yay!
it’s the weekend! after a whole week of hard, hard work and 2 nights of not sleeping, i really need this break. except, of course, i’ll probably spend it mostly doing work!
have you joined the royal mail? it’s a little private mailing list that i send out once in a while to special readers. a few of you have emailed me after i sent out the first mail, which was great and i got to learn so much about each of you!! i’m slowly replying you guys! but i will get around to all of youuuuu! ♥ add your name to the list!
on sunday evening, i’ll be assisting the head buyer at the patricia field store in re-merchandising the store! and on monday, i’ll be helping out at the halloween photo shoot. of course, i’m just the little intern who’ll be running around doing errands, but everything is always a learning experience and a little step in the right direction!
i’m sewing a pair of great high-waisted parachute pants for a school project. but it’s turning into something i love! if it becomes amazing (ahaha) i will put it up for sale. i also find that finally, i am becoming more confident in drawing and sketching. design ideas come to me way more easily than they did before, and i think it’s because i can draw a lot better than i used to!
i’ve been working hard at making things happen recently. i’m currently on commission doing a bow hat for pat field’s store (which is f-ing exciting, hello!?). i also just agreed to help this really adorable girl style her wardrobe! gilda the stylist?? omg i’m not going to lie – i’m so excited! she’s one of my precious readers who wants to remain nameless. i don’t really have experience in styling, unless you count the way i style myself. hee hee! i will be checking out her wardrobe, then going shopping with her! i’m so excited! contact me for more details if you are interested too!
my classmates are all amazing people! the more i get to know them, the more i think they are incredible. one is a model, one works at miu miu, one was a life style shoe designer with reebok, another is an incredible menswear designer, and the rest are simply fabulous!
it’s starting to get cold in new york! yahoooo!! i love it when it’s cold. i just have nothing to wear in summer!! in fall and winter, i get to drape all sorts of crazy scarves etc around myself. it’s great! in summer it’s too hot to do much!
twitter! it’s somewhat silly sometimes, but who cares? i love catching up on twitter updates and twittering mindless things as i go about the day. do you twitter? add me!
i love my new hair colour. it’s blond but ash but green but pink… ok i’m making it sound muddy. ok… so it’s muddy but heck i love it!
susie bubble just rocks my boat. i’ve been following her website for a long time, and she never fails to amaze me with the way she wears her clothes. i love her personal style! she’s one of the few people out there who’s always willing to take fashion risks, and she pulls it off so well!
photo courtesy of style bubble
super-cute annie spandex is holding a competition on her blog and giving away a vivienne westwood bag. sounds good? yes. but what’s better, is that this is all for a good cause. handbag from celebrities are going to be auctioned off on ebay to raise money for the fight against cancer, via handbag amnesty. we all have family members and friends close to our hearts that have been affected by this terrible illness, i’m sure. please join in to raise awareness and fight this disease!
the gorgeous nubby twiglet wrote an amazing article called the power of personal branding. it’s definitely worth a read! i write often about developing personal style, but nubby puts it in a different way, and to the point!
nay!
my darling friend, alex, is going back home to singapore. he’s in boston right now, and i’m really sad that he’s going back home! before i moved to new york, we wrote each other several emails about how great it would be if i were to move to new york and we could see each other all the time and keep each other company. but, of course, in reality, we were both busy. in the year that i’ve been here, he’s come to new york 3 times, and i went up to boston once. we suck at keeping in contact. i love you alex!! i’ll miss you.
i have a problem waking up. am i the only one? i mean, i’m getting my work done and i feel like i’m really doing well, but i simply cannot wake up! i have a million alarms, but i’ve already missed a couple of classes because i woke up like… after the class was over. i hate it. i hate that i’m doing this to myself, but i really don’t know what to do. i really am trying to wake up, but i can’t even hear my alarms going off. it’s making me really upset with myself.
my skin is as bad as ever. i’ve talked about my acne problems more than a few times on this website. but seriously, i want a skin transplant. hahaha! is there even such a thing?
because i’m so busy with school, recently, i feel like it’s really a waste that i’m in new york. i’m in one of the “supposedly” most exciting cities in the world. but i don’t see it. i’m going to school, and going home. that’s my basic schedule. i do want to go out sometimes, but it’s usually really expensive, and i don’t have that many good friends here either. when i first got here, i made a lot of friends. but, although they were students or working people, they simply don’t have a schedule like parsons fashion students. we don’t have a life. or at least, i don’t have a life. they used to call me to go out quite often, but after i said i couldn’t a few times, those calls stopped coming. i don’t blame them, but it’s just such a sad thing. i don’t think i have felt this way before. my friends in school are all about 5 years younger than me, and i really adore them. but i suppose a lot of them are into partying, and i’m not. plus, contrary to common assumptions, i am actually quite shy and take a while to warm up to people. although i really want to.
