May 2012
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April 2012
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"What if God was one of us, just a slob like one...
This song depresses me. It exhibits how much religion has failed and fallen short of the truth. People think it’s about the Pope and praying to Saints and about rules. Apologies to anyone who abides by these things because it’s not my intention to have a stab at you.
But it’s for anyone to know, everywhere, that the longings and ideas of this song are not new feelings or...
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March 2012
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/New York Mornings
/New York Mornings is the second act in my playlist ‘Paris Nights/New York Mornings’ based on the song by Corinne Bailey Rae.
I exported it specifically for a friend a few months back and I just thought I would publicly share my love for the Big City.
You can download it here.
No [time or need for] annotations for this one, but here’s the track list:
1. “Flamenco...
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A Flying Romance II (OUT NOW)
Who remembers the annotated playlist I made almost 2 years ago entitled ‘A Flying Romance II’? This one: http://chichigirl.tumblr.com/post/1080067446/a-flying-romance-ii
Taking inspiration from one of my new favourite bloggers, Miss Moss, and her regular dose of music mixes (which I’ve been downloading and playing avidly lately), I found the perfect way to export and share...
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February 2012
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Smoke and Mirrors
“The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.” (Eph 1:23, The MSG)
In a related turn of phrase that I read recently from a pastor in NYC, “The world is not a distraction from our cause, it is our cause.”
Do I,...
January 2012
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Children of The Revolution
I once read that this generation, mine and me, are not the revolutionaries. We are the children of the revolution. We are the privileged; the princes and princesses spawned from a previous generation of thinkers and doers whose hard work and triumphant return gave us a world in which to lie and bask. Wherein somehow we’ve been permitted to believe that our entitlement and only responsibility...
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“Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I am...”
– Isaiah 43: 18-19
Slowly but inevitably unthreading every stitch, as He puts into play ageing time and the swift movements of life to assist in proving the necessity to let go, discard of the past and make way for the present future.
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Talk of the town. →
Human syndrome:
“Decent people who are proud of their faith, do good things and succeed in life tend to irritate some of us; they remind us of our private failures, so, naturally, we hope that they stumble…”
Dan Barry, 13th January 2012, NY Times
December 2011
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November 2011
2 posts
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GAWANG LAYA: "Isang puso at isipan": Puerta... →
gawanglaya:
Usually we refer to being an ocean apart but as we pulled in towards the shores of Puerto Galera in the island of Mindoro, I remember feeling more connected than ever to our faraway home down south in the lone continent of Australia. The blue seas of the Pacific lit by the warm sun, stroking…
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GAWANG LAYA: Traveling Names, Nameless Faces →
gawanglaya:
Every time we fly, we are required several times to confirm our identity on paper. We fill out who we are when we depart, who we are when we arrive and the same process back again. Travel demands total certainty and consistency of self and story from us – a full name, a place of belonging, a…
October 2011
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The art of living outside onself.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love.Where there is injury, pardon.Where there is doubt, faith.Where there is despair, hope.Where there is darkness, light.Where there is sadness, joy.O Divine Master,grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;to be understood, as to understand;to be loved, as to love.For it is in giving that we...
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“Human being to a mob.
What’s a mob to a king?
What’s a king to a...”
– Recently I’ve been chewing on this lyric…
What is one to the masses? What is the cost of a human life to human lives, where an individual face, a single story can be heaped atop a pile of carcasses or stocked beside a cage of bodies to fund a cause. A profit to serve a king, a ruler,...
August 2011
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“A girl who reads lays claim to a vocabulary that distinguishes between the...”
– “You Should Date An Illiterate Girl” by Charles Warnke
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Stages of Dreaming
I been a Raconteur, talking my dream.
I been a Saboteur, killing my dream.
I been a Amateur, just dreaming.
Now I’m a Entrepreneur, living the dream.
July 2011
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Friend or fraud?
One of the highest compliments and reassurances you can pay me is taking the time and thought to spell my name correctly. Not only is it a compliment to me but to your character, wits and/or reliability as a friend or figure in my life.
As follows:
CH…AR (not double R)…I…SS (but double S)…E
As for my surname, if a person generally knows how to spell my first, the last...
June 2011
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Word.
When You Open Your Mouth
A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it!
It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of...
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May 2011
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“Love is a light and a flame.
If it were only a light, our days would be clear...”
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'Yes! A Thousand Times Yes!'
MR BENNET: I am sure they will do well together, their tempers are much alike. They will be cheated assiduously by their servants, and be so generous with the rest, they will always exceed their income. MRS BENNET: Exceed their income? He has five thousand a year! I knew she could not be so beautiful for nothing.
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“My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved. I can only live wholly with you...”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
(And Sex & The City The Movie)
March 2011
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February 2011
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There is a difference
Gesture: AN action performed to convey one’s feelings or intentions.
Action: THE fact or process of doing something to achieve an aim.
November 2010
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While these days I can’t help but find Gossip Girl infinitely trashy and pretentious all at once, I think I can speak for an entire generation of viewers, more particularly girls, when I say the only reason I hold onto this show is to stay tuned to the love-hate, “better or worse, tethered to you” relationship between Chuck and Blair.
September 2010
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In Real Time. 3.30pm, Hyde Park.
I need to learn and to train myself to stop fearing and resenting the birds of the air. Those helpless, hopeless common rodents with wings that belong nowhere but are found everywhere in any cityscape. They dwell and reside among our manmade glories; our grand architecture, sites of wealth and cultural complexes and in most cases, go completely unnoticed. But I notice them. I bob, duck, cringe...
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When the little flâneur had no choice but to...
In my Visa application, I was forced to state what occupation I intend to take up in the United States.
To my amusement, I found that I had to flip through my first year media textbook just to confirm that the very vague title of “media practitioner” firstly had any sort of validity at all, and secondly, if it was safely vague enough not to have me feeling like I’m reaching for...
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We built this city on rock and roll...
Tonight was a celebration of style and what makes Sydney its own.
Sometimes we need to be reminded of how these things are meant to be appreciated and enjoyed.
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“I wrote an epic letter to you.
But it’s twenty two pages front and back...”
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Septembre/Printemps - the January of my life.
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A Flying Romance II
On a lazy day, still in my pyjamas at 3pm, I have just finished compiling the sequel to my whimsical European travel soundtrack.
The songs brought together in the two playlists are meant provide a form of narration for a reverie and evoke film-like visual imaginings of a round the world (previously Europe and Brazil specific) holiday.
Two years since the inception of the first, I think...
August 2010
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lizzyfaith @CharisseDS This is what I reckon you and your future man would look like :) Without the cigarette, of course!
July 2010
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