Living Life, Loving It!

as a kid, i have always given to charity because in our school, this kind of deed is always encouraged. i remember that the nuns use to tell us that it’s better to give than to receive. there is this particular site that receives boat donations as help to children. instead of money or clothes or food, they encourage people to donate boats instead. the people behind i lead such a blessed life and i myself would love to help in charity in my own ways. if i had one of my own, i would donate my boat to charity also.

 

LONDON - Naomi Campbell was arrested at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 on Thursday for allegedly spitting at a police officer, Sky News reported.

Police said a 37-year-old woman was arrested at the terminal on suspicion of assaulting police. The Metropolitan Police spokesman refused to identify the woman, or say whether the incident took place inside the terminal or aboard a plane. He spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with police policy.

BAA PLC, the company that runs Heathrow, didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment. British Airways PLC, the terminal’s sole occupant, referred questions to BAA and London police.

Campbell’s publicist in Los Angeles, Jeff Raymond, wrote in an e-mail that Campbell was flying to Los Angeles for a Thursday memorial service. He said she checked two bags in at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 with plenty of time to spare and was told they would make the flight. He said once on the plane, however, Campbell was told one of her bags was missing.

Raymond said British Airways decided to resolve the situation by insisting Campbell leave the flight, and then called police to forcibly eject her from the airplane.

"So far as we are aware B.A. have still failed to offer any explanation as to why her bag went missing at Terminal 5," Raymond wrote.

In January 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty in New York City to misdemeanor assault for throwing her cell phone at her maid in a dispute over a missing pair of jeans. She was ordered to do community service and attend a two-day anger-management program.

Campbell pleaded guilty in Toronto in 2000 to an assault charge for beating an assistant while making a film in Canada in 1998. Under an agreement with prosecutors, Campbell expressed remorse and was released without punishment or a criminal record.

E-commerce has been the trend nowadays, it’s the "in" thing among the business world. we are in a very modern era, and people in all walks of life refer to the internet to buy goods. why? because it is much more easier and more convenient if the buying and the purchasing is done there. you will be spared of the hassle of going to a market, it will spare you the fare. with internet and e-commerce, you can just order whatever you want, you can browse it in your computer and your order will be delivered to you in no time at all. it’s that easy! and the most well-known e-commerce software we have in the planet right now is the Ashop’s shopping cart software. Ashop offers this software to all the merchants out there who are willing and very interested to sell their goods online. shopping cart software is a software that will help businessman have their businesses organized and be known through the internet. when this software is used, the businessman will have the edge among its other competitors, he will be provided with advertisements not only in his/her own country but to the whole world as well.

Ashop’s shopping cart software is the solution to every businessman’s dream of advertising and selling online. it is the best solution there is.

 

Lovely girl, Norah Jones. That sultry voice, armfuls of Grammys, a multiplatinum debut album that produced the ubiquitous hit "Don’t Know Why."

But for all her charms and obvious talent, Jones seems outmatched in her first film, "My Blueberry Nights," opposite more seasoned actors Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman.

The camera certainly loves her: From the first moment you see her with her soulful brown eyes, pillowy lips and mass of dark hair, it’s obvious why Wong Kar Wai would be intrigued enough by her to create a starring role with her in mind.

But the Hong Kong director’s first English-language film, another of his typically moody meditations on love, loss and loneliness, never feels like a comfortable fit for Jones, even though she’s made her name with songs that touch on those very themes. You can almost hear her reading her lines; she seems childlike, stiff, unsure of herself.

Jones stars as Elizabeth, who has been saddened by a ruined romance. Night after night, she seeks solace at a New York cafe, where the owner, Jeremy (Law), feeds her blueberry pie, listens to her stories and becomes intrigued by her himself. Why blueberry, of all the pies in all the world? Because it’s the one that’s leftover, untouched, at the end of each day. She feels sorry for it — and he feels sorry for her — but there’s an engaging sweetness to the unexpected friendship they forge.

A cross-country road trip takes her to Memphis, Tenn., where she waitresses and witnesses the unraveling of a marriage between alcoholic cop Arnie (Strathairn) and his brazenly adulterous, floozy wife Sue Lynne (Weisz). Here, Elizabeth goes by Lizzie, as she gains confidence and saves up some money working days at a diner and nights at a dive bar.

Then one day, Lizzie picks up and moves on again — this time to a Nevada casino, where she calls herself Beth. There she befriends the sassy, in-over-her-head poker player Leslie, played by Portman in slinky, low-cut dresses and short, spiky blond hair. The all-grown-up act feels a bit forced on the pixyish Portman, as does her Southern accent, but at least there’s a life and an unpredictability to this segment that was missing previously.

Wong whips out all his dreamy, draggy visual tricks along the way: the staccato slo-mo, shooting people at night through storefront windows so they’re partly obscured by such words as "breads" and "cookies," the intense close-up of juicy blueberries and vanilla ice cream melting into each other (which is perhaps intended as an erotic suggestion, but instead resembles road kill).

Wong and co-writer Lawrence Block want us to believe that Elizabeth-Lizzie-Beth affects everyone she meets during her travels. It would be more accurate to say that she happens to be in the right place at the right time when pivotal moments occur in these people’s lives. She’s really more of a bystander and is, literally, in the film’s purest and most emotionally honest moment: a long take in which Weisz tearfully explains the origin of her relationship with the much-older Strathairn.

For all its implied weightiness and melancholy, "My Blueberry Nights" is a confection that leaves you feeling empty.

"My Blueberry Nights," a Weinstein Co. release, is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material including violence, drinking and smoking. Running time: 90 minutes. Two stars out of four.