Carpet for a collar

I say that because my boyfriend keeps stroking my collar and calls it a carpety thingy. It is velvet!

gingham dress with large velvet collar from ebay, oxfords from etsy, borders book bag is a christmas gift

The other time i wore this dress (on Christmas Day), i pulled on black knee high socks and black patent ballet flats. I tried to do somewhat the same thing today except i swapped the black socks for purple tights and i felt so weird+wrong in it. Everyday i’m feeling more unsure of how i want to dress myself. Let’s hope this figures itself out, it’s as if my body parts aren’t cooperating with my eyes and my brain and such.

wk53; new year’s eve

How was everyone’s new year’s eve? Mine felt like an ordinary day till the fireworks came on. Now that the holidays are over, i have no more excuse for being a lazy blogger. Happy 2009 folks!

Today’s lunch

I popped by Seah Street Deli after mailing a parcel out at the post office for some take out lunch. I got pretty excited because the items on their menu are named after a borough/landmark in nyc. I had such a hard time deciding between the food itself or choosing a place i like the most. Anyway i went home with two lunch boxes - a Queens burger and a Fifth Ave salad. Both didn’t taste good, i wasn’t transported to nyc and back, i could have done better myself!

wk52; merry christmas eve

Some things before Christmas came;

Some photos from Christmas eve dinner;

I hope everyone has some reason to be jolly this holidays. I miss my brother and my mom so much although i didn’t tell them that. I have to get ready for Christmas dinner right now. The place we originally planned to eat at jacked up their prices to $168 per stomach which is brow-raising when that was what it cost for two stomaches last year!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Nice things

This isn’t quite a Christmas wishlist since I don’t ask for anything for Christmas. I have an aunt who gives terrible presents every year - the unneccesary address book, questionable useless black pouch, random key chain with a letter C? - so i never expect much where presents are concerned, but the food has to be good. Anyway i’m sharing some things i’ve had bookmarked, some favourites on etsy and so on. I’ve messed up my sleeping patterns again, i sleep at 4pm and up at 12am, so i haven’t gone out much less wore anything worth mentioning, i haven’t done anything exciting except play Guitar Hero (attempting medium mode right now). And i hate to go quiet here so here’s something till i have something better.

1. See by Chloé Chambray Trapeze Dress 2. Eames® Molded Plastic Rocker 3. Katherina Print 4. Large Baggu & Chevron Baggu 5. Feather headband 6. See by Chloé Knitted Striped Sweater 7. The Big Apple - 8×10 Photo 8. Alex & Chloe Diamond Ring 9. Night Owl Bank 10. Small Slab Tote 11. Ultimate Tape Writer Kit 12. A wide angle lens but i haven’t done my research yet, i only know i want one 13. Your Saddle or Mine Wedge 14. Malababa bag 15. Mociun + Corwin 2009 Calendar 16. Bess Studded Low Moccasin

National Geographic Store in Singapore

Yay you read that right. The store opens on Sunday at Vivocity but i was lucky enough to get a preview of the store this evening. Yknow what these Ogilvy people do (the organisers) - they build up anticipation so well. The store location wasn’t stated on the invite and so the bloggers met at a carpark to be greeted by “an exhibition crew of SUVs” that would take us there. That was a little something something i appreciated.

Some of the SUVs. There was apparently one car for each blogger (about 12 of us i think) so it was a pretty cool thing to witness. A whole line of tall cars - crew gang club scary!

He’s “Big Bear” and his ride was the biggest and tallest and i was a little sad cos he didn’t hear me when i said i wanted to take his, and someone with a louder voice got it instead - haha. I get terribly awkward and shy at these things, meeting a bunch of strangers and such.

So the store is on the first level of Vivocity, and this is what it looks like from the front of the store.

Those are cushions made to resemble rocks!

This is the wind chamber for customers to try on Gortex jackets so you know it really works and keeps you warm. The screen there allows you to monitor your body temperature. I thought this box was smart! Definitely one of the popular aspects of the store.

Something i wanted to purchase, it’s a video camera of sorts. But no one seemed to be buying anything so i’ll come back next time! And a few other things i’d want for my home.

This is a first in Asia, the only other store is in London. The bigwigs of NatGeo (the man above is one of them, he’s a funny one!) shared quite a bit on the concept of the store. Go there, be inspired, be edutained (they kept using that word and i thought it was hilarious) about our life earth environment. They made it easy to do with the interior of the store. It feels like home, only 100x bigger and with very very cool things. There’s alot more to look at but i was pretty much drawn to the ‘old gentlemen’s club’ parts of the store so my pictures only say so much.

