Friday happys

Came across this cutest photo via a blog, couldn't resist to put on my own... hmmmm but looks lik it is not moving in my blog... :( boo

awww so happy just got it to work! yay


I love the kitty in this... xoxo

I am sure you would start clapping too

the men who won the title for being the 'fastest' clapper? in the world, quite cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAzsc6hP9zc&feature=player_embedded

sometimes you thought you have done enough

but to find out later no matter how much prevention you have done, it might still happen.

I was woken up by my mum's angry screaming today as she thought Muffie being extremely naughty by refusing to come out of the kitty litter...
I was alarmed as soon as I heard all the information from what I could collect bits and pieces from her over-the-top hysteric complaints about how much she does for me and Muffie and how she kept pushing him out of the kitty litter but he kept on going back....
Persians especially male neutered Persians are very prone to UTI and when it is left untreated, can cause many serious life threatening cases....
So I cleaned up his litter and stay with him the whole day, Poor Muffie was quite stressful, didn't do his favourite nap, walking around, kept going back to the toilet only to pass small amounts of urine. I tried to get him to drink water but he would just sniff then walk away.
I kept on calling all the vets in the hope one of them would open on Sundays but the only one I could found was the animal emergencies at Mt Waverley and it was charging $150 minimum. I was tossing all arvo if I should wait until tomorrow to take him to the cat clinic where he usually gets checked or get to the emergencies asap but they have no idea of his past history... Later in the arvo Muffie followed me to my room and slept for a few hours peacefully for the first time today, I then thought he might be alright since he stopped visiting the litter every 5 minutes, so I also went to work for a while.
By the time I got back home, mum told me Muffie has been going to the litter again while crying in pain. To my astonishment I saw his urine has blood in it, I had to rush him to the emergencies... it was extremely worrying. The emergency hospital is probably the most unpleasant vet there is as all animals went are seriously ill and require immediate attention.
I had to fight back my tears alot seeing poor pets in pain, Muffie was so restless and miawing non-stop. so I had to sit next to him and kept on patting him to make him feel a bit more secured.
After about 1.5hr of waiting, the vet finally checked him and obviously he has FLUTD (which is like humans' UTI) the good thing is because he could still pass urine so this means the crystals (if there is any) has not blocked his urethra.... she didn't want to give him any treatment other than one injection to relieve his pain as Muffie hasn't been eating so no point... (I hate this because pets unlike humans know sometimes it is necessary to eat bitter medicine or forcing oneself to drink alot of water so we can get better, he just doesn't want to eat or drink because he feel sick and I can't even make him!)
I have to wait until tomorrow and take him to the Cat Clinic and do a thoroughly check up.
At least I know Muffie's conditions is not critical and hopefully the injection has made him felt better....
I was thinking what I would do if Muffie was seriously ill, I felt so bad that I was out late Friday and yesterday.... there was so much "i should have" but really I could not really prevent this from happening as Persians male cats are more prone to get it more than any others... I tried to give him the best cat food, regular check ups, making sure plenty fresh water around... Still he got it at the age of 3!! I suppose I should have changed the kitty litter much more often... my poor darling I was bashing myself the whole day...
I know how painful FLUTD can be, and I wish I could have taken the pain for him... I wish him be better as soon as possible... he is like my baby and I don't want him to suffer from anything. xoxox

I know i am a mean mummy making fun of you, please get better darling muffie!!

"I love beauty... it is not my fault"... Valentino

Had a very quiet weekend.
oh my, how long has it been since I drop a note here...
I feel the same thought when I looked at my unbelievably messy room.. I think I am seriously considering paying someone to clean my room properly because i will described it 'disgraceful' right now...
To my defence, 90% of messiness were from my clothes and it is all due to the lack of wardrobe space...
Anyway, I didn't end up doing much this weekend other than caught two movies... which is a good break from the usual actions/plans packed weekendd. Watch Surrogate on Friday and didn't like it very much... interesting idea though.



Watched Valentino, the last Emperor today. I love love loved this movie!



Valentino is not a brand that has been extremely popular especially in the recent years IMO, while Karl Lagerfield takes Chanel to the next level by giving a twist on its classic tweed suits as well as elaborating bags/shoes collection, Valentino has remained rather unfazed with the fashion trend changes and insisted on making something he believes in... timeless beauty in classic designs. He wants to make women beautiful. That is his sole goal.



