A few pix from this Sunday afternoon event we went to. If there’s something you can lure me out on a weekend for, it’s FOOD. Having had BBQ at Palate before, i kinda missed their BBQ-ed chicken.
I forgot that previous BBQs there had to be paid for… so i satisfactorily stuffed myself with lamb and chicken that afternoon cos it was FREE heh. Clem asked whether i was trying to eat more than everyone.
Cupcakes and Heinekennnn
AH XU
This was just too cute. A daddy DJ bringing his kid out to gig.
Humour me and play the song below while you read the post ok? I think it goes with how i feel about my dressing! And i love Lisa Mitchell. She reminds me of Regina Spektor.
Completely random pictures of what i’ve been wearing this month. One weekend, i impulsively decided to wear AS MANY POLKA DOTS AS I COULD.
Top and pants – thrifted. Shoes from Chatuchak. I think the total cost of this outfit was RM34. SuhWEET.
shirt; tsen by richard tsen
skirt; brisbane
shoes; bangkok
After i championly broke my Henry Holland x Le Specs sunnies at Future Music Fest, i FOUND another pair in KL! Was thinking it was a lost cause cos i even emailed Actually store in SG i bought it from, but they’d completely sold out. Then i was walking around Bangsar Village 2 and saw the Actually KL store carries the styles i like. Score.
One random day at work, Ee Von and i were like a walking rainbow.
sheer coral drape top; topshop
silver singlet; zara
leggings; h&m x marni
cat top; hey pilgrim in bangkok
polka dot shorts; topshop
I remember wearing this on a Saturday, and was to meet a bunch of our friend for dinner later that night. I quietly put on this cat headband i just got… and Clem looked at my cat shirt and ears saying softly, “Psychoooo….” I was like, “What? What? Is it too much? Really?” and looked at myself in the mirror again. Was *going* to remove it… but i REALLY wanted to wear that out! And besides… there’s no one to tell me i CAN’T. So i did.
I got the cat ears headband from The Odd Loft @ Publika. Here are a couple of pix of the vintage paper dress they have exhibited there:
If you do go to Publika, i suggest you check out The Odd Loft, and the Sevendays pop up store. They’re my two fave boutiques there.
I used to keep all my nice clothes and save them for..??? So i’ve started wearing them all as much as i can now. No point having nice clothes if they’re just sitting in the closet making friends with each other.
Print pants from Topshop Unique. Sandals from Anne Klein (i wear these to death).
I went for the Giuseppe Zanotti event in this outfit.
top; leftblock
necklace; sportsgirl
quilt skirt; azorias (you can still buy it *here*)
fuchsia wedges; topshop
silk pants; zara
studded shoes; topshop
Yishyene was saying how heaps of girls in London are wearing the shoes above right now! So that means… i won’t take them with me when i go there this summer.
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I’ve had some amazing times in London having being there numerous times since i was a child. More recently was my trip back in Summer 2010 where i hung around for a few weeks. It’s a great place to be in during summer! The weather in London is mostly wet and gloomy, so summer is the best time to go when the sun is out and everyone’s happy and bright!
I took my time wandering around the museums…
Went to the opera…
My aunt and uncle took me for nice dinners, like at The Ivy…
I met up with friends and we’d troll the markets for food
Spent sunny afternoons drinking different beers
Sometimes we’d buy food and drinks to sit in the park and hang out
I spent hours walking around by myself discovering quirky shops all around the city!
I’m happy i’ll be returning to London this summer! It’ll just be for a few days to see my family there, but nonetheless it’ll be nice to step back into the city.
I know i’m really lucky to be able to travel to Europe a lot more often than others… so THIS BELOW is a great opportunity for you if you think you’re up for it. If you love social media – sharing pictures, making videos, and telling the world what you’re doing (just like me!) then you could find yourself in London..!
This is going to be one of the longest posts on my blog. Ever. I’m writing this from KLCC while waiting for an event to start and couldn’t think of anything else better to do than blog! Time waits for no man (or fairy).
Birthdays. Yes, i wanted to say this – Just recently my friends and i have been agreeing that the older we get, the better life gets. You learn more about yourself and what you like and don’t like. Along with that, you start earning more money to DO all these things you like even MORE. You start filtering friends who feed positivity into your life, and surround yourself with them more and more. You start feeling that you miss your family more and thus start spending more time and being more patient with them than our terrible teenage selves were (well, i was definitely a terrible teenage self).
