lizzy's 30th bash @ McDonald's!

theme party @ McDonald's for my friend's big 30 Bash! The birthday chick said it was a THEME PARTY, dress up as any of the characters from Ronald McDonald and Friends.... and indeed i did... as Birdie (Early Bird). yes yes.. that annoying and hopeless bimbolic fat pink bird that can't fly. only to find out that... most of her colleagues did not bother to play along.... *blech*

Nonetheless, my colleagues at work were just as excited as I was... they helped with the get-up! and it resulted rather well.. i won....

BEST DRESSED AWARD!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

i made the golden arches brooch! Here with Lay Sie as Grimace (the purple frumpy dude) I always wonder if Grimace and Tinky Winky from Teletubbies are related, or similar representation from different country.

Amber and Elaine go all out for Hamburgler... Amber was the more glammed up one though... with her sequinned eye mask... 

naturally the food we had were... what do you think??? 

Food was cold and stale by the time we dug in... because of the games we HAVE to play to earn our dinner....

Here is me accepting the award for Best Dressed Award from the Birthday Girl!!!

Lizzy and her 2kg Birthday Burger Cake!!!

The girls and Lizzy :)

our goodie bag! 

i love this image of this cat... it was staring earnestly at the customers... for a good 10 mins...

i ♥ books! part III

my very very precious little find....

I chanced upon this on amazon one day.. and instantly, i bought it... at the moment... Price was not a problem.. and... indeed.. it was unbelievably affordable.... The condition of the book was also not important anymore.... it arrived to my friend's place in the states (where i had it shipped to), nicely packed. my friend opened it, just as i did eventually to find...

An aged book, a slightly torn spine, brown and stained pages and a penetrating smell of maturity.

Written by Romola Nijinsky, the wife of Vaslav Nijinsky. She wrote the biography of her late husband, Vaslav Nijinsky, the male classical ballet extraordinaire of Ballets Russes. He was probably the first male dancer to set the male dancer status on the performing stage, he was also the one who challenged the classical ballet vocabulary to new heights. He invented movements that caused a scandalous uproar in Paris Opera House in 1913's production of Le Sacre du Printemps.

This book is personal, written by the avid fan of his, the faithful caregiver in his final years and supporter throughout. Pictured here, the family of Nijinsky.

Published in 1934, this book braved the 2nd World War, across lands and seas, and it is now in my possession. :)

cost? i would say priceless...but it did came with a price, that was shocking to me...

it costs US$5.00, and US$3.00 for shipping. Barely US$10.00 in total. i do question and wonder the accuracy of this book, but it is the story of a man, written by his wife; it bound to have a slight amount of romanticized facts.

nevertheless... everytime I see this book, everytime I smell it's rustic age, I am thankful that 'one man's junk, is another man's treasure.'

ED's Mayerling on DVD!!!

AAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!

just received an email that EDWARD WATSON & MARA GALEAZZI'S MAYERLING is on dvd now!!!!

BUY BUY BUY!!!!

that will be my part of my birthday present for myself!!!

heehee!!!

Wheee!!!!!

the other part.. is of cos the air ticket to London this summer!!! WOOHOO!!!!!

paulsmith, royal ballet, h&m, cos, comptoir, marni, sketch, byron, yauatcha, strada, cath kidston, and much much more!!!! 

saving saving the poundies now!!!

a poem today...

London, we meet 

In Sketch, we dine 

Gather the lovebirds

True opulence we find

wrote this random poem to a friend in London, to gather one of our couple friends to meet at this fabulous place.

www.sketch.co.uk

ah blur + ah blah....

heehee... i bought these 2 little cuties last saturday... they have been amusing me ever since... i know it is not really nice to name them that, but i have to say, they are so adorably blur-looking, don't you think so? heehee.... this is elaine and I, after we bought de bunnies... heehee... they are really really cute...

