The inevitable period

This week has been particularly a festive one, and I'm grateful to have great company to celebrate  my birthday with. Or maybe good food with the presence of someone to exchange anecdotes from daily work and all other issues under the sun is much needed to help me recover from the ever monotonus day job...

This time around the colleagues from my new working place (I've been posted to a sleepy town in Malacca early this year) have become the additional joy to fete my life's important event. Thanks to them, I was not in my bungalow quarters eating overly greasy Pizza Hut miserably all by myself last Thursday, when I turned twenty-seven. Another digit is added to my age and it certainly made me think regarding the future endeavor...

Let us eat and be merry

I don't have nothing much to say as the calendar switches to year 2011. However thinking back I had quite an enjoyable moment during the final weeks of 2010 which saw me going out as frequent as possible and coincidentally there are few December-born babies who need to be celebrated as well. I had much free time hence I went out QUITE a lot (well thanks partly thanks to the current not-so-demanding Surgery posting). Eating out and chatting with good friends is simply joy joy and fun fun... So much so that I have to publish the pics on the blog for all to see... (and prepare yourself for some food porn as well)...

First occasion - a colleague's birthday dinner at Meatworks ( opposite Cold Storage) in Solaris Mont Kiara. We went there straight after work in a convoy. Funny thing was we wanted to try a new place and as everybody got sick of going to One Utama (the nearest mall from our hospital), I suggested Solaris Mont Kiara and had to take the lead to that place. It was roughly a blind journey as I was only partially sure of its location and having no GPS to guide me I had to trust a friend who has just been there once to 'co-pilot' our journey...

Some steak sandwich I ordered. The taste was blaaah for the price I had to pay...

A night of laughter and teasing each other basically....

Another birthday dinner treat to close friend Arman / Kotok at some Italian restaurant next to Starbucks Suria KLCC (apologies as I'm really shit when it comes to recalling restaurant names, perhaps you know the place better)...

This calamari salad is simple but good, and light to the stomach

It's funny how my bracelet is almost identical with the strands of vegetable pasta above..

And it was a total awkward moment to see that my 'picnic mat' gingham shirt is ALMOST similar to their waiters!

We both turned 25 in 2010 and are friends since high school I tells ya! Most people know him as the buyer for the multi-label store /cafe MUSA. The dinner also included a self-reflecting chat with another high school friend who just migrated back from Chicago...

Lovely dessert I spy :)

Finally the so-called 'Christmas' dinner that I was invited to at MUSA cafe. Just a small gathering of close friends/acquaintances of the owner Nazreem. The meal consisted of salad + shrimps as appetizer, some roast chicken as its main course and eggnog as desert. It was my first time trying the eggnog ( is it essentially egg with extra vanilla essence to mask the putrid taste of raw egg 'cos that's what it seemed to me..).

Most of the attendees were clad in red. There was also a free bring-along -your-minus-ones karaoke session...

That night the dress code was 'anything red' so naturally the only decent red item in my wardrobe is the oftly-used red blazer from Zara. And as I mentioned in the previous post I did use the occasion to debut the Dude and the Duchess shirt, and to add the 'festive' mood I cinched my waste with the golden sequined belt (acquired at RM5 from Fourskin but looks like it cost much more than that).

Borderline tacky but appropriate for the occasion, I think.

Also a new purchase is this checked laptop case of mixed wool /polyester fabric from Benetton. The bag is a breath of change (in terms of more 'masculine-looking' bag) in addition to my current collection of clutches/man-bags or whatever you want to call them...

I have nothing much to say regarding new year, unlike every body else with their style resolutions / 2010 rewinds of memorable moments. Personally I just hope that I can experiment style as liberal as possible and am really grateful to God that I am still able to afford things that I want (or at least ogle from afar on the Net).

This may be a little bit way too late but may you have a great and fashionable New Year!

Blowing candles in that leather patch!

  

The celebration of turning a quarter century last week was filled with after-hour dinners with friends and families (yes I had to go out to dinner on multiple separate occasions with different sets of social groups divided into BFFs / colleagues from the hospital / family to celebrate my birthday). It was multiple nights of fun filled chit chat and eating until my stomach became so bloated!

I'm so pleased to take the time to dress-up (in a rather casual way) during one of the night-outs.  Did I tell you that my brother and little sister are November babies as well? So that night was basically an occasion for family members only. But my family did not tell me we were going to a humble traditional Malay cuisine restaurant in Bangi. I felt so overdressed among the sea of t-shirts and track bottoms and rubber slippers!

