Went to the Coco Before Chanel premiere today, mainly because my colleague is a regular Chanel shopper........

Nice experience at the GV Vivo Gold Class cinema, but it was a pretty average film. Sure it was interesting to see how Chanel pioneered a very different, more masculine and more practical style as compared to the corsets and feathers of ( Read more... )

My favourite parts from the article posted by tinymich

A third of Republicans believe Obama is not a citizen, and a third of Democrats believe that George Bush had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, which is an absurd sentence because it contains the words "Bush" and "knowledge."

did you know only about half of Americans are aware that Judaism is an older ( Read more... )

“In the 19th century the great European writers, Dickens and Balzac and Flaubert, were savagely critical of the societies they lived in. One of the things the arts should do is slap the middle class in the face. This is essential as a country rises to great power status. It is not that you are deriding the country. It is part of being self- ( Read more... )

Break down our pride
And all the walls we’ve built up inside
Our earthly crowns and all our desires
We lay at Your feet

I need to be more patient and more humble... But srsly why are some people so dumb and annoying??? Ok I shall not rant.

Happy Monday, everyone! :P

"The sky above Fingerbone was a floral yellow. A few spindled clouds smoldered and glowed a most unfiery pink." - Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson

No mood to do work. Can't wait for the weekend!

I've recently been thinking about what it really means to be in the civil service. :-D

I'm not against government scholarships (duh) and i think it's great that in our country we pay civil servants pretty decently (VERY decently for those at the very top) but while we believe in paying for the best minds, how do we make sure we get the best hearts ( Read more... )

Pepsi vs Coke logo evolution (from @jaytweeting on twitter)


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I've come to believe that these 2 years are my form of National Service (guys, don't scoff..) and that God has placed me where I am for two reasons:
1. I have more time to serve
2. Character-building

"..it is never enough until we are walking with God twenty-four hours a day everywhere we go, with everything we say an expression of love and faith." ( ( Read more... )

"...theatre is a mediated art form, it has a storyteller, or several. The text loses its virginity simply by being staged, it’s no longer the abstract ideal version, it’s an event.” - Sir Tom Stoppard

One would expect a self-proclaimed 'Literature champion' to understand this - that a play becomes a separate text when performed.
(Sorry that is such ( Read more... )

I am getting increasingly absent-minded.

Last week I got on a completely wrong and random bus and only realised it 15min later. Over the weekend I got the time of a friend's wedding so wrong that I missed it.

Today I forgot to zip up the last 1/4 of my dress. I meant to ask John to do it for me because I couldn't reach the last part but I ( Read more... )