FUNNY MOVIE: The Switch

This movie is hilarious. The topic of the movie is a little strange and looking at it, you might think it could be quite uncomfortable to watch. It is really funny, however, and the creators have done a wonderful job of making it an enjoyable movie to watch. Special mention to the little boy in the film, Sebastien played by Thomas Robinson - he is absolutely adorable and so so so amusing, he will most definitely make you laugh. Anyone seen the movie? What did you think?

DAILY OUTRAGE: Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster

Tell me, how on earth did Zoe Foster get a ripper of a funny boyfriend as Hamish Blake? Well done to her.

PHOTO EXHIBITION: Hello Beach

Friday night was a new but interesting experience. I was part of a photography charity exhibition for my parents Rotary Club. They were raising money for street kids in the Philippines for an organisation called Bahay Tuluyan, you can view their website here. If anyone is interested in buying any of them, it can be arranged! haha
Excitingly, I sold one photo! Quite a thrill - was very happy about it :-) Below are the photos I had for sale:

DIVINE VIDEO CLIPS: Angus & Julia Stone

I am a bit of an information junkie, if someone is the flavour of the month, I'll look them up on Wikipedia to find out more about them. So with all the ARIA hype while on Wikipedia, I was looking up Angus and Julia Stone. I came across news of an acoustic cover they had done of "Your're the One That I Want." from the movie Grease. I am not a massive fan of the film, however, I think the Stone's cover is lovely and flows well.
According to Wiki it has, "proved to be a cult hit with fans."



Also how absolutely gorgeous is this videoclip by them - the scenery in it is spectacular. It is always good when an artists wins heaps of awards and you rediscover their music. Angus and Julia Stone will be great car music today.

JUNIOR MASTERCHEF: Little Siena

Little Siena is my favourite contestant on Junior Masterchef. For a 9 year old, she is a phenomenal - she speaks very well and cooks the most intricate, complicated and amazing meals. The cutest was when they had a scrambled egg challenge and she said, 'I'm pretty confident about this because I cook scrambled eggs every Sunday morning for breakfast.' She also loves cooking so much, she started up a 'Cooking Club' with her friends where she shows them how to make some of her favourite meals. My mother and I can't help going, 'Ohhhh she's so cute, she's so nice to the other kids,' every time we watch her. Take a look at her gorgeous manner in the video below - let's hope the little star wins!

NEW SONG: Lissie, 'When I'm Alone'

I'm really enjoying the sound of this new singer Lissie. It is hard to pin point her sound however Wikipedia (source of all irrelevant knowledge in this world) says that she is 'folk, rock, country' if you can make any sense out of that. I really like the nervous sort of feel to the start of the song coupled with her strong voice. It kind of reminds me of good background music, the other night while doing the dreaded task of doing the dishes I had her on the background through her myspace and really enjoyed her songs. Have a listen and tell me what you think.



Lyrics

I turned my back you were gone in a flash like you always do, you've always gone off somewhere else. And when the phone rang and I thought it was you and I sprung like a kid who just got out of school but its almost, always never you, never you. I scream like a child, my insides went wild

And when I'm alone with you, you make me feel and you make me feel.
When I'm alone with you, you are the one and you are the one.

And when I reach out and I only grab air and it kills me to think that you never did care and it's hopeless you've always run off somewhere else and I'm throwing a tantrum. Why are you such a phantom?

And when I'm alone with you, you make me feel and you make me feel.
When I'm alone with you, you are the one and you are the one.

And when I'm alone with you, you make me feel and you make me feel.
When I'm alone with you, you are the one and you are the one.

Reminds me of home when you're around me.Next time you leave don't go without me. No, don't go. N-no. Yeah!

Cuz you make me feel, you make me feel, that you are the one, you are the one.
And when I'm alone with you, you make me feel and you make me feel. Yeah when I'm alone with you you are the one and you are the one.

Oh, oh, owoah. Oh yeah.
oh oh, uh uh, oh oh, uh uh, oh oh, uh oh,
oh oh, uh uh, oh oh, uh uh, oh oh, uh oh,
oh oh, o o, oh oh, o o, oh oh, ohoooo, oh ay
And when I'm alone with you, you make me feel and you make me feel.

