//BAG RUSH//

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BAG, RI.

WORK IT ^_^

HAPPIER MUSINGS, THEN OFF TO BED.

Avant de coucher, je me sens un peu provoquer d'ajouter et de mettre en valeur que le secret sur la bonheur ne reste que sur la connaissance de soi-même. Pour gagner absolument le sens de ça, il faut devenir absolument honnête avec vous-même.

Maintenant, après avoir trouvé la vérité, qu'en fait? On dit que soyez transformer par la renouvèlement de votre esprit. Donc, après avoir gagner la connaissance de soi même, on doit être transformée à l'envers. La façon de vivre, de penser, d'être ne peut pas rester comme avant. Il doit arriver une rupture qui mettre en fin le passe, et renait l'avenir. A l'autre côté, on dit que ce n'est pas la connaissance pure s'il n'est pas suivi par la transformation. Ça indique qu'on atteint un point ou il n'est pas possible à rester inchangé; en effet, une renaissance véritable signifie un sorte de postérité.   

En conclusion, la journée n'est pas fini sans être renait par la nouvelle connaissance qu'on atteint: c'est comme une sorte de nirvana. 

A bientôt, bisous.

//COLOURFUL RECKONINGs//

M E D K I

Ethiopia 

 

 

It's A Kind of Freedom

Pragmatic: treating facts or events systematically, with reference both to their relationship in cause and effect and to the practical conclusions or lessons which they suggest, rather than to their circumstantial details.

Its a kind of freedom. 

You know a lot of people talk about how they feel about stuff. I mean, that all good and well, but i feel like sometimes you gotta sift through that emotional confusion and get the cold truth through some reasoning and logic. The simplicity of it is liberating though the ensuing truth don't necessarily set you free emotionally.

What am i getting at here? Supposedly, I'm supposed to be one of those that look at the world through rose tinted glasses and perhaps this is a rebellion to that, but in my opinion things would be much clearer if we sometimes acted or thought more pragmatically. 

This is not  a case of fitting a square peg into a round hole, i.e. using the tools of one form of knowledge to explain or understand another kind of knowledge. Love cannot be explained through logic. I ain't talking about love though.

Sometimes we gotta face the facts to decipher the consequences of our actions. Lets get the feelings and intuitions and alla that outa the picture and study events in and of themselves. Its a little uncomfortable, like all honest reckonings are, but it does get to the core of the matter.
Think about all the bad things that have happened to you that you blamed on anything but yourself. Its easier to pity the victim right? By coldly looking at the progression of events, we're not blaming people or pointing fingers, just being coldly calculating. Oh there's a word for you, being objective. What was the cause? And the resulting effect?
The thing i like about pragmatism is that, once you've gotten down to the truth, then you have your answer. You can either make peace with it, with yourself, and set about the task of righting some wrongs. Or you could be bitter and just harden the resentment. Shrug Shoulders here.

Yes, 

my blog is 'under (public) construction" ^_^

This is me, then.

Être différent, c'est menaçant. Mais, n'étant pas honnête à soi-même, c'est un bon recèpe pour la tristesse. 

Alors, comment devrions fidèle à nos désirs, nos passions, sans paraitre comme quelqu'un qui ne peut pas s'intégrer à la société, ou le gens normaux? C'est un paradoxe vivant: pour être heureux, il faut entendre les désirs du cœur. Au même temps, on ne voulait pas devenir des asociaux. 

Si j'aime la musique un peu bizarre, si je porte les robes qui sont différents à plupart du gens, si mes pensées ou mes rêves ne s'intégraient pas aux eux des mes amies? Alors, que doit faire? 

Qui est plus important, s'accepter ou être accepter par le monde? 

Pensez un moment. 

Avant de ruée de dire "S'accepter, naturellement", çà veut dire quoi-la?

ok i know im going around in circles. Ill think about this more, and then maybe itll make more sense.     

A penny for your thoughts

La connaissance de soi-même. 

Est-ce qu'on peut vraiment trouver les fondes des nos âmes pour identifier les choses qui nous décrivent?

Est-il possible d'éliminer tous les influences quotidiennes pour trouver le vrai désirs du cœur?

Il me semble qu'être heureux, c'est à comprendre l'essence de nous-mêmes. On doit savoir nos gouts, nos passions, nos illusions, nos craintes, les choses qui nous font rire et ceux qui allument le feu dans nos esprits. 

Alors, je me trouve tout-à-coup dans un situation difficile: 

Sans trouver l'essence de moi-même, je ne peut pas comprendre le sens de ma vie.  

  

This is not fashion, sorry.

These girls look a mess.

Some please correct me, let me see the creative genius in this.

Source: TopShop Blog

Designer: Lousie Gray, London

{half-way decent}

Rose Cordero.

The 2nd black model in history to be on the cover of French Vogue.

It's kind of a big deal.

You never stop trying to be a better person

I know, sometimes the pictures have nothing to do with the actual post. 

Two things are true though, 

I love this dress, its from the collection

House of J'Ola Fall 2010

And, I am still trying to be a better person.

Now how can i put these seemingly disparate facts together in one coherent post?

