keepin it real.

Over lunch with the girlies and gent, CG requested for a blogpost on the happenings of my life, so.. here goes.. 2011 thus far. Apologies my life is pretty damn average, for a pretty average person of course ;)

[Cintia Dicker by Anne Menke for Marie Claire France September 2010 ]

Places:
Anne Leibovitz - American photographer's exhibition at the MCA. Taught me about perspective when one image struck me hard - the detail and courage Leibovitz had, to photograph her close friend - Susan Sontag's funeral. Searing and emotionally fraught photographs that are simple but madly powerful. She's well known for her works in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue. Thanks EG.

Mirazozo - Opera House - A unique and clever large scale inflatable sculpture made from translucent vinyl illuminated by a combination of light & colours. This was a very fun day :)

Beaches. Can I say more? Hells to the no. I am now a very tanned person. Healthy tan of course. I dont want to be leathery, because people will make shoes out of me. That will be sad. Like how they turned Boxer from Animal farm into glue. That made me very sad.

People:
Met some real life lynchpins (stole this word off DF (one of the lynchpins I've favoured) and I quite like it). It's amazing to see what people think of you when you tell them your story. Stories are such wonderful gifts that many don't appreciate. I love them. x

Hang time with my beloved KM and PC. Will and Grace, wine and talking about boys. Love x

My most rad and closest friends have resigned from work. As much as I am heartbroken and completely ridculously devastated, I do wish them happy times from here on. I have created a shrine for you at work. Lies!  Do you think Im a freak? I've only just kept locks of your hair. Baha!

Best friend got engaged and was asked to be maid of honour. What a blessing. :) Exciting times. I enjoyed the bridal lingerie catwalk most. Mmm. Hello good lookin men. Lovin' fashion catwalks in general. Congratulations to the good lookin couple VL and VN.

Attended the beautiful wedding of A and A Woodford. Just beautiful.

Things:
Gym - going pretty hard or just go home ;)
Skating - Love x
Online Shopping - Have recently upped the spend so I thank you strong AUD or not.
Couch time  - Hells to the yeah. Join me?
Picnics - double like!

So umm.. stop stalking me. Why are you so obsessed with me?!


Lies! I love it.

Back to work now.

[ Fernanda Tavares for Vogue Brazil November 2010 by Patrick & Victor Demarchelier ]


Love me. x

sad :(

I think I need some love.

thanks x

[cuddlebunnie]

it's mid week, but it's friday!

hello to mid week public holidays.

hello to spending the day in the sun.

[fkyeahcuteandgirlysht]

x

Today I found 100's and 1000's on my laptop.

It brought a ray of sunshine into my life today. Despite it being melted and stuck onto the lid, it reminded me of the wonderful picnic we had on Sunday.

We had Micaela's homemade sausage rolls nomnom that we almost lost in the grass thrice.
We also had moustache cupcakes, fairy bread, cherries, karkars delish mashed potato dish, chips & dips and appletizers.

Mmm lovely summer's breeze, tanned youngins passionate and clambered  all over each other in the background, naps in the shade under the tree.

Was a perfect day with perfect company.

This is Laura and the clever sausage dog at the park. He's name was Leroy. Leroy was short.

Love xx

archives _001

Dear Blog,

Today I found some photos in the archives.

Hello little girl.

Youre ugly.

tick tock.

whinge post. deadlines for work are the bain of my existence. I just want to lounge around.

 [ Fashion gone Rogue_ Marina Cunha by Gustavo Marx for Cake No. 2 ]

*Late into the evening*

Manager: Does anyone have any other questions or needs me to review or go through anything?

*Silence in the room*

Manager: Go on team.. anything?

J: "I like unicorns"

Manager: Well, J.. I have no comment on that.

KAPOW!

Love me please x

summertimes.

Beach.

[ Codie Young, Myf Shepherd & Samantha Harris by Nicole Bentley for Vogue Australia February 2011 ]

DVD's on the couch.

[ Lara Stone by Mert & Marcus for Vogue US September 2010 ]

Tans.

[ Melodie Monrose, Ming Xi, Pauline Van der Cruysse & Others by Daniele & Iango for V #69 ]

oh and of course I whipped my hair back and forth. whipped it real good.

Oh I miss you holidays.

Minimalist. One who advocates a moderate or conservative approach, action, or policy, as in a political or governmental org.

 Well when I want to be a minimalist I wear minimal clothes and lounge around on my conservative coloured couch.

[ Codie Young, Myf Shepherd & Samantha Harris by Nicole Bentley for Vogue Australia February 2011]
 

 

Hells yeah to frozen yoghurt, undies & jumper on the couch. BAM!

Love x

mosquito that bit me on my lower back. I curse YOU!

it's awkward when I scratch my back. it looks like im scratching my you know hoohoobutt.