MY MELBOURNE CUP PHOTOS

Yes, I'll admit it - I wore the same dress to the Melbourne Cup as I did to Cox Plate - naughty, naughty! But I am going to 4 of the big days this year so thought I had to economise somewhere along the way and I quite like the brightness of the red dress in photos. The day was terrific, about a week and a half before I brought reserved seat tickets that were the last ones left on the Ticketmaster website. And to my absolute surprise we were seated right opposite the finish line. In my opinion, we could not have had better views of the action, especially as it was the 150th anniversary of the cup. Luckily, I had placed a bet on all three winners from doing my research the night before finding out who the big punters, people who put the likes of $800,000 on a horse, were betting on. 

Shivering in the rain

It bucketed down before the big race, so Caitltn and I had to snuggle up under the umbrella

The sea of umbrellas came up when it rained before the main race

Some young boys prefer to be drenched and are too cool to bring umbrellas

Just a photo taken in the ladies toilets

There goes Americain

View from the our seats of the finishing line

RACES PHOTOS: Cox Plate Race Day

Here are a few snaps from the races last Saturday. I had a fabulous day with friends at the Cox Plate races at Moonee Valley and even bet on the trifecta, my favourite horse Whobegotyou was in it too!

DAILY LOVE SNIPPETS

I am a big fan of receiving my Daily Love email in my inbox every evening. For those of you who don't know about it, it is just like an e-multivitamin - basically a nice message with a quote or two and affirmation sent in your email. The creator of it, Mastin Kipp, also writes a nice little message on it every day. I find the email really refreshing and mind balancing at times. Below is Mastin's message for today, I really liked it and thought it would be good to share on there as we often do forget how much control we have over our thoughts. Enjoy!

Many times we do not give ourselves enough credit for how much power we have over the course of our lives.


We outsource the cause of our suffering, grief, anger and resentment to other people, big companies, the government or a Higher Power.


But the truth is this. The way you see the world isn't how the world is - the way you see the world is how YOU are.


Since any reality can be created through the power of intention, the life you are currently living and the world you are experiencing today is totally a by product of your thoughts about life.


Choose to believe and act on the thoughts that feel the best (even if, and especially if, they seem unrealistic or impossible). Successful people don't hope or wish themselves into success. NO - they ALL persistently THINK and ACT their way to success.


Get in touch with your inspiration. Think thoughts in alignment with what inspires you. Take action from the thoughts that are in alignment with what inspires you.


Do this daily without giving up and eventually a whole new WORLD will be yours to experience.

BEST MOST INSPIRING COMMERCIAL EVER

This commercial I have forgotten about for years! Have no idea why but it popped back into my head before. So thank-you modern technology and youtube, I found it again. It is by far, the most inspiring, best commercial I have ever seen. I used to be obsessed with it when it first came out. If you need something to give you a boost for the day, I hope this is it. The ad is superb and it even features the now old golden boy of swimming, Ian Thorpe. As well as David Beckham and Muhammed Ali. Don't really like Ali's pretend camera punching though at the end. But the rest is great.



Voice over -


Some people listen to themselves
Rather than listen to what others say
These people don't come along very often
But when they do, they remind us
That once you set out on a path
Even though critics may doubt you
It's ok to believe there is no can't, won't or impossible
They remind us that it's ok to belive
Impossible is nothing

GREAT NEW SONG: Katy Perry, Firework

Heard Katy Perry's new song in the car tonight...must say it is pretty good! Perry seems to be quite a goal hitter at the moment with lots of catchy and good songs. Pity she could not be on Seasame Street, I thought the parents who got upset about her clothes must have be very thick and boring people! I've got a feeling some DJ will make a good remix to this song and no doubt it will be played on a television telecast of New Years.

Love this part of the lyrics:

You don’t have to feel like a waste of space
You’re original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow

Maybe you’re reason why all the doors are closed
So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow
And when it’s time, you’ll know

MY FRONT PAGE ARTICLE

On Saturday at midday, my old boss, rung me up as he needed an article written on an old, well known local identity who has died during last week - he also wanted an article that would give a better insight into the gregarious character of the well loved man than the competing newspaper did. I got to work on Sunday with the article and interviewed a few people as well as taking some photos of old photos of him. And to my great surprise got a lovely text message today from my friend who is the production manager saying it turned out to be a front page article! I was thrilled!

Have a read if you like, the article is on an old man called Rex 'China' Gilbert - he was big personality and cheeky character. Makes for quite an interesting article that anyone can understand.

Incredibly, a very spooky moment happened when I was at the Surf Club in their office doing an interview, an old friend of his 'Ming; rung up to see when his memorial service was on and shared some memories of China with me over the phone. This was one of those articles where I am sure there were some extra forces in the universe causing it to happen for a reason. I just have a feeling about it.

