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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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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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New Year Activities

// January 9th, 2008 // 11 Comments » // Academic, Fashion, Personal, Wordless Wednesday

Baked: peanut butter oat bars (see recipe) I’m surprised at how much ingredients I had readily available at home.

Ate: Plain sushi and Californian rolls. Mum’s first attempt of making them was a complete success!

Bought: Hoodie from Garage (pics as close as possible), print dress from Costa Blanca, and brown belt from Suzy Cher. Call this my post-unable-to-get-anything-on-Boxing-day splurge. Don’t you hate it when after Boxing Day, only the Large and Xtra Large sizes are left?! What about us small people, grr!

Addicted to: HOUSE. Can’t believe it took me till now to settle down and watch it. Episodes of House interspersed with university application essays completely saved my sanity. Finished season one, woot!

Neglected: Solids of revolution in integral calculus, BAHHH!

And that’s what I’ve been doing so far in the New Year. Oh yea, speaking of calculus, yesterday I fell asleep as soon as I got home (6pm), napped for 5 hours, got up at midnight and did 2 hours of calculus, then went back to sleep . I forsee much more of this in my IB future.

P.S. - My minicity is born!

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