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sorry for the really slow updates. i've been busy with preparing for school, enjoying the rest of my holidays, plus having school.

it just started this week, so.. sigh.

anyway, something to boost your spirits if you're as low as me. chickdowntown.com contacted me to host yet another freebie giveaway! this time, its free, including shipping to everywhere in the world! i realized i have quite a few number of worldwide readers other than singaporeans, so i'm rather pleasantly surprised. :)

fashion aside, i've been spending my time watching glee!

Glee's a show from Fox about a high school show choir known as the glee club. there's lea michele as rachel berry, the really strong and diva-esque nerd as the female lead and cory monteith as the cool jock and most popular guy in school, finn hudson. and both joined the glee club somehow, along with the rest of the cast. i LOVE their chemistry, but its really fucked up because finn thinks he knocked up his girlfrie

nd, quinn in the hot tub, although they had their bathing suits on, when actually she got pregnant after having sex with HIS best friend.

weird? very.

alright, i wanted to blog here for a reason. i havent been getting into the mood and inspiration to dress up recently. blame my growing love for basics, which basically means i'm getting lazy to dress up. everyday's a basic top and denim shorts with flip flops to school. this past week in school proved it, my lecturer look at my ipanema slippers, shook her head and asked me where my 'retro' style went to.

i dont have a retro style in the first place!

but then again, i've acquired some really awesome stuff while thrifting recently. recently, there was a major topman and topshop sale going on. i was out shopping at ion with my mum and my brother and we saw this really great awesome looking plaid/checkered longsleeved shirt from topman. the colours were so nice, and it blended well together. moreover, its 79 bucks down to 39, so.. i was considering whether i should get it. but then again, i never spend even 15 bucks on a shirt :(

the next day, i went to the thrift shop at the simei daycare centre after my checkup at changi general hospital the other time, and i found a plaid shirt in a blue/beige/white combination. 4 dollars. i bought it immediately.

i'll put pictures up soon! i'm so excited :D

i've gotten quite a few emails from people asking where the thrift shop i went to the other time was.

its at HealthServe Community Clinic 1 Lorong 23 Geylang #01-08 Building 4.

just find it on a google map, or click to enlarge (i think the link's working)

anyway, guess what i found too.

they have an online thrift shop which they display the stuff that just came in! the bowling bag in the second picture looks tempting in the second picture :) :) not sure if you can purchase it online though.

as you know, i got my crochet top which is found it so many blogshops and runways over there at 4 bucks. i'm going to go back there again and ransack the place again.

AGAIN.

cant wait to show you guy the plaid shirt and crochet top!!

major inspirations & flat-out love.

i know, i know. everybody around the world (and especially in singapore, after the fever of YSL and chanel logos caught up in the online shopping and DIY world - just check out flashlightbatteriess) but honestly, i havent tried it yet.
simple enough, everybody knows i am very into basics. a plain white cotton tee or tank paired with low rised or highwaisted shorts, whatever suits my mood (and the comfort of the down there - sometimes highwaisted shorts give really bad wedgies). all i have to do is to get a black permanent marker and draw.
NOOOOO NOW THERE'S AN EVEN EASIER OPTION. just use my brother's leftover black spray cans and sprayyy.

the holidays are ending, the new school semester's starting, and honestly, other than the major flea market i participated in back in september, i havent been doing a whole lot of DIY. simply because my holidays literally flew past and i have been finding myself stoning at home rotten, in front of the computer doing absolutely nothing. either its facebook, reading tweets on twitter or watching glee (watch it. oh gosh i love cory monteith).
so i havent been really going out and doing fun things.

fuck lindsay's new line of leggings, boots are the new leggings.
what do you think?

come on, disagree with me and tell me that romeo and juliet arent the most romantic & famous couple in literature ever.

i saw this on lelove and i fell in love at the sight of leo bending over, grasping her and kissing her.


lelove, lefashion, outsapop.

short hiatus!

i've been sick since monday.
still recovering.

things happening in my life now.

a kitten crawled into our house and crept around silently, even though we barred the front door with pokey nettings. i fell in love at the sight of this kitty, and i fed her milk, stroked her really soft fur, and she didnt bite me at all.
but then i realized i have another puppy who's probably going to be jealous that all the love i have for him is going to have to be shared with that.. young thing he's born to hate.
so i experimented. i sayang-ed (its malay for darling. but i'm using it in a context where i stroke the cat's fur lovingly) the kitty and he didnt bother about jealousy. fun and excitement of a new animal in the house was more than enough for him.
too bad we had to let her go. she was a stray, and not a government stray either. she now lives at the top staircase of my flat's level. :(

we went to a dramabox rehearsal for migrant workers at a place somewhere in aljunied. its a community centre-typed of place where there's facilities for.. ya. okay, i'm trying to sound smart here but i dont know what it is used for. HAHAHA. i tagged along with my friends and fell in love with the place.
look at the courtyard! i took a million and one pictures with my lomo fisheye 2. i cant wait to develop it.
(digressing, i calculated and it costs around 70 cents per shot with film. 5 dollars for the film, 19 for the developing including the prints and the CD)

at haji lane, smoking shisha.

