SingaporeYesterday, I was working till 5 PM, had dinner at the Maxwell Road Food Centre, then met with a bunch of people at Clarke Quay for drinks afterwards, none of them local Singaporeans (but UK, Kiwi, and Austrian) and none of whom I'd known for more than 9 hours. It amazes me that in this city, you can still see crowds at 2AM, and be able to ( Read more... )

Annoyance
What on earth is going on with LJ? Seeing as I've been in the mountains for the last 6 days, I initially thought the problem was with the roaming data on my mobile, but it's gotten no better since I returned to Shanghai. If you missed my last post, please give me your recs of White Collar gen fic.

WearingMarl grey and aubergine cotton ( Read more... )

1. Doctor finally put me on antibiotics a couple of days ago, which cleared the stomach flu right up, so I was finally able to break house arrest today and go watch X-Men: First Class in the cinemas. Banshee got the biggest laughs from the audience I saw it with (I hope the actor returns in the sequel). Charles and Erik are twice as slashy on the ( Read more... )

Since so many of you seem to enjoy my occasional post about fashion, I thought I would show you what I am wearing today to do a bit of grocery shopping and get some lunch.

( Vintage sundress )

( Impulsive buy of the day. )

I left home this morning at 6am to catch a 7:35 flight to Kunming. On the plane, my father commented how tired and wan I looked. I laughed and said he had obviously gotten used to seeing me with makeup on, to the point where my normal face appeared sickly when I hadn't had time to put on blush and lipstick ( Read more... )

For the last 9 days, I have been in Yunnan Province, in the southwest part of China, spending time in both Kunming, the provincial capital, and Shangri-La County, capital of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Formally Zhongdian County, it was renamed "Shangri-La", after the fictional Buddhist utopia in James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon, in 2001 ( Read more... )

gacked from delgaserasca and fahye:


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I've been trying to figure out ways to wear this gorgeous wine-coloured slouchy vest/top that I bought last Saturday, and I've hit a dilemma.

( Does this outfit offend you? )

It's all fahye's fault, for getting me started on makeup. I started commenting to her post, but with the photos and everything it started to get too long for my liking, and so I decided to make a separate post for it. This caught me on my last day in Shanghai - I'll be on a flight back to Sydney tonight, arriving tomorrow morning ( Read more... )