I think the movie is a documentary for a couple of his last collections, mainly haute couture as that is probably his main focus. The dresses showed in this movie are breathtakingly beautiful. They are exquisite made, almost all hand sewn by experienced seamstresses over long hours. Valentino joked that he bought one sewing machine for 100 of the ladies and still no one used it. I see delicate fabrics got patterend and sewn together, going through sessions of fittings and emerged beautiful garments... almost like a piece of artwork. I cannot really describe how moving I felt seeing these amazingly gowns being made. They are truly timeless and does not follow trend. I do admit I am a big sucker for romanticism and Valentino's designs are right up there for me... Admittedly I never bother to check out his collections as I used to dismiss them being too mature. however after watching this movie, I see a man who holds such a strong view and vision on what he believes in. It is indeed beautiful.



On another note, it is interesting to see the interactions of Valentino and his long time business partner/lover of over 45 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. It is amazing how long they have been together even just from lover point of view. Giammetti seemed like a very charming man, while Valentino takes on the design part, we see Giammetti looks after pretty much every other aspect of the brand. He was asked repeatedly in the movie about whether he is happy to be Valentino's shadow and has gracefully answer them with pride about helping on the side. Both Valentino and Giammetti were always dressed in immuclate tailored suits and perfect hair in every scene of the movei. They sure know how to dress impeccable at every occasion. Valentino might have been portrayed as someone who has great ego and at times very difficult to deal with, however Giammetti has been able to calm him down and comforted Valentino's insecurities.



Hm.... I just realised somehow I have been typing this like an essay. Overall, it was a very enjoyable movie, I was teary at some scenes on how beautiful those gowns are. It is quite sad to see not all great designers are great businessmen, considering after Valentino's retirements and its not so successful collections thereafter, the future of the brand Valentino remained uncertain. His retirement certainly marked ther end of an era. I have recently also watched September Issue and loved it heaps also! I am so happy there are quite a few fashion house/mag documentaries around. They are so fascinating..

....

The direction you take in life is influenced by not knowing what lies ahead of you. Sometimes knowing what to expect can hold you back; but most of the time, not knowing where you’re heading can drive you further in life, love, and the universe.

from http://kissesandpunches.wordpress.com/

a cutie quotie made me smile

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

randoms

perfect to start with Muffie sleeping on my bed, he slept though the whole Sunday. I am amazed he doesn't get tired sleeping.

My first buy of Diptyque candle, caved in @ Belinda. Chene oozes a rich oak aroma, warming for the cold days, but I saw today @ GWE another Diptyque Lavender w something else, and it smelled absolutely divine....

my lovely KW leatherette jacket, so happy i tracked down a sz4! they fit like a glove.

The Givenchy e/s palette, I think it is the holiday edition, loving all the little silver beads, they move as you tilt them around.

Nine pretty brown e/s which i don't think I will be using, should try to sell it because no point me keeping them and not use it...

Err... purchase from US from the Friends/Family sale. Really cheap compre to Aussie prices, so stocked up some brushes

Uni!! Love love luuuuuv them!! all the way from Tassie, give me them anytime anywhere of the week and I would happy eating them and nothing else!

I think it is lightly grilled kinfish fin? oily part with spring onion. melts in your mouth.

Lightly grilled Scallop, beautiful and tasted wonderfully fresh.

Sashimi entree: the pink ones on top are Toro! and my Fav ika.

another quick recap

So it has been nearly 3 weeks since I last updated something.

Sunday night as usual with Muffie sleeping next to me.

The only different is that my dear baby is @ Bangalow India for work, he woud not return until next week and it is weird to have to spent weekends without his presenance.

I do think i am doing better this time in comparision to his trip to Las Vagas. I guess it is because i know he is there working hard not partying non-stop. I have had a really busy week at work, I pretty much past out after I got home so that leaves me little time to think about. I miss my baby bad though.

I actually managed to have a very relaxing weekend, one of the first that I do not start to get stressed about Monday during Sunday. I do have a long list of things to do tomorrow. I am glad I finally discussed different matters to different ppl that are related. it made me realised things I was too busy to notice and I was faced some facts i would need to deal with. I do appreciate everyone's feedback as I strive to improve at what I do and contributee more at my job.

Well onto the more interesting stuff: New shoes for the week:

The black patent croc pair are extremely high and so difficult to walk, I had dinner with Soc on the night I first wore it, I swore I was walking like a cripple and that just didn't look good at all... =.=!! regardless I love this pair alot because it is height!! i don't need to walk that much in the office anyway...

I also recieved my ASOS order which the main thing was this Marc by Marc Jacobs avitor sunnies, bought it on sale! bargin!! I actually really like the style of avitors and I am glad my face is rather suited for this sort of frame. The sunnies is a tiny weeny big for my face but it is so light I don't think anyone notices except me.

Asking Muffie to modelled for me, my good boy always let me make fun of him, he has this 2 minutes tolerance timeframe to which in this two minutes he would patiently let me do whatever outragerous stuff on him while not move a thing. But once the time frame is past he would get really annoyed and started to paw me.... i guess by the time I put on chloe on him it was kind over the 2 minutes lol.

