ERIC

BIRTHDAY HIGHLIGHT #4:

CLICK FOR FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE ITEM. (I promise you won’t regret. Might be a bit M-18 though)

“American born, but schooled abroad, Eric retains many European sensibilities, including Italian bravado, French table manners, and German soccer skills.”

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I will not disclose who are the people who gave me this present, but I would like to qualify that I’m pretty sure they had did NOT have the full understanding of what this lip gloss was meant to convey and represent. HAHAHAHAHA. I LOVE IT. SO HILARIOUS.

Take 2

I’m really curious and intrigued.. is it going to be a different feeling every time we meet? To me, you’re strange and you’re beautiful.

P.S.

Thanks B! :)

Potpourri two

Its a cold and wet day in Berkeley.

Random thoughts:

I want a warm cup of Starbucks Gingerbread Latte but its too far away and too cold :(

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I watched Serendipity (OLD SCHOOL) last night in Andrew’s room. I’ve been going back and forth over the fairytale vs realistic aspect of it.

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YJ and I bought Peace Chains on the way back from lunch. This dude has made 400,000 ceramic pendants over the past 18 years in multiple languages. We got ours in Arabic.

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The last episode of Glee Season 1 has been aired. It was amazing :) AND I LOVE WILL&EMMA MORE THAN EVER!!!!!!!!!

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I am in love with city for reasons I do not know.

4 days till TGIF

For many, many splendid reasons.

Now all I have to do is to make it till then.

:)

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FTR: I’m definitely bringing two suitcases now, one empty.

(Points to NUS friends+threadless sale, oldestbrother+possibly illegal goods, myself + the excuse of christmas.)

Merry early christmas, me.

Early christmas presents from me to me.

UO

They shall be awaiting my sweet lovin’ on the other side of the globe.

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If I had a christmas wish, I wish to raid the UO online store.

Or world peace.

HAHAHA OKAY ZOMG the first choice sounds materialistic, and the second choice sounds bimbotic. Whoops.

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Realistically if I had only one christmas wish? (and I couldn’t wish for more wishes)

I could wish that YJ and I were in the same country, or that I’d get my dream job and not worry about life after graduation, or that friendships could always stay as they are and not change.

Or teleportation. That is a good one.

But if I had to choose one,

I wish I could make as many differences as I could for God, because I know there is no greater joy than seeing His will done on Earth.

I know it might sound kinda noble and pretentious, and if the situation were presented to me, who knows what I would choose in that moment? I might even wish for one times Ryan Gosling or one times Edison Chen. But I’d like to believe (or at least hope) that when I am faced with a situation, I will be able to choose the right thing

:)

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Ame is back! :)

Welcome home.

And its Jackie & Jarvis’ birthday today! :)

Thank you for everything. And I mean, everything.

Stock

All I need is the Revlon eyeliner. The rest are in the bag.

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I also would like heaps of cotton tank tops, and clothings in lace, gray, and champagne.

Colour me happy

I don’t want things that are cool or in fashion or whatever,

I just want things that make me happy.

An example to illustrate my point:

This ridonkulously beautiful lampshade made of roses makes me very, very happy. I would be happier if it belonged to me, and I had a pretty room for it to sit in and look beautiful in. Sadly, I do not :(

That makes me sad.

Lesson: In addition to just seeing things, one needs to own them to reach the highest level of happiness. But in the meantime, one can appreciate such things from afar, and wish happiness to the individual in the world who actually owns it.

At least someone gets to be happy :)

Potpourri, one

Snacking: Mini gummi bears from Candy Empire. Addictive much.

Working: On Project-G. It is making some headway finally! Although I wish there was someway I could re-do the messed-up beginning parts :(

Reading: The Time Traveler’s Wife. Borrowed it from Tarnia. This is how I spend my in-between breaks from knitting.

Watching: Family Guy. Today I started watching random episodes and ZOMG LOVE STEWIE HE IS SO MESSED UP.

Listening: Wicked OST. Singing along, being reminded of good ol’ Spring break times with Applebees steak and late night Walgreens expeditions.

Obsessing: OWLS. Um not the real birds, but everything else that it has been cartoonified into via clothing/jewelry/home decor. HOW CAN THEY BE SO SCARY IN REAL LIFE AND SO CUTE ON PAPER?

