mermaid's tears

it's not
guess u have to 'feel the waters' past initial attraction / get to know a person better
can't figure out where a relationship will go over night. i mean this guy he ticks a lot of the boxes but not the ones most important to me so i guess ill tell him soon

lol today in psych we discussed the five stages that lead to a break down in a romantic relationship

1) dissatisfaction 2) exposure 3) negotiation 4) resolution 5) termination

feel inclined to go from 1 to 5

should i post things out now or tomorrow
should i go to the gym now or after sch ends
should i get a bagel to eat or have an apple
should i buy ingredients for makeshift tacos
should i stay up for an internet taco party
should i pack the winter things & other clothes/bags to leave at @anothercaroline's place or wait till summer to pack up
should i travel more after the trip to stockholm ♪( ´▽｀), where & with whom

Yes!

i have gotten two packages, which is really cool, i really like this interaction thing, seems personal, like this other person exists and i know he/she exists and he/she knows i exist, and wants to interact with me

i have gotten a package from charmaine/rotterdam, a mixtape of songs to listen to while we're still under the winter spell, and a package from michael/new york, his chapbook, his name card lol, and a pressboardpress badge yay

not particularly, but I think her voice is amazing, I find myself singing her songs sometimes, and I think she's interesting to watch (I don't think she's trying to be different or anything, she is just different and embracing it).

if you don't like her, watch these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f03MbalKcy4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAmDULCVrU

Play

Play

the day has come where the Internet remembers details of my sister's life better than i do

are you mocking my kanken, it's ice blue in bad lighting

1 Post new years party nua-ing
2 Refused to leave our grubby house
3 Went back to hot yoga for the first time in a year
4 Movie night at Joyce & Rachel's/had first cup of buble tea in London
5 Trend trek (first freelance 'job')
6 Library to research essay/dinner at Albion with Jun
7 Woke up at 2/procrastinated by buying hair products
8 Pulled all-nighter to finish Fashion History essay on Gazette du Bon Ton
9 First day/overslept and didn't make it to leaders' cell
10 Paul went back to Cambridge/attempted to start street style project
11 Moved furniture (yay for two double beds)
12 Ran around Camden photographing kitchen folk/first crit of the term
13 Visited Coco's/Watched We Live in Public and raved about it
14 Shepherd's Bush to buy fabric with Jun
15 Lunch with most of the London family
16 Visited CSM archive/spoke to a friend I hadn't spoken to in years/cried a lot
17 Came to Fei's rescue
18 Carmen Dell'Orefice is a god/listened to 'We Found Love' at least 60 times
19 Lims arrived/fell in love with Tokyo/packed for Paris
20 Walked for 2hrs in 4ºC in a tiny dress & tee/VIP Room = Barbie & Ken = weird
21 Paid €25 entry to have friend nearly tacked by security
22 dressed at Thom Browne/free drinks at Le Baron/Silencio/TITS UP
23 Cabbed everywhere/wrote letter to Katharine Hamnett
24 Developed first roll of B&W film & printed a contact sheet
25 Steamboat at ours
26 Yumchaa brunch/Lims are Singapore-bound
27 Fked up first draft for article 150/500 words/Event & PR crit (also rubbish)
28 Yoga/Chinese new year dinner in High Wycombe
29 Yumchaa with accountability group
30 Nokia Lumia 800/bombed Fashion History presentation/leaders cell
31 Big Chill with Dah & Jing/studio session/dinner with Nat

January = intense with major highs and lows, can't believe we're already into February. Looks like I'll be doing these daily highlights each month, I like looking at my days in point form, haha.

I want to say it was around 12-14ºC, possibly warmer.

Categorized it by area, seems easier for you that way. Those with the * are our most frequented. Am not gonna include links because I'd go insane, sorry.

Central, central:
British Museum
Salt (cafe, they do good tea)
Yumchaa (tea)
*The Breakfast Club (http://lovetbc.com)
Flat Planet (cafe, there's a piano in the basement)
Liberty (high-end department store)
Selfridges (high-end department store)
Hunterian Museum
Caravan (restaurant)
Department of Coffee and Social Affairs (cafe)
Koenig Books (bookstore)
*Busaba Eathai (Thai restaurant)
Hummingbird Bakery (cupcakes, they also have one along Portobello but it's packed)
HIGH STREET SHOPS ALONG OXFORD ST & REGENT STREET

East:
Oxfam on Kingsland Road (thrift)
Storm in a Teacup (designer vintage)
House of Liza (designer vintage)
A Little of What You Fancy (food, wish I came here more, portions are large, deserves a *)
LN-CC (designer concept store, appointment required http://ln-cc.com)
Primitive (carries more obscure designers from Japan & London http://www.primitivelondon.co.uk)
Cafe Oto (cafe)
Tina, We Salute You (cafe)
Pelicans & Parrots (vintage fashion, furniture, lifestyle)
Beyond Retro (vintage)
*Rokit (vintage)
*Brick Lane bagel shop! (Self-explanatory, http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/venue/2%3A931/brick-lane-beigel-bake)
Sunday Up Market (clothes)
There are tons of 'vintage' shops along Brick Lane

