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 »
pregnancy week 28: entering the last leg
Posted in 3rd Trimester, Life in the Town House, life learnings, politics, pregnancy, pregnancy weekly, tagged 2nd trimester, pregnancy on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Time seems to have flown and This Girl finds herself stepping into the last trimester with a lot of exhaustion and the knowledge that a lot more needs to be done. Her mental preparation has been going pretty alright; in particular she loves what her pre-natal yoga teacher repeatedly reminds them (especially when they are [...]
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; [...]
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 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 [...]
kings and paupers
Posted in new things, politics, the sock shop, writings on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Smartest Friend introduced This Girl and The Boy to a new- and spectacular- show called Kings about a fictitious country called Gilboa warring with its neighbour Gath. (Read more here.) Loosely based and entirely inspired by the biblical story of King David, this contemporary soap-politico drama tells the story of a small town guy who becomes [...]
new things in the world
Posted in politics on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This girl types this as she watches America swear in a new president- a man of humble beginnings, a different skin colour and a dream that the impossible was possible. She texted Staircase Master who has been in the thick of things politically for the Democrat party and he’s having a whale of a time [...]
hovering at the edge
Posted in emo-ments, life learnings, politics on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There has been a lot to digest these past few weeks since there has been a lot happening. There’s the cyclone in Burma which is awfully distressing to hear about. And then there’s the latest earthquake in China. And while China seems to have gotten- or at least, are getting- their act together, the same [...]
the lay of the land
Posted in adventure, life learnings, life rules, politics, travel on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(This post was written in Uganda. This girl is backdating it.) Conflicts in schedules, last minute changes and work commitments have shaved almost 10 days off this girl’s intended trip. She’s now due back Thursday; the Father is arranging the ticketing, thrilled that this girl will be home earlier than planned. He’s not so big [...]
sitting this one out
Posted in adventure, emo-ments, life learnings, life rules, politics, travel on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(This post was originally written while this girl was in The Other Land. She’s backdating this.) This girl and Smartest Friend are not taking too well to this trip physically for some odd reason. They are sniffly in the morning, achy from the soft beds and slightly grouchy from the many last minute changes in [...]
the tail end of Christmas
Posted in new things, politics, sock stuff on December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And in a blink of an eye, Christmas has come and gone and looking back at all the Christmases that have passed, this one ranks up there with the best of them. It was quiet, small and intimate; with good food and great company and this girl laughed so hard her sides hurt and smiled [...]
A response piece
Posted in decluttering life, life learnings, politics, writings on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Its been a long time since this girl wrote anything remotely literary. Never really had the need or urge to do so till recently when she started exchanging musings and writings with her Godbrother who’s re-opened the erstwhile shut literary door. Anyway, she’s included here one of the response pieces she wrote (and under 15 [...]
having options
Posted in decluttering life, just me, politics, sock stuff on November 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Staircase master told this girl the other day after a long online chat: The path ahead of you may not be clear, but that’s just because you have so many great options. “ Thing is this- and this girl has had long discussion about this with Smelly Melly and Zwieback- having options seems to be [...]
things where they need to be
Posted in adventure, new things, politics, sock stuff on November 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Over the past few weeks, this girl has been agonizing over her graduate school applications. She’s not applying to that many schools which should mean the madhouse that comes with every grad school application should not be that bad. But it still is. For those of you that have been in the same situation, you’d [...]
stripped bare
Posted in decluttering life, new things, politics, sock stuff, the sock shop on November 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Honesty is a rare quality these days. This girl is pretty sure that it is rare quality all through time but, of late, with the advent of modernity, and all the other funnky wunky words used to describe this present time, Honesty is a commodity rarer than ever. We live in a world focused on [...]
