July 2010
4 posts
Grafitti Gallery
Sunny 16?
Out comes the camera.
Hello May Lane.
Thank you for always being a stunner!
Sweet Success
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is, try to please everybody all the time.”
Herbert Bayard Swope
No truer words were spoken.
A note to myself when juggling life and trying desperately to keep all the balls in the air.
As if I already didn’t have enough on my plate - uni kicks off in a month.
Bring it on!
Must get new uni...
June 2010
5 posts
Life's like that
It is true.
When it rains, it pours.
Getting sodden, cold and miserable is worth
the breathtaking rainbow at the end.
May the rains never stop coming,
may the rainbows never stop appearing.
A new day is dawning
Australia’s first Prime Minister has just been elected.
Julia Gillard, you have just made history!
What does it mean to be Pinoy?
“Pinoy” for all those readers who are furrowing their brows and tangling their tongues in an effort to pronounce the word is the informal term for Filipinos. It is our version of “Aussies” to the more formal “Australian”. A reference to our origins, and always with a tinge of pride and patriotism.
It is the response you give when confronted with the question,
...
May 2010
3 posts
dear Cancer
“Things should go especially well for you today, dear Cancer, so don’t worry about a thing. Life doesn’t necessarily get easier as you get older. You just learn how to deal with things. You’ll find this to be true right now as your incredible sensitivity and wisdom are making it possible for you to attain a clearer perspective. You realize that things are much better than...
Watch this space
Unintentional blogging hiatus coming to an end. Promise.
April 2010
1 post
i like you
Tucked away in the last few pages of Lydia and Andy’s marriage ceremony booklet was this piece which Tim and I both loved:
I Like You
by Sandol Stoddard Warbug
I like you and I know why. I like you because you are a good person to like. I like you because when I tell you something special, you know it’s special And you remember it a long, long time. You say, Remember when you...
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
3 posts
No one really tells you how hard it is.
And even if they did, nothing can ever prepare you for it.
The warnings are there but fall on deaf ears until you’re in its midst.
Then the understanding dawns.
For some it creeps up unnoticed.
For others it stares them head on - blinding.
But the essence remains the same.
A perennial paradox.
It is both pain and pleasure permeating the...
Those three words
For as long as I can remember, every phone conversation my mum has ever had with my Lola (grandmother) always ends like this:
I love you.
I love you too!
…
We never tire of hearing those simple words from the ones we love.
Don’t hold back, spread the love.
January 2010
9 posts
Light up your life
When in comes to rekindling long-forgotten friendships, renewing fading family ties or even restoring broken relationships, don’t hesitate.
Our lives are a mere fleeting moment in time and for each moment that we chose not to do something that enriches it, our light is ever so slightly diminished.
Each one of us is a part of the Whole, the Universe, whatever you want to call it. And as a...
Grand ideas, madcap schemes and ludicrous thoughts must always come to me in my sleep.
It’s like that restful state brought upon by sleep unlocks them all and they roam free unchecked, unguarded and unabated in my head.
Whilst I float between the cusp of the unconscious and conscious, these rampant thoughts, emotions and images crystallise and come to a stand still.
My eyes fly open.
...
*smack*
No, sorry to disappoint, this is not a post about heroin.
Rather, the current contentious issue of smacking children.
The debate of “do we/don’t we” has once again come to the fore with new research claiming that smacked children become successful and happier adults compared to those that have never been smacked.
According to the research, children smacked up to the age of...
Fadeless
Yesterday we drove for nearly 9 hours.
That’s 9 hours out of a 24 hour day.
Add a 5 month old in the backseat and you’d be thinking we’re insane.
I guess that’s one way of looking at it.
Despite the insanity of the it all, it was for a very momentous occasion.
Patrica Duhigg celebrated her 90th birthday yesterday.
I cannot even begin to imagine the life she’s...
December 2009
2 posts
Words I will live by in 2010
peace
perseverance
prudence
prosperity
Heads down, bottoms up and hopefully the I will reap the rewards.
November 2009
7 posts
“Holy Fuckballs”
– Marieke Hardy on twitter after Tony Abbott is “ordained” as the new Liberal Party leader
The Finders Keepers Market
Put it in your diary.
See you there.
Chasing dreams
It’s one of the hardest thing to do.
Courage, be my friend.
FOX-y
Yes, apparently Megan Fox is a FOX.
But I still can’t get over her toe-thumb!
Dear Santa
I have been a good girl this year.
May I please have this in my Christmas stocking?
Love,
Lisette
P.S.
Santa, if you can’t get it, I’m sure you can nominate
Tim to do it on your behalf.
October 2009
6 posts
“Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never...”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sh*t
Here’s a scary thought that came to me last week:
I’m morphing into one of those new mums who are all about ‘being a mum’.
You know the type.
“Today my baby did this…
“Oh my baby is so amazingly clever!…
“My baby, my baby, my baby…
Yikes. I’m shitting my pants for fear of never finding myself again.
Mind you, not that my old...
September 2009
7 posts
I woke up to a bright red glow streaming through the blinds.
I thought I was in hell.
Watch
Marriage
You were born together, and together you shall be forever more. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your...
Plotting my next ink
Status: Mum on a Break
Hardest job I’ve ever had? Being a mum. It’s physically exhausting, emotionally draining and mentally debilitating. You’re running on an eternally changing timetable dictated by a boss so much smaller than yourself yet big enough to consume all of you if you allow her. She’s a mini parasite, a helpless little peanut and a mover & poo-maker all rolled into one. But a...
August 2009
3 posts
