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Half-awake

Every night, my head swims with a million thoughts before drifting off. What I’ll be doing tomorrow… What I should be doing tomorrow… It’s a mind-consuming, almost never-ending hodgepodge of ideas and images and moods and deadlines, which I try so hard to capture in one last snapshot before sleep takes over. I really should [...]

Vintage paper dolls

Whilst nosing around the internet for some inspiration and launching a search for “vintage paper,” I came across these lovelies…
This one looks as though it came right out of the pages of a ’60s sewing manual…

…she even has a male counterpart, how cute!

I kind of wonder how it must have been like to get all [...]

Twenty-seven

My older friends will kill me for saying this–but for the first time in my life, I feel older than ever! So. Being a bit past my quarter life now, I can no longer say I’m still in my “mid-twenties”… Well, last year was the last year for being that, in my book. Haha.
Took a [...]

Rainbow connection

The weekend was quite calm, with a slightly somber note. Saturday was spent mostly with family in celebration of the Chinese New Year (for the first time in a looong time I enjoyed just being with my fam at home); while Sunday was spent mostly in bed due to a bad case of migraine…
But B [...]

Crisp, black, white

My first rendezvous with black and white came about the same time I first laid eyes on impeccably tailored clothes.
It was around the mid-’90s–local fashion was defined by a few designers and an even smaller number of glossies (just two, I think). My mom loved dropping by the department store of the then-new SM Megamall, [...]