fashionable blogger 1

reading a pieces in es mag on Friday , it talk about some fashion blogger take over the real fashion world , that is soooooo funny , i never though about that ( i have read those blog before , but never really take any notices ) , never think about those blogger start to appear in real fashion show " front row " , sometime even blocking real " fashion people " who have fight hard their way up in the industry until they can get a sit in first 3 row in a show . All of sudden , u realise u are blocked by a 13 yrs old fashion blogger call Tavi Gevinson , wearing a huge bow in front of you . i can imagine i will be piss for sure . Tavi defend herself in her blog " i had no intentions of blocking the views of people behind me , i am short , so watching behind me would be like watching it through a regular sized adult . but better because adults heads do not have holes in them . " i laugh so hard when i read about this , fashion ........ i take fashion design in saint martins , after all these years i learn something more then fashion i guess, it is so interesting that it link to the culture ,society , money business and how u due with people and how people could separated themselves in different level / groups , or to create an image and how u want people to see and read you . For me fashion is powerful in its way , my "fashion thinking" is not only something whats hot whats not , not really about S/S 2011 or who is the head designer in McQueen , what ever. i try to apply that idea in life , i should say what is fashionable to do now to make a living , or how to be fashionable enough to fight your way up to what u want to be  .......etc . fashion is not only about clothes to me, it is the over all things happening , if something new and people excited in it or even pay money for you to do so , for me that is fashionable , nothing to do with clothes at all ,if something is out is out , doesn't matter u are wearing a S/S 2011 or pre collection .We all create fashion , and fashion is life ,if you care about it .

tavi with huge bow , pissing " real fashion people "

ladies and gentlemen , i found that blocking view somewhere ,tavi at dior show  , hehehheheehhehee.....

http://www.thestylerookie.com/

霸王別姬 farewell my concubine

My birthday are coming up soon , i will be an official mid-girl ( Hong Kong slang , mid-girl mean middle age girl , one step closer to be an old woman ) .The older i get , i am more into old / classic culture , art , history , food , music , costume , architecture even Chinese medicine .Maybe i am at the age of searching for culture roots ,i am born and grow in Hong Kong until 17 then move to London . Hong Kong used to be a colony , as i remember my childhood was quite western , although i am always into old stuff !

I was playing around my utube one night , looking for something interesting to watch , once again this film " farewell my concubine "pop up again , the story is about a Beijing opera house , opera student , gender confusion , homosexual , love , old society , culture revolution ....... the main actor Leslie Cheung , one of the best entertainer /artists in Hong Kong have pass away in real life from depression suicide , which made the film more realistic,  it almost like acting the story of himself in real life but in a different era .

The film over all , best actor/actress , beautifully done story line , costume , style , setting .One of my best film all time !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_My_Concubine_(film)

soooo beautiful , by the way just to ensure for foreign reader , this is Leslie Cheung. Traditionally Beijing
opera main cast are all male 

look at those colour

also enclose an Beijing opera performance at Vienna

my new friend

i am never a very " mordern " person , all those facebook  , twitter , myspace, blogger , i only know and use 2 of them , anyway , i am proud of my new found spotify , dont make any noice , shut up and listen .

i was introduce to spotify by a workmate , he is around errrr.......... he is using free bus pass . He send me an invite to join spotify .I think this is the best invention after facebook , i don't use mp3 and not really using my ipod , but i like music at home . The first thing i look up on spotify , i bet same as everyone , the latest, the newest  ,after sometime, i try to test the system , looking for old song , then i go further , some hong kong /foreign language song ............ wooo ..... not a huge amount , but enough for me for a little while , 80s -90s hong kong pop , also classical concert . The best of the best . having oldies and classic from my new found spotify .

i love it 

by tat ming pair 

the other good things about spotify is they enclose the cover of the album , it bring back a lot of memory !

funny album by george lam 80s and 2002

may find more classic hong kong album to post here later !!!!

oh no shit thing happen

it was so sad , and feeling uncomfortable to seeing news like this .