I do want to post more photos but this super slow connection is killing me. it is so slow and this stupid windows message kept popping up just annoys the shit out of me! Damn!! SO i am going to try to read those magazines that have been piling up beside my bed before falling to sleep.

nighty night. :)

random photos of us

kinda drunk already

obviously already tipsy with my wine in hand lol

my staple bag

I wonder why i didn't buy this sooner,

perfect size for everday and the calf leather is just divine...

drop me off to the fairyland

so.... it has been a long while since I post anything here.

i don't know.... my life has been so busy I just don't have the energy writing up anything when I get home late at night

a couple weeks ago I went back to my old blog @ youthwant and read them all over again

I was amazed at my great chinese writing lol

and realising it is really great recording something in my life because I honestly won't remember in the next month

Anyway, work has been extremely busy these weeks while reaching some sort of stress peak this week. I have been doing alot of thinking and I wonder if it is because my personality or am I really not able to be better organised with my workload.

I was so stressed early this week I couldn't eat and couldn't sleep properly... sometimes I even thought I was about to have an anxiety attack. Of course I learnt to keep my mouth shut in the office, I mean this is not an easy topic to speak to anyone about. And honestly I am not sure if anyone can really understand how I feel. Not that they are expected to.

There was even a point that I wonder why am I doing all these and getting all stressed for? I can just quit and do my share trading earning a bit on the side, further my studies while work on a carefree job.... one job that i would not care more than my personal life. Just a stress free job and get paid on time. I don't know what I am holding on right now.

Enough of the rant, daddy is back to Ozland and I have hardly seen him. Tonight I managed to arrive home before he gone back to his bedroom however not much conversation was exchanged. Perhaps I was/am feeling a bit down also. I somehow ended up wondering in NAP and bought the below which is an absolute bargin as these are going for over 700 in Australia. What happens to the beautiful patent black Chanel glasses with pearls on the side then...?

I was also eyeing this beautiful crystal beads necklance but after all ACB sounds like a new brand from US and I guess i can get something similar here so I past it on.

The urge of shopping kinda of haunt me all night tonight for some unknown reason. I should really get off my laptop before doing anymore damage.... Having said that I bought a lovely tibi dress a while ago but ended up return it as it was too big for me. However now i look at the photo i thought it might be okie. the 60s necklane is just so cute. oh well.

current mood

I am going mad!

as we get older

there is so much to do
but so little time...

a few good things

When I travel, I tend to eat alot of stuff, but what comes back with me would be these:




I LOVE YSL

grabbing that last free moment

okie.... 1.30am in the morning of the sunday night, I have drown down two glasses of sav blanc.... (or 2.5 or.... 3? oh well who is counting) I was contemplation whether I should stop by work tonight after being dropped off from baby's house. But my stomache was so bad I spend a couple hours recovering and by the time I felt better, it was already 10pm...

So let's see, I had a rather relaxing weekend with Friday finished early at 3pm. Took my mum and baby to watch Cirque Du Solei's DRALION.... was supposed to take daddy but he had to fly home last week, such a shame becuase I know he would love something like this. The tickets are very pricy and it was certinaly very good value for money. We had a great time, the perforamance was breathtaking. I was very stressed during the day for no reason, perhaps there was alot on at work and I knew I had to leave early therefore I was stressed to the max.... but I decided not to think too much about work since I am taking my mum to see this show. We then had a good dinner at Kobe Jones @ Docklands. It has very good views to the bay. Didn't love the food though.

I have been craving for yum cha for as long as I could remember. The last time I had yumcha was not long after Christmas at this shabby place @ Blackburn. The food were quite disappointing hence I have been wanted to have 'good' yum cha. it is times like this I have to really thank my baby for tolerating and spoil me for what I want. He is happy to eat pho from home but I instisted him takinng me to Golden Dragon today knowning they are fully booked and insisted on waiting for a good half an hour before we were given a table. The food were as good as I wanted, I had all my yumcha fix, the chicken feet, pork spare ribs and TOFUHUA my favourite! Baby sat there watching me destoying the food with such understanding smile... you just gotta love the guy.. lol. I certainly got punished later on from a stomache as the food from yumcha are way too oily for what I can handle... :( I loved the food, I ate the food and I guess I had to endure the pain these food would brouhght. I dont care, I love yumcha.

