Priscilla veiled Umeda with love

She was an angel, a perfection, and a lonly bird that warbles out in winter sky.

What an amazing night.

pretty please

Hi lovelies you may have noticed that my updates have been getting a little slow these days but my absence can attribute to nothing but the whirlwindness of my current life-style ; no kidding, for the past few weeks I found myself either at university or work and as soon as I get home I eat, bath, get into PJ's and snuggle down in my bed. I'm now totally convinced with people whinging that a day had more than 24 hours.

Photos are also piling up but they'll soon be uploaded(sorry girls!).

To my relief, this week is going to be mixed with a bit of sugar and spice besides mound of study and work:

-payday! yay!
-Priscilla Ahn concert in Osaka on Thursday
-may have a slight change on my hair style
-open new make up base from cle de peau BEAUTE
- and not to forget routine Skype bonne nuit with my beloved:)


Enjoy the last blessing of November everyone! Next post will be up soon so please stay tuned.

Friday deluxe

Last Friday both my best friend and I had our classes cancelled due to university festival so decided to indulge ourselves in early weekend comfort. Lunch at Genius Cafe among many hurried office workers; in 5 months from now we'll be also munching on a sandwich with business documents on one hand. Scary.

Career, men, fashion, beauty tips, marriage and life: as usual our conversation covered whole index of female magazine.

Naoko:"I wonder what being independent means."

...I think we need a special issue for that topic, sweetie.

Crawled through vintage shops after lunch.

Isn't this dress so Blair Waldorf?Beautiful.

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Realizing that it's November, I was suddenly caught in reminiscence of days in Melbourne; it's amazing how a year changes everything.

I miss you my people.

Fall in Love

These cuties are what I had crush on this autumn.

Boots and shawl from Italy, earrings from India.

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...and love delivered from France. Merci darling, and happy 2 years anniversary from the day we first met! Miss you:).

A midweek bliss

This week has been fantastic. Sudden cancel of lecture on Wednesday pampered me to go out for shopping and I ended up doing some great autumn buys (I got a gorgeous pair of Italian short boots!). But most importantly I had several catching up sessions with my dear girls this week which unexceptionally accompanied darling food and a cup of chai latte.

Natsuko, with her new fairy hair. Lovable.


A smell of cinnamon and trivial conversation with girlfriend : I badly needed this.

monochrome

“Shades of grey wherever I go

The more I find out the less that I know

Black and white is how it should be

But shades of grey are the colors I see.”

Pink Ribbon Smile Walk

Sunday morning I took part in charity walk for breast cancer campaign with Naoko and proudly completed 10km walk all around Kobe.

I didn't know that breast cancer is indeed the most common cancer among Japanese females; today in Japan one in twenty women develops breast cancer and its death rate has continued to rise unlike its decrease in US and Europe. Indeed I remember so well that we even learned about breast cancer at high school in Australia but here in Japan we seldom had chance to know what it is until recently ( though some trashy fashion magazines seem to be misunderstanding its concept and utilizing pink ribbon for their marketing purposes).

We always want to believe in our own health and often don't connect ourselves with cancer and such until we actually diagnosed as its patients. But who knows that I won't be the one in twenty women?

Just a little awareness and action; it's that simple to save our life and happiness!

October Vibrancy

So now I'm back to classes after too long summer holiday and already winded by 5 hours of train trip between home and university. To make matters worse lack of my autumn wardrobe is adding an extra hour before my routine haste to the bus stop in the morning. However I'm after all feeling much more vividness in life with going to classes; I think we often start missing some academic dose when the life is getting too vacationed. I go to uni 3 days and work 4 days a week this semester and this will continue until March.

I'm so sorry for the recent lack of posts. I hardly had time neither to blog nor get some photography inspirations since uni started but I'll soon get back to blogging habit once this back-to- school fever is settled.

...Oh and yes, I've got a ticket for Priscilla Ahn concert at Billbord Osaka next month! Super, super excited.

Autumn love for everyone,

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It's ladies exclusive

To tell the truth I was expecting more awkwardness and a stammer ; it was unusual enough having lunch privately with my brother's girlfriend whom I've met only once before. 15 minutes later we were however just two loquacious girls who never stop talking on boys and cheerleading ( we're both ex-cheerleaders!) with health-conscious salad lunch. We incredibly struck a chord with each other.

Dearest my brother, I think you're truly blessed.

By the way, it's time to appreciate hot coffee...recent insane climate is already making people impatient for boots and coat!

hiatus needed

Past few weeks had been nothing but part time work. Spending 8 hours straight in department store everyday isn't as pleasant as I initially expected.

Rainy day off, watching fav movie with a mug of chamomile tea, no high-heels but barefoot. Feel so revived.

authencity lies in nudeness

Even the tide was too low, Japan's top3 view still had an absolute majesty standing by itself. Bravo, bravo.

Miyajima was purely a beautiful place. Needless to say as to Itsukushima shrine, but there seems to be also many historical attractions to discover in that small island. In the town you see lots of classic inns and adorable cafes, and thousands of momiji-manju confectioneries suffer you to choose the one right shop just for a souvenir;P.

...and tame deer may come up and harass you for food! They may be not as cute as they look;p.

Lovely September weekend for everyone!

No more Hiroshima, No more War

My first visit to Hiroshima ironically happened on the 7 th memorial day for 9.11.

In today's world it seems as if achieving peace is only one remove from war and there is indeed a rising social tide for bashing those people who simply plead for the world peace.

I have to admit that I have no real sense for how awful and merciless the war is; for me any of war related movies, documentaries and books I've seen and read had never been more than a history and when I mention war and peace I feel myself so lame. Facing to the remnants of Hiroshima tragedy, however, convinced me that we need no reason to claim peace.

I found a solemn silence but no peace from those traces of war in Hiroshima. The Stars and Stripes has never looked so empty to me on that day.

so I sealed it with kisses...

Before the summer starts this year almost every worker I've met told me that I should have a full blast during the holiday since this was the final big vacation I've got as a student. Without fail it has indeed turned out as one of the most amazing summer I've ever had. No more fears and hesitancy, and everything has become crystal-clear in me as if those bright summer days made it so.

It was a summer of rediscovery, faith and love.

Chris leaves Japan on Wednesday and we won't see each other until January. 4 months sounds pretty harsh but he'll be busy with his MA course and I'll also be tied up with my final semester plus part time work so hopefully it won't be that bad. But of course I'll still very much miss him for sure.

Kindly September wind already feels so sweet.

Kisses,