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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

always love

I guess the next best thing after not having a UO outlet where I live/not living in a place that UO offers shipping to would be having friends who do (and who are willing to bring them items back with them as they return home for the holidays) :))).

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(cardigan and dress: Urban Outfitters)

I'm really loving the print of this dress and am just bowled over by how incredible the designers at Kimchi & Blue are for having designed a dress with button-adjustable straps! This baby was 9.99 pounds from the UK site. :)) LOVE LOVE LOVE. I'm actually rather worried about losing my suitcase on the way to Hong Kong. After all, those things do happen eh? I'd just be pretty darn crushed. But then I suppose I'd get over it slowly and painfully by thinking that there has to be a reason for the way things turn out. Am putting all sorts of lovely items in there to wear in HK over the Christmas holiday there. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I'll be in HK for the next week! Soooo excited. 9 more hours to go! :) I hope it won't be too cold there though it would be such a relief to get away from the heat in Singapore.


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And I can FINALLY wear these boots that I got ages ago in anticipation of eventually going to someplace cold enough to wear them. Well I was supposed to wear them out in Sg but I never managed to muster up enough guts to do so...

(Notice something new? THE BED. I finally have a bed to sleep on at night. It's quite a nice feeling being able to sit on something with my legs dangling and not simply collapsing onto a mattress at night)


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I totally miss Christmas in Seattle. It's the only time when Christmas really does feel like Christmas. My Aunt is just the nicest, most bubbly and Christmas-loving aunt ever and there's always a whole lot of xmassy things to be done such as baking xmas cookies (i feel really hungry now and it's 3 a.m. aghh.), decorating the porch and the tree in the living room, playing the same xmas cd which begins with my fav song "The Christmas Song" by the inimitable Nat King Cole over and over again...

It's kinda hard being the only one in my immediate family remotely interested in and excited about Christmas. My dad (the Buddhist), scoffs and goes, "Christmas? Who's celebrating it?". My older sis, the biggest scrooge on the planet, gives me a look just short of "Bah Humbug". To my mum, it makes no difference whether we celebrate it or not but she does enjoy some festive cheer. Heh well to cut a long story short, it always never seems xmassy enough over here... I'd love to go back there again. :)

It's always the littlest things that jog up my memories of Seattle... such as the smell of cinammon in stores. It seemed as if all the little stores/even supermarkets or places like Walmart always seemed to smell of cinammon.

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(the two cutest cousins ever. :) I can't actually remember how old they are now. Probably 6 and 9? These photos were taken just about a year ago when I spent Christmas with them in Seattle. They are such tykes.)


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(Seattle, December 2008)

Probably the best memory I have of my time over there. Late nights spent bathed in a shower of coloured lights, huddled underneath a quilt, lapping up each second, each breath of cold air, settling into dreams.

P.S. In case I don't get to eventually, MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS. :)

10 comments:

  1. Enjoy your time in Hong Kong!

    Such a pretty dress. It's so nice that your friend brought it back from the UK for you. Love those boots! I've been looking for tall brown flat boots for years and can never find just the right ones.

    I feel as if I could write a much more lengthy response to your post, but I won't take up the space and do so here. Expect an email from me within the next day or two :)

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  2. That is a gorgeous dress and I love the boots, too.

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  3. Love all the coloured lights. They are so very pretty! Merry Christmas to you too! :)

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  4. you look SMASHING! love that outfit :D

    our family is buddhist and we still celebrate xmas! i see it as an excuse to eat too much and enjoy having paid time off :D

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  5. YOU HAZ A BED! i kinda liked your mattress actually. you can just sink and sink and sink in it. anyway i just wanna tell you i'm blogging again! at a new place this time: milodino.wordpress.com

    it's a photoblog. i'm trying to chronicle the next 365 days in pictures but i'll probably be too busy to do so once school starts. oh well.

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  6. oh hey hows hk so far? lol sha hasn't told me about your little tea time yet so i'll ask her later how it went.
    hope you're having fun and sorry i couldn't see you before you left!!

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  7. I love that dress! And the boots are so lovely!

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  8. OMG! It's been forever! It's so nice to hear from you! So adding your new blog link to my blog roll! Love your outfit! Cute Boots! I will so be back in touch!

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Thanks for the comment! :D I'll definitely get back to you~