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• ONCE

  Sunday, Jul 15, 2007 11:21AM / Standard Entry

  i just watched the most amazing movie...it's called "Once" and it's this beautiful irish movie that's a lovely story told almost as a musical...i'd seen the trailer and i knew i wanted to catch it and i was worried i had missed it by the time i got back to la...but i didn't.  and it just...you feel so peaceful and happy and hopeful while you watch the movie...i cried, but then again, i'm told i cry at any and all movies.  but i loved the music and they were so passionate and full of heart and love and it made you look at love and life in a different way, how things don't always work out the way you want, think, hope, and that you can't have everything, but you can remember, and enjoy every moment you have with someone who comes into your life for a certain purpose, time...and i just left wishing that everyone i knew could go watch this lovely independent film...i bought the soundtrack too and so now i know i'll be playing it 24/7 til it's engrained in my head and i'm playing out scenes in my head that are driven by the songs, the feelings they stir up inside of me...perhaps it's the dancer in me, that always whenever i hear any music i choreograph, create, move to express what i feel when i hear that piece...i hope that all who get the chance, get to watch "Once" or that you look for it and find it and enjoy it as much as i did...i'm very happy now just thinking about it...

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• i'm so lucky

  Wednesday, Jul 4, 2007 9:39PM / Standard Entry

  you know, i realized again today, just how very lucky i am...all of my life, i've had special friends, people who have entered my life, been there for me, supported me, cared for me, cheered me on when i had no idea what i was doing where i was going, people who took me in and loved me...i've been truly blessed...
  just these past few months, i've gotten to know the alive not dead people, and they have become good friends too.  good people, all of them.  and the people i've met on this site, have all been so kind, so friendly, thank you...
  today, i had a photo shoot, and i got to know the photographer, ania, a bit more, and i also met this amazing jewelry designer who, besides being an incredible talent, has the hugest heart of gold.  now, i've not exactly been the religious sort, but i do believe there is something spiritual out there, inside all of us, governing everything we do...and this woman, gosia, was like an angel/spirit/fairy that was sent to me at just the right moment...actually, if it were my choice, i'd have met her ages ago, cuz i wish so much we had had all the time that was already past...but i'm so very grateful that i met her today, now, and that from this point on, she'll be in my life...it's like somebody out there KNEW i needed her this very day...and she was, and she made me feel safe, happy, loved, and stronger...
  everything happens for a reason...sometimes i hate that saying...other times, i just have to give into it...and KNOW, that it's true...and be, if not happy about that, at least ok...
  today, i felt extreme happiness during our drive to and from the shoot...we just talked endlessly, honestly, truthfully, soulfully, and i cry at the thought...of how lucky i am...i've had the best friends in the world...
  
  
  
  

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• july 1st

  Monday, Jul 2, 2007 6:29AM / Standard Entry

  so i'm not normally one of those ooh i gotta watch fireworks people.  but last night, i was invited to a party at the intercontinental which has the loveliest view right on the harbour and i felt like i couldn't pass it up. however, the journey to get to this party was far from easy.  way too far from easy.  the taxi didn't even want to venture from the hong kong side over to the kowloon side. well, especially at my last minute hour.  i got in the car at 7 and uh, since the fireworks were supposedly starting at 8, the people were just piling up in the streets, not to mention the street closures everywhere...by the time i got to the kowloon side, it was madness.  he dropped me off what seems like in shenzhen and i had to crawl thru the crowds to get to the hotel.  in a dress.  with heels.  not fun.  but, somehow i made it there literally within minutes of the fireworks, thanks to the usual delays, and got to view the loveliest site ever with the most gorgeous harbour in the world...which is exactly what the hong kong harbour is. i don't think there's another skyline more gorgeous.  i looked down to the crowds down there along the water, and remembered that ten years ago, i was down there with my cousins, all young and free and running happily in the rain that night to watch the handover...it's amazing how time flies...so much has taken place in these past ten years...as i watched the sky light up in front of me, i missed all of my family spread out throughout the world...and i said little sweet nothings out to them, wishing them happiness, and kissing them in my dreams...
  
  

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• kindergarten graduation

  Friday, Jun 29, 2007 12:38AM / Standard Entry

  so i just got back from shanghai where my little twin nieces had a kindergarten graduation that was a bit too little miss sunshine for my taste...it was a crazy variety show-like production.  i mean, i don't even remember HAVING a kindergarten graduation...this was seriously way too extreme.  i think, it was just a way for all of those teachers to get to karaoke in front of a huge audience.  it did, after all, take place in this hugeass coliseum.  jeez.  the production was literally two and a half hours long.  what 6-year old has that type of attention span? what ADULT does?  i must say tho, that my twins were definitely the cutest and most adorable ones out there!  hehe.  we waved, they waved, we howled, which, i think scared the other parents...haha.  my mom, my sister, and i just hooted like some psycho cheerleaders at a football game...probably inappropriate.  but oh well...but again, seriously?  what's with the over-the-top production for kindergarten? my brother's COLLEGE graduation wasn't this intense...i think we could've made a few great indie movies with the budget spent on that graduation show i just saw.  crazy.  it was good to see the girls though.  it was some good lovin'.  showered me with wet kisses and tight hugs and giggles all around.  i think i was born to entertain them with silly faces.  they just keep asking for more. now who doesn't want to hear "encore!"  hehe.  so sweet...so sweet...i miss them   that was my first time using a little face thing. i LOVE those little faces!!  i actually know people who LOOK like some of those faces...ok, tangent.  this is what was NOT great...flight delays from shanghai.  waiting in a horrible airport for 6 hours eating pack after pack of duty free store chestnuts...not good.  i think it's time to sleep.  now i'm just delirious...
  
  

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• babies

  Sunday, Jun 24, 2007 6:45AM / Standard Entry

  i'm going to shanghai to see my cousin's little 6-year old twins graduate from kindergarten...i never knew they HAD ceremonies for that, but apparently they do...and i'm going...cuz how cute is that?  they're so sweet over there when i call them and they ask am i coming in their sweet voices so pure, so smart at such a young age...they make me melt. 
  last nite i saw a friend of mine and their little 1-year old who was so gorgeous, all big-eyed curious, full of life, filled with so much love coming at her from all directions.  everytime she smiled, everytime she laughed, or giggled, pointed, did ANYTHING, it was a miracle, a joy, something appreciated by all of us...that's what's so wonderful about babies...they just make you forget everything else and focus on this gorgeous creation so innocent and with so much to experience, live, learn...so much to look forward to...
  i can see in my friends how much they've changed since having her...a peace...a true, true happiness...a focus no longer on themselves and little petty things...all they want is to be able to NOT miss anything in their little girl's life...it's lovely, really...
  to everyone who has children, i know it's THE hardest job in the world.  harder than any movie role, any day, hands down...and i commend you...for giving your everything to your child, for making them first, for figuring it out, when there are no rules, no guidelines...you're all amazing...and thank you...
  
  
  

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