Musik Mundi: Oren Lavie

According to wiki, Oren Lavie is from Tel Aviv, and he is a singer, songwriter, playwright and theatre director. I think he's my new role model. I always dream about writing and singing my own songs. And big poppa and I have discussed the thrill of directing movies. We're very much quite impressionable even at our age. Oren Lavie's video for his song Her Morning Elegance was a youtube sensation and that's how I got hooked. I first saw it on a blogger's page that I frequently admire. I hate it when people use the word stalk! It's annoying. But I guess it is what it is. Hah! I told myself to use the song for my Musik Mundi but things come up and you forget. Thank goodness it was playing while I was on one of my many Berripop runs. Which reminds me, I've got some Berripop in my freezer that I almost forgot about. See how my brain has turned to mush! Frozen yogurt mush! So the cool thing about this video is that he uses that whole stop motion technique. Mind games! It kinda shows you how your brain can fill in the blanks. In almost all of his songs, he mostly uses the piano or guitar for the main melody and fills it in with other string instruments, opting to not use electric instruments. The song is pretty, but it's the video that really makes me like the song.




*photo courtesy of amazon.com*


Oren Lavie
Album: The Opposite Side Of The Sea (2009)
Song: Her Morning Elegance

Trippin': Atlanta - Folks Southern Kitchen

Wonder Woman went to Atlanta with her fam right before I went with my fam. She suggested that I might as well try some ATL southern food and I thot, might as well! I looked at Monkhi girls list that she sent to me and I saw that she had written down Folks Southern Kitchen for southern food. So I made everyone go there. Cos I'm the boss! And the ultimate vacay planner. Unfortunately, I'm in this phase where I'm not eating any pork, beef and a lot of seafood so my options are pretty slim. I can't say that will be true in three weeks though. The thing that I ended up ordering was their fried chicken. I want to say that this restaurant was known for the fried chicken but I'm not 100% sure about that. Folks is actually sort of a chain restaurant in Atlanta. They have about eleven locations throughout the greater Atlanta area. I wasn't feeling all too great when we came here to eat so I wasn't taking as much fotos as I usually do. The food here was mediocre. My chicken was a tad dry. Another reason I chose this place was cos it had chicken and dumplings and my big poppa loves chicken and dumplings and if you can remember from previous posts, I am still trying to find a place in Houston that had chicken and dumplings as good as this one place that serves it in Dallas. He didn't like the chicken and dumplings at Folks. The food is so HEAVY. Everyone pretty much knocked out in the car. I wasn't lucky enough cos I had to go with the cousin to get groceries for the next day. One thing is for sure. If I was eating pork, I would have ordered me some pork ribs. They looked GUT!

Baby Shower: Vi & Tory

Another week another baby shower. Or wedding. It's always one of those. Time is flying by so fast and everyone is getting older and ticking off one by one life's checklist. I had dinner with Miss EmMa last night and she was telling me about how her thirty year old friend got 'the talk' from her OB. You know. The one where they freak you out by saying that you should start having kids NOW. Or ELSE. Like chromosomal abnormalities ELSE. Ok. I shouldn't have written that. It's a very scary situation. Sometimes I feel like big poppa and I are the only ones around who don't care to get married. I told EmMa that 98% of me could care less about ever marrying big poppa. We're happy and content with the way things are and don't want to throw down 25K for a wedding. We're cheapos! Plus, for some reason, we still feel incredibly immature to be getting married. Our age say one thing while our personalities reflect the exact opposite. Well, what's the 2% she asks? I want to have kids. I'm nipping at thirty and don't want to not be able to have healthy kids. It sucks being a woman sometimes. Old fogey men can still impregnate women and we're basically shizz outta luck at 35. Somebody got something wrong to have let that happen. Not fair! I don't even care about having kids out of wedlock. But you know. Asian parents. Enough said. But then it's like, how the hell am I gonna be able to go snowboarding every year with a kid? And I'm brought back to reality that I'm not even close to being ready. I still have the world to see. And something else that I want to see if frackin' Mascara's and Transam's little baby girl! I mean. C'mon. You have a six feet white dude with a gorgeous Vietnamese girl. Who wouldn't be anxious to see how beautiful their baby girl is gonna be?!? Since their baby will have a super American/Irish last name, they've been trying to come up with a more ethnic first name for the baby. My contribution was Duong, cos she's so sweet! Haha. I am such a loser! Here are fotos from their shower hosted by Transam's mom and sistar.

Cake, decor and much more.

Games. The first few fotos are the parents to be racing to see who could diaper a baby doll the fastest while blind-folded. Transam had a few handicaps such as having the chair turned backwards, his baby was faced down and mom was squirting water in his face cos you know, babies pee sometimes.

I must say, per usual, Mascara was very calm, cool and collected.

Transam's baby in the aftermath. He might need a little more practice.

During this game of guess Mascara's preggos waist size, I found out that my current waist size is bigger than her current waist size. Pregnant belly and all! She's so tiny.

Presnts time!

Mascara laughs in the name of safety!

Mom and presents.

I love the expressions on their faces. Big poppa is all like P90X SUX! And Jacques is like I know you ain't about to talk shizz about my P90X. Hah!

Of course, we gifted the parents-to-be two boxes of diapers and a box of wipes (not shown). Aren't they just a great looking couple!

Trippin': Atlanta - Georgia Aquarium

The fam and I did a few quite touristy things. That's me. Number one tourist. The first was visiting the Georgia Aquarium, which is supposedly the world's largest aquarium. I don't know why I use the word supposedly. I guess I'm just not a trusting kind of person. Haha. Anyways. I think I ended up enjoying the aquarium a lot more than I thought I would. My thing with aquariums and zoos is that I really hate going to places where animals are locked in and caged up where the horrid human creature goes and slams there hands against the tanks and cages and yells and screams and flashes their camera right into a creatures eyes. Horrible! I hate thinking that I'm encouraging this behavior by purchasing an admittance ticket to things like this. I feel sad to think that I'm disrupting their peace. But I went against my beliefs by taking the whole fam here cos I felt that this would be something they would really enjoy. For thirty-five bucks, you get the premium pass that not only includes general admission, but you also get a ticket to Deepo's Undersea 3D Wondershow (which is really 4D) and Titanic Aquatic. Both were really good and I would recommend seeing both. My favo things about the aquarium were the whale sharks, ginormous sting ray, beluga whales and otters. So cute! Big poppa and I stood around watching the otters and whale sharks go round and round for like thirty minutes. They're just beautiful. The otters kind of reminded me of Neo.