sister act

I was looking through the photos from my sister's camera taken during their visit a couple of weeks ago. This one was taken by my niece--without a flash while we were having a Sunday Dinner BBQ.I realise that it's blurred, but for some reason, I love this photo :)

millennium trilogy

I am halfway through book three of the Millennium Trilogy and I am kicking myself for waiting this long to read it. I remember my brother coming home with book two telling me I should pick up book one.

Oh well, all is not lost.

I bought a few books over the weekend. I decided to make time to read again. I got distracted the last two years. With what? Don't ask. But whatever reason, I'm back.

simply red

OMG. I can't believe how good Simply Red sounds in person! Goosebumps. If I wasn't too worked up after the incredible fairground and panting from singing stars, I would have cried listening to you don't know me by now. Okay, I admit as much to being teary eyed.

I was surprised that three fourths through the show, he had eighty percent of the audience standing up--that is ground breaking where I live. By the third to the last song, everyone was up on their feet!

I enjoyed the show so much that at 2:30AM, as I am writing this entry, I am listening to his greatest hits--live version :)

I'm so happy I was able to watch his show knowing that after this world tour, he would be retiring.

and i love the thought

I don't want to expect much, but I have a feeling that tonight may rival the best concert ever. It may not be mere coincidence that I'm watching with the same people. I feel giddy. My hands are sweaty with restless anticipation!

I think I had officially started over acting when I woke up this morning singing you make me feel brand new and humming if you don't know me by now as I was hailing my daily bus.

It was a blessing that I was able to rest yesterday, otherwise with the strain from the past two weeks I may not be able to enjoy the show fully.

Less than ten hours to go!

starfish

I feel that posting things you've purchased is... ummmm... not something I would do out of habit, because that's just not my style. I'm thinking, what's the point?

What is my point in posting this photo?

I without-a-doubt know that of all the shoes I've had in this lifetime (my high cut LA Gear in 3rd grade included), this is my absolute favorite. I have never felt this exuberant over shoes before.

(And that feeling deserves a blog entry.)I love it to the point that I had considered buying flip flops going home today when I saw that it was raining. Luckily, the rain stopped :)

frankenstein soap

I usually keep two soap bars in the bath. One creamy soap and my favorite white anti-bacterial soap. I keep the latter because I just love how it smells--and maybe the advertisement I was exposed to growing up lead me to believe that I would be full of germs by mid afternoon if I used another soap brand. Thank you to the actors wearing lab coats telling me to make sure I am protected, I feel life without it would be...I don't know, dirty perhaps.

Clearly, the germ fighting soap also lasts longer than the creamy one. And every now and then I would find myself in situations. Situations wherein I get stuck with a frankenstein soap.

What is that? I actually made it up. It is what I call two or more soap bars that had gotten too small that you stick in to the fresh-just-out-of-the-box replacement soap.

Day 1 - Creamy Soap 1 (CS1) is as big as Germ Fighting Soap 1 (GFS1)

Day n - CS1 is down to 10%, GFS1 is still 50%

You mash CS1 to GFS1 to form Frankenstein Soap 1 (FS1)
You open another Creamy Soap, CS2

Day N - FS1 is down to 10%, CS2 is down to 10% too

You open another Germ Fighting Soap, GFS2
You mash FS1, CS2 and GFS2 to form Frankenstein Soap 2 (FS2)
You open another Creamy Soap, CS3

And then so it goes.

inspired

After visiting a shop that only sold handmade clothes, I was so inspired to sew. As I found that I wore the maxi jersey black skirt that I sew a few months ago, I decided to make something similar.

This is the finished product. I love how it is very comfortable and cool--perfect for the weather where I live in.

It is amazing how you can manipulate the cloth when you make your own clothes, you can make it so that it fits you wonderfully. I don't think it would be too easy to find a jersey skirt that would fit me the way this does off the rack...at least not it the stores I go to.

KLP

I was so full from yesterday's lunch. I would have happily gone back home to finish my book until we passed by the cake display. While I did not have any space left in me, we did have space in our ref for dessert :)
To maximise the satisfaction, I had it for midnight snack to counter the Monday blues.

Vision Quest

I have no idea as to why my monitor looks this way! My laptop is only 14 months old! Looking at it is a nightmare--not to mention the best way to ruin my thirty-year-old-competent eyesight :-(

telly

I can't believe that for the first time in my life, I am actually hoping that there is a tv in front of me. Because seriously, the last thing I want in front of me at the end of the day is that, the demon box.

It maybe because of that thing I got the other day.

new home, new projects

I had been sewing the last two days...I got so inspired by a store that sold only handmade clothes. When I think about it, the reason I started sewing was because of my love for handmade things. Well, that and the fact that I sometimes can't find clothes that I imagine in the stores.

I haven't got photos of them yet but I (1) embellished a man's shirt, (2) make an ankle length skirt and (3) sewn a obi inspired belt.

It would probably be only when I get my room in order that I'd be able to post photos. I hope that is this weekend.

L'Arnacoeur

I don't know where to begin...nor where to end. I'm trying to recall the scene where I laughed the hardest or stretched by lips to smile the widest. I can't.

I enjoyed this movie so much that I was singing The Time of My Life the whole day. I even youtubed for Patrick Swayze's classic stint.

I highly, highly recommend watching the movie. I think Romain Duris made the movie.