++ the crit is coming! the crit is coming! ++

++ jingmei battles the cad robots part 2 ++

++ some day i will pen a book about my family [the j.d. salinger way]. ee jie as my lorelei as my seymour. i've got hard copy records of my antics since before i could spell because mother started writing us diary-writing for us when we were babies where she'd buy us each the same chinese-patterned diary in, and she'd write in the third person ++

++ i think i started liking 60s/70s vintage prints and clothing types since i saw my mother in her transcending beauty, in her print [twiggy] shift dresses and bellbottoms. i think, it was also then, i started seeing things in sepia ++

++ i bought a 1kg tub of browne's black cherry yogurt. it's the healthy subtitute to haagan daaz's black brandied cherry ice cream and one of the best things in life. this is one of the lines i'll say if i get to write a feature in vogue uk some day and they put my picture and list of quirks on the page of special contributers. i'll be wearing a cute shift dress from miu miu or a missoni dress when they do that. trust me on that, i will ++

++ christmas is coming! christmas is coming! tinsel and ribbon and carols and cards! candlelight service, my favourite service of the year! ++

++ do you know that 'cherry blossom girl' by air in the 'talkie walkie' album is sung by hope sandoval? things like that make me go "cooooooool" in a very kindred spirit way [it's like they know i like air and they know i like mazzy star and they put two and two together and produced magic just for me] ++