The gunman, a former police officer who was allegedly demanding his job back after being dismissed for misconduct, had earlier sprayed machine gun fire at the hostages, a tourists bus full of hong kong national.Me myself come from hong kong , i am very familiar to this kind of tour and the situation in the tour bus ........... cant shop myself imagine what am i going to do if i was there , shit !!!!

go here cnn new to know more 

/edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/23/philippines.bus.hostages/index.html#fbid=khfjlmXN_Dy&wom=false

i love toy shop

i was wondering around town last week after work , searching for something new in where i have to walk pass er ......around 10 thousand times per year , that is my thing .Am having dinner with friends in an hour , for no reason i walk into Hamleys , a magical shop for childeren , maybe not that magical for average adults or even some might see it as a war zone ( if you dare to walk in Hamleys during chrismas time , you will understand what i mean ) .On the 3th floor , pre-school / girls toys section i found these .........

                                                                  the sylvanian family

me and my sister used to collect the sylvanian family in hong kong . i alway have a thing about doll house , but i am not so keen on human like dolls , i am more into the miniture funture and little stuff .

i am quite a strange person i especially like something rather huge or very small compare to real life scale , i found myself super excited when i look at miniature toy food . Anyway our sylvanian family are japanese line , and the one here are European /American version , some of the animals i never seen in hong kong before ha ha ha ha ..........

                                                                           and also

                                 i especially like the idea of the toys doing something with their toys !!

something about julie

i really love her work , wonderful colour , erotic and naughty , her work is like a nightmare under a 

fancy cupcake !!!love it  

Julie Verhoeven is a multi-disciplined designer across art and fashion; from illustration and creative direction to design consultancy, her work is known for its exquisitely avant-garde quality and surreal composition.  

Julie lastest project , working with the launch of boutique by Jaeger . Works included a wallpaper feature in the 

pop up shop , and illustration throughout the shop interior .

Jaeger boutique collection 

                                                               Jaeger boutique pop up shop

                                                        
                                                                 I want to take this home


http://www.jaeger.co.uk/index.cfm?page=1467

english food

when we think about English food , ok say top 3 , no1. sandwich , no2. ready-meal and no3 .curry or Chinese take away . maybe someone could shout out " fish and chip " , " baked bean " , " English breakfast "....or...... " beef wellington " ????(this dish is like dinosaurs maybe is a myth , never seen or heard an English person made or eat before in real life)
Reading something about the big chill festival last week on the paper, they didn't mention about music and fashion this time , it is about a tasty fruit cloud to raise the awareness of fairtrade fruit . it was commissioned by big chill arts plus ad agency wieden +kennedy who has worked with the fairtrade foundation for just over a year and set up the collaboration between the charity and bompas and parr . 
it was a Ziggurat builded by 40 tonnes of steels , 2053 orange,134kg of pineapple and 12 boxes of lemon .They clarified the juice using reverse osmosis , then create a cloud of dense vapour , which the cloud sit at the heart of the ziggurat ,the deeper you went inside the denser the air become . 
for me it sound like a bonkers idea , raising the awareness by sniffing in fruity air , no matter does it make any effect to the main idea or not , it definitely bring a new level of experience of British food and art .
 having a second through , maybe the creator should create something like 5 a day for children ,base on the same skill , most children hate veggie , even myself when i am little . Sniff in different fruit and veg from games or event ,I bet the children won't mind at all.

Sam Bompas and Harry Parr together are Bompass and Parr, architectural foodsmiths. They create fine English jellies, design bespoke jelly moulds and curate spectacular culinary events.

http://www.jellymongers.co.uk/

 read a bit more about other event these guys done , a bar tander they call him
MIXOLOGIST , what is mixologist ? a person who mix cocktails .

the ZIGGURAT OF FLAVOUR.......... um nice i want to try !


plus i learn some new words from this read 
1: food architecture 
2: foodsmiths 
3: jellymongers
4: mixologist
5: ziggurat  

coca-cola chicken

I was planning what to make this week for dinner , due to i am keen on any kind of experiment and combination of food , something like salad with tuna from can will never satisfied me , i need something a bit edges or heritage from a country or memory .I got a little talent of taste and cooking , i often do this little test to myself , try to remake the taste of some thing i have eaten in restaurant or some long lost taste from childhood . All of suddenly , a friend message " got chicken tonight want to join ? " " got coke as well !!!"( he is addicted to coca- cola ) after the message , it suddenly remind me a recipes in my head , coca -cola chicken  . That is it, i through i am going to push this to the climax . i shouted at work , " i am going to make coca- cola chicken tonight but no one seems impress , may be it is hard for people to imagine , but it is actually a very common hong kong style of cooking , thus i did it .

