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Too Much Leg

// February 17th, 2009 // 17 Comments » // Fashion, QOTW

It’s New York Fashion Week! And I’m at home doing absolutely nothing… sleeping as if I’m in a different time zone.

What did I learn from these camwhore sessions?

• The FLASH is a very good solution when one is too lazy to put on makeup, no face dear readers XD
• Need better camera and mirror and/or a BOY to take my pics … kidding!
• Too in love with a single pair of patent heels
• When I rearrange my office or get my room back I’ll have a better backdrop
• Oh and these have are accumulated from the past few months, not like I spent a whole day changing outfits, pfft.

QOTW: What’s your favourite piece of clothing in your closet?

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One Point for Materialism

// December 25th, 2008 // 17 Comments » // Fashion, Personal, Quotables

I logged into WP today and lo and behold, a new dashboard theme! Thank you Lene for kindly upgrading WP so diligently. Yes, it’s Christmas Break so that means I finally have time to blog (or not - the chocolates and wine are calling my name!) To the outside world my life is pretty mundane at the moment, i.e. no new obsessions, no materialistic acquisitions, no romances (boys just aren’t interested, alas). But I do love the daily nuances that pop up in my life. For example:

Mum: Hey what exactly does “XD” mean?
Me: It’s face mother. You have to look at it sideways.
Mum: I don’t get it.
Me: Come here *types out XD*, see? The D is the mouth and the X are the eyes like this: ><
Mum: That’s stupid. I still don’t get it. What does LOL mean?
Me: *headdesk*

Mind you this was right after a Facebook conversation I had with my dad.

Dad: Why can’t I see the snowman photo I just took of you Crystal? On Facebook?
Me: Oh I don’t know, you’re on my limited profile?!
Dad: WHY? WHY DID YOU BLOCK ME? MY OWN DAUGHTER. WHY?!
Me: Uh…kidding *shifty eyes* … maybe you’re not logged in probably… *quickly changes privacy setting for one album* … refresh it now…
Dad: OH OKAY I see it!

They tried to get me to teach my grandma how to use the internet. I passed. I can’t decide whether or not my parents are “at-least-better-than-most-parents-who-fail-at-computer” or just complete lunatics from whom I inherited my DNA. I still proudly announce to all my friends that not one but BOTH of my parents have Facebook lol. Watch out everyone. In a few years I’ll be trying to convince my grandkids to let me reprogram their hovercrafts.

In other news, I finally got down to decorate one of the bare walls in my bedroom. Why should I miss out the whole decorate your dorm wall thing even if I live at home?! Behold, les photos.

BEFORE. Oh dreary white walls!

AFTER.

DETAILS. May I direct your attention to DANIEL RADCLIFFE IN EQUUS, and in the right corner CHUCK + BLAIR = LOVE.

Spreads from: ELLE Canada July, Vogue September, ELLE Canada September, Glamour December. It’s deliciously materialistic isn’t it?

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Olympics Fever

// August 4th, 2008 // 20 Comments » // Fashion, Quotables

Countdown to Beijing Olympics 2008: 4 days.

My family’s favourite pasttime is gathering in front of the television to spend “quality time” with each other. So when the Olympics roll around every four years, it’s a huge deal for my folks in the entertainment department. For anyone who hasn’t seen the dress rehearsal fireworks pictures from Beijing’s Bird’s Nest, I recommend you to check it out right away. It totally DWARVES what went down in Vancouver last weekend (HSBC Celebration of Lights).

In the last issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Lucy Liu made several appearances in Spring Couture 2008 clothes posing for Olympics events (photo credits). It totally adds that extra pizazz and glamour the Games need! Observe.

Eye-catching red dress from the Armani Prive spring collection.

This archery one in Carolina Herrera is my favorite of the set.

Where can I get this Dolce and Gabanna bag?!

Haha I know all of you jock types are totally frowning upon replacing weights with Jean Paul Gaultier bags.

Hmm… this Versace gown may have looked better on the runway.

So patriotic eh?

And this is my parting thought for this fashion-filled entry:

The popular creative director of Chanel and Fendi, Karl Legerfield, has been asked by road safety chiefs in France to front their latest campaign, encouraging drivers to wear light-reflecting clothing when traveling at night. The translation, “It’s yellow. It’s ugly. It doesn’t go with anything, but it could save your life.”

P.S. - finally updated the Links in the sidebar with Sarai, Shen-Shen, Alex, Rilla and a few other blogs that I read.

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Cashmere Mafia

// February 23rd, 2008 // 13 Comments » // Fashion, Review

Yep, that’s what I’m watching on Stage6 when I’m not blogging.

If I haven’t mentioned it already, I’m a huge TV watcher. Before school and all that stress came along, I knew the days in my week by what show was on TV. Survivor, Big Brother, The Bachelor, For Love or For Money, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, House, the list goes on. What I didn’t know was that my love of fashion and TV sitcoms can come together in the newest show to hit ABC: Cashmere Mafia.

The show blurb describes it self as “A group of successful female executives who have been friends since college turn to each other for guidance as they juggle their careers with family in New York City.”. You can see a preview here. I admit, I got hooked on the preview because Lucy Liu was in it. Then I saw all the stunning clothes these ladies put on, they’re absolutely gorgeous.

I have to also admit that the plot is nothing totally new and it competes directly with the other new release Lipstick Jungle (there’s a whole controversy on how the creators of these two shows were once very close friends and then… fall out). However, I like the close friendship these ladies share and the producers’ attempts to at least portray somewhat realistic scenarios in the high corporate business world in New York. People have called Cashmere Mafia “Sex and the City for the thinking women”, and it couldn’t be more true.

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Elie Saab Haute Couture And Others

// January 29th, 2008 // 10 Comments » // Academic, Fashion

I rarely write fashion posts for fear of sounding superficial or clich/e. But I recently came across Elie Saab’s Spring 08 Haute Couture collection in my RSS feed and it’s just absolutely gorgeous. Here are my few favourites.

Even the Elie Saab Ready-to-Wears stand out from the crowd.

Other than that, I really like Andrew GN.

Anyone else notice that the sunshine yellow is really popular this season? Favs from Derercuny.

Dolce and Gabana below. Hmm… looked nicer in the ads haha. And why is this Ready-to-Wear and not Haute Couture?!

Hmm… I just noticed that there is a very distinct style that I prefer in clothes. Let’s see if the trend continues. Versace.

Yea yea yea, I’m purposefully throwing in a lot of sunshine yellows to prove I’m right =D More Versace

And to finish it off with some of my favs from the Armani collection.

I love how they’re playing around with the idea of suits for femme, and adding a lot of glam to it.

Okay, enough runway shots… before I scare everyone away. Schoolwise, math HL and history mock exams were surprisingly… easy. Math especially, guess studying hard actually pays off. I think the class average will be 60-70%, and if I’m lucky I’ll slip by with an 80%. In my Math HL class, that means a 6 on the IB Scale and at least an A. Sometimes hard teachers come in use… because the rest of the class end up failing . I heard last year only two people out of thirty passed the mock in HL, and supposedly we’re the smartest kids in the school, HA!

French and English Mock tomorrow, Chem on Thursday, Physics on Friday.

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