My CNY!
What I really like about Chinese New Year is that the festivities, the looking good and the eating a lot of food, and the holiday, set my parents in a very good mood. My brother gets scolded less for not doing his homework, my mom gets me to put makeup for her, and I could feel that my dad’s really happy that because of the break, I would be staying at home for a longer period of time. After all I’m his lil’ princess ain’t I :) ( Luckily, he doesn’t read my blog…) Being business people, there’s always this very positive element of hope that the new year will be better than the next, which I think makes CNY so enjoyable for us. They aren’t the very staunch Chinese New Year bai nian type, so this year like every year, we didn’t have a specific agenda on who to call on, and we just went to wherever the wind blew us. Hah! This year, we only woke up at around 12pm, and we dilly-dallied till about 3 plus, 4 pm before we headed out to our first destination.
We even had time for some narcissism. I think My brother got excluded partly because he’s too short to squeeze into the picture, unlike my dad, and partly because he was so engrossed in playing with his digimon…
As for my CNY look, I had planned on going for the Princessy look, i.e. wide eyed, long lashes, wavy hair, soft chiffon/cotton empire cut dress with whimsical details like ribbons and frills and lace.
And of course which princess is completed without her favourite lil’ dog with her. See the lil’ whit fur there, that’s Xiaobai being shy. Because he didn’t wash his face for CNY, so he hid part of his face from the camera.
I know the retro look is very in now, but I’ve never really had a thing for baggy clothes and tights. Even though I could carry off the look nicely, because I’ve done a few fashion shows with me in retro garbs, I just wouldn’t think of spending $20 plus on a waistless dress, and another $20 + on a belt for the waistless dress. Like I’ve said, even though I shop around a lot, I’m a careful spender, and not a keen follower of fashion trends. Like real, you might think, but it’s true.
And I created 2 pieces of jewelry for the occasion. The earring was supposedly for my mom, and the necklace, for myself.
Oriental Beauty
The whole piece is set in a light gold base, with ruby crytals, and pearls. I just love pearls. Usually I’d add in some to the jewelries that I make. I always think that the soft luminance on pearls brings a romantic, feminine touch to any piece. It’s for my mother, so it cant look too kiddish. (Take note that I didn’t show my face when I wrote the Oriental charm, oriental beauty thing…haha)
Fly me to Neverland
This is a long long necklace, that I made to complete the CNY princess look. The whole piece had a green-copper base (I’m not sure if it’s copper or brass or whatever, but I just used copper because it doesn’t look gold or silver or, aluminum, and copper is the only other metal that I think I know. Basically the metal has a slight greenish tinge glow to it, and I designed for it to have an antiquated look. Emerald, peridot crystals with 3 faux pearls and a clay flower are fixed to one tail of the butterfly. Butterfly tilts at an angle to look like it’s flying off, flying all princesses with it to their Neverland.
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My Valentine’s Day 2007 (Even though it had passed eons ago)
There were no roses, no diamonds(fine, V-days are too trivial for diamonds), no fancy candle-lit dinner, and we wrapped up the day by watching Ghost Rider…haha. But it was lovely nevertheless, it was just so…us.
No rose because I didn’t want them. I am all for good old fashion romance, and I do like an occasional flower, but I don’t exactly fancy overpriced roses that are wrapped in a chapalang of things, so that the end product becomes bigger than my face. Plus, I did not have school today, so the appeal of getting flowers goes down when I cannot haolian. I can’t possibly walk around alone in PGP carrying that tua leng gong when zy’s away at BTC right?
No candlelit dinner because I was too hungry to wait for restaurant food. My zy had actually darlingly booked us seats at The Mussel Guys at vivo city. We got there, the whole place was so packed with hungry people without food in front of them, so we were given the balcony seat, which had a nice scenery overlooking the sea. But there was no breeze, and everyone was packed so closely, that we could almost hear what the couples at the next table were whispering about. The waitress took about 25 min to come and take our order, and when we asked for the menu, we were told that they only had the Valentine’s Day Set.
Just 1 fucking set of chicken/steak, and soup and dessert for everybody need to take so long one meh??
Anyway, we waited for another 15 min or so for the soup/entrees to come, and when it didn’t I kept pestering ZY to cancel our reservations so that we could go to Carls’ Junior. Besides, judging from the serving size at the restaurant, I think we need to order 2 sets each to soothe our hungry stomachs. So off to Carl's Junior we went...
Enormous Burgers, Big Fries, Lotsa Coke!!! And it costs about ¼ of that at the restaurant. But we kinda gobble down our dinner because I wouldn't want my date to be disappointed if we had missed 5 minutes of the movie that he was so excited to watch. And he was just this close to bringing the ghost rider toy at home out for the date. Psst...the other time when we went to watch the superman movie, he wore the superman t-shirt under his blazer, and I had to hold on to his thighs throughout the movie so that he wouldn't burst out of his jacket like superman and start soaring upwards in moments of euphoria.
But really, V day this year was not anyhow as it sounded. FOr one, we actually decide to have a real date, even though we’ve been together for some time already. Which mean no neh neh-ing at each other and no talking endlessly about selling toys and sorts.
That morning, I woke up to handpicked Sins chocolate on the table with a really sweet card written in blue ink for me.
He was so sweet to sneak a gift onto my table, so that when I woke up, I would hug xiaobai and be happy and feel like a 幸福 princess for the rest of the day until he comes and pick me up. Haha.
And I enjoyed the whole ritual of doing make up priming my eyelashes to perfection, curling my hair in hot thongs, and carefully choosing a dress, knowing that it’s all for him.
And he also got us a cake to celebrate our 2nd V-day together. Yumm…he knows me best*
It’s the 1st time I am celebrating a 2nd V-day with somebody. It just goes to show how important he is to me! On the 2nd V-day, it’s a different kind of joy altogether, it’s not the kind whereby your heart flutters when he bashfully tries to give u flowers telling you how pretty you are (well I still do anyway), but the kind when u know that you have found someone who has been there for you unconditionally, and who will be there for u, and who is simply….perfect for me.
Anyway the main reason y I wanted to model it was because my eyelashes were mascarad to perfection today. Heeh...yay!! I'm not called ZY's vainpot for nothing k..