Discours sur le bonheur

La première de toutes est d'être bien décidé a ce qu'on veut être et a ce qu'on veut faire, et c'est ce qui manque a presque tous les hommes;

C'est pourtant la condition sans laquelle il n'y a point de bonheur. Sans elle, on nage perpetuellement dans in mer d'incertitudes.

On détruit le main ce qu'on a fait le soir;

On passe la vie a faire des sottises, a les réparer, a s'en repentir.

Wake up in the morning feeling like p diddy

I love the attitude

and the bracelet and bag and hair and shades

daing 

Natural Beauty

It is a paradox, and i envy the women who easily rise above it. Men prefer natural beauty. No make-up, fake lashes, weave. Innocent beauty. Just a girl you can kick it with, without things getting complicated. Sure, there are some girls like that, graciously blessed by God. But the ladies out there in real life appreciate and enhance the few great features. A little liner to bring out those eyes. A little length to frame the face. A little lipstick to get that pout. It's not a self-esteem thing. It's not a vanity thing. A girl can be comfortable in her own skin and be chill like that, with her weave and manicured nails on point.
Ok, i know it gets to be a problem when a girl just cannot be seen without make up, as if beneath the mask lays a monster.
It's not a feminism thing either; personally, i don't feel the pressure (yet) to assert my existence as a complete being and not merely a complement to men.
Anyways, the point is: don't hate, appreciate. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, there is not one kind of a beautiful woman. It's not perfect lips and perfect teeth that make a smile, its what lies behind the smile. It's that little glam factor that makes the eyes sparkle and the laugh ring. Like a great melody is not made of just the right instruments, but the way they come together to make great music.
It's really sad how much society judges woman. Even more so that women are the harshest judges. There's this perpetual competition thing going on: I'm better than you.  Men succeed because they pull each other up, where women beat each other to the ground. 

For me, some of the things i believe to be intrinsic to beauty, both internal and external, include: self respect, dignity, integrity, humour, verve. You have to know your self: to know what matters to you, what you want out of life, the legacy you want to be. I haven't acquired all these, and yes they are acquired. In fact, i had to learn that no one is born with these qualities, they are acquired. You make an effort to be dignified and trustworthy, to love and respect yourself.
This means two things: you can always get to a point of dignity and self love, no matter what or where you're starting off from. Secondly, there will be failures or rather, character building points where you fail. That's when you have to get up and take the next step of resuming on the chosen path: resilience.
The pursuit of some ideal renders one the essence of that ideal. Thus, when you earnestly strive to respect your body and your soul, though you may fail once or twice, by getting through that failure and setting on the path of respect, your whole being becomes it. If you look for it as for silver, and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand. 

Conclusion: yes, there are girls out there that are just like wow without trying too much. For the most part though, ladies have to make an effort to make that wow factor come through. A woman knows her true worth does not lie on the tangible: She is worth far more than rubies. Tis the stuff we're made of that makes us spectacular. And i like to think that that's the stuff that's the most attractive.

My Revolutionary Friend

Can you be my revolutionary friend?

We'd skip the night at the club 

and take a walk on the beach

we'd get drunk on philosophical rants

we'd get high on laughs and jokes

we'd hold hands in public and privately

we'd eat and work and read and talk and

can u be my revolutionary friend

let's take the road of life less traveled

Bundle me up!

How do you stay warm and good looking during the winter, without wearing your entire wardrobe and getting lost under the layers??

tOO gOOD fOR yOU

 When you have something

good going on in your life,

hold on to it.

MOD||Model Off Duty

Diesel Ad||Be Stupid II

Stupid is the relentless pursuit of a regret free life.

Personal Style

What does it mean to have personal style?

Can you just have style?

Or would you just be wearing fashion without style?

 

Celebrity Crush||Leonardo Dicaprio

The Aviator, The Departed, Gangs of New York, Titanic, Shutter Island, and Gisele Bundchen.

I love this man.

 

|On the Rat scene, The Departed|

Jack Nicolson: I don't know if he necessarily believed me. I don't know if he was necessairly threatened.

Martin Scorcese: Let's do it again tomorrow.

So I come on set the next day and hear we're doing the scene over for lighting reasons. Ok. But then a prop guy comes over to me and says, "Just to let you know, there were some props Jack asked for. I had to get him a fire extinguisher, a bottle of whiskey, a lighter and a gun."

{Excerpt from Esquire}

 

 

I want a little sugar in my bowl||Nina Simone

Its true that friends are the sugar that sweetens up life.
Am wishing all my friends an extra sweet valentine :)

 

 

CANDELA || TROIS TENDANCES

Candela has managed to merge three looks of the season into one item: lace, studs and oxford.
The result: Candela studded lace-up flats! Interesting combo...
Available for pre-ordering, $245, Saks.

Iris Strubegger || Designer Double take

Bazaar Magazine, March 2010
Model: Iris Strubegger
One of the more interesting spreads for March.

as Karl Lagerfield

as Sonia Rykiel

 

as donatella vercace

as john galliano 

as carolina herrera

 

as rei kawakubo||comme des garcons

as vivienne westwood