“…i got you….”
(Source: thatissofeetch, via erratic-indecisive)
Neffa - Prima di Andare Via
In 2003 after I finished high school and before I went to uni I went to several countries for a period of service and volunteering. One of the places I went to was Sicily - it was literally one of the most amazing and unforgettable times of my life - if I ever win the lotto I’m packing a plane full of friends and taking them to Sicily from July to October.
Hardly ANYONE on this island spoke English, and so I learnt to speak Italian VERY FAST (with a Sicilian twinge of course ;) but what I remember a lot of was the music I listened to whilst I was there.
This is one of the songs that was big whilst I was there and I love the lyrics (in Italian of course), but what is super sweet and endearing is that the chorus basically says:
tu sei bellissima
forse un po troppo per me
se avessi solo un attimo
cose che ti direi
and which basically means:
You are beautiful
Maybe too much for me
If i only had a moment
Things I would tell you ( I think it means “If I had more time, I would tell you so much things”)
you can find the lyrics for the song here. Just wanted to share it. Love it.
(Source: lyricstranslate.com )
Nailed by Dzine.
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But the rule of law is clear that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a state of things and induces him to act in that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, to his detriment, the former is precluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
- THE LAW OF ESTOPPEL
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Dictionary of Legal Words and Phrases by Judge RD Claasen, Judge of the High Court of South Africa.
This vs people wondering why I have expectations…
thefloralcoat asked: Really do adore this blog, lovely!
Actually what IS your type?
- M aka Persian Girl in Denial : I like, olive skin, brown short hair, hairy but not too much hair...
- R: so basically you want a persian boy.
- R, R, D: kwaaaakawaaakkakaaaaaahahahahahahaha!
“Appropriateness…”
On her blog, a friend of mine who works in a somewhat corporate office type set- up recently posted a picture of an outfit and questioned its’ appropriateness. I myself have only been in the corporate type world for about 3 years now (wholly cow that’s scary) and wardrobe is always an interesting thing to try and “negotiate” when you have an intense love for fashion (not the frivolous kind) AND work (the serious kind) , and have to try and find an ‘appropriate way’ of conveying the two without diminishing the love for either.
We know (or at least I hope we do) that certain types of clothing and colours convey certain things. On the one hand, when you’re in the type of profession where people come to you for possibly life altering help, you have to convey a sense of respect and seriousness for client, person, situation or the dilemma that people have come to you with; and on the other hand, you don’t want to look like a penguin waitress.
I guess for guys, wardrobe is a lot easier because the corporate world has been the domain of men for a lot longer than it has been for women and as such, the whole question of my friend’s post came into play. In terms of dress, I think one should always be ‘modest’ [do not read conservatively, unimaginatively, or restricted], especially so in the work place. But Mrs Rogero’s post was interesting for me because it has/had to do with tightness, and therefore shape, and especially then a woman’s shape.
Now if you go and look at the picture of the outfit, I didn’t think they were inappropriate at all, and if they are/were, then I am in big trouble, but what it got me thinking was, does it kind of go back to the underlying mentality that women shouldn’t be in the workplace, and therefore we (as women) should minimize our ‘womanliness’ and hide our shape(s)?
Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To know cover by Walk Off The Earth.
5 people. 1 Guitar. [incredible in itself] The guy’s voice in the First 30 seconds. Good God. And you know I have this thing for good cover versions….
I am loving this song at the moment. Actually wait, I lie. I am LOVING the video at the moment….I am liking the song because I’m still trying to figure it out particularly the part where she sings….is she a girl in the same position as he or is she the girl with whom he was in the relationship with?
Are they on the same side of the spectrum or opposite sides? Because if you listen to what he sings :
But you didn’t have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don’t even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No you didn’t have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don’t need that though
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know
and then listen to what she sings;
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I’d done
And I don’t wanna live that way
then if they are on the opposite sides of the spectrum i.e. they just broke up with each other, then yeah, she’s fully justified in “cutting him off” and if they’re on the same side then….well then…it’s interesting to just hear it out. Gotye himself sheds some light on it here.
Admittedly though not the best song to be listening to on a Saturday morning…
And yes I know, I think too much. So what?
![A friend of mine often tells me that I should be a lot more discerning with this ^^^^. I’m beginning to [finally] see his wisdom….compartmentalising allows for better damage control….](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gotye_featuring_Kimbra_-_Somebody_That_I_Used_to_Know.png)
A friend of mine often tells me that I should be a lot more discerning with this ^^^^. I’m beginning to [finally] see his wisdom….compartmentalising allows for better damage control….
(Source: gotye.bigcartel.com)
Earlier today I saw a post on a friends wall about an article French Elle had published on their site entitled “Black Fashion Power”. I can’t/dont (yet) speak French (yes, I know, I should’ve listened to my Mother in first year) but I checked out the translation of the article a piece of which basically claims that “Black people only dress well because of the Obama’s”, and goes on further to say that:
“In this America led for the first time a black president, the chic has become a plausible option for a community so far pegged to its codes [of] streetwear … But if in 2012 the “black-geoisie” has integrated all the white codes, it does not [do so] literally. [There] is always a classic twist, with a bourgeois ethnic reference (a batik-printed turban/robe, a shell necklace, a ‘créole de rappeur’) that recalls the roots.”
I went to the original site to find out what was said and the article was all there. I was going to post this morning but didnt have time, but tonight when I went back to the original page, I found this:
Tendance : black fashion power
Suite aux vives réactions et aux nombreux commentaires suscités par l’article Black Fashion Power, nous avons décidé de le retirer du site. Si cet article a pu choquer ou blesser certaines personnes nous en sommes profondément désolés car ce n’était nullement notre intention, au contraire. Nous regrettons vivement ce malentendu. Le débat a néanmoins été lancé et il va nous permettre d’enrichir notre travail journalistique. A bientôt donc sur ELLE.fr et dans ELLE pour poursuivre cette discussion.
Valérie Toranian, Directrice de la rédaction de ELLE
Now I don’t read french, so feel free to translate the above, but I can pick up key words, so I guess Elle has retracted it. I don’t like just reposting or reblogging stuff without checking out the original because well there is always the possibility of messing up something, especially if it’s off the internet and especially if you yourself can’t read the original, but ey saaan…How do you say “fail” in french?
(Source: elle.fr)
I drive past Mememe almost every day going to Chambers - I almost stalled my car checking out this beautiful Necklace in the window of the Mememe store.
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!!
This lovely necklace (R475) is made by Belinda Ludek and you can find it at Mememe so get ahold of them and get ahold of the necklace!! Click through here for their website or click through here for their facebook page.