North:
*Hampstead crepe stand (the whole area's pretty quaint)
Ginger & White (cafe)
Camden Lock Market & Stables Market (food, vintage, thrift, goth, punk, everything. Go on weekends, but go early.)
*The Big Chill House (food/drink, they do a good breakfast)
Wellcome Collection

West:
V&A Museum
Natural History Museum
Saatchi Gallery
Harrods (I guess it's a 'must see' though I think that's silly)
Dover Street Market (designer boutique)
Portobello Market (antiques)
Gold Mine (Chinese food, duck's particularly good)
Four Seasons (ditto)

South:
Southbank & Gabriel's Wharf (some shops & food, lovely for a sunny day's stroll)
Borough Market (So. Much. Food. Go early on Saturday)
Tate Modern

Yeah, it's a bit of an insane list with lots of cafes, haha. Have a good trip!

haha not a legit qn!! not true

17 inch MacBook Pro as a laptop.

Thank you! I came home with a bit of bitter taste in my mouth so I had to say something I guess... there's more to it but let's just leave it at that...

like, shit look there's a thin bridge strapped across the cliff, waterfalls crashing beneath, and an army of cannibals behind you, and you've got a fear of heights, you can't swim, but the only way out is through, so run like a motherfucker

really
no other form of escape is real, avoiding the situation, delaying confrontation of what frightens you, just work at it, because .... "< ~ >"

jewellery, see dannijo or low luv x erin wasson (shopbop.com)

feel increasingly that jewellery is great as presents, wear always & be reminded of someone's love for you
for my birthday eve gave me a necklace and i never take it off. rly rly love it as much as physical reminders of love isn't necessary sometimes in the dark i feel it against my skin and feel better

thank you, seems great to be thought of as a role model, though in many ways feel like, 'not there yet'/'perfect'

i feel like i have a lot of things to say to younger girls in general, in light of some things my mother told me about acquaintances who have turned into juvenile delinquents, as well as how i felt when i was 15

but most importantly:
(1) paradigms of hierarchal popularity will END via,
(2) the world is much bigger than you know (ie. the people in school/singapore)
(3) it is ok to not please people around you, you can't please everyone you might as well please yourself
(4) just stay true to who you are & your values (and find justification for what you believe in, don't believe bc others do, or your parents do, need to find firm basis for yourself otherwise you'll enter [greater life/society] & find yourself easily shaken/influenced by others around you

'lol' at this question

Practically everything by Pamela Love http://www.shopbop.com/pamela-love/br/v=1/2534374302168172.htm?all

Dannijo
http://tinyurl.com/c3nrq5x
http://tinyurl.com/czyt3q7

Made Her Think
http://tinyurl.com/ckcmvvw
http://tinyurl.com/btla3z4
http://tinyurl.com/cyp64zu

I've always been rather obsessed with Indian wedding necklaces and Celtic circlets! Completely unattainable but how sick is this http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/172067 ♥ Also, http://wintercheckfactory.com/shop/23-1907-ring is pretty cool. Imma smile at this to bookmark all these lovely things.

Would like to add that MBMJ jewellery's gross.

I have such a horrible memory that all of them are favourites.

Picking up a nuggets meal or 25 cent cone at the drive-thru with the grandma after school. We'd often bump into a neighbour in the lift & she'd look at me with envy ^^

Sprained my wrist from stopping a front handspring midway because a little girl ran right in front of me (I thought getting injured was pretty cool at the time, haha, I was about nine or ten).

I had a whole library of Mary-Kate & Ashley/Full House novels which and I'd jot down the title, date & name of those I lent them to in a little notebook because people wouldn't return my books! (Was a control freak from a young age.. The mother trained me well, haha).

After training on Saturdays the parents would bring us to Sushi Tei at Millenia Walk for dinner. There Russ and I would compete to see who could eat the most plates of salmon sushi, haha. We'd usually have 13 plates (26 pieces) each--just a little frightening. I miss being that super cut twelve-year old.

In primary school Nicki & I covered used correction tape in glitter glue and sold it to her older sister for quite a few dollars, haha. We were some pretty business savvy kids.

I kind of miss pseudo-solo Tuesday trainings with Hu Jiaolian, sailing upwind on one tack hiking till my thighs burned before going numb, then turning around to meet Malcolm who'd be left behind & repeating all that again. I miss my six pack :( (Apparently I've also been a masochist for forever).

Ah, sailing camps run by uncle Borstnar were also so much fun. We'd get the last night off to go bowling and he'd get little trophies made for those who worked the hardest. (Wow, my brain's now quickly running through all my sailing friends, people I've known for half my life!)

Sunday School was fun--those colouring pages and crafts we did for mothers' day, etc. I remember very conscientiously colouring within the lines & getting very annoyed if someone doodled on my sheet (some things never change).

I used to get so scared whenever we had to perform for SYF (I was in choir in lower primary), all those bright lights in your eyes. I remember being told the judges would deduct points if you didn't look at the conductor. Miss Lim was awesome though.

Am going to smile at this because ah, they're such fond memories. It's actually rather scary how I haven't changed much personality-wise.