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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Draft 110

I write this the way I write all my drafts (109 unposted thoughts or maybe just empty pages like the numerous notebooks I have lying around, their off white pages left blank and untouched) - aimless, convoluted yet strangely liberating. I love writing in this free haphazard fashion, mindlessly penning my thoughts into words. I have so many thoughts, racing from one idea to another like vintage sports cars racing through the sepia toned film of my tiny brain. I wish I had the courage to write down every silly thought I have ever had yet I am still unsure as to how I can translate my thoughts into coherent sentences. So for now, "Hello" and

"Good bye"

Mood Ring: Annoyed

"Why can't I paint sushi?"

Saturday, June 20, 2015

I take the worst photos

Is it weird that I find this strangely addictive?

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Huh?

He turned around and said sincerely

"Your bag is gay."

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Short stories with no beginning and no ending

She remained seated, her paint dried up, her four cigarette buds lying in their ashes listening to music she used to dub as "ghost songs". She watched the stillness of her paint brushes as they lay motionless in murky water. With one thought running in her mind "Do you think that writers are all sad or that all sad people write?"

What do you think?

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

My new favourite art page on Facebook: Berlin Art Parasites

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

It has almost been a year since I last blogged at this beautiful space. This space has been here for 7 years and it has been a pretty accurate depiction of V, my persona on this space. So much of this blog was a part of me and yet also a part of the fictional person I wanted society (or my friends) to perceive me to be. It appears that I (like many teenage girls at my age) had a more than slight obsession with food, love and body image. Whatever this space was, it was mine and it was real. So, at 21 years old (the great 21, the holy grail of cross roads between pubescent teen and adulthood), I look back at these posts the same way we all do with old diaries, cringing yet secretly thankful that this time has passed. I contemplated deleting certain blog entries or the entire blog as a whole, but I stopped and realised that at the end of the day: this blog was me. I WAS this crazy, ignorant, passionate youth who's very outdated blog still attracts 57 people a day and you know what? I am thankful for that. Thank you to whoever you are who has ever bothered to read this space. Your views brought me joy.

“Try as we might, we write what we write”

Monday, October 6, 2014

I need a cynical cleanse

comes in juice form

buy it here

Someone said..

"The world would be a better place if everyone could play a ukelele"

WELL

HOW

ABOUT

NO.

I think the world would be a better place if everyone chilled on weekends and worked decently on weekdays instead of being on the ball 24/7 and being crazy because the world isn't made of money, it isn't made of work or blackberries or blueberries or pink berries or iPhone bendies or being a 20 year old slacker who just spent 3 days doing absolutely nothing and feeling mighty guilty now.

whoops

heehee

Meet Porker (Yes I named my skateboard)

LOL

Saturday, October 4, 2014

5 Online Shopping Hacks That Will Change Your Life

Since everyone on the internet has started creating lists about life hacks/food hacks/hacksofhacks/heckalottahacks I thought I would jump on the band wagon and do a list of online shopping hacks. (hey, if you can't beat 'em join 'em.) I guarantee these hacks will save you MORE MONEY than any other hack list you've seen.

1. Use websites that give you money back

This ingenious idea is a form of advertising for websites and FREE MONEY for you, me and every online shopper reading this right now. In a nutshell, you sign up for websites like shopback.com and shop at all your regular stores (and when I say all, I really mean all e.g. Luxola, Rakuten, Zalora, FoodPanda, Quatar Airways and the list goes on) and get a percentage of cash back from all your purchases which you can use to buy other stuff....to get MORE stuff for..... Free....(!?!)

which is BASICALLY

To all the skeptics out there (aka people like me), this is some pretty legit stuff. I heard some guy saved $800 from one of these websites and he's used the savings to book tickets to Fiji.

2. Online Coupons

Coupons are your life. Preach it with me sister. You can get all your online coupons and promo codes over here. You could also look out for promo codes by following your style icons on instagram.

3. CLEAR YOUR CACHE/HISTORY (do it now...)

I cleared my cache and I saved $50 on my flight on sky scanner. I did not clear my cache and I paid $8 more for my penny board on rakuten.com.

#truestorybro

4. Save on shipping

We all know shipping is a pain in the.................................wallet. Please save your money and buy things from websites with free international shipping. Free shipping is a beautiful place. Alternatively, use package forwarding services like those discussed in detail here.

5. Price Comparison Engines

These websites compare prices and products FOR you. You get the cheapest deals on these websites and it's so easy! I recently used www.agoda.com to book my hotel in Bangkok and my booking was so. Unbelievably. Easy. I didn't even have to pay for anything at the hotel itself. It almost felt free..... Almost.

So what are you waiting for????

Let the shopping begin.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The things you find off the internet...

I'm going to try drinking 3 litres of water everyday for 28 days

Mangez bien, riez souvent, aimez beaucoup: "Eat well, laugh often, love abundantly."

I'm going to try leading the "French" Lifestyle or rather, savour my meals like how all my thin friends do. My best friend Kim can literally spend 2 hours eating a slice of carrot cake (crumb by crumb). No more, no butter, no sugar crap. Eating with my senses, here goes nothing.

Undated

A story from my journal, under a scattering of deep purple dried flower petals from a beautiful dead flower I picked off the ground on my walk home from school, lay a scrawl of bright blue ink piercing the pages and so blue it almost mimicked the gradients of the dark purple petals that covered it. Dusting the 6 petals to the crease of the binder, the story read:

The light smell of kimchi from her black lunch bag wafted through the air.

"I think I can smell your lunch," I said.

"I think it's the salad," she replied.

She placed her lunch bag on the floor. The smell disappeared. And so did she.

Under the story, a carefully printed unfinished plan wrote

4-5: go holland v.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Love at first kiss

Today, I pressed a single button on the electronic nescafe coffee making machine to produce three thick and aromatic cups of coffee. The machine worked it's magic and I stared enchanted by the jets of coffee shooting like brown pee into the small, white styrofoam cup, interchanging between jets of coffee and ending with a perfect layer of froth and somehow (magically it seemed) a sprinkling of cocoa powder over the frothy foam. My hands clutching the warm cup, I carefully put my mouth to the rim, afraid and excited. I open my mouth and took a tiny sip. It. Was. Heavenly. The soothing smell and the rich bitter taste filled my lungs with a warmth that touched the very core of my being. I was always more of a tea person but in that moment the intricate lacing of bitter coffee, smooth creamy milk and light fluffy foam, I finally understood the aromatic beauty of a cup of (cheap) delicious "home brewed" coffee.

"Coffee should be strong as hell, black as death and sweet as love"