICH. its not even a decision anymore. i need/am acting on what i need to do. 

and i honestly dont need money to be happy.  i can move to africa tomorrow and be "rich" over there. but the realist janos is saying 'bro you need money' and for now i agree (not to sound to contradicting) and maybe i need to figure out the checks and balances of a realistic georgian suburban life style vs being 'rich'. just that there's so so so much i dont know yet. and so much i will never figure out. i just pray im going towards something bigger than myself... 

i read back at some of my old posts from time to time, and i have no idea what i am saying or what point im trying to get across, and this may be the same. but i do know how i feel.

i like this.


UPS Partner - Investing

stone mountain adventures

speechless

JL vintage style

we are all waiting for something

gang

my first vinyl

awesome week. literally running on limited hours of sleep. got my first bonus of the year. got to meet the management committee of UPS, thought i would be more nervous but shaking hands with some old white people never scared me. never saw so much ass kissing from all directions. became a partner for UPS and began my stock and 401k contributions. this is what growing up feels like...?

early morning trek to stone mountain. although it was limited time spent at the park. what an amazing view. something we take for granted every morning. so grateful for the simple things that i can use my legs to walk and my eyes to see and experience. MJQ with crew. not just trap but some dirty hood rat music. my fav. boss ass bitch.

0 oz to freedom. first time going out without a drink. it was great! ordering water at the bar about 10 times. no problem. even though my friends give me bullshit, they support me 120%. these next few weeks will try to tempt me. always ready.

sublime - 40 oz to freedom