Song facts : Taylor Swift - Blank Space

Nice to meet you, where you been?
I could show you incredible things
Magic, madness, heaven, sin
Saw you there and I thought
Oh my God, look at that face
You look like my next mistake
Love's a game, wanna play?

New money, suit and tie
I can read you like a magazine
Ain't it funny, rumors fly
And I know you heard about me
So hey, let's be friends
I'm dying to see how this one ends
Grab your passport and my hand
I can make the bad guys good for a weekend

So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

'Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I've got a blank space, baby
And I'll write your name

Cherry lips, crystal skies
I could show you incredible things
Stolen kisses, pretty lies
You're the King, baby, I'm your Queen
Find out what you want
Be that girl for a month
Wait, the worst is yet to come, oh no

Screaming, crying, perfect storms
I can make all the tables turn
Rose garden filled with thorns
Keep you second guessing like
"Oh my God, who is she?"
I get drunk on jealousy
But you'll come back each time you leave
'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

'Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I've got a blank space, baby
And I'll write your name

Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't say, I didn't warn ya
Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't say, I didn't warn ya

So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

'Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I've got a blank space, baby
And I'll write your name 

 

Did you know the popular track off '1989' started out as a complete joke? Keep reading to find out more!

WhoSay is thrilled to partner with one of the most vibrant Taylor Swift fan communities in the world, TT4Taylor. This week TT4Taylor's editor, Jencita Vargas, gives Swifties the true story behind Swift's new single "Blank Space" off of '1989.' 

VIDEO: Taylor Swift Talks About 'Blank Space'

"Blank Space" isn't your typical T Swift song. If you know nothing about the background of the song, you might think it a bit strange. But like every great song, there is a great story. Swift says the song started out as a complete joke:

I think as a song writer you have to be pretty well aware of who you are as a person, then I think you also have to have one eye on what people think of you. What the general perception is of you out in the world. In the last couple years I've noticed there's been a pretty sensational fictionalization of my personal life. To the point where it's sort of like 'Wow, that too?' They've kind of drawn up this profile of this girl who is a serial dater, jet setting around with all her boyfriends, she can get 'em but she can't keep 'em because she's too emotional and she's needy. Then she gets her heart broken because they leave and she's jilted so she goes to her evil liar and writes songs about it for revenge. 

Swift was recently on The View and she said something that stuck out to me. "It’s our human instinct to try and defend yourself when people have the wrong impression of you," she admitted. 

How true that is, and often times defending yourself does more bad than good. People are going to believe what they decide they want to believe, whether there's truth to it or not. Sometimes you just gotta roll with the punches and that's exactly what Swift has done with "Blank Space." 

One thing Swift loves to do is put secret messages in the lyric notes of her album. For each song she types the lyrics in lower cases letters, but throughout the song there will be spontaneous capitalized letters. If you put them all together they will form a message. The secret message in "Blank Space" is "There once was a girl known by everyone and no one."

Swift capitalizes on this idea of never talking about her personal life, but revealing what happened through song. Blank Space is a completely different venture for Swift as she takes on this persona of how the media portrays her, instead of what her life actually is like. 

Taylor Swift Tackles Rumors Head On in 'Blank Space'

A key line in the song "Ain't it funny rumors fly, And I know you heard about me," gives us a glimpse into what it's like to be miss Swift, but it's also very relatable to the average person. Many of us have heard things about others and ourselves that aren't true. The art of a Taylor Swift song comes from being able to take personal experiences and having them translate into the lives of millions of other people. This is the reason Swift can still sell over a million copies of her album the first week and why all of her concerts sell out. She knows how to connect to people's emotions. Although we haven't lived out Swift's love life or dealt with the scrutiny she has, we can still relate to the emotions and experiences she has gone through, making her high profile romances just as ordinary as the rest of us!

Swift isn't looking for romance, she's happy to have found herself and a wonderful group of girlfriends. She told People: 

It would take an astonishing human for me to even consider getting back into a relationship. It would take a really, really, really, really, different—kind of one in 1 million person to kind of face all that. I don’t have any kind of idea who I want to be with, because I don’t have any pieces missing from my life right now. I’m not looking for anything to complete. I think that’s a nice place to be. I’m not going to compromise the happiness and independence that I found just for just anybody.

