Posts Tagged ‘Popular Culture’
Adele’s Skyfall
I am not sure if the video will embed correctly via my Nexus but here’s hoping. Reading all those reviews about what a great song Adele’s Skyfall is (I mean come on, reviews were written based on a 90 second clip, crazy right) I was looking forward to listening to the song myself. And I […]
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Tags: cinema, Music, Popular Culture
An Unlikely Love Song
Every time I watch the very handsome Christopher Plummer choke through these words, I cry. I would like to sing for you now . . . a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die.
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Tags: cinema, love, Music, Nostalgia, Popular Culture
Developed Superiority
I follow some bloggers and their daily lives as they talk about hearth, home, family and love in their blogs. Some particularly interesting bloggers in this list are Dooce, The Pioneer Woman, and Mihow; all very interesting in their own way. I especially love The Pioneer Woman, her beautiful pictures and her funny and engaging […]
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Tags: Popular Culture, Reactions, Technology, Thinking
Being 9 Years Old All Over Again
I am not ashamed to admit I sobbed like my heart was breaking when Mufasa, Emperor of the Pride Lands fell to his death, pushed by that awful Scar. And my 9 year old heart did break. It was one of the saddest things I had ever experienced. So when my 26 year old self […]
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Tags: Broadway, Music, Nostalgia, Popular Culture, Singapore, The Lion King
Once upon a time, I dreamt a dream. It was a funny dream. Ambitious, yet amusing. It involved some drama and celebrities. It had good friends and hot sultry days in Bombay. There was Karl, Nadir, Toral, Zafar, Alyque, Rachel and Quasar. In my dream, I was on stage. At the NCPA. Looking up, as […]
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Tags: Friends, Life, love, Nostalgia, Popular Culture
This has been the ideal weekend. The kind I enjoy and love spending. I am finishing up Albert Camus’ The Fall, watching Season 4 of Criminal Minds, watching the rain fall and catching a movie in the cinema hall. I will probably go for a run in the rains later. Perfect weekend. I am so […]
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Tags: Popular Culture
Conversation Today
So many names on my GTalk list. And I can’t ping even one of them at 3 am complaining about insomnia. Yet, there will be the usual hi what’s up instant messages that lose steam after the ‘nothing much.’ Non stop chatter on Twitter. A race to get as many followers as possible. A race […]
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Tags: Friends, Popular Culture, Relationships, Technology, Thinking
Two Favorite Pieces of Music
Close your eyes and listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy97lOwvECs Where are you? In the Harlem of the 1950s, girls in black evening dresses and ruby red lipstick, heads tipped backwards as their laughs mingle with the blue smoke rising out of glass ashtrays? Okay, now close your eyes and listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKgcKYTStMc Are you in […]
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Tags: Music, Nostalgia, Popular Culture
I write about stuff. Mostly feelings. 