hummmmarhhmmmmmphhh

Of course, am making these weird sounds because am currently bored STIFF with revision. Not that I'm weird. Or insane. Yuppps. ;p Only 2 more days to go!!

Have been doing some thinking over the week (funny how when we get most of our thinking done under time constraints when we should be busy with anything else but mindful comtemplation about the state of things) and I'm thinking of........... starting a new blog. ;p

Bit of a sudden surprise eh? But that's the way my mind works I suppose. Once I've gotten started on a thought/idea that I feel is for the better, it's all I can think about.

I've just sort of come to the realisation that I'd like to take my blog in a different direction. After all, it's my little baby. I know we all feel the same way about our blogs. :) They all have to go through the same process of nurturing, showering of attention and lots and lots of thought.

Sooo... it's going to be a little different from what I've got here currently. Probabyl less focused on outfits/fashion. But still me. Maybe even more so. Hope you'll continue reading it!

Will let you know when it's up and running! Definitely by the end of this week :) In fact, I couldn't resist toying with some html already even though I should definitely be studying. HELP.

In the meantime, have a really great week.

pretty pretty things

(dress: H&M, bag: Miu Miu, sandals: shop in Far East Plaza)

Wore this out to dinner last night. A rare occasion with just me and my mum! Hmm lots of things on the mind now. Time to resort to bulleting!!

• first of all, can you spot the fake in this photo? :p haha aside from word search puzzles, I love 'em 'spot the difference' puzzles since they're so much more brainless compared to crosswords. anyway the answer is.... the Miu Miu bag! (DUH. no way would i be able to wrangle that sort of money out from my mum ;p) Bought it in Indonesia a couple of months back at an awesomely huge shopping complex with an entire ground floor section 'specialising' in fake bags (according to my friend who brought me there). I've been meaning to use it for ages but somehow the other colored bags I had seemed better for all the past outfits... Plush bags are my favourite. Loads of space for stuffing books and random snacks when rushing out of the house.
• another first for the day: finally wore the H&M dress I got the boy to get for me when he went back to HK last year! Hehe before he went back for a holiday last year I actually printed out a H&M shopping list... feel kinda bad that I can think of one other item from that list that I haven't used yet (whoopswhoops). I dunno about you but sometimes when I get something new I just like to keep it in its bag/unworn/tag still on in order to savour the feeling of having bought something gorgeous and new. ;p unfortunately sometimes I end up getting new stuff before using the 'post-purchase high' from the previous purchase has run out. End result: quite a number of unworn items in the closet. Time to do something about that!
• The Formula 1 Grand Prix was held in S'pore over the weekend! My sis actually managed to attend the event on both nights and I was offered a ticket for the preliminary round on Saturday but uhhhh.... ><>
• The weather's been insanely, murderously HOT this past week. :(( I think I'm gonna end up swimming a lot over the next few days.
• My mum's friends came to visit last week from Tokyo for 2.5 days (how short is that)! Took them out to see a couple of sights, nearly got roasted by the sun, practised my halting Japanese with them and felt a great swelling sense of nostalgia for Tokyo...
• Which reminds me, I still have a ton of vacation photos to share! ;p I never did finish posting the photos of Tokyo so perhaps over the next few days... to ease my longing too heh.
• Sigh, mid-term exam next Friday. Am so relieved it's Recess Week now but really, it's just a Study Week. At least there's the opportunity to sleep in. The week before any exam is soo predictable for me. Study a little --> feel bored --> go online to check out blogs/ online shopping/ street fashion sites --> buy stuff online --> feel guilty about money spent and lack of studying --> study a little more...
• Rediscovering my music collection! Was doing some filing last night and here are some songs you have GOTTA listen to...

Title and Registration - Death Cab for Cutie!!! (FAVFAVFAVFAVFAV!)


