Howdy, folks! It's good to be back. Here's a little bang bang to get us started again: two clips from Josephine Siao's 1967 action film The Professionals (金鷗).
First up are the opening credits — featuring Josephine dressed à la mode in a pirate's blouse and cravat and psychedelic print pants with white belt — followed by a scene in which she proves that she's way cooler than that British bloke... what was his name...
* Thanks to Todd at 4DK for the loaner! Available on VCD from YesAsia.com
How American Singles Look For Love and Relationships Online
By :Jenny Rogers
Those people who are thinking about dating there is always one question which comes to their mind, why American singles looking for their love online? Answer to this question is very simple that they make use of services provided by online dating sites so that they can meet their ideal partner. There are many single American men and women who are in search of each other online. They are interested in fulfilling their relationship and also interested in maintaining healthy long-term relationship.
In today's technology era and current age finding out love through online dating sites is very common. The best part of such online sites is you don't have to pay anything to utilize their services at totally free American dating sites. You can make use of a personal profile through which you can interact with other singles. If she or he meets your expectations then you can move ahead and establish a long relationship. You also have a choice to find American singles in your area. You can have a complete control of your profile and also have a complete freedom in utilizing the services of online dating sites. So, free dating sites are the most ideal way to establish a relationship with your desire partner in America.
In a country like America we know that people live hectic life. They don't have time to establish romantic relationship. That's the reason why online dating sites are very much popular in America. Even looking for your partner online also saves a lot of time and money. This method is totally inexpensive. There is no requirement to spend any money to meet your love. There is one more ancient method available to seek your love, which is clubs. But today as we all know that technology is so advance and latest innovation are done daily; online dating is best and ideal match to meet your love. It is so easy to search for your love just by sitting in the comfort of your home.
If any single American woman or man want to establish a connection with a man or woman of their choice then just simply register with one or more free dating sites and just have a look that the world is at your feet. Even you should also keep your latest photo so that any women or men interested will get attracted by your photo. Not only that even you should also include other details about yourself so that the person who is looking your profile can know something about you in detail.
So, in America finding love through online dating sites is most common concept now-a-days. In America singles do not love to go to bar to find out their love. So, generally an American man or woman can utilize the services of all the available online dating services to seek their true love. If you are single and you are in search of your true love then just go and register yourself with online dating service and see that how you can get your woman or man of your dream.
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American Singles Online
By :Jenny Willston
Social skills have become very hard to accumulate. Young generations are becoming more and more isolated from the outside world because of the mass media's effects and the social stereotypes spread in it. American youth seems to be affected by it the most. Since they all have an internet connection provided for them at an early age, they tend to use it more and more often as they grow up. Americans in their twenties do not all have the necessary wit and knowledge of how to date someone in real like or how to even ask someone out, or sometimes they just do not have the time to go out and meet somebody.
American singles get online, set up a profile on a dating website and contact people and arrange to meet. In some cases it works, in some others it doesn't. Almost 30% of American singles have used a dating website. They try to look as remarkable as possible and only mention what is positive about them. That is why in some cases the relationship doesn't work. But in other cases, interests and personality characteristics meet and the two people bond together and find a path on which they can both go. Everything in the world has its advantages and disadvantages, people just need to know how to use dating services in an appropriate way and not obsess about it. It is true that some profiles can be fake and some people might just get on dating websites to trap people, black mail them or just make jokes.
So American singles make sure they are cautious when filling out their profile and as selective as possible when contacting somebody. Americans who have been set a trap or made a joke out of have shared failure stories online. They complained a lot about security on the website and blamed them for not being professional enough. Another important point of this controversial subject is the philosophy of online dating for Americans and whether it is regarded as fate or a manipulation of it. Love is also what most Americans aim at when dating online, that can be explained by how their lives evolve about materialistic principles and monotonous daily lives. So they cannot just go out in the street and start talking to people and asking for their numbers.