On my side, i have started feeling that i’m not as invincible as i used to be. I get scared hearing of people my age getting sicknesses and diseases that we never had to worry about before. I make sure my insurance plan gets paid so *touch wood* if anything happens, all is taken care of.
I have started looking at life as a much longer journey than my short sightedness previously did. I used to think i would die young (don’t ask me why, maybe it’s a writer thing), and i used to feel that i would be okay with it.
Now i’m not so okay with it.
I would like to live long and healthy. And do lots of happy things. I see a lot of things in front of me that i can’t wait to get started on, but i know i’ll get to do it all in time.
So for me, i don’t relate to those quips of “Oh, i’m getting a year older, this sucks”. I LOVE getting older. (This is not the same meaning as ‘i LOVE getting old’ but i’m nowhere near old yet so i can give myself a few more decades.)
Another thing that made me appreciate my birthday this year is a recent incident that happened to a friend’s friend. A few weeks ago i tweeted about an 11-year-old girl who urgently needed blood donations. Lots of people retweeted it and i heard that lots of volunteers went to the hospital to help her (THANK YOU very much). Tragically, she passed away a few days later. My friend told me about the funeral in a bar when we met up for Guinness and we cried.
On the day before my birthday, i thought about that little girl who had passed away. It seemed so terribly unfair for a CHILD to die. I wouldn’t know how i would be able to handle it if my child died. And as i thought about how life is given and taken, i gave thanks to the Universe that i am alive. I am alive at 29 and i am GRATEFUL for it. I could not even have existed or BE here, but HERE i am. And it’s a damn well good reason to celebrate.
Okay i’m finished with my spiel, so on to my actual birthday. The night before, my mom cooked my favourite dish one of my favourite dishes (too many of hers to say it’s my fave!) – fish head curry. Being so considerate, she even cooked extra non-spicy dishes for Clem in case he didn’t fancy the fish head curry so much. In the end he whacked them all.
After family dinner, Clem and i went home where i prepped burgers to take for my birthday BBQ the next day.
OK OK to update you – my birthday plan this year was to book the whole of Awanmulan and invite 23 friends to drink, BBQ, chill, dance, and swim. I just wanted to get out of the city, and bring a whole bunch of people along for the ride. I said that i’d prepare as much food as i could, while everyone paid for their own bed/room. I think i was a bit mad to want to prep food for so many people… it was exciting to prep and pack it there, but oh… to clean and pack stuff up home was a nightmare. And i was so hungover i’m glad to say that i have a very loving boyfriend and friends who did all the cleaning and packing the day after the party 😀 😀 😀
Some of us convoyed at 12pm so we could be there around 1pm. But you know la, Malaysian timing, someone (not me!!) was late and we finally took off 40 minutes later. It was okay, no rush anyway.
I was so happy Yishyene happened to be in KL when my birthday was going on! She made me this card/picture frame thing above which is currently placed in my mini zoo at home. I almost thought she wasn’t coming when she whatsapped me: “Joyce… don’t kill me…”
And i was thinking, OH MAN SHE’S GONNA CANCEL ON ME! and considering how to react in a mature and adult manner.
Then she wrote: “I made brownies for you but…”
PHEW. Turns out the brownies were hard tho i never got to try one…
Yishyene had this idea where everyone who attended could paint something on me. I told someone about her stupid idea and they said, “It’s a GREAT IDEA!” Yeah. Cos you’re not the one being painted! I was already envisioning someone painting a giant cock on me. No thanks. Let’s keep the paint for another time…
Meesh & Clouds
Clouds & Kevin brought Wallis. And that blue shirt. Is still in my car, KEVIN. So many people hungoverly left their things at Awanmulan the day after, and we had to bring it back to KL for them. Someone even thought he lost something there, but turns out he just found it yesterday…………. in his own house. Cos he never even brought it. -_- What a champ.
Oh Rudy, such a man of style.
Which straight man you know goes to a forest looking like that? I had to grab a picture.
I didn’t think of asking Rudy at first cos he always has to spin at Daikanyama on Sat nights. But i tried anyway and AM SO GLAD you came! You definitely needed to get out of the city 😉
My birthday dress! From Topshop <3 Oh BTW there are MANY pictures in this post which are all STOLEN from Tania, Steph, Meesh, Sa, Ming, Deep, etc. Sorry i’m not crediting you for every individual picture cos……… i fed you that night? Heh.
Mah trusty kaleidoscope
You can see Rudy! Just try a bit harder than you think you are right now.
