The Best, with a capital B.

Zhong?

My new nephew!

Ballet legs

ION.

Topshop. Didn’t buy.

Crowd

Me and my friend.

Some sort of Singaporean tradition on the last day of Chinese New Year.

Mean muggin’

Garlic Shrimp.

Chili Crab.

Super fried baby cuttlefish.

Cry baby.

Sleepy baby.

Gangsta baby.

Hometime!

Three and a half days is way too long – so happy to come home to this:

Hey, nice baby hat!

Party brownie.

Party domo!

Forever21:

Denim shorts and silk floral pocket tee.

Royal-ish blue rhomper, made of the same sort of stuff as boardshorts – SUPER comfortable.

Army green parka, bought slightly fitted so that it fits Nanz too.

Topshop:

Floral frilly loose super comfy shorts. Front.

Cutest bow on the back.

Bought this awesome denim shirt for Nanz but wanted to post on my blog cos I can wear it too if I wear it opened.

My bestfriend Julie bought this for me from her recent trip to Thailand. It reminds me so much of the Givenchy headband for some reason. I love it.

New panther (?) head bracelet from my mom’s friend. If anyone is interested in buying one email me!

New glasses!!!!! Big, black and nerdy:

Hair curly from tying it up in a bun all day.

Sooooo I’m back from Singapore! Major photo dump that was, and that was even after I editted down from like 100+ photos. The cute fat baby is my cousin’s new baby! His name is Trent and he’s only about 6 months old! Such fat chubby cheeks I just wanna bite them off and run away with him. Didn’t manage to get any good outfit shots mostly cos I didn’t really care about what I was wearing. It was so freaking hot I wore anything that was super comfortable and I only brought my black vans with me since I knew we’d be shopping and walking around all day.

Oh i forgot to photograph the new pair of flats i got from Topshop. They’re navy elastic flats with a crepe bow on the front: very Lanvin but 1000% cheaper. I also bought a more fitted denim jacket from Gap Kids (I love being able to fit into kids clothes, even if it is Gap Boys XL). Compared the jacket to a Gap women’s denim jacket and they were exactly the same in style and detail except the Kid’s jacket was half the price. I’ll photograph it one day.

Not many people know that I’m actually Singaporean. My mom is Singaporean but my dad is Chinese but I was born in Singapore but was raised in Hong Kong. Complicated? I think not. Thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions on where to go but since I only really had 2 full days to spend there, I basically spent all my shopping time and money on Orchard (ION, Somerset, Wisma, the yoosh [Hey seriously, who knows how to spell yoosh? As in that short-form/slang for "the USUAL"?!?! Wrecks my brain everytime]).

Did anyone notice my haircut? That was one of my major surprises of last weekend. I cut about 4-6 inches off my hair. I know, impulsive huh. I thought about, made an appointment and just 5 days later I cut it all off. I haven’t sat in a salon chair in close to 3 years. Even my hairstylist was like “You’re cutting ALOT off yknow, are you suuuuuure?” Anyway, I was hoping my shorter hair would look cool with my new glasses..I think the combination’s okay so far! I’ll take more photos for the next post.

The ALL famous, ALL knowing, ALL curing, ALL fantastical NANNIEZ has moved and updated her blog! She now lives at Ohh My Blog! Cute name yah? Anyway, her photos are super cute and I’m on her blog so DUH you need to MOSEY on over there NOW!

And to whoever asked last time, the lip colour I’m wearing in that photo of me and PB on the bus in my previous post is actually just Burt’s Bees Lip Shimmer lip balm in Rhubarb!

Was thinking about doing a formspring thing, cos yknow, i’m a sheep and all that but I doubt anyone wants to ask me anything and my answers will probably be uber lame!

Sorry for the essay!

Oh yeah and follow me on twitter or bloglovin’!

H&M skirt, Uniqlo men’s v-neck sweater, Zara denim vest, Esprit parka, Frye Harness boots, H&M DIY Studded bag.

DIY geometric necklace, Agatha black ring and F21 oval black/gold ring.

Hehaehahehahe LOOK what I got!!!!!!!!!! I finally caved in an bought myself a new camera. I was juggling between getting the Panasonic Lumix GF-1 or the Olympus EP-1 Pen and finally decided on the Pen because nanz just got the gf1 and I thought it’d be pointless having two of the same cameras in the house. I also decided to get the 14-42mm zoom lens whilst nanz got the pancake (!!) lens which means we can swap and trade! Oh and you can probably tell but I’m still trying to figure out how I want to edit my photos, so bare with me while I experiment with a few different colours.

oh yeah so Happy Chinese New Year!!!!!!!!! It’s finally the year of the Tiger again, which means I’m turning 24 this year..omg sounds so old and yet I still act like a baby and whine like a little girl :D I celebrated CNY with my family which basically means eating lots and playing mahjong all day! Ninz was the sole-winner of the day, winning a whopping $33 (HKD) LOL, as you can see, we roll DEEP in our household.

