Sandra

LONDON, London, UNITED KINGDOM


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What kind of a woman are You?

February 14th 2008 12:13
It seems we live in a modern world where technologies and sciences are turning our childhood dreams into realities. Everything comes to you at the touch of a button and we're loving every minute of it.

So why is it that people are still acting like we are in the 50s when it comes to sex, love and relationships?
Here is a few tips if you fancy finding out


The infamous resurgence of the victorian values amongst the middle classes, i.e. marriage for the convenience of raising children together, investing into property or materialistic ventures is becoming embarrassing to our generations.

I mean who do you know is really trying to find an alternative lifestyle, a different way of uniting sensuality, communication and pleasure? Closer to what their inner voice is telling them, more genuine and natural than what society finds respectable?
Why is everyone following the same boring mould?
How hypocritical of us all.

So are you a free woman, one that wants to choose her life and welcome into it whoever she might feel? Even if it means feeling the pains and tribulations that living implies.

Do you long for security and warmth, hoping that today will last forever?

Or have you forgotten what your childhood dreams were all about because the reality of your life seems to have left that bitterness on your edges?

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Tales from Earthsea

January 30th 2008 12:16

Has anybody seen Gedo Senki?
One of the latest Ghibli studios film directed by Hayao's Myazaki's son Goro?
image courtesy of Wikipedia


I went to the Barbican (in London, where us lot get all the films like 2 million years after everyone else...snif snif) to watch it for the 2nd time last night, and to hear Helen McCarthy comments about it.

Online Ghibli link

Wiki link

Barbican link

This time round i found many more flows in the films, and the layers of cultural insights and references to some extended research McCarthy must have undertook, deeply helped to expand my opinions about the film.

I didnt like it more or less than before, but i appreciated it for different reasons (i.e: the gorgeous Ghibli backgrounds almost did not fit anymore, i felt as if Hayao had directed the 1st half and his son took over for the 2nd...It also seemed to me that Hayao was very clumsy when he tried to "copy" his dad's moral values (the farming happy lifestyle bit, the need for a balance concept)
When however his own style seemed more stretched towards darker, grimmer, more disturbed and horror like ideas, i loved his dragons fight, and the neurotic spooky bits where Arren wanders scared of his soul....

Anyway the Ghibli standards are not meant for me.
But i appreciate that for once we hear and see about drugs, depression, neurotic children missing overworked and distant father figures (a massive problem that has changed the face of family life in Japan for decades and with which consequences are only being dealt with now.) I mean the heavily high suicide rate amongst teenagers Japan reached in the 90s has led to major rethinking of educational values, and work ethics with the younger culture....

So Goro is trying to break the censorship usually surrounding "negative" issues in Japan..
i hope he'll do more gory stuff next time!!!!

But what did you think of it? I'd love to hear some different opinions about it....Debate is open...your turn
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Is it the Who or the What?

Jacques Derrida

Wikipedia link

(a french philospher renowned for having initiated the Deconstuction philosophy movement) asked that question in an interview when prompted to reflect on the nature of Love.

Youtube link

If you consider that emotions are all but chemical reactions in the brain, releasing some kind of hormones or other and initially provoked by external stimuli, somehow Love finds itself a little demystified.

But still, if you're asking yourself what love really is, i hope this will help you as much as it did for me.





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Je travestis ma vie, ma destinee.

January 22nd 2008 09:31
Pour que les billets frais sortent avec aisance des distributeurs dans les murs, pour enlever la peur de la faim, de l'angoisse de manquer, de ne pas pouvoir payer les dus a temps, en temps et en heure.
Alors je trahis mon coeur qui a envie de danser et chanter dans un pays ou le soleil, ses couleurs et la chaleur ne se couchent jamais.
Je ne suis pas heureuse


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The Evilness in people....

September 28th 2007 22:37

Is it true that everyday has its fair share of evil?
Doesn't evil lie just as beauty, in the eye of the beholder


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Is it strikingly stupid or just coming from an ill-informed being to tag anything these days as "Underground"?

Hopefully it is just a provocation to the globally spreadable


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NETVIBES

August 25th 2007 10:52
So here we are again, sitting in front of our screens hey?
Piling the pounds whilst living the virtual life instead of "really" acting, physically living?
Well, I welcome you to my reality my friends and here is something that might help you organize your online time better. It is called


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Comment by Sandra
on Where do you get your inspiration?

