Good morning everyone, I've been having a terrible week.. ermm.. Make that two weeks. And usually at this time of the month, I'd be running around looking for perfect Christmas presents, planning the annual Christmas bash, shopping for new outfits for New Year's Eve and Christmas. But not this year. Not in a festive mood. Not buying presents. No dinner. No bash. No tree. NOTHING! But anyway, since I still love Christmas despite everything here are a few gift ideas to buy well whomever.
1. Lanvin Illustrated bridal notebook - £21.28 2. Marc by Marc Jacobs acetate headphones - £55.32 (also available in fuschia) 3. Michael Kors Leather multi-strand waist belt - £421.28 4. Kenneth Jay Lane 22-karat gold-plated snake brooch - £78.26 5. Bottega Veneta Intrecciato nappa leather iPad case - £340.43 6. Nixon The Time Teller P watch - £63.83 7. Nancy Gonzalez Crocodile iPhone case - £238.30 8. Lanvin Faces playing cards - £42.55 9. Burberry Porsum Lace-up leather gloves - £242.55 10. Aubin & Wills Patcha large patchwork cotton cushion - £76.60 11. Mukhi Sisters Navratan - Navratna Ring - $475 12. Aubin & Wills Exbridge large wool-blend cushion - £76.60 13. Marc by Marc Jacobs Alta printed modal-weave scarf - £144.68
You can find most of the stuff at net-a-porter. Thank God for online shopping eh? There you have it folks, just a small idea of Christmas gifts. And remember, it's the thought that counts.
I have so much to blog about that I don';t know where to start. I can always start from the beginning, I just don't know where the beginning is, so as a result, I have no idea what to say or write about. I and thought and thought but that little bulb on top of my head just wouldn't light up! I blame it on the damn weather. Everything is influenced by this weather.. TVs, cable, BBM connections, internet service, traffic, electricity... The list goes on, believe you me.. And these are just a few things. My trail of thoughts, I believe, is the most affected. Won't even justify that with an example. No I Won't end this post here, I will end it in a few lines, but I really wanted to share this with you.. Go to google translate, type pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk click from German to German and then click on listen. And that's how you get google to beatbox. Pretty cool eh?
I am mortified. So much for fairytales and Disney cartoons. Snow White and Sleeping Beauty were the very first Disney fairytales I've ever seen as a child. And of course, just like every other girl, we all tried to sleep the same way the slumbered, and were fascinated by the beauties of these princesses. Yes I wanted to be a princess and I believe I am (don't juge me). Right until I came across a piece of information that just devestated me. I am really mortified beyond belief and yes I want to shatter your dreams same way my dreams were shattered. The story of Sleeping Beauty that we know and love so much? Well, it's a lie. A LIE I TELL YA! ANd yes all men are docuhe bags.. And Prince Charming?? Wasn't a prince.. or charming for that matter. He cheated on his wife with what he thought was a corpse. Sick eh? Yup... My sentiments exactly. Read on!
Sleeping Beauty and her Rapist "Wise men warned the great King that his daughter Talia was in grave danger – there was poison in the palace’s flax. A ban was put on flax but as expected, Talia still ran across a splinter while spinning flax on the flax-spinning wheel. In great despair, the king placed her sleeping (or dead) body on a velvet clothe and left her in the forest.
Some time later, a rich nobleman was hunting in the woods when he ran across the abandoned body of Sleeping Beauty. Far from planting a kiss, the nobleman instead raped her sleeping body, from which resulted a pregnancy. Nine months later, Sleeping Beauty gave birth to two children (and named them Sun and Moon) and the forest fairies took care of them while Sleeping Beauty continued her slumber. Whilst placing the babes to Sleeping Beauty’s breasts, one of the children accidentally mistook her thumb for a nipple and sucked out the poison splinter. Talia awoke from her deep sleep.
Months later, the nobleman decided to return to the woods to have more sex with Sleeping Beauty’s body when to his surprise, he found her awake. The nobleman confesses that he raped her and they again had sex in the barn. The nobleman then returns home to his wife.
The nobleman’s wife found out about the sexual encounter and ordered the children be kidnapped and cooked alive. The cook prepared the fiendish disk and served it to the rich nobleman at his dinner. As the nobleman finished his meal, the wife boldly announced “you are eating what is your own!”. Alas, as it turns out, the cook had a soft heart and instead of killing and cooking the children, he substituted a goat instead. Talia and the children and her rapist new love interest lived happily ever after."