开心餐＋爱心餐 ＝happie lunchie time!

my lunchbox for school!

this is just one of the example of an 爱心餐 (love meal), which i MADE it myself.. cooked and garnished... heehee... this little box contains, fried broccoli with white button mushrooms in thai oyster sauce, omelette with white onions, and japanese seasoning flavoured white rice. The 'hello kitty' spoon was a xmas gift in 2007 from one of my girlfriends... finally i took it out to be used...

it is always nice to have happie lunchboxes to cheer me up :) this is a Cath Kids lunchbox. it was for the Japanese market, hence the chopsticks.

more to come :)

i ♥ books! part II

yes yes... as i promised.. more about the books i owned... honestly i thought that this will be an excellent way of documenting which are books i have and i will not buy 'again'... i am such a history buff.. i have to say... gossips and scandals of the historian icons are always so interesting... hahahahaha

not to forget, i am also a fan of Death and Killing... they are just provoking to learn about these interesting minds.

and of course there are the lovie lovie ones... that i love.. :) i have a few others that were given to me by my girlfriends, but they are mainly in the boxes now...

and there were those random good reads...

i ♥ books! part I

i thought i should blog... i've been neglecting my blog and i feel that's rather heartless of me... anyway... i felt i HAD to blog... cos i have some much to share... yes yes.. the new books i have been... 'collecting' (erm... buying and spending money on... yeah yeah yeah... SHOPPING that's the word that i am trying to avoid)..
anyway... books are my weakness... i can't deny that... especially autobiography of individuals who... (for goodness' sake!) are dead! honestly, wh would ANYONE wanna read an autobiography of a person who is still alive, who could possibly alter what or how he or she wants the readers to perceive... true as well that it may also apply to someone, who is already dead, and the author could alter the facts and account... but... i just personally feel, there is so much more value in reading about a dead person than a person who is alive and kickin!
anyway... back to my list of books...
will start with the ones tat i bought from UK and Singapore... over the past year, and next post, i will share my new gem... yes yes... a gem indeed!!!!
so...
i got this 2 books from Royal Opera House Shop. which i readily spent 200pounds in the shop on books, program books, posters and dvds... it was so heavy lugging them around central london... got them during my very brief 3 days in London for a Dance education conference...
i am loving Jann Parry's A Different Drummer. wish i could see her one day to have the book autographed! it is an easy read, and a very humble insight to the genius mind of Kenneth Macmillan... I am halfway through...

Weird as I possibly am, i am intrigued with the scandals and gossips of historical figures... well... i am a dance history teacher, and i do have a thing for historical icons... and apart from studying these icons' involvement in history itself, i can't help it but to research on their social life. furthermore, i am an anatomy teacher too... good to know how the body evolved and blah blah blah.. enough said... i skimmed through bits of it... its really interesting on how Man perceive Man as a form of attraction magnet... and that.. it is considered a disgrace if Man do not surrender himself to vanity... and... there is a reason why the GYM is created, and it was purely for Man to 'beautify' themselves, and that they would have to do it... naked! hahahahaha so interesting! definitely learnt a lot there...

this is a fresh book... fresh because i just bought it about 2 hours ago... i started to read it and really like it... there were mention of Vaslav Nijinsky and Diaghilev (Both are big names of the Ballets Russes [1909-1929]). Well, let's face it.. i have an undying passion for Nijinsky, for his vision and his vanity and beauty.
apart from just that... the title speaks for itself... Igor Stravinsky and Coco Chanel. I understand that it is a novel, hence it may not be true, but, it is good to read the tale this author spins... it is rather lovely, i have to say, the description he paints in his words, does transport one to the glamourous 1910s-1920s!

Audrey Niffenegger had a new book in 2009. It will be my holiday read... which holiday, i have no idea.. but i will come to it... i bought it first, as there were some good deals at the book store...

i missed the film of Revolutionary Road. however i am always the fan of the book rather than the film. i never believe that film would do the book justice... honestly.... bought these books and will touch them soon...

this was one book that i wish i have, and i will only want it if it is autographed... and it must be fate! i had 2 friends holidaying in Melbourne in the recent December holidays. and i begged one of them to get this book.. and have it autographed. and he did!! Whoo Hoo!!! thank you thank you, and you know who you are!!!! Another girlfriend of mine, thought that i would like this book, and bought it for me for xmas, not knowing that i have made arrangement with my friend in Melbourne.. heehee.. and yes.. now i own two of them!!! and i ain't complaining!!!