leave me alone. lead me along FASHION WALK.

It's my last night in Hong Kong & I'm completely feeling the upcoming post holiday blues sneaking up on me. Utterly depressing.

Pre-holiday is always great because it's that built up of good anticipation & i love planning, the whole process of searching for the best flights, researching on places to dine, shop & hangout & remembering places that must be re-visited if it is a repeat destination. And then eventually just counting down to the day when the plane flies off, and it becomes a temporal escape.

Then before you know it & just in the blink of an eye, it's the night before the flight home & that whole overwhelming sinking feeling of how it's all over. Dramatically, it feels like the end of the world.

They say pictures paint a thousand words. So pictures it shall be...

Mickey Mouse Hoodie, Hungover Sundays Jaela Leopard Print Cardi, Topshop jeggings, Platform Black Wedge (Streets of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong)
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Most of my trip I spent eating. I mean it's Hong Kong right? So of course I have to be stuffing myself as best as I can. Aside from trying to spot good looking guys (to be very honest, the guys in HK dress way better & put in a whole lot more effort).

So I finally had HUO GUO (also commonly known as "steamboat" for most of us). It was Mari & me & we over-ordered. Normally in Singapore, you order one serving of tofu, they give you 4 pieces of tofu, here it's like 10. -_-

And Mari wanted to order 2 servings of fishballs, luckily we only ordered 1! When you first arrive at the Huo Guo restaurant, they serve you the whole tray of condiments, so you can make your own sauce, then you order the dishes & choose your soup base. There's like 20 types of soups to choose from.

See the tofu!!

Make-your-own-sauce

Too much food!!

Anyways, more pictures & i need to rush to sleep really soon!! Have to catch the flight back tomorrow, while secretly hoping that I might miss it...

Pork Chop rice with vegetables at Delicious Kitchen, Fashion Walk

Mango, Tau Huey & Glass jelly dessert at this small hidden cafe below Holiday Inn, Causeway Bay

Streets of Causeway Bay, one of my fav areas

Famous "Ji Dan Zai"- (egg waffles) at North Point (Kowloon), it was really yummy!!

Tai Hang Char Siew & Goose

Australian Dairy "Cha Chan Ting"- the queue was really long, but it took only 6 mins for us to get a seat

Australian Dairy's famous egg white dessert (& their eggs are amazingly good!)

Chang Beer Singlet (Streets of Bangkok), Prada Sling bag & Chanel pumps
 

Kapok Cafe & lifestyle shop at Star Street, Hong Kong

Me & Mari

 

Bye Hong Kong for now! See you really soon!!!
xoxo

hello kitty hello hong kong

It's been 5 days that i've been in the land of flowing canto, milk tea and "cha chan ting" (hong kong cafes, that mostly open 24 hours). I was just telling Marilyn last night over Tsui Wah (one of the hong kong cafe joints) how i might actually love to live here.

Tsui Wah's fish ball and fish cake noodles in fish soup

Tsui Wah Hong Kong Milk Tea

 A few reasons:

1. To fulfill my lifelong dream of marrying into a gang/mafia circle.

2. I love the fact that there are chinese medicine shops all around. I am a true believer of ying and yang, "liang chas" (chinese teas) and all things traditional.
3. 24 hour Hong Kong cafes
4. The weather has been absolutely glorious!! And i can wear my scarves and jackets.
5. Love the cantonese dialect, how it sounds, how it rolls off the tongue...

I think there are tonnes of other reasons, or maybe i just want to get out of SIngapore. Often than not, the grass is always greener on the other side anyway.

It has been a good 5 days, i think my antibiotics have proven to work, i haven't coughed in possibly 5 days.

Got lost everyday, learnt once more to appreciate public transport, rolling down the stairs of the apartment, almost falling on the MTR, falling in love with Star Street, the small cafes and of course the Monocle shop, shopping and more shopping, looked for stock for Hungover Sundays, had amazing chirashi, checked out an Agnes B exhibition, ate more Tsui Wah and stalked a Hong Kong celebrity. CAN I JUST STAY HERE IN HONG KONG ALREADY PLEASE?

SPOIL: a cafe somewhere in the nooks of Star Street

Me & Sally <3

Part of the Exhibition, somewhere in the gallery somewhere in the corner of Star Street

Some store front, somewhere in Hong Kong

Poptart Boys loving the Monocle Shop

In the Monocle Shop

A few other things i discovered thus far, i love being alone. Not that i don't enjoy meeting friends and hanging out, BUT all the time in the world to dress up before going out, wander the streets amidst everyone else's rushing and really just soaking every bit of life, Hong Kong and the smallest pleasures like having an egg tart.

Dress from ASOS, Balenciaga Part-time, Agnes B scarf, Hungover Sundays Necklace, H&M stockings, Steve Madden Red Boots

Polar Bear Hat with paws (Streets of Bangkok), Les Queues de Sardines stockings, Black Leather Jacket (Streets of Hong Kong)

I also had the blessing of having amazing friends here. So over many meals of food, coffee, drinks and cake, we talked about life, friends, Singapore, love, Zouk, Butter, and much more.

Betty's Kitchen at IFC Mall- Tea set for 2 (looks better than it tastes!)

Onion Soup at The Press Room, Hollywood Street

Mari, me & Celeste at Savva

Varlhona Dark Chocolate Martini at Savva (DAMN GOOD!)

The Crunch Cake & Ginger Cheesecake at Sevva (VERY YUMMY!)

Chirashi at Sushi Kuu, Wellington Street (SHIOK!)

