H&M Moto-pants/leggings (peggings?), H&M tee, Zara boyfriend blazer, Luna Bi circle cashmere scarf, Converse Chucks, Dolce & Gabbana Miss Pocket bag.

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?

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Obi says HUH?

See you guys after my Singapore trip!

F21 white tee, H&M men’s flannel, Zara boyfriend blazer, Topshop jeans, D&G Miss Pocket bag, PedderRed buckle wedges.

Excuse the extremely shitty photos. I took them on Tuesday after going to a screening of “An Education” (thanks Butterboom!) The movie was amazing of course, but more on that in another post. If you follow me on twitter, you’ll have read that one of my biggest fears is being mistaken as a boy. I know, I know, kinda ridonkulous but seriously, it’s just another one of the crazy things I think about. This outfit had me all conscious all day. Originally I wore it with my all black vans authentics but I felt that I had to “girl” it up a bit so I threw on my PedderRed buckle wedges later on in the evening. Thank god no one said “Excuse me sir” to me or else I really would’ve died. I’m kinda stupid aren’t i? I’m pretty sure my belly-button-grazing hair is an obvious enough sign that I’m not a boy. okay nvm it’s late and I’m blabbing.

Wow okay sooooooooooo this majorly-overdue post is going to be another extremely long and random update: full of random crap mostly hahaha. Anyhow, I haven’t blogged in ages and it’s honestly cos I’ve been really busy and I’ve been tired NON-STOP for almost 3 weeks now. Work was a little nuts and I had to work all weekend too so luckily it’s the end of the week soon and things are starting to slow down. I don’t plan on waking up anytime before 12pm this Saturday. I haven’t slept in for more than 2 weeks now and it’s seriously starting to show everywhere on my body, especially in the regions of my panda-eye-suitcases.

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New Things:
I’ve recently (meaning like within the last 2 months, since I haven’t updated in ages) picked up a bunch of new things that I haven’t been able to post about yet. Also just today I had an unplanned visit to H&M. I hadn’t been inside an H&M in ages and the mega huge “FINAL SALE” banners on the window were just calling me in. I ended up walking out with 2 things that I haven’t been able to photograph yet but I guess you’ll see them soon enough!

This is a bunch of underwear stuff I was trying on at H&M before the New Year. I ended up getting the Sonia Rykiel for H&M garter thingies which I wore on New Years Eve. I just realised I don’t have a proper outfit shot of what I wore but lemme list it out and you can just sit there and imagine it: H&M polka dot tights, OTK socks, Sonia Rykiel for H&M garters, AA tshirt dress, Zara leather jacket, Ash wedges and a vintage Chanel purse. Looks great in your imagination doesnt it? Yeah it was actually really boring in real life -.-

Got this very cheap but cute little jersey crewneck from CottonOn. It has these cute pleat details on the shoulders and it’s ever so slightly cropped.

I have been looking EVERYWHERE for a leather jacket like this for aaaaaaaaaaaages! I finally found it on Granville Road. You guys will NEVER guess how much I paid for it.                     $150hkd/$19usd. SO CHEAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean of course the leather is fake and the white fluffy parts are faker than a stuffed animal but regardless it’s still soooooooooo soft and doesn’t look cheap when you wear it. I guess this cheap alternative will have to do until the day I can afford to purchase my dream Acne leather jacket.

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NY Fries

DIY stud and cross necklace, PedderRed skull necklace.

PB concentrating ever so hard on hogging my iPhone.

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hehehehehe crossing his legs

and then he snubbed me.

hehehe obi and his mama.

cuuuuuuuute.

LOL obi thinks he’s a prince. He thinks it’s okay for him to sit on ANY surface, wherever he wants to plop his butt down he will.