Read my mind - The Killers (just gets to me XDD)


To Build A Home - The Cinematic Orchestra (introduced to me by an awesome friend who seems to have a huge collection of EMO songs. sigh. gotta have your EMO quota filled up somehow)

Recommendations for music anyone? :) Do you guys listen to music while studying? I wish I could but I can't... it'd make studying a whole lot more enjoyable i.m.o...

Craving some bubble tea now...

pssst light me a sparkler; we'll light up this night

Went back to my junior college yesterday to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (the exact date of which I still am not too sure about!! XP whoooops. should probably keep a Lunar calendar or bug my grandma about keeping one). I was never particularly fond of my junior college when I was a student there but funny how life goes eh? ;p 'Cos now I'm thankful that it's probably the only school that holds such a large scale celebration for MAF -- a nice reason to meet up with friends and go back to school and feel OLD. Oh and the songs are my favorite part X))



HEHEH it's a good thing they provide 汉语拼音 (pronunciation beneath the characters) because my Chinese is soooo abysmal now that I'd have trouble singing the songs without it.

I LOOooooVE SPARkLERS!! X)) Really felt like a kid again!! I wanted to get a paper lantern to carry around but being the cheap-ass I am, cost being equal, it was between sparklers that could be shared amongst me and my friends and one lantern that only one person at a time would be able to walk around with. Still quite a rip-off though. $3 for a little paper lantern!!? Note to self: GET A TON OF 50 cent PAPER LANTERNS FROM THE MAMA SHOPS before going back to school!

TA-DA!! Presenting my first GIF ever!! XDD Hehe ok so the images aren't exactly in consecutive order but I thought it'd be fun to string a couple of random, somewhat related photos together. My mouth is gigantic in the last frame because I got a shock when the sparkler suddenly POOFED out. Cheap thrill muahha.

(Does anyone know how to upload gifs without having to deal with a reduction in image quality?? The images are a whole lot grainy-er after having saved them as a GIF...><)
(top: gmarket.com.sg, necklace and skirt: shop in Japan)

Hehe this week has been gmarket outfit week. I love love love the color of this top (am going to make DEAD sure no washing accidents happen to this baby!) and it's been so hot lately I usually just tell anyone who comments on my top that I got so hot one day I decided to cut some holes in my top to aerate my shoulders. Then I wait for their shocked look and the silence to ensue.


The night was great but extremely unfortunately, I was stupid enough to leave a brand new leather strap bracelet on the bus!! Forgot to top up my EZ link card hence had to pay with coins for 4 separate bus trips (one transfer each time). It was annnnoooying! Take my advice: never ever put anything small ANYWHERE on the bus except your pocket/bag. And wear all jewelry properly before boarding any public transport vehicle. Sobsobsob.


Tomorrow I need to wake up early to meet up with my mum's friends (a couple her age) from Tokyo! They're in town for 2 and a half days and she's conveniently decided to skip off to Beijing for a sponsored trip. >< Nervous about my inadequate level of Japanese! Need to get some sleep now or aint no one is gonna understand anyone!! (no sense at all, bleaghg)

Obviously no work was done at all this weekend but tmr's Hari Raya, so who would ever feel like getting any work done?? X) Happy Hari Raya Puasa!

how many ways can we say TGIF!! :DD

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLLLYYYYYYY it's the weekend!! I've been slugging it out this entire week with thoughts of being able to sink-into-bed and not-get-up-till-food-calls keeping me going... Wearing the second item I ordered last week from gmarket.com.sg XD Am really pleased with all the items I ordered online. I ended up ordering about 5 items (which in hindsight, is rather a lot ;p) but each item amounted to just about SGD$10 each only! One topshop tank costs wayyy more than that so this is really an investment... and a good deal at that right right??


(tank: shop in Japan, vest: gmarket.com.sg, jeans: thrift store in Paris, sandals: Far East Plaza, belt: dorothy perkins)

It's 1.30 a.m. now and I'm aiming to sleep before 2 a.m so I shall try out this bullet point method (inspired by a couple of my fav bloggers) in order to save time (as all SGeans are so apt at doing).

This week has been tiring my ass off 'coz of....