What do you think of the story behind "Blank Space"? 

reference http://www.whosay.com/articles/5242-the-truth-behind-taylor-swifts-new-single-blank-space

 

Love, Rosie

Love, Rosie is a 2014 British-German romantic comedy-drama film directed by Christian Ditter and written by Juliette Towhidi, based on the 2004 novel Where Rainbows End by Irish author Cecelia Ahern.

Cecilia Ahern

The film stars Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Tamsin Egerton, Suki Waterhouse, Jaime Winstone and Lily Laight, with a cameo from Daniel Radcliffe.

Directed by	Christian Ditter
Produced by	Robert Kulzer Simon Brooks
Written by	Juliette Towhidi
Based on	Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern
Starring	Lily Collins Sam Claflin Tamsin Egerton Suki Waterhouse Jaime Winstone Christian Cooke Lily Laight
Music by	Ralph Wengenmayr
Edited by	Tony Cranstoun
Production company	Canyon Creek Films Constantin Film Octagon Films
Distributed by	Lionsgate
Release dates	17 October 2014 (Philadelphia International Film Festival) 22 October 2014 (United Kingdom) 30 October 2014 (Germany)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United Kingdom Germany
Language	English
Box office	$4,419,000

Cast

• Lily Collins as Rosie Dunne
• Sam Claflin as Alex Stewart
• Tamsin Egerton as Sally
• Suki Waterhouse as Bethany Williams
• Jaime Winstone as Ruby
• Christian Cooke as Greg
• Lily Laight as Katie Dunne
• Nick Lee as Herb
• Nick Hardin as Joe American
• Jamie Beamish as Phil

Review

This movie is about friendship between a girl named Rosie Dunne (cast by Lily Collins) and a boy named Alex Stewart (cast by Sam Claflin). Their friendship built because they was  neighbouring to each other, and their friendship start from their old was 6. They’re usually play together, listen music, etc. one of their habit is roll the globe with closed eyes and then they’re tap  the globe and see what they choose. At Rosie’s 18th   birthday party, Rosie and Alex dance together, but at the last they’re have a kiss—until Rosie fall down. But most of which she too drunk to remember that.And it’s just the beginning.

One day, their school held a party. But Rosie came with Greg who is the fittest guy in those year, and absolutely Alex go with Bethany. At the party, some accident was happen, a big accident. 9 months later, baby named Katie was born. No father, just mother, yes single parents. Cause that, Rosie’s dreams for study at Boston College was gone. Long time later, Alex knows that from Bethany. And actually that problem was doesn’t matter, their life was still not changed. Party? Yes, dinner? Yes, kidding? Yes, and all of the other funny activities still at the same. But again and again, trouble came from the other side. Their friendship was in alert. And you know? At the last, they can handle that and become a husband-wife relationship or yap getting married.

I know this movie was too mainstream, absolutely the movie’s way. But what makes this movie should watched by us? Cause the unique is when they’re wants each other but that feelings can’t , because they think they are in friends relationship. But it was wrong.  

I think that’s all about Love, Rosie. Ok see you at the next time!

Trailer Love, Rosie. Please enjoy it!

reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love,_Rosie_%28film%29

Lake Hiller

Oke at this time i would post an amazing natural phenomenon called Lake Hillier (or Lake Retba/Hott Lagoon/ Pink Lake). In my opinion, I think this lake was very beautiful and it was like a gummy lake, I never go to that place but i hope someday i can.
And here is the explanation about this lake, hope you enjoy it!

Lake Hillier is a saline lake on the edge of Middle Island, the largest of the islands and islets that make up the Recherche Archipelago off the south coast of Western Australia. It is particularly notable for its pink colour. A long and thin shore divides the Southern Ocean from the lake.

The location of Lake Hillier/Pink Lake

The location of Lake Hillier

Description

Lake Hillier is about 600 metres (2,000 ft) in length by about 250 metres (820 ft) in width. The lake is surrounded by a rim of sand and a dense woodland of paperbark and eucalyptus trees with a narrow strip of sand dunes covered by vegetation separating its northern edge from the northern coast of Middle Island. The most notable feature of the lake is its pink colour. The vibrant colour is permanent, and does not alter when the water is taken in a container. The source of the pink colour is considered to be due to the presence of the organism Dunaliella salina (is a type of halophile green micro-algae especially found in sea salt fields) .Air is the best mode of transportation for viewing the lake.

