My colleague thoughtfully sent me this, knowing I have tattoos on the brain at the moment. Simply beautiful. That script!
Oh, I really want the word, “Sing”. Hopefully it’ll remind me to always sing, since that never fails to make me feel better.
(calligraphy by the amazing Neither Snow ; photography by Samuel Gatlyn ; tattoo by Ace Custom Tattoos)
Juvet Landscape Hotel is set in the stunning Valldølla river valley, near the village of Gudbrandsjuvet, five hours’ drive from Oslo.
How amazing would it be to spend a week just relaxing, drinking hot tea, and staring out the window of this place?
(via PSFK)
Liam turned 1, and gave me a great excuse to get together with my girls, Joey and Shawna. We’ve been through so much shit in the past 3 years together, highs and lows, weddings and resignations and births (!) and lunchtime jaunts and more. I miss getting to see them every work day. Sigh.
Now I am so happy to watch Mason and Liam grow up. I see so much of their mommies in them.
We had high tea to celebrate Mother’s Day with M’s family, and it was just good family time. Stuffed with sweets and sandwiches, we stayed for four hours before dragging our lazy butts into the afternoon heat.
Kilo at PACT is one of my favourite places to eat. Such great flavours. The Thai pork and egg salad, spicy salmon and tuna cubes, Mentaiko spaghetti, and Salmon sushiro make me super happy.
Hungry post-workout one day, we went to Plaza Singapura’s Nijin Nabe for some steamboat action. The soup is a collagen pork-bone base, and the set comes with lots of veg, and chicken meatballs. We swopped the prawn out for more chicken, since I’m allergic. Super yummy, but made me wonder if collagen soup was just another way of saying “fat”. Ha.
The Sushi Bar at Far East Plaza must be the hottest hole-in-the-wall now, it requires reservations for weekday lunches. The sashimi is so good it brings tears to my eyes at its creaminess. Sigh.
Trying out the New Balances. Who knew finding ankle socks that dip below the shoe-line are this hard to find, though!? (Pray tell where you get yours, anyone…?)
Pretty kitty at SMU who doth scorn my love.
Our next installment of the great monthly cook-out was hosted by Yixiao at her lovely abode. That painting! I couldn’t stop staring.
Happy hungry faces.
Yixiao made unagi tofu and crabstick rolls (as I couldn’t eat lobster, she kindly substituted for a nostalgic primary-school canteen favourite). Yiyang made a delicious roasted cauliflower chickpea salad. M made his grandma’s fried vermicelli with Narcissus pork leg and mushrooms. Andrew made a smacking-good chicken curry, sans belacan (thank goodness for allergy-conscious friends!), and Zhu brought her friend’s homemade cheesecup desserts.
We. Ate. Well.
(Thanks Yiyang for the photos!)
Now that my sis is back for good in Singapore (yay!), and I needed headshots taken, guess who I called :-) She enlisted some special professional assistance in the form of R, who does fashion photography for a living. How lucky am I to have such talented homies.
We had a studio set-up which resembled some kind of modernist art exhibit with all its geometric light boxes and obscure lighting. Ha.
It was very stressful and tiring to be a model (first world problems) but I am so thankful for the love and effort they put into this for me … plus I love the pics already, even without editing.
3 nights in this little hotel in Paris, that couldn’t possibly be more charming. No reviews on Tripadvisor, fingers crossed!
So we decided to spend 5 nights of our London trip in Iceland!
I would love to go whale-watching, see the magnificent Gullfoss falls, and just generally be slack-jawed in awe of nature.
We will be staying in a small studio at Rey Apartments, which looks cosy and light :
(1. & 4. Reykjavik Center Map 2. whale-watching Tripadvisor 3. Blue Lagoon Bestourism )
I suddenly turned the corner, and there it was.
Change, waving frantically for me to acknowledge its existence; for me to modify my path to meet it.
And so I did. Suddenly, in just a day, I am no longer attending the musical theatre summer course in London. (I will still be vacay-ing in London – decidedly more indulgent, but oh well.) Refunds asked for; flight tickets changed.
I’ll be staying here to be in a production instead. It may not be a big role, and will just be for a few nights of the entire run, but it is for a great theatre company that is much loved and respected, and I had to say yes. In a heartbeat.
It is exciting, affirming, surreal, scary, intimidating, calming – all at once.
Taking the plunge now has a whole new meaning.
Woot!
(via Pinterest)
I kind of couldn’t resist the combination of grey, purple, green and dark blue, so these babies came home with me.
Fingers tightly crossed that I manage to find ways of wearing them without looking like a Fool.
Also, time to go hunting for colorful laces! Yay.
(via Spelling)
The weather’s been freakish these past two days – first, the apocalyptic rain clouds yesterday afternoon, and then now the warm muggy hazy suffocating heat. Confusing much?
That just gets the wanderlust ticking away… The thought of Hong Kong in autumntime is particularly delicious. (And we may have enough miles to patch together a trip!)
On a side note, do you ever get the feeling like you’re just coasting along, the passive observer of your own life? Detached, drifting.
My state of mind when it comes to acting, singing, theatre anything at the moment can be typified as this :
Wringing hands, paralyzed in nervousness.
Overcrowded mind.
Distracted by doubt. “What makes you think you CAN?”, some small voice sneers.
I’ve been feeling like that – and quite confused – lately.
This is definitely what I need to do :
(top photo from wit & delight; bottom photo from Headspace)
