Tagged by Afti Rusli.
*Job?
Corporate Auditor.
*Best sartorial advice from your parents?
Mum: "Don't dress like an aunty"
Dad: Bunyi cengkerik comes to mind....but probably "Why wear until like that?"
*Style icons
Kate Hudson
*Describe your personal style
Boho-chic
*I build my daily look around...
What I feel like in the morning
*Personal Style quirk
Accessories with sentimental value
*Favorite designers
Let's see - designers that strike a chord...Elie Saab, Zac Posen, Missoni, Monique Lhuillier, Christian and Jeffrey from Project Runway...
*Most cherished item
My grandmother's 5 gold bangles
*I feel best wearing?
Anything that makes me feel like I can walk straight into a photo shoot. Annie Leibovitz's, preferably.
*The first thing I look at in another Sartorialist’s outfit...
Shoes
*I always break this fashion rule...
Wear suits for work
*I never break this fashion rule...
Don't wear brown shoes with black bottoms
*Never caught wearing?
Earrings. Don't have holes!
*Most underrated item in menswear/womenswear?
Have to agree with Afti - undergarments is a good one
*Dress to impress who?
Myself
*Shine your own shoes?
Never bothered
*Favorite stores?
I ALWAYS walk into MNG at the airport, Naf Naf at the Curve, Dorothy Perkins at One U, Jaspal at Pavilion. Come hell or high weather.
*Your next “must have” purchase?
Bought them already. Black pointy patent leather shoes.
*I only buy __________ in Europe.
Don't know man. Haven't been there yet.
*I skimp when buying …
Branded goods.
*I splurge on…..
Shirts (whenever I find a nice one)
*Favorite item of clothing
Depends on the mood of the day
*Guilty pleasure
Probably shoes.
*Cologne, skincare
Cologne gives me a headache. Loccitane and Body Shop for skincare.
*Most stylish city (Milan, Paris, London, New York, other)
Define stylish. I think any city can be stylish.
*When I was in high school I wore?
Too many bad outfits.
*Sports?
Does Yoga count?
*Favorite fashion magazine?
InStyle.
*Favorite vacation spot?
Haven't got a particular one yet.
*Favorite neighborhood restaurant?
Dragon-I, Centrepoint.
Tag: Doubleaye, Faza, Jo-Ann.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Teeth
It has come to my attention today, that there are friends I did not know about who read this blog. Well, welcome, and hope you have come to stay.
Today, I will blog about a topic not particularly juicy, but interesting to me nonetheless.
If you make yourself really really small, like maybe half a cm tall, and stand on an adult human's lip, I guess teeth may seem something like the Stonehenge to you. Huge, old and immovable.
Imagine my surprise to find out that just like everything else, they rely on each other to stand, with balance pivoted on that point of leaning against the other. So when you take one away, like sleeping ogre children in a cot the adjacent ones wake up surprised, and rumble and grumble their way to making themselves heard.
Now imagine wiring them together and trying to pull them straight in a row.
Yes I just got braces put in. Not quite as traumatizing as I had imagined all these years, but not the most pleasant sensation either. Suffice to say that I am glad I waited for the right dentist, orthodontic options and ability to laugh at my own little scrapes to come along.
One day, I will tell you all about dentists’ nurses. Those ladies, who I usually find to be reserved with quiet compassion – they really have a good reason for that stoic expression. God bless their little souls for some of the literally twisted things they have had to see.
Today, I will blog about a topic not particularly juicy, but interesting to me nonetheless.
If you make yourself really really small, like maybe half a cm tall, and stand on an adult human's lip, I guess teeth may seem something like the Stonehenge to you. Huge, old and immovable.
Imagine my surprise to find out that just like everything else, they rely on each other to stand, with balance pivoted on that point of leaning against the other. So when you take one away, like sleeping ogre children in a cot the adjacent ones wake up surprised, and rumble and grumble their way to making themselves heard.
Now imagine wiring them together and trying to pull them straight in a row.
