Me,My Life & I

Hey all, I hope you're well. I've been puzzled for sometime by the fact that although I feel a gut instinct loyalty to God, I also do not have a gut instinct of dissaproval of homosexuality, as it seems to be construed by the media and some extremists etc that Christians should have. If that makes sense?

I'm about to be baptised and come into membership at my own church. We're fairly liberal and don't exactly do things in the traditional way, but when it comes down to it, the bible is the word of God. It says in the church constitution that to be a member you must live a lifestyle in keeping with the Christian faith. I do that to the best of my ability, however is actively not criticising something that the bible speaks against, and therefore condoning it, not in keeping with the Christian way of life? I was slightly worried about coming into membership with this worry over me. I cannot and feel that  I should not find it in myself to criticise homosexuality. I have many gay friends and have no problem with their lifestyle, it is their life (note I do not say choice - I do not believe that your sexuality is a choice.People are the way they are) and who am I to tell them they are wrong. The bible preaches above all other things, love, and whatever your opinion of Jesus Christ, whether Son of God or phoney, he was certainly not about exclusion. That is why it angers me so so so SO much when I see Christians preaching hatred and exclusion and not love and inclusion. But anyway, what sparked this post what a post I read over at the wonderful Hayley G Hoover blog. She made things make sense to me.

So, for a bit of a clearer post on what I'm actually trying to say go here.

Hope you're all well, and that I've not offended anybody. Please don't tell me I'm brainwashed by the church, or that God doesn't exist. Or anything else, I personally have found in my own life and in the witness of others that there is proof enough of a living Jesus Christ for me to believe in him. I am not someone who blindly follows, I believe it is wrong to do that. But in my opinion the bible is the guidance for the Christian life, and I have been really struggling up until today with the fact that I so heavily disagreed with this particular aspect. Again I say I really do hope I haven't offended anyone, feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions below.

Until Next Time

Megan.

Hey all,I hope you're well. I've decided to seperate out my personal blog and my media stuff blog. Therefore I've set up a new account over at blogspot to house all my film,tv and general media related stuff. I'll still post stuff here,so no worries. But if you want to keep up with reviews etc you can find me at www.merelysaying.blogspot.com

Until next time

Hey all, hope you're well. I've seen this twice now so feel I am ready to give you a proper review of this film.

As a whole, I didn't enjoy this as much as I'd hoped to. I feel that this is something that is no better than a badly put together one off tv documentary and it could've been shown as such. This leads me to think the only reason it's in the cinema is as a complete money making scheme. Shame on them.

However, if you're a Jackson fan, it's worth going to see. You can tell from the film that his shows were going to be mind blowing. He is on, if not top, very good form. He sings,dances and runs around the stage without getting so much as out of breath. And this is a man who is 50 years old, not old but far from the young Michael Jackson who could pull off all of those dance moves. He does it well and keeps up with the young,fit as a fiddle dancers who are backing him up.

Aside from being an interesting look into his rehearsals, it's nothing special and I'd say unless you're a Jacko fan really you're not going to take anything away from it.

Notable though is the fact that aside from being rather skinny, he looked healthy and in good shape. Makes his death a bit sadder to me. Anyway. Alright film, dunno if I'll be buying the dvd though.

Your thoughts, opinions?

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I saw this film in Paris and thought I'd better get around to reviewing it, so here we go.

Poor show, I'd say. Amanda Seyfriend and Megan Fox do well enough, but the problem isn't with them. It's with the poor script they've been given, I feel.

Sure it's a bit of good fun. Sexy, relevant, very teen orientated. But it's just not that good a film.

I'm not sure if they were going for a comic tone or not, but at times to me it just came off as really funny. Diablo Cody certainly writes humour better than she does horror, that's for sure. The plot could have been interesting but drifted off into a mega far fetched weirdness.The effects were bad, the ending very unrealistic, the whole thing shot a little bit shoddily.

As a whole, I'd say wait for the dvd.