The Air view of Lake Hillier

History

European discovery and use

Lake HIllier was visited by the Matthew Flinders' expedition on 15 January 1802. Flinders' journal entries are considered to be the first written records of the lake. Flinders observed the pink lake after ascending the island's highest peak (now called Flinders Peak), describing the lake as follows:

In the north-eastern part was a small lake of a rose colour, the water of which, as I was informed by Mr. Thistle who visited it, was so saturated with salt that sufficient quantities were crystallised near the shores to load a ship. The specimen he brought on board was of a good quality, and required no other process than drying to be fit for use.

Flinders visited Middle Island again in May 1803; he intended “to stop a day or two in Goose-Island Bay, for the purposes of procuring geese for our sick people, seal oil for our lamps, and a few casks of salt from the lake on Middle Island”. It is reported that Flinders subsequently named the lake after William Hillier, a crew member of Investigator who died of dysentery on 20 May 1803 prior to the expedition's departure from Middle Island.
The lake was subject to salt mining during the late 19th century. The salt mining enterprise is reported as failing for a number of reasons including “the toxicity of the salt collected for consumption”.
As of 2012, the lake is part of the protected area known as the Recherche Archipelago Nature Reserve and is the feature of a recreational walking trail which circumnavigates its shoreline.

Forms of life

The only living organism in Lake Hillier is Dunaliella salina, the microorganism that causes the salt content in the lake to create a red dye, hence the colour. Another hypothesis is that the pink colour is due to red halophilic bacteria in the salt crusts. Despite the unusual hue, the lake exhibits no known adverse effects upon humans. From above, the lake appears a solid bubble gum pink, but from the shoreline it appears more of a clear pink hue. The shoreline is also covered in salt crust deposits.

Safety and accessibility

Despite the high salt content levels (comparable to those of the Dead Sea), Lake Hillier is safe to swim in. However, there are very few ways to reach Lake Hillier. Helicopter is one of the most common methods of travel. Cruises are also an option for passengers wanting to visit the isolated lake, and surrounding forest area.

Protected area status

As recently as 2012, Lake Hillier has been located within the boundaries of the Recherche Archipelago Nature Reserve. Since 2002, the lake itself has been considered to be a wetland of “subregional significance”.

My holidays

Hi! Now I want to share you about my holidays. The holidays starts from 24th of December 2014 until 12nd of January 2015. I spend about one week at Jakarta and Depok , two days at Cikole lembang, and one day for religion extracurricular's program.

At Jakarta, I didn't celebrating new year, not at all even I didn't watching or playing fireworks hahaha it just because I getting tired and I slept at nine or ten I forgot it. At the morning, My Family and I going to Ancol... I doesn't enjoy that place too much:( , just one place at there that I wanted to visit very much, Pasar Seni! I didn't know but I very excited for looking many artist's painting and other artistical object. And there is some photo that I take

Abstract!!

How he can do that?

That was cool!!

Just for adding hehe, i'm in Gondola

After a few days, My Family and I going to Depok for visiting My Father's old sister (I called her Bude), My cousins, and My old sister. At there, Me and Bude just sharing about her life. She was told Me that she getting married at fifteen, what? And she get a baby when she was nineteen, I can't imagine when a girl like me (I'm sixteen) have a baby.. No no no I didn't want that, that's so scared. Oh ya! when she had a baby, my grandmother had a baby too! and the baby is my father.. Ok it's amazing hahahaha oh no that's very cute:') . Other topic was come cause I'm hungry and Bude
offered me some durian dodols, And know what? that durian dodols was made by Bude! yay special for me! and the taste was very delicious, you must try.
After a few days, My Family and I going back home!

Sunday 4th of January 2015, My Friends (Felia, Aldita, Thalita, Chaca, Devi, Auzan, Adit) and I going to Cikola for shooting "Snow White and The Dwarf". After we arrived, we made some properties like magic mirror. At 13.00 we started for shooting until 17.30, auzan and adit stay at night, so just 6 girls at village and no one in around us, very quite. At the night at 20.00, we searching for dinner by walking, and after some hundred meters we found fried rice small shop! We ate very voracious becauae we're very hungry haha. After dinner we buying some foods at alfamart and then we going back to the village. Oh ya at the night we fire up bonfire.