Me and my beloved spinner; Cammy with the new GIANT CIRCLE OF PEACE Yishyene gave me; and Steph with a lilac feather boa Clouds gave me. After this party i realise not only do i need a massive house to keep all my clothes, but a huge room JUST for TOYS as well.
When people started eating junk food in the afternoon, i decided it was time to start cooking burgers instead of filling their stomachs up with snacks. Above is Cammy helping me, and Kenny pretending to help us.
Tania, me, and… OH MING you just had to play with food in THAT way
Last year when Claudia and i celebrated our birthdays together, i brought home a pile of presents that included a couple of Aesop products. I was delighted, tho had no idea who gave it to me since there wasn’t a card with it. Two days later Claudia asked whether i accidentally took home a present of hers – which were two Aesop products. I told her how sad i was cos i really thought they were MINE ALL MINE. Such is life.
I have an Aesop exfoliator that i swear is the best in the WORLD. Till this day i cannot find another one that surpasses its performance. Hence i was curious as to what this Hair Care collection would entail. Also, i really wanted to check out Matt’s new salon that i hadn’t yet been to – The Belfry @ Troika.
The first thing i noticed were these exquisite heavy mesh curtains that hung around the corkscrew staircase which led you from the reception area downstairs to the first floor where the salon is. I told Matt the mesh was amazing. He said it was made to order. Of course.
Here be Matt. He’s the head honcho at The Belfry. We spent most of our time that morning scoffing cheese cos we were starving.
The walls upstairs are clothed in Andrew Martin wallpaper, which the designer hand painted before printing.
On to Aesop – The company has experimented with botanical and laboratory-generated ingredients since 1987 to create superlative products for skin, hair and body. Aesop also values other endeavors that magnify our quality of life. Best example i can give you of this is a line from their brand book – “We advocate the use of our products as part of a balanced life that includes a healthy diet, sensible exercise, a moderate intake of red wine, and a regular dose of good books.”
Suzanne Santos, ambassador for Aesop since 1987
The entirely new range of hair care products consist of 6 shampoos and 4 conditioners designed according to specific needs for the hair and scalp.
“The shampoos cleanse the scalp without stripping the hair’s natural protective oils, and leave hair soft and revived. Our conditioners protect the hair, improving its appearance and making it more manageable. Blended botanical oils impart a healthy shine while vegetable and synthetic proteins seal hair shafts to reduce breakage. They are also sensory pleasures, reflecting our belief that cleansing the scalp and the hair is a process to be enjoyed.”
I have to agree that their products make it a pleasure to wash my hair. I adore the smell of two of their products i got to take home to try.
I took a Colour Protection Shampoo, seeing my hair is so frequently dyed. It’s sulphate-free (*read this* to know more about why we should use sulphate-free products) and provides longer-lasting colour for hair while suitable for frequent use. There are intense hydrating properties of Hydrolyzed Oats (whazzat?) and carefully selected botanicals to enrich my hair to prevent it from breakage.
For conditioning, i chose the Nurturing Conditioner which has grape seed, borage seed, fennel seed, sweet almond, and shea butter. Promising rich hydration for stressed hair, the Nurturing Shampoo and Conditioner is also recommended for dry, chemically treated or untameable hair.
I figured i’d try two different types to merge its effectiveness somewhat.
I was tempted to choose the Equalizing Shampoo as well. Suzanne mentioned that it’s great for those who apply styling products to hair and tend not to wash it for a few days (i do that!). A treatment shampoo to cleanse and remove excess oil without stripping hair or scalp.
For extra hair nurturing, the Rose Hair & Scalp Moisturising Masque sounded interesting. Containing rose petal, beta-carotene and lavender; it’s an intensive hair treatment especially for colored, tortured or salon-abused hair.
Besides the aforementioned, there is also
– Classic: for hair that’s frequently washed.
– Volumising: to add body and volume to thin fine hair.
– Calming Shampoo: for sensitive scalps.
– Violet Leaf Hair Balm: to shape and soften unruly/dry hair.
– Sage & Cedar Scalp Treatment: a pre-shampoo treatment for those suffering from eczema/psoriasis.
To find out more, visit Aesop stores/stockists at 1 Utama, Bangsar Village II, Parkson Pavilion, Metrojaya Mid Valley, Isetan KLCC, or Gurney Plaza Penang. The Aesop Hair Care products will be available from 1st June 2012.
As for The Belfry, it’s at Troika on Jalan Binjai, Kuala Lumpur.
