Boxing day

Lying in bed feeling rather sick. But it was fun having brunch at the cricket club and seeing one of my bestie's nephew.

I've also been making earrings and bracelets for people! So fun!

Winner!

I never have any luck when to comes to lucky draws. Made my day when I knew I won a $100 gift card!

DIY

Some of my old friends said that I've changed knowing that I've started to DIY these days! I guess I've been inspired by the numerous amounts of blogs that I've been reading lately, especially Geneva from a Pair and a Spare and Erica/Lauren from Honestly WTF.

As a newbie I created something rather simple (I mean, you start from the bottom right).

Started off with a couple of kids' bracelets! One for my cousin and the other one for my niece. Seemed safer working with kids first hahah.

My niece playing with hers!

Next up was the peter pan collar adopted from here. They even have the collar piece pattern ready for you! The hardest part for me was threading the ribbon through the collar since I don't have a hole bunch and I made my necessary holes with needles. I'll probably make one without the scallops next time ;)

Went over to Sham Shui Po (again) today to pick up more supplies. Tried out the earrings! I have a pair that looks 95% like the ones I made (they were my absolute favourite though) so I was kinda testing out how to put everything together.

From top to bottom in less than 10 mins!

Imitation is good when you're a noob like me I guess. I just realized that pretty much all kinds of jewelry use up the same essential pieces, namely beads, hooks and back/bottom pieces. Everything just kinda works around the basics! Which is also why the supply stores are so overwhelming! Floor to ceiling filled with a bajillion jars holding different beads and hooks and what not. :o

Now I need to get a whole lot of inspiration and try to make something of my own! :)

My happy corner

This is no interior design but definitely the area that I'm the most proud of. Can't wait to get my own apartment!

Cellular data

Used over 500mb in 3 days. So glad I got the unlimited plan!

Just A Dream by Nelly - Sam Tsui & Christina Grimmie

I can't seem to stop posting this everywhere
Sooo freaking good :)

I love me some Italian fooooood!

New phone!

So I have converted over to the dark side. I must say, the camera apps on the iPhone were the most attractive things. But the typing ad what not, not so much.

Tried out instagram for the first time and here's some old school shoe polishing!!!

Parental love

Caught me off guard knowing that this was in fact a commercial. 

Yet it still managed to send out a strong message, leaving you feeling a little numb afterwards.

Be nice to people who care about you!

25 Incredibly Detailed Black and White Portraits of the Homeless by Lee Jeffries

So powerful.

See the complete set of portraits and read more here

Fa la la la la

It's finally cold enough to embrace christmas! :)

Little surprises

I guess this is a reason why I like second hand stuff...
Everything has a story behind them :)

Autocorrect

So I will probably be getting my iPhone 4S soon... which means saying bye to my good old sturdy blackberry. *sobs*

Anyhow, being the keypad-maniac that I am, I'm not exactly looking forward to pulling more hair out because of the stupid autocorrect function.

But I must admit, some of this stuff is pretty hilarious!

via damnyouautocorrect.com

Current read...

Took me a while to finish my last book but here I am moving on!
Biographies on a roll now!

Do I want to look preggers?

A bag designed to make you look pregnant... in order to reduce crime. Would you purchase one?

via designtaxi.com

Turkey time!

If only I had this on video... the wobbly turkey decor for Ted Baker in Shatin New Town Plaza!

Time flies!

Happy 26th anniversary to my parents!


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Geez!

I sneezed on the bus (covered my nose and said excuse me after) and this 3 or 4-year old girl sitting next to me turned her head and glared at me (and frowned!!) for a good 5 seconds.

Am I missing something here???


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(500) days of summer

Source: tumblr

It has been 2 years?
Can't wait to re-watch this again :)

Still floating...

My 2-week old balloon is still surviving!!! Tied it to my chair so it feels like I'm sitting in one of those kid's supermarket trolleys when I'm studying. Genius!

Days I look forward to :)

Clogged...

Brain matter scattered all over like there's no tomorrow. Seriously debating on giving up.
This will mark the very first exam that I have failed in my entire life.

Also constantly craving for spicy food. As in Sichuan spicy. Hmmmm yuuuuum

Oriental madness

Just remember this while I was supposed to be studying hard....

Lunch one day:
Friend: Did you know 李白 was born in Kazakhstan?
Me: He whaat?
Friend: Hells yeh he's like Borat!
Me: *gasp*

I didn't believe him so I looked up Wikipedia and damn, he is rumoured to be born in either Kazakhstan or Sichuan, China.

Me: OMG one of the most famous poets in the Chinese history is not Chinese?!
Friend: *laughs hysterically*


By the time we were walking back to our offices, I had to hit my friend really hard.
Me: Why did you have to tell me this? I don't have anyone to share it with! (Reason being my local friends probably don't know who Borat is and my English friends won't know who 李白 is)
Friend: Yep that's why I told you.
Me: Who am I gonna tell this to???!! @&*#^@(*^&!( *hits him a few more times*


So, if anyone out there knows about these 2, omg go wiki it and see for yourself! HE IS LIKE BORAT!

