i’ve died and gone to parsons hell

and there’s no wifi down in this shithole so i haven’t been able to blog.

being silly as usual

well at least i’m trying to come up with an original (albeit lame) excuse! quite a number of you have emailed me and i’m so thankful that you still remember who i am in this whirlwind of 72937904 new fashion blogs that come up everyday. thank you so much. and i know, i know, i’m the snobby devil who didn’t reply and you all have the right to bitch-slap me. actually i have hundreds of emails in my inbox and i just don’t know where to start.

you know what i think? i think i’m letting school get to me. i really am. this stupid piece of $#!*@)#$&! (grrrrr) school is just getting to me. new york is jading me and parsons is the jader.

or maybe i’m having some sort of quarter-life crisis. you know, from this year onwards i’m going to be in my late-twenties. last year, i could still say i’m in my early or mid-twenties… but at 26, i feel like i’m getting old and i’m really not ready for this. there’s so much i want to do and with school, i just don’t have time to do anything i want. so it makes me very frustrated and being frustrated makes me tired and hence i feel like i’m getting old. on the other hand i think i’m still a kid at heart. i’m still young like that. or ok, i just dress young. then again, i seem to “dress young” because i think people in america dress old.

sorry, didn’t mean to insult. but i like colour and i like to have fun and everyone here is just black and grey and meh.

erm, am i confusing you? it must be because i haven’t had proper sleep in a while so i’m gibberish.

so. what have you guys been up to? i’ve been trying to catch up with all my favourite blogs through my reader. everyone seems to be moving at some speed of light and i feel a little left behind with my boring old life.

the reason why i decided to drop all my work for a little while and blog tonight, (ps: it’s about 2am) is because i just attended the independent fashion bloggers event organised by the lovely jennine of the coveted, and talking to all these bloggers made me realise how much i actually miss blogging.

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but the fact of the matter is, i’ve really been so busy with school that i just, simply don’t have anything to blog about unless you want to hear me bitch about school nonstop. (which by the way, for that, you can check out newschoolinexile.com where we are trying to get rid of/impeach the university’s stupid president. yes, for real.) last year was awful and i fell sick so many times. the moment school ended, i also finished my internship with patricia field and left new york on christmas eve.

i flew to tokyo where i met up with my family. they had flewn up from singapore, and it was the first time in like, 7 or 8 years that all 5 of us had gone for a holiday together. we spent most of the 2 weeks in hokkaido (northern super-cold japan – think snow storms), and the remainder in tokyo.

at shikotsu lake in hokkaido

then we flew back home to singapore where i spent the remainder of my winter holidays, before coming back to new york and starting school immediately. and then you know, it all went downhill again from there. until valentine’s day when i went to the party at the patricia field boutique, i hadn’t gone out since returning to new york. i had only been going to school or to the supermarket. which is basically what my life is about, ever since i came to new york about a year and a half ago.

pathetic, don’t you think? i really don’t have a life at all. someone asked me yesterday if i went out on a date for valentine’s day.

oh wait, i think it was my dad when he called me. haha. yeah, he asked if i went on a date, and i said, “date? what date. oh please. i’d rather date my bed.”

school simply takes up every minute of my time, which means really little sleep, if any at all. every minute of free time i have, i’d rather be sleeping or lying horizontally on my couch. (i guess that’s the same thing in two different venues.)

so anyway, the patricia field boutique had a valentine’s day party where the turn-out was super crazy. i have never seen it so packed, there was a line outside!

claustrophobia at pat field's

then on sunday the 15th, i went to amalia in midtown to celebrate pat’s birthday. it was so fun and my friend dai (who works at pat field too), performed her new single “i’m a killa”. she was so amazing!!! i thought it was such a waste that i was at such an amazing party like that because i didn’t know all the celebrities who were there. there were quite a bunch of photogs and every once in a while when certain somebodies walk in, the flashes go off and it’s crazy. i think the cast of ugly betty was there, some actresses and actors… the only one i really recognized was lucy liu. ohhh and fern mallis was there too! i wanted to ambush her but of course i didn’t.

with pat and ayumi (why am i smiling weird??)

and today, the 16th, i headed downtown, very downtown, to meet fashion bloggers where i was reminded again that my parents never taught me social skills and i blame them entirely for it. haha! i mean, i just don’t know how to go up to people and butt in and say hi! the best i did was to smile around and if anyone smiled back then i was like, “ooh make friends make friends!”

so that, ladies and genteelmen, is the story of my sad life.

and i know you didn’t want to read all that. you just want pictures! right?? i’m gonna upload them, yes i am. cross my heart and hope to die.

so here’s a list of notable events that i’d been up to in the past few months (and the only reason why i remember them is because they were the only ones worth taking pictures of!):

20081127 thanksgiving & black friday with my pat field family (sniff)
20081208 last projects at school
20081221 christmas party with trannyclaus and the house of field
20081224-20090121 winter break to japan and singapore
20090214 valentine’s day at patricia field
20090215 pat field’s birthday
20090216 ifb event

wow. as you can see, the only times i get to have fun is when i run away from new york or when i hang out at pat field (which was partly work-related too)!

i really really need to put work aside sometimes and go out and find myself a social life.

i’m not sure how to do this – what’s the best way for me to upload all these photos? do i start from the beginning? or do i go backwards!?

i guess i’ll do a “series” of photos and start from that thanksgiving date eh?

ps: i was just trying to think of a funny name for this series of photos, and all i could think of was “gilda day-dreamer and the prisoner of parsons”. you know, like harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban.

pps: i try to be funny sometimes but i really am not.

Tagged as: gilda, japan, life, new york, parsons, patricia field