wake up and smell the flowers. there's a whole life ahead of you.

it's a great thought knowing that some of the best days of our lives probably haven't even happened yet. think about it. imagine what's out there. the future i mean. a never-ending void of possibilities. there's still lots of good food to eat, great music to listen to while shaking your tush along to, great writers to discover and good books to read and get lost in over and over again. there are still beautiful places to travel to, breathtaking sights to see, lovely people to meet and wild adventures with friends to go on.

there are so many things that you haven't done yet. you haven't gone cafe hopping with your best friends, you've never been on a vacation trip to another country all on your own, you've never laid down in the middle of a big empty field at night and just watched a sky full of stars with someone that means a lot to you, you've never been to that dream destination that you've always wanted to visit, you've never visited a forest on your own, etc.

i don't really know why i just decided to write a blog post about something so deep. maybe it was because of this question on ask fm asking me whether or not i worry about the future. it made me sit down and think for a while on how to answer it. i knew that of course, just like everyone else, that the idea of the future is something terrifying. but i don't worry about the future that much. (well not as much as i used to that is)

back then in my earlier days though i wouldn't say very far back (the time between the age of 15 to 16), i used to worry a lot about my future but i wasn't worried about things that everyone else was worrying about like whether or not i would get into uni or get a good job with a good salary after i graduate. i was worried about different things like whether or not my life is going to be outstanding and not average just like everybody else's or whether or not i was going to be special when i entered the real world. i want to have a dream job that i enjoy, not some boring average job like being a clerk or a secretary and i was afraid that my dream would backfire in the future. i'm afraid of mediocrity and that i'll just be another brick in the wall.

but anyway, that was before. things are different now. i don't worry about the future anymore. of course it still keeps me pondering on what's going to happen to me next but that's something inevitable. as i mentioned before, the future is undefined and it's a never-ending void of possibilities. i like to think of it as a train track. you don't know where a train track ends unless you follow it for yourself.

so here's the thing. stop worrying about the future and focus more importantly on the now. learn to live in the moment and create wonderful memories with the amazing people that you have around you. take time to smell the flowers and tell the people that mean a lot to you that you love them and that you mean it. go on road trips with friends. stay in cheap motels overnight with them and make the best of it. visit somewhere thats first language isn't english and learn to communicate with the locals there. live. as long as you're on the right path in your life, everything will be alright and the future begins to write itself. every footstep that you take today brings you to where you'll be tomorrow.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. — William Blake

fashion with a passion

guess what. i was too lazy to go to school today so i skipped and now i'm officially on a three week holiday. yay! the holidays actually officially start on wednesday but i was too lazy to attend school today and tuesday (which is tomorrow) is my school's sports day celebration which i sure as hell am not going to attend either so that means my holidays have started early and i'm only returning back to school two weeks after june. oh what a life! 

usually on long holidays like this, my family chooses to go travelling but it looks highly unlikely this time since my mum just bought a new car and i have an open day to attend at a school this coming saturday. plus, i have a lot of events i'm attending like my own school's international understanding day and a leo dinner held by my school that are both being held on the last week of the holidays. so technically that means i'm only fully available on the first week of june but both my parents might be busy with work. we were planning to travel to hong kong or shen zhen because i want to go on a wicked shopping spree because i'm in desperate need for new clothes and my mum wants to buy more tailor made cheong sams. (typical asian... i know) my dad just wants to go for the food because these places have the most amazing dim sum ever.

so in the meantime i will list down things that are currently on my shopping wish list:

1. parental advisory mesh top

this is super cool and edgy. i've had my eye on these babies for a long time now and i think that they would look fantastic in a pair of boyfriend jeans. i almost bought them a week ago online but then i found out that the website was a total rip off because they offered a 50% discount on any item but then increased the prices by double so even if you do use the discount you're still paying for the original price which was totally unfair. i emailed them my complaint and didn't get the tops but hey, at least they gave me a 30% off on my next purchase ☺

2. kenzo eye patterned dress and white blouse

i saw both of these on my tumblr dashboard and i instantly knew that i got to have them. the dress is so totally adorable and the white blouse with the white skirt (or shorts) looks clean cut and edgy. both these looks would go perfect with a pair of stylish black boots or sandals from windsor smith. top it off with a gorgeous faux fur coat and you'll look ready for the runway.

p.s.    you get bonus points if your hair is long and you style it into two little buns at the top of your head. it's totally cute and it earns you extra points for being daring and different in my books.







