Chinese New Year’s round the corner - it’s basically a public holiday that gives you ample reasons to buy new clothes - and I have a whole bunch of stuff I wish I could try before dropping monies on/ wish I could pull off/ wish I could fit into/ wish didn’t cost an arm and a leg.
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I’m really digging the Acne catsuit… how fun would it be, to show up at my relative’s in that?
Drew up a family portrait in the last few days. You can click on the image to view it larger, over on Flickr. Alternatively, I learnt this rad tip from Allison - http://ihardlyknowher.com is a minimalist Flickr viewer and it’s cool cos you can choose to view your photos real big. It’s super easy to link up to your Flickr account and you’re good to go in about 7 seconds. This is mine: http://ihardlyknowher.com/greenlaundry/big
Let me know if you’re on it! I really do prefer checking out photos this way over the conventional Flickr layout, to be honest.
Check out my hamburger face! Ah, so it seems somehow I find myself on the list of one of the best dressed guests on the night of the Harajuku Street Style launch at Tangs. Despite my crinkled blouse, the famous street style photographer Rei Shito must have seen something worthy to snap about right? Though I have to admit, this is the best I’ve dressed up in a while. Long while. So I’m glad and honoured to have my photo taken by the lady.
The whole point of this post is to make you go vote for me, ha! I’d appreciate it.
So to make this an official outfit post, here’s the deets to what I wore:
Blouse with bows from Zipia, high-waisted shorts from Bettina Liano, jazz lace-ups from F-Troupe and vintage briefcase from clevernettle, hamburger face from too much McD’s.
Was majorly fried this afternoon, got burnt, got heartbroken. The Killers gig is cancelled, it was supposed to be this Sunday man, it was gonna be the best party for so many of us! Gahh, we were all talking about it since 2009, still talking about it two days back and now, THIS!
But a trip to the park always has its way of making things right again. Hopped onto our bicycles and put my new Fjallraven backpack to use.
Found this little guy outside my door
A huge fella
Ben ended up buying a kite, some kind of personal quest for redemption going on there but turns out, he’s so darn good at flying a kite! He got so cocky about it which was really funny!
That’s his eagle, it makes this awesome flapping sound
G’weekend now guys! Big hugs to anyone else who got cancelled on!
My mash-up of photos, from December till just about last week. First up is photos of Karyn’s immensely charming home, she had us over for a Post-Christmas dinner!
(L-R) Sarah, Karyn, Mellow & Yen
Her boy, Tommie
In the bedroom
Headed outdoors >
Ada; Little girl red at Magazine Road
Back in the kitchen >>
Kailan with mushrooms, drenched in oyster sauce. Gah, chinese is so hard to do! Couldn’t have done it without STUMPBO’s help via Twitter.
Day-old salad on mini toast (well only four of them are mini if you look closely), faux bruschetta
Out in town, at Tang’s, for the Harajuku Street Style Showcase >>>
(L-R) Myself, Sarah, Sheryo, Jayden & Tania [Photo by Tania]
(L-R) Sarah, Rae, Tania, myself, Jayden & not sure who’s this lady tho
I sneaked in a photo of shoes but that’s alright right? How could I not! Those Luellas, ohhhhhh, (good) sigh.
More from my most recent roll. Taken with the Diana Mini using expired Elitechrome Tungsten 160T.
Badass strays who terrorize Indie
I think I had enough of slide film for awhile. Sometimes I really hate the yellow hues on my photos. But I never remember what looks good under what kind of lighting and I kinda feel that would kill the whole point of taking photos if I were to be taking notes. So anyway, I bought a lot of Fujifilm Superia 400 and I’ll be using that for now.
14 JAN 2010, I MET MY CHILDHOOD HEROES.
GUY #1 MADE TO JUMP INTO THE MOSHPIT
ONE OF THE MANY LUCKY FANS WHO GOT TO HANG OUT WITH BILLIE JOE ON STAGE. I THINK SHE’S THE ONE HE KISSED! ON THE HAND, HEEHEE.
GUY #2 MADE TO JUMP INTO THE MOSHPIT. THERE WAS ANOTHER VERY YOUNG BOY WHO JUMPED TOO. ANYWAY THIS DUDE WITH THE GREEN HAIR, HE SANG THE ENTIRE SONG TO ‘LONGVIEW’… ON STAGE, WITH THE BAND. !!!!! HE ROCKED IT THO, SO PROUD!!!
THERE WERE LOTS OF TOYS. THIS ONE WAS USED TO BLAST T-SHIRTS INTO THE CROWD.
I’M REALLY GLAD THEY PLAYED ‘BURNOUT’ AND ‘KING FOR A DAY’. I HAD SUCH A GOOD TIME, I’M STILL SMILING. THEY WERE SO AWESOME LIVE. IT ALMOST FEELS LIKE A MILESTONE IS COVERED Y’KNOW? I PROMISE THE NEXT POST WON’T BE IN CAPS, NOT TILL NEXT SUNDAY, WHEN THE KILLERS COME PLAY! !!!!!!