Bonfire

We shooting again until 23.30, slept, and shooting again in the morning but Thalita and I go sleep again hehe. Aldita come back to her home early because she and her family wants to umroh. At 10.30, we going back to our school!.

Thursday 8th of January 2015, Religion extracurricular or also called DKM had a program to visiting our teachers or can called silaturahmi. Our seniors say we have to gather at 7 o'clock and shcool, please.. this is a holiday and I must woke up at 5 or 6?? but there is no activity schedule that day so I participaced that program. I arrived at 06.55, there is no one at school haha isn't a joke right? at 07.05 someone arrived and he looks like senior, but senior dkm or not? but i don't care cause he come into the school. after a few minutes ago, come Ismail and immediately he ask me why nobody here and this school was very quite? after a short story that i tell to Ismail, the other friend come, Haifa. same with Ismail, she ask anything. And the boy that I guess was my senior isn't my senior, he is Halim (we introduced or self). After 1 hour 30 minutes passed, just 6 people (Me, Haifa, Ismail, Halim, Fadil, Fadli) and our seniors who was come, from 104. :) .

We buy 2 brownies and directly go to our teacher's home by motorcycle. Senior says the first was madam Ipit's home, located at Soekarno-Hatta. When the gate was open, someone screaming "Why she is so similar with madam Elis?!" hahahaha the truth was the first teacher's home that we visit is madam elis's home. lol that was funny.

The second and the last teacher's home was madam Ipit's home! located at Margahayu and that was so far far away i think. Madam Ipit and her husband is chemistry teacher, but they pension at 2010. They are discipline teachers and I think it was very cool. He tell us stories about the old of 3 Senior High School, Histories about anything that was begin from 3 Senior High School, even about teachers, new teachers, and the conflict about headmaster that ever happened:) that conflict was made me laugh every I remembered it!  

At evening, We go back to school. Very tired but worth it!

The Crying Stone

The Crying Stone

The province of West Kalimantan is one Indonesian province bordered directly to the eastern Malaysia. There are so many rivers here; thus the province is called “the province of the thousands river.”

Amongst the local inhabitants of West Kalimantan, a girl was cursed with a stone just because of her disobedient to her mother. Here is the story!

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Once upon a time, there was a family of a widow, and her only daughter living in a hinterland of West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. The widow was just an old woman; while her daughter was a charming girl, whose name was Darmi.

Both lived in a decrepit hut. They lived poor since the widow`s husband passed away. He was gone leaving no inheritance to the family. Consequently, to fulfil their needs, they were forced willy-nilly to work much harder.

However, Darmi was not a hard-worker, totally differed from her mother. She was a lazy girl who spent almost of her times dressing up and adoring her reflection on the mirror. One of her bad habits was showing off her beauty to the local people living in the surroundings. She never wanted to help her mother working at the field. If her mother asked her for help, Darmi refused.

“Girl, will you help at the field, now?” the mother asked.

“No, I won`t! I don`t want to go there. I`m afraid my skin turns dark,” Darmi answered to her mother without looking at her.

“You let me to work there alone, don`t you?”

“Mom, everyone knows that you are an old woman while I am a pretty young girl. So, people will get attracted to me and not you. That is why I prefer staying at home to working outside in the field because I…! am…! waiting for a rich boy propose me to get married with.”

Darmi`s mother was speechless to hear that. It was as if she was stricken by a light realizing that her daughter did no respect to her at all. Then, she went to the field alone and Darmi stayed at home.

Worse, Darmi used to beg money from her mother, soon after she went back from work. In fact, she earned too little to meet their daily need.

“Mom, where is the money?!” Darmi asked.

“No! I won`t give this to you. We need this to buy some foods,” the mother said.

“But I`m running out of face powder. I don`t have it anymore, Mom! I need to buy a new one,”

The mother got angry to her daughter but she repressed it. She surrendered and gave her the money.

Darmi “bad-habit” towards her mother occurred almost everyday. The mother worked too hard in the field; while Darmi stayed at home. The mother went back home; then, Darmi begged for the money.

