at the level of jellyfish

"When i was little, my aunt Bigeois told me, "if you look at yourself too long in the mirror, you'll see a monkey." I must have looked at myself even longer than that: what i see is well below the monkey, on the fringe of the vegetable world, at the level of jellyfish. It is alive, i cant say it isn't; but this was not the life that Anny contemplated: i see a slight tremor, i see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon. The eyes especially are horrible seen so close. they are glassy, soft, blind, red-rimmed, they look like fish scales."

- NAUSEA, Jean Paul Sarte

true blue stylistas

for a long time, i have realised it's style not fashion i love. i cant tell you what the latest trends are, nor the latest campaign for LV or whatever else is. there is possibly an area of intersaction, or some sort of borrowing and exchange between the two but i am not so sure after watching these. these are just two of the many examples of people who are their own and march to their own beat. their originality and creativity is immensely moving.

first is Victoria, an endearingly outlandish woman who lives on a boat!

next is Tziporah- she's a real trooper and the sort of woman i wish i had for a grandmother. so unbelievably chic and energetic at her age! plus, her deep-seeded love for clothes is infectious as infectious can get. SHE. IS. NOTHING. SHORT. OF. AMAZING.

a snippet of what she said which really brought a smile to my face-

"for me, if i'm gonna do it, i'm gonna do it all the way, so i do it to the Nth degree. I dont expect women to dress like that, i just show you what's possible. what i'm about is stretching the imagination, stretching the box, raising the bar of like what's possible. dont dress like me, dress like you, thats the point- to dress like you, not the way the designer showed it- not head to toe prada or armani or ysl cos thats easy...."

we need more people like this!
for more of such awesomeness,go to http://stylelikeu.com/ (i m totally hooked on it now!)

Passion Pit Prowess

man, when did these guys appear??
it seems everybody has heard this song.
this is what i am talkin about- the kinda thing that gets me pulse goin & blood coursing.
UP THOSE DECIBELS NOWW BOYS AND GIRLS COS I LUVVIT.

Beijing Ja t'aime

first things first, bands like the ones i am about to share make me wanna brush up my chinese, take off to china this very instant, hang with the doods at some backalley way amidst the regular netizens, smoke a joint, and possibly hook up with one.

below is the lastest album from New Pants (which i am so happy i found yesterday, and whose entire album made me feel a kind of ecstasy i havent felt towards music for a while) and a song i really like.




this other band is called Casino Demon whose sound made my heart leap as well.

for more of these highly innovative and very cool chinese bands, go to-http://dazeddigital.com/projects/Converse-LoveNoise/Music.aspx

Mr & Mrs Pitt

i knew i had to post this pic the minute i saw it.
probably my favourite couple of the moment, i had to google this jamie brochet girl to see how she managed to snag mr pitt ala ultimate hotness. well, not that i havent seen enough of their pics surfacing out and about, i was honestly quite smitten with her as well- considering i bought the latest Interview partly cos i wanted to read her segment on it. seems like she does have alot going on, including the fact that i seriously think she looks like a hybrid of a horse and patti smith- which isnt at all a bad thing...

i havent gotten to the key about this picture yet, have i? which by now, i hope you would have realised. yes, those shoes with the tape wound round the front pretty much made me sit up and really take to this girl..that sure takes quite abit to beat aye. woo~!

here's another one that does it, and which i think she looks great in.

aww.

ele-ele-vation

what i am restlessly hankering after, i have come to conceive, is the feeling of invincibility when you are with a person. its like everything else around you becomes reduced to mere nothingness and you have no regard for anything. its like walking on air.

i guess then, that would be how it would feel like with a lover.

unfortunately, only one person makes me feel that way and no, that person is not a lover.

stop/pause///start

its been some time, i have come to realise, since i wrote in this space. perhaps because i was beginning to feel that some things should better be just kept to myself or that they may sound stupid or that no one would bother reading them anyway.

well, the summer was nothing spectacular and i was in fact contemplating things with more seriousness than ever. that is the danger of having too much free time. to be honest, i hate it- not that its a particularly bad thing, just that i don't like that sense of being bogged down by what i feel may sometimes be quite unnecessary. having too much time is another thing i have come to realise may not be that much of a good thing because i lose the sense of urgency and rhythm to things and invariably, they just go downhill and dwindle. its like i have all the time to say, brush up on my IT skills for instance but i didnt do anything and instead, now that school has started then only will i step on it. i guess i thrive better in tighter and more sticky situations, quite unfortunately or fortunately so? that being said, i am pretty much happy school has started, its as if i am back on track and moving along. stagnation is a bad feeling, nausea inducing in fact. i have decided also, to adhere to some mental notes/principles which i have come to recognise will do me good. there is value attached to everything as long as you recognise and extract it. the danger lies when you start rejecting things and close doors which otherwise may lead to growth and progress. that being said, the key words here are growth and progress. a friend once told me not to let your dreams tie and bog you down.

i just wish there were more people i could respect and really look up too, to feel inferior beside. i actually quite enjoy that feeling.
For now tho, taking in different things on a daily basis would be a poor but satisfactory substitute i guess.
this new semester is gonna be a ride, just not an particularly rough one i hope.

goodnight!