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Monday, May 3, 2010

12:40 AM

hmm so I was reading news on thevine.com.au and this french burqa thing caught my eye.
The vine isn't the best place for news, its better for tech and fashion articles and updates or reviews but anyway.

So the story was that the french have banned muslim women wearing the burqa hijab..thingo..I'm sorta confused what the difference is...let me look it up.

OKAY!
hijab is just the head scarf
and burqa is the floor length cloth thing with the slitty eye hole to see fru. (huh..they wear clothes under that..id never really thought about it..i subconsciously thought they were nekid under there)

anyway..I'm confused as to whether it's been banned or not but the burqa's are definitly banned in schools (turkey too). I've tried looking it up but it looks as though it's still being debated. The French say they're doing it because they're a secular society and is unfair for women blabityblahblah
just watch the video:

There. NOW...i had made my mind up once i read the title of the article in the vine. I completely disagree with this. People should be allowed to express their faith and if they really didn't want to wear it they wouldn't but I'm sure that lots of Muslim women WANT to wear it. How would you feel if you were fined every time you wore a cross or a pentagram (yes they are the only 2 religious symbols i can think of atm lol). So unfair.

So i was going to blog about this a lot earlier because I mentioned it to my mum and she said it was GREAT and good on them. WTF and she started spouting a bunch of racist remarks. fucking retard. About how they're scary and ugly and I got SOOOOOO angry because she didn't even care about their right to dress however the fuck they want. *twitch* I mean..sure, they do look kinda freaky and at night if its dark you don't really see them coming BUT whatever, that doesn't mean that I think they should be FORCED to wear other stuff.
On another note, how awesome was the hint of that guys accent in the vid...some sort of British accent maybe? I loved how he said Muslim..haha and France
haha its really kinda aussie at times..and then he's all FRaunceee
teheeee

What else did I read that was fucking RETARDED...oh right. a blind guy got banned from going into a restaurant because the waiter thought his guide dog was GAY. Some bullshit about how he overheard the blind dude and his ladyfriend talking about how the got the dog neutered (and somehow this translated to the waiter thinking the dog was neutered so that he would turn gay)...how offensive, on several levels. Anyway..they got sued and blind guy got like $1500 i think..so u know..at least its something.

people are stupid *sigh*

And something kool:
There was a "hidden" restaurant in melb for the last two weeks and if u found where it was and got the contact details and u ordered (and managed to get fru) when u got to the restaurant it was FREE. It was all about testing a type of marketing. I think that's pretty wicked..I WANT FREE PIZZA. Apart from a pretty niffty idea the restaurant itself was really swanky XD It was eco friendly so everything was recycled and they grew their own basill..and yer LOOK:

"about 500 pizzas a night, served in sturdy bags made from hand-stitched recycled paper along with a glass of home-made lemonade in a recycled jam jar."

How awesome is that XD
But alas the dream is dead fair Horacio
no I have no idea what that means.
If you wanna check out their site it's: Hidden Pizza.

ANDDDD for a new topic all together. The Spanish Film Festival is on all of May. I miss foreign films or art house films in general..anything not Hollywood really. Far out their sucky and predictable. There are SOOOO many awesome directors out there, anywho i really wanna go so at least one...STUPID MONEY whyyyy WHY DO I NEED U FOR EVERYTHING. I only saw one film last year (frm the festival). It was kinda fucked...but still interesting. It has been FAR too long since I've gone to Dendy's in newtown =[

Hmm speaking of spanishy-latin things I went dancing today with Michelle, finally. It's been over a month since I go..i think. Been busy =[
As usual, it was fun ^.^ We have a performance in two weeks...ugh. So far, from what I gather, I'm only in one dance because I missed out on learning the stompy one. hehe its heaps fast but it's looking pretty good THEY HAVE STICKS WITH a TINY WHIP AT THE ENDDDD. I think Marissa said we're performing the ones from the last performance..but err I already forget them..so uhm I think we're in shit..lol We have one lesson left to get everything down and then we perform...WAIT no..2 more lessons..since the performance is Friday the 28th in Granville somewhere at night. Again its some church thing...ehh..but there will be food and DANCINGGGG till midnight lol. and then another performance the next day around 4pm =]

