Category: My life

• Travel-diary: Denmark

  Nyhavn, Copenhagen Home of Hans Christian Andersen Legendary Mermaid a la Ariel Lovely Park in the vicinity of the mermaid The grassland is a star-shape from the bird’s eyeview Wind’s too strong >< Change of Guards WIND IS TOO STRONG…love the weather 🙂 CHURROS!!! Stroget Street, Denmark Toys Are Us HOTDOGS

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  July 2, 2013

  Adventure, Copenhagen, Europe, Food heaven, Landscape, My life, Pictures, Travel

  andersen, beauty, blog, christian, church, copenhagen, denmark, diary, europe, fountain, guards, guide, hans, happy, krones, mermaid, mermaids, nyhavn, palace, picture-diary, roman-catholic, sea, seaside, the little, Travel, traveling, wanderlust, wate, water

• too close for comfort

  Bangkok Jam and World War Z to celebrate Enkee’s post-23rd (somehow silly me forgot to take Joyce again…) Happy ten-years of friendship ENQI NYGH wouldn’t have been the same if we’ve never met; we would have missed out on hiding and talking under the covers of our blue high school jackets (which we NEVER took…

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  June 25, 2013

  Adventure, Apocalypse, Indulgences, My life, Pictures

  aliens, Apocalypse, bangkok, beings, brad pitt, dead, disgusting, foodporn, gerry, home, jam, morbid, movies, people, supernatural, thai, world war z, zombie, zombies

• The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time (Crime Writers’ Association)

  Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951) Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939) John le Carré: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963) Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night (1935) Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938) Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (1940) Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)…

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  June 20, 2013

  Books, Bucket list, My life

  accomplish, agatha christie, allan, arthur, barbara, ben, blake, bon, Books, Bucket list, collins, conan, crime, crime writers’ association, cwa, dashiell, davidson, dickson, dorothy, doyle, eco, edgar, edward, ellis, fowles, gilbert, gore, grisly, hammett, hill, j.j, jacob, james, john, jon, josephine, lionel, list, martin, michael, murder, mysterious, mystery, novels, peters, poe, price, reginald, sayers, stranger, tey, things to do, thrillers, tony, top 100, umberto, violence, wallace, wilkie, william

• we lived through a lifetime and the aftermath

  For someone who’s a firm believer in New Year Resolutions, I’m not entirely convinced of its life-changing capabilities. Once in a while I look back upon my annual mandate, written with fervent excitement over the promise of a brand new year… “2011….I will make more friends, smile too often, take too many bad polaroids, go…

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  June 20, 2013

  Apocalypse, Catharsis, Musing, My life

  2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, Apocalypse, book, decree, diary, fresh, grid world, happy, life, list, living, love, mandate, new year, notebook, Pictures, resolutions, starbucks, tron

• Psychoanalysis of Strangers

  We all derive false impressions upon first sight. I see an old lady with a jewellery pushcart and think how pitiable to be working at her age. She must be terribly in need of money, or perhaps her children have left her. My mind goes wild thinking of possibilities to define her situation. Don’t we…

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  June 18, 2013

  #mood, Adventure, blog, Musing, My life

  beauty, beyond, difference, false, firsts, girls, impressions, life, light, living, love, Musing, psychology, reality, seeing, shadows, strangers, sunrise, sunset, thinktank, thought of the day, truth, women

• Dancing to the backdrop of a slow descending grey

  

  Found this picture which reminds me of how I was when I was young (but obviously this kid is so much cuter, thinner, and prettier than I was), in leotards + black tights and pink  ballet shoes, (ribbons/bows in my hair because mummy loves them on my hair), stretching in chinese dance class. I miss…

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  June 15, 2013

  Adventure, Catharsis, Dance, Musing, My life

  backdrop, ballet, best, chinese dance, classical, daddy, Dance, dancer, dancing, daughter, experience, eyeliner, grateful, grey, growing up years, hair, hotel, image, life, love, makeup, mummy, passion, perfection, performances, quotes, room, satisfaction, traditional

• “Just let the men stay naked as long as we girls can shop.”

