Grey Skies

Pink With Rage

Down To You

Does anyone remember that movie, Down To You, that starred Julia Stiles and Freddie Prinze Junior? I remember when I was about 15, I totally had the hots for FPJ. It was a really sweet movie. I should go rent it sometime. It'd be nice to watch again.

Here's a shot of Rachel, because we've not seen her in a while. Heck, I've not seen her in a while myself. I took a rain check for the Christian Lacroix exhibition that we were supposed to go to because I was very, very under the weather. (Did you see that? "Rain check" and "under the weather"? Okay, sorry. :p)

I don't know why I'm so awake at 1 am. Maybe it's because I've finally gotten my hair trimmed and I feel very energised. It could also be the throbbing pain in my right ear, which now holds a new piercing, just because I felt like getting one right after my hair cut.

All the best with exams, Rachel! We love you! ♥

Lundi, Encore

This is a picture of me putting on eyelash glue on one of my Shu Uemura half-falsies. I miss my nails at that length.

It's Monday again. What is there to say?

Oh No, Knot Again?

Photo courtesy of JAK & JIL BLOG

I am in love with the way these boots have been "re-worked". Read about their effect at this Jak & Jil Blog post here.

Now I know what to do when my boots start dying and when their leather begins to slack.

Sorry for the lack of posts everyone.

And sorry for not keeping up with all your beautiful blogs. :( I will try to catch up this week and comment spam you all with my love.

The job intervention has turned out...to be more stressful than I expected. It is positive no less, but absolutely terrifying.

I have been crying for days. :(

But well, we'll see.

I hope you are all well.

♥

Bowi(e)ng Before Royalty

I want to be this man. He is just, I don't know. I can't describe him. Words are failing me this morning.

In response to Too Many Tight's comment: I don't quite know, I'm afraid. :/

In any case, I do love your site, and am considering some purchases already. I don't care if I live in the tropics, I really should wear tights a little more often. Considering I'm always freezing my arse off anyway, these blasted refrigerators offices...

Lying Low

Sometimes, you really wonder why you try.

GOSH I'M SO ANGRY MY SKIRT'S GONNA BLOW

Do you think if I wore this moving dress from Hussein Chalayan's Spring 2007 show to the office the bosses would stop pushing me around to do stuff that they're too lazy to do when they are clearly the ones with the know-how? Like I told one of my bosses today, "It's like the blind leading those who can bloody see!" Okay, I didn't say the "bloody" of course. But I certainly meant it. *grits teeth*

I am glad that I've always stuck to my own motto, which I learnt as a child from the character Rasputin in Anastasia, the animated film. He said, and I quote - "If you want something done, you have to do it yourself." I've certainly stuck by it. I just wish these lazy arses would start thinking about cleaning their own shit for a change.

Rarr. :x

Kings & Court Jesters

Hello loves. In case you thought we've died, we haven't. In many ways we have. For instance, I certainly have in terms of work and academic frustration despite being out of school. Sigh. But no fear, we are still here and we remember all of you. We still have Johanne's tag to work on. I've not forgotten it, my dear! :)

And well, La C a.k.a La Lovely has given us an award. Really, the support she has shown for our blog has been so immense. We have no words, La C! We are so incredibly touched.

Merci beaucoup. ♥

And well, I just thought I'd post some of the billion photoshoot pictures we have. Here is my favourite one of Rachel. I think she looks great here. It's so unfair that my shades always look better on her. Haha. :D Oh well. I still love her nonetheless. Mainly because we can share shoes. Hahahahahaha....




Love to all, and I hope you're all doing much better than I am at least.

North South East Westwood

This picture is to be read from left to right. When Rachel and I took a module on "Critical Discourse Analysis" at our university, we learnt that one way of interpreting the left to the right was to see it as "the given" and "the new". It was about how you had "old" i.e. an established, given piece of information and then brought to be introduced to the "new" concept i.e. never before related to the "old" except till now.


Left: How I have been feeling for some time.
Right: What I want to do, for the first time in my life. Like, really HARD and FAST and BLOODY.

