Perth Fashion Festival 2011

Recently, I’ve got the chance to partake in the Perth Fashion Festival as a Style Envoy! I’ve been wanting to join since last year but it was too late for me to sign up last year so I didn’t waste a minute of time when I got to know the registration for volunteers are open! As I trembled my way through the interview, I was lucky to be picked out as the Back-Of-House Dresser for a few shows so it was absolutely great fun for the whole week!

For my first night, I was scheduled to work for WA Designers and Ae’lkemi shows. Being my very first time and apparently the biggest show so far for Perth Fashion Festival Week, I could literally pee in my pants as I’m so worried that I’ll mess up and not being able to get the models out in time!! True to my expectation, I did screw up for one second when the dress was put on the other way round! Mind you, they were REALLYYY tall as well! :???: However, as I didn’t know pictures were allowed backstage, I only managed to take pictures on my second and third day shift.

I’d say the best experience for me was Hyogu Banshu where 6 designers were being sent all the way to Japan to manufacture their own fabrics and the collections from each of them was to die for! My favourite was the Origami dress! Thankfully, my model for that night was the friendliest I’ve met and the designer was awfully nice to us as well!

Every time before the show starts, I’ll get very jitty and nervous because trust me, backstage is as intense as everyone perceives. On normal days, girls take at least 10 minutes to get ready but we have to dress this models in one COMPLICATED outfit within 2 minutes most. All in all, it was definitely a great peek into the fashion industry. :mrgreen:

PS: I’m dying for those pair of ankle boots in the last picture!!! :evil: :evil:

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Day 4 at Heidelberg

Helloooo! So I hadn’t been blogging cause I’m so addicted to Sims on Facebook that I’ve neglected my blog has been undergoing some system upgrade and changing of servers.

Anyways, it’ll be my first shift participating in the Perth Fashion Festival tomorrow so wish me luck! If i may, I will take some backstage photos for you guys to see. I’m just too excited being able to work as a dresser for prestigious designers in this coming week!!!

Plus, multicultural week is kicking off on this coming Monday so it’s going to be a busy week! :mrgreen:

I’ve still got much to talk about my Europe trip and I’m only halfway through Day 4!! Continuing my trip from Lucerne, we departed on bus to Germany. On the way to Germany itself, we stopped by a scenic spot which overlooks one of the longest rivers in Europe, Rhine River. I was greeted with the most spectacular view of the river itself. It was definitely cloudy alright, but thankfully there wasn’t any rain pouring down when we were there.

I opted for a day dress as I know that I would be doing a lot of walking throughout the entire day. But in order to keep it casual, I took my leather belt which came with a fur vest and tied a little bow at the back instead to give my outfit a cute surprise when I take down my jacket. :grin:

We then travelled across the vast fields and passing by the Black Forest to arrive at a little small town in Germany. It was definitely a quaint and lovely town with quite a number of people in it. Our German lunch of pork knuckle and pork sausages was served in a restaurant located in Drubba, a cuckoo clock factory shop! :mrgreen: On a side note, you can probably tell that I’m currently obsessed with dalmation and their lovely dalmation prints! One dalmation fur coat away and I’m straight to Cruella DeVil. :evil:

Of course, certainly we would be able to experience a German lunch consisting for pork sausages, pork knuckles, sauerkraut and some fries. It was weird though that there was rice on it! The waitress who served us sure have some great strength on her pair of arms as she managed to hold onto so many pints of beer at one go as though they are as light as feathers!! :shock: And since Blackforest cake originated from this part of Europe, we’ve got the chance to taste a piece of cake each! In my opinion, there was too much alcohol in it though so much so that it’s overpowering which completely destroy the cake as a whole for me. :???:

Just right after our hearty lunch, we then proceeded to a demonstration on how cuckoo clocks are made!! I know how cuckoo clocks are made of wood traditionally but I couldn’t help it but to fall in love with that plastic one! Simply just too unique on its own!

There were definitely lots of families walking around, bringing their dogs with them as well. Almost everyone has a dog walking with them in this town and how I just wish that I could do the same in Malaysia as well. :sad: Anyway, on that day itself, there was a massive band and stalls set up like as though there was a festival going on so it was truly an amazing experience. Not to forget the wonderful lake overlooking the Black Forest (if I’m not mistaken that should be it!). We didn’t stay here for long though as we were supposed to continue our journey to Heidelberg.

My Judas Dance Crew baby!

I just love how the rays are passing through the clouds in this particular picture.

It irks me that we are having so many Chinese dinners in this trip alone when we can try what the locals have to offer!! So we had our meal at this Chinese restaurant and please don’t laugh at the monkey’s butt and it’s toot. Just didn’t expected the person who made this to go into such detail! It wasn’t intentional!! :twisted:

I love how there’s palace in the most random places. I’ve seen so many palaces in this trip it’s not even funny! They all remind me of the Super Mario’s palace naturally.