  Keep calm and have a Coca-Cola~ Copenhagen, Denmark Day 1.5 “Just let the men stay naked as long as we girls can shop” #advertisement

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  June 14, 2013

  Adventure, Copenhagen, Europe, Food heaven, Indulgences, Landscape, My life, Pictures, Travel

  architecture, buildings, churros, cities, city, coca-cola, copenhagen, delicious, denmark, famous, foodporn, guide, hunger, Landscape, maps, nake, naked, naked men, photographs, Pictures, ride, rides, road, shopping, streets, thai food, theme park, tivoli, travel diary, traveling, travelogue, yummy

• Once in a while I think about the planet

  The person I am in 2013 pretty much agrees with the person I was in 2011, albeit less naive, less afraid to speak the hell up. ‘Tis been an eventful week, too much to express in a short post >< And not worth remembering. Impressions of person(s) utterly destroyed hence the reluctance to see it…

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  June 14, 2013

  Catharsis, Musing, My life

  cathartic, different people, happy, journal, life, livejournal, living, looking glass, love, memories, no doubt, past, picture, reminiscences, stories, wordpress

• [TAIPEI] oo1. Frozen ice and flashing lights

  Taipei in the summer heat – not my ideal kinda holiday. Nevertheless, street food and shopping makes up for everything! We conquered Ximending and Shih-lin Night Market.

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  June 13, 2013

  Adventure, Asia, Food heaven, Indulgences, Landscape, My life, Pictures, Taiwan, Travel

  bubble tea, caps, chou toufu, cold stone, crepes, delicious, energy, fireworks, flash, food, foodology, foodporn, group, ice, ice cream, indulgences, loots, museum, myeongdong, night market, recommendations, sausages, shih-lin, shilin, singapore, street, street-food, superb, taipei, taiwan, taiwanese, tie guan yin, Travel, traveling, watami, ximen, ximen market, ximending, yummy

• A slice of Copenhagen

  Officially am the mad Asian girl snapping away with her iPhone, at architecture that citizens of Denmark would have seen all their lives. Here’s a slice of Copenhagen: the streets of Vester Farimagsgade 9 as seen through my eyes. Taking shelter underneath my umbrella in the drizzle proves to be a disadvantage, for my hands were…

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  June 13, 2013

  Adventure, blog, Bucket list, Copenhagen, Europe, Musing, My life, Travel

  12 hours, 35000 feet, air, airplane, architecture, beauty, bonus, buildings, copenhagen, cph, danish, denmark, flight, flying, ground, houses, love, mundane, nyhavn, pond, red, river, sea, singapore, sky, streets, sunrise, sweden, time, travel diary, traveling, travelogue, vester, Vester Farimagsgade, vintage, zone

• Maldives – Bandos Island Resort

  Sun, sand, sky, sea – recipe for indulgences. And thus the three of us decided to go chasing dolphins in the setting sun! Maldives is indeed the perfect getaway. Self-shot with Jocelyn, Brenda and He-Cui. My hair was especially yummy that day, with a tinge of sea-salt. The awesome crew! And thus our journey to…

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  June 12, 2013

  Adventure, Bucket list, Indulgences, Landscape, My life, Pictures, Travel

  activities, airport, bandos, bandos island, beach, best holiday, Blog, diving, dolphins, ferry, flying, getaway, holiday, hotel, island, living, love, luxury, maldivean, maldives, male, pictorial, pool, resort, sand, scuba, sea, seaside, side, sky, small island, snorkeling, speedboat, sri lanka, staycation, sun, sunrise, sunset, suntanning, terminal, travel diaries, traveling, travelogue, vacation

• superficial plastic people

  Written 10 May 2011, entitled superficial plastic people All ready to put things behind, and accept that some people are just not who they seem to be. If everyone were to drop all pretense there would be much less politics and conspiracies. But then again the world would be so freaking dangerous because nobody controls themselves…

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  June 12, 2013

  #mood, blog, Catharsis

  believe, Catharsis, conversations, disgust, earned, forward, late-night, lies, life, musings, no regrets, onwards, peace, people, plastic, respect, stories, strength, superficial, truth, yourself

• Fire it up, let’s go get this thing stuck

  Dance-date with darling Krys Elisabeth! Instagram sums up my precious one and only day back at home this week. I love you back, KEL to my VJL! 😉 And this is why I have a regular spot at my favourite Starbucks cafe. Somedays I wake up in a foreign bed in a hotel 1200 nautical…

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  June 12, 2013

  Adventure, Café, My life, Travel

  coffee, Dance, date, flying, frappuccino, green tea, happy, practice, quin, starbucks

• Brisbane, King George Square

  Someday I’d wish to be a true backpacker in Brisbane; just my haversack & laptop for a couple of weeks. Too many amazing streets to stroll along, colors and sights to see, vintage buildings to admire, and entertaining buskers to applaud. Liberal-minded people to talk to and be impressed by. Talents abound and magic to…

