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Bad
So it's Christmas and I decided to be rude today. And to my own mother, who is thousands of miles away and was probably feeling rotten already to begin with :( Didn't mean to, of course. When I said what I did, I totally thought I had all the right to do so but of course, it was wrong. I would've felt better if she did the usual, "oh no you didn't ( Read more... ) -
On the List
Super thrilled that my comments regarding what I am currently reading and what book I want to receive this Christmas were acknowledged by The English Muse by way of her Amazon Reading List. Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Caroline Moorehead's Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era found ( Read more... ) -
Jeux d'enfants
I want a lot of Guillaume Canet in my blog. These are from Jeux d''enfants (Love Me If You Dare) with Marion Cotillard. I should get a copy. It's crazy, sexy, charming and not overtly sappy-- it can either be mania or true love.
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John William Waterhouse
Just realized that John William Waterhouse loves his subjects tragic. There's nothing wrong with that. They're probably his muses. I have a penchant for the evil queens, the dictatorial hacienderos, the vengeful jilted, the unrealized romantics. I have yet to find the painter who does. And if they are my muses, I have yet to be so inspired that I ( Read more... ) -
Rushing Weddings
This morning, I got an email from Charisse, a good friend of mine in Canada, saying she'll be back in the Philippines around March next year to marry her long-time boyfriend. Cue in immediate sense of loss ( Read more... )
