famale magazine

i just got background word from an editor at the magazine, that my application was approved for female magazine (link)!

too excited for words now.

alessandra!

my favourite VS girl, alessandra ambrosio, in russh by will davidson. hauntingly beautiful.

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i wished more local publications would do bigger stories. to me, stories are not just about plonking advertisers throughout the spread. it's also about a fantasy, taking pains and pages to create a certain atmosphere and a fantasy. after all, isn't that why we pick up monthly magazines -- to catch a glimpse of a fashion fantasy? why bother paying $5 a copy for a bite of reality and what we already know, when the pages can be used to transport readers into another spectacle altogether.

the weekend, in general.

last weekend was pretty mad busy.

had a fitting on friday, of which i am so tempted to flash a photo here of a look from the upcoming show, but will resist myself.

made some linguine with leek and shrimp in a white wine reduction. if it was a little less soupy, it would have been perfect. find the recipe here. i'd go a bit more on the white wine and oregon too. if you boil the shrimp with a bit of pork bone, it would be pretty yummy too.



had a shoot the next day, where i styled for a photography workshop. must say, i underestimated their coach. his post processing was quite good. excited for them to hand me the shots. a little bit queen amidala, no?


dress from victoriajomo

finally, tomorrow, a huge day ahead! i get to pick up my new shoes and maybe snap a few pictures of it. keep a look out for me!

transcript: 16 july 2010

i did a fitting today, and i am so tempted to show you all the headgears i made, but i won't. i'll show one, at most.

i made some shrimp and leek linguine with a white wine reduction. i think i made WAY too much broth. it's a lot soupier than expected.

i have a shoot tomorrow, which starts ridiculously early. (SERIOUSLY?! 1.5 hrs for hair and makeup?!?!)

all the photo related stuff will be up tomorrow. i'm too tired to unpack anything to find my camera now.

Nightmind.

See, at the end of the day, you can tell yourself "oh a man worth your tears won't make you cry" or "kiss a fool, don't let a kiss fool you". But the fact is that when you stand in front of a mirror, sore eyed and sniffling, you know that every tear is a point to be learnt. And the ones who made you cry, they're gone. So what's left to do? Fix your face, go out, take a deep breath; that's the breath that says "Today. I start afresh again." Because one day, you won't have to say it anymore. You can bet on that.

I am slowly rediscovering the hurt people can cause when you open your heart. I find it both frustrating and yet somewhat refreshing.

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"Love is about being cute and stupid together, not being in bed together."

"To offer a girl friendship when love is in her heart is like giving a loaf of bread to someone who is dying of thirst."

"I can conquer the world with one hand, as long as you are holding the other."

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes, just be an illusion."

"Love is like quicksand: The deeper you fall in It, the harder It is to get out."

"That's how you know when you care about things, when you're afraid you'll lose them."

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

"When you forgive people, it's because you still want them in your life."

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just stand there."

"The difficult years end up being the greatest years of your life, if you survive them."

Nice.

love doesn't hurt. you hurt because you've pinned love to an expectation. but love really doesn't hurt.

just a random thought. i had a great dinner, and i remembered to snap one of my chicken, which i'm proud of because it was my first foray into public cooking. photos soon.

i wore a huge woolly jacket that shone like the stars of jupiter, but forgot to snap because i was caught in the flurry of ping pong balls.

who am i?

i am a boy, who likes a lot of things. two of the most important would be food and clothes.
this blog will have a lot of things about food and clothes. and maybe if i'm feeling particularly nifty, one or two of my random thoughts. i'm not a blogger, i'm a fashion person who just has too much to share.

it's a personal journey of mine. the mission is to keep time in my words.