love: messy beds

there is something i will always love about
unmade beds with wrinkled white sheets
made soft by the tangling and untangling
of legs and arms and fingers and hair...

see: an education

"all that poetry, and all those songs
about something that lasts no time at all..." - jenny

love: cheeky totes

chip chop totes are too cute for words!
my personal fave is the dali-inspired one.
dali + the 'stache trend = pure awesomeness!

love: a single man

what a beautiful film.
i loved every single thing about it:
the aesthetic, the soundtrack, the mise en scene, the era,
the way the camera zoomed and focused on the smallest details,
the dialogue, the dark, subtle humour,
the romance, the catharsis, the tragedy, the narration...
and of course
christopher isherwood, tom ford, matthew goode,
and the man who put flesh and blood and unparalleled charm to austen and fielding's mr. darcy...
colin firth.

and yes, if you must know,
i did cry...

see: beautiful imperfections

hear: HAITI

please help:
doctors without borders
red cross
oxfam

letter: dear tshirt

i heart you
because you have a beautiful print of horses
and because you were once $40
but you were mine for $5...



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image from here

hear: 1901

by Phoenix



i've been rockin' out to this lately
thinking the French are just so damn brilliant...

... it's 20 seconds till the last call
you're going hey hey hey hey hey!

see: leave (a short)

Leave Me from Daros Films on Vimeo.

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all of us have
once-upon-a-time's
as if our lives were a book.
and sometimes it is hard
not to want to flip back
to old pages
just to make sure
that everything up to where you are now
is where you are supposed to be
and that everything before
is just as it was and will remain unchanged
no matter how many times
you go back
the story remains the same:
once upon a time you were 19
and it was July
and you believed in meant-to-be's...

letter: dear heart

to let go
is to be unselfish.

to be unselfish
is to love.

to love
is to let go.

(and so it goes...
so it goes...)

do: a great indoor adventure

we built an indoor fort
ate grilled cheese
drank warm yummy beverages
had popcorn
and chocolate covered
peanuts & raisins
and watched a movie
in our flannel pj's
(in our fort complete with
a secret password!)

love: hummingbird bakery, notting hill

i can't tell you how delicious
these precious little cupcakes
are (especially the red velvet)!
and who doesn't love pretty
pastel buttercream frosting
and sprinkles?
even their packaging
with the little pink hummingbird silhouette
is adorable!
if you are ever in notting hill,
do pay hummingbird bakery a visit.
and if it happens to be summer, sit outside
the bakery and people watch
(so many brilliantly dressed folks around there)
while satisfying your sweet tooth.

love: marie + post-modernity

how cool are these?!
seriously.
seriously.




p.s.
i love my girlfriends...
in 1 email thread over 1 week:
baby updates, joys of pregnancy,
jury duty, annual christmas dinner, and most recently...
'is it weird that i'm liking this new miley cyrus song?'
followed by, 'party in the usa?' (sent from a blackberry device).
they make me laugh :)

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images found here

do: pumpkin day

saturday afternoon
was bright and sunny
and as autumn-y as can be.
so we spent it picking pumpkins
at a local pumpkin patch
adjacent to a farmer's market.







things we did with our pumpkins:
- carved it
- made creamy pumpkin soup
- roasted the pumpkin seeds
- made pumpkin pie

hear: sweet disposition

by the temper trap
from 500 days of summer ost

so, so, so painfully sweet...
watch the film, play the tune, find true love or get besotted!

letter: dear knees

thank you for letting me bruise you
between bikes and boys.
forgive me for being clumsy and naive.
but i promise knitted legwarmers
and gooseflesh from kisses
from those who fall for me, for us.

hear: dakota

by stereophonics.



just got back from the UK.
thought i would post an old stereophonics hit,
one of my absolute favourites,
while i wait for my photos to upload
on my computer.

anyway, there's something about this song...

"Wake up cold coffee and juice
Remembering you
What happened to you?
I wonder if we'll meet again
Talk about us instead
Talk about why did it end

You made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one"

hear: say hello

let's say hello to september.

summer came and went so fast.
and since my last post:
i've assembled a bedframe,
gone to the zoo
(i got to pet stingrays!)
attended a beautiful, and oh so glamorous wedding
(complete with a photobooth!),
as well as a surprise engagement party,
where we also found out that our
girlfriend who tied the knot last year
is now a mommy-to-be at three months!

it was a lovely season.
and though gone are the sun-drenched days
that seem to go on forever
and the sun now sleeps earlier and earlier,
i hope the fall promises things that are just as lovely.
i kick it off in london, then the big apple
so really, how can it not be lovely?

and now, for some rosie thomas and sufjan stevens cover
(the most adorable of them all!) ...



would he hold me
and never let me go...
would he let me borrow his old winter coat...

love: cozy autumn days...

are something to look forward to
as summer's end draws near.

i noticed this morning that the maple trees
in my neighborhood are starting to
have tinges of red and orange.

don't these images from toast.uk's catalogue
make you feel... well... toasty?

taste: a summery weekend (finally!)

it finally feels like summer here!
weekend weather was superbly hot
and on friday we had a lovely soiree
at a friend-slash-colleague's
quaint 2nd floor balcony
in the heart of kensington market.
and can i please tell you about the food:
pesto & spinach sausages, veal burgers with goat cheese
and sundried tomatoes, washed down with lots
and lots of beer, and sweet yellow mangoes for dessert.

saturday came and the summer heat
decided to stay a little while more.
so my parents threw an impromptu family bbq.
i made grilled vegetable antipasti:
zucchini, yellow, green and red peppers,
and onions all primly blackened and
caramelized, sliced and tossed in garlic
flavoured olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt
& pepper.i also made a fresh summer salad:
cucumbers, red onion, avocado, lots of dill,
chunks of brie, and a touch of lime juice and coarse salt.
the humid night wore on as we ate
ice cream and watermelon.

then, i had the most wonderful sunday evening.
the boy's parents and grandparents threw me
a little surprise birthday dinner.
we had: shrimp har gow, spring rolls, and
chicken corn soup to start. then, ginger and garlic lobster
with traditional chinese sweet dough bread, and
chicken in szechuan peanut sauce.
his parents know how much i love his
maternal grandparents and truly consider
them as my own. they are among the most
wonderful and extraordinary people i know,
and i could not have asked for a better
early birthday and end to the summery weekend.

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images from martha stewart