I love to sing but anyone who has ever heard me sing will tell you that it’s not my strong point. I don’t have an awful voice but I find it hard to hold a tune - which doesn’t necessarily stop me from trying!
My beloved boyfriend has decided to try to fix this state of [...]
One of the wonderful things about the internet age is that it is helping people reconnect and stay better connected. A dear friend of mine from high school, Emme, found me on Google recently. Ironically she was actually searching for information on Google and she came across this article. Wondering whether the author of the [...]
There are roofing works underway in our building right now. We are in the top floor flat so we are bearing the brunt of the noise. Our landlord has given us a 20 per cent rent reduction while the works are being carried out, which is fairly generous, so I don’t mind the noise so [...]
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Apart from the Japanese movies (Karas, Paprika and Seven Samurai), I have also seen the following movies:
Bridge to Terabithia
I saw this back in May with Natalie, Jess and Tash. (We kinda figured, it’s not really the sort of movie the boys in our life would enjoy). It’s based on a book that nearly all of [...]
Last weekend Beth came up to London for a pot luck play - the idea being we would see what was on offer at the Half Price Ticket Booth at Leicester Square. Unfortunately I didn’t realise that most theatres are shut on Sundays in London so our options were fairly limited. We ended up going [...]
My tour guiding at the British Museum has finally started. I have been preparing since the start of the year, with formal training and also my own explorations. I have practised the tour on friends and then finally, last Sunday I did it for the public for the first time.
I had seven people in [...]
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Next in the quest to
learn more about Japanese culture and history came the 1954 Akira Kurosawa classic Seven Samurai.
The Institute of Contemporary Arts was holding a screening on the second May bank holiday weekend, right after my return from Senegal. I had planned to go to Dublin originally, then after the Senegal trip I downgraded [...]
Continuing with the Japanese theme, I traded theatre for more cinema.
In April I saw a movie in the Japanimation series at the Barbican Centre, Karas: The Prophecy. In May I went back to the next in the series. After a dull talk we were treated to a preview of a Paprika, a stunning anime movie [...]