run.. don't walk..

because i want to stop living in between the lines..
all the safe grey areas that have been my comfort zone..

maybe just maybe i'd like to take this one in a million chance and jump..
and hope against all hope that you might be there at the end of the day to catch me..

i'm not asking for a fairytale..

i just thought maybe you might feel the way that i do..

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

Walk a while with me.. but i hope you remember this moment forever..

photo credits : fuckyeahfashion

within that nano-second
i finally am able to just breathe...

and attempt to break free...

last week has probably been the worse most traumatizing weeks of my life
i possibly am more fragile that i thought..
i should be stronger and not let the little things get to me but sometimes it's tough

i think i came out of that looking something like this :

all shaken and broken with the bruises to prove it..

now to somehow put all those pieces together and fix what's left that hasn't yet fallen away..

thank you for trying to make up for it with the little presents..

i miss you all a lot still.
can i exchange this for you all to come back to me again??

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

the end to an era..

sitting across R from dinner it finally hits..
it is time to say goodbye..
the end of an era. time to say goodbye to our innocence.

and i still wonder how the years manage to run us by. i said we should definitely have been there for each other more often than we have. and at the moment you leave me with a feeling of elated lows..
he looks at me and says.
"you've been there more often than you realize. if not we wouldn't be here now. we'll meet again i promise, once we conquer the world and have the stars under our feet.and trust me my love nothing will change even then."

like T's words so beautifully etched on his chest as a constant reminder:

"shoot for the moon, even if you fall you'd land amongst the stars"

photo credits : helmut newton

these pictures somehow remind me of you. it's this crazy glamourous lifestyle only seen with rose-coloured glasses that is somehow captured in them. thanks for letting me experience it at least once during this lifetime.

i'll miss you. ALL OF YOU. and in no particular order.
now it is time to grow up and face reality isn't it.

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

I'm not dead. Just barely alive.

I've not had the initiative to write in a long while simply because work has eaten up my life.
My eyebags already cover half my face and i probably go a lil overboard as i reach for those eye creams and face masks.
The prettier and more unreadable the packaging is in japanese/taiwanese the more i love it and swear it works wonders.
Sometimes the crazy does bubble up in the most unexpected ways.

and pssttt... i can't wait for the 25th of June.

mark fast x topshop.

i absolutely love his London Fashion Week dresses!!
how gorgeous are they.. but then again it's not like i'll ever be able to afford the real thing..
thank god for high street diluted fashion!

picture credits : insideout topshop

i honestly wish i could pull of the sultry, sexy relaxed jane birkin vibe..
i know i'm delusional and probably will never be able to.. (c'mon look at how hot her bod is!!)
but that doesn't stop me from day dreaming about it!!

picture credits: nastygirl blog

anyway, tillwemeetagain..
au'revoir and lotsa bisous.. xoxo

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

we're going to run this town tonight*

I love long weekends because it is a break from the major workloads i've brougt upon myself.. Not that I'm complaining but there are days that I ask myself why.. Whether the stress is worth the $$$ and having to give up on a life. There are days that seem to go by filled only with work and sleep. I suppose due to this endless mundane cycle I rarely write or blog as much as I used to.

But this Easter break is turning out to be quite perfect albeit a little short.
most people have 4 days off, I have 2. Yes, it's the workload talking but at least 2days off in a row has at least made me feel human again.

Eve on Friday night with the girls, silk road last night and an entire Saturday of perfect weather dedicated to shopping my hard earned money
although my plans for a road trip had an unforseen kink thrown into it, and I had to cancel all my lunch reservations at least shopping sorta made up for it. Now I have a huge dent in my wallet, so back to work now...

~and for some pics~

♥♥For-EVE-r friday with the girls ♥♥

♥*and some of the things i picked up along the way one fine saturday* ♥

another pair of london soles to add to the collection. these were a sample size that were selling for 44% off!! felt so incredibly lucky because they're also a one of a kind deisgn that i just had to snap them up!!

and a wallet from chanel from their spring/summer 2010 collection
i love the logo in gunmetal on the front!! ♥♥
finally something i see that i like there. with chanel sometimes its a hit and miss with me. i know, picky aren't i?? hahaha

also got an itouch and i can't seem to stop fiddling with it.

anyway i hope everyone has had an awesome long weekend and a chance to rest and relax...
now back to slugging it

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

We electrify this town..

love you muchy muchy always wifey...

*bisoubisou*

always huni ..

♥♥♥

the always golden brother of mine..

stay the awesome way that you always seem to be..

and please continue to say things like these that make my day :

"i think the koko pops monkey looks kinda cool. not me!! i'm talking about the cereal!"

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

ps: if you follow this space, you can see that it's obviously going thru one of its "under renovation" phases until i'm finally happy with the way it looks..

We light up the nights with these bright lights...

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

Can you meet me halfway, right at the borderline...

it's the fella's birthday tomorrow.

however having to accommodate my crazy, unexpected work schedules and the fact that the restaurant was already booked out a month ago, we decided to celebrate one day early.

so i took him to the new movida aqui, and i have to say i definitely prefer it to the one on hosier lane.