thrift store alert! its a GEM of a place. its not a very big place, but there are books, clothings, bags. i almost bought this really nice checkered-ish tote bag but there was some golf club logo on it. blah. and they're selling macdonalds playdoh sets (I LOVE THOSE. i remember playing them so so much back when i was younger), this cute little backpack, racks of stuff and a netball. hahahahaha i almost wanted to buy the netball.

btw, its at the health serve centre if you want to make your way there. find it on a local map. :)

here you go, a picture of the place.

i didnt buy much, just a white crocheted knitted sweater which was brand new with tag for 4 bucks. white and black knitted sweaters are.. oh my god. i dont know if they're in trend but i saw quite a few blogs posting them up. maybe i'm slow but i got a nice brand new piece at 4 dollars. :)

joween got a jumpsuit and a black knitted sweater. i feel happy. :)

anyway, i realized how lucky i am to have followers to my blog. i never expected to have any and i'm quite happy to have people giving really nice and constructive comments on my posts. i never intended to make this blog a big thing - i didnt advertise this blog anywhere - but i guess some people somehow found out about it.

i'm still in my diy-ing mode. i'm going to get inspired.

nothing like the love for a dog.
i'm watching the disney channel original movie Life is Ruff now, and i dont know how people can mistreat or not take care of little puppies. it just makes me feel sad that my own puppy was one of the cheapest and no one wanted him back at the farm.
i love my jack russell.

via glamour.com

dont you find these very familiar? they've been in the trend for awhile now, and now the runways have confirmed that this oversized 80s trend is going to stay for more than just awhile more.
this is erin wasson's runway exhibitions. i particularly like the last two. i've been making cropped tees for the past few months because i have tons of tees i no longer want, ala forever21 pieces minus the costs. its free, people. oh right, its cheaper than freepeople.com too. (joke, joke. get it?)
and as for the oversized one, i have one stussy sweatshirt i got from a flea. this really rich guy from the rich marine parade area sold this hundred-over dollar piece to me at 17 bucks. and i look like a retard with sleeves going way over my hands. i'm going to try this style tomorrow, wherever i'm going.

I LIKE IT, MS WASSON.

new york fashion week.

this is going to be hot in singapore soon.
plaid, flowy dresses, bodycon butterfly-sleeved dresses, more one-shoulder bodycon dresses.
i can just see it, all the blogshops are going to stock their online shelves with pieces like this from bangkok!
BUYING POWER!!!

credits

ashley olsen.

i think i can safely say that i never really was a fan of the olsen twins. true, i grew up reading two of a kind, adventures of.. and so little time, i read two of their autobiographies, but i never really liked it the moment they grew up. maybe its all the media hounding which caused them to be that way, or maybe they were portrayed in a bad light, and i was sold to the media.
i hated the way i saw marykate and her extremely skinny frame, ashley and her extremely skinny frame, especially when they were role models for people like me, girls who were growing up and getting very aware of their bodies and how they looked like. so if there is so much news about how marykate checked into rehab for anorexia nervosa, then how much will it affect younger girls, thinking that they're too fat, they're too overweight, and they start starving themselves?

but this, ashley's an adult now. albeit petite, she looks gorgeous and womanly in this photoshoot.

credits

Numéro Tokyo | I Love Shopping | David Vasiljevic

hah, if these two are a real couple and had a real baby, their child will be fucking hot.
cool glasses on the guy in the last picture though. i like :D

Magazine: Numéro Tokyo October 2009
Title: I Love Shopping
Photographer: David Vasiljevic
Models: Alie Stephens & Allen Tsai
Fashion Editor: Victoria Adcock

outfit post, simple.

thrifted men's shirt, thrifted shorts.

amazingly i found this shirt at the thrift store the other day in mint condition. i got so happy because it actually fitted me, or at least just a little too big. i tried wearing my dad's but he's too.. well, fat. hahaha
i havent been labelling my posts in a long time because blogger's just screwing up so bad for me. i dont know whether its just my mac where it causes my facebook and blogger to SUCK, but if it is objective is to piss me off on end for days, its working.
i should be glad though, i can actually run multiple applications at the same time. windows cant do that without lagging. mac owns pc.