A more conventional way of dating would be online dating. It puts them in contact with people who could be geographically close to them and has interests in common. These two elements matter to Americans since they do not like to move out of their country and always try to find someone who has similar characteristics and habits. Another major feature in American online dating is that ethnic groups categorize it. Online dating services often have subcategories of people with different colors. This is not found in non-American dating services. A critic might say that online dating for Americans is increasing the commitment problem and how people get together and then decide to get separated. But that doesn't exclude the fact that American singles do use online dating services and approve to their efficiency.
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Nailed It
the world cup is such a phenomenon. i love (hate) that people are losing their jobs over it.
i was with some people the other night and one of the girls kept talking incessently about the world series. i was trying to figure out if she was joking but it looks like she really thought this wonderful time of year was called the world series. that's fine, i 'spose...
i want to paint my nails like this ^
Summer Time
Summer has returned to my life. I love Summer so much. A spirit of gold, a heart without limits, and a face that lights up the world--Summer captivates us all. These sunflowers are for you Summer--pretty soon I will give you some real ones.
Thank you, God, for bringing Summer to me again.
Worm
B-Line
today is one of those typical cloudy santa barbara days filled with coffee cup conversations and windy car rides with the beach so close you can taste the salt as you drive by.
time for a surprise visit. she'll never see it coming...
Blue Roses
the tate had brought many things to loren on that gloomy, tempestuous day last november: inspiration, aesthetic pleasure, and a profound appreciation for the people who write the wall texts that accompanied the more avant-garde "works of art." although she had graduated last spring with a degree in art history, the glass of water that claims to be "an oak tree" still baffled her. but her determination, however, to absorb, experience, and ruminate on all things art-related trumped her bewilderment on a daily basis.
as loren sat in the museum's coffee shop and waited for her friend to return from the bathroom, she wondered why she couldn't create something museum-worthy. well, yes, of course she was an art historian not an artist, but that didn't mean she had nothing to say. in fact, loren had a great deal to say. she wanted to say: here, here is a pile of rocks i have assembled just so. they are beautiful because i have created them in a way that no one else considered. or even, here are few lines that make a wonderfully spindly tree on this rare bit of parchment, isn't it pleasing? as she sat, glancing from time to time at the door to the ladies room and her friend's abandoned and rapidly cooling coffee, loren began to jot down things she observed, fully intending to work them into some sort of story or work of art later down the road. unfortunately, though she remembered to grab the yellow roses, she put down her notebook and never saw it again.
someone else can have those thoughts, she said.
sometimes i am so inexplicably sad. i don't even know where the despair comes from. maybe it's not sadness--because, let's face it, sometimes i confuse my emotions--i could just be overwhelmed by the creativity of mankind and confusing that with sadness. i am filing through so many books right now (post to come) and it makes me think: i want to write something of worth i have so many things to say i wish i could find the time to say them i wish i had the courage to write what i really think but how do i write that without people hating me or would they love me for my honesty. those kind of thoughts.
sometimes i even think i choose sadness. but maybe it chose me.
despite it all, it's nice, however, to FEEL so strongly about so MANY things.
My Apparent Aptitude has Dimmed, False
today's the last day of my junior year of college! two finals to go: astronomy and shakespeare.
i'm learning about stellar parallax effect before the exam. yikes. i feel prepared for shakespeare (i can quote it like you wouldn't believe)--astronomy is what astronomy does (profound--excuse me, coffee's yet to kick in).
if you're feeling in the "ABBA"mood (lord knows we all have one), you should probably listen to The Bird and the Bee.
deep breath: at 3 PM i turn into my old bony self again.
Fifa
I am going home this weekend after a long, trying month of accelerated learning. I talked to my dad this morning and he invited me to our local Irish pub to watch the first US v England match. I'm so excited! I love my dad! I'm just wondering---Who will we root for??!?!