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A couple of weeks back I was lucky enough to be gifted the amazing Plattan headphones by UrbanEars from Street Value in Hong Kong. I am seriously in love with these headphones. Prior to these, I’d been using the WeSC Bongo headphones in hot pink and before those was the first edition Bongo’s in yellow. Some great features of the Plattan are the fabric covered cord, the extra headphone jack so your buddy can plug in to your headphones and listen to what you’re listening to! It’s also really handy that it has a built-in microphone and remote (second picture) compatible with iPhone, Blackberry, HTC and Nokia so you don’t have to take your headphones off when you get a phone call! What I love most about them is that they’re so minimalistic and well-designed. The website is amazing too and I seirously died when I received them, the packaging is amazing. TheDIeLine did an awesome feature on their packaging here.

P.S. On a totally different note: How disgusting does my hair look? I mean, I totally understand that the whole gradient/ombre dyed hair look is “in” now but I dunno, Asians with dyed hair are always having this gross roots-growing-out problem. My mom hates it and really wants me to do something to my hair but I just don’t know what!??! I don’t think i can do the short hair thing..i’ve thought about it ALOT lately but with my bodysize and glasses, I don’t think I can pull it off although my face is really sharp. Another problem is that I don’t think I should be dying my hair anymore..it’s completely damaged already so I don’t wanna further drag it into hairy-hell. My mom wants me to cut it..or at least trim it, which of course I do still but after having such supah long hair for so long now, I don’t think I can. *NOTE: wrote this paragraph ages ago and have since changed my hair. You’ll see in my next update ;)*

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So after waiting to see it for almost a year, I finally got to see New York, I love you. I was sooo excited to see this and everytime the preview came on tv, my heart missed a beat and I get a little choked up. You can kinda say I guess I miss New York a lot. So after being out for about a week in HK, me and PB had date night and FINALLY went to see it. I was soooo expecting myself to cry..or at least get a little teary…but not a drop was shed. It’s safe to say that the movie did NOTHING for New York. I mean it barely showcased New York-y things..except for like getting into cabs….or like…smoking on street corners, which is basically stuff you could do everywhere. Pretty much anything in that movie could’ve taken place in a different city. My favourite segment was the one with Anton Yelchin (hellooooooo nurse!) and maybe the bit directed by Natalie Portman, with the father and daughter. Oh actually the Robin Wright Penn one was pretty good too..but other than that..nothing special, a serious let down ):

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A couple weeks back I got an email from the lovely Dawn about her new book “101 Glam Girl Ways to an Ultra Chic Lifestyle”. The book is easy to read with a helpful tip on each page accompanied by a pretty illustration. I’ve picked out just a couple of my favourite pages to share with you guys:

There’s tons more to the book and it’s a really helpful guide for fashionistas (lol hate that word but hey! why not right?) and is currently available at a couple of bookstores in America as well as online at Amazon ($15us).

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Recently I was featured on the amazing Tongue in Chic site. They have some really great updates so make sure you click click!

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I’ve decided to set up a pop-up shop! Currently, it’s stocked with just 4 items but as you’ll read on the page, I’m not planning on opening one of those infamous blog-shops, just trying to get rid of stuff that I no longer want/need/fit ): I don’t plan on updating it often as I don’t really have anything else worthy of selling/that I want to sell. Anyway, please check it out regardless and perhaps you can do me a tiddly leedle favour and tell your friends too! You’ll also notice that I’ve put up a little mini-banner on my sidebar there <<<<<<<<< so feel free to click anytime :D

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And lastly, I forgot to say Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just wanted to say it’s been sooooooo great getting to know a bunch of bloggers and I’m sooooooo very grateful for everyone who takes the time out to read my blog, especially since I know it can get extremely long and have the shit I post is really dumb. But yes thanks so much for sticking around and I hope you guys have a greaaaaaaaaaat new year :D Now I’m looking forward to Chinese New Year!!!!

Oh and p.s. I just set up my blog to appear iPhone friendly! So if you own an iPhone, it’s now super easy to read SUPERWOWOMG!

p.p.s. I promise promise promise to try and regulate my updates and not bombard too much in one post next time!! And i really need to find a better way of dividing up “sections” in each of my posts………..hm……………………..