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Thursday, April 22, 2010

A woman should...

"A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year..."


and here are some pictures of some memorable LADIES whom I really admire:
-click on the pictures for a bigger version-







Saturday, April 17, 2010

Coffee Art

I'm a huge coffee fan and for that reason I dedicate this post to my favourite drink. :)
Enjoy the lovely coffe art. I think these pics are great!

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

New TV series: Life Unexpected

Fifteen year-old Lux has spent her life going from foster family to foster family. She has finally decided to become an emancipated minor. During her journey through the legal maze, Lux finds her biological father, 30-something Nate "Baze" Bazile, who lives above a bar and is astonished to learn he has a daughter. Lux learns that her mother is Cate Cassidy, a star on local radio, along with her boyfriend, Ryan Thomas. A judge decides to grant temporary custody of Lux to Baze and Cate instead of emancipating her. (via ~IMDb)

As life takes them all on a new path, watch how they try to make-up for the mistakes they made in their past.


Cate Cassidy, now a star on local radio, got knocked up on "prom night" (15 years ago) by the highschool jock Nate Bazile (Baze), kid that she set up for adoption and never heard anything of after that. She never told Baze about having a kid. She's somewhat imature/childish and she's afraid of commitment.


Ryan (my favourite person from this series) - Cate's fiance, who hosts the famous K100 radio show together with her. He's a very kind and charming man and he'll stay by Cate's side during all the drama that messes up her nice & comfortable life when her daughter Lux appears.


Baze - the unaccomplished ex-highschool jock, who now lives with 2 highschool friends (one of whom was a highschool nerd) above a bar which they try to keep working for a living. His girlfriend leaves him when Lux (the daughter he never knew about) appears unexpectedly in his life. Even at his age he's not mature enough to call himself an adult.


Lux - the center of the story - now a very smart & pretty 15 year-old girl, whom Cate gave up at birth wishing she would have a better life, but who had an awful life in foster care and whom unfortunately never got adopted. Thanks to some amazing foster friends she decides to find her birth parents (Cate & Baze) and make them sign the emancipation papers so that she can move in with her friends and get on with her life, away from the horrible foster care. But things will take a different turn when she meets her parents...


Bug - Lux's boyfriend, also a foster kid; they were always there for each other during all those crappy moments (he's one of the persons whom she wants to move in after emancipation)


Tash (Natasha) - Lux's best friend; they met in a foster house when they were little and became unseparable, they were like sisters. She's the other person with whom Lux wants to move in after her emancipation...but things change when Lux finds Cate & Baze...

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Happy Easter!


Wishing you an Easter filled with love, peace and the joys of springtime!
I hope you'll have a wonderful time with your dear ones :)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Book review: "The Phantom of The Opera" - Gaston Leroux


As promissed, in this post I'm writing about "the Phantom of The Opera" which I finished reading a few days ago.

"A haunting tale of suspense and intrigue set in nineteenth-century Paris.
As Monsieurs Richard and Moncharmin prepare to take over as acting managers of the Opera House, they discover their predecessors have bequeathed them the 'Opera Ghost'. A separate memeorandum-book has been set aside for his various whims, including extravagant financial needs. Heedless of the numerous warnings to comply with these strange demands the managers shrug it all off as a practical joke taken too far. Then a sequence of eerie coincindences and tragic events follow, culminating in the suden disappearence of the beautiful prima donna Christine Daaé in mid-performance.

Tortured by the pangs of unrequited love, the mysterious figure linving beneath the Opera House has been awaiting his chance to strike - and once he does, he is deadly..."

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I really, trully enjoyed reading this book and I found it really entertaining. I've seen the movie as well and I think it's great but you cannot compare the book with the movie. The storyline is quite different in the book and much more complex and detailed. The Opera Ghost is a very interesting character and he is extremely smart which makes the story so captivating. The tricks 'he' plays on the opera people and the way he knows every little corner/door/room of the Opera House by heart amazes me. It's funny how he's believed to be the "bad guy" but I still can't see him like that because after all he has all the reasons to get revenge...I guess 'he' just doesn't like people or things getting in the way of his plans, for 'he' wishes to have what every man wishes: a normal life and wife who loves him, by his side. The final part of the book was the most interesting in my opinion because I really liked the description of the "Torture Chamber" created by the Opera Ghost where the "Rosy Hours of Mazenderan" used to take place....That must be the most creative thing ever!
All in all it is a great story and I honestly recommend it to you. :)

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And some quotes that I like:

"By pitying him the other night, the night of the masked ball. When you went to your dressing-room, did you not say, 'Poor Erik?' Well, Christine, there was a poor Raoul who overheard you."

"Mademoiselle, I have the honor to ask for your hand.
- Why, you have both of them already, my dear betrothed!...Oh, Raoul, how happy we shall be!...We must play at being engaged all day long."

"So she...so she disappeared in the middle of the performance? he reapeated.
- Yes, she was carried off in the Prison Act, at the moment when she was invoking the aid of the angels; but I doubt if she was carried off by an angel."

"A ghost, he said, who on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!"