(according to altereddimension.net)
So.. whaddaya think? Are you mortified too? Until I actually get over it, I am still looking forward to Burton's Maleficent!
I usually start off my posts with a 'Good morning', this time I'm starting it off with a 'good evening' m darlings. It's been a tough and quite frankly a very hectic month. I'll spare you the details, not because I love you (I do though, it's virtual love) but because I don't feel like remembering. So I'll go straight to the point, remember a few months ago I wrote a post about a fashion brand that I'm crazy about, called La Petite S*****? Well my little darlings, the Spring/Summer collection is out and I couldn't help but share. Why? Because the clothes are fabulous. Below are a few of my favourite items in the collection, even though I'm literally in love with every single look.
To view more of the collection click here. And since we're discussing one of my favourite brands, I thought it be appropriate I also share one of my favourite songs currently on repeat.
Good morning people. It's finally Friday and I can't wait to catch up on so major needed sleep, laziness and probably lots and lots of DVDs. I am getting old. I can't neither party as much as I used to, nor as often. So I decided to no longer fight it, and just give in to my body's needs. (I'm considerate that way... what??? I am.. honest.. sorta.. oh leave me alone..). Haven't really been updated with the fashion world, or the random world, or any world for that matter, and that's because I've been living in my own little bubble.. mentally... and in the real world I'm just working and working.. and working some more. So now that I'm trying to get back on track, I wanted to share something with you. Won't get into details, but you know the stories of the birds and the bees? Well my little darlings, the fashion world has gotten familiar with it too. When designers, bloggers, singers, celebrities and big fashion brands come together, fireworks, magic and champagne bottles are the result. What am I talking about? Simple. Some pretty darn impressive collaborations. Here are a few of my faves.
Jewellery brand DANNIJO and internet celebrity and blogger Rumi Neely. I'm already coveting a few things especially the double ring. I'm in love...
Swarovski and Karl Lagerfeld. Actually Swarovski is collaborating with more than one designer, I chose to ignore the others :) (I'm biased that way.. sue me). So since cuffs are big this season here's one to love. ($335)
Lanvin for H&M I like to save the best for last, and I'm telling you Lanvin and H&M in the same sentence? That's music to my ears. The collection hits stores November 23rd. Not sure about Beirut though, even though the Jimmy Choo for H&M collection was released her.. Oh well.. Fingers crossed people. Check out the entire collection here and weep. And check out the video.
That's all for now.. I'm sure there are many collaborations, but it's almost 11, I'm on 4 hours of sleep and I actually have work to do. Thank God it's Friday. And because I heart you all I am going to share one of my new song obsessions, Kanye's Runaway.
A few months ago I wrote about a journey a friend and his buddies were about to embark, Hike of Hope. Click here for a recap. They climbed mount Kilimanjaro and it all went well.. Just wanted to share the video of that journey with all of you.
Good morning! I woke up in a good mood today. Had 7 hours of sleep and I'm having Starbucks. Long live caffeine! Wasn't going to post anything today until I came across something a friend posted on facebook, thought it was funny enough to share with all of you! Aren't I just lovely??
Karl Lagerfeld’s top 5 tips for surviving the credit crunch
Don't eat. Eating is so Seventies and this is today. I eat only celery and even that I am not enjoying. Pale green is so uninteresting.
Dismiss your assistant chauffeur. No one has an assistant chauffeur anymore. Assistant chauffeurs are so yesterday.
You do not need more than 200 white shirts at any one ti,e. Anything more is excessive. I threw the rest of them away when I hear of the arrival of the credit crunch, and I tell you I felt so good about myself.
Forget charity. Do you want to encourage beggars, hmm? Of course, you do not! It would be different if they possessed any sense of bravura, if they styled themselves on the Ballets Russes or they came out onto the streets with the Audrey Hepburn look. But they do not. The only charity that is acceptable is Save the Tiger, because - at all costs - we must not let lose the real tiger fur. I just adore it. It's so chic.
Never travel first-class. It is so common. No one should travel first-class, with all those strangers with their coughs and their germs. No: a private jet or nothing at all.
