Showing posts with label #justsayin'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #justsayin'. Show all posts
Friday, April 20, 2012
Post #150, boo-yah! Momentous occasion #justsayin'
TGIF, I finished this off at work while I'm waiting to be assigned things to do. Again I've been asking myself today whether something's wrong with me for actually liking a shoe this week on my calendar...
With a simple black dress, fitted jacket and tights I think these could look really funky. Or am I totally off the mark?
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To other shoe news: I got a pair from home sent to me! Yay!
I got these babies from Charles & Keith in Singapore's Changi Airport for SGD40. Unfortunately there's been some bad luck with them in the first week of being worn over here. Candle wax got on them at church when I went for Easter, and on picking it off I also pulled a tiny thread. And then at work I somehow flicked my open green highlighter off the table and it got a spot on the outside of my right shoe. Classy.
Anyone got any suggestions for how to get highlighter out of a wool-like fabric? Helpers wouldl be lifesavers!
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See why I write about shoes in some form every Friday here.
Thursday, February 02, 2012
I have had this guy stuck in my head all week.
Time for a Europop lesson.
Some non-Europeans might remember Greek singer Sakis Rouvas as the dude who swung into the Athens 2004 Olympics Closing Ceremony (literally) before falling mid-routine. Others remember him more fondly as performing one of Eurovision's best songs in recent years with 2004's Shake It (quite frankly, as the favourite that came third he was robbed). He of course also represented Greece again in 2009.
He is also quite possibly one of the world's most prettiest men. #justsayin'
I bought his latest album six months ago when I was in Athens as a tool to help me improve my Greek should I start taking proper lessons. While that's currently a work in progress, I finally listened to the album all in one hit last week.
If anyone survives the Greek economical crisis it will probably be him. Damn, his songs are catchy.
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| Sakis Rouvas performing Shake It for Greece at Eurovision 2004 |
I haven't been this excited to listen to a full album repeatedly in some time. He doesn't sing any English tracks on Parafora (Madly), but on hearing more than his Eurovision fare I totally see why this guy is Greece's king of pop. It's damn good stuff.
Even if I don't understand a whole lot of it.
It makes me wish I could understand more, which is the point. That's good. Yet the words swirl around my head for much of the day as I'm trying to work, eat and watch TV. I've taken it further to listen through all the other Greek songs on my iTunes as I cook each night, and vow to understand it all fluently one day. Especially for the sake of Mr Rouvas and what he is trying to sing to me.
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