This girl has to be honest that while she’s sad that the world’s rather ravaged by a series of natural disasters like Haiti, she’s finding it hard to muster up much emotion about it. Perhaps its a little far from home, or that concurrently, there’re also a million other groups that need money, attention and [...]
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hallelujah
Posted in causes, muse & musings, music, opinions, politics on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Truths for a world caught in relativism
Posted in causes, GOoD things, writings, tagged biblical truths, fox news on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When this girl was in college/university, she double majored in Political Science and Psychology; her honours thesis was an amalgamation of both schools (political psychology) where she studied the impact of foreign policy on domestic opinion and elections. She keeps a pulse- as far as she can, anyway- on this world is racked with such [...]
lost generation: are we inspired?
Posted in causes, life learnings, new things, politics, projects, tagged generation we on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brunei Princess and one of their interns showed this girl this video clip; its not new, really, its been blogged about, shared on facebook and received its fair amount of due press from the general online community. This girl spent pretty much the last 15 years working with youths. First, while as a youth herself; [...]
friends from the other land
Posted in causes, friends, sock stuff, travel, tagged blessings on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This girl caught up with some friends visiting from The Other Land. Aunty Am runs the orphanage that this girl has been working with since she’s 16; this was the place that changed her life, and the girl (then two, now 14) that changed this girl’s soul. She gave this girl updates on all the [...]
socks in the wild
Posted in causes on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When she realised that the Singapore Botanic Gardens was hosting a “Dr. Jane Goodall & Friends” event this girl pulled all the strings she had to score herself a pass (plus one) to it since RSVPs were beyond full. The CEO of Clarins International was also on the panel and she called in a big [...]
hell hath no fury, Pt III
Posted in causes, GOoD things, life learnings, new things, politics, the sock shop, tagged aware, christian, miss america on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having dropped the car off at the groomers, this girl had an animated discussion with the cab driver that came to pick her who had alot to say about the whole AWARE debacle saga that pervaded over the weekend. Aside from applauding the girl for going by to vote, he had many nasty pointed things [...]
hell hath no fury, Pt II
Posted in adventure, causes, funnies on May 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This girl and The Boy spent the day at home battling insipid contractors and entertained themselves at the myriad reports following the AWARE EGM that they attended. And here are a few moments and reports that stood out: 1. The “Shut up and Sit down” moment (Video here) Near the start of the meeting as [...]
hell truly hath no fury
Posted in adventure, causes, friends, just me, life learnings, life rules, new things, politics, projects, the boy, tagged aware saga, causes on May 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This girl (and The Boy) spent last Saturday attending the extraordinary AWARE meeting with some two thousand other women and men. As most from the island nation will know, the saga has been brewing for over a month (you can read about it here) and things finally came to a head in a requisitioned EGM [...]
