Stuff I Heard by Accident that are actually Pretty Darn Good Quotes

A photo that I took yesterday evening down at the beach. I love how it looks like a what I call (oops - Miranda moment!) a "postcard picture". It reminds me of something that would be on a painting.

Yesterday I shared with you my enlightenment to the world of reality shows. Believe it or not, my post wasn't actually intended to be all about Made in Chelsea, I just managed to waffle the post out to way over 800 words, so decided to split the blog post into two parts: yesterdays post, and this one!

So you can read the whole broken alarm clock waffle in yesterday's blog post (the reason why I'm linking it so much is because I want you to click it ;) ) but you don't have to if you don't want to. All ya need to know is that I had some unexpected time, so I decided to try a new show that seems to be "the hype" at the moment - Made in Chelsea. I put the TV on E4, but MIC wasn't due to start for another 5 minutes or so. It was in fact on this show, called "One Tree Hill", that I was planning to write yesterday's blog post on, because it had so many good quotes that I felt I should share with you. The episode was the last one ever to air, so I suppose that they were all quotes summarising what the characters had learnt throughout the series, but as I've never watched it before, I didn't know the back-stories to the characters and why they said what they did, I just thought they were pretty darn good quotes! Soo, without further ado, here are the quotes! (If you feel it necessary, I give you permission to do a little cheeky drumroll)

"It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're 17 and planning for ‘someday’. And then quietly and without you really ever noticing, someday is today and then someday is yesterday and this is your life."

"We spend so much time wanting, pursuing, wishing, but ambition is good. Chasing things with integrity is good. Dreaming..."

"If you had a friend you may never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you loved, what would it be? Say it. Do it. Don't wait. Nothing lasts forever."

"Make a wish and place it in your heart. Anything you want, everything you want.

Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.

You never know where the next miracle's gonna come from.

The next memory. The next smile. The next wish come true. 

But if you believe that it's right around the corner,

And you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the certainty of it

You just might get the thing you've been wishing for."

"The world is full of magic ... you just have to believe in it."

"So make your wish...do you have it?

Good. Now believe in it. 

With ALL of you heart."

So there you have it - some stuff I heard by accident that are actually pretty darn good quotes! I hope you liked them and feel like you can relate to them as much as me :)

Thank you!

P.S. I apologise for doing quite a few "Life-lesson-important-and-serious" posts around the same time, but I felt that this is something that I should share with you. I also feel I should say that the reasons why I put a picture I took down the beach in this post are:

a) I like this picture

b) I like going to the beach when I need time to think, and these quotations require some serious thinking

c) I didn't know what other picture I should put in this post :)

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My Made in Chelsea Experience

This is a different type of blog post to what I normally do, but I feel that since I watched my first episode of Made in Chelsea this morning, I should share it with you. For those of you who don't know what Made in Chelsea is (which I highly doubt is many of you), it's basically a "reality" television series similar to Jersey Shore, TOWIE, and Real Housewives, except it's all young people in their 20's who are incredibly rich and live in a VERY POSH place in London known as Chelsea. Hence the name Made in CHELSEA (even though the series does also feature a bunch of other very posh and expensive places, and most of these seem to be places that I've either heard of but can't point out on a map, or places with names that I can't pronounce, such as: Marrakech, Chamonix and Verbier.

Aaaanyways, here is my Made in Chelsea experience, and how it all happened...

So this morning I was really bored as my alarm clock either seems to not go off at all at the moment, or go off at a completely random time around the 6:30-7:45 time (don't ask me why those times), so as I had a few hours to kill before anything I had planned to do today. I decided to watch some TV, as it was just me and my sister in the house, and because she was still asleep, I could have first choice and full control over the remote, and therefore, what I watched (10 points to Ravenclaw).

After flicking through the channels and realising that it was still to early to watch pretty much anything besides the news and teleshopping (what is this - it always seems to be on?!) and feeling slightly down in the dumps that even comedy central (my favourite channel, I must admit) was showing this "teleshopping" and not friends (☹), I saw that "Made in Chelsea" was showing on E4. Now, I've never really been a devoted fan of these "Reality" TV shows, as there always seems to be a little note to tell you that it's not all real, and that "some scenes have been created for your entertainment", and I've actually never watched Made in Chelsea before today (please don't judge me), and I have to say, I actually enjoyed watching it (again: please don't judge).

It was the very first episode of Made In Chelsea, so I suppose that the people who have watched this watched it with the same astonishment, open mindedness and unexpectedness as I did. My favourite quote in the whole program came from a man called Francis Boulle, the owner of "Francis Boulle Enterprises", and who is described as "a diamond-mining heir" (bearing in mind that this is all at the age of 22). Here are 3 other fun facts about the man who said the quote that has had me smiling all day:

1. His full name is Francis Maximilien Yvan Christophe Boulle. (I felt it necessary to put the full stop at the end so you know that there are no more names)

2. He has been "romantically linked" to Emma Watson

3. (My personal favourite) In 2011, he made a website which allows people to rate the attractiveness of all the members of the House of Commons, called (are you ready for this?) www.sexymp.co.uk (I promise you this is no word of a lie, currently the most attractive MP is Eilidh Whiteford, and the least attractive:- Steve McCabe. I also feel a special note should be made here - there is a Rebecca making a cheeky appearance at no.7 ;) (woohoo))

So, down to the quote-worthy stuff. In the episode, Mr Boulle was having his portrait painted, and he was holding a globe in one hand (apparently in years to come we will all know why..) and a pineapple in the other. He then goes on to explain why he has a pineapple, which is where all the fun begins...

"In the 15th/16th century, all the portraits painted had pineapples in them, because pineapples were symbolic of wealth and travel, and obviously access to exotic foods and places"

 ME: "This sounds good right, he obviously knows his stuff"
until...

"But then, when they became tinned, they became common."

***NO ONE UNDERSTANDS HOW MUCH I LAUGHED AT THIS - I MEAN, I WOKE MY SISTER UP FROM A SLEEP ALMOST AS DEEP AS THE GRAND CANYON***

I think the thing that struck me the most was how serious he was, and how when he realised that they were considered "common" he immediately went off the pineapple, and decided to just have the globe in his hand in his portrait.

Overall, I have mixed emotions as to how I now love Made in Chelsea, and feel sort of miffed that I'm actually considered common because I eat tinned pineapples...ah well.

One of my (many) favourite moments in the episode I watched: 3 posh people trying to work out who wrote Winnie The Pooh
Credit: E4/Tumblr

NOTE TO SELF: Invest in a new alarm clock. That works properly.

- I've just found out that Made in Chelsea was only put on E4 because they decided to cancel Friends. Oh.

Not sure how to feel now :(

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