BTW, the khaki parka I’m wearing in those pics, believe it or not that jacket is about 10 years old and actually belongs to me. I’ve been wearing it since year 10 (grade 9?) and it still fits and looks as good as new. It has a removable fluffy lining thats good for colder days. I’m loving the khaki/utility/army colour scheme/look that’s starting to creep up so I’ve officially re-fallen in love with this jacket. I’ve worn it almost everyday until it’s gotten so freaaking cold lately.

After PB and I had a little yum cha feast on our own, we took a little trip all the way to the HK Heritage Museum on Saturday. We went for the Antoine + Manuel Graphic Village exhibition which was seriously amazing. I’m always so inspired after I see a design exhibition and always want to kick my lazy ass off the sofa and actually get shit done but the explosion of inspiration tends to wear off after a few days lol..or maybe I’m just seriously that lazy.

So so so so so amazing

I <3 di-cuts.

The designers work alot with bold graphic shapes and imagery but I was mostly attracted to all the hand-done sketches and illustrations. I love intricate designs that you can only really appreciate when you go really fking close. That di-cut killed me.

I want my wall like this.

Lol spotted this gem-of-a-journal in pageOne.

Me wearing my dad’s glasses. I’ve just gotten new speccies, can’t wait to show you guys :D

Testing out the “pinhole” effect on my new camcam!

I’m really looking forward to this weekend! It’s PB’s birthday on Sunday!! And I’m so excited to give him his birthday present cos i knowwww he’s going to love it. Saturday is also going to be super eventful: the 6th installment of the YSL Manifesto will be releasing and I’ll for surely be there to collect and I’ll also be doing sth special in the afternoon, which I’ll surprise you guys with next time :D I probably won’t be posting until I return from my trip to Singapore! Yesss I’m so excited. As a lot of you know already through my twitter, I’ll be heading back to my family’s hometown of Singapore on Feb 25th just for a couple of days to see my grandma, my cousin’s new baby boy and to shop myself silly at Topshop and Forever21. I know a bunch of people have mentioned they’d like to meet up but honestly, I’ve only got two full days there and I don’t think I’ll have the time. I would really really love to and hopefully next time I go back, it’ll be for much longer and I can meet all my Singapore readers/blog buddies!

Note: I mentioned before that I do offer this service where I can shop for you at stores that are not in your own country, i.e. no H&M in Singapore. If anyone in Singapore (or anywhere else) would like me to help them get something from Hong Kong please email me and we can discuss further :D

Lastly, I just suddenly decided to do this again: I had one for my wordpress blog but that never took off so here it is again, Follow my blog with bloglovin’!!!!!!!!!! Thanks dahlings <3

All DIY necklaces, H&M ring.

Woohoo yay an update that isn’t more than a month late. Wahahah and there’s so much to post today! Thankfully my life has started to calm down and I’ve been lucky enough to be less stressed at work and have been given the chance to relax more, especially during the weekends. That teaching job that I was doing on Saturday mornings has finally finished. I love kids and all but 3 hours nonstop (literally NO BREAKS) from 9.30am on a Saturday morning teaching English to Chinese kids a range of 7 to 13 year olds just did not make me feel good. Every Saturday at 12.30pm, my voice would be dying from screaming non-stop at the 9/10 year olds. So fking glad that’s over. However, I am thinking about teaching at an art school sort of thing or just those weekend arts & crafts classes for kids. At least that’d be more in my common interests and hopefully there wouldn’t be like 25 9 year olds not listening and throwing things at each other.

OHhhhhhhhhhhh yah and here’s my new hair. lol I’m so boring, I just dyed it depp-blue/black but it just came out pretty dang black. When it’s really really sunny out then you can kinda see hints of blue but most of the time it’s just flat black. I also chopped about 2 inches off my hair but that’s also unnoticeable and not much of a change. I think this is the most I could do to it right now. I’m still very protective over my hair and do NOTTTTTTTT want to chop it off anymore. What do you guys think?

H&M sweats, F21 tee, Zara boyfriend blazer, Luna Bi circle scarf, Converse chucks.

Weee so I pretty much recycled this same sort of outfit for 3 or 4 days haha. Forgot to bring extra clothes with me when I stayed at PB’s place over the weekend. Some people have asked about PB so let me just lay things out. Yep, PB lives in HK now and he has his own place. Just recently his neighbour moved out so we moved into that guy’s place cos it’s much bigger. We now have an actual living room with a sofa and a much bigger bedroom that has a king-sized bed! So awesome that we found that affordable place that comes with all the furniture AND it’s pretty dang close to where I work so I can sleep in more in the morning before work :D I normally stay at PB’s place during the weekend and at my mom’s place during the week when I have work.