It was not printed in the article but I was told the cheeky and friendly man loved the ladies, especially air hostesses in his younger days and he would tell his grandson not too drink too much at the pub but was always the last person to leave the pub himself a little worse for wear hehe! But he was a friend to all and is expected to have thousands at his memorial service - now isn't that a beautiful reflection of living a full life, having so many people feel that you have been a friend to them? He sounded like an amazing man.

p.s. Surf Coast Times is also a highly interesting community newspaper - worth having a look at :-)

QUOTE-A-THON - A fun blog find

There is this fun blog I've been following called Bits of Truth...All Quotes - it basically has photos of quotes and pictures, like the ones you see in giftware shops to give your Grandmother to put on her fridge but a little bit more daring and fun.

Take a look at her blog, it's FANTASTIC and a good bit of daily inspiration and below are some good ones I've picked out for you.

OVERRATED: UCI World Championships

Does anyone follow the cycling?
Last week the UCI World Championships were on in Geelong - the area that I work in.
A month before we had had this big meeting about how they were going to cause dramas with parking and they were going to be huge, well I've got on word for you OVERRATED - parking was easy to find and it took me less than 5 minutes more to get to work, than the predicted hour it was supposed to be.
There were not a lot of people at all watching the race and most of the Geelong residents who were looked as if they were wondering around aimlessly. I was most amused though at some of the die hard fanatics who actually rode their bike to see the bike race and stood on the side lines with their bikes - quite amusing, they probably thought they were getting in on the action. I was a little confused as to who was the professional on a number of occasions but you only have to look at someones gut hanging out to realise they are an amateur. I actually didn't even know who were the famous bike riders were and what was actually going on in the races, just that we had to wait a lot longer to cross the road as they waited for the riders to scoot up.
At a local park in Geelong there were all these gorgeous little food stands including Spanish, Chinese, Mauritian, Mayalsian etc, over 15 of them, but the poor things were not busy at all and there were hardly any customers.
Yes the race was great for future tourism but the television coverage made Geelong look prettier than it is and a lot busier. I hardly saw the race in the news either, it just seems like the cycling was as popular as lawn bowls.
Personally I just found the whole thing annoying. No more bike riders please.

Please note = These are views from Wednesday to Friday supposedly on the weekend, 150,000 went to watch.

Very little crowds turned out to watch the UCI World Champions. Photos thanks to Geelong Advertiser.

THE JASMINE FILES: Part 2

More photos of the lovely Jasmine - she is a natural born model!

Just a funny one of the cheeky girl!

THE STYLISH BLOGGER AWARD: 6 Bloggers you should get on to!

I just received the stylish blogger award and I've only been blogging about a month but must admit, I love it! I am addicted at the moment, it is so much fun and so inspiring. I seriously go to bed thinking of blog ideas and it has got me away from checking Facebook - which is a good thing because Facebook can get a bit toxic and pointless at times.

A HUGE thanks to Becks and The City who passed on this award. She runs an awesome blog that is definetely worth having a look at. She interviews all sorts of journalists/magazine writers and makes a superbly interesting blog.By day, she works as a a mediator for Consumer Affairs. Yet by night, she lives out her passion as a magazine writer and non-fiction author which one day soon she will do full time.

As a part of my acceptance I must reveal 5 secrets about myself/blog.

1. I am secretly the writer of this post about an Anoyomous person who did work experience at Cosmopolitan magazine, supposedly once people at the magazine discovered it a few weeks ago, it was the 'buzz at ACP'

Haha a work shot, "Hello...I'm so friendly, please buy"

2. I used to be a journalist, I don't work as one at the moment but desperate to go back into it.

3. My middle name is Tabitha and no, it is not a witches or cats name.

4. I once talked my way into an opening night at a nightclub with a hugely long line that myself and 5 other girls were at the end of, by ripping out my journalist business card and asking i the "media" got preferential entry!

5. I don't like my job at the moment and spend a lot of time quickly checking the hits on my blog and trying to write some quick/entertaining posts so PLEASE comment if you can - it makes my day, seriously.
(but my photo on the left is one of my work shots for their catalogue)

Now, like the Olympic Torch, I must pass on the award to 6 other AMAZING and INSPIRING bloggers. Thought I would write a little review about their blogs too.

1. Laura Valerie from Life Beauty Laughter
This is one of my favourite blogs ever! It inspires me so much, Laura is an aspiring writer but judging from her blog she is going to go far from her incredible way with words and sense of knowing what readers respond to. She has an amazing eye for picking out things that are beautiful, touching and inspiring. Her posts often leave me with something to think about. If there is a blog that I'm hanging out to read the next post of, this is it! And if you are going to read any blog today, read this one, it's good for your soul.
I have to agree with blog heroine Sarah Wilson who mentioned her on her blog, she has a (exceptionally) nice eye for photos.