i did do a little search online, see what come out if i put " coca-cola chicken " in googles . cant believe there are hundreds of recipes , i pick a nigerlla one to enclose here , cos it is rather special that there are no peanut butter or mars bar in it.

http://www.nigella.com/recipe/recipe_detail.aspx?rid=12093

Beckii Cruel

A programme at BBC 3" schoolgirl superstar at 14 " ,talking about a 14 years old English girl call Rebecca Flint from Isle of Man have became a big hit in japan . Everything start from her love in japanese manga (comic) and japanese idiosyncratic dance , since she have more then 2 million hits of her homemake dance clip on utube , it caught the eye of a japanese manager who then help her to started her career and changing her name as Beckii Cruel .She is now a tv , pop star , starring a chewing gum ads and a photo book in japan. It is very hard for me to talk about my point of view in japanese culture here ,but if u go through the doc , with a dad with dollar sign in his eyes , and every one even Beckii herself knowing her biggest fans group are some 45 to 50 years old man , i feel rather sad then fun about this teenages playing all doll up dacing up and down in the camera . There are always a market of something we can never really understanding or even nessesary in the western world compare to japan , but that is alway there , nothing can be change ,the sadness of the japan subculture and the reaction of people around beckii bring up from the programme, it is hard for me not to think about a teenages pop puppet is going through a 10 min fame , hopefully wont see her doing a bikini photo book next year , beckii, i bet she is a clever girl , from doing something innocent just what she enjoy to a " pop star in japan " .

if you have not watch the doc yet , please go to :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tf20x/Beckii_Schoolgirl_Superstar_at_14/


beckii in uk 



beckii in japan

PLUS

 a art project by Takashi Murakami ( the guy who turn louis vuitton to juicy colour monster ) starred Kirsten Dunst  ,short film in a 80s party song " turning japanese "which call  "Akihabara majokko princess"can't show you guys the clip due to copyright, but i saw it before in tate morden , thats why i through it is art ..........

penguin books

I was in the mood in learning 3d studio max again , after 10 years since i first land my hand on the software and countless deepest sleep during the computer lesson in school . As soon as i off work today, cant wait to run into waterstone , computer section  , right , i never been there before .magazine, stationery , travel , art , fashion , photographic , medicine ,cooking , GCSE mock paper , children area , i have all been messing around , but computer section , i am that kind of person still shouting " i hate computer " from time to time , anyway that is something new , all sort of stuff with cant be worst cover ...................... ummmmmm .Finally i cant find any book about 3d studio max . As i finish scanning the indesign and computer colour theory . i saw this

They look so wonderful , a shelves full of them . they are the " great idea " series from penguin books designed by David Pearson, all in perfect colour , graphic ,and emboss cover .Each books has its own unique design , specific to the theme of the book . Most of them are cover with beautiful typographic and base on just two colours . People say if it is a good book , it doesn't matter the cover , but if pretty as this series , i just want to display them without reading , incase i worn the cover .

there are also more clothbound classics from penguin, it is like a treat of eye candy even for people who hate books and reading , check them out at
http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/pubsetpages/clothboundclassics/index.html

and wonderful cover by david pearson
http://www.davidpearsondesign.com/

The gayest T in the world

ladies and gentlemen , let me introduce you the gayest t in the world . 

from american apparel 

http://store.americanapparel.co.uk/

十八相送 farewell 18 times

Is the peak of summer holiday , quite a few of my friends who are still in school are taking turn to go back to their own country for a break . but some of them choose to stay in Europe but having a round trip or enjoying their time anywhere with more sun then in London . Strange enough , one by one , they start  sending me msn , text , facebook or calling up  saying goodbye or telling me " i am in the airport now! ".It suddenly make me feel no one will ever come back , i am confuse myself  is this only a summer break ? It also flash back memory that since the peak of immigration trend before 1997 in hong kong, we used to say goodbye , a proper farewell in the airport , face to face , with the whole set of family and friends , this second watching the plane disappearing in the cloud , next second thinking which restaurant should go for big dinner  (  old hong kong airport are pack with all sort of restaurant around the area) . But then airport is in the city , too convenience that no one can refuse the farewell and the dinner .