The website I got the above from is pretty cool, if you haven't come across it already then I insist you do. It's called adinnerguest. Ok people and now for the music part of this entry, I've never mentioned him before but I am today. He's Lebanese and he lives in Canada and he is absolutely effing brilliant. His name is George Azzi, and while today's song is a cover for Damien Rice's Blower's Daughter, you have to check outt his YouTube channel and check out his other covers (such as Jazson Mraz's I'm Yours.. it's better than the original.. I promise) and his original songs. He's going to be big I tell ya!
Good morning fashion-obsessed people? And how are we on this awful Tuesday morning? Sorry about my overwhelming enthusiasm but really my insomnia is getting ridiculous and my inability to get up in the morning is worse. Did I mention the fact that I take power naps in the toilet or in an empty office just to survive the day? Yes it's that bad.
Anyway, enough about my one out of many disorders, and let's move on to something more exciting. Like what you may ask? Well, how about Dolce & Gabbana's Autumn/Winter 2010 ad campaign. I am aware it was release a few months ago, but yesterday I was checking out their collection in Beirut, when I decided to browse through the website this morning and really paid attention to the campaign. I'm a Madonna fan. BIG TIME Madonna fan.. wanted to be her when I was younger, and secretly want to be her now. She's got it all. My point? She looks effing fantastic. Never thought the legendary M would be the type to inject her face with bottox, fat (extracted from... ermm... certain areas in the body) and such, butt it suits her (pun intended... obviously). Now the series of photos are snapshots replicating the movie "Mamma Roma" and according to S.G., “We wanted to continue pushing our current message that shows fashion’s more human nature and our heritage. This is yet another tassel of that mosaic. We believe the campaign is comforting and that people will somehow identify themselves in the images, which again display a more human and approachable side of Madonna.” There is no human and approachable side of Madonna people.. She's MADONNA.. She's like the female version of Michael Jackson (in terms of fame), she revolutionised the music industry, influenced millions of people, changed the way men view women, pushed the boundaries of sex in terms of explicit lyrics and racy videos and wrote a book about her fantasies called SEX, had songs written about her, and she became the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time. So please explain to me how a woman like that is not intimidating and is approachable?? Hmmm?!? Nothing?? Exactly. Because she's not! Plus, as beautiful as the campaign turned out to be and as fabulous as she looks and really.. I mean.. FABULOUS.. I don't get why she or anyone else for that matter would wear a Dolce & Gabbanaoutfit to clean the floors or catch a chicken. But that's just me. I'm posting the pictures below.
Am I right?? Doesn't she look fabulous with a capital F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S! Anyway, this song may not go with the campaign, but Coma asked me to listen to it and I loved it and I felt like sharing. (Fanks luff)!
It's been a long long loooongggg week. I feel like I've aged 10 years. Actually I got that comment 3 times in the past couple of days. Not good. Not good at all. Just read something that got me thinking about my life and the choices I have made. How I would've done things differently perhaps. What I would have done with my life.. My career.. the decisions I've made that got me to where I am today. Maybe It would be the same thing all over again. Who knows. But it really got me thinking. So to all of you who are in college, or high school.. Read this. I got it off the NY Times I wish I had back then.
Advice for freshmen from the people who actually grade their papers and lead their class discussions.
College is your chance to see what you’ve been missing, both in the outside world and within yourself. Use this time to explore as much as you can.
Take classes in many different subjects before picking your major. Try lots of different clubs and activities. Make friends with people who grew up much poorer than you, and others much richer. Date someone of a different race or religion. (And no, hooking up at a party doesn’t count.) Spend a semester abroad or save up and go backpacking in Europe or Asia.
Somewhere in your childhood is a gaping hole. Fill this hole. Don’t know what classical music is all about? That’s bad. Don’t know who Lady Gaga is? That’s worse. If you were raised in a protected cocoon, this is the time to experience the world beyond.
College is also a chance to learn new things about yourself. Never been much of a leader? Try forming a club or a band.
The best things I did in college all involved explorations like this. I was originally a theater major but by branching out and taking a math class I discovered I actually liked math, and I enjoyed hanging out with technical people.
By dabbling in leadership — I ran the math club and directed a musical — I learned how to formulate a vision and persuade people to join me in bringing it to life. Now I’m planning to become an entrepreneur after graduate school. It may seem crazy, but it was running a dinky club that set me on the path to seeing myself as someone who could run a business.
Try lots of things in college. You never know what’s going to stick.
— TIM NOVIKOFF, Ph.D. student in applied mathematics at Cornell