i miss tokyo like you have no idea. i watch a lot of my favourite tv programs over the internet, and still listen to a lot of japanese music on my iphone. i miss all my friends back there. also, my favourite group, smap (5 very delicious men), are currently having concerts around japan. since i got to know about them and started going to their concerts about 7 years ago, this is the first time that i am not there. my sister and i are trying to make our way to japan this november to watch one of their concerts, but just being so far away is killing me. i’ve talked about them many times before, and they really are like a little medicine box to me. when i was awfully depressed back then, they really did save my life. it might sound stupid, but everytime i get emails from my friends in tokyo, i remember all these things that i used to do there and it makes me cry.
they're so cute i could eat them
so there you have it, my yays and nays this week. it kinda feels good to recall what happened! and i guess just talking about the lousy parts of the week sort of took a load off my mind as well.
what’s been happening to you guys? spill! 
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Are you going to the pillow fight tonight? I’m taking my parents
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Congrats on your commission work, Gilda! And if I come to NY, will you take ME on a shopping tour?
P.S. Have signed up for ‘Royal Mail’ – can’t wait! x
I certainly hear you on the inability to wake up, bebe! This new work schedule is KILLING me!
How exciting about the bow hat at Pat Field’s! Love love.
We’re in the middle of an Indiana Summer here… it’s like 45 when I leave the house in the mornings, but 80 when I go home & at lunch!
I know how you feel about Tokyo, I am slowly, very slowly getting over missing it, but I don’t think I ever will fully be over it. Tokyo is just too amazing to explain to anyone and everything there is so intense (your emotions, ideas, friendships…everything) so I think it will take 30 years for me to be over my 1 year there. At least you can go back soon, I’m going in January and I can’t wait.
Who’s your fave? I had a thing for Shingo form when I first arrived here 7 years ago. These days, not so much, but I will always have a little soft spot for Shingo Katori.
NOBODY beats Hidetoshi Nakata for J-gorgeousness though.
I’m with you in the waking up thing. Whenever I don’t have school I’m waking up at 1 almost 2 pm and I’m falling asleep at 2 am because I can’t sleep. It’s really annoying, I need a normal sleeping pattern soon!
I’m so sorry that you’re feeling that way sweetie. I hope that you can return to Tokyo soon and see your dear SMAP! (BTW, I haven’t had time to listen to them T_T).
As for me whenever I’m not in class keeping the boys in line, I’m typing code, reading CISCO, or sleeping in the library. The only good thing about being so dedicated to school is that I might land a job as an assistant for a web designer.
That’s it, nothing new.
Hopefully both of our lives will pick up soon and we can sleep like normal people again.
Kisses.
OMG I am freaking out for you about making the hat for Patricia Field – that is soooooo exciting! Signed up for your royal mail too
Yays for me including finding beautiful flowers for my mum, incredible jeans, going to a fire station last night (! – only no hot firemen LOL but great photo ops! ), awesome friends both online and off and holiday planning (four trips in the next year so far!). Nays – not being able to go see my mum in hospital because I have the sniffles, the fact that the year is just screaming by! Almost October, how crazy is that?
Congrats on your exciting developments!
Nothing is really exciting me at the moment other than seeing Supergrass this coming friday.
PS. If I’m ever in cleanfreak mode again I’ll fly to NY and sort your space out
Oh I definitely feel you on the waking up. I woke up an hour and a half after I should have been at work on Tuesday. Luckily my boss was out so I schooched by, but I hate feeling irresponsible like that.
I blame it on the changing weather. Chicago is also getting cold and fall is my favorite season. All the colors! and all the wonderful layering!
OMG! First of all, congrats times a billion on styling and designing! That has got to be such a great energy high for you!
I’m totally feeling you on not waking up on time and not jumping onto the party scene – I mean, not much socializing happens while partying, anyways, and if we’re content enough with our momentum-gathering achievements, why should we feel left out? Do you feel a social phenomenon in the making??? I do. Totally.