One day, Darmi`s mother was going to a nearest market from her home. Darmi knew this, and she got her mother to buy some cosmetics. However, Darmi`s mother did not know anything about cosmetics. She asked Darmi to accompany her to the market.

“Go with me to the market so you can choose which one that you want,” the mother said.

“I don`t want to go with you!” Darmi answered.

“But I don`t know which one!”

Then, Darmi gave up. She followed her mother to go to the market.

“Ok, Mom! I will go with you, but please, you have to walk behind me!” said Darmi, who got her mother to act as if the old woman was her maid.

“Why, girl?” the mother wondered.

“I feel ashamed to walk along with an old woman like you. Look at me! I`m a graceful girl so I won`t people leave me because they know you`re my mother!” Darmi explained.

Both then looked for goods in the market. Darmi`s mother walked behind her daughter. She brought a plastic bag containing the things they got from there.

Actually, they were between a girl and her mother. But somehow they looked contrast. Darmi wore elegant clothes and walked gracefully; while her mother wore a worn out clothes with rumbling face.

Along the way in the market, many greeted Darmi, and some of them asked who the old woman was.

In a moment, Darmi met her friends. “Hi, Darmi! Where`re you goin`?

“Just looking around here. I wish I could find something good here,” she said.

“Then, who`s that one? Is that your Mom?” one of her friends asked Darmi while pointing at the mother.

“No, of course! She is a maid at my house, gals!”

Darmi`s mother was totally shocked to hear that. She couldn`t believe those words came out from her daughter. No matter what, she tried hard to calm herself down. She ease off her anger and went ahead accompanying her daughter.

In another moment, an unknown man greeted Darmi. It appears that the man would try to attract Darmi`s attention. But sure, she did not want to such a common man.

“Hi, girl! Where are you going?” asked the man while smilling.

“As you can see by yourself, I`m here looking for cosmetics,” she answered.

“Cosmetics to beautify you? And who`s the old woman behind you?”

“She`s my maid,” Darmi said.

What an attacking answer! Darmi`s mother could no longer restrain her anger. Soon after Darmi said that words, the mother stopped, and took a sit on a swing on the sidewalk.

“Why do you stop?” Darmi questioned her mother but she did not call her “Mom.”

“Hey! Are you listening to me?!” she shouted once more because the mother was just silent.

The mother kept silent, ignoring the call of her daughter who had hurt her.

Since then, Darmi`s mother mumbled with her hands looked up to the sky. She was reciting prayers to God so that her daughter was cursed to be a stone.

“Hey, old woman! What… are… you doing?!!” Darmi kept stubborn, admitting the old woman was not her mother.

Darmi`s mother intended not to answer. She kept praying to God upon a curse towards her daughter.

All of sudden, the sky turned dark. The loud thunder roared back and forth. The rain fell heavily.

At that time, Darmi could move her foots anymore. Gradually, her foots turned into black stone that later on covered her entire body.

“Mom…! Mom…! What`s happening to me?” finally she called her mother “Mom.” “I`m sorry, Mom! I`m so sorry…,” she cried loudly.

Everything went on. The curse upon Darmi`s disobedience had happened. The stone covered almost all her body.

When the stone almost reached her head, Darmi shed tears. All the people passing by the market saw this. Likewise, they watched the girl crying.

The weather returned as normal. Now, the stone had covered Darmi`s entire body, the disobedient girl. What a miracle, the stone, due the present, keeps spouting water as if a crying girl. Some people took the stone, and put it on a corner of the market. Since that time, people called the stone the “crying stone.”

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Here is the story about the origins of the “crying stone,” which is originally from the province of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. There is a worth lesson can be taken from the story. The figure Darmi strongly refused to admit that the old woman was actually her mother. She was a lazy while her mother was a hard-worker. Consequently, she was cursed to be a stone upon her disobedience towards her mother.

In the Tunjuk Ajar Melayu (Effendy: 2006), it is said:

Kalau hidup mendurhaka
Kemana pergi akan celaka
 
Kalau suka berbuat durhaka
Orang benci Tuhan pun murka

The above pantun suggests that we should obey all our parents` good orders. Two logic consequences of disobedience, as what the pantun says, are luring both rage from God and surrounding people.

References : http://ceritarakyatnusantara.com/en/folklore/46-the-crying-stone