Valentine's Day

Valentine’s day is on the corner.
You can tell by the pink hearts, red roses, chocolate boxes and sexy lingerie.
Reason enough to give the subject sincere love some extra attention.
Are you really in love ? Are you feeling butterflies or is it just vermin ?
Take some time to think about it and don’t fool yourself.
Are you really with the person you wanna be with ? Or are you just scared of lonely ?
Cause I’d rather be alone on Valentine’s day than being fooled.
I mean.. don’t act like you’re into it, when you’re really not.
Do whatever you wanna do, but make sure your heart is in it.
On this day people are full of expectations and sincerity is the least they deserve.
So if your love is sincere, use this day to open up and let your heart speak.
If it’s not, stop the actor in you and stop the game you’re playing.

Happy Valentine’s Day

Like the rabbit..

Since both technology and women empowerment are moving forward, it seems single woman is the new best thing. Women don’t need men anymore.. not for money, not for kids, not for love and not for orgasms.

Women can get money through education, they can buy appartments through jobs, kids through artificial insemination, love through family and friends (with benefits) and they can even get orgasms through toys like..the rabbit !

I don’t mean to say anything negative or bad about men, sometimes there’s nothing better than a strong man holding your hand. But I guess some men have to be more careful with women. Or they end up (c)old and lonely.


-by me-

I don’t sing sad love songs, I buy Chanel

It’s the reaction of many people whose heart has been broken.
But I won’t sing sad love songs or grab a chocolate bar and I definitely won’t cry.
I’m worse than that.
I buy things that I don’t need, don’t use and don’t want.
Some call it shopping therapy, but it’s really an addiction.
Therefore you need therapy, without shopping!
The amount of money I spend depends on how deep the pain goes.
When a man disappoints me I find comfort at M·A·C or Chanel.
When he lies to me I deserve a spa day and new shoes.
And a big break up can cost me an entire new wardrobe.
After such a shopping treat I feel stronger than ever, no one can take my dazzle M·A·C smile away.
If only this was long term happiness, there wouldn’t be a problem.
But experience has taught me that my dazzle smile doesn’t last long,
Within’one day I’m right back to where I was.
Turns out, it’s neither good for my bankaccount nor my heart.
So what to do;
Never fall in love again or taking that risk with the possibility of having to spend another day at my favorite store ?

Love, Iris

Love and Leave

Over the last couple of years I met many men.

All with different looks, lifestyles, goals and languages.

They had two things in common, being complicated and having the XY chromosome.

I don’t regret meeting them, even though they didn’t gave me what I was looking for.

They took me back & forth, brought me up & down, got me high & low.

I’ve seen the sun & the rain, experienced laughter & pain.

And found out that their actions, their words mean nothing, unless stated otherwise.

Bittersweet I would say, bitter because of the tears and sweet because of the lessons.

Love and leave


-writtenbyme-

The Sequel of Fairytales

There will be a(nother) prince charming… The fact that they never wrote about love after first love, doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

We all know that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, so “living happily ever after” is still in the picture.

The world is enormous and full of people. So different, yet so much alike.

And out of all these people, you’ll probably find more than one person who will sweep you off your feet.

When it’s going to happen, only time can tell.

Just have a little patience, dont go looking for love, let love find you.

Cause I promise you, it will find you.

When you’re in the right place at the right time, Mr. Charming will sweep you of your feet.

You will be caught in the moment, a new book will open and a new story will be written.


-written by me-

SHe

She was smart and quiet

He was social and smart

She was beautiful, but sometimes unsure

He knew he looked good, but never showed it

She was always wonderin’who she was and where she was going

He was living in the very moment

She was glowing, when surrounded by the right people

He was over excited, but laidback

She only let few people into her heart

He gave everyone a small piece of his

She was creative and loved to write and draw

He was very social but loved alone time after all

She had a hard time letting things go

He knew how to accept the way things go

She was always stormy like the wind

He was always calm like still water



He was high on life

She was high on love

He was in love

She was in love

He enjoyed cooking and dining

She enjoyed dinners and good food

He loved making fire

She loved staying warm

He once opened up and cried

She opened her heart and smiled

He prefered sleeping together

She prefered not sleeping alone

He was amused by the people of the city

She was amused by the rush of the city

He was never too late

She was always on time



He began wondering who he was and where he was going

She understood

He left

-written by me-

Explore

In order to feel good in life,

you have to know what makes you feel good.

