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Chick Flicks Are Predictable – So What?

February 22, 2013 in Entertainment, Film & TV, People, Self

Last weekend, DG and I had a date night which involved dinner and a movie. Classic combination, right? We ended up seeing Safe Haven, the new Nicholas Sparks movie. For the people who know me, this will come as no surprise because I love Nicholas Sparks. He’s my favourite author (alongside JK Rowling and John Green) and I own every single one of his books and the DVDs of the movie adaptations (including two copies of The Notebook, one is a special edition and I HAD to have it). Why do I like him so much? Because his stories are “safe”. I generally [...]

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We Take Valentine’s Day Too Seriously

February 14, 2013 in Dating, Marriage, People, Relationships, Self

It’s Valentine’s Day today. But I’m pretty sure you already knew that. It would be pretty hard to forget, with all the posts on Facebook, tweets on Twitter and signs and specials all over the shops. Valentine’s Day seems to have people divided. It’s the couples vs the singles. The couples say it’s a beautiful day, an expression of love. The singles say it’s a Hallmark holiday and that it’s rubbish (generally speaking). I fall somewhere in the middle. I think the idea of Valentine’s Day is lovely, it’s a nice day for people who are crushing on someone to [...]

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If MP3s Be The Food Of Love…

January 7, 2013 in Fiction, Music, Relationships

The bus was almost full and, as always, he was the last person with a free seat next to him. It was always thus. No one liked sitting next to him – he was a creepy old man. Not really. He was just a nondescript middle aged man in an un-ironed  business shirt, fading grey trousers, and unpolished but sensible shoes. His greying hair was short, if a little unkempt, and his imperfectly shaved face was round and unremarkable. He was largely invisible to the world, except for now. Now he was something to avoid, like an awkward smell in an elevator. Sometimes he [...]

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Poor Taste & Monique’s Celeb Top 5

September 14, 2012 in Celebrity, Entertainment, Fashion, Film & TV, Music, Pregnancy & Birth

Hello my wonderful readers and welcome to another week of my celeb news for you. Hope you’ve all had an amazing week, I have, especially considering I turned 22 yesterday! Yes, I know, I’m only 22 (I know I seem so much older and wiser than that, haha) and in the KiKi & Tea family, we’re also excited as one of our lovely readers Melissa gets married tomorrow! How exciting!! And that’s not the only exciting wedding with news that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds tied the knot, and that’s not the only thing happening in Tinsel Town this week [...]

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Chivalrous Men and Why Gentlemen are Underrated.

June 6, 2012 in Books, Dating, Entertainment, Gender, People, Relationships, Self, Sex

Chivalry is dead. Manners are free. You’ve heard these lines before with the only exception being that some people use them more than others. So, as I make my way through this awkward and sometimes downright disappointing world of dating, I wonder whatever happened to the gentleman? He is elusive, kind of like Superman. One minute he’s there, the next he’s gone. Well I, for one, want him to stick around ’cause he’s tops. At least at the beginning anyway. When was the last time a guy opened a car door for you? Mine was Saturday night but I paid [...]

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Life Imitating Art

May 23, 2012 in Celebrity, Dating, Entertainment, Film & TV, Relationships, Sex, Work

Don’t you just love it when actors who are a couple on-screen announce that they are also a couple off-screen? Well I do. I think this is because it makes their relationship on the television show or in the movie they star in appear more real. And just like it makes me happy when they are together in real life. I must admit, I do become a little bit upset when they announce their split…invariably because they have fallen in love with another co-star. But why does this happen, I hear you ask? It is a simple case of life imitating [...]

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Are Single Women Too Choosy?

March 19, 2012 in Dating, Marriage, Self

How many times have you fallen in love? Once? Twice? I fall in love each time I turn on Mad Men and watch Don Draper (Jon Hamm) walk around his 1960s ad agency office with a cigarette in one hand; a whisky in the other. A girl can dream. When I think of love I remember that feeling of butterflies in the stomach, or hanging off the other person’s every single word, or even what it felt like when you showed them your favourite movie and they loved it. Or they hated it to bits but you didn’t care anyway because you’re [...]

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Love: Loving too much. Loving too easily.

March 9, 2012 in Dating, Relationships, Self

Love. Amour. Liebe. Amore. No matter how you say it, chances are you have loved somebody at sometime. Maybe you have loved many people. Maybe you have been lucky enough to have found the love of your life at first go. I’ve been in love a few times. I still remember how much I was in love with my first girlfriend. I was 20, she was 19. We were each other’s first love. It was perfect…except…she was Greek and had an exceptionally conservative (and violent) traditional Greek father who thought all Australians (meaning Anglo-Celtics) were lazy and expected his daughter [...]

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