Phenomenal Woman

It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.

I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

- Maya Angelou

Adam Lambert - Tracks of my tears

never was a fan of the nail polish and his general sense of emo style, but this, this was absolute awesomeness.

even smokey robinson (the original singer-songwriter of this song) gave him a standing ovation.

emotionally unavailable?

a conversation i had last night made me realise that i rarely volunteer information about what i'm really feeling with anyone anymore, not even the people closest to me. only in moments of great joy/anger/pain/stress, or when prompted to do so. i've developed a certain guardedness about what i really feel.

i don't know what's happened that's made me this way now. i don't even bother to acknowledge my own feelings to myself, thinking its probably easier to brush that aside and get on with life. i remember when i used to pour my heart out into my journal, every damn thing got written in there - whether it was smart, stupid, funny or weird, heartaches to crushes, i mean literally EVERYTHING. re-reading those books again, it all seemed like silly girlishness. but i remembered too that it was a space where i could be free, where being who i am is enough, a place where i could grow.

i miss that, the emotional honesty, not just to the people around me, but first and foremost to myself. its hard work, and i know it.

i'm thinking it IS time for some hard work. wish me luck.

what we learnt about ember

1. you can act like that (see photo above) and no one will come bother you.
2. the food is not much but everything tastes great, esp. the apple tart.
3. the service was irritatingly professional & good. i stress irritating. they gave a lot of information and came back too often.
4. the restaurant does not have a discrimination policy - they let us in even with a mustache. actually, some would argue that they let us in BECAUSE of the mustache.
5. but you still cannot wear berms/shorts to it.
   

re-reading the inauguration speech

"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny."

i love inspired words.

5 reasons to love 30 rock

EU's art faux pas

EU recently commissioned david cerny, a czech artist, to do a sculpture piece to symbolise the glory of a unified europe, by reflecting something special about each EU country.

well, the man's been known to make a mockery of establishments, so of course, he couldn't pass up such a fabulous opportunity -http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5526676.ece

oh so funny. i particularly like his impressions of bulgaria, romania and france.