Dances With
my dad is traveling in the midwest. look at those wolves lurking under that elk. lovez it.
Supremely Real
The following is a portion of Rory Gilmore's graduation speech (remember when she graduated valedictorian from Chilton?). I think about the ideas she presents here quite often and have finally written it down. What she says couldn't be more true. I might have to substitute a few names and places here and there, but the overall idea is one I can wholly identify with.
"I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina, and strolled down Swann's Way. It's a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything."
Perhaps mine would go something like...
I've sang a sad song with Sally, joined the Fellowship with Frodo, guzzled coffee with the Gilmore girls, flown on Howl's Moving Castle, cried with Sarah in an empty church, and sat on a cloudy beach with Esther Greenwood....
My Heart Is Beating
Inspired by Iceland Video from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.
(a cup of jo)
I really want to go to Iceland now! Volcano-shmano--I want to be there.
The hot springs look particularly lovely on this gloomy morning.
Salt Sprinkled Sky
Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky (I thank God, in my warm blood, that this poem exists)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Completion
today is one of those days where it's really hard to finish anything i've started. i made some delicoius vanilla nut coffee, but i got so shaky so fast that i can't even finish it.
i turned on elizabethtown, because it helps me write essays (go figure), but i can't finish it because i have to go to school.
i woke up early to finish writing an essay, but i can't finish it because i have too much to say.
i started writing this post but i can't fini
Soft Film Summer Holiday
I just want to let you all know that I'll be taking a break from my blog this month. I'm feeling a little burned out and need some downtime to recharge.
Also, Fanny Fan invited me to cruise the Maldives in her private yacht for the next three weeks. And there's no way I was going to tell her, "Sorry, I'd love to join you, but I'm busy blogging."
Have a great June!
* Photo courtesy of the always dependable Oldflames
Farewell, Ophelia
There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
Stardolls: The Fun Continues
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've been on a Stardoll bender the past ten days. Whew... talk about a lost weekend!
Here are a few more looks that I received in my inbox...
GoldenPigsy braved the ridicule of his friends to make these outfits for Fan Bingbing and Faye Wong. When he's not playing Stardoll, our porcine pal dishes out "brain slop" (which includes great reviews of bizarre Taiwanese wuxia movies) at his blog GoldenPigsy's Gilded Trough.
Here's Gong Li and Jay Chou, courtesy of Lucky Cat Zoë. Besides whiling away her time figuring out every possible combination of Jay Chou's impressive accessory collection, Zoë throws together a tasty chop suey of reggae, blues, and vintage Asian pop for her fabulous online radio show, Lucky Cat. If you've never had the pleasure of listening to one of her programs, get your ears over to Zoë's podcast archive. And then follow her on Blogger or Facebook, so you don't miss out on her next series of shows.
Finally, let me conclude this post with a double dose of cute and a solemn promise that I will never play with nor post a Stardoll ever again! ;p
Here are a few more looks that I received in my inbox...
GoldenPigsy braved the ridicule of his friends to make these outfits for Fan Bingbing and Faye Wong. When he's not playing Stardoll, our porcine pal dishes out "brain slop" (which includes great reviews of bizarre Taiwanese wuxia movies) at his blog GoldenPigsy's Gilded Trough.
Here's Gong Li and Jay Chou, courtesy of Lucky Cat Zoë. Besides whiling away her time figuring out every possible combination of Jay Chou's impressive accessory collection, Zoë throws together a tasty chop suey of reggae, blues, and vintage Asian pop for her fabulous online radio show, Lucky Cat. If you've never had the pleasure of listening to one of her programs, get your ears over to Zoë's podcast archive. And then follow her on Blogger or Facebook, so you don't miss out on her next series of shows.
Finally, let me conclude this post with a double dose of cute and a solemn promise that I will never play with nor post a Stardoll ever again! ;p
Castle in the Sky
Check out the 15 most amazing castles in the world. It's so hard to pick the prettiest one!
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