Claire | January 19, 2010
The key, I suggest, to dealing honestly with our desires without losing personal authenticity or genuine concern about others is to understand two facts about our desires. First, our desires, though energizing a complex variety of sinful directions, are related not only to our fallenness but also, and more profoundly, to our humanness. In other [...]
Claire | January 18, 2010
I had a good feeling about Korean drama Pasta before it aired, particularly about the chemistry between main leads Lee Sun Gyun and Gong Hyo Jin, and sure enough I was right. Pasta is everything that is charming; while most Korean “trendy” dramas are light-hearted, Pasta takes it one step further by being downright playful. [...]
Claire | January 17, 2010
I made piroshki tonight, a traditional Russian dish consisting of pastry which you can fill with any kind of filling(I went with meat because I LOVE meat). I mostly used this recipe, but decided to follow the below one in terms of handling and cooking the pastry, since the first one required the pastry to [...]
Claire | January 17, 2010
One of the dramas that I’ve been most excited about for this entire year of dramas is Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, otherwise known as The Perfect Girl Evolution, based on a wildly popular Japanese manga called The Wallflower. I haven’t read the manga but the cast and plot both sound to die for – Kamenashi [...]
Claire | January 16, 2010
From the OST to the Japanese drama Tokyo Friends, which I’ve been watching recently. Download (Sabakan version) English lyrics/translation: We tried walking so far, walking holding nothing. Even now, that day, having met you, is treasure. I didn’t want you to be able to see my profile hidden by the sunset. Tiny tears came one [...]
Claire | January 14, 2010
“all the other girls here are stars—you are the Northern Lights they try to shine in through your curtains—you’re too close and too bright they try and they try but everything that they do is the ghost of a trace of a pale imitation of you I’ll be the one to drive you back home [...]
Claire | January 10, 2010
Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri In progress: The Children’s Book, Byatt The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Marukami
Claire | January 9, 2010
Soulmate: This is Not a Love Song, Nouvelle Vague Download Pride: Theme song: I Was Born to Love You, Queen Download Ep 5: Let Me Live, Queen Download Smile Again: (download entire OST here) You Can Get It If You Really Want It, Jimmy Cliff Download You’re Beautiful: Without Words, Park Shin Hye Download
Claire | January 7, 2010
Note: most of this was adapted from my post at an ealier blog First off, there are two options as far as downloading goes: torrent or direct download Torrent versus direct: I don’t torrent and only vaguely understand how it works myself, so I’m afraid I can’t help there, but from what I understand it’s [...]