But with all this time left over from not-partying with the peers, there should be no reason to be missing classes, right? (I am guilty as charged.) Supposedly we just have to find our magic numbaaaa’s (of hours asleep per night!) but as girls, my theory is that there needs to be a different magic number every week, if you know what I mean… this means sleep diaries, etc. Time-consuming, but increasingly necessary, non?
hey stranger, thinking about my tokyo days makes me sigh with a heavy heart and wish for days like those to return too.
Gilda,
So glad you have a little mini break to put up your little feet, it seems like everyone is busy during this time of year. I have a week break for uni, however I’ve just realised it’s not really a break because I have exams and assignments within the next month! (t ^ t)
Congratulations on getting commissioned for patricia field’s store. You’re seriously someone I look up to because you make things happen and I’m so excited for all these new things which are coming your way! I would love to have you as my stylist! If only we weren’t separated by an ocean.. or is it 2 oceans? (my geography isn’t too good, haha)
I just joined your Royal Mailing list, teehee~
Why not, signed up for the mail. When’s the free stuff arriving then?
+gala+
i went! i think it didn’t happen! haha!
+miss corrine+
when you come, we’ll go shop!
+ashe mischief+
omg seriously. i need someone to knock me on my head and wake me up in the mornings. indian summer sounds intense! i first heard of that term last month. haha! 45 degrees sounds cold!!
+hayley+
omg omg omg omg yes!!!! i’m so glad i have you!!! you, who understands me!!! i’ve tried to explain this emptiness and sadness to people, but no one ever understands!!! it kills me. you’re right that everything is so intense when you get there… friendships etc… that when you leave it, you feel this vacuum inside and it’s just simply awful!!
+sigsy+
i love takuya!!! he’s sooo cuuuuuute. well i like all of them actually. i’ve watched too many of their shows to kinda know how they are all like as individuals, and i love them all. haha! and yes, nakata is a cutie!
+julie+
i really think i’m a night owl. my brain functions so well at night, i really wake up once it hits midnight! i do my best work at night too. so it’s really hard to live in this stupid society that demands you follow the norm. by the way, why are you keeping the boys in check? haha!! i hope you get that assistant job!! that’ll be amazing!
+scribbles+
i’m excited myself! thanks! fire station eh? i’ve never been in one before and the only image i have of a fire station in my head now, is samantha doing some hanky-panky with a fireman in satc. hahahahahah! aww why’s your mom in the hospital? you must vbe worried sick. i hope she gets well soon and gets discharged!!
+miss karen+
supergrass! don’t get too crazy. and please do come. i’ll cook you dinner. hee hee!
+freya+
oh you’re so lucky. unfortunately for me, at school we’re considered absent after just 20 minutes. ain’t that crazy? and after 2 absences we fail the whole class. i hate parsons. chicago must be crazy windy!! i’ve never been there but i’ve heard so much about it from my friends, i do so want to visit.
+ansi+
at least i was born in the year of the pig so it’s not technically my own fault!!
thank you thank you thank you!! well yeah, not much socialising actually goes on. i’m just not brought up to go crazy while drinking and rubbing up against random men. i’ve never done it and can’t do it. (unless they look very distinctively like the 5 guys in the picture i uploaded. hahahahah!) as for magic number of sleep? i’m the type of person, that if i have absolutely nothing to do that day, i can sleep for like, 15 hours. i think i’m a pig.
+g+
hello stranger!! i’ve heaved a sigh many a time!! aren’t we pathetic? i hope you get to go back soon! i’m working my way towards it!
+leanne+
GOD if only i had a week’s break right now!! i would do absolutely nothing!! thank you so much… unfortunately i think we’re separated by like, 4 oceans or something. haha! you can surely make things happen for yourself too! look what happened at dr sketchys!
+young werther+
huh! what free gift?? i have a feeling you’ll hate the mail. don’t send complaints please. i can’t take the stress. AHAAHAAH!!
congrats on the hat design, that’s wonderful! and I can relate with the skin issue, I’ve had to struggle with bad acne since my mid 20′s. I’ve had some good dermatologists, however, and nothing stops my rosacea like an egg yolk mask.
LOL! You are NOT the only one with problems waking up. My alarm dings off at 7, but I rarely crawl out of bed until 7:30. Then, I’m basically out on my feet until 8:30 or 9. No joke. I take a good 2 hours and 2 cups of coffee to reach functional capacity every morning. IT BLOWS!
Oh my god. 20 minutes!? That’s awful.
Chicago is getting windier, and it is 50s ish today, but I didn’t know and so wore completely wrong clothes. Cute, but chilly.