Ruby Aldridge by Norbet Schoerner for Harper’s Bazaar UK February 2011

fun times are over. Work, why do you have to crash my tea parties?

[fkyeahcuteandgirlyshit]

I am dreading. muchly.

it is time.

Japan : Ja•pan (j-pn)

(日本, Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun") - country east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. It is comprised of a chain of islands.

Correct. That was where I was at a month ago now. Lets see if I can do it 10 bullet points.

Ichi - Arrived in Cairns, 3.5 hour delay. Bitchface. So we chortled and made up games. We now have alias-es, welcome Chuck, Pepper and Elliot.

Flight to Japan was pain, so we popped some travelcalms and .. avatar unplugged. Hello Japan. I curse myself for bringing a large suitcase. Thankyou big brother and your strong arms.

Ni - Hiroshima/Dontonbori - Hiroshima was sad times. But we had some happy times.

Okonomiyaki and Kirin. You may be the best thing that has happened so far.

San - Shin-Osaka/Shinjuku/TokyoDome -
I lied. Freak out already, replace english muffins with hotcake buns + eggs + bacon = best. ever. maccas. breakfast. You may be the best thing that has happened so far. Ha!

This made me a very happy girl.
Note pen in hand.



Even on your eyebrows. AMAZING. Imagine moustachies on your brows. Teehee.
You sleep, you will die. Well not really, you will just get moustaches.

We had amazing vending machine ramen. I love ramen. Its like meegoreng, but Japanese. with soup. and eggs. and stuff. And you all know how much I love meegoreng.


Might I add, Shinkansen I heart you. Where art thou in Sydney? Ba!


Shi - Harajuku/Shibuya/Akihabara

Holy beegeebees. This was heaven. We didnt have time for Yoyogi park to do a pedo on the Harajuku girls but we got a good amount of it at the Lotteria ladiesrooms. We met crazy cool people and Jamaican looking men that sold rapper hats and funky wear. Chuck bought rocking shoes. Pepper bought Lilo merch. I bought a hat. My head is reasonably sized. Took a photo with Tetsuya who sold me my hat. He was short, he was meant to grab my waist but instead held my butt. I was cool.

Go - Tsukiji Fish Markets/Imperial Palace/Asakusa

Japanese people sure know how to feed their people. EVERYTHING WENT.. IN MA BELLY. We also saw ninjas. But, they were just handling out pamphlets to the nearest boobie place.

Ps red bean cakes rocks my world.

Roku - Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens-Tokyo Bay-Ginza

To think that we were going into winter, and things were dieing, leaves were withering and dropping off trees was definately no way to describe it. Because although true, the gardens were beautiful, the fire red autumn leaves were just falling and drifting and the mellow in the yellow warms you right up. We felt like dancing. So we did.

Dance with me tree! Eat your heart out! Im going to CARRY YOU!

Also we saw a bike fine. So we took a photo of it.

We finished the night eating Takoyaki balls. Yep, take them balls and eat it. Teehee.
I also thought it’d be funny if I started leaving my shoes in random places on the street to see if Chuck and Pepper would find them.

Hello good lookin shoe.


Nana - Osaka Castle-Umeda
Chuck donned the emperor's gear at the Osaka Castle and we took photos of his face. Then other people gathered arnd him in his gear and he got awkward.

Ps Shabu Shabu I love you.



Hachi - Kyoto
This place was dope. Made me feel like a true tourist. But like... a Japanese tourist. Because we were in Japan. But loved it. Everybit of it. Especially the soy icecream. This was sex. Well the udon was sex. Or maybe the soba. Oh man the red bean cakes were sex. Everything was sex. No joke.

Ku - Osaka Aquarium/Kaiyukan
We saw whale sharks. They were sharks the size of whales. Well, little whales, and they had their crew swimming with them, like a little battle crew. It started to get really windy, so windy that we almost did a Mary Poppins. Maybe that was why our flight was delayed by another good 4 hours. Well hello Kirin.

Ju - the wrap up

Japan was awerrsome. The people are so gentle. The food is so lovely. The weather was so pleasant. Hello to daytime porn. Hello to crazy toilets and water taps. Hello to sweet action food at every vending machine. I will see you in a few months.

But most of all, thankyou to the el big brodo for being so funny and making us laugh throughout the whole trip, and thankyou Pepper for your crazy energy and showing us around the land of magnificento.

Also Ive realised that the above blog does not include many Japanese photos. They are on ze facebook, and lonelyplanet.com and all forms of tourist magazines. Because damn right, my photos replicate those that are the million dollar shots. Don’t want to BOREDOM you.

Hows that for 10 crazy bullet points. Someone give me a gold star. Or some looooOOoVE.

Ok thanks bye.

xx

/edit: sorry this post took forever, the wireless was broken-ed.