Oh! and he shared something, he mentioned NatGeoFood which is a site you can get tips/info on food from all around the world!

Thank you Pat, Tania and Brian!

wk49; Saturday gifs

I’m not sure how many of you read the livejournal community ohnotheydidnt - these people who post there often end a post with a ridiculously good animated gifs. And my boyfriend couldn’t stop laughing at this Sarah Palin one! So this gif-bug rubbed off on me and i made some of Saturday. Not funny ones though!

Phew!

i’ve been wearing more black than usual, although my socks are blue there… and i bought black socks today. you would laugh if i say that the headache i’ve been having the past few days might have been caused by the stress i was under to search for a gift for a friend under $40. this secret santa thingamajig my brilliant friend decided to do - so four of us be secret santas to each other. two of them made it sound like it’s legit, but that was the first time i heard of it sung out loud like it’s a nursery rhyme i oughta know! so yes, being secret santa gave me migraines. i’m uptight like that, always freaking out nervous worried.

so! i’m free from panicking because i found zee present! and i’m delirious and i just want to tell what it is already.

well i can’t of course.

wk48; white & blurry

Last week was all about the christmas tree, meetings and nothing much else. Oh and this headache that never seems to go away.

I’m supposed to get into total-work-mode after this. I sure hope i do. I need to go out to look for a present and a dress for christmas. How’s your week and have you started on your christmas shopping?

!!!

How perfect is this sailor dress? It would be completely perfecto if it fit me, so not so perfect afterall.

winner(s)!

So i used a random number picker to be fair, alot of your comments really grabbed me, oh! i had such a good time reading them. Thanks guys!! I hope to do another one for Christmas but that all depends on my workload.

Well i caved in and picked two people instead of one cos one felt measly and pathetic. Yue and Emily L., you should have an email sitting in your inbox from me! As for the very nice people who said they’d check out my etsy store, oh i wish i had it all going my way… i was aiming to put the prints up for sale before announcing the winners so everything works out for everyone but i haven’t! I will give a shout out once i do, thanks for being supportive, really! And to Soon Lee for being so cute too.

Channeling Sarah

The cloudy skies had me again. I thought it might pour thus the cardigan. Well it’s my favourite thing to wear lately anyway so who i am kidding needing an excuse! I say “channeling Sarah” because the image of her and her infamous bow is forever stored away somewhere in my head.

wk47; Contest!

Alas, my prints are ready for sale! And before i put them in my etsy store, i’m want to do a giveaway contest!

This week’s “It’s Been One Week” will be about you. Tell me what is the best thing that happened to you all week! Leave a comment below and i will randomly pick one winner in the next few days. The lucky person will find a set of these prints in your mailbox, anywhere you are in the world, i will be most happy to mail them to you.

A little about the prints: The top left one is titled Susie Salmon, followed by Joe Fox, Cat Stevens and Peter Rabbit. Since i worked on these, the idea behind it seems so obvious but that’s just me being annoying. (Hint: the italicized words) Each print features a fictional character or real-life person and why them? Because they have an animal as part of their name. So you put two and two together and viola! I hand-carved each animal stamp and handprinted each piece. Each print is 5×7″ and i hope you like them.

New socks

These are from Zipia, they’re my favourite for tights&such. It being two-toned made me feel a little kooky. And i pretty much walk around in these boots, i’m tired of my other shoes for the time being. Took a walk downtown tonight and checked out the Christmas lights while at it. Lacking carols i must say, to get into the mood. We plan on buying a 5′ tree and not hang any ornaments so the cats won’t have their fun! We’ll see, Paragon has veryveryvery delightful ornaments this time, check out the Peacock Fantasy one if you’re there. One peacock for $13.90 is so unfriendly. So my tree can only have one then.

wk46; shot with redscale

Can i just express how pleased i am with this roll? Over the moon and under the stars i am!

This is the hunched-back uncle at Maxwell Market who runs this incredible Ham Jing Pang stall. (It’s a kind of snack made from flour). Plus you have a turn at frying your own, so that’s my boyfriend frying our share.

Autographed Camera Obscura flyer + ticket on the left (managed to score a baby blue frame at the thrift store to match!), a kiddo’s drawing of Bennyho, myself and my brother - drawn at Kensington Market, Toronto.

From here on down, are photos from my short trip to Port Dickson + Melaka.

Anyhoo, one quick thing. I finally caught on with Twitter and i have my Twitter tweets on the side bar. Add me so i have more stuff to read, i have countable friends right now! I usually Twitt a few times a day, so even if i don’t update here, you can read the nonsense i have to say on the side bar or on Twitter itself. I want to say have a good weekend but it’s only Toosday, i’m in sucha swell mood can you tell?