There wasn’t much to buy in Heidelberg but I dare say that there were definitely many interesting things to see. The atmosphere in the small town market area was very relaxing with many alfresco cafes and mostly all of them are being almost full! And of course, it wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t visit the Hard Rock cafe in Heidelberg itself. ;-)

That day I was wearing:
Pink Ruffled Dress from Ying & Yang
Neon Green Watch from Swatch
Fringed Boots from a random shoe shop in Perth
Accessories from Lovisa

PS : On a side note, I’ve been watching this video every night without fail because I personally think it’s so funny!! Lanvin campaign ads always get me hooked!! SHUSHH I know mostly everyone has watched it but I just couldn’t help posting it!

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Day 3 in Lucerne

For our third day, woke up to a beautiful morning sunshine which I’m eternally grateful for because it has been raining for the past two days! In my entire trip, I must say that Lucerne is one city that I came to love a lot. It’s so pretty in terms of scenery and I would want to live here when I’m old!!!

Have you ever guys been torn on what to have for breakfast because the spread is soo mouth tantalizing!! So that explains the cereal (OH.MY.GOD, the best cereals I’ve taken because I’ve added walnuts and honey nuts inside!!) and the other plate meh hehe. I’m supposed to eat like a king for breakfast right!?

What I love about travelling is that we cover a whole lot of distance by foot so that’s definitely some great exercise! We walked from our hotel to the iconic wooden Chapel Bridge for about 10 minutes. The view was absolutely breathtaking after crossing the bridge as we’ve managed to catch a glimpse of the mountain and the lake was filled with pretty swans and ducks! Okay, I know that you can only see ONE swan in this picture but I swear that there was at least 15 of them!

I swear to God I’m addicted to all the pedestrian traffic buttons because I seem to have a picture of each in every country I go to wth! And don’t you think this particular one looked like it’s taken over by human-eating robots or something. :x I’ve managed to buy two watches while I was in Switzerland and they were spectacular! I’ve always wanted a black one but I guess my skin doesn’t go with black watches so I got a white one instead along with a Fluorescent Neon Green watch with silicon strap(not pictured)! It was such a delight to touch the silicon material. So nice to smell too! :razz:

Even though it’s freezing, that doesn’t stop me from getting a cone of ice-cream from the famous Ice-cream store! They sell macarons with ice-cream fillings too! Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to get them though cause I still hadn’t finish my box of macarons from the day before. Camwhore Fail! :evil:

We then proceeded to the Lion Monument and to manage to get some cuckoo clocks magnets from a quaint little corner store. But I guess the shopaholic character got the better of me because I ended up buying mouse pads with cows on them too LOL! :lol:

After spending a wonderful time on sight-seeing and getting some souvenirs, we went up to Mount Titlis by taking a cable car. It was approximately an hour just being inside the cable car. Throughout the entire time, we could hear the bells hanging on the cows’ neck jingling dingling doo! We had cheese fondue for lunch along with other dishes as well but I didn’t want to stuff myself silly as we knew that we were going to take a stroll along the snow covered mountain!

Just as the moment we stepped out, it was snowing heavily for a few minutes! DURING SUMMER! It definitely was one hell of a magical moment at the top of that mountain. My family and I held our hands together to walk because we were so not equipped with clothes that are meant for snow! I fell halfway and all they did was take continuous shots of me while laughing and nobody even bothered to help me up!!! :evil: The most amusing thing I saw while walking was that an Indian lady was walking in her SAREE while it’s snowing!!! :shock: To think that I’m already freezing in my winter coat!! But that’s not it, there was another couple who were pushing their baby pram on the snow. ON THE SNOW! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: It didn’t move an inch of course cause the wheel was rolling at the same spot. :roll:

Everyone went back into the cafe in less than 10 minutes and you could tell that I wasn’t very happy and satisfied with that as we still have an hour or so more before we could get back down! So i waited for my dad to have his ice-cream (look whose the kiddy one now :razz: ) before he could take me out to play in the snow again! :evil:

‘TYRA DID I MAKE YOUUUU PROUD? I’M SMIZING!’

As soon as we got down, we spotted two local kids selling fresh cherries by the roadside. The small boy kept cycling back and forth from his house to pluck more cherries when a swarm of Chinese tourist surrounded them! While waiting for them to buy their cherries, there was an exchange of conversation between the girl and a Chinese woman who doesn’t know how to converse in English, and so she turned to me. That’s when all the monkey signs came out. Knowing how I’m a complete idiot in Mandarin, I just waved my hand around leaning back and forth, rolling my eyes mumbling ‘I don’t know what is she talking about!’ because I can’t translate anything at all! :x But we did get our hands on two bags of cherries and they the sweetest ones that I’ve ever tasted! :razz:

That’s one thing when you played in the snow, you’ll definitely get gross and tangled hair soon after! Spending the afternoon surrounded by snow was more than I could ever ask for. We went back to the city after that to have a walk around CLOSED SHOPS because it was a Catholic holiday!!!! SO YES, two days in Lucerne and STILL NO SHOPPING FOR ME YET! There I was, sulking in front of stores when their display windows are filled with pretty clothes. :cry:

I love walking around the streets in Lucerne, the shops, the cafes tucked in the middle of the roads, random painting of a banana on the wall and the swans swaying idly to the water currents in the lake. Everything was just picture perfect with the amazing view of the mountain under the blue sky. I could live here thinking to myself as it’s one of the cities that I love so much. :grin:

That day I was wearing:
Pale Pink Belted Cape Coat from Forever New
Off-White Long Sleeve Top with half sheer sleeve from Kookai
Fringed Boots from a random shoe shop in Perth
Flower Garland and Cameo Bracelet with ‘Pearls’ from Diva
Accessories from Topshop and Thomas Sabo

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Fur for Truffle Festival

Just a week ago, I attended my very first food festival in Perth after all these years! For this one, it was all about truffles, truffles and more truffles!

Going with the rhyme, so I thought this would be a great time for me to wear my faux fur gilet! My precious precious fur vest. The desperate things I would do to get hold of this treasure of mine! I’ve always asked my friends if they have any desperate shopping stories to share just so I wouldn’t feel so alone hehe but it seems like I have too many it’s not even funny! :roll:

As soon as we got there, the rain was pouring so badly with strong cold winds, I was beyond freezing!! But as the weather tends to have its own PMS, it was all sunny minutes later. :roll: So Thank God for that. We were greeted by Jean Pierre Sancho’s tent and the first thing I couldn’t wait to get my hands on was their truffle macaron! Tastewise, it was okay but I didn’t really like the texture of it though as I find it a tad bit dry. :sad:

Walking deeper into the festival, there were a whole lot more stalls offering a variety of food. There was a long queue at the Truffle and Mushrooms stalls especially and the grilled mushrooms smelt soooooo good! It was definitely one of the juiciest and tastiest mushroom I’ve ever tasted! Boy they were big juicy juicy mushrooms! :razz: It was my first time eating mushrooms this way cause usually, I’m perfectly satisfied with a mushroom omelette!

Saw a bunch of old ladies in the middle of nowhere and thought it was funny to imitate them! :lol:

After awhile, we were on a street filled with food vendors and the aroma of food being cooked by each stall was just too good to ignore! So everyone bought different food so that everyone could have a taste out of everything! We’ve got Fish and Chips with Truffle Mayonnaise, Truffled Potato Croquettes, and Gnocchi Ravioli with Mushrooms and Truffle from Inconte. I love the truffle mayonnaise so much because I found myself constantly dipping away with it! We even shared a Truffled Moonmeat Burger from Mondo Butchers and Crispy RABBIT and Truffle spring rolls! YES, I ate a rabbit eeekkks!! It was soft and tender I have to say but I felt like as though I was eating a pet dog! :shock: But the weirdest bit of the day was the chicken and truffle flavoured Ice-cream! There wasn’t any taste of chicken in it though but it was definitely an amazing treat!

You can tell by the end that I was very, very truffle-fied.

As we started our day earlier in the day, we’ve noticed that there was a tent promoting Tourism Malaysia specifically and it was funny because there’s no other countries promoting themselves and I thought I was in a Truffle Festival! But then again, I’m glad it was there as I’ve got to attend Chef Wan’s cooking session hahahaha! Ohmygod he is one of the horniest man I’ve ever known because he constantly talks to us about dirty jokes! (not that I don’t enjoy *coughs coughs!* :roll: )

I loved the session so much because it was also my first time trying out the Malay’s porridge that is always being served during Hari Raya? Correct me if I’m wrong! Other than that, he even cooked lamb rendang? I don’t know what is it called in Malay gosh but the meat was so tender and well marinated!! *shyy* :oops:

That day, this was the outfit that got me freezing like a mad scrawny chicken! But hey, no pain no gain! :twisted:

Faux Fur Gilet with a leather strap beltfrom Forever New
Navy Blue with White Stripes Tunic from Uniqlo
Red Loafers from Random Shop in Beaune
Accessories from Diva
Heart Pendant with Necklace from Dearest Mummy
Alexander Wang Rocco Bag

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Beaune

I’m having mixed emotions today because of my weird encounter with a stranger at the train station. So there I was minding my own business, with my earphones on playing the list of songs fro mmy phone while people watching, THIS MAN on my left raised his voice a few times to say hello to me.

Now of course, any sane person like me wouldn’t answer to the first few hellos because I’ve always smiled or waved at people whom I think was saying Hello to me, but really it was to the person behind me. Hence, I ignored him, thinking that he wasn’t calling out to me! Not giving up, he waved his hand over just inches away from my face, that I could literally feel the wind caused by his hand movements. We ended up talking about Angry Birds WTF because he assumed I was playing that game on my phone. So I wasn’t very