Fall Must Haves!

In the spirit of fashion and my FAVOURITE SEASON, here are a few items I picked up while on my trip to Asia:

1) CHUNKY HEELS!!!

Jeffrey Campbell’s been doing them for awhile, Marc Jacobs got a cute collection of chunky for pre-fall and fall collection, they’re making appearances here and there. I fell in love with them when I was shopping in Bangkok, I bumped into 3 trendy ladies at random locations wearing the similar  chunky heeled mary janes and so I went on a quest to find them. It’s in the mail now. This is what it looks like! (but I got them in red b/c thats what hotter this season but the greens kinda cute too):

Keira Knightley’s got an interesting version on, its still cute none-the-less… what can I say? I’m obsessed!!

2) ANIMAL PRINTS/GOING TRIBAL

Ok, so the animal print trend has been going on for awhile but it hasn’t necessarily caught on but now that its all over EVERY store. Its become an essential, I’ve always had a fondness for leopard prints and accumulated quite a collection already. I’ve started to incorporate zebra prints too with a purchase of  a supercute jumpsuit from k-mart and some cropped tees. So when I think animal prints, i dont think tribal (which is most fashion drivers kinda put out that.. or with the combo of leather and prints -_-…. so tried out for me…), I think Cruella De-vil!!! A personal fashion icon of mine and one of the many fashionable villains in the history of our childhood. Shes like the Coco Chanel of Disney villains. I find it an interesting social commentary (consumerism, materialism hand in hand with the damning of women as “Evil”, but WHATEVER stylish and brilliant- scheming/plotting uses alotta brain activity- is all I see)….

(really hard to exclude the Kardashians when talking about style & fashion)

…. which brings me to the next must have….

3) FAUX-FUR COATS!!

I know, killing of innocent animals is cruel and for that I shun Cruella De-vil but a lover of fashion and style cannot deny that it is such an essential! Luxurious and sooo appropriate for the fall. We are in the North-east with horrid snowy winters not so appropriate in fear of getting the fur (faux) wet!!

A Michael Kors fur coat fall 2011

4) BOXY BAGS

They trickled their way in during the spring now they’re making a statement.. on the streets and on the runway ^^

for a bit more casual look to complete a grunge style or simple/innocent style… take a pick from any below:

I personally like the leopard print one. I have a really cute one that I take with me everywhere! I’m over the quilted bags now, I even moved onto the ostrich print bags which are making a big splash in Asia already and I see some stuff around here too.

5)PETER PAN COLLARS <3

Nobody really grows up and these collars are pretty adorbs. You’ve seen them on babydoll dresses and on usually more feminine attire, but now regardless of the look you sport… its totally a catch you have to make .

Alexa Chung sporting it… and different styles as you like it:

I have one more trend but I think its best to cap it at 5 .

Its fall break and I’m heading to DC to spend some time with Aileenie and meet up with some high school friends. Hope its a blast!! I miss G-town and the other wonderfulness of DC. We are going to the Spy Museum Saturday (yayyyy) and then clubbing perhaps and Peking Duck for peking duck ^^. And definitely some U street, G-town and Adam’s Morgans explorations.

(Keep an eye out for my next blogpost, thoughts on the OCCUPY movement. I want to articulate myself well so its taking some time.)

HAPPY FALL NETIZENS <3

xx

I thought I’d make a list of  some…

I thought I’d make a list of  some of the songs that I’ve come to have some attachment to, some are summer hits some are kinda old:

1) International love (a tribute to our blog <3!)

2) Give me everything tonight

3) What you waiting for ? (colby and mizz)

4) Combat baby

4)  Scary Ghosts and Nice Sprites

5) A little Bit

6) Insomnia (Jason Derulo)

7) Me love you long time

8) Party rock anthem

9) Where them girls at?

10) 1901

11) Last Friday Night (TGIF)

12) Just can’t get enough

13) Young, wild and free (wiz)

14) Superbass

15) Triple double

That’s all I can think of for now, most of the tracks are the overplayed ones at parties which you just cant hate but love

So its been 2 months since I’ve been…

So its been 2 months since I’ve been back to the motherland and its almost time to head back!

While complaining about having to go back to another semester of books and writing, one of the best advice I got from my friend when I first got back was to get married. We laughed b/c shes happily engaged and the thought did cross my mind, “wouldn’t it be easier to just get married, quit school, have adorable (hopefully) children and pursue what i love w/o an overrated college degree?” But the reality is I’m nowhere near able to engage in such a huge commitment as I have so much more growing to do. I guess only some of us can be so lucky . But anyhoooo, I’m Buddhist by the way, my mother’s adopted son (a monk) had stopped by so I dug up some of my astrological readings done at birth and asked him to translate it. The tradition in Bhutan is to get a “Ke Tshe” done when a baby is born to foresee any turmoils and to advise religious rituals (to the parents) to prevent possible danger to their kid’s life. So it turns out that if I were to become religious later in life OR become a nun, I’ll lead a very prosperous and successful life when I’m reborn. I used to make jokes about becoming a nun b/c there was a nunnery right above my best friend’s house but I never knew it was a potential path written down in my birth. Now here comes the funny part, my dad’s friend had done numerology readings for my sisters and I.. and in that reading it predicted my marriage age to be 19, 21-22… I’m going to be celebrating my 2nd annual 21st in November and I’m very single so the odds are pretty obvious lol.

Of course, while I do have faith in my religion I don’t blindly follow my faith… I just thought it was hilarious and kinda eerie because of the accurateness of my personality and the trials and tribulations I’ve faced. Maybe I’ll post the numerology reading on the blog since thats in English, the other one is sanskrit so that’ll be a tough one to deal with. That might be lil egocentric but it’ll be interesting to share with people who are into that kinda stuff

On a random note, as usual, here are my adorbs nephews who are making it unbearable to leave day by day. Both are spitting images of their madres. They insisted on clipping their lil sister’s bows on their heads ^^ :