• lack of sleeeep...! i honestly can't stop websurfing at times even though I get back home really late and know I should either 1. do some homework or 2. go to sleep. Instead, I end up invariably doing 3. surfing through online shops
• a mini a cappella concert I performed in tonight! (yeah, it's actually spelt with the space after the 'a' letter; i never knew that till i joined and ever since i became the secretary, i've had to type that word a million and one times. going to spell it in my sleep soon) While I really am not a solo singer, I can sing notes pretty accurately if given to me on a score hence I've been able to smoke my way through practices...unfortunately this time i've sorta realized how immensely unmusical and wanting an a cappella singer I am! ><> It totally sucks blasting your guts out only to have group members say, "were you singing? I didn't hear you at all!" or "you need to feel the rhythm" or "that's how I sing when I sing in my lazy manner". -___- sighhh. But at least it's over!! finally. And the mini concert was actually pretty successful so thank goodness that's a monkey out of my hair for now.
• falling ill. :((( i ended up coming down with a really short-lived flu (less than a day long) but during those couple of hours it was a terrible feeling. ever wonder what it's like to sniffle non-stop, have your eyes water involuntarily, feel extremely fuzzy in the head and sneeze every 5 minutes? You wanna kill somebody; that's the feeling. thankfully it went away with a power 3 hours nap and good night's sleep.

This week is week 1 of my 'SHOP LESS' period (ahem. notice it's not 'shopping ban'. i know my limitations ;p). I'm attempting to cut down on my expenses for a few weeks and every night I keep track of my expenses in a little notebook. At the end of Sept, we shall see how much LESS damage I did to my wallet (i sure hope it turns out to be LESS).

Didn't quite succeed this week though. A little bazaar was held in school right outside the lecture theatres so of course, how could I resist checking the stalls out? Found the most perfect leather necklace and the stall-owner, gave it to me for 2/3 of the original price :D $14 for that necklace. When you see things at bazaars you should always go for 'em since these things may never come back again, yes?

Wore my Cheap Monday white jeans for the first time! Bought them in Paris at a vintage thrift store in Paris for 10 Euro. ;) They just happened to fit perfectly. Can't believe my travel mates (who are as apathetic to shopping as you can imagine) had totally passed it by. Am so glad I dragged them into the store, even though I'm sure all the stopping at shops must've irritated the guys at least. HAH. TAKE THAT. In the end, it was worth it!


(L.A.M.B Spring 2010 Ready To Wear Collection. photo credits: style.com)

It's been aggeeess since I last looked at runway photos. The entire New York FW has passed me by. Can't wait to catch up with it over the weekend and look through a couple of collections. Am really loving Gwen Stefani's RTW collection. So many pieces are so wearable yet unique in terms of fall and geometry. My favorite would have to be the one on the left in the 2nd row. (though is it just me, or is the model a little cross eyed?) Bleached/acid wash/paint speckled clothes are my eye candy now.

Ok, omgg ended up writing quite a bit. 1.52 a.m. now. Have no doubts I can fall asleep in less than 8 minutes. ;p

Mooncake Festival coming up soon! Oops, I meant, Mid-Autum Festival. But seriously, it's pretty much all about mooncake eating now. ;p I should probably go google the history behind this traditional festival but in the meantime, I'm pretty excited about going back to my junior college tomorrow for MAF celebrations. YUMM. Can't wait for some lotus paste filled mooncakes (NO yolk).

P.S. Thank you so much to those who left such sweet and encouraging comments in my previous post...! It meant a lot to me... We all know that reading is a rare trait in bloggers nowadays so thank you for taking the time to read the entire entry and for giving sincere comments. Am definitely taking to heart all the advice that's been given. ;)

read my mind

Tonight I came back home late on a happy high after having a great dinner and dessert with a couple of friends because one of them will be flying back to the UK for the upcoming school term. Checked my email and found out that I'd been shortlisted for second round of auditions for supporting cast roles.

I felt immediately deflated.