*rubs temples*
*sips tea*
*plods on*

Calling In Slick

I am truly sick of my bangs - they're tickling my face like there's no tomorrow. And yes, I'm still having a terrible day. This old picture captures all the disgruntled-ness I am feeling. Although, I will say I love that little blue-ish green wisp of hair sticking out at the side. It was a pleasant surprise.

I am also debating whether to incorporate by love for Bill Kaulitz on here. We'll see. He's quite the fashion icon. ♥

Je Suis Une Femme Partagée

I've been feeling down recently. You know, those days where you see other things and wish you had them. You see other people and you wish you were them. You see other people and you wish you had them. You see what other people do and you wish you could be doing that to.

Sigh. I shouldn't start on one of those "broken dreams" type of posts. Those are reserved for the more private journals I guess. In any case, I received a little cheer in chancing upon this lovely bag from the lovely Lanvin. It's called the Happy Partage Bag. It's such a delicate pop of colour. Bubblegum pink. It's a colour I don't like to admit that I like, but it seems I do love it very, very much. Like when I saw the Balenciaga Day Bag in bubblegum? An instant desire to shoplift surged through my soul.

Ah well. I look forward to the next up once this down is over!

Grin And Alber

"A woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her.

I just had to make a post about this delightful quote that could only come from an Alber Elbaz interview. Is it not true? When I look at a woman and spot some Lanvin on her, I too fall in love with her! And as for that woman to have said that to him, what a blessed woman she is. I can't wait for the day where I can claim to have experienced this quote as well. (Even though I already have someone very much in love with me already. :p Hello love!)

And what is a Lanvin post, without a Lanvin dress?

Spring 2006 RTW, one of my favourite Lanvin shows because there were acrylic flowers in their hair! :)♥

Same Time Last Year

To think, a year ago, we were having a blast in Paris...
Please excuse us. We think we're celebrities. These are our fake paparazzi shots. Lol.

Better

I've had better days.
I've had a prettier face.
I've had much more grace.
I've had finer taste.

I've had better days.
But today I'll hide my face.

Of Gifts And Losses

Featuring my favourite accessories:
:: Beaded "Lip" Pouch, a gift from Koustav.
:: Clear plexi bangle, a gift from my mum.

And featuring, my favourite friend to go crazy with:
:: Rachel, a gift from the gods.

By the way, the plexi bangle, which I love dearly is sadly, no longer with me. It's a very sad story. I don't like telling it. :( I miss it very much though. It went with everything. Have you ever lost something you couldn't do without? I feel you there. ♥

Drama

Post-note: I am sorry for this incredibly long post today. It's just something I needed to get off my chest. Hopefully I won't need to make such posts often. Btw, we're already gaining a small number of regular readers and I just want to say that you all mean a lot to Rachel and I as this blog holds a precious place in our hearts. We say that with all sincerity. Thank you for stopping by. :) ♥



Having just come from the comments page of La C's blog and encountering a small bit of potential-drama there, it saddens me that people choose to make big fusses out of things. And by people I don't mean La Lovely herself. I am referring to someone who posted a comment obviously meaning to provoke some kind of reaction - and a negative one at that. Granted, there are some people who deserve those sorts of comments, to take them down a notch a little, to send them back to earth. But really, when people are living their lives, loving their loves and being their beings, why should you come and tell us what to do and why what we're doing is wrong? If we were causing grevious hurt to someone or bore any sort of negative implications - then yes, please tell us what we're doing wrong or right. Otherwise, really, what were those comments for? Other than to (for lack of a better phrase) "stir shit"? Really. Such drama is useless.



Which brings to mind another piece of drama, or another type of drama that people perhaps don't accord enough reverence too. I try to keep this blog politically clean and issue-free - but I felt this addressed an important aspect of humanity that I, in all my flaws as a human, still try to maintain. I'm sure you all have heard and read of the horrific events that occured in Mumbai, and especially so for Singaporeans who heard of the beautiful Singaporean lady who was taken hostage and eventually killed. I heard today on the news, that she was so spirited and in the words of her own sister, "so fashion-forward", that even in her last moment, they all agreed to dress her in her best - red cheongsam, her favourite Hermès bag, shoes and earrings.

