Eley Kishimoto

I love this. This is shipped flat. You then pop out the pieces and assemble the chair. How cool is that?

Eley Kishimoto collaboration with Ben Wilson, buy from here.

I also like this horse-print top.

and these horse-print tights.

But I saved the images so long ago that the items are no longer available. Still, the hosiery section has some very great looking socks. I like the Grandpa and the Diamond.

I'm addicted to 8tokyo.com cos the girls keep posting uber cute things found in Japan, like this toothbrush set. Or sweets and desserts. Like puddings, which I seriously love.

They also have an etsy shop called 8tote.com. There you'll find these:

They're like those baby clothes or doll outfit box sets. I'm more of a 'cute things in small dosages' kind of person, and these are the type of things I'd scold the lawyer for buying. But I like these. These are brilliantly cute.

Links to monkey, rabbit and erm, yellow creature (bear?).

I need a new umbrella

One of the reasons why I need to go Taiwan this year. My last anti-UV umbrella is spoilt. That means my defense against the sun has weakened (gasp!) and I need to reinforce the barricades again.

As an avid umbrella user, I can tell you brollies in SG are stupendously overpriced, remarkably lousy and horrifically ugly to boot. I can go on and on about what makes an umbrella good, but I won't bore you. Something that costs less than 20 bucks in Taiwan will probably cost closer to 50 or more here and it will be way cuter and last a lot longer.

Alright, craziness aside. I love this Polite Umbrella! It's such a genius way of dodging passers-by.

I hope they make it with anti-UV protection.

Found via Iconoclastic (twitter link).

laughed out loud when i saw this

via allure.

I want this so bad

(Image from here.)

The Digital Harinezumi. The latest irresistible toy from Superheadz.

It's analog digitised. You can take pictures and you can make films. It promises to inspire filmmakers around the world with its "melancholic image quality".

Melancholic image quality. Doesn't that just sound so desirable?

A review of the camera here and its Flickr group here.

It's kinda expensive at more than 200 bucks. But I think I want to put it in the queue of things to get.

I've been mad about twitter and neglecting the blog. A little bit uninspired, a little bit lazy, a little bit preoccupied and a little bit busy. All of that in a pot makes a very negligent blogkeeper.

But here's something.

I love this list by Yoko Ono: 25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now. Came upon it via her twitter stream. Some of her tweets make me think of the gmailfox. I find them both very intriguing.

"The flirt is a very French speciality. You like to seduce, even for nothing. It's a good experiment to realize you have power over someone. The French consider la séduction to be one of the arts of living." —Carine Roitfeld

via Refinery29

Ribbon Hair

I am so fascinated by this. It actually seems pretty do-able, though perhaps not so advisable.



From here via a girl with cat.

There are many other hair tutorials on that site. I think I'm going to explore.

I love that the dress is named after Cecilia Lisbon.

From Vain and Vapid via soon lee.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The lawyer literally hunted this one down. We love Pride so I think it became a must for her to see what the zombies have done to Pemberley and all.

I actually rather like the cover. Plus the paper choices are pretty pleasing.

I wonder if Jane Austen is flipping in her grave.

And lately, when he started coming home with a beaten look and announcing darkly that he doubted if he could hold on much longer, she would enjoin the children not to bother him (Daddy's very tired tonight"), bring him a drink and soothe him with careful wifely reassurance, doing her best to conceal her fear, never guessing, or at least never showing, that she was dealing with a chronic, compulsive failure, a strange little boy in love with the attitudes of collapse.

- Richard Yates, A Glutton for Punishment, from Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

This space is at a small standstill as some matters are contemplated.

Plus I'll be heading to Bali in a few days, for a few days. But hopefully that means I'll be coming back with interesting photos. I have all my film and cameras ready.

I've been avidly tweeting nonsense as can be seen on the top left. At this moment I think my mind is better able to type <140 characters many times than to fill vast empty white space.

It's a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He didn't love me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now, how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? ...Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

- White Teeth, Zadie Smith

Over the ensuing months Clara's mind changed, Clara's clothes changed, Clara's walk changed, Clara's soul changed. All over the world girls were calling this change Donny Osmond or Michael Jackson or the Bay City Rollers. Clara chose to call it Ryan Topps.

- White Teeth, Zadie Smith

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