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Fiery Redux
Last year I wrote about the kaiso “Fiery” orginially by Mastreo, remade by Bunji. Well my friend RemBunction posted this Mash-up on YouTube, oh Lord I love it.
So for your musical enjoyment.
PS: This is my motto for 2010, “Fiery, that is how I coming…”
Happy Christmas!
I’m spending my first Christmas in foreign. I don’t have anything special planned, just lunch with a friend, but I am grateful for all of my blessings. As I type this I’m playing the Daisy Voisin video I embedded in my first Christmas post on my blog.
Since her voice is never boring, it’s only fair for me to find another for you.
Not much of a video, but the song…
Here in the UK, they say Happy Christmas.
Do You Hear What I Hear
This one of my favourite Christmas songs. O Holy Night is my all time favourite, but Whitney Houston’s version of this song has rocketed to 2nd place in my heart. If I listen to it intently I will cry.
So in the spirit of the season, I found this video of her performing it on Jay Leno. Enjoy.
Merry Christmas
Soca Awards
The International Soca Awards will take place on the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos on October 30th. The awards were started in 2003 by Colin Jackman as a way to recognise the work of our hard-working soca artists.
Well the list of nominees is out: http://bit.ly/EakCc To be eligible your song should have been released between June 1st 2008 to May 31st 2009.
I wasn’t too pleased with some of the selections, but that’s always the case with me and awards. Some of the usual suspects were there, and some weren’t.
So in a moment of idleness I decided to put up my picks for who should win. In other words here’s the list of my favourites in each category:
Beauty Blogging
I have been so converted by the Twitter that I’ve been neglecting my blog. That and it’s been hella stressful at work. At any rate come September/October I should be in school in the UK, and that should provide much fodder for my blog or distract me from it completely. We’ll see.
I’ve been following some amazing beauty bloggers on Twitter, some others I discovered using WordPress’ search function. As you know I’ve become obsessed with hair blogs, well it has morphed into an all round beauty binge. For that I blame the following:
Strange Things
Something strange was going on with my blog. Did some housecleaning. Hopefully things are back to normal.
Confession About the Shopoholic Novels
I don’t like them. I might enjoy the movie, specifically because of Patrica Field’s work. Though her work here is too camp for the heroine, as described in the books themselves, I love how she uses fashion to tell a story. That and I think Isla Fisher is a funny actress. Considering the changes they made, and my lack of loyalty to the books , I actually want to see it. I think the movie should be fun.
So why didn’t I like the books? I thought Becky Bloomwood was too blasted stupid! Her spending wasn’t cute, funny or believable, it was just crazy. There was nothing in her behaviour that I could relate to, even if it required suspending my disbelief. I just couldn’t like the character, like the Fug Girls I just wanted to slap her.
Ain’t Karma a Bitch
Last week the Express sought it fit to scandalise CNMG. Well because of CL Financial’s situation the tables have turned, and the Guardian saw it fit to return the favour.
Take dat in yuh pweffim!
50 Books in 2009: January Update
Ok I finished “Love in a Time of Cholera,” liked it.
And Fahrenheit 451, liked it a little less, but valued it a little more.
Now I’m making my way through “Portrait of a Lady” by Henry James, which should be good.
Stay tuned for my reviews of the books I read.
About My 50 Books in One Year Reading Challenge
I’m actually concerned about books like The Chrysalids and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, both are on my reading list. My concerns with the former; I’m not a big Science Fiction lover, and with the latter; I’ve tried reading it, twice. I just don’t relate to her depression, or something.
Also I’m not entertaining Tom Jones until I’ve trained my reading muscles. The book is fun (I started it), but it’s soo long. So Atlas Shrugged will get the same treatment, that and I’m not sure I’m into Ayn Rand’s Objectivisim.
I’m also partial to fiction, so biographies may be out.
But all isn’t lost. I re-read Perfectly Correct in one day (26 Dec ‘08). So I’m trying to condition my reading muscles. So tomorrow I should finish Inheritance of Lost, and re-read Memoirs of a Geshia. I’d started Fahrenheit 451, but I think I should save it for the challenge.
I’m looking forward to Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence because The House of Mirth is one of my favourite books. I’m similarly excited to read The Portrait of a Lady, because Henry James’ style has been compared to Wharton’s. I’ve read Daisy Miller, and enjoyed it.
All in all, I think I’m really looking forward to this challenge. I actually can’t wait for 2009.
