weekend lover: 09aug09

today, august 9th, is singapore‘s birthday. it’s a little weird, but “absence makes the heart grow fonder”, and “home sweet home” really does make some sense, no matter how silly that sounds. i’ve been away from home for 6 years now. just counting those number of years kind of shocked me.

i do miss home, my family, dog and friends. and i guess i appreciate them all the more, especially after moving away and realizing how awful it is to be living abroad on one’s own. there are so many things i hate about singapore, like the constant heat. but as long as i have family and friends there, i guess singapore will still always be home. i really wanted to go back for a couple of weeks this summer, but work wouldn’t allow that to happen. happy birthday singapore. i can’t wait to go back to see everyone, and to eat chicken rice, prata, chwee kueh, carrot cake, pepper crab, and to drink 4 tons of milo dinos. yummmmmm.

i found this picture of the merlion on sentosa, in my pictures folder from 2003, on one of those weird family outings that my dad makes us go on once in a while. it was taken a few months before i moved away to tokyo; quite a distant memory, but i’m glad i took about a million photos that day to remember it by.

speaking of photos, here are some i took in the last week or so!

patricia field photoshoot

i help out once in a while when they do shoots for the online store. yes there is some real work involved, but damn everyone’s so cute and fun, and absolutely hilarious at times. this was us fooling around while waiting for the model to change.

HOW retarded is my face? ahaha.

i wish this picture was properly exposed.

from a more recent shoot, this is fay who came to model. i went ballistic over her huge southern wig and the accents that came with it.

phil tried a wig out himself and it killed me. i really think he can put some suspenders and a bowtie on, and go out like that. it would be very erm.... european/scandinavian. ish. haha.

b-b-b-birthday week

some of us bloggers met up for brunch in chelsea, for beka of relyme’s birthday and going-away party. i wish i’d had the chance to hang out with her more often while she was here! we lived just a block away from each other! fail!! in the picture is also felicia, and anna of iwanttowearit. also there was sarah of styleit fame; too bad i didn’t take more pictures! i love these ladies. they are all so nice and funny, and down-to-earth. not all bloggers are like that, and that’s a fact.

masami from patricia field also celebrated her birthday. all the girls gathered and celebrated over japanese yakiniku (barbecue).

later, masami, naoko and i hung out at dunkin donuts with life stories and gossip. ooh fun.

arty farty

i’ve been experimenting with oils again. i took a really amateur oil painting class about 2 years ago before i moved to america, but it was all monochromatic and simple. i had the urge to do a big painting to hang in the hallway right when you enter through the front door, to cover up this really ugly electrical box cover. so what better thing to paint than the japanese maneki-neko, or beckoning cat, which is supposed to welcome people in, right? it means different things when the cat has its right or left hand up in the beckoning pose. right-hand up is for stores and placed at the entrance or next to the cash register, to “welcome” money. and left-hand up is for welcoming more people in, which i thought would sort of be cool for a home.

of course, my cat's paws sort of became a little peace sign. but so what, right?

i have to say though, i know nothing about oil painting, and when i went to the art store to buy paints and stuff, it was mind boggling and i was overwhelmed. there was linseed oil to buy to mix with the paints, turpentine, blah blah blah, i don’t even know what everything else is called. just the oils alone had like 100 different versions that just left me with a frown on my face!

obviously, it’s not even half-way done, and will be put aside for a while until i finish my bloody homework for school. but i hope to finish it soon, even though it will be painted with all sorts of ghetto methods and probably dry with all sorts of cracks. haha!

the growing wall

you guys have seen my wall before when i was just starting to build it. it started with wrapping tons of lace around the seriously ugly pendant light that came with the apartment. then there were a couple of simple artwork that went onto the wall. i’ve been slowly building it, adding pictures, artwork and my hats to the wall in some sort of random way. i love it. i sleep right below it and look at the wall every night.

this is what you would see when you first step into my room. also gives you an idea how darn small my room is!

this is going to be a growing collection!!

my one wish is to paint the walls of my room, but i’ve got too much shit in it now to cover and move out of the room, so that’s definitely not gonna be happening!

i’m such a busybody, i love seeing what people do to their bedrooms. don’t you? i have friends who have brick walls and fireplaces that i’m willing to murder for. of course i’m also addicted to hgtv (a channel about everything in the home) and i really want david bromstad to come to my ugly and tiny apartment. do you decorate? did you paint your own rooms? what do you have on your walls? i need to know so i can steal some ideas! haha.

queengilda in the blogs!

i was interviewed by the very lovely and friendly sassy minx!! she sent me a convo literally 5 minutes after i set up my etsy page!! thank you so much lisa, for showering some link love to my etsy page.

i also recently did a guest blog post on 39thandbroadway, on fashion school in focus, parsons!! i’ve had so many emails from high school students asking about fashion school and parsons, so i thought it would be a good idea to share a little of my story with 39thandbroadway, a blog with all sorts of industry news from right here in new york!

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