nearly midweek snoop





the styling on this website is a-amazing. i want everything, and every space!

back to work you, it's eleven pee am.





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what a beautiful shop. i could live here.

there'a dream growing in my head


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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley

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human beings are funny. we let so many things get in the way of the possibilities when we're just one in so many billion and we're gonna die anyway. funny funny funny.

nippon reseach in the study on a warm sunday afternoon ;listening to pizzicato 5




it was too windy. take one of my ribbons from the green box, i told mingyao. so pretty.

yesterday we hung up the muji poster from dec 2008.







m&co in brooklyn. what a beautiful shop.

tea for three







sam and sharon came over for a short tea session. it was good to talk.

bursts of mind tricks



early early in the morning when that particular morning smell of dew hangs low in the air outside and the sun's rays are only about peaking out; or late into the black night when there are only a few squares of yellow flickering lights on the building elevations outside; with a dash of mellow music - i like these times.

feelings i like: being happy, making people happy, being inspired, appreciated, the slight reflective melancholy - not the depressive self-depreciating type -, making plans, being busy - not the busy till i can't sleep type -, the euphoria of the after-run (the feeling that you're really in tune with your physical self is A-a-mazing).

feelings i detest: guilt, stupidity, extremely tired, unaccomplished, meanness.

the work and act of creation is an ironic one. sometimes the urgency of deadlines make you churn out the stuff but i hate that feeling of urgency.

amongst other things, i really need to write, feed the inner person, writing to manifest the concrete-ness of oneself, that kind of thing.

tomorrow's time to change the bedsheets from white to black.



dear husband i have an idea for our cheap, live sort of christmas tree this year. my style. remind me later at home thank you.

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once upon a time

... to my husband in the kitchen boiling soup for tomorrow's dinner while i sit in the study and draw lines - you are hot! - and - thank you for picking me up from work today!

the end.

remember


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yesterday we had dinner at ee jie's home and ma cooked crabs. siew jie fetched me home and we had a short catch-up conversation about stuff in general. it was nice.

things i remember doing with my second sister:

1. packing a picnic basket (filled with jello, tit-bits) and spreading the picnic mat in the garden at the bottom of the start of the slope, or sometimes the concrete benches, and reading books or lying back on the mat and looking at clouds.
2. walking in the drains to the playground; burying the dead turtle at the corner of the playground.
3. walking to the provision shop at casaurina to buy candy
4. drawing up plans for lego
5. art classes at nafa, pre-primary and looking out for each other in the scary toilets
6. going for church choir practices together in primary school and snacking on french fries with wynnie, ruth, karen and mabel after practice
7. night conversations before sleeping
8. staying back in school to study in the library till mrs morris the librarian knew us

etc. etc. etc.

a list.

movies to remember to rent when we go to video ezy because we always go there and then forget.

+ gattaca (again, on blue ray)
+ a life less ordinary
+ love story
+ 2012
+ capitalism
+ v for vendetta
+ breakfast club
+ up
+ pulp fiction

friday i'm in love



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i always like it when it rains. when it's heavy and doesn't stop through the day. somehow it makes the mood a little more mellow and i seem to be more composed when the mood is mellow - like when it's night.

i'm a little stagnated on the stamina end. fear can be overcomed by action, and self-pity can be overcomed by gratitude. i marvel at people who can really work at their priorities with a feverish persistence and i know that somehow i can do a little better than where i'm at. it's time i made some rules for myself and followed them diligently instead of being whisked away so often and unnecessarily by all the distractions. but the distractions - they are so lovely! i'm so good with the - being inspired - but i have to work on the following up.

and deep in my heart, or rather staring me very squarely in the face, are the things i know are important in life, in my life and i know what the obstacles are but i'm just, like how i am, breezing through it all without mental commitment. it's really scary when i look in the mirror and i see the physical deterioration manifested in the awful wrinkles and no moisturiser does not save. the only cure is prevention. lethargy be gone!

i miss writing essays and doing research in musky libraries.

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some music can light up the room.

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something nice :: filippa k winter collection. i like the woman's jacket.
maybe i like her hair.



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goodnight.

Dambara House by Suppose Design Office

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so calm.

the picasso.

the other day we were at ion and there was a gift shop on the top floor selling overpriced intricate gifts. we flipped through the posters and we liked the same one.

chinatown

it is so nice to be able to go to chinatown and ooh and ahh at the fabrics together with the husband.

the bubbles.

the other day the husband appeared in the bathroom where i was, blowing the bubbles - that wedding favour - i told him he was soaping up the floor cos that was where they landed and burst. 'enjoy the last one with me,' he said, and blew a last wave of bubbles in the air before going out.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~Christian Nevell Bovee

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ~Arthur Somers Roche

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette

Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson

which world is really mine?

i was always dreaming through.

gotta overcome my years of being afraid. focus must be right now so that i won't feel like everything is on whole. the world does not revolve around me.

spin spin spin stop. follow your timetables and do your homework.

escapeB. after this focus.

j mendel resort 2010. ethereal.

escape on the inter-net.

this year we will not get a real christmas tree. so i'm thinking, muji is going to save the day. according to muji, this is great for people who have limited space, to still create their own chrismas scene. lovely.

the penguin skittles is cute. i'd buy them for my nephews if they were older/born already.

the wooden toy vegetable chopping set is cute too. i'd buy this for my baby sister.

tip: the yong tau foo shop in chinatown hawker centre near the toilet is best. fried ikan bilis in your dried kway teow and fried tau khee that turns smooth in the soup.

escape.nice dress. from here

i stumbled onto this designer while surfing - their photographs on their website are so beautiful and so are the clothes.