2. Stephanie Baker from Another Refreshing Creation 
Stephanie is an amazing friend of mine. She has done many extraordinary things with her life, including working as a model in London which included making some celebrity friends and having a cheeky pash with a few too! We both kicked started our blogs around the same time and Steph's posts are always interesting, fun and cool - she doubts herself but she is actually a bloody good writer and her posts are easy to read and enjoy. She's definetly very talented!

3. Onika from A Freckle to The Left
I really like this blog. It is an awesome mix of fun, fashion and generally interesting things. Onika seems to have a good sense of humour too and a fun/cool/cheeky/smart vibe to her posts with great taste in photos. This woman is on the ball! 

4. Aspiring Domestic Goddess from Domestic Divinity
I don't know what it is about this blog, but I love reading her posts. She has a fantastic layout, amazing taste in fashion in a cool way where she puts up photos of what she is wearing, she gives us cool like insights into her life and writes interesting things. 

5. Becky Catto-Smith from Lyrics of Louise
Becky has an impeccable eye for fashion, her blog has been growing in popularity. I am not a huge fan of fashion blogs as I try to look for different things but this is one Fashion blog that is easy to enjoy, has interesting posts and Becky keeps up to date with what is going on in the fashion world in Melbourne. I'm sure it won't be long before we see her win Cosmo's Fun Fearless Female best blogger award!

6. Celeste from Melbourne Dating Chronicles
Girls will love this blog. Celeste only has a few posts but so far, I've loved ever one of one. She writes about her dating life in a really fun, interesting and cheeky way. Her latest post about the Ex-Footballer I was engrossed in and it left me shocked with my jaw dropping literally - a must read, fantastic! I've already recommended it to three other girls who have come back to me and said that they love it.

FAVOURITE SPOT: Bondi Icebergs

One of my favourite spots has to be Bondi Icebergs. The view is gorgeous and the place has an amazing energy. The restaurant is divine and superb but reflecting the location, pricey. So if you ever go there and don't want to spend up big but still enjoy the view, go for a coffee and order their polenta chips of the snacks menu - they are scrumptious! You can sit and appreciate the stunning views, watch the surfers and there is even a little balcony you can sit on (if you are out with smokers this is good too!)

Where is your favourite spot?

Here are some snaps:

The view from the balcony

The view over Bondi

STEVIE WONDER: Cheesy birthday songs

If you want to humour your friends with a cheesy song for their birthday, send them this... (or just post it on their YouTube page)
I have memories of dancing around rooms hysterically to this song, it's just so amausing!




The lyircs are quite funny too, you can find there here. 

EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING: You better believe it

This is a real photo that I took last year driving past Jan Juc one day. It was something that I saw that it was too iresistable not to get out of the car to take it.

Thought I would complement the photo with a gorgeous poem...

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

LIONEL RITCHIE: What!?!

Why on earth did they choose Lionel Ritchie to sing at the second Grand Final on Saturday?

I can imagine a group of old AFL directors sitting around together talking about their CD collection and choosing Lionel Ritchie from that!

Had a bit of blonde moment and thought that Lionel Ritchie was the guy who sings Sexual Healing but google imformed me that was actually Marvin Gaye.

There are more people who are a little miffed by it than me, this is an excerpt from a HeraldSun.com.au article:

It seems there are plenty of people out there who think the commodore of croon is not the one we're looking for when it comes to our AFL grand final entertainment.


''I'm pretty surprised they didn't go for an Australian act,'' said Nick O'Byrne, general manager of the Australian Independent Record Labels Association. ''There's an opportunity to get so many great local bands, and in the midst of (the city council's) Melbourne Music festival, and the day after the AIR awards, which are real celebrations of local music, it's a bit laughable really.'' 

Who would you like to see play at the Grand Final?

Personally I think it should be someone Australian too, these would be my personal picks if I had to choose quickly!

1. Zoe Badwi - she is cool, fun, full of energy and great dress!


2.  Sia Furler - she is an amazing singer with a great vibe about her. I liked her better though when she didn't have a fringe.

3. Michael Paynter - he is a pretty good new singer. Needs to tone it down on the facial hear though!

4. The Temper Trap - hard to go past these guys! And their music has some help from AFL who used their music in their promotional adds.