(L) Caili with a giant tree, (R) Arlia and her lil sis
(L) Nabs & Sherms, (R) Caili & myself
(L) Dybs, Nurul & Nadia, (R) Sandy of cookiecutter
(L) Ada, myself & Farah, (R) Yvonne
I am really bummed that the rest of the photos turned out way too dark! Even photoshop couldn’t save them. I had a couple more shots that I remembered were great, hahaha, would have been great. The girls and the greens around us made photo-taking so much more fun, SE-RIOUS! Anyway I should have known better than to risk it all on expired film. I had to do some severe reducing of noise and despeckling. My eyeballs are about to pop out now so g’night my friends.
{Taken with the Diana Mini}
bought these, I will try to make them sometime
yoghurt, mini-sized milo drink, yakult, ferrero rocher chocolate
toasted, coon slices in between a baguette
if you like cookies & cream ice cream, try the Meadow Gold one - it’s a blue tub with a white lid - $7! it’s actually the best c&c ice cream I’ve had, surprisingly. couldn’t have found out about this if not for dinner at Karyn’s!
ingredients for the burger and the mediterranean salad
it was gooood! (i’ve scanned the recipes, burger and salad)
stuff for the finishing touches for the tandoori salmon
with chappati (instead of naan), yoghurt mix of cucumber + lemon juice + red chilli and I used Patak’s tandoori paste for the fish. recipe’s also from Jamie O’s Ministry of Food.
It’s going to be a stay-home weekend for me so I think there will be plenty more home-cooking which means more food photos!
Having one thing after another. Planning, worrying, stressing. Then a meeting today. Nursing a giant pimple right smack centre on my nose (this makes you look out for fellow pimple-on-the-nose victims, spotted one today in town). And I can’t seem to sleep every night, I’m feel hungry once my head’s on my pillow. So I’m continuing to finish what I started last year. I’m really not complaining, I’m actually in great spirits having seen this new collection from H&M via Ringo, Have a Banana! So much so that I’ve shamelessly asked a friend who lives in a city with H&M to help buy me some, come March!
Is everyone easing into 2010 nicely? I’m terrible. I like to correct people when they say 2010 is next year, but sometimes I can’t cos of who they are, all’s good though.
Cleared out my wardrobe and I’ve put some stuff up for sale on ebay, mostly vintage but that blazer’s from UO. Do check it out here, you might see something you like, thanks!!
Here’s making up for the lack of everything on this blog, y’know in these festive times!
Fatboy awaiting the arrival of our friends
Celeste, Yajun, Caili, Popo, Ben & myself
Popo made her famooos tiramisu
Played Charades while waiting for the stroke of midnight
We played with sparklers and poppers at midnight, then a bottle of beer smashed in the kitchen and then we went on to spend many hours watching weird funny horrible Japanese videos on youtube. Drank some more and was I the only drunk one at the table?
We missed you Whiteboy!
{Some photos were taken by Caili but it’s hard to say which ones exactly!]
The table’s all set, yes, mock my mismatched cups! We’re having a dinner party at our place tonight and we really only clean the house when people come over, we’re gross! I cross my fingers I didn’t over-salt the fish and that no cats jump onto the table. That dinner goes smoothly and we ring in the new year a little tipsy.
I don’t know what to make of 2010 being tomorrow. I had a good run this 2009 but I could do a lot better. The only resolution I’m making is to stick with running twice a week! I can do that, you can do that, Melly. What are some of yours? Maybe I could get inspired because I really don’t like to dig deep and think about these things.
So I’ll see you folks in 2010, a toast to the last day of the year, wherever you’ll be! x
I had a superduperawesome late christmas party y’day, it lasted for twelve hours. It started with finding a decent place for brunch on a Monday, we shopped for groceries, we cooked ourselves dinner, exchanged AWESOME presents and sorta ran out of steam by 11PM. Hohoho. I took no pictures because my nose didn’t like me and just ruined my entire day.
Every empty surface I have in the room is covered with presents and cards and surprise mail-things but I’m a big sick grumpy monster right now. I so can’t wait to get better so I can enjoy my new things! And read handwritten cards!
In the meantime… I’ve put up some photos taken in nyc, back in 2008. What can I say but I miss the place? I actually did not take any photos on film for that trip. Bizarre.
Believe me I’m writing this with as much happiness and joy for this tremendous day called Christmas. The hours leading up to now, which isn’t many considering I only woke up at 4PM. It has been one boo-boo after another!
First, we wanted to do a miniature picnic party for Ada and we went supermarketing at 2AM last night. Miniature cos she’s mini right. So I woke up at 4 and prepped the food.
Tiny egg! I couldn’t help but think ‘dinosaurrrrr’ as I was peeling it. I was so happy you have no idea how happy I was and I was about to take a shower then IT RAINS!!
Mmmhmm.
I finally let the idea of the picnic go. Wanted to put on my new red lipstick - christmas gift from my mom - and after getting my lips painted perfectly, oh I go ahead to drop it and destroy the tip and splatttt my mirror and STAIN MY SHIRT!! MOMMMMY!!!!!
Well I’m in a new shirt now and we’re going for a dim sum dinner. Nevertheless, MERRY CHRISTMAS you guys! Good food, good people, good times!