The birthday man...

you're no longer a boy, ok!!

starters:

oysters with watermelon dressing

anchovies with tomato sorbet

there was one more dish of wagyu short ribs

which i forgot to take a picture of when i hungrily dug in. but it had the most amazing mash which accompanied it

main:

seafood paella

THIS WAS SO FREAKING GOOD!!!

although i was already full i couldn't stop eating it!! most definitely will go back again just to have this. i think it's so worth the money with the large portions and generous amounts of seafood.

for dessert:

we skipped towards bourke street. and although i was already stuffed to the brim the extreme hot weather today made me craving for this..

pistachio gelato and watermelon granitas @ pellegrinis

ok now i'm busting out off my bettina corset top.. damn it... fatpig~fatpig

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

you are the one thing that i love and hate all at once

tonight i finally managed to get to gill's diner.

and the food was kinda amazing. between us we shared

~ deep fried zucchini blossoms stuffed with ricotta and orange served atop soft polenta and honey truffle

~ smoked eel croquettes with aioli

~ pasta dumplings with bay bug broth

the dumplings were a bit of a let down though it was a main

but the zucchini blossoms were really yum!! i've been looking for a place that served them and i found them really good.

dessert was the mini pecan pie at pie face.

if anyone has not been there it's really worth a try. my favourites are the steak pie which is really chunky and the pecan pie (although it is on the sweet side because of the caramel at least it comes in a small helping so it's not like you'll get sick of eating it)

it's really worth a go..

the fella liked the chicken pie i bought for him yesterday (which he only had for brekkie today) that he went back for seconds today straight after dinner..

xx

it's one of those weeks where i only seem to feel exhausted and spent. but then again i don't really remember a time where i felt anything else.

where i just want to pack everything up and bid you farewell. because i am already so emotionally empty whereas you still seem to be constantly taking what you want without giving anything back.

at the moment, it's a continuous internal struggle with myself.

i'm trying to find a compromise between what i want and feel that i deserve, and that which i have. sometimes there are days that i reach a heartbreaking conclusion only to stop short at making a firm stand on things.

i suppose what i might really need at the end of the day is just a good holiday...

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

If only i were the emperor of the moon

annie leibovitz for vogue. hansel, gretle and the witch.

i love annie leibovitz's work!! it's so breathtakingly fairytale-like..

pissed tired and blue. monday-itis bug biting me in the ass

listening to one republic - all the right moves

just had dinner with the lovely b*tches. yes my dears you read that right.. i said lovely. and yes i love you too.

and don't you whatever me.

currently angry with chanel for not having what i want in stock.

oh you stuck up bitch that works there. yes it's chanel. so what?

now the credit note just lies there unclaimed. truthfully what i want is only like less than 50% of what he bought me and it's doing my head in constantly going : so how am i going to spend it???

even shopping is giving me a headache.

something is definitely not right.

what it is i just can't put a finger on it.

it's just something. it means something when not even chanel can make me happy//

i probably just need to take a deep breath in and focus my energies on something productive

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

sedgewick-edly good..

sometimes i wish i was born in the 1960's height of the pop-culture revolution.

my recent fashion muse being edie sedgewick..

i can't help but love her look

couple those extremely cute short dresses and stockings is a definite yes!

my favourite has to be the last pic.. can definitely see why she's andy warhol's muse..

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

Bright lights & disco nights

ok now proceed to hang up those party shoes and cleanse the toxins outta my system

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥

Sometimes you find what you are looking for in the unexpected...

because when i begin to think that i already know everything there is to know about you, you can still manage to surprise me with the unexpected.

thank you so much for starting off the celebrations with the degustation dinner at attica and also surprising me with that present from chanel the other night out of the blue.

and now for some food porn~

i found that a few of the mains were rather disappointing, and this was one of them. peas in some broth, weren't that fantastic and truthfully tasted kinda like eating chlorofil.. urgh!*

i think out of all the mains this fish with almonds was my favourite one. i even attempted to steal some of kim's one coz i scoffed it all down really quickly~

followed by this steak with asparagus and cauliflower cream~
got pretty amused with this bee carving on the knife, coz i thought it was pretty cute~

truthfully the best part of dinner were the desserts~
this had cognac ice cream in it with mango and tangelo
violet ice cream!!! chef's version of a violet crumble.

i really like this one* but kim preferred the cognac ice cream one.

i wish they packaged their ice creams for customers to bring home!! i'd go back again just to eat their desserts..

the menu for the night~
and the man of the hour
xx

and sometimes i swear you kinda know me better than i know myself.

like tonight when we were walking to buy groceries in russell street..

me: hey you know those leica cameras??

kim : yes i know what you are talking about.

me: really?? then what am i talking about?

kim: the hermes x leica camera righhhttt??? it's $8000...... pounds

me: really?? OMG!! so expensive!! OMG!! HOW YOU KNOW I WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT??

damn!! am i that predictable??

*more pictures from girl's night out next!! i just got them all developed today

♥ xoxo Lyn ♥