The world is yours, go explore yourself.

Find out which music you love to hear,

which country feels like your home

and what it is that you like in a person.

Find out what feeds your mind.

-written by me-

Citygal

A girl without her city is like mother nature without water, without sun.
There is nothing that feeds her.
People might think I’m overreacting, but this is the truth.
While others may describe the sounds of the city as noise,
for me it’s like music to my ears.
I would choose crowded over quiet,
And traffic over empty streets.
I’d rather hear honking taxi’s than silence of the nothingness.
I don’t mind take aways on every corner of the street.
I prefer light over dark.
I love a little life in the middle of the night,
In fact I can’t sleep without hearing the subway every other minute.
You can take me out of the city, but you can’t take the city out of me.

-written by me-

I love Apple

It must have been 1998, I was 10 years old.. young and innocent but I had good taste !
I was playing at a friends house with barbie's when something caught my eye,
it was then and there that I fell in love, in love with an Apple Imac G3.
Unfortunately I didn't had the money to buy one, but I dreamed about the smooth design every night.
And I knew that one day I would be the owner of an Apple Imac G3,
not knowing that nowadays they have Macs, iPods, iPhones and iPads.

I can now say that I'm the proud owner of an iPod nano, a white one.. 4 years old.
I begin to think that's too old for an iPod, but I can't say go!
You see, my love for Apple is big and it's still growing every day.

However I still can't decide whether to buy an iPhone or not..
And when I'm starting school in September I really need a Macbook (pro).
Or what about the "iPad", I get serious heart palpitations of that thing.
I don't really need one, but hey look how thin, feel how light, see the smooth design,
check the touchscreen and the features.
Decisions, Decisions....




Until then I will cherish every moment with my iPod nano
Love, Iris

Fairytale

Every girl knows the word “fairytale”,
the first time you heard about this word was probably in your early years.
Maybe your parents or grandparents told you about it before you got to sleep.
Maybe you read it in a book or saw it in the cinema.
I’m talkin’about the stories where everything can happen.
Stories filled with dwarfs, crowns, candy houses, talking teapots and
dancing armoires and the most important one; love, real love, endless love !
Love between a beautiful young woman and a charming prince on a white horse,
saving the young woman from all the bad, and they live happily ever after.
These are all lovely stories, and at that age we love to believe all of it.
But as we grow older, we find out that it’s a little bit different, or not ?
Allright, the first time you fall in love, it’s exactly as you heard or read in fairytales, even better !
And so does it carry on for a few chapters, exactly, a few chapters.
Cause after a while it can lose it’s glow, you find out it’s not always happily ever after.
And then you’ll feel lost, what in the world are you going to do..
you don’t know, cause you never read this part.
And that’s because they never wrote that part,
they also never wrote about love after first love.. will you ever fall in love again ?
Is there another prince charming, who will save you from this drama ?

Question, as we grow older, we agree that dwarfs and talking teapots and dancing armoires don’t excist,
then what makes us believe that real love does excist ?

I haven’t figured it out… yet!

-written by me-

My journey

No drama, no tears.. one quick hug and I walked away without looking back.
I hopped on the plane, like I hop on the bus every other day.
Little did I knew that it would be love at first sight.

I faced obstacles while climbing a moutain, but I reached the top
I found peace of mind and an amazing view.
And while I was standing on my board I could feel the effect of the Indian Ocean.
Coloured houses and coloured people, coloured my day.
I wandered around the city as I was one of them, one of the locals.
And as the sun went down, reality set in.
It was time to hop on the plane, like I hopped on the mini bus every other day.
Compared to the last time, I cannot say no drama..

Tears welled up in my eyes when I left Cape Town.
I felt at home in this rainbow nation.
I kept looking back until the city disappeared behind the clouds.
Yes Cape Town was beyond my imagination.