3. windsor smith shoes

do not even get me started on windsor smith shoes because i swear that i can go on forever and ever. first of all, lets just be clear that there is literally nothing that i do not want from the windsor smith shoe selection because lets be honest everything there is perfect. i would kill for their hologram platform sandals as well as their chunky white sandals. i would sell my soul for their boots and sacrifice my first born for the rest. go check out their shoes for yourself. i'll even be ever so kind to drop you the link here .

4. mary jane doc martens

i think that everyone that really know me is aware of my love for this wonderful thing called doc martens. i only have one pair which is the classic black one and i love it so much. one of my favourites shoes because it's so rugged and trendy that it matches many different styles that i have. i really want to get the mary jane docs because they're super duper cute. the mary jane docs would go absolutely prefect with a cute little ensemble with a striped shirt and overalls.




5. hello parry lilac coloured basic coat 

so last year i found this australian fashion website called hello parry on instagram and i instantly fell in love. their clothes like the zara inspired skort and leather bralette are magnificent and so is this coat. the colour is perfect and so is the design. coats make you feel like a boss ass bitch and they're cool. i've been eyeing on a good old coat for ages and this is the one that i want.


p.s.    you should really check out their website here. they have really great stuff.









so i guess that's all for now..... i'll be updating with a new post pretty soon since it's the holidays so stay tuned for more. xx

where's the maple syrup and pancakes?

O' CANADA! 

the land of pancakes and maple syrup with the most polite people that you can find. 

so yesterday, i attended sunway international school's first ever "international understanding day" (aka IU day) held by their interact club. this is the second IU day that i've attended. the first one was an IU day celebration by my own school last year with the theme life in technicolor. it was pretty enjoyable for a first time but it wasn't as good as sunway's IU day celebration. 

so being a school that follows the canadian education system, their IU day theme was o' canada. i was excited to go because i've heard that the people there are very fun and one of my friends, amanda — whom i met via the wonderful and glorious internet — has been sharing information about the event and it looked very exciting. another reason why i wanted to attend was because i wanted to meet amanda for the first time in person. and let me just say that the girl's hair (which is bright purple and pink) is brighter than my future. 

i didn't attend the celebration alone. in fact I went with two of my friends that live in the same neighborhood as me. wei lyn and shyne-ni (pronounced as sheh ni) it was their first ever IU day attended and it seems that they had quite a fun time as much as i did. 

the performances were great and the mc's were hilarious especially one of them named denzel who was as wild and loud as his long afro tied into a ponytail. him and the other mc (rahul) started of the celebration with the both of them entering the stage while singing a high school musical song. the performances were pretty unexpected too. most of them were singing performances but there were also cheerleading and poetry reading which was different from your usual stage acts. there was even a flash mob that occurred which completely took all of us by surprise. random people started standing on their chairs when the music went off and ran onto the stage and started dancing. 

the majority of the students there were korean. even the group of girls sitting in front of us were koreans. there were so many koreans there that i thought to myself "damn am i in sunway or am i in korea?" 

other than the performances, the food they provided there was incredible too. did you know that the hawaiian pizza despite its name was originally created in canada? well now you do. and did you know that poutine is a french canadian dish that is  made of french fries with gravy and cheese and it is also heavenly delicious. it was the first time eating poutine and now i absolutely love it ♡ it's a definite must try for all you who don't know it's delicious cheesy and gravy coated goodness. 

sadly i didn't get to have any pancakes with maple syrup because they ran out but i did get loads of poutine and pizza which made up for it ☻ overall a great event and i will definitely come back again for any of their future events. i'll end this blog post here with some other pictures we took at the event. till then, au revoir! xx