Happy New Year to everybody! I hope everyone had a safe, fun and happy New Year’s. I’m going to say straight off the bat, I love even numbers. So I find it awesome that it is 2012. We all say that time flies by but it really does. Every year we get older & it seems every year goes a tad faster than the one before. I’ll tell ya, I don’t like it one bit. I want time to slow down. My boyfriend and I went to Sydney for NYE, it was amazing! I love Sydney, especially at NYE, it has the biggest party. And not to mention the fireworks! They’re the most beautiful in the world, I think. Particularly the champagne waterfall one they do. I haven’t been to the cinema in a long time, funnily enough. You all know me, I always go to the theatre and see any new film that is out, but lately I haven’t had the time really. Let’s not forget to mention that I began a new contract with work so I am constantly working, with little to few days off a week. I also am saddened to say there has not been any intriguing films to really go and see. The only ones I want to see is Happy Feet Two and probably Sherlock Holmes, actually the boyfriend also really wants to see Sherlock Holmes. I have not yet seen Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1, I will most likely see it soon though.

What a month November was! It was seriously insane. After it all, I am just so glad it’s over now. So many thing’s are different, I even work at a new store now. I am loving it. In fact, this year is going so fast. We’ve been so busy, it’ll be nice to chill & relax. I am currently listening to Bruno Mars, the song by him called ‘It Will Rain’… I absolutely adore that song! I am a huge fan of Bruno’s music, he is my most favourite new artist. Amongst Adele as well, she is purely brilliant. I am actually only now noticing that I haven’t updated for over two months, it’s pretty bad! I needed and wanted to update much, much more! I am going to do my best at trying to remember my little WordPress login here so that I can put more entries up, more often. I even have this WordPress page bookmarked, so let’s hope it works. I know it’s kind of pathetic to have a paid space on here & not use it to my best ability. I really need to change that.

Let me talk about the latest films I have managed to see… I recently saw Warrior finally, it was completely awesome! I loved it! I think Joel Edgerton did such an amazing job in it too. He is an Australian actor, whose very good at his job. I really look forward to any other work he does in his career, it has started off pretty damn awesomely. ‘Warrior’ is really a boxing film but not just a typical one, this one has such a emotional storyline to it. I recommend watching it if you get a chance to. I’m not sure why it didn’t do too well at the Box Office, ah well. Some thing’s are just mysteries. I also saw Puss In Boots, it was a cute, funny film. It was what was to be expected, it was funny. But I guess we all felt like the storyline didn’t really go anywhere, it was still funny and cute to watch. I was in Sydney on the weekend with my boyfriend and we were with my Dad at home watching Home Alone 3, and we were all cackling & laughing. But it’s true what my Dad said, the later films of that series are no where near as good as the Macauly Culkin ones. Gosh, I miss those kind of family films. They’re sort of still made these days but they’re rare to find.

So we saw Eminem last Friday night in concert, he was AMAZING. He was really quite good, he definitely has that performance quality down pat. Another artist was there too to support Eminem, that was Lil Wayne, he was ok… couldn’t really understand what he was saying in his songs other than the songs of his I had already heard & knew. Still think it’s funny that Nicki Minaj said that Lil Wayne is the best rapper in the world. My boyfriend and I laughed. Clearly, we disagree. What do you all think? And what do you think of today’s new music? Oh, I have a new crave… it’s these chocolate bars called Boost, have you all tried those? Awww, they’re SO good! When I’m at work on a break, I just have to get one, either a single or twin pack… they’re delicious! It’s really the only chocolate I eat, so I guess it’s not bad at all. Go me! Well, I had better get going. I just got to say, while I was in Sydney a while back, I bought a massive canvas print photo of Paris and the Eiffel Tower.. well it’s now hanging up in my room! Thanks to my man for helping me put it up! And it looks amazing! I’ll post a photo..

I’m off now guys, I hope everybody has been well. I had been sick earlier in November but am all better now. Hope to start updating here more often, I have time to, I don’t know why I keep forgetting. Upon updating on Twitter and Facebook, feeling like posting a big worthy blog on here gets the better of me and then therefore makes me lazy by not doing it, sorry. I want to post more often, I just should! Let’s see how it goes.. take care everyone. Happy Holidays and hope December is kind to you. xXx.

Today I watched Contagion, it just made me more paranoid about germs than I already am. Only joking. But it did make me think twice about putting my hands on any public hand-railings again, ever in my life! The film had a pretty big stellar cast; including Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Jude Law & Sanaa Lathan. So that is a pretty big line-up of people for the main cast. They all did well in it too. I’ve been making the most of a few days off work & everything to spend time with my very sweet boyfriend, as he is going away for two straight weeks, all for work. I’m use to him having to go away for work now but I always miss him, soooo much. I can never wait till he is back home with me again. Anyway; we have spent a bit of time watching a bunch of films. We are actually about to watch ‘Blitz’ and see how good it is. I mean, usually for me, Jason Statham is never a disappointment. He is an action-packed thrilling actor, I love his work. I want to, over time, collect all the movies he has ever been in. I already have a few but need to get the rest.