Chicago is fun, if not a little fashion backward. People here tend to go straight for the NorthFace once it gets near 20 degrees.
I second the egg yolk mask idea… really helped me in college
Oh well, the boys, they are like 3 year olds, I swear. They are loud, their attention span lasts for about 5 minutes each class and they ask a lot of stupid questions about things that the professor just told them.
Sometimes they are just plain lazy and try to stall the class as much as they can which I don’t like because it’s late and I live pretty far away from school and I want my time there to be of value. So, I always try to keep them in line and I tell them that I would like to take class and things like that. The problem with the boys is that most of them are spoiled rich boys (I’m talking about Mexican socialites) and the only reason they are there is to get a title and their parents off their backs, since that’s not my case I really get upset when they try to sabotage the classes that my parents paid for me with a lot of effort specially now that I’m out of a scholarship. Besides, my professors are truly brilliant and the boys are going to lose a lot of classes with the trip to San Francisco. I hate boys…
I also work better at night, it’s when my best code gets typed n_n.
Yay! Thank you so much! ♥
I can relate to your skin problems and shyness..
I think it’s so cool what you’re doing, designing clothes and working for Patricia Field and studying at Parsons…
Congrats SO MUCH on the pat field stuff– and styling is so much fun, I did it for a fashion company and I seriously cannot wait until the opportunity arises for it to happen again! do tell us all about it when you’re done, can’t wait!
also I am so in on the shopping bonanza.
also, let me know if you got my email about the contest pants?
xoxo
arabelle
I was horrendously disappointed that there was no pole in this fire station but they’re apparently getting phased out because they are too dangerous! No hot firemen on duty either but it was fun playing with all the gear – twitter me if you want to know my facebook email addy for pics (it’s different to the one attached). Mum’s home now, it was an infection in the portacath (her little plug-in for the chemo) incision and because her white blood cell count was so low she needed IV antibiotics. She’s a much healthier little bunny now!
I feel the same, i just miss going to France.. wish i could go soon.
takuyaaaaaaaa!!!!!!! very old school indeed.
+fashionherald+
egg yolk mask?? like, just beaten egg yolk? it actually stops rosacea?
+karen+
at least you’re up! i sleep through like, 20 alarms and all those snooze buttons! when i wake up i’m usually going “CRAPCRAPCRAPCRAPCRAP!!!” in my head, because i’m usually late or worse, totally over with class. that’s when i sink back into my pillow with utter disgust and disappointment with myself.
+freya+
yeah 20 mins late=absent!!! never mind the stupid subways forever being late here! northface eh? i guess when it gets that cold, fashion is out of the question. if only northface hired cool designers! i wouldn’t mind wearing it if it were stylish instead of looking like one round ball of down feathers!
+susandavis+
really really really????? i’ve never tried that before… i guess eggs are on my shopping list the next time i go shopping!
+julie+
ohhh that sucks. i really hear you! boy can really take longer to grow up than girls. it’s surprising that they are still like that though, considering you are quite old enough already!
+annie spandex+
it’s quite a lonely life actually!
i know, i tell myself everyday how fortunate i really am. the downside to this life is that there is no time for me, no time for anything else.
+arabelle+
hahaha i’m not like doing major work for her, i was just asked to make a hat for the store! there will definitely be pictures of it soon! you’re so young and you’ve already done styling?? wow!!! that’s so amazing! work it!
+scribbles+
i’m sorry to hear about your mom. my dad got sick a little while ago and it nearly killed me. i hope she gets well! give her lots of hugs!
poles are dangerous? then strippers would need insurance! strippers and kim kardashian who does pole dancing haha! you took pictures? are you allowed to?
+jordans+
france! never been there but so want to go! you should plan on a trip too!
+mavis+
whaddya mean old school? he’s so good looking! hahaha!
LOL because we aren’t allowed to sue people for hurting ourselves in NZ, we have this lovely little thing called Occupational Health and Safety in New Zealand. It’s soooo stupid, don’t even get me started (one of my business majors was in human resources)… I wouldn’t be surprised if strippers and pole dancers had to sign disclaimers. Mum seems heaps better (until next week, when it’s chemo again… joy) and in the end we just have to look at these as little hiccups on the road to her getting back to her gorgeous self. Re: your message to Annie Spandex about you time – totally feel you on that one! The downside of having a fab life is very little time to call your own.
hi! im in love with your blog and am going to definitely keep reading! i know this is a trivial question but could u tell me how u made the boring black bullet points into the bright shiny blue stars? thanks