Pre-Christmas

I check the weather where you are, wondering if you can see the stars...

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I buy my own rocks.
Well...bags at least. Not gonna wait for no guy to buy me presents! I thought since I'm in the UK I might as well splurge on something from a British brand...This is my Christmas gift to myself: the white Burberry Baby Beaton.


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"The one thing you learn when you leave college is that you're immediately obsolete, you have to keep on learning..."
- John Maeda, the new RISD president:
http://www.risd.edu/president/maeda.html
He looks awesome. Geeks are the coolest!

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Ministry of Sound
There has only ever been one period when I enjoyed house music: back in junior high when Gatecrasher CDs were in. 10 years later, I see mixes of the same old songs being advertised, the so called "dance classics". I'd pick hip hop over house any day. I also pick lounges (where I can sit in my 4" heels) over clubs any day. At MOS I was clutching onto my bottle of water for my life! Thankfully, the people I went with were fun, which made up for being in the sweaty warehouse all night. Oh and it was DJ Sasha playing, house fans please don't be angry with me, but I couldn't even tell the difference when he came on...

That's not cigarette smoke by the way (thank god they banned smoking otherwise I wouldn't have lasted 10mins in there).


Lets see who can get the best laser pic...


Hotness!








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If you wanna freeze your arms and legs off, go on the spinning ride at Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland


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I just found my favorite London spot: Sketch. It's 3 restaurants, a bar and a day-time cafe in one venue. They also have the best website I've ever seen for a restaurant/bar. I know it's wrong to judge restaurants by their website but as a graphic designer I refuse to go to a place with bad typography! I'm so happy I finally found a place I like in London! It's so Wonderland.

At The Parlour (the cafe). They have these artsy-fartsy objects and the cutest cakes.












Why would you take a picture in the bathroom..unless it looks like this: you go in egg pods! So kitschy but I like.




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I can't wait to go to Auckland! Thanks Adrian for organizing the Taupo Bay trip!

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I still dream of Dec 2002. It's blurry now but it's always going to be there.
I heard that after you turn 21, your life just flies by. I'm certainly starting to feel that.
Passers by and acquaintances think that my life is full of pretty pictures, but I've fallen too.

People that have hurt me, I don't care whether intentionally or unintentionally: I'm not afraid to say Fuck you and you will go to hell.

The next year is going to be productive. Youth can't be used as an excuse.

Mom says "Nothing is for certain unless you have control over it."
Mom says "If the sky falls, use it as a blanket."

Time, I don't need you to wait for me, I'll just meet you there.
World, happy holidays.
Sunrise, sunset, see you in 2008.

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Edit:
I don't know what triggered it. Recently, I've been having dreams of you. In all these years, I've been trying to live happily alone, thinking: so what if I don't have the one I love, I have my career...
Tell me how to get over you.
Heart, time to come back.

Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas
Je vois la vie en rose..