RIP Uncle Steve. You truly are, one of the greatest of our time. You’re going to be one hard act to follow.. but you paved the way for so many enthusiasts who don’t only aspire to create like you but have your integrity and perseverance. You will be missed.
It’s another Monday and another start to the week. Not to mention it’s officially October.. we can finally stop rolling our eyes to statuses like “Wake me up when September ends.” I love sleeping, but I’m sure sleeping for a whole month isn’t the best idea. Last Friday I went out with old Uni friends I hadn’t seen in a while. We basically went our own ways after graduating; a friend went to China to study Mandarin for a year (he said it was like a year-long vacation, envious!), another got married not too long ago, one started his own online gaming business while still working, some maintaining family businesses and the rest being part of the working class. Just less than 2 years ago we were still sitting in class trying to figure out what to do with our lives and here we are, all employed. Quite surreal.
Kourtney (coz I'm really short), Khloe (coz she's really tall), and Kim (because she's got the hips)
Peach Beer
Caroline and me.
Yup. Of course I sang. I have no shame after all.
We took a lot of Instax shots too. I might make a post dedicated to all the shots I've taken recently.
The Gang
We went out for dinner then went clubbing (which was packed, packed, packed so I didn’t take any photos). Even as we went out the Security team was crowding over a few men because they were too drunk and wanted to use their power (pun intended) to fight the security. It was more lame than scary. Men of the douche circle are so laughable sometimes.
The night was closed with a sleepover with my girls like what we used to do back in uni when we had deadlines, assignments and exams to cram. Part of me still wishes I was still living that life but at the end of the day I’m glad I have a job and a little money to shop, wine and dine.
Some few weeks ago while in the car with my parents both of them wouldn’t shut up about this guy that may or may not be part of my life right now. My mom friended him on Facebook (GAH) and just kept grilling me with questions about him and if all my recent statuses had something to do with him. So I shouted, “I’M GONNA UNFRIEND BOTH OF YOU TOMORROW!” My dad laughed, my mom shouted back, “DON’T YOU DARE!” Being an only child for 12 years and have an extremely close relationship with your parents, conversations like these with them aren’t unfamiliar at all.
I remember when I first started out with Facebook and had a lot of crazy photos (aka when parents had no knowledge about social networking) account privacy didn’t have much of a strong impact then so I made sure my parents didn’t know I had one but it’s so different now. Family members started getting their accounts from your aunt to your uncle even your great-aunt. It’s like my Facebook is solely for family and family members that live outside the country. I don’t mind really, it’s just that when my parents start bringing up questions like that and friending said guy it gets annoying. This is also the reason why I don’t like Facebook Timeline. As much as it is a very good concept and well thought out and not to mention it looks great, I hate knowing that people can just easily scroll down my timeline and look at the demons of my past (figuratively speaking). Not that I have anything to “worthy” to hide really, but you would know what I’m talking about right now about the preference of happenings in the past being archived in the depths of your new updates.
This is actually pretty funny coming from me because I was actually the one who sent my parents a friend request in the first place since I was curious with their profiles. Although before that I did make sure my parents wouldn’t find me or search me on Facebook at all. Now twitter and this blog is pretty much all I have when it comes to online rantage about things that I don’t want them to know. My mom loves to read blogs and has had twitter for over a year now but I still hope she doesn’t find me here. If she has, then all I can say is.. HI MOM!!
Douglas Booth at #LFW.
How gorgeous is this guy? Not to mention he’s so well dressed, you can’t go wrong with that. If he doesn’t have a stylist who works for him, kudos! I’ve always been a fan of the Burberry poster boys (George Craig, Alex Watson, Sam Riley, Tom Guinness and Alex Pettyfer to name a few) and their campaigns are always spot on in terms of model casting. My top favorites have to be George Craig and Douglas Booth because they look a little rough on the ages but really fit the bill of the smooth look Burberry offers.
Suits
Suits is the 2nd best TV show I’ve seen this year after Shameless US (What is up with my favorites this year being only 12 episodes and not coming back until a whole full year?). It is SO good and I finished it in less than a week despite work. Until now I’m still in a Suits withdrawal and I’m still thinking about Harvey and Mike’s shenanigans in the world of law. This show is so witty, all the characters have such great chemistry, none of the stories are ever dragged out (you have to keep up with it, just like law) and you can’t help but love the whole ensemble. It’s pretty damn brilliant and as soon as I told the world (my twitter) that I was watching the series, more than a few twitter friends echoed their love for the show too.
Medium-length wavy bob
My hair is very long now and I’m leaning towards a hairstyle change. The last time I cut my hair really short was 3 years ago and I cried in the salon. Yup, not the best experience. The last time I had a haircut though, was 4 months ago and I don’t know what the Korean hairstylist did to my hair because it grew almost twice as long in the past 3 months, which is really weird because it takes forever for my hair to grow back! I’m bent on whether to keep my hair long and dye the ends in pink or bright red or cutting it short like Brooklyn’s and Jiyoung’s above. What I like about this medium wavy bob is that it doesn’t look like it needs high maintenance and I’ve always liked my hair to be as it is. It’s also not too short that you can’t style it. Oh how I love being a girl 😉 but the dilemma such as these definitely come with it.
My mom is really into reading blogs now. She e-mailed me today telling me to check out a blog. It’s funny, because she doesn’t know about mine. The author writes simple entries but posts nice interesting photos about the simplest things, like peeling off stickers inside a taxi cab (weird, right?). I really enjoyed it. Then I thought, how come I can’t write simply anymore? I just want to use small simple words, like how I’m writing now.
Sometimes when I blog or when I want to blog, I think of so many things to say, that I end up not blogging at all.
It’s very annoying. I want to blog more and post more pictures.
I just need to get over over-thinking things to write about.
I haven’t even finished sorting out photos from our recent beach trip.
The Canon S100 was just released, have you seen it?
When I was at the Changi Airport in Singapore I went to an electronic store and I asked the sales associate if I could take a look at the Canon S95 and test it out. He gladly gave it to me, he was really nice and accommodating and professional. The Canon S95 has always been in my wishlist but I don’t really take pictures anymore because I get lazy (blame smartphones), but I want to change that. I don’t even really touch our SLR because all the settings give me headaches. So I want to get the S100 when it comes out here in Jakarta.
I’m a little bit glad I didn’t get the S95, but also a bit sad because I’m sure the price will be higher for the S100.
Today I changed my ringtone to Super Junior’s Mr. Simple intro. I hope I get used to it fast.
The Skins opening theme song has been my ringtone for almost 2 years now so I thought, “Hey, maybe I need a change.”
I remember before when my ringtone was still Royksopp’s Happy Up Here, then I changed it to the Skins theme.. whenever I’d hear Happy Up Here I would always think it was my phone that was ringing. It will be probably be the same for this.
It’s Friday! Happy happy. I think I’m going to take a rest this weekend. I really need to stop spending so much.