SO yesterday was free comic book day. I woke up late and had to tell tim to go without me..lol so I missed out on the liverpool section. I met up with everyone (tim uly katie jamie rania elizabeth and..another girl i 4get her name, and ulys lady person friend) in parra. Chipped in for Tim's sonic screwdriver. Saw Thomas at Socrates, he's lovely. Went to the pet store. Trained it to the city, went to kunikunya? i cant spell it..or say it. You know, that big book store near town hall. There was the coolest darlek costume (from Dr Who..again I can't spell) but seriously, it was awesome, it could have been from the show...did not look homemade at all...I doubt it was. Then went to kings comics. Got tickets for iron man. Got my chicken burger at starbar. Watched Iron Man2. I fell asleep several times..b4 it even started haha. I missed parts of the actual movie too...it was meh. Too many explosions..and annoying characters. FUCK iron mans a dick. Scarlet was hot..evil dude was pretty kool looking...erm..yer not interesting. Trained it to Birrong with tim to go to his workmates bday. He looked bored. I had awesome fun times playing Taboo. Tim sucks for not wanting to. AND ZAHT was my day yesterday.

He hit me in the face with it =.= IT HURT.

anywhoozles
Im gona..watch community :S
lol i dislike it..but I'm up to episode 10 already, may as well finish it.

TA!
OHH and I answered some more formspring stuff..ask me more if u want
http://www.formspring.me/DewxDrops
xx
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& Kitty goes MeOw.

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Español.

So one day I was hanging out with Kurt and we realised that there are some pretty wacky sayings in the spanish language. Each Spanish speaking country has their own sayings, metaphors and similies but these are a few that I have collected over the last year or so. Every time I hear my mum or grandma say a new one I text Kurt XD It has become somewhat of a little tradition for me now =]

Saying: La negrita astuta vende fruta.
Direct Translation: The (Astute, cunning, sly, crafty, fraudulent) cute/little black girl sells fruit.
Meaning: This saying is said as a sort of warning that you are/someone else is a cocktease

Saying: No calientes el agua (si no vas a tomar té)
Direct Translation: Don't heat the water if you're not going to drink tea
Meaning: This is also a sort of warning to someone who is being a cocktease. Kind of like, don't flirt and lead someone on if you have no intention of hooking up with them. It is also a play on words because in Spanish (Chilean at least) the word calentar (to heat) is also used informally as a way to say 'make horny'. So 'estoy caliente' = I'm hot BUT it means I'm horny. If you wanted to say I'm hot (because of the weather) you would say 'tengo calor'

Tongue Twister: Tres tristes tigres trigo trillaron tranquilos tragaron
Translation: Three sad tigers, wheat they threshed (To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating), calmly they swallowed.

Tongue Twister:Pedro Pablo Pérez Pereira pobre pintor portugués pinta paisajes por poca plata para pasar por París
Translation: Pedro Pablo Pérez Pereira poor Portugese painter paints landscapes for little money to pass through Paris.

Saying:Buscarle la quinta pata al gato
Direct Translation:To look for the 5th leg of the cat
Meaning: Looking for problems when there clearly aren't any in that situation, so you're over thinking it and overcomplicating yourself.

Saying: Para ser bella hay que ver estrellas
Direct Translation: To be beautiful you have to see stars
Meaning: I'm guessing this is a fairly old saying because my grandad said it to me once, I kind of fell in love with this little rhyme/mantra. It means that no pain is too great to endure in order to look your best, this particularly refers to women having to wear painful shoes (stilettos) because it makes their legs look hot, wearing tight clothing to show off curves, waxing, plucking, dying hair, and I suppose nowadays you could extend that into getting cosmetic surgery. Just to clarify, my grandad wasn't a dick, I remember the saying coming up because we were watching a show with really attractive women and I was in awe of them and he explained that constructed superficial beauty comes at a price =) Oh and if you don't get the imagery, it's based on seeing "stars" when you hit your head/get dizzy, like if you've ever seen the cartoon representation of stars around the head when they get hit.

*To be continued