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Category Archives: Novena

La Ristrettos | A Surprise Find In A Place of Healing

July 10, 2016by Michelle Leave a comment

Upon entering La Ristrettos, one is suddenly transported from the white, clinical corridors of the Novena Medical Centre into a warm, cosy café full of brown furnishings, quaint wall decorations […]

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Squashed #unicorn has a hard life. 🦄 Aren't we better off than this poor caged stuffed toy? But it doesn't know why other life than this, so I think it's pretty ok. Watched A Star is Born last night not really expecting much (read some less than pleasant reviews), but was so glad that I did. The storyline and especially soundtrack are so haunting, full of a wide range of emotions and sparks of life. And about the idea of #consent (maybe slight spoilers here) - her character says no but to me it looked much like a 'no, I can't or shouldn't because I have other things to do or because I'm afraid', and not 'no I don't want to' or 'NO you jerk get lost'. Here's where we differ - what some people call 'wearing down into a yes' I call 'persistence' or 'determination'. If you look at it from the other side, it's someone not giving up. While no doesn't always mean yes it doesn't always mean no either. Can't we live with the idea that life isn't always black and white and that we have to figure some things out ourselves? True that some people may not be capable enough to do that themselves, and I may say this because I'm not currently a sufferer of the consequences of terrible judgement, but it's a jungle out there and aren't we all trying to figure out what other people mean, almost every single day? And I think that's what makes life, life. Otherwise we might as well be robots, with a step by step process with consent every step of the way in everything - dating, work, family, whatever. Of course there are still laws for the extreme stuff to protect the majority from a minority who have certain inclinations or issues, but I think a line has to be drawn somewhere. And we will all argue about this line, because that's human nature, but, I just wanted to say where I would stand. #RandomMusings #Debate #Feelings