20/03/2006
Erm...moving house AGAIN?
I MOVED!!!
New blog address is now? http://trulymarsha.wordpress.com.
For better or for worse, I'm gonna be in it with you, Lydia.
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700 Sundays:: Book Review (The Star)
My new book review on Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays is up here.
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19/03/2006
Kevin Covais is still in???? Duh?
I know everyone likes him. He’s like the crowd darling or something. Trust me, I know someone’s advising him to manipulate that advantage. I know Kevin can sing….well, he would probably hold a crowd in total captivity IF he was in a karaoke. He’s really good.
But…….an idol??? Why does it remind me of that William Hung incident? That ‘accidental hero’ incident?
Anyway, this week, Melissa McGhee is booted out.
Might as well cause she was like a…..non-event. If compared to our local singers, Melissa would have kicked our local singers’ asses without a doubt. But unfortunately, she’s competing in the American Idol and the standards are so high it touches the sky!!! ( I know, sounds lyrical again? Hey, blame Bette Middler Albeit: lyrics to Wings Beneath My Wings).
But I am surprised that Kevin Covais is still in? He’s got the audience hooked, doesn’t he? I mean, I agree with Simon Cowell most of the time…more so now. I am a pretty good critic when it comes to singing and man, Kevin doesn’t have the whole THING. He’s lacking something…something.
If I had it my way, Covais would be booted out this week. Next Kellie Pickler. Too country…too Carrie Underwood wannabe. I saw the similarities. But I don’t think it should work. Singing and being an idol is about being original, being unique, being able to stand out, being King/Queen on stage. Your job, as a singer, is ALWAYS (I’ve learnt) to hold the audience CAPTIVE. I can’t see Kellie do that. She’s just too…..bland. ordinary. So…bimbo-ish.
Next up, Bucky Covington. Too unbending on his country image. So BBBBOOOORRRRIIIINNNNGGGGG…. If I wanted to see Bucky sing, I’ll go to a local karaoke, thank you very much.
I still like Katherine McPhee, Mandisa and Taylor Hicks.
Add one more….Chris Daughtry. After that Stevie Wonder night, he’s got me. This man’s got STYLE!!!!!! If nothing else….
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When I was a mommy...
I believe that as our kids suck the life, energy, and finances out of us, we have to learn how to suck it out of them too! Believe it or not, I think all mothers do this…we thrive and survive on the joy that they give us, the smile that they can bring to our faces and the love that makes our hearts expand like an inflated balloon. No one can truly explain to you how a mother feels like when they look into the sleeping faces of their kids unless they are a mother themselves.
When the worst hits us, we can turn our thoughts and focus on our children and they will stabilize our emotions (on top of driving us insane with their consistent littering, but we’ll learn how to adapt to that). On a stressed day, you look at how simple their lives are and how they grow and learn from their little-little experiences, you’ll feel like… “Hey, what’s there to gripe about? I’ve got the best thing in the world with me…their butterfly kisses are all I need”
Well, I wasn’t feeling too uppity these past few days because it’s school holidays and when it’s this time of the year, I feel all stressed out because the kids are home ALL THE TIME and demanding my attention, want me to take them out, keep littering the house and can’t keep their gaps shut for one single second. They can’t make peace with each other and like to de-hair each other all the time! And I can’t find the time to work on my stuff.
But suddenly, one evening, Jared was singing on my swivel chair, dancing, and the chair (being a swivel chair) was about to tip over backwards. I screamed and grabbed him off the chair and chastised him for his foolishness.
He looked at me in earnest regret and said, “Sorry, mom. I promise not to hurt myself. Thank you for protecting me”.
Silence…..I was caught off guard as my mouth hung open. Jared is known for his comic relief but not his language-skills and communication skills. He’s 3+ for Crissakes!!
But here comes the clincher…..
He takes a deep breath and said, “When I was a mommy, I will protect you too. And when I was a mommy, I will take money and buy food for you; when I was a mommy, I will wash the plates in the kitchen and I will teach you how to do your homework. And when I was a mommy, I will kiss you before you go to sleep and I go work on the computer. When mommy was a kid, you can play and watch TV, ok?”
Oh boy…..he’s got my heart firmly in his hands. I hope that he will remember his words and keep his promise.
But yeah…it’s time like this that you thank God for giving you something back for those few hours spent in the labor room screaming at your husband. And it’s times like this that makes those hours of washing, cleaning, bathing, feeding, cooking, sweeping, picking and packing, ironing….all worth the time.
I swear to you my heart expanded to the size of a well-fed elephant when I grabbed him and gave him a big bear hug.
Jared, when you was a mommy, you’d better remember this friggin’ promise!
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16/03/2006
Woe is me...large files coming in
You know what I hate most about emails? I work day in and day out with emails…without it, there’s nothing linking me to my clients and there’s absolutely no way for me to get instructions and send/receive files with, right? well, apparently, the boon of emails is sometimes overshadowed by large attachments people send to me via my business emails!
I work with advertisements and there’s almost always large files involved. I am talking about massive graphics files that might take HOURS just to download!
Gosh, they take such a freaking long time to download! And the strange thing is that even though I’ve asked people to stop sending me large attachments via email, they continue to do it…like I haven’t spoken at all.
For those of you who have the same problem, here’s what you should get others to do.
Use the following services:-
www.yousendit.com (very good and efficient)
www.sendthisfile.com (also quite good and reliable)
www.savefile.com (quite slow and you have to copy down the link somewhere so that you won’t forget the link. And it doesn’t send you an automatic email message to let you know that the file has been sent or anything. But still reliable)
in fact, you can save your images in a free image hosting company called www.imageshack.us and the restriction for the size of the file is about 1024kb or something like that! Pretty generous as it is, if you ask me.
That’s it for today! Check the links out and hope it helps to ease some of your downloading and uploading problems.
Ta ta!
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