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Author: Dara

  • quoted saturday

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    “Pain is part of learning who you are.”

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • friday night movies #3

    Goedenavond, mijn vrienden! My Dutch is quite good, eh? Well, thanks to Google Translate :p

    I can’t believe how days go by so fast and it’s Friday night already! You know what that means? Yep, it’s Friday Night Movies time. Can everybody say ‘yay’? 😀

    Today, as usual, I watched two films. The first one was:

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    In Her Shoes is a drama about two sisters who are very different. The older sister is a succesful lawyer working in a firm. The younger sister is a pretty party girl who likes to mess around with guys. She is, however, unemployed and still living with her father and step-mother. The step-mother kicks her out of the house after she comes home drunk, and she ends up living with her older sister. Her bad attitude soon puts her older sister in troubles. She even sleeps with her older sister’s boyfriend one night. When her older sister comes home and finds them in bed, she gets kicked out once again. Having nowhere to go, she finally decides to go to her grandmother’s place in an old flocks house. It’s when they are apart that they realise how much they need each other.

    In my opinion, this film is good. I like how the older sister eventually forgives her younger sister. In the end, everybody is happy. I like happy endings. I mean, who doesn’t? Haha!

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    And this one… I’m sure you know this one. Due Date is a story about Peter (haha! Like Sarasvati’s song!) who has to rush home for her first child’s birth, but he gets kicked out of the plane because of a self-proclaimed actor, Ethan. With all his belongings still on the plane, Peter is confused and clueless because he doesn’t have any money to rent a car to go home to his wife. Ethan and his dog then show up with a rental car. Peter is forced to go home with Ethan, whom he doesn’t get along very well.

    This film is a very good laugh. I got very mad and frustated at Ethan and took a pity on Peter. Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis are good match. I love them! 😀

    Anyway, it’s totally out of the topic, I already have four blog buttons to put on my sidebar on July. Three more buttons, fellas! Interested? Visit this post to see the rules 🙂

    Have a great weekend!

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • anybody wants to trade blog buttons with me?

    This week, Heather and Leelee posted on their blog, asking if anyone wants to do button trade with them and I have contacted both of them. I hope my button can make it on their sidebar. I also hope that it can bring a lot of new readers to my (weird) blog. My blogging-self-esteem needs a little booster 🙂

    Now, I think I want to ask you guys, too, if there’s anybody who wants to trade blog buttons with me. You can send a 200 x 120 button and your blog link to putdar2610@gmail.com, and I will send mine in the size you want. Here’s some rules regarding the trade:

    1. You have to follow my blog, and I will follow yours.
    2. Static buttons only.
    3. Personal blog buttons only. No companies.
    4. I only give space for seven buttons this month.
    5. All buttons will be added at the beginning of July.
    6. All buttons will be shuffled in the middle of the month.
    7. You have to put my button on your blog. I will check it. If you don’t put it, then your button will be taken off the list. (Well, it’s a button trade, fellas!)

    If you don’t have buttons, I would be very glad to make one for you. Just send me a picture and your blog link via email.

    Okay. Let’s do this! 🙂

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • oh hello, summer!

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    I’ve always loved summer.

    Well, okay. I live in a tropical country so there’s no summer for me. But, let’s consider this dry season as summer, shall we?

    I love it when I don’t have to go home soaking in the rain. I love it when I can leave my laundry hanging under the sun all day long without worrying that rain will re-wash them all. I love it when I can plan anything without being ruined by rain. I love it when there’ no rain.

    That, my friend, is one thing.

    There’s always two sides of everything, isn’t there? When there’s a good side, there will be a bad side.

    What I hate about the dry season summer is the cold wind in the night. Oh yeah, I have to sleep in my sweater all night. Even though it’s hot in the afternoon, the night and morning are usually very cold. And there are a lot of mosquitos, for God’s sake! Plus, if the dry season summer happens for too long, there will be drought. My family and I are lucky enough that there have never been any drought in our place. But, whenever the dry season summer comes, the water in our house gets very smelly.

    What about you, guys? What do you love/hate about summer/dry season? 🙂

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • this seminar kinda open my eyes about this blog

    Yesterday, I attended this seminar about blogging: how to increase your blog’s traffic, how to monetize it, how to use SEO, etc. I didn’t really get what they were trying to say (aside of promoting idBlogNetwork, idBlogilicious, and Berniaga.com), but it did make me think about this blog.

    You see, I’m just a girl trying to be recognised by the world through my blog. But I never really have a topic. I just write my daily activity, what I do, where I go, what songs I’m listening to, what movies I’m watching, and such things.

    Whenever I blogwalk blogstalk, I see that all these blogs I follow are blogs about daily life, but with a structured path. I mean, some of them post about what they wear today, some other post about crafty things they do. Those two things (fashion and crafts) seem to be what most of blogger girls do (and post). I’m not really into fashion, nor am I a crafty girl. What should I do, then? I’m just a human-who-happens-to-also-be-a-blogger, so it’s natural for me to want an army of followers and tons of people sponsoring my blog.

    I fell so worthless now. I feel unwanted. Nobody likes my writings. And this blog will die slowly but sure. *sigh*

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.