Don't Leave Things Half Done!

Le Chat et l'oiseau

Un village écoute désolé
Le chant d'un oiseau blessé
C'est le seul oiseau du village
Et c'est le seul chat du village
Qui l'a à moitié dévoré
Et l'oiseau cesse de chanter
Le chat cesse de ronronner
Et de se lécher le museau
Et le village fait à l'oiseau
De merveilleuses funérailles
Et le chat qui est invité
Marche derrière le petite cerceuil de paille
Où l'oiseau mort est allongé
Porté par une petite fille
Qui n'arrête pas de pleurer
Si j'avais su que cela te fasse tant de peine
Lui dit le chat
Je l'auris mangé tout entier
Et puis je t'aurais raconté
Que je l'avais vu s'envoler
S'envoler jusqu'au bout du monde
Làs-bas où c'est tellement loin
Que jamais on n'en revient
Tu aurais eu moins de chagrin
Simplement de la tristesse et des regrets


Il ne faut jamais faire les choses à moitié.

I'm catching up on my French reading during the holidays. Seeing as almost all of my friends in my French class have taken a French language course in a Francophonie country during the holidays whereas I haven't, I really need to catch up. Came across this great poem in Jacques Prévert's anthologie. Gosh, he just writes the such awesome witty, heart-warming and noir (is that even a description?) poems.

Take the one above, I wouldn't be so bold as to translate the whole thing since I only gotten about 80% of the poem upon first reading, but it's talking about the only cat in the village ate half of the only bird in the village (a bit gory.. I know). The mourning village threw a marvelous funeral for the bird: there was a straw coffin, the little girl who couldn't stop crying and even the cat was invited! Seeing all this commotion, the cat groused: If I had known that all this trouble would happen, I would've eaten him whole! Then I would tell you that the bird flew away to the far end of the world and was never coming back. You would've had less sadness, regrets and chargrin.

The moral of the story? DON'T LEAVE THINGS HALF DONE!

If only the cat in question behaved like the cat below...

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Its that festive time of the year again! I actually didn't even realize that it was Chinese new years until I came home on sunday from work and saw that my parents prepared a big dinner!! Yum, yum

春节快乐！在外乡过新年就是不如在国内。在这边都没有鞭炮放！爸爸妈妈在晚上打电话回去拜年，然后大家就去睡觉了。连春晚都没得看，哈哈。

Image credit: Joe-Ks

Flight of Conchords Season 2

I'm so excited! Flight of the Conchords are returning to HBO with a second series! I watched season 1 and they were just brilliant. No one does dead-pan humour and crazy folk tunes like these guys! Sadly, even though they're from NZ, it'll take a while before the series actually reach their homeland. Oh, well I'm willing to wait. Meanwhile, episode 1 is already available on youtube.

Sunset Boulevard

I took this photo when I returning home from the train station. Who knew that my part of town could be so pretty?

My Sister

She sits beside me, head down, legs drawn
Small, pink-nailed hand weilding a scissor
snip, snip, snip
ever so decisively
trimming her petit nails

I glanced, astonished
as she accomplished
the task at hand

When did she start to trim her own nails?
Odd feelings of pride and emotions
made me plant a light kiss
against the pink shirt, on her back

Outrage! (Gemma Ward is not fat!)

How could they? Seriously, calling my favourite model that! See I'm writing in red just to show how angry I feel about this.























ROLL MODEL? Where do you see rolls on her body? Hunh? So fine, she's gained more weight since she was 16 but for goodness's sake people gain weight when they mature, it's only natural! Shame on you, the Daily Telegraph for adding to the negative media portrayal of the ideal feminine weight. So a girl only have to gain some weight for the media to go all out and start saying that she's battling with weight or saying that she's not how she use to be. To maintain the stick thin figure she used to have at 16 would be seriously unhealthy now that she's 21. But sadly, the article already mentions that Gemma's exercising to get rid of the weight.

Gemma, I just want to say no matter what everyone else say about you, I think you're perfect at any weight that you're comfortable with and healthy at. Its not worth it to put yourself through the strenuous exercise and probably diet regime just so you could go back to the figure you used to have, but isn't healthy for you anymore. To me, you're still that gorgeous girl who strutted Prada runway all those seasons ago!

someone call the fashion police!

I was doing my daily reading of kpop gossip when I came across this photo.
























What.the.hell?! This guy's outfit commits so many levels of fashion crime that I dunno if I should either weep due to outrage or chortle due to hilarity. Now, I'd like to think of myself as at least a fashion conscious gal, I do feel I have the obligation to educate people how not abuse clothes and other people's sense of style.

Starting from top, the gold-lamé zip up jacket. (I didn't start at the hair, coz well that hair style is actually quite prevalent in Asia). If the jacket was made out of any other material, it would've been fine, but not gold and definitely not lamé. I know gold is the colour of the most precious metal and all that shit, yada yada. But it just does not belong to a casual cut zip up jacket. Words like whory, tacky, lame, attention-seeker come to mind with that kind of jacket.

Then there is his belt. The belt itself is alright (for a girl) but the things hanging off it ain't. I spot at least 3 outrageous things, the gold chains (probably plated ones), the gold tassels (again, wth?) and the most unforgivable fashion sin, price tag still attached! You'd think that as a celebrity (he's part of the korean boy band H.O.T.), he can afford a belt without having the need to return it. But no. Such is the dire situation of our troubled economic times.

Last but not least, there's a shawl hanging off his ass. I personally have nothing again shawls. They're a nice and practical accessory to an outfit, eg on the shoulders. Of your grandma. Not hanging off some dude's ass. Who's wearing jeans.

The piece of gossip relating to this dude was that a woman claimed he raped her. I wouldn't be surprised if that were true. Any sane woman with an ounce of fashion sense wouldn't go near this guy, let alone come in contact with him, with that outfit on!

Image credit: Seoulbeats

I'm with Stupid

I just finished reading the debut by Elaine Szewczyk, I'm with Stupid. (Seriously, how do you pronounce her name? I know the "y" can act as a vowyel but the three consonants before the y?... sheesh)

It's HILARIOUS!!! I haven't laughed so hard from a book since... well since the last book I laughed at (which has been so long I can't even remember what it was!). The novel details the dating misadventures of Kas, the novel's narrator and heroine, specifically, her one-night stand from a South African safari holiday which turned into a disastrous love affair back home at New York. The characters in the book are just larger than life and their interactions provide most of the comedic situations.

Szewczyk also has this ingenious way with words that totally awes me and amuses me at the same time. Eg:

Holy
Toledo,
what
a
fucking
torpedo

(*cough cough* in reference to a certain part of the male anatomy)

"Is coutryside hypenated?" he asks during a song-and-dance sequence.

"Chastity is as great a perversion as libidinousness..." Manuel Sanchez (seriously, this guy is the most unbelievable character ever, in a good way!)

Anyways those are just the two that I remember. There was also the sweet and poignant reflection that Kaz had about her brother that I can totally relate to. Overlooking your siblings (esp younger ones) and then realise later in life that you have missed out so much just by ignorance and end up being total strangers with someone that's suppose to be your family is a sad but truthful observation. Honestly this book gets a 5-star from moi!! Très bien!

Demonoid Invitation Code

getting one of those is a bitch. Are they ever going to open for registration anyways?

Image credit: Kokesh's Diary