So... I guess I can't complain my weekend... although again I cannot stop thinking about work, I am really rather lost now as I don't know why I have been so stressed over work even at my own private time. Don't they say you should just shut out everything when you step out of the office? I simply cannot do that and frankly I am pretty tired of all of these. I pride myself for able to deal pressures at work however being sat in the dark for the last couple years, I emotionally am feeling rather exhausted... no doubt these are the tests god put me through and want me to be stronger. Sometimes I cannot help but wonder if what I am doing is really what I should be doing. I have taken such different path compare to most people at my age because of the situation I have been in. I do no complain, as a matter of fact I appreciate the hurdles I have to overcome as they make me to appreciate and push me to learn and adopt my surrounding environment. I become more confident and smart on how to do things. However at the end of the day, there is still this ruler in my heart and if I can't really mesure up I know I am not doing the right thing no matter how much I have been trying to convince myself....

I am jsut exhausted....

Neverthless, one of the reason of this blog is to really let this out and hopefully gives me the courage and energy facing another day.

I guess I will finish my entry with the lovely lunch I had with baby celebrating our 3 years @ The Bontonical back in Feb 09. The food were quite nice, but I got way too full before the main course. We had amazing 1.5 dozen of oysters from all over Australia. They are just wonderful, not those you can buy from the markets. These ones are so detailed noted on their origin and so fresh!

The pavalova desert we had, with sobert and all

Us, happy bday and happy 3 years anniversary baby!

the old fashion way.. clicky clicky

Spot this polarid progrem on the polarid webiste, I love polarids, there is an old world, retro charm about polarids. I had the very old one and the sticker ones that were sold for $29.95 about 10 years ago. Recently I bought a fujifilm one which I quite like, however the films cost alot and you can't take photos as sprangly as your digital camera.

With this progrem, you can convert your digital photos into polarids, it even has that special over expose, slightly greeny photo effects. Loving it!



This is me and Muffie, he was very unhappy abt this particular photographic session.


Super delicious baked eggs from Madam Sousou, one of our favourite breakfast spot @ Brunswick street.

Me with glasses.



Love this photo of Muffie, taken on my bed. focus on his paws. Super adorable.

Last but not least, another favourite of mine, love the over exposed color in this photo and Muffie's eyes still shine through.

these red picks me up from blue to happy moode

nailpolish: Shu Uemura jelly red, have to put quite a few layers
color looks better in the bottle, still cute


randome pix of my made-up face, definitely not good enough. I thought I have done alot on my eyes but just doesn't show when I take photos. Blue top by Dsquared from a Jap shop in QV. It has really cute balloon sleeves but can't see in this pix.

is it really 3am already?

I am so tired.... really exhausted but not sleepy...

thanks to the red bull I had about 8pm

Have been going home from work at the decent time this week

but I can no longer push away the piles on my desk

I will be drown soon if I don't go through them

So I did,

until 1.30am tonight

Those things aren't even very important or difficulat

but just takes so much time to sort them, attend the ones required etc

I have to do this though because I am leaving work early for Cique De Solei

So I really need to finish what I have to do this week.

Can you believe it will be weekend soon again?

I have been in whole lot of jumbles re work these days

I don't know....

Sometimes i envy those ppl who have so much time on their hands

whereas me.... probably spend 70% of my weekend thinking about work still

how sad is that.

I want to appreciate the sky and take time to enjoy the surrounding as well

now i can only take a few pictures when I get out of the office.

I wonder...

does it make you an alcoholic when you feel like a glass or wine after work.
and you drink alone at home... but just one glass! or two but not more than 3....??

me after a few drinks by myself on a random night. Taken with my super blurry camera from Eeepc...

AW09 de lovely

Lovely present from my baby for my bday last year, I received a beautiful patent wine colored wallet but decided to return it because finger prints get on the wallet so easily and it was a bit small than what I wanted. I have been visited Chanel ever since then until I found this beautiful baby. It is in the most beautiful lamb leather, so soft and smells so gooood!

Not so productive Sunday

I woke up this morning about 11am from my phone alarm and snoozed all the way to 2pm until baby dropped by my house from his bike ride.

I was feeling bad that I seemed to waste the whole morning again however that doesn't stop me from wasting the afternoon laying in bed and watch 30rock straight through to 5pm....

I really enjoy such lazy sunday although I can't deny work is always at the back of my head. And it makes worse that I have not really checked into my work email or accounts since last Thursday. Is this what you call Workholics?

I finally decided to start this blog again after numerous trials I would not be able to confirm how far I can continue this but I would like to try. I did so many things in the last few years and I can't really remember much, I stopped taking photos when I go out also so I don't even have anything to refer back to. And I don't want that...

Oh well... only if I can work how to work out this photos things. Looks like I can only upload one photo at the time? if that is the case. Let it be this one today. Actually I just found out I can upload mutiple ones at the same time but somehow I can't really edit the photos or re-upload. This is driving me nuts!

still the cutest even being naughty