I suppose initially I'd thought that I would just try out for this intra-faculty musical because well, why not eh? If I happened to get in, it'd be a bonus and even if I didn't, I'd still probably only be able to get through the next few months barely breathing. But I didn't realize I'd subconsciously attached so much hope to getting a main cast role. I suppose in my mind, I thought it'd be a pivotal event in my otherwise uneventful and rather tedious school life... the one event where I'd get to meet people who might become close friends of mine in the future...where I'd have loads of fun working and laughing through the last nights of rehearsing... and whenever you place a certain amount of expectation onto something you immediately set yourself up for greater disappointment right?

I suppose the truth is that I've been searching for something that I can excel in. It's something I've been searching for all my life and have yet to stumble across. Singers...dancers...poets...artists...activists...writers... they all have something they excel in and little ol' me? ;p Still searching and wondering...

But then I started the requisite monologue in my head (that always takes place when I try to comfort myself) and began asking, why is it so important to me to excel in something? After all, don't many people in life go through life muddling through and doing just fine despite not really being exceptional at any one thing? Just because we aren't at the pinnacle of a certain field doesn't mean we're any less fantastic as people. After all, do the people in life who really matter to me really care about such achievements? At the end of the day, it's a label. And does it really matter to people who love me? Instead of feeling sore about such things, isn't it better to focus my energy on becoming a better person?

At the end of the day, does it really matter?

I do feel slightly perked up now but was wondering what you guys might feel about this... if you're patient enough to get through this entire speel that is! ;p I don't normally post about such things but... it just felt like something I wanted to send out into the cosmic void.

I realized one blasted thing though -- retail therapy REALLY WORKS FOR ME. Sgflea is frickin addictive. I think some sleep is due. Promise the next post will be a whole lot better. ;)

to grandma's house we go

My items from Gmarket finally arrived! It was a really seamless transaction and delivery was prompt, though I must admit I got a little paranoid after seeing how my order status remained at 'Request' for more than a day. I thought that meant it was still pending confirmation but it turns out that just meant it was waiting to be delivered. ;p Yes, I get really paranoid when it comes to invisible money being transferred to places I cannot see.

(cardigan: gmarket.com.sg, tank: Uniqlo, skirt: Urban Outfitters, necklace: H&M)

I'm so in love with the wine red color of this cardigan! :D I think it's managed to replace my beloved green one that became the saddest murky pink color after a mix-up in the wash. ><>

I love how the color's pretty unique though when I think about pairing it with other clothes in my closet, the colors that come to mind are invariably BLACK WHITE BLACK BLACK with a dash of gold accessories. What other colors should I pair it with? I should really read up about complementary colors or the color wheel or whatever it is people use when their zonked-out minds aren't able mix and match colors perfectly in a subconsious manner. Which totally makes me wonder if stylists ever secretly use color wheels in their job? ;p But that would appear to be a total travesty since they're supposed to work with spurts of inspiration and creativity?? I wonder...

Had more than 6 hours to kill today after lessons before I had to go for a cappella practice at night and since it takes pretty much an hour to get home from school, I decided to pop over to my Ahpo (granny) and Ahkong's (grandpaw) house for lunch and for a niceeeeeee afternoon nap. X)) It helps so much that their house is way nearer to to my university (only about 20 mins on a fast-traffic day). Only thing is, I get really nervous when my scary uncle's around (you'd be scared too if you met him for the first time lol)(think Vernon Dursley)(but without the comic relief) so I try my best to go when he and my aunt aren't around.

My Ahkong saw me taking photos and asked, "Want me to take for you???" ;p Heh my Ahkong's just the cutest. I love how grandparents don't really pry very much and simply accept whatever you're doing as a YOUTH thing.

Uh huh. This is pretty much what my diet is like in a nutshell. I try to be uber healthy by eating loads of fruits and grains with raisins for my snack in school but at the end of the day I still can't resist some good ol' OLD CHUNKY CURRY PUFF that is like your heart's biggest enemy. Ah heck, eat, drink and be merry!