 above title 十八相送 in my shit translation " farewell 18 times "

from a classic Chinese story " the butterfly lover ", it got a different meaning in the story.I like the 
words in chinese and it is also a very nice feeling when people still make afford to say goodbye in 
any sort of media, for me it show a very high respect and manner in modern world.Hey dont forget
it is just a holiday ............... see you guys soon !

toy story

Went to see toy story 3 yesterday , it was so fun , i like it a lot . Actually i am never a huge huge fans of toy story , but i have seen all of them in cinema . Do u still remember when was toy story 2 , can you believe it was 1999 almost 11 years ago ! And the first toy story movie was release in 1995 . The thing i love about it was although it is just a animation , it is all fake , and of cause it is only a story , but the real things are time have already pass by , it go so quick that you don't even notices . Andy are definitely not the only person grow up together with woody , buzz and the other guys , we all grow up and grow old together . 


toy story -1995



toy story 2 -1999

vintage sponge bob

i love my vintage sponge !!!

steven slater

Do u know steven slater ? i used to don't know but now i know . A US flight attendant , having a furious row with a passenger , was hit on the head by a luggage from the overhead locker ,then swear over the PA system to all passenger " to the passenger who call me a motherfucker , fuck you ."after that he grip two beers and deployed the plane's emergency and jump into it and then drove home ......................he was arrested at home shortly after but many user from twitter and myspace have already started a " free steven slater " campaign ......................... cant stop laughing , sorry steven . but i can understand, ah ah ah aha a a  aa a ah  a a a a  aa   ...........yeah free steven slater !!!

naked smell

We are all into naked body in some point of our life , but the relationship of naked body and smell ,that is something that i have a second though about it . From Yves Saint Laurent being naked himself in a perfume campaign to Sophie Dahl naked for opium perfume or recently Marc Jacbos being oily and naked with a big " bang " in the middle of the adv . Is that something what we thinking when are are shopping for perfume ? a naked body with nice smell ?
For me smell is a interesting thing , it can not be recorded , like the smell of summer evening or smell of the country side , it is a memory in a different format - i call it the smell memory . i can only recall that memory  if i can smell that smell again ,it is quite amazing if i think about it as a no image , sound or human type memory .
anyway some clever people invented something call perfume , a smell u can buy again and again , and it live in a fancy container which sit beautifully on the dressing table . if we can keep our memory in a bottle as we wish like perfume , that will be so nice .

                                                                          nice !

                                                                   nice !
                                                                 

   

                                                         er ....................

blood diamond , what blood diamond ?

For many reason , bad reason for most of the time , Naomi Campbell is on paper everyday these week , is she a big bitch , no one really know , does she have the blood diamond , nobody know either .
The only thing i know is she have a face and body to be a super model , i especially like this a/w 2008 ysl campaign , she is now 40 , still a model ...........

drunken chicken wing

have try to make a dish call drunken chicken at home few weeks ago , inspire by a hong kong tv chef ( well a kind of )suzy wong , don't put me wrong , she is not sexy , not nigella , not jimmy nor gordon or haston  , basically she is an old lesbian enjoying life , food , cooking , and shouting to people . i enjoy watching it alot , but can be annoying sometime if she is too loud in her programme !!

what you need :

some chicken
chinese wine
thai fish sauce
sugar

i think thats all

if  you wonder what hong kong suzy wong look like or doing
please go here

dream a little dream

oh oh oh , u know what ? i walk pass covent garden the other day , i saw this .This is my dream way of keeping my shoes , just a window display of kurt geiger , don't even know is that a flagship store , pop up or concept shop whatever ..... i do really think they should enclose a photo of the shoe we buy for this .
http://www.kurtgeiger.com/

my best working hour

According to evening standard , it is a popular phenomenon start working at night as i understand after 10 pm . In a fancy description they call it " all - nighters " . i do believe some people do work more efficiently without any beep noise of instant message or phone  ,faster Internet speed due to less crowed in the Internet world , other distractions in the " normal " office hour or other family members sharing the same house  .
Although in new york the new creation called new york night-owls who gather every Tuesday , borrowed office space and stay until the real working hour people come in .

um ...... i have to say that not a new trend , i have been doing that for my whole life , have a nice strong tea , smell of the silent evening , i do work best in this vampire hour ,it is the most creative and energetic time of my day !!!


but the result in " real " working hour is here