The Fannings

Source: W magainze

Dakota and Elle Fanning on the cover of W Magazine for the December 2011 issue dressed in Valentino gowns. Daaaaayum! So freaking beautiful I have no words at the moment. Still can't believe they're so young.

Dude vs chap...

At the bus terminal located in TST East

Came across this sign at a bus stop while I was lost trying to find my way to the restaurant last night. It's interesting how Hong Kong adopts British English everywhere (well, not surprised given that it has been a colony of the UK for almost a century). From the announcements made on the subways (my sister ADORES the lady's voice, and of course, her accent) to the spellings in formal documents (my firm has this yes 's', no 'z' policy, as in 'realised' is good but not 'realized').

I spent half of my childhood in Hong Kong and the other half in Canada. So neither my Chinese or English is up to par with a legit native. Anyhow, this "Alighting only" sign has stirred up some curiosity as I have never even seen this word in my whole life. 

Thought it was one of those moments where my English sucked. Asked Canadian friend #1, #2 and #3 and guess what, none of them have seen this word either! 

Friend #2: It has to be British.

Me: Why?

Friend #2: I just assume every word I don't know/haven't seen to be British. You won't go wrong with this assumption. At least 99% of the time.

Me: *pauses then inserts punch and name calling i.e. douche*

So friend #2 and I looked up the word while waiting in line for food today and according to dictionary.com...

a·light

¹   [uh-lahyt]  Show IPA

verb (used without object), a·light·ed or a·lit, a·light·ing.

1.

to dismount from a horse, descend from a vehicle, etc.

2.

to settle or stay after descending: The bird alighted on the tree.

3.

to encounter or notice something accidentally.

The horse came first! *gasp*

Is "alight" even British?!

There was another time where me and a bunch of friends were discussing about, surprise surprise, the American and British accents. We're probably biased since our social circle consists of North Americans. And yes, we're those who make our new British friends say 'Harry Potter'. ;) BUT, friend #3 did raise a good point. He was saying how when we listen to an English song, we don't notice anything different (which we automatically assume it's North American since, no offense, the British accent does seem a little off to us) until the singer says something at the end (e.g. thank you) and makes you go like "Wow she's British!" I had that exact moment listening to Adele performing live. Hypothesis: if their songs sounded 'normal' to us, does this make the American accent 'normal' too?

I hope nobody gets offended by this, it's just a random rant on perspective. Okie gotta head back to studying now. Exam on Saturday grr!

Christmas lights

Christmas lights are already up by mid-November and I've had my final round of birthday celebrations (lasted for 3 weeks this year!). How I love hanging out with dear old friends for a laughable night. Makes your worries go away for a few hours. The picture above was chosen from a series of silly jumping shots me and a friend were doing. Definitely looked like I was pushing her down in order to lift myself higher ;)

Then there is the part of me that wished this particular person was still around to say happy birthday to me. Impossible in every way but I'm sure he's somewhere out there looking out for me. 

White flags

What to do when you start working on past exams and you're getting an accuracy rate of maybe 5%?
Do you start waving those nice white flags now??
Zomg.

Decision time

Source: weheartit

I've been saying that I want a tattoo for some time, except I don't know what I want, and where I want it. Let alone the traumatizing thought of being poked by needles over and over again, as if blood donation wasn't bad enough. 

So my dream the other night was set in a tattoo parlor. The ambience was dim with framed artwork/patterns all over the walls. Not to mention the neon "tattoo" signage on the windows, just like the one in Hangover 2 (given that it's the latest movie that I've watch with a tattoo parlor in it). There I was, lying on the bed, frantically flipping through the catalogue in hope of searching for something that made me inspired. The artist adjusted his sitting posture, with the needles in hand, ready to poke them into my skin. 

I started screaming because the artist was leaving me no time to make up my mind. Then I woke up. Wonder if this is a sign that I should put this thought on hold......

Fall incidents

I love fall weather, the chill breeze and what not.
But it also acts as a hint that dry season is coming up and all those non-sense cuts will slowly creep up on you again.
Grrr.

Reminder

5 of these gianormous mosquito bites reminding me I gotta wake up early to study.
How appropriate...

Craze

I'm not a chocolate person, but then there are times when the crave kicks in.

Combined with an unfortunate/frustrating event at work, walk into a 7-11 and 5 seconds later, all happy again!

Seasonal chocolates from 7-11! 

3am dim sum!

Gotta love hong kong!

Butao!

The soup base was yuuuuum! Would be even better if someone else was to volunteer for that one-hour line up ;)

Finally!

Winked so hard when I realized we only needed to wait for 10 tables!!

I'm hungry!!

Current read

Lying in bed reading on a Saturday morning is so precious :)

New meat

Had venison for the very first time. Tasted just like steak cubes!!

Currently reading...

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