Mmmmmm yam balls fresh from the wok, made by my grandma, the family's resident Jamie Oliver. It's basically fried yam balls stuffed with minced meat, sliced mushrooms, peas, carrots... almost like the sort of stuffing you'd find in chicken pies. YUMMY STUFF.

Couldn't resist putting in a photo of my favorite person in the world! :DDD Seriously, she has the good looks in the family hahaha. She always insists she's old and tells us not to take her photo but then when she gives her exasperated, not even 100% posed smile, this is what we get. Why doesn't it work for me that way?! X) Even my uncles agree she must've been a real heart breaker when she was my age heh.

Okie as usual I'm sleeping at an absurd hour and will probably end up falling asleep in lectures tomorrow. I seriously just wanna be Minister for Education and make it mandatory that lessons start no earlier than 9.30 a.m. everyday!! Have a great week, everyone. :)

no doubt this is an Asian blog

ANOTHER FRIDAY HAS ARRIVED!!! Well technically it's in the wee hours of Saturday already here but it still feels late Friday night and I loove the thought of having the weekend ahead of me. Why do weekends go by so quickly? =( Weekdays are excruciating and busy and just when you think you'll have enough time to really veg out and catch up on sleep over the weekend, things crop up and before you know it, Monday's back again. Bleagh.



(skirt: UO, cardigan: shop from Japan, top: borrowed from mum, shoes: sandals from Far East Plaza)

Heh just showing my new sandals! =) Bought them about two weeks back and they've been on my feet almost every day. I'd been looking for ages for a pair of black sandals that are feminine enough to wear with dresses/skirts and yet not just another pair of run of the mill flats.

PSST. This is a little tip for midgets like me XD -- maybe you've already noticed it but if you haven't, it appears that if you wanna give people the illusion that you're taller or that your legs are longer than they appear, you should show some ANKLE! Anything above the ankle tends to emphasize the carrot calves (that so many of us Asians are uhh famous for). Whaddaya guys think? Too bad there are so many awesome shoes that start from just above the ankle though grrrr... (esp gorgeous Aldo heels..!)

This past week has been really tiring for me... Too many nights with barely 5 hours of sleep. =.= I've started a new morning routine = hot milo + half an apple from the school canteen. It's the best perker-upper ;p for 8.30 a.m lectures.

The lack of sleep has also really been my fault though. I was trying to read a chapter from my textbook the other night but got so bored I started DIY-ing a necklace.


And low and behold, I managed to finish it in about 2 hours! X) I might add a few more chains here and there but this is it for now...

(Here's a little close up for the squares.)

Discovered a new beads shop in Far East Plaza the other day and was sooo happy. X) The only other beads place I'd known of was in Jurong Point which is just about as near as Malaysia (HEH sorry am a central noobie) so it's so much easier to have the option of going straight to town to get chains and other stuff for DIY projects. If you wanna check it out, it's called Beads Passion on #03-13, right opposite from WoodWood!

As always, there's gotta be a food picture. ;p Can't remember where I came across the statement that you can tell it's an Asian blog by the number of food pictures... but it seems pretty accurate so far hurhur. Can't help it. I LOVE MY FOOD.

These are a couple of photos from when I met up with some of old friends last Saturday for some sushi the Ichiban Sushi outlet in AMK Hub. Honestly, I never ever tire of Jap food.

My favorite INARI ZUSHI! Ahhh the sweet beancurd skin is just insanely delicious... I would probably eat about 10 of those at a go if I had it my way XD

Heh I so feel like trying some foot reflexology one day. My friend brought us to try some Bubble Tea from an outlet called Koi. X) I love how the pearls are so chewy and sweet. This place allows you to choose the amount of sugar added in too -- 0, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. Healthy living never tasted so sweet.

Whooo ok time to sleep. This is insane. I walk around school like a zombie in the day but the minute I get back home and settle in front of the computer I feel like I could go on for hours.

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