What fun this was! The old 1950s musical by Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds is a feast of joie de vivre and absurdity. And this Tête à Tête production worked like a charm, with the performers on a grassy lawn of astroturf, while some of the audience were at café tables, and others on a grassy bank. As winter approaches one can imagine that summers were always like this. A magical piano plays in the park, compelling even the policemen to dance, to say nothing of the lovers Jane and Timothy, well portrayed by Michelle Francis and Sam Harrison, with refined accents that never went over the top. They take care of the piano owned by a tramp and thaumaturge, who later turns out to be Timothy’s ‘black-sheep’ uncle. He was wonderfully well played by Matthew Hawksworth, who doubled up in other roles, such as the bishop, and danced gloriously in the choreography designed by Quinny Sacks. The dancing at one point even involved audience members, including yours truly who was gratified by congratulations from the director, Bill Bankes-Jones. His direction gave us a thoroughly enjoyable evening, and we left with spirits high despite the dismal weather outside.

I totally HEART the latest SUEDE collection of nail polishes from OPI!!

Just did my manicure & pedicure yesterday night, Shirley my manicurist told me that her new range of colours from OPI JUST arrived..WHEE!!!

& here I am with the latest SUEDE collection in Suki Skis in the Pyrenees shades on my fingers & DS Mystery on my toes!

The SUEDE collection need not apply top coat as its meant to have texture suede feel hence the series name & matte look.

The colours are totally pretty to the MAX can.. & very suitable for the upcoming Christmas mood!

Here are some pictures taken by me which do not really do justice to the pretty colours hence I attach below the actual colour palettes from the website itself

OPI colours

 my fingers with the SUEDE series

 my toe with the Christmasy purplish colour with red glitters inside & nail art with acrylic and crystals that has design like a lace! Beauty!

“Falo do amor de forma mística, sei o preço. (…) Sou muito inteligente, muito exigente e muito engenhosa para alguém ser capaz de se encarregar completamente de mim. Ninguém me conhece nem me ama completamente. Só tenho a mim” (S. de Beauvoir).

“Isso responde à pergunta que a atormentava: meu amor, você não é ‘uma coisa em minha vida’ – nem mesmo a mais importante -, porque minha vida já não me pertence, porque (…) você é sempre eu” (Sartre).

Em meio a processos, recursos e exames finais eu tento levar adiante esse meu (pequeno) projeto literário, pelo qual eu sinto muito carinho e levo comigo uma grande culpa pela falta de tempo de concluir as minhas leituras e rechear este blog mais rapidamente.

Hoje eu finalizei a leitura de “Tête-à-tête”, livro que mostra, com intimidade, a relação que existiu entre Simone de Beauvoir e Jean-Paul Sartre. Já tinha dito aqui que eu gosto muito de biografias, mas devo dizer que esta foi a que eu mais gostei de ler. Sentia muito por não estar lendo o livro quando estava ocupada com outras questões, até mesmo quando estava dirigindo! rs.

Hazel Rowley demonstrou muito cuidado na sua pesquisa para a confecção do livro: apesar de não ter sido uma das testemunhas oculares da relação Beauvoir-Sartre, ela conseguiu obter todas as informações necessárias para encantar o leitor com o seu livro (apesar de ter ouvido que o texto parecia uma tese de mestrado, eu adorei a forma de escrita dela…).

No livro nós podemos perceber a beleza e a lealdade da relação dos dois escritores, tanto entre si como com os outros amores de sua vida, os seus filhos adotivos, as causas que abraçaram – e ainda ficamos com muita vontade de devorar os livros deles, no meu caso, especialmente, os de Beauvoir.

Apesar de algumas desavenças e outros atritos do chamado “Grupo Sartreano” não são páreo para destruir a imagem que eu tinha deles; muito pelo contrário, se solidificou em mim uma representação linda deles dois, da França, dos livros, dos intelectuais, dos movimentos socias que antigamente davam sentido à sociedade.

Bom demais, lindo demais, ótimo!

O livro é encontrado nas livrarias pelo preço médio de R$ 70.

I had a makeover yesterday & I totally love my makeover!
Honestly, I haven’t been dolling myself up of late and it’s nice to look pretty again.
Hehehe.
The makeup artist is really helpful and skillful too!
She also gave me some of her exclusive cosmetics that are imported from US.
They’re really pretty! I will post up some more updates and details in early December.
Stay tuned!
Meanwhile, here is a picture taken during the makeover!
Special thanks for Buttons for helping me with the photo. :p

I really love Button’s Casio camera too!
Look at his makeup function, makes my skin looks SUPER smooth and good!

Here is Buttons and I having our early dinner at a nearby hawker centre.
We were both STARVING after the makeover!!
Buttons loves me and his ah-pek kopi. :p
I love Buttons and my cute shoes!

We celebrated my Mommy’s birthday couple days ago too.
Hope Mommy will always be so young, pretty and healthy forever!
LOVE MOMMY!

Kushin-Bo has some promotion going on right now.

Think it’s about 20 bucks for lunch.

So cheap!

We still thought it’s gonna be $40+ per head.

We’re the leading team for now, and we’re already hit 100% of our target.

I wonder where we’re going for our next half-day incentive…… hmmm, should be The Line!

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Barely a week ago, I blogged that I felt lucky & INDEED!!! my lucky stars are blinking non stop at me!! I received this email in my inbox…! *heh*

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How cool rito!!?? Im so looking forward to getting my hands on the Perfect Renew set & start using it!.. I wanna wave bye bye to my dark eye rings!!! PLS!!!!!!!!!!!

I need this product NOW!!!

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