Yes I just got braces put in. Not quite as traumatizing as I had imagined all these years, but not the most pleasant sensation either. Suffice to say that I am glad I waited for the right dentist, orthodontic options and ability to laugh at my own little scrapes to come along.
One day, I will tell you all about dentists’ nurses. Those ladies, who I usually find to be reserved with quiet compassion – they really have a good reason for that stoic expression. God bless their little souls for some of the literally twisted things they have had to see.
Saturday, August 09, 2008
No matter how far your mind wanders, teeth decay if you don't brush them
Nick Hornby quotes Oscar Wilde in “A Long Way Down”, saying one’s real life is often the life one does not lead, and the one you do lead does not let you be who you thought you were.
I commiserate. When I was eight, I was convinced that I would have my own condo and car by 24. It was only recently that I acknowledged I would probably never sing live at a concert in front of a thousand fans, and more recently than should have been that I would never be an accomplished ice-skater.
One body, 24 hours in a day, and only 100% to give.
I used to think of these as limitations but really, they are the default tools everyone gets to shape their life with, then fill it.
Ironically, knowing your boundaries is the only way to stretch them, the same way having a cup with finite capacity is the only way it can runneth over. And if you do it right, you might just be that kind of person for whom ex-ex colleagues still band together for a hearty send-off when you leave the country.
Child, sibling, friend, traveler, worker. That is all I am. And that is plenty.
I commiserate. When I was eight, I was convinced that I would have my own condo and car by 24. It was only recently that I acknowledged I would probably never sing live at a concert in front of a thousand fans, and more recently than should have been that I would never be an accomplished ice-skater.
One body, 24 hours in a day, and only 100% to give.
I used to think of these as limitations but really, they are the default tools everyone gets to shape their life with, then fill it.
Ironically, knowing your boundaries is the only way to stretch them, the same way having a cup with finite capacity is the only way it can runneth over. And if you do it right, you might just be that kind of person for whom ex-ex colleagues still band together for a hearty send-off when you leave the country.
Child, sibling, friend, traveler, worker. That is all I am. And that is plenty.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
The Occasional Detour
I believe we all have our own paths to follow, and lessons to learn. For this reason, there is no point in envying or coveting, and in the same way showing up the next person.I’m good with this concept, and most days live peacefully by it. But sometimes, there is just a need to step on over to that offensive someone's path and give him a tight slap in the face, before carrying on.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
The Urgency of Transformation
"When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form or a species - will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap."
by Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth.
What a great paragraph. I have always been one for the leaping.
by Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth.
What a great paragraph. I have always been one for the leaping.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Hey it's a little late to make resolutions but...
This year - I will
1. Do something about things that make me unhappy.
2. Not sweat the small stuff.
The thing about moving forward is to never to look back, and I have figured out that it is because if you did, you'd be terrified to see the things you're leaving behind.
Feel your cells.
I am apprehensive, excited, in my zone, out of my league, all at the same time.
1. Do something about things that make me unhappy.
2. Not sweat the small stuff.
The thing about moving forward is to never to look back, and I have figured out that it is because if you did, you'd be terrified to see the things you're leaving behind.
Feel your cells.
I am apprehensive, excited, in my zone, out of my league, all at the same time.
Monday, May 05, 2008
What If
Two totally unrelated topics, but what if:
1. For one day, all of us knew how we really felt about each other. The complete realisation of what you are as perceived by the other person. Parents and children, husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, bosses and subordinates, friends and enemies and everything in between. Do you reckon we'd be better people for it?
2. The peace we have now in this country is at a stage where it is coincidental, that every day where nothing happens to you is because someone has not decided to commit a crime where you are? That really, the safety support system is no longer much more than the impression that there is one?
1. For one day, all of us knew how we really felt about each other. The complete realisation of what you are as perceived by the other person. Parents and children, husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, bosses and subordinates, friends and enemies and everything in between. Do you reckon we'd be better people for it?
2. The peace we have now in this country is at a stage where it is coincidental, that every day where nothing happens to you is because someone has not decided to commit a crime where you are? That really, the safety support system is no longer much more than the impression that there is one?
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