Oh and these are the sweatpants from H&M that I was talking about a few posts back. I decided to be adventurous and wear these out during the day with flat chucks instead of heels. I felt kinda fat and baggy all day but ah well I think it worked overall. At first I thought I’d never wear these sweats without heels but when I’m going to work, I always wear flat shoes/sneakers cos I’m normally late for work and needa run from the train hahaha.

Last weekend was awesome. PB and I had a really relaxing and fun weekend. Lots of walking around and we ended up watching The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. The movie was great and the whole time I was super sad about Heath Ledger and when Johnny Depp says “Nothing is permanent, not even death,” I swear I choked up a bit and ALMOST teared. Otherwise, the imagery is so colourful and fantastical and the costumes are beautiful. Lily Cole was surprisingly good and looked gorgeous throughout. Sidenote: I’m definitely a huge huge fan of the doll-face models like Jessica Stam and Gemma Ward (sad face Y.Y).

Soooooooooooooooooooooooo busy playing on my iPhone on the bus.

Spotted these two trendy lil locals in Causeway Bay. If you can see, his friend also had the same matching patent spikey knapsack. I thought it looked pretty dang cool but I would never use it hahaha

PB overload XD:

90% of the time, PB is photographed with/around/eating/thinking about food.

Curry in a Hurry! PB making an extremely difficult decision.

I love fashion just as much as any other “fashion blogger” but I gotta admit, my first love will always be design. I’ve often thought about ditching design for a career more focused on fashion but I don’t think I would ever be able to make the switch. Anyhow, I just wanted to share with you guys some design books (plus a Jewellery book) that I’ve been dying to get my hands on. If I were super rich, after buying shoes and handbags, I’d probably splurge a good amount of my money on books. I can’t wait till I’m older and have my own apartment where I could have a huge shelf of books where hopefully I’d be organized enoguh and have them all either arranged by height or colour.

Typomofo | papercraft | Initation and Promotion Design | Fashion Jewellery

On Feb 25th, I’ll be going back to my family land of Singapore to visit my cousin’s new baby and to see my grandma and everything. I have to admit though, I am equally just as excited to be visiting my darlings Topshop and Forever 21. I can’t believe they have those in Singapore and not in Hong Kong! We need Topshop and Forever21 soooooooooo badly!! However, the bad thing about opening those stores in HK is that it wouldn’t make me feel special anymore lol. Before H&M opened in HK, I always thought I was sooooooo cool wearing stuff in HK that no one else had cos I bought my stuff from NY. If Topshop and F21 open up here, literally everyone and their mother will always be wearing something from there.

Anyway, back to my point: so I’m going to doing a fair bit of shopping when I’m back in Singapore. Unlucky for my wallet, I recently fell in love with a bunch of stuff from Asos.com. I just wish shipping wasn’t so freaking expensive -.- Anyway, so I’ve decided that I’ll only be getting stuff from Asos if, for some odd reason, I didn’t get anything in Topshop or F21.

Here are some of my picks
TBA handmade collar silk dress | Warehouse silky paperbag waist shorts | Asos lace full skirt
Asos floral button tshirt dress | Staple contrast mesh sleeve tshirt dress | Asos cuffed jersey trousers
Asos bow-back skater dress | Love Milly tulip skirt dip dye denim dress

I am sooooooooo dying for the bow-back skater dress and the mesh sleeve tshirt dress (although I think I can easily DIY this) and the beaded silk-collar dress is to dieeee for. Okay bahhhhhh nvm I just want everything.

Wanted to share this awesome shoe I found in some super old design magazine at work. How crazy and sculptural is this? Reminds me so much of something insane that Gareth Pugh or RIck Owens would do. What do you guys think? Designed by Bart Hess.

Sooooooooooo I finally started watching Glee and I am sooooooooooooo in love. Such an awesome show. In 3 days, I’m already on episode 10 and right after I finish typing this post, I’m going to catch one more episode before I sleep. It’s getting late now, eep, it’s 12:53am already..but there’s always time for Glee :D
Anyhow was watching forgot what episode (I think the one with the diva-off) where Rachel (the nose.) wore this amazing Marc by Marc Jacobs dress. I remember wanting this so bad last Spring/Summer 2009 and after seeing the dress on her, I’ve started dying for it all over again. I’ve searched everywhere online but it is so impossible to find it. I did find something similar at Topshop (third pic), which hopefully I will find in the store, but does anyone know where I can get the actual MxMJ dress? If I can’t find it, I’m thinking about just sewing up a cream lace t-shirt dress with black strips myself but really, I’d prefer the real deal. Please help!

Obi says HUH?

See you guys after my Singapore trip!