I was wearing one of my most treasured  ZARA lady's blazer which is super snug on the armhole (well should I blame my almost non-existent biceps or is it just because all ladies have tiny arms?), luckily the humidity that night was not that severe otherwise my armpit would have just have waterfalls of sweat already! The blazer was teamed up with the  bad ass Cheap Monday SS2010 leather patch skinny jean - the only place in Kuala Lumpur that I know which sells current CM collections is MUSA (any other places that you might suggest having current season's CM?) At a glance it reminded me of past season's Balmain which is known of its punk aesthetics (and truth be told it's a let down that Balmain still recycles the stale idea this season). Oh and the weaved bracelet I actually got the day before at a small section at Parkson in Sunway Pyramid from a label called Park Avenue- it was like finding a needle in a haystack as I discovered that interestingly -designed jewellery among mundane accessories on display...

I'm wearing ZARA blazer, ZARA basic t-shirt, Cheap Monday SS10 leather patch jean, socks from Happy Socks, Jil Sander lace-ups

Cheap Monday SS 2010

*** surprisingly the jeans that I'm wearing in the pics are not included in the runway looks.. but I'm 99.9% sure that it was there in the catalogue... Must I hire a fashion P.I to investigate this matter?

Reaching the big TWENTY FIVE this year did not actually give me the feeling of being 'older yet wiser'. Instead I still feel like I'm fresh out of high-school - wanting to explore everything yet not ready to uphold responsibilities, even though it's basically compulsory at this time of my age. It's already one year since I started working and it is full of fond and not so fond memories (I swear the latter comprises the majority of all the shitty experiences I had had in my ENTIRE life). 

And I always thought working world will teach me how to be an adult and thus will make me intellectually / mentally befitting according to my current age. But I am utterly wrong! Many a time I saw people who actually behave like a 5th grader ( well, a little worse than a 5th grader at times). The easiest encounter I can recall is when one of the superiors who actually uttered the 'F' word just because he has some anger management issue and could not tolerate the so-called incompetency of one of the interns. That's a lame excuse to curse and act so unprofessional in front of staffs and colleagues who are actually adults. You can be smart / brilliant / talented or whatever in what you're doing but you will never earn my respect!

Please forgive me as I never wanted to turn this blog into a personal one but to me Dunia Fashyon is one of the medium through which I can emotionally express myself and I am never verbally eloquent at all...

P/s: And not to forget thank you so much to all who wished me on Facebook and Twitter!

January borns and pastel

I should have up loaded these images last week but due to the ever-shitty internet connection that is haunting I could not do so.

Anyway last week was Helmi's birthday and we went to celebrate by dining out. We ate at this small Indonesian joint called Waroeng Penyet. Their menu revolves around 'flattened' (literally flat I tells ya) fried chicken and meatballs. It was good to just go crazy with greasy food once in a while. And as usual we exchanged work-related stories - whose specialist is the hottest/strictest/weirdest and which posting is the toughest, and more importantly we managed to at least alleviate each others' stress lingering on our shoulders for the past few weeks by sharing stories and funny experiences being new doctors.

I overdressed, as always. Had a Lanvin spring 09 vibe with the hat and guess what, I tried to wear the weird customised H&M pastel blazer again. Yes, the blazer initially had longs sleeves but I thought it will be better off with shorter sleeves. The result was a reminiscent of a ladies' office wear. (and the feminine silhouette does not help much either haha)

So I guess this is my another feeble attempt to wear pastels. It's certainly an art to master and if you looked around there are some people who can wears pastels amazingly like Susie Bubble or Francesco in Garance Dore's website (the short -sleeved blazer idea was inspired from his wonderful dusty marble one!)

The latest addition to my shoe collection is this pair of Jil Sander two-tone lace-ups, heavily discounted at Oki-ni and they were the last pair mind you! I was eyeing these shoes from the moment they were up on that site, thankfully they're mine now HAHA. The shoes are lovely, but it somehow irritates me to see the tar/rubber marks on the pure pastel grey of the right shoe.Oh well!

I think I've found my latest outlest for my online shopping addiction...Oki-ni's selections are fantastic despite being quite on the exorbitant side for me but I'll be waiting for the sales of course. And the shipping cost is pretty reasonable so the more the reason I should visit this site often...

I'm wearing customised straw hat, customised H&M ladies' blazer, deep V-neck tee by H&M, Forever 21 flower brooch Sisley pants, Topman canvas briefcase and Jil Sander lace-ups

 P/S: Another January born will celebrate his birthday tomorrow. Bonne anniversaire in advance!

Bon Anniversaire Mon Chou!

A big 23 to my dear friend Kotok. This February marks our decade of friendship. Hope all is well. As I promised you Kots here are the Naomi editorials for Vogue Russia December issue. (there's more from where this came from and yes, I scanned them from my own magazine)

Isn't she fierce? She's even fiercer than fierce!







Have a great birthday my friend!