I’ve been listening to, or feeling the need to listen to a lot of older R&B songs from the mid 90′s. I love it. I miss that sort of music being made today, none of the new stuff is ever as good as the older tunes. Don’t you all agree with me? Today, it’s this sort of new popular culture music that is just basically dance-party music, big beats & tech sounds with a bit of auto-tuned soundbites. I just miss the real music. Do you know what I mean? I hope people can relate to how I feel about it. I have been listening to a lot of Boys II Men & TLC, Usher’s old stuff & a lot more! I must say, I do like the new artist Bruno Mars. He’s really good. And I am currently enjoying the song ‘I need a Dollar’ by Aloe Blacc. It sounds bluesy & nice, I love that stuff. I hope more stuff like that comes out soon.

Today, my boyfriend & I went to a major home & electronic’s store to check out the current set top boxes. We checked out the HD Recorder’s too, we were looking for a tuner that is a twin one, so we can record two channels & watch a third. We managed to find one that also skips recording ads! Woo hoo! The brand of it is called TopField. It is awesome, we made a deposit on it so I can’t wait to get it out. It will be great! I use to have a different HD set top box but it’s starting to have things go wrong with it. So.. it’s time for a brand new one. Wow, ‘Blitz’ was really good! I recommend it to anyone. Oh, you’ll notice more entries posted here now, I want to blog more often. I also just updated this version of WordPress, yay!

I am thinking of creating a new domain for my art/photography/graphic designs.. it’ll be sort of like a portfolio of my work. Showcasing it, maybe even allowing people to order canvas prints of designs, or photo’s.. and buying them. I need to come up with a domain name for it & design. I’m going to be working on ideas for this in the next months to come. I hope everybody had a great weekend and I will be updating again very soon! Take care, enjoy the week ahead. Love Jaz xXx.

I’ve wanted to put a lot more attention into this blog lately; so I’m going to start editing/updating the subpages and blogging entries more often. I miss it, to be honest. I miss the amount of visitors I had popping in to read about my life & offer advice, or relate to whatever it is I was writing about. I honestly could not think of a better title for this entry, haha, so I left it as the month. The weather outside is beautiful, it’s definitely Spring here. I am loving it. Today I have been feeling extremely inspired/reflective. This morning I have been reflecting a lot on a musical artist that really shaped my choices in the music I liked and appreciated. I think most of you will of already worked out which music artist I am referring to, but I’ll let you take a guess for a moment…. you probably are right… it is Michael Jackson of course! I’ve been non-stop; listening to his MTV and Grammy performances from the years of 1993 & 1995 on youtube this morning. I can’t get enough! And I wish to say something that was on my mind; that it was so frustrating to see somebody who is so talented & deserving, be SO misunderstood. I sometimes can’t help but feel like the outrageous claims & poor judgement of Michael, led to his feel of need to cleanse himself via prescription medications. In which, eventually, led to his demise & then death.

It honestly is so frustrating to think, that’s pretty much what happened. And to think of his talent & success; that was produced for the same society that helped tear him down… just irritates me. Makes me so pissed off, with society. His talent and his entertainment, was created so we could ENJOY it only, ONLY enjoy. But the society (with the help of a form called MEDIA) just destruct it in all sorts of ways, unimaginable. NO WONDER he felt the way HE DID. Those people should hold their heads in shame. I don’t blame people for his death, but I know he had a broken heart from what they did. And for that, they shall be ashamed of themselves. How dare they criticise a genius that offered them so much. *shakes head* Not everybody had to like him, but for those that didn’t, didn’t also need to bring him down with their nonsense. Thanks, that is all. In my eyes; you’re a LEGEND Michael Jackson and may you RIP.

Onto other subjects; I have had so many recommendations for films lately, and have them waiting here for me to watch but I haven’t had the time to sit down & see any of them! I went away on the weekend with my boyfriend. We visited my father and his side of family, we all had a big dinner which was a surprise birthday party for my Dad’s sister, my aunty Gai. It was an absolutely STELLAR night, we had so much fun & it was really so good to catch up with them all. I haven’t seen some of them in so long. I am SO glad I went & made it. I put this entries category as ‘Heroes’, you can guess who I am referring to, MJ of course. Anyhow, I’d love to leave you with two youtube clips of him that I wanted to share in this post. The first is Janet presenting him with the 1993 Grammy LEGEND Award and the second one is part of his performance at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, so please take a short moment to enjoy these videos…

I hope you enjoyed watching those and I will be back to post a new entry once again, take care everyone and remember to reflect, it’s very nice when you do. Have a great week ahead, and enjoy the rest of September. Love Jaz xXx.