Come Travel With Me...

My luggage tag from Korea is going to be put to use soon ^^

Almost Time...

to pack!
10 days 10 days 10 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

from this is glamorous

oh c'mon your brother did it too.

my old dress

Clearing Up My Desktop

Some pics I saved on my rarely-used PC:


Love the vintage black top!! Kind of jealous of the buy, actually...

Cute for booties. Just noticed the spikes lol

I kind of like that tee a lot for some reason.

Winter come now!! I'm waitingggggg

2 weeks until Greece. It hasn't hit me yet that I'm going because I've been busy and work has been kind of overwhelming that I need to put in 3 or 4 extra days before I leave.

No Reason

I've added the name Quinn to my list of baby names. 

Boys:

Westin, Anderson, Reyes

Girls:

Quinn, Lea, Kylie

GLEE!!!! AH I'm currently having a huge crush on HSJr ^^

Are You Responsible For What You Market?

from Seth Godin's Blog

Let's assert that marketing works.

The money and time and effort we put into marketing goods and services actually works. It gets people to change their minds. It cajoles some people into buying and using and voting for things that they otherwise wouldn't have chosen. (If it doesn't work, save your money).

If it works, then, are you responsible for what happens after that?

If you market cigarettes aggressively, are you responsible for people dying of lung cancer?

I think there are two ways to go here:

1. You're not responsible. The marketer is like a lawyer representing the obviously guilty client. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer, and it's up to the jury to decide. The lawyer's job is to do the best she can, not to decide on the outcome. Market the best you can and let buyers take responsibility.

2. You are responsible. Your insight and effort cause people to change, and without you, that change would never happen.

I'm not sure there's a middle ground. Either we should applaud the folks lobbying on behalf of causes we despise, the pornographers selling products that degrade our society and the politicians spinning and lying to get elected (because all these people are doing is giving us a choice for which we're responsible) or we should take responsibility for stuff we sell.

My take: if you're not proud of it, don't sell it.

listening to the rain

yay a me day today. interesting past couple of weeks - tons of realizations and learning about myself and how I view the world. really pleased with how i've approached situations and it's all thanks to my loving family and friends who constantly give me the support that helps me stay super solid after all these years (by just being who they are and by putting up with me). 


huge downpour outside right now. my window is wide open and i'm just listening. love it!

Ignorance is Bliss?

(this was written somewhat late on 5 hours of sleep and a long long day)

Wow. As much as stereotyping things are wrong, it is a fact that doing so helps us categorize the world to enforce rules that will.. uh.. cultivate(?) certain actions to encourage safer, healthier, and overall "happier" surroundings (for the majority). For example, we can stereotype that teens are unsafe drivers because they are more likely to feel that they have invincible powers for the moment and thus make irrational choices that puts others' lives at risk.  That is why some areas in the world implement laws such as relatively high age-limits so that you have to be older (and hopefully more mature, able to make more rational choices) before you are allowed to obtain a license. Sometimes, it's even more beneficial to stereotype because you can presume certain characteristics will be true and thus this can save a LOT of time and energy. Of course, if we all stereotype, then nothing will get done/improve and opinions will never change and a lot of people will be unhappy. Something to think about.. when to stereotype and when to not. Innocent until proven guilty? Or Guilty until proven innocent? Is stereotyping really that terrible?? I know I know.. nothing will ever change and the whole "live and learn" will never happen if everyone stereotypes (which is the best way to remember NOT to do something again)........ that's too bad.

Gratitude

4men - 못해

Wrote this quickly before bed a few nights ago at 2AM but guess I forgot to publish it. Was feeling very reflective..

Oh friends. What would I do without them. Well, same with family, but family you're stuck with - you're forced, in a way, to live together and love each other. I'm very grateful I happen to quite like the ones I'm stuck with, for the record, but friends - they're a whole different story. You choose to see them, to care about what they do, what they're up to, what they're feeling. They're special. I always knew that I appreciated my friends, but I have to be honest - in my younger years, I think I also took them for granted. They were always there - if one wasn't available, I always had someone else I enjoyed to be with just as much to hang out with or to chat with. It wasn't until just a couple weekends ago - Labour Day weekend.. at age 23, where I honestly and totally had a realization of just how appreciative I am of all the close friends I have in my life and their presence and how much I love the fact that they're here within reach 24/7. I wasn't the one out and about for once - I stayed in Vancouver. All of my very closest of friends were away that weekend, and the boy was really tied up with work. For a whole day, I actually felt kind of friend-lonely! Can you believe it? That was the first time in my life I've felt it and it's not a great feeling (you know how that is one of the biggest fears of so many people - to be all alone in the world.. (maybe that and rejection).. no matter how successful you are, how great is that success if you have no one to share it with?) and I was comforted knowing that they would very very soon be back so I'm so thankful that it was only for a day (because I was preoccupied the other days). There needs to be an official "friends day"... but oh yea - that's what birthdays are for.. where you celebrate how incredibly special and appreciative you are that that individual is apart of your life. Sometimes these realizations just slap you in the face so fast and you appreciate it the most when it's gone, and you don't have it. 

I can truly brag that I have the truest friends in the world and like my mom keeps saying, they really make ME and what I'm all about. You can see a little bit of each of them in me. And that's why we're such good friends. We learn and educate one another to be a better person (so that one day, we can conquer the world!!!!)... I think I had more to say but I just blanked out.

lol my brother has that talking/singing fish (Big Mouth Billy Bass) song as his cell phone ringtone. The one that sounds like Elvis...

oh and I just signed onto MSN for the first time in over 1.5 years. I'm using the PC downstairs, that's why.