Wanting: Slave bracelets. I have been wanting this like forever. Sadly its really unreasonably priced online.. maybe I should consider it for my next DIY project!

Project DIY

Went a-lunching with Mae & Kiyoko at Sakae Sushi this afternoon, mulled over Spotlight running out of yarn, Mae’s new future job (and hair! bangzzzzz), the blogshop bazaar at Far East.. before Mae and I actually went down to Far East to take a look at some stuff.

My current financial situation is extremely dismal, but I am being optimistic about prospects of new avenues for earning a few bucks.

So it didn’t help that I hadn’t been to Far East in forever and everything looked so tempting and reasonably priced, AND that Mae kept suggesting items that I should get, AND there was a bazaar going on at the atrium.

Along the way we came across this bag:

Mae made me try it on and it was the cutest thing ever (and I love Domokun arr arr!) but sadly I decided against it at the moment. Maybe I’ll save up for it. Then again there are a gazillion other things at Far East that I want to get..

Every shop we went into had studded items. Everything was VERY DESIRABLE but also we observed that studded items are the easiest kind of fashion to DIY. So I, being broke on a budget, have decided to take up my original project that I wanted to start during the holidays. DIY-ing my old clothes.

This afternoon I perused Ebay for studs & such. Click click click, and away they went, across oceans.. to Berkeley. I think YJ is going to kill me when he finds out I sent 2 bags of studs to his doorstep and that he has to send it, along with a heap of other items, back to Singapore. Whoops.

Armed with a glue gun and Ebay embellishments, I will be on my way.

Crossing fingers!

Chains

I can’t quite decide.

The California traveller’s necklace (right) is sooo special! It has the CA state shape and the CA state coin as charms (HOW TO RESIST) and I really want to get it to remind myself of my experience in Cal over last semester. But its rather pricey. The peace necklace (left) is cheaper though and also special in its own way. Arghh decisions decisions. Urban outfitters you do tease me.

I’m going to order this (once I decide which one to get! argh) and send it to Yong’s room so he can airmail it to me along with other things (Kogi tshirts! Excite!). Today he had to go for a Criminal Background Check so that he could officially get employed at the Program Office. Omgosh I was like HUH WHAT? Sounds mean man.

Today is my free day (schoooools out!) and later on I’ll be heading to Cheryl Ho’s to exploit her pool.. if the weather permits. Later when Matilda comes we shall attempt to have another session of yoga and practice THE HAPPY BABY POSE. HAHA Or not.

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BE OK

I stumbled across Ingrid Michaelson’s merchandise page and found this:

I HAVE INSTANT STUPID LOVE FOR IT.

One side says “be” and the other says “ok”, which is the title of her latest album/song (okay i guess its not even considered latest, cos its kinda been awhile..) Which is madly addictive. I just wanna be ok, be ok, be ok today…

Yeah okay I would so totally get it except its KINDA EXPENSIVE. Why can’t it be cheap metal costume jewelry!! I’d settle for silly costume jewelery :(

Coconut crazy

My $10 Victoria Sekret’s voucher which caused me to peruse the entire store made me fall in love with all things VS.

I smell like coconut. I never liked coconut. NOW I DO.

Sniffing coconut is the new drug.

Compartmentalization

I bought a professional makeup box for $20 at BTP today :) After buying it I went home and cleared out all the makeup and stuff that I don’t use and cleared up the ones that I wanted to keep.. and VOILA! I am so proud of myself. I know it looks like alot, but its not la. Hahaha I think alot of small tubes and bottles are all the makeup samples from Amelia. Haha the top row is full of accessories and stuff, and the bottom two rows are makeup. I went online to find how much they sell these boxes for and the only one I could find was the silver Shu Uemura one for $450!?!? Okay I assume its much larger.. but I’m very happy with my buy! Except that its SO heavy now. Aha but I recommend it all the same :) Bleh I haven’t been using much makeup recently anyway because I’ve been having a bad bout of breakout. ROAR. I need to clean out my life and arrange my thoughts and feelings nicely into a box..

1. Flea market CLOTHES CLEARANCE done :)
2. Makeup and accessories re-arranging done.
3. Now I need to arrange my uni NOTES. Oh goodness. This is not going to be pretty.