My Body is a Diary

Work
Work is piling by the day. I really want to just want to get away for a day.
I'll be in China from August 2 to 11th.

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Furniture
I've been gawking at things that I like but I can't have right now because I can't settle down. The idea of settling down so I can go furniture shopping is so appealing right now. Furniture like these:

Paddy by Nick Melville from Glimpse Online

Item description
‘Paddy’ is a comfy upholstered chair with the theme of a padded cell. The enclosed shape offers an experience of safety and security, and provides sanctuary from the rapid pace and noise of everyday life. It’s large enough to fit two people so you can share with a friend.
Price £3,235.42
Wanna come and be insane with me?

Gramophone Chandelier by Jericho Hands

Item description
A huge globe of Gramophone horns forms a stunning chandelier with the real 'wow' factor. As featured in The Sunday Times 'Style Section.' Available to order to any specific size.
Price £2,800.00

And for when I have a garden: the bathtub chair from Reestore

Price: £2,400

Sigh...

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I went to a local art gallery opening with Hilda today (no photos...). It was hard to break the ice because I don't speak Cantonese. It looks like HK is split up into two main social groups: the expats and the locals. And it's really hard to get the two to appreciate eachother and to learn from eachother. Not knowing is one thing, not interested is another. Now how do we get people to be interested in one another?

Who ever said art is a universal language is a fool.

I want to meet more locals.

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-Andy Warhol.



This was taken at...(name to be added as soon as I find out). Great live jazz. I'm wearing my leather flower headband as a bracelet, loooove that thing.






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At Knutsford Terrace.

He's leaving...


With Gigi, from high school back in Auckland. Soon to be lawyer. She's so cool :P *blush.












This is what I would look like in finance.


Seriously...


Dress is Alice + Olivia.

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New favorites:


Clara Luzia, from Vienna. Haven't heard anything this good in a while (listen on her myspace page).

Morninglight:


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The Kills, Last Day of Magic. This is what love means to me.


Cavalry come
Cavalry go
Cavalry leave me alone
A little serenade, oh
A little cup of cane, oh
Last day of magic
Where were you?

I don't want heart, I want soul

Update: What the hell? "Batman star Christian bailed". London. He was arrested after his own mother and sister accuses him of assault? Hmm...

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At Osage gallery in Kwun Tong with Hilda, for the Women's Work opening. This is one of coolest places I've been to in HK so far. It's inside a revitalized factory space. I love everything about it, from the freight elevator to the large dramatic space and the industrial feel. Plus there was free food and wine, and not nachos and shit, like roast ham, risotto and mini burgers.



The way overused Porcelain font from (the so awesome) misprintedtype.com. Stylized fonts become outdated so quickly. This is what I mean when I say HK is a little bit lagging. I used this font too...in 2006 :(
















Yup I'm wearing a men's shirt. Got it last week and I've been wearing every other day.


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Best movie I've seen in a long time. Heath Ledger is so brilliant. (And I'm glad Maggie Gyllenhaal replaced Katie Holmes). Go see it!


Dries Van Noten dress. Can't stop admiring how the flames from the poster matches those flowers on her dress...

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Recent shoe purchases:





This whole living next to one of the best malls in HK thing isn't doing me much good. I should move far far away...but since HK is one big shopping haven, that's going to difficult.

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Starting today, I'm saving my money... to buy a better camera...

Blue blue heart

N*style magazine website:
http://www.nstyle.pt
Print is fading. But damn this makes me wanna start a magazine. You really gotta make print and web work together now. I wish they had an English version. I don't know any Portuguese.

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Crap my eyesight is getting worse by the day. I think I'm almost blind in one eye.

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"Find us down on memory street. How long since you've been gone? (Already gone) Like some forgotten dream, pinned to my blue, blue heart (Already gone).
Something quite extraordinary - I don't feel a thing at all. People come for miles to see the girl with the blue, blue heart."
— Bic Runga

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Hi to all those people that have come and gone so far. I remember each of you.

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I'm starting to really enjoy this city. I still feel alone but I notice that I'm smiling a lot more. Nothing's permanent, I agree. But I wouldn't mind it lasting a little longer than before. Hong Kong is lacking in so many things that I love but that doesn't mean I can't be happy here. I am lacking so in so many things that I love, that doesn't mean...anything.

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This was at Gecko Lounge.. on a Wednesday.













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And I found an art supply store near where I live. Mmm... the smell of Winsor & Newton. I am finally going to start painting again.

Pictures

I finally bought a new computer, Macbook Pro. And it's really nice.

I was transferring all my files to the new computer and spent some time looking through my iPhoto albums. 12,517 photos in the past 5 years. I was really lost for a moment. It's like meeting myself over and over and over again. All the goodbyes, the leather smiles, the "happy birthday"s, the real friends, the others, the unforgettable starts, the blinding successes, the shivering dreams, the scorpion relationships... Hello. That was once me.

It's such a strange feeling. It's like passing that corner, corners that changed me. There are so many conclusions I'd like to extend. Clinging. Wearing. Settling.

Go past that corner and I'm in another world.

Hello.