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hello, belle vie: 2012 Recap - Part 2
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Friday, January 11, 2013. 2012 Recap - Part 2. I posted a review of the first half of 2012 right over here. So here goes the second half of the year! The adventures just kept getting better. Enjoy! July was crazy, and busy, and fun, and new. I left my old 'day job' at a corporate gym, and moved onto a job at a smaller, wedding industry job. We celebrated my niece, C's, 1st birthday with a wonderful circus theme party! August maybe even beat July! Is a seriously fun run! I'm one lucky girl. September was ...
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The Coconut Chronicles: August 2012
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Saturday, August 11, 2012. Fair and Lovely - Why Indians Are Obsessed With Light Skin. When talking about race and identity, one thing I rarely touch on is skin colour – mostly because I see it as irrelevant. Despite having grown up in a veritable sea of white, the fact that I have chocolate coloured skin (allow me this indulgence), has never actually featured as an insecurity for me. Extra pretty, but I doubt her skin colour has anything to do with it). I mean, I can’t say I particularly care, but...
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That's Just Lovely...: April 2013
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Oh, well.hey there! Got life going on, ya know? So get outttt and let me continue to learn in life and rock on. ;). I hope you're all doing well and I can't believe people STILL check my blog. You are awesome and it makes me really happy to hear that. I love you for it, really. I promised I'd write when I wanted to, didn't I? Ummm- preach it, Audrey! I'll try and post more sometime soon. I miss a lot of you people! Do I look older? You get what I'm saying, right? Don't call me out.
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A Sewcial Life: Tutorials & DIY's
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The Coconut Chronicles: May 2014
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Saturday, May 17, 2014. Confronting the complex migrant identity AKA 'Please don't speak in Hindi to me at work'. At a work conference recently, I was approached by an Indian woman who had been watching me from afar for most of the day. She was middle-aged, dressed in a salwar kameez. And she smiled as she walked over. 8216;Where are you from? 8217; were her first words. I smiled back, but there was a sinking feeling already invading my stomach. She kept looking at me patiently, so I caved. There were tw...
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The Coconut Chronicles: March 2014
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Friday, March 28, 2014. India's Gulabi Gang - feminist action in need of support. A while ago, I wrote the article. About a vigilante feminist justice group in India, the Gulabi Gang. These women don their bright pink saris and take action against men who treat them or their sisters unjustly. Now, a feminist group in the UK has set up an Indiegogo campaign. To raise funds for the Gulabi Gang. Please, read my article, and then consider donating to the campaign. However, the use of violence in the GangR...
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The Coconut Chronicles: December 2012
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012. English as a second language : my experience of ESL classes. When I was nine years old, my family moved from the small(ish) town of Albury in NSW, to Canberra ACT. My dad’s company had merged with another company, and relocated to the capital. I remained disconnected and uninterested in socialising until one of my best friends from Albury moved to Canberra and miraculously ended up at the same school. And ‘yellows’, that filled the entire school. There was an upside and a downs...
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The Coconut Chronicles: Confronting the complex migrant identity AKA 'Please don't speak in Hindi to me at work'
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Saturday, May 17, 2014. Confronting the complex migrant identity AKA 'Please don't speak in Hindi to me at work'. At a work conference recently, I was approached by an Indian woman who had been watching me from afar for most of the day. She was middle-aged, dressed in a salwar kameez. And she smiled as she walked over. 8216;Where are you from? 8217; were her first words. I smiled back, but there was a sinking feeling already invading my stomach. She kept looking at me patiently, so I caved. There were tw...
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The Coconut Chronicles: How to deal with disappointing your parents
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013. How to deal with disappointing your parents. Alright, Amrish Puri isn't my dad, but thanks to Bollywood, he's the epitome of a disappointed parent to me). It's almost impossible to grow up in a western country, and participate in the culture there without at some point disappointing your traditionalist, ethnic parents. That, in itself, is emotionally very difficult for me. No one wants to feel like they've failed or upset their family, by virtue of being themselves. T...Howev...
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The Coconut Chronicles: January 2013
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Thursday, January 10, 2013. Are all Indians just Apu? The stereotype of the small business owner. The stereotype about Indians that I’ve probably found the hardest to disprove is that of us being hard-working, kind of stingy peeps with a penchant for opening small businesses. To be honest, three quarters of my extended family either run convenience stores or some other kind of small business, and my own parents have run four different successful businesses in their time so far. I’ve always been imp...
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