MY FAVORITE THINGS

Always Whitney... Queen of Pop

And yet, it doesn't seem like she's gone at all; probably every time I saw her in her music videos, films or smiling on the front covers of magazines; I always had a vision of a vibrant woman full of life with the most melodious voice I've ever heard. My first glimpse of her so many years ago was in a Cola commercial where she sang "The Greatest Love of All", in Disco Rally which featured her music video "I'm Your Baby Tonight" and then of course "The Bodyguard" and her rendition of Dolly Parton's "I'll Always Love You" later.
It's so very sad, especially after the welcome news a few years back of her finally completing her rehab and embracing her fresh start; what on earth could have killed this lovely lady who always radiated warmth, love and energy
I'm at a loss of words because I'm very sad at the tragic passing of Whitney Huston, Queen of Pop and all I can do is pray for her soul and remember her at her best.
R.I.P Whitney. XXX

SORTILEGIO vs TU O NADIE

GALAXY TV is pouring out televenovelas more than any other channel so far but the one holding my interest is SORTILEGIO . Now I wrote a post about this telenovela in this blog back in February 2010 and for those Naija folks just visiting this blog;

CARBO LOVE MONTAGES: CHAPTER 3

IF YOU WERE WITH ME NOW

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   CAN'T WE TRY
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   REMEMBER ME
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   SPELL OF LOVE
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   LOVE WILL FIND A WAY
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   NOW & FOREVER(AT THE BEGINNING)
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Parents VS Children

A friend of mine came to see me one day with a grievance. Apparently; she'd been badmouthed to a family friend who accused her of being stingy. She immediately denied it of course but it only gave the woman the green light to pour out the list of 'stingy' crimes, all of which happened years back by the way. And not only did her accuser denied her the opportunity to defend herself or say she wasn't that person any more (something I can personally testify to if I was called) but she was told that the person who'd badmouthed her in the first place... was her own mother.
'I'm never, ever going to be a good child in her eyes.' was the bitter conclusion. 'I try and try and this is what I get. She hates it when one of us refers to the past and preaches to us about forgiving and forgetting. If she can't do the same, what's the point of cancelling out something bad you did in the past?'
What does one call this; injustice, backstabbing...hypocrisy? We're supposed to learn from our parents' example and teachings but this sort of thing is one of the reasons why why parents communicate lesser with their children and the rapport they'd shared with them during their toddler, preteen days fades away for good. They either think they know their children and form a rigid opinion about them or they go about deliberately hurting their feelings with the misguided thought they're correcting them. Also, they tend to expect too much from their children; either comparing them with other children or determined to mold them into the children they WANT them to be ; so they shouldn't complain when the children eventually stop talking to them.
Parents, whether they mean to or not, alienate their children at some point; mostly through unfair criticism and thrashing them to their so called friends and accuse them of disrespect when the defendants attempt to defend themselves and the worse part of it all; they will never admit they are wrong when they hear the true story. So based on that; I call it injustice. If they want to keep their children's love; they should SHOW love instead of doing their best to lose it forever.

"One who is injured ought not to return the injury; for on no account can it be right to do an injustice."-SOCRATES

CARBO LOVE MONTAGES: CHAPTER 2

OXYGEN
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   TOGETHER WE ARE ONE
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   FALLING INTO YOU: PART 2
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   I SWEAR: PART 2
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   I BELIEVE IN YOU & ME

REMEMBERING BO & CARLY: Carbo Love Montages

Most Carbo fans made beautiful montages of this memorable couple, including me and ever time uploaded; I always felt I was expressing just how much I loved Carly & Bo. Here are my favourites including a few 'lost' ones. They've been posted here and there in this blog so here's a proper view of them. PS: a few of them features Robert Kelker-Kelley; who was recasted as Bo Brady for a time until Peter Reckell returned. ENJOY!

COLOR OF LOVE

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   I'LL BE
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   I'LL BE-PART 2(I'M YOUR ANGEL)
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   SO IN LOVE
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   LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY
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   DREAMS (PART 2)
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   HIS BROWN EYES
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TO BE CONTINUED...

THE DEATH OF SOAP OPERAS

Let's just face the cold hard fact folks; soap operas ARE dying out. The longest running soap in history GUIDING LIGHT ended in 2009 after 72 years glorious years in radio and TV; but before then many wonderful ones got cancelled thanks to bad writing and over development resulting in low ratings. The list is endless...

(1984-1993)

(1982-1987)

(1997-1999)

(1999-2007)

(1956-2010)

(1970-2011)

With ALL MY CHILDREN recently cancelled and ONE LIFE TO LIVE airing its final episode next year after 44 years; what then... should viewers worldwide wait with bated breath for the few remaining soaps like GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS & THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL to go too because these days we no longer know what to expect. Speaking of which, of all the soaps I'm not going to miss would be DAYS OF OUR LIVES, it can rot for all I care; with their so called revamped story lines and sudden write off of memorable characters like Dr. Carly Manning (b y the way,the splitting of Carbo was THE MOST UNFAIR THING to ever happen in a soap since the splitting of Shuis in PASSIONS)- I'm yet to see how they expect people to watch that garbage of a show after that; I'll never forgive Ken Corday for firing Crystal Chappell and the others and letting such a wonderful love story fade away.
If this keeps up, we'll all be stuck with game or reality shows and the only thing worth watching would be telenovelas and webseries. The world is changing everyday but that doesn't mean our T.V programs should change so drastically! What would be the point of watching T.V at all???