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm doing good and as promised have finished my Paris report, so now it's time for some movie reviews.The first is for the Meryl Streep and Amy Adams vehicle - Julie & Julia. I seen it about two months ago so I'll be fuzzy on the details, but I'll give it a shot....

To anyone who keeps a blog, which i'm guessing if you read this you do, you'll know the stress that comes with not having updated in a while. So challenge yourself, if you can, to the thought of blogging every day. And on top of that - carrying out a self set,daunting challenge in front of the eyes of all of your readers. Scary prospect I know.

This film,based on the true stories of Julia Child and Julie Powell, follows one woman who has set herself such a challenge, and one who is trying to find some kind of challenge in her life.

As a whole it is thoroughly entertaining and a great film to pick you up when you're feeling a bit down. Meryl Streep is fantastic as always and Amy Adams certainly doesn't fall under the shadow of Streep's talent.

It's stylish,funny and just enjoyable overall. I would highly reccommend it to anyone, especially bloggers.

That's about all I can remember.

Hope you're all well.

Until Next Time

Megan x

DAY NINE - COMING HOME

We finished packing and cleaned up the aparment (removing various shaving foam acts of vandalism from the bathroom wall! ) and then went down to give Giovanni the keys, only to discover he wasn't there.Eventually someone turned up and we passed the keys onto them, so hopefully they got them back ok!?

Walk back to the Gare Du Nord was nothing on the traumatic marathon we walked on arrival, and things were all fine. We had to change trains once on the way to the airport, and I'd lost my ticket so couldn't get through the barriers at the other end, but Kirsty let me through with her and all was good.

Flight went well and was happy to get home.

Overall a fantastic week.

Some highlights:

*Sinead (Don't ask)
*I WANT YOU....TO BE MY WIFE!
*Jelly Duuuuude
*Gemma's "full of shit"
*Our game of truths
*Numerous chocolat chauds
*BonBons as a whole
*The scoreboard on the kitchen blackboard lol
*Midnight runs to Macdonalds
*Gemma managing to consistently use an invalid ticket in the metro gate thingys, leading to utter strangers (and Jamie) getting locked out.
*Le clown ne pas Penis

Memories:

*Climbing the Eiffel Tower
*Seeing Notre Dame
*The men that play music on the metro
*Disneyland Paris
*Late night chats and just general fun with my five favourite people.

A great week guys, and hopefully the first of many. Love you all x

Until Next Time

Megan x

DAY EIGHT - MORE SHOPPING! MOULIN ROUGE, AND AMELIE'S CAFE

Got up about half nine and had cheese on toast and a cup of tea for breakfast. Then we headed out shopping on the Champs Elysees one last time. It was all good at first - I bought myself another nine dvds (Volver,The Sixth Sense,Benny and Joon,The Godfather,Belleville Rendevouz,Dirty Dancing,A Clockwork Orange,Interview With A Vampire and Rock Horror and Gina got Volver aswell because it was 10 for €50!)

All was good until we went into Zara and Gina's money got stolen - the THEIVING BASTARDS! €85 cash taken right out of her purse. They didn't take her cards so I suppose we can be thankful for that, but still. It's gutting that we got to the last day without anything like that and then BAM some bugger goes and spoils it all.

We went home after that and packed. Then I went for a nap and we got ready to go for something to eat at Giovanni's. Pizza's and cokes all round.

Then we went to the Moulin Rouge. We didn't go see the show because lets face it - rip off. But we did take lots of pretty pictures and I got to wear THE PURPLE DRESS! (Note to future self - you spent ages trying to slim down to fit into that dress,and it did eventually fit a couple of weeks before you went away. Hence the capitalisation and importance.) The Moulin Rouge was smaller than expected, but still very pretty. Then, the highlight of the day for me - WE WENT FOR HOT CHOCOLATE IN AMELIE'S CAFE! It was pretty cool and a got a photo of the gnome Amelie steals.

Finally, we went to see the Eiffel Tower sparkle one last time and it put on the best light show we'd seen all week - changing colours and generally just being very pretty.

Last day in Paris was a really enjoyable one.

Until Next Time

Megan x