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  June 10, 2013

  Adventure, Australia, Brisbane, Café, Landscape, My life, Travel

  Adventure, adventurous, art, artistes, aud, aussie, Australia, backpack, booth, brisbane, buskers, busking, Café, cars, circus, clock, coffee, down under, drystores, dymocks, extreme, foot, guide, journey, king george, lights, map, night, phone, pictorial, pink, pludo, queen street, queen street mall, shopping, shops, singing, square, streetsmart, telephone, tower, Travel, travel diary, traveler, trip, underground, walk

• breakfast at midnight

  It feels like one of those nights “22 is basically the only age you can use as leverage. Meaning that because it’s the exact age between life-as-you-know-it and what will later be known as ‘real life’ (that’s scientifically proven, of course), people expect you to make some mistakes. Mistakes like overcooking a pot-roast or dating…

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  June 8, 2013

  Adventure, Catharsis, My life, Quote of the Day

  22, Australia, brisbane, leverage, lights, midnight, mistakes, music, pink, Quote of the Day, quotes, reality, shanelle kaul, song, taylor swift

• ♛ Scarlet Carousel | oo2

  {Installation} – [oo2] Noemie Matsumoto is accustomed to getting what she wants. A girl with a purpose. February 2017South Korea “Noemie is late! I tried dialling her cellphone but it’s been going straight to voicemail.” “I wouldn’t be too worried. Knowing Noemie, she’s possibly hooked up with some fella on her way to Miller’s.” Reina…

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  June 5, 2013

  Adventure, blog, Books, My life, Novelista

  authors, black, Books, characters, dirt, eiji, epub, fan, fiction, fictional, filthy, girls, glamourous, hostesses, idiots, life, living, love, money, nightclubs, noemie, novel, online, pretty, pubs, quotes, red, reina, saito, scarlet carousel, stories, submission, viktoriajean, whores, yamaguchi

• ♛ Scarlet Carousel | oo1

  {Installation} – [oo1] …he rolls the strange word around his tongue, “Home.”To a vagabond, the concept of belonging constantly emerges as an entirely new sensation. January 2017South Korea Jae cruises down Myeongdong alley, slows down only to briefly admire a pair of attractive well-heeled legs that were thinly veiled by sheer hosiery, elegantly crossed at…

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  June 4, 2013

  blog, Books, Catharsis, Indulgences, My life, Novelista, Quote of the Day

  black and white, blood, Catharsis, cigars, dagger, epub, fiction, girls, gun, hate, hope, jae, lips, living, love, myeongdong, noemie, novel, online, pierre, plot, rd, revenge, revolver, scarlet, scarlet carousel, skirt, spills, spinning, spiral, thrill, thriller, twirl, women, writing

• ♛ Scarlet Carousel | Prologue V

  {Prologue} Noemie Matsumoto’s 2017,South Korea When Noemie first laid eyes upon his handsomely flawed face, her heart squeezed with unexplained intrigue. Everything about him screamed perfection, right down to his seeming lack of passion for love, lust and women, which was totally atypical considering his type. Usually, a once-over was Noemie required to have men…

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  June 4, 2013

  blog, Books, Catharsis, Indulgences, My life, Novelista

  author, Books, dark, epub, fiction, handsome, men, noemie matsumoto, novel, online, pdf, publications, publishing, quotes, reads, scarlet carousel, stranger, submission, tall

• primping at leisure and wearing lipstick.

  “I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.” ― Audrey Hepburn

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  June 4, 2013

  Books, Indulgences, My life, Quote of the Day

  alive, audrey hepburn, beauty, bobbi brown, chanel, collection, face, happy, leisure, lips, lipstick, makeup, mauve, pink, pretty, primp, quotations, red, tools

• ♛ Scarlet Carousel | Prologue IV

  {Prologue} Eiji Saito’s 1999Fukushima Sunshine boy!  Back home in Fukushima, the old lady with the limp at the convenience store welcomed her favourite elementary school boy with a daily tube of chocolate mint candies. Before her passing, Eiji crossed the street twice a day just to say hello and accepted her gifts with great appreciation.…

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  June 4, 2013

  Adventure, blog, Catharsis, My life, Novelista

  admission, centrifugal, eiji, epub, fiction, fictional, force, inspiration, japanese, life, love, novel, online, publications, reads, saito, scarlet carousel, short, stories, submission, upload