Audrey Hepburn's favorite poem.

Unending Love.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,

That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age-old pain,

It’s ancient tale of being apart or together.

As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,

Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:

You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.

At the heart of time, love of one for another.

We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same

Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-

Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you

The love of all man’s days both past and forever:

Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.

The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –

And the songs of every poet past and forever.

— Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, written in 1890).

Well I never...

Over the past few days I've been thinking about it, & the time has come (as the walrus said), to start applying for (media-based-preferably within PR) internships!
 This means that today I'll be re-looking at my CV, crafting an interesting, yet informative cover letter (I hope!) & applying to anything that looks interesting!
 Although, because the competition is bound to be pretty tough, I think I'm going to have to come up with a more creative way of marketing myself, AKA not using the standard CV format...This will inevitably lead to several spider diagrams!  
 All the thinking I've been doing about applying for internships & shizzle has, in turn, led me to thinking about what to wear to interviews, etc...

If I had a decent wage (*sigh*), I would fully be clicking 'buy' on this right now! & maybe this one... but I'm not sure if it's a little too messy? I suppose it would depend on what the company was like. But I really do love a nice dress - it's so effortless to create a 'look', yet can seem really put-together & professional. Laaavely!

Oh! Something else I decided to blog about today, was inspired by an old women who came into work - she had the most lovely, old-fashioned voice, that really reminded me of old movie stars such as Audrey Hepburn. 

 And! I've just found out from Wikipedia, she recorded a spoken-word CD in 1992 featuring classic children's stories. It sounds amazing! Almost as good as being read a story by Stephen Fry;

 Just reading about Audrey on Wikipedia is making me want to rent all of her other films (the only one I've seen so far was Breckfast at Tiffany's).
I suppose, until then, I will have to make-do with a book I've borrowed from Lyzz, by Stephen Fry called The Liar. Will let you know my thoughts on the book soon!

xo 

Asher Roth

One more swift Youtube video - it's Asher Roth doing a Radio 1 live lounge version of his single "I love college".
I think the best part is just how much he's smiling throughout the whole thing! Cute.




xo

Example/Ke$ha.

It's terrible - over the past few days, I keep thinking of things to blog about, but haven't been near my computer, or have just been doing other things! So, I've been (slightly genius-ly) making notes on my phone :)
So I think I'll put them in separate posts, to make things easier...
Anyways;
Firstly was something I came across on youtube;


It's Example covering Ke$ha's Tic Tok in the Radio 1 Live Lounge, which I thought was pretty ace!
Although it's embarrassing to admit, I quite like the original, but this version is a really nice contrast.

xo

Plans & Such.

Found out a minute ago, we will spend (on average) 25 years of our life asleep. 7% of this we spend dreaming.
That's just under two years of our lives spent in dream land...or, if I'm counting myself, it's probably a hellofa lot more than that, given to the amount of time I spend daydreaming! Ha.

I reckon this would be a fun dream;

Anyways...what else have I been up to, I hear you ask! I've now been at my new job for two whole weeks! I'm working at Office, in London & it's pretty sweet! Just waiting to be paid so that I can start (ab)using my staff discount!
These are the ones I've currently got my beady eyes on:

For play -

For work - 

Laaavely! 

In other news, Lyzz (who is living with me at the moment - beautiful times!) & I have seen rather a lot of Elephants! 

Lyzz with an elephant outside Harrods.

& inside Selfridges.

Nothing else too major to report...apart from when Lyzz & I were at Danni's flat a couple of nights ago, Danni started drawing in Lyzz's foot...long story short, she drew the most amazing picture on one of my feet, & as soon as I have some money to my name (probably August time I reckon) I'm going to have it (or something very similar) tattooed! Very exciting(!)

Danni did illustration at uni & if you like, you can see more of her work here: coroflot.com/daniellecurtis

xo

The Greek.

Recently I've been reading My Sisters Keeper, a book (& now a film) by Jodi Picoult.
The books basically about a child who was genitally made in order to save her older sister, who has leukemia. It raises several different & difficult issues regarding morals & ethics surrounding things like test-tube babies, stem cell research, etc.
The book overall, I thought, was good in that it taught me a lot about the legal issues regarding morals & ethics, as well as the medical concerns about things such as stem cells, as well as how diseases like leukemia are treated.
 The only problem I had was that you could see the logical ending to the book, which stopped me from enjoying it as much as I could have. However, it was very well written & because there were a couple of unanswered questions which did keep me reading 'till the end.
 One thing that I did really enjoy about the book, was that the father was a keen armature astronomer & every now & again, it would tie-in a story about greek mythology.
One of the stories I enjoyed most, I have decided to share here;

Fire & hope are connected. The way the Greeks told it, Zeus put Prometheus & Epimetheus in charge of creating life on earth. Epimetheus made the animals, giving out bonuses like swiftness and strength & fur & wings. By the time Prometheus made man, all the best qualities had been given out. He settled for making them walk upright, & he gave them fire.

Zeus, pissed off, took it away. But Prometheus saw his pride & joy shivering & unable to cook. He lit a torch from the sun & brought it to man again. To punish Prometheus, Zeus has him chained to a rock, where an eagle fed on his liver. To punish man, Zeus created the first woman - Pandora - & gave her a gift, a box, she was forbidden to open.

 Pandora's curiosity got the best of her, & one day she opened that box. Out came the plagues & misery & mischief. She managed to shut the lid tight before hope escaped. It's the only weapon we have left to fight the others.

This, I like. I think the Greeks had a lot of really cool stories to explain things they didn't understand. I might have a look at some more sometime.
Whaddya think?
xo

Shit my Dad says.

On Twitter I follow an account called "Shit my Dad says", & have always thought it's absolutely hilarious! (twitter.com/shitmydadsays)
The story behind it all is pretty simple - a guy (Justin Halpern - who is also, as Wikipedia refers to him, a "semi-employed comedy writer"), who lives with his 74 year old father & tweets the funny things his dad comes out with!
A small sample of the delightful quotes you can expect;

"I don't want your advice, you're 27 fucking years old...Fine. I don't want your advice, you're 29 fucking years old."


"I didn't say you were ugly. I said your girlfriend is better looking than you, and standing next to her, you look ugly.


"Don't mess with him...Trust me, you don't fuck with a man that sleeps next to a woman he never screws. They're unpredictable."


"The worst thing you can be is a liar....Okay fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but THEN, number two is liar. Nazi 1, Liar 2"


Ahh, I could read these all day. But I should probably stop now. 
Okay, one more...


"I turn the kitchen faucet on and the shower burns you, yes, I get it...No, I'm not gonna stop, I'm just saying yes, I get that concept."


Lovelovelove it! Get a'followin' now! (& if you fancy it, follow me at the same time - twitter.com/starry___eyed)


Oh! I just remembered the original point I was going to make about all this - not only has Justin Halpern written a book (with the same title), but there is now going to be a TV show based on the Twitter feed, starring William Shatner!! Absolutely mental. 


Honestly, I'm not too sure if it's going to be any good or not, but I guess I'll just have to wait 'till it comes on TV over here slash is available for downloading!  


This is the trailer:







What do you reckon? Gonna be any good?

xo

Ps. Have just found the website - definitely worth a look - shitmydadsays.com