Thinking Thinking Thinking

This 16 year old has such a good voice. Conor Maynard.
Love these covers - wish the vids were better though.
Usher ft. will.i.am - OMG 
There are so many ways to love ya
Toni Braxton - Yesterday
(great song) you, you are so yesterday.. never thought you'd lose your love this way...
Mario - Crying Out For Me
crying out for you boy...

And When You Smile...

OK, who doesn't like this song? Heard this version on my brother's iPhone and love it.

Oh, and I chose this background 'cause it's of a cardboard robot. Perfect for this blog theme? Yes. (It was a decision between this and baby Cookie Monster). I like how it looks like it's in motion, too.

Conor Maynard + Anth - Just The Way You Are
(It doesn't sound half as good on this netbook as it did in the car... bad speaker quality)

BEST INVITATION EVER!

Refinery29 posted 12 creative invitations to New York Fashion Week 2010. This was my favourite, naturally

Just some others.. on bubble wrap

I thought this was a great idea - found on this great blog I found, Ruby Boutique. It's an invitation to fashion quarterly's 30th birthday (I believe they are based in New Zealand). Their ticket for entry was this chic leather bracelet!

Limited edition - only 250 were made for those invited to the bash.

A real nice keepsake, too

Wouldn't it be so much fun to be an invitation designer with a HUGE spending allowance?

Such a cute blouse - this Alexa Chung for Madewell one.

A Wednesday Post

Labour Day is now Lum Day. Went for lunch and bowling at The Zone in Coquitlam with all of my mom's side sans G-rents. It was really fun. The only pic I took is of Triton playing 5-pin w/ gutter blocks. I can't remember if this was his victory "yay" pose or if he ended every bowl with hands up like that.

Watched Little Women with my Auntie Anna and mom at the Granville Island Theatre. Amateur play, but quite well done. The main character, Jo, was super believable - made the audience laugh and cry and she had a nice voice - esp. this one duet w/ the dying sister whom she shared a special connection with. No pictures from that, though.


Waiting for my dad at his office. View from his window.

Taking calls... files everywhere

Had some old pictures of me around..

A few random pictures... my new polishes. I think both of them are from the new OPI Swiss collection. These are my holiday shades. Sparkly.

Oh the exciting shades I bring to the fitting room to try on...

Yeaaa that's about it. Lots of cleaning today. Laundry, cleaning out my closet, tidying my room. Gotta bake a cake for my family's dinner this Sat. Going to take pictures of the things I want to sell. Yoga again tmr. Artemis is back today ^^

Oh Hair...

Decided I'm aiming for something similar to this as my Fall hair colour (maybe a tinch darker). Wish me luck..

found on absolutelyoblivious

Just List

Oooooohhhhh just paid my Visa bill and I am very very poor.
Still need Dim Sum before I go (almost 1 month away!)



Thinking of other cost-no-dinero things to do...
Games + dessert night soon @ my place!
Well I have my hot yoga now (that I nearly die in) hopefully twice a week.

Must do some research on Sweden!
Badminton starting soon...
I think I've decided on a warm gray for my headboard... yea. with either muted gold/silver nail tacks.
But but... I like dark green too!!
Apparently this is a light and dark gray headboard, but all I see is green.

Hmmm printed... from decorpad.com

A cute little nook

You know, designer houses should make their own fabric that can be bought for headboards.. or they should just make some signature headboards. I have some ideas. They should hire me. Let's designer-ify rooms around the world. Let's take fashion into the home in other ways than distinctive boxes. 
Love the idea of the glass and metal tables. Would love something similar for my console+bedside tables.

Need to update my mp3 player before I leave, too.


Going to make a salad now.

Published.

This 4men- Baby Baby song is nice to listen to when you want to sleep. Apparently 2 of their members quit and joined the group Someday lol. Nice voices.

Waiting for my dad to get ready to leave to drive me to work this morning. For once, I was ready before he was!

Loving these cheap A+F super skinnies (possibly jeggings) I bought in the States last week. They're so perfectly stretchy - I feel that (if I were flexible enough) I could do the splits no problem! Also love the colour of my silk green scarf I picked up at a vintage store yesterday for $5. So Fall-like to me. Wearing this white blouse I decided I needed in Korea for the first time with just jeans... or actually for the first time ever... mainly because I didn't have the right nude bra.. but thanks to La Vie En Rose, now I sort of do! Good enough, I say.

Weird washed out colouring - the light was partially blocked by this full-length HEMNES Ikea mirror I thought would suit my room (but didn't really, so it's now leaning against the hallway railings for everyone to use.. because we don't have a full-length mirror in my house surprisingly).
Thinking of dying my hair a medium ash brown next. Bangs have grown so much. I need a trim badly. Hair so flat and fried... wow 3 posts today.

And... it's LIVE

The blog I was hired to write for is finally up and running. I'm having such a good time posting content.. can you believe this is my JOB?? 

Click here to see the blog.

Click here to see what the company is all about.

Illuminating

Celebrity Lamp:

"A light bulb surrounded by forty pairs of mirrored aviator sun glasses, which cast a kaleidoscope of shadows when the lamp is lit. This Celebrity Lamp may lack subtlety, but it makes up for it with countless opportunities to check yourself out."

My note: very stylish, but such a pain to windex...

I love this Halston Heritage Kimono Wrap Long Dress [$795 on Shopbop].  The beautiful leaf-like beading reminds me of a couple of super-shoulder-padded beaded dresses my mom needs to alter if she would ever wear it again.