January 29th 2008 10:59
It always starts with a movement for me.
When i gaze in space and let go of everything just breathing and taking all of it in. That's when the words start flowing in my mind to express the beauty and deliciousness of what im feeling.
Or it is the wind pushing a branch, or the colours of the sky or someone walking by, but you're right it's always right under my nose, or my feet...
Or it's a funny shape that takes life, in the paint on the wall, just shapes taking different forms, like ink regrouping, stains expanding but always all becoming human, alive and moving...
Thanks for this!!!!
It feels so goooooooooooooood!!!

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Comment by Sandra
on something profound

January 28th 2008 17:22
Hey Dude

It is a heavy load indeed!
But stop whacking yourself over the head, you're ok, we're only human, start actually loving yourself, kill the negativity inside you that makes you think you're worth nothing...that's abolute bollocks...the proof is you are here trying to share your experience with others...

"any kind of literature ever written, even the most censored ridden and tidious ones, is an act of generosity..."

Shit happens for sure (i.e: girlfriend issue) and we make unwise choices (i.e: taking drugs to NOT feel the pain and confusion) but what you ARE doing that's right is realize it all (3 months is quite a short time to process all this when you're drugfucked...took me years to sort out myself!!!!)
You're just moving on!

In another 3 months your life will be even better than it has ever been, it's just the rollercoster of Life.

Don't forget that after you stopped all kind of drugs it will take a whille for your brain to be able to produce Serotonin by itself again (you can quicken the process by doing loads of sport)
So if you feel down just throw yourself into something physical for bit...

For the girl...plenty fish in the sea!

Just enjoy your Life, Downs can be Godsent in disguise sometimes...

XXXX

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Comment by Sandra
on Are people the same when they are alone?

January 28th 2008 16:11
I'm actually trying to do the opposite now.

Where instead of feeling self-conscious by the presence of others and starting to ramble on some shit, i deliberately switch back to my "alone" mode, try to follow my train of thought or imaginary stuff as if i was alone.

I find that this way i'm actually more attentive to what others say and mean (it works for both inward or outward stuff) and feel more generally more aware...

You have the writer's observation disease i see?

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Whoever has the best idea i suppose. It depends

Most of the time i decide, because i plan things and S.works.

We don't have much time together even though we live together and have a 3 year old.

Most of the time we just do what we want separately in the week, as there isnt an endless variety of babysitting options at hand.
But when we do go out together it feels like we've just met and is very fun.

I couldnt drag him for runs in the forest, or on a horseback, or at raves if i gave him a million anyways!!!
And to be honest just being by myself is such a luxury these days, i treasure it!

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Comment by Sandra
on What is it that you love about the person you love?

January 28th 2008 10:24
It's funny how all my female friends are really fond of anything to do with romance until they find themselves pregnant in the kitchen and with no time or energy to pursue any of the dreams they were really yearning for when younger.
It's not that it's an illusion that is a pity, it's the conditionning that male-female get from the crib that's totally outrageous.
Everybody seems to find so "natural" when actually it needs to be thought about much more...
Thanks for the discussion Krystal always nice to share!

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Comment by Sandra
on A Notebook-The Poor Man's Laptop

January 25th 2008 15:20
I lOOoooooOOve Pens and Papers of aaaaall kinds...felt tips, ink, fountain, pencils...japanese paper, thick, colourfull, With ingraved drawings....ah! i never get enough...
Thanks to my best mate Nes that contaminated me with her dreadful stationary habit. I will get my revenge one day! Wait and see!
But you're right the simplest lined reporter's notebook( top spiral ones) are actually the ones i write the most on for some strange reason!!! They just seem to fit in every bag, the pages are easy to turn, rip and write on as the cover just flips either way...
Typing is indeed fastest but come on, who wants to carry a laptop everywhere they go? In the bus, the tube, the coffee shop, the forest?
Until they make a laptop as tiny, light as a notebook and as performant as my desktop computer i shall carry on and indulge in my stationary freakness....


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Comment by Sandra
on What are the 10 things men want most from women?

January 24th 2008 12:27
YOU should read the Female Eunuch that would simplify your life a lot.

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Comment by Sandra
on What are the 10 things men want most from women?

January 24th 2008 12:24
Why would you give a damn what a man wants in you?

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A girl is to GET OUT WHILE she STILL CAN!!!!
Freedom is what you need!!!!

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Hey Krystal!

EVERYTHING!!!
I don't think men and women were ever meant to live together as couples, it's so hard to stand someone's little habits....
I hate when he sleeps during the day, or late in the morning.(except when im writing!)
I love his delicious cooking, his tidy living, his DIYing habits...
But he's so annoying when he doesnt put things bak where they should be...
Or sulks and ignores me.
This society we live in is crazy, if thats what's love is meant to be then we have a very poor concept of it....

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