Fabulista Loves: The Glass Vase (Royal Copenhagen)

P.S. - Thanks Terry... XOXO

Fabulista Loves: The Pearl (Royal Copenhagen)

Fabulista Finds: Beauty...

Last year, sometime after the New York Fashion week but before the French Fashion Week, one of my wannabe-trainees from WTF gave me a pot of miniature orchids as a token of appreciation.

This year, its first bloom presented eight (8) individual buds which flowered on the first day of Lunar New Year. This is a good omen. It shall be a good year this year.

Fabulista Finds: Joy...

Eventful. That should be the heading for this week. It’s been one hell of an eventful week, what with assignments and tasks at the Fashion School and stimulating the economy, one still manages to find time for self-repose and relaxation.

The fashion school, charming with its Provençal vibe, has started its afterschool lessons. However, from the look of some of the students, one is confounded at the actual benefits they can glean from the extra lessons. After all, one is not optimistic about the possibility of mainlanders learning how to execute the perfect sashay and chante.

Anyway, it was fabtastic how one was finally able to obtain the rarefied commodity otherwise known as the BVLGARI Save the Children Charity Ring. One ACTUALLY managed to find the exact size that fits. One feels that much more benevolent and philanthropic in a beautiful way – there is no other way to be so.

 

BVLGARI Save the Children Charity Ring

One was also able to catch up on one’s hobby of shopping – there isn’t a more elegant way to catch up on the dreaded but au neccessaire exercise. The happy people from the land of fairytales, manifesting as Royal Copenhagen had a sale over the weekend on the sunny island set in the sea. I couldn’t help but visit them at NAC and picked up a few objets d’art along the way. Tea by candlelight; there isn’t a more beautiful way to light up the night if you ask me.

 

	Glass Collection Tealight Holder (bought the opal model)
	Pearl Glass Tealight Holder
	Blue Fluted Plain Mug

What has been truly shocking this week that, amongst all the frantic hyperactivity in school and out, one was still able to catch up on:

• Regular jogs (on two days);
• Catch up on the movies that have been on one’s list!

Shockers!

I managed to catch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (beautiful but missing the point of the original story); Valkyrie (another Hollywood ‘based on true events’-type movie, if you know what I mean…) and On the Other Side on the Line (try analysing that from a World Lit/Feminism/Orientalism point-of-view)…

 

	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Valkyrie
	The Other End of the Line

What a wondrously eventful but fulfilling week it has been! Cheers to that!!

Fabulista Says: Look... then DIE!

Fabulista Excited: About N97

If we can believe Mobilecity, then N97 might be released in Asia soon. According to the site, which is taking pre-orders of the hotly anticipated flagship mobile phone, it is slated for a March 26 release.

However, as mentioned in an earlier entry, the phone will also be released in Asia and Europe before the rest of the world. This could mean that the phone will arrive sooner than later... and very much sooner too... (wringing hands in hot anticipation).

Fabulista Learns: Perpetrator is a Caucasian

Here’s an update on the N95 theft incident.

An update from my friends at Starbucks™ confirms that my phone was indeed stolen while I was reading at my favourite café.

From the video capture on the CCTV, here’s the description of the perpetrator:

• Male, Caucasian looking, mid-forties;
• Clothing – checkered brown shirt with jeans;
• Carrying a large black backpack.

Apparently, he had used the backpack as a cover while committing the crime.

The police helping me are going to have useful visual evidence when I show them the new materials from the helpful people at Starbucks™!

Fabulista Feels: Like a Trainwreck

Don’t know what it is, but I can feel myself going slightly off kilter this evening.

And I hate the sensation. It just feels weird getting all anxious and moody without any conscious reason.

It’s probably something at work, tutorials not going too well tonight, the lost of my mobile… or a compound reason of all the above.

I just want this to be over…

I’ll just get the homework for the tutorial over and done with and I’ll be fine I. Yup, that’s what I’ll do.

Fabulista Reports: Stolen Mobile Phone

If you are holding a secondhand Nokia N95 mobile phone, do check its IMEI number (by dialling * # 0 6 #).

If it reveals the number 354835010373331, it's a stolen model.

It is strongly advised that you return the phone to the nearest police station and tell them how you got the phone BEFORE the police trace you via the phone first.

Fabulista Relieves: Bad Karma

Karma (Sanskrit - कर्म) is a part of many world beliefs. I am not inclined to argue with millenniums of wisdom. I intend to use it to understand why things happen.

As fabulous as one is, one is NOT perfect. One's actions and deeds does accumulate karma, both good and bad over time. It comes to a head in a burst of wonder - beautiful and good or nasty and bad, depending on the energies accumulated.

One said goodbye to BAD KARMA the other day when one's N95 was stolen, taken literally, from right under one's nose. Sitting at one's favourite Starbucks, one moment it was next to me and then the next when one was about to check on one's messages, it was GONE!

I've since gotten a temporary replacement until my dream phone is released. So my dearest fabulous friends can still contact me. But what one was thinking about, is the karma as accumulated. If getting a possession stolen is bad karma, then the creature who took it away had just done a bad deed and at the same time helped relieved of one's bad karma.

So, it's actually double (or quadruple even) the accumulation of bad karma for the perpetrator! Oh, how silly of the evil one! All of one's BAD KARMA off to YOU!! Shoo!!

Fabulista Awaits: The N97

Word on the Net is that the Nokia's latest flagship - the N97 is due for a European (i.e. Britain) release in March. Since earlier punters revealed that Europe and Asia is slated for a simultaneous release, it means the sunny island set in the sea is getting it around then too.

Finally and not a moment too soon what with my recent (mis)adventure...

Fablista Finds: A Cause For Beauty

As part of its impressive 125th Birthday in 2009, Bulgari is committed to raising €10 million for Save The Children’s “Rewrite the Future” campaign. The Italian jewellery brand designed a beautiful silver ring with the engraved Bulgari logo which will be available from February the 1st at the price of €290 (SGD550), with €50 from each sale being donated to the charity. Moreover, at the end of the year, 15 pieces of high jewellery and 8 high-end timepieces will be available at an auction in New York with all of the proceeds going towards Save The Children. A truly beautiful ring and birthday it would be!

Fabulista Finds: Beauty in a Tiffany Moment

Thoughts for Christmas 2009

The Tiffany Grand in White with Crocodile