With all this sadness and drama, you would imagine the heightened sensitivity people would accord to acts of terrorism. And yesterday at Japanese class, I witnessed a bunch of...(I was going to call them nitwits, but I shan't, though I just have, subtlely. Haha :p) boys display the exact opposite. The event went down as follows:

1) Sensei instructs us to pair up. Boy A and Boy B are paired with separate people.

2) The topic of the conversations the pairs are supposed to construct goes like this:
X: "How was your holiday?"
Y: "Oh, it was interesting, but it was insert negative adjective of choice."
X: "Oh that's too bad. What happened?"
Y: "insert description of negative situation here (using passive verbs, as that was the lesson of the day)
X: "Oh no. That must have been hard."

What do you supposed the ingenious Boy A came up with? Well, it went something like this:
Partner: "How was your holiday?"
Boy A: "Oh, it was interesting, but it was dangerous."
Partner: "Oh that's too bad. What happened?"
Boy A: "I was in ____ Hotel (mind you, he used the exact name of one of the hotels, I'm not going to repeat it here), and suddenly terrorists came in and I was almost killed by them. (Note the impressive usage of passive verbs, and the not-so-impressive lack of brains.)
Partner: "Oh no. That must have been hard."

As "icing" to this otherwise absolutely "delectable" fictional account, his friend Boy B, promptly shouts from the other end of the classroom:
"What a pity! You survived!"

I understand that laughter is the best medicine, humour helps dissolve tension blah blah blah. This is life and death here - wherein lies a delicate tension that we must treat with the utmost reverence, especially when it isn't our own life or death we are talking about. There are others, wishing to heavens their loved ones had survived. There is pain so hard in this world it is like a tightly-clenched fist knocking into your teeth everywhere you walk. There is tension in the world so sharp it cuts anyone who simply walks into the wrong place at the wrong time. It's times like these you are grateful that you have clothes on your back, shoes on your feet, windows in your rooms and a meal waiting for you back home.

There is *~dRaMa~* and there is drama. Know which one to avoid, and which one to respect.

De-fendi-ng myself

I have a strange new obsession with key chains and bag charms. I've always liked charms in general, but this particular one for bags. What is wrong with me? Maybe it's because my sole Vuitton piece looks incredibly tacky and boring and I need something to, liven it up. I don't know. Whatever it is, I feel exactly like this Fendi Bambino Charm now. The cough isn't helping. I think I smoke too much.

Haha, what am I saying. How can one ever smoke too much? :p

Here are some others, for your viewing pleasure, and to add fuel to my fire of envy. HAHAHA. I'm going bonkers, people!!

Midori Days

I get jealous for all the wrong reasons. This post has nothing to do with fashion - except for the 2 gorgeous pictures above. There is a lot of tension, for sure. *grits teeth*

Does anyone know why green is associated with envy? What is the story behind it?

Channelling Apples

Picture courtesy of Weiliang, who has captured some of my favourite personal photos. :)

So, it's been a pretty depressing past few posts I know. We all have good days and bad days. I've been cheering myself up with lots of Shiina Ringo; whether it's her music, her interviews, her live performances or her sheer beauty & eclecticism.

I like this photo - as it is one of the best photos of my hair looking like hers when she performed ギャンブル/Gamble live. It's my personal favourite hair-style of hers, and me getting my hair cut at the very same time I discovered her was a cosmic coincidence, I believe, i.e. meant to be. (I can hear you all laughing. :p) This performance is heart-stopping, and I swear she cries at the end. There is of course no need to mention how amazing this song is (as well as the amazing movie it was used for), although I've just done so. Haha. :) Gomenasai.

Enjoy, all you lovelies.
Be happy, and when you are, stay happy for as long as you can before the next fall - you know it's gonna come back.

♥