I'm trying very hard not to have holiday blues, because i'm only going to be here for 4 more days =(

2012 i promised myself to only seek joy, and cut out the emoshit. So far so good, though i still miss him and when i think about him, my heart melts and i feel that weakening in my knees then i just try to let the feeling pass me by.

So last night, i ended up walking the night street at Kowloon, where i'm currently staying with Marilyn, and drama of all times: we were in 7-11 with RAYMOND LAM. To be completely honest, i have no idea who he is. But because in Hong Kong, there are so many good looking guys, my eyes are constantly on the look out.

So i spotted him, and i told Mari: look at that guy, he's so cute! Then she starts to go into this psychotic panic mode, like how i was seeing Edison Chen in Tokyo. And then i'm trying to buy juice and she FORCES me to buy orange juice, when i was looking for apple juice.

We end up outside 7-11 and i'm trying to tweet about this celebrity sighting, while Mari is trying to drag me across the road so she can be a fan girl and stare at him from afar. To cut the long story short, she almost makes me tweet about the white porsche being Raymond Lam's, and we end up standing behind a glass door across the street from the 7-11 staring at him. -_-

After what feels like the longest time, he comes out of 7-11 and hops into a cab. And Mari rushes home to try to calm herself down.

Hong Kong celebrity sighting of Raymond Lam and end result NO PICTURE OR NO AUTOGRAPH. HAHAHAAHA TOO HILARIOUS.

Me & Marilyn

This post is too long. This is really the result of being lazy. I'll update more again, but i finally bought the hello kitty frames!! They are really cute! Wondering if people would love them if we sold it on Hungover Sundays? Thoughts??

  

Rushing out now to collect stock for Hungover Sundays! Till the next post!
xx

goodbye 2011

This post is really outdated. 11 days late, and it's 2012.

One of my new year resolutions was to capture more moments of life, friendships and love and be more prompt on blogging. But obviously, it hasn't happened, though i have to admit that i have been more dilligent in capturing those moments with my trusty G-12.

I realise i thought a lot about how 2011 went, many would call it reflections, then would proceed to try to make amends, analyse & finally come to the oh-so-enlightening moment of forming new year resolutions.

But for me, it didn't quite happen like that. I remembered the NYE of 2010 and the hope and promised forever love (which frankly NEVER HAPPENS in real life, the idealist in me continues to live on) that came with that day. I with Andrew's then, and he remains to be one of the people in my life, i'm sure i will always have a soft spot for. We did have a whirlwind romance, crazy love, insane passion and memories that will bring back the skip in my heartbeat, each time he comes to mind.

But really that is all it would ever be, and there remains to be that bittersweet aftertaste lingering.

The 2nd time we met, at Zouk

My Sweet Sweet Romance

Anyhows, so that was the NYE of 2010. Then NYE 2011, i knew it would be the same. Counting down at the place i have called home for the past 6 years: Zouk. The place i have fallen in love, had my heart broken, binged on tapioca chips, challenged myself, found inspiration post 3/4 of the bottle of McCallen at Wine Bar, understood a bit more of the human nature, appreciated true friendships for all that it's worth and thrown into the deep end to struggle with life's harshest realities.

True to the end of 2011, at the strike of 12am to 2012, i found myself crying from the flood of emotions in the Zouk DJ console, amidst people that i have now come to know as family. Then immediately getting concerned about smudging eyeliners & intact lashes.

One tray of ILLUSION please

Adrian, Adeline (lao ban niang), Ivan Chia and me

Hannah (Errol's GF), Errol & Tien (Errol's best friend)

The 3 of us! =)

Karl & Vic (his GF)

Vick & me

Zouk dance floor just before 12am

Ivan Chia & djB (2 of my fav. ppl)

The Zouk team & DJs (though not all of us are here)

Big Boss Linc & me (the one person that has truly inspired me in life)

Yasee & me (the one person that remains to be my sunshine in the office)

Kaye & Dean of Darker Than Wax (amazing musicians & my blessing to know them)

Hong & me (a true friend who will fly the flag of hate with me)

Errol & his band of brothers

Tommy Wee & me (the very popular & extremely charming Tommy, yes that's him)

Adrian & me

Diana & me (she has worked for Zouk for more than 10 years, respect)

Then of course came the drama of losing my BB, eventually finding it the next morning in my car. I shan't even go into details about the happenings of that night. But i was fast asleep by 5am bidding farewell to just another year, and welcoming another with renewed hope, love and all the expected positive emotions that get heightened with this day.

Tata 2011. And hello 2012, 10 days later.

And they often say that goodbyes are never forever. Really?

My Top 11 Tracks that marked 2011

Sofie – My Final Glass Of Whiskey in 2011
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People often say in life, go C.Y.O.A “choose your own adventures” (Hearts Revolution) and the battles you choose to fight because Come Monday Night (God Help the Girl) each week, what is often left is the aftertaste of that last glass of whiskey or the hurt from the weekends’ lost loves. Why raise the Flag of Hate (Kreator) or be Hungry for the Power (Azari & III) when really what goes down you can see in my EYES (Kaskade feat. Mindy Gledhill) if you looked hard enough.

It could be time to pick up the Viol (Gesaffelstein) once more, where a flat or a sharp, a beat or a rhythm could change the world and music is all that matters, where each night might be the last, and maybe i will be Lost and Found (Taken by Trees) again.

What you Know (Two Door Cinema Club) is what you choose to see. Perception’s a bitch baby, so i choose to remain Invisible (Skylar Grey) till the time of The Golden Age (The Asteroids Galaxy Tours). But for now please Give Me Everything Tonight (Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer), to live and let love, love and let live.

Taken from www.zoukclub.com/blog