Does anyone remember this vintage favourite, by our very own homegirl, Kit Chan? It was one of the pieces in the Singaporean musical, Forbidden City (Portrait of an Empress).
It is very nostalgic, in many ways.
If that is not sufficient to bring back the memories, I am sure most will remember this:
The comments to the video below are rather disturbing, however. I hear them rather often from many Singaporeans.
The Morning Walk, Palm Springs – That Wondrous Time
The boss has a mansion there with an awesome piano and the beach as his night-time hangout. I’m as jealous as peach.
One of my favourite Etsy designers has always been Tatyana Merenyuk of Red Doll, who has produced some very whimsical burlesque creations in the past years and very much sums up the adventurous high tea spirit of Etsy.
I’ve never ordered anything from Red Doll yet, being more of a Dolly Pearl nature myself, but I do find myself wishing to be in the lifestyle of these pieces in a Russian wintertime.
My favourite, the black and white ruffled crazy skirt which does have voluminous ruffles!
Someone today asked me on my thoughts on advertising and new media.
And I asked if he knew of the Lisbon based designer Cristiana Conceiro.
In a issue of Moloko, she talked about gathering source material. “On Saturdays I like to go through the flea market collecting memories. Feira da Ladra as we call it here in Lisbon. That means Thief Fair, which is funny collecting other people’s memory to build a new one”. Her source material comes from a variety of modern sources including: record covers, Canadian logos, 1960s paperback books, Latvian magazines, Swiss posters, as well as work from the Bauhaus.
Conceiro has created some of my favourite illustrations in the market, very much art, but still commercially appealing.
Irving, Irving, how could you not know La Mer! So this entry is for you.
I found the Charles Trenet (the most well known version) for you, I like the Francoise Hardy even more, but then you have always liked the men more the way I like the women.
Francoise Hardy
And just for you…just say it after me…Vitameatavegamin…just like candy! I love Lucille Ball!
I have been working on Civil Procedure for the weekend and start of this week. Amidst some worthy distractions. Its pretty heady consolidating all the work that I’ve done for the later half of the year. I still think it is manageable though, and I like Civil Procedure and Conveyancing, in a strange sort of way, the process of ticking the boxes. Criminal law is really getting me down though, mostly because of the Indian and Chinese sea of names that I cannot seem to memorize. And they complain about the Greeks!
I think I will probably be working hard for the examinations all the way to the start of December. I hope I get through it, though its voluminous and stresses less on substance. It is quite hard to focus given the volume of procedure that is involved. Law in university was alot more enjoyable in comparison. But still it reminds me of the high-spirited way I used to like Xi Zi – the chinese exercise in primary school where students had to copy out the same words or sentences a copius number of times. Everyone pretty much hated it, but I confess one of my favourite things in school was always Xi Zi. I never could write better than everyone else, but doing the same thing over can be quite calming.
It is also rather nice to be well and truly alone typing in the near darkness. I wish there was best friend working on the same thing too, but it is still pretty comforting to hear him recite titles of sections in the Hong Kong version of the Rules of Court. It is as though he is moving where I am, though in a different arena and jurisdiction, and maybe we get the same slanted epiphanies.
I passed by Miu Miu the night before and thought the Fall/Winter 2010 collection was stunning. And it must be the first time I’ve seen spats in a fall design? Quite quirky, but I love them. The shoes are so circus-y I actually am quite fond of the designs.
A walk back to the quirky 60s, and the spirit of Sylvie Vartan and Frances Gall chic…
I for one am loving those square-toed Edie Sedgwick pumps – definitely not suitable for me – but so awfully Mary Quant.
And once again, orange. You will forgive me if I wear and talk about that shade all week.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, claimed at the beginning of this year that people are no longer concerned about privacy, many of us choosing to publicise our every movement on one or more of the many social networking and online publicity tools at our disposal. Zuckerberg’s vested interest aside, there’s something in the idea that attitudes to what might be considered private information have changed. Is the blogosphere an arena of exhibitionists (she asked her WordPress screen)? Would famous diarists of bygone times have been avid Tweeters? In writing a diary, is there always an element of performance – even if performer and audience are one and the same?
A Brief History of Diaries: From Pepys to Blogs, by award-winning diaries expert Alexandra Johnson, will consider the permutations of the form, why we write for ourselves and why we might make writing about ourselves more public, taking in (in no particular order) Thoreau, Pepys, Boswell, Woolf, Darwin, Anne Frank, Sylvia Plath and many more, and finishing right here in the blogosphere.
A Brief History of Diaries will be published in September of this year.
– E.R, Hespereus
Celebs who love tea #1: The Beatles
Did you know tea was often featured in their song lyrics?
All Together Now: A-B-C-D/ Can I bring my friend to tea?
It’s all too much: Show me that I’m everywhere, and get me home for tea
Lovely Rita: When are you free, to take some tea with me?
I managed to find the Gryphon tea I’ve been gushing about in this blog! I got the last box too at Paragon on the way for dinner. Of course, I couldn’t resist trying it today and it was absolutely a delight. Indeed they have perfected the way I love my chamomile tea. Photographs will come later, but I really recommend it, and am hoping to find a box of Vanilla Sencha too.
Chamomile Dream is part of the Gryphon Tea Artisan Selection, and is a herbal tisane of chamomile, marigold, lemon verbena and lavender. The little silken sachets are absolutely luxurious and will now definitely be a part of my working life, and a special treat for stressed afternoons. Their chamomile flowers come from the Nile Delta in Egypt, which was something I hadn’t realized, that chamomile tea derives from Egypt! The lighter teas, are particularly white teas, are always my choice of tea for nights, and help reassure me to sleep.
I think they should produce the WGS Celebratory for real, it will wean me off wine – WGS is a darjeeling white tea with sweet muscat, grapes, rose hips, orange blossoms and sprinklings of gold dust.
A magical and whimsical cup of WGS blend with all the bits of gold dust!
I also love their heritage art series for tea…
Photographs from Gryphon Tea Company
Penny Sparkle 