Romance your ego for a while

Whoa. It's been a very long time since I last came around here hey? I guess I was just very caught up with my 3 summer jobs and the start of my last year in university. FYI I AM VERY EXCITED for that last little bit.

Anyway, I am currently in the midst of enjoying my long weekend (Monday is a national holiday because it is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada :D) and relishing in my first day of 'mum away on holiday in Hong Kong for the next 4 weeks.' Haven't even done much, just recuperating from over-baking the last two days (I baked some 50 cookies and 30 odd tea biscuits. I am exhausted).

I come bearing two videos as a way of saying, 'hey, remember me? Sorry I haven't been around, socialising, but I'm alive!'

The first is a short trailer clip of this one documentary I watched during my one week of vacation at the start of September (that's how much I worked during the summer...). It's a 2 hour documentary about this super-powered single mother looking after 20 or so foster children, all of mixed heritage, primarily those of black and white parents. Bi-racial they call it. The website writes, 'Olga is a loving mother but she is no Mother Teresa. Raised by the Soviet regime, she believes in communal responsibility over individual freedom and runs the family with a Stalinist determination.'

An incredibly touching video, but what really got me was this one quote that she said during the movie (provided yet again by their website), 'When the kids grow up, at least they will have a mother to blame for all the failures that will happen in their lives.' And let me tell you, a lot of the children living under her house hold a lot of deeply embedded anger and frustration towards her.

The second video is nothing really, just the video of a British synthpop band, Hurts. I don't even remember how I came across them but throughout this entire week, I have just been listening to their songs nonstop. I am quite literally in love with them.

When I told my friend to have a go at their music (a 'know-it-all music guru' is what I call her) after she's made it clear that she's never heard of them. Her verdict? '...this is a like a little on the darker side. I can see why you'd like it.' HAHAHA oh ya. I know.

Speaking of updating, I should update some somewhat recent pictures of my nails. And I've also been scrapbooking lately. I am not a single artistic bone in my body, so we'll see how that'll turn out in the end.