I Don't Know...Maybe...

"...falling petals, like falling tears, they exist only for a split second but they stay for a much longer time, don't they?.."

I've been listening to a lot of Indie music lately. I've always loved Indie music, but just that lately its been constant. It's good stuff. Doesn't make me wanna pull my hair out hehehe...the drums, the guitar, the soft but

gruff/rough angst ridden voice and the overall feel that says "f*** the world!"...I think I'm turning into a hipster =\ you guys reckon it's good thing or bad?

But I think I can see myself as one. Despite the fact that I'm typing away - a mindless corporate drone. I'm such a tragic contradiction *sigh*.  Frustrating. But I guess that's part of being a hipster? Or was that part of

being an artiste? You know, the strugglin', tortured soul type? Gahhhh!

I've just finished my coffee. Staring at my empty paper coffee cup. Lana Del Rey playing in my head..."Let's take Jesus off the dashboard, got enough on his mind..." Just a start to another Wednesday (how do you spell Wednesday?? - looks awfully wrong to me...)

xoxo

Come Away With Me...

Why do I like it so much?

The idea of floating up into the stars?

Maybe it really will be as nice up there,

How the world sees it from down here...

I have thoughts on falling,

From way up there where the air is thin,

But then why not whence one has touched the heavens?

Maybe I'll find a star to hang on to...

And when I do,

Maybe you would want to hold on to me too?

We can soar the straits of the universe,

Your hand in mine, mine in yours...

I can already feel the solar winds,

I can already feel your heartbeat against mine,

Does it not feel absolutely right?

Heavens and our hearts exploding bright...

xoxo

PS : Yes, I kinduh feel funny inside...

3 people, 30 wings...

...sometimes the things that go bump in the night are a comfort...

Yeap you read it right - 3 people 30 wings. That was what me and my friends had to endure tonight. Ok, so it was not so much an endurement as opposed to an enjoyment hehehe :p I mean c'mon, it's eating chicken wings! It's never gonna be bad. Of course unless you somehow get a bad (I mean, bad!!) plate of wings... *shudders*

Anyways, I think we did pretty well. We finished 27 out of the 30 wings that was brought to us. At first we didn't think it would be anything. Hooters in Singapore had 5 different flavors of wings and we were very (very!!) gung ho to try all of em. And no, we didnt think of 1 flavor each wing for each of us - we went like, "Ummm, can we have  wings for each flavor please?" It had been a long day for all of us, wings seems like a very nice comfort :p It really hit us once they all came. They came in 6 diff plates, 5 in each. The table all of a sudden looked too small and somehow it seemed as if all eyes were on us (gulp!). Weeelll, the awkwardness only lasted like for a couple of seconds. Haha.

I have to tell you that we did not only have wings. I mean, we had beer (I had like 5 pints or so), umm, mashed potatoes, just to stir things up (yeah, we were such bad-ass! mash potatoes on a Thursday night!) and my one friend decided she wanted to eat the waffles with ice cream! So between the 3 of us, managing to finish 27 chicken wings within a couple of hours is nothing short of an achievement! (cue the applause!).

It's always easy and nice when you have good company. Yeah yeah, I know most of you are gonna just glance past this thinking that it's nothin'! Plenty of people have eaten much much more. But I think, we think it was really awesome. Yes, we wont be eating much chicken wings for awhile but you know, we'd never trade it for salad and twiggly celery :p

Now I'm back home - night is still early but what's a girl to do? Work comes beckoning in the morn. If it was the weekend, I'd probably hop into the nearest club to dance the wings off but reality needs me to be

responsible (blerghhh...). 

I'm so f***in full but I am feelin' good. We had good music, good food and good company. There's never a better way to shake off a shitty work day :) Ok, I'm gonna go try to get some sleep now. Much to do tomorrow!!

xoxo

Skin

Oh Boy...

"...You can feel like a part of something if you're part of the scene

You can make your life look pretty add a little ice and gin,

Wash off the make-up and prepare the aspirin

Well you can get out of this party dress but you can't get out of this skin..."

xoxo

Skye's Day Out : Art Museum

...never mind what the others say, it's only important what the wind whispers...

The other day, I went to the museum...

I saw a painting of Hitler being sort of kind...and I pondered...

I loved the floors, the way words sort of flew into the air, how broken pots stuck together in golden glue and that clothes aren't always typically simple...

I sat looking at words flip...it was nice...

There was wrinkled tin foil that reminded me of cola and a man made out of ash that told me that anything is possible...

Then I stumbled upon a majestic horse. It was made out of film reels. I felt like a movie star...I think it neighed...

I got to go to church before meeting some strange looking strangers....and the writings on the wall told me to dream...'ol Buddha agreed...

I met a lonely sailor adrift on a sea of broken chalk...I sort of envied him (also, I was a little creeped out =\)

I discovered that I love how shadows and light play well together in the dark and that the grass  is green - no matter where you stand ;)

Book #1 : Cloud Atlas

"A half read book is a half finished love affair..."

-Cloud Atlas ; Letters to Zedelghem-

Cloud Atlas - hmmmm...let's see. My attention was brought to this book when I first saw the trailer for the movie back in late October 2012. You guys know how Hollywood big budgeted movies are like - their trailers are superb and leaves you wanting more. And that's exactly what it did to me. I wanted to watch the movie badly but (yes, there is a but...) since it was an adaptation of a novel, I told myself, "Skye, screw the movie for a bit and lets get lost between the pages of the book 1st!" ...yeah, I did not literally scream that out at myself. But it sort of did sound like it in me head =\

I don't know if it's just me but, it seemed as if the book was a little bit of a let down. It should just be me, I mean, it's a best seller, which means a lot of people liked it =\ But having an idea of what this book was supposed to be about and then reading it and realizing it's not all that, is not a very nice feeling. Maybe I should not have put so much anticipation on it.

It wasn't as if it was yucky or anything. The concept I still very much liked. The notion of reincarnations and how our actions now, at this very moment has a rippling effect into the future or the past for that matter. If you ask me, I say, yes that seems logical. It might just be the optimistic romantic in me that strives to believe in such things, but why not? So that portion of the story I loved but the construct...hmmm...maybe I did not concentrate as much as I should have. Maybe there are bits and pieces of the plot that I had missed...it just seemed like there were no beginning nor end and so, no middle at that (yes I'm super making sense, I know!). But maybe that what was David Mitchell was aiming for - to show that in a linear life (or lives), one that seemed like there are no crests nor troughs, there is still significance. And it might not be apparent to those living in the same timeline but in a bigger scale of things, everything and everyone is interconnected. Now see, that is something good to go to sleep thinking about (among other things ahem.. :p)

So here I am, finished with Cloud Atlas and not too sure how I feel about the book. But I have a choice, we all always do, which is to take the good instead of the bad...no regrets though ;)

PS : Next up, Kim by Rudyard Kipling - so far the first chapter has proven quite an interesting read :)

PPS : Gonna go get myself the Cloud Atlas movie (finally) and see if the movie matches the trailer and surpasses the book :D

Burberry Prorsum Fall 2013

I have not been posting about the 2013 Fashion Week on time!! The party had moved to Milan and I'm only just beginning! Truth is I was following it but was just a little too pressed for time to blog about it. Well, here is a preview of one of my fav lines - Burberry Prorsum...

This season, Christopher Bailey is playing more on texture and patterns. It gives Burberry a nice freshness to it which I kinduh like and kinduh not like too. There are hits and misses (well for me at least...). Some of the designs that I love you can see it above. There were some where they were too plain and some that looked too much like farm animals. Maybe it's just me and my own taste :p

In any case, I still love the line. The bags are edgy and the coats are, as always, very Burberry-esq! Colors are demure and they pop at the same time. Am I making any sense? :p

PS : I'll try to post more on some of the lines that caught my eye this season. Dolce & Gabbana! Whoa! :p