This is one of my favorite songs from Mamma Mia the Movie.....
I wasn't jelaous before we met
Now every man I see is a potential threat
And I'm possessive it isn't nice
You've heard my saying that smoking was my only vice
But now it isn't true
Now everything is new
And all I've learned has overturned
I beg of you...
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
It was like shooting a sitting duck
A little small, a smile and baby I was stuck
I still don't know what you've with me
A grown-up man should never fall so easily
I feel a kind of fear
When I don't have you near
Unsatisfied, I skip my pride
I beg you dear...
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
I've had a few little love affairs
They didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarce
I used to think that was sensible
It makes the truth even more incomprehensible
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/abba/lay+all+your+love+on+me_20002834.html
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Saturday, 10 December 2011
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09/12
Gotta Leave My Troubles Behind, Miss Li.
This song is really good and the video reminds me of a cartoon, so what's not to like ?
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Thursday, 8 December 2011
Love Quotes
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous - Ingrid Bergman.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. - Loretta Young© Taste of Kimchi, Elle
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Wednesday, 7 December 2011
60s,70s,80s and 90s
Just read a Swedish article full of generalisations it was an article about love which supposedly looks different depending on when you were born. Silly right. As for the 40ths and 50ths they seeked someone handy with the same interests and lifestyle, yes some do that regardless of when they are born. It's nothing wrong with that. The next generation the 60ths generation wanted someone that was fairly social with a stabile economy.
Anyways, it said that the 70s generation looked for eternal love, doesn't everyone ? The 80s generation placed a big importance on looks, for first impression looks may matter some but not in the long run. Not surprisingly they all agreed that happy, positive and loyal was a character trait they all wanted.
If love is percived that differently; then is someone's childhood different compared to someone born 20 years later or 30 years before ? And does it influence people differently and shape them into different people?
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Anyways, it said that the 70s generation looked for eternal love, doesn't everyone ? The 80s generation placed a big importance on looks, for first impression looks may matter some but not in the long run. Not surprisingly they all agreed that happy, positive and loyal was a character trait they all wanted.
If love is percived that differently; then is someone's childhood different compared to someone born 20 years later or 30 years before ? And does it influence people differently and shape them into different people?
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Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Seoul 2011 Part II
The following pictures are a random selection of pictures taken from different places in Seoul. All of them were of course taken by myself.
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Monday, 5 December 2011
Friendship Quotes
A friend to all is a friend to none. - Aristotle
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.- George Washington
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. - Charles Alexander Eastman
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S Lewis
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. - Dag Hammarskjold
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
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Sunday, 4 December 2011
Saturday
Universal Woman, Robyn
This song is another one of my many favorites. I thought of my 어머니 the other day and I think the maening of the song can make most women identify.
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Saturday, 3 December 2011
Immortal Ignorance
Once in a while I come face to face with; what I like to call pure ignorance ( I used to belive that it only served to remind me of my ethnic heritage) which is hard to hide from. I am well aware of my ethnicity, it's sort of unmistakable when you're living in a Western society where the majority used to be ethnic Swedes or Europeans.
These days we have many immigrants with other ethnicities, and maybe the untrained eye is fooled to believe me as an Asian immigrant or mail order bride. I'm honestly not sure.
Once in a while I hear cool teens exclaiming Chinese when they encounter me, they usually smile. When it happens I put on my mask, pretending I'm a foreigner that doesn't know any Swedish.
But a while ago I came face to face with this ignorance when I was walking home from the gym. There were some young children on bicycles accompanied by an older male which I presumed was there dad. It was kind of hard for me pass them as these children were cycling back and forth and not going straight forward. Anyways this young girl usuddenly asked:
"Are will still going to the stable ?"
"Yes we are, if we only can get passed this Chinese person." The Chinese person was me of course, there were no other people on the road other then me and definitely no other Chinese or Asian looking people.
It might seem odd, but my mum and dad have never as far as I remember and know treated me differently because of my Korean heritage. They have never been guilty of any racism although they begun telling me about my Korean birth family when I was 2 or 3 years old. Maybe it also helped that my younger brother not only was a fellow adoptee but also a KAD.
But there's still some things I still question.. like why I never was told of possabilites to learn Korean as a child. Once in grade school my teacher informed of the possabilility to study parental tongue in my class there were a few children that had to learn Finnnish. Learning Korean as a parental tongue in grade school since I didn't think you could learn your parental tongue if you were an adoptee, but also since I didn't think there would be so many other Korean adoptees.
Now I know that the school has to offer pupils the possability to learn their parental tongue if they manage to get enough interested pupils.Not even my adoptive parents knew this at the time, so I can't really blame them can I...
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These days we have many immigrants with other ethnicities, and maybe the untrained eye is fooled to believe me as an Asian immigrant or mail order bride. I'm honestly not sure.
Once in a while I hear cool teens exclaiming Chinese when they encounter me, they usually smile. When it happens I put on my mask, pretending I'm a foreigner that doesn't know any Swedish.
But a while ago I came face to face with this ignorance when I was walking home from the gym. There were some young children on bicycles accompanied by an older male which I presumed was there dad. It was kind of hard for me pass them as these children were cycling back and forth and not going straight forward. Anyways this young girl usuddenly asked:
"Are will still going to the stable ?"
"Yes we are, if we only can get passed this Chinese person." The Chinese person was me of course, there were no other people on the road other then me and definitely no other Chinese or Asian looking people.
It might seem odd, but my mum and dad have never as far as I remember and know treated me differently because of my Korean heritage. They have never been guilty of any racism although they begun telling me about my Korean birth family when I was 2 or 3 years old. Maybe it also helped that my younger brother not only was a fellow adoptee but also a KAD.
But there's still some things I still question.. like why I never was told of possabilites to learn Korean as a child. Once in grade school my teacher informed of the possabilility to study parental tongue in my class there were a few children that had to learn Finnnish. Learning Korean as a parental tongue in grade school since I didn't think you could learn your parental tongue if you were an adoptee, but also since I didn't think there would be so many other Korean adoptees.
Now I know that the school has to offer pupils the possability to learn their parental tongue if they manage to get enough interested pupils.Not even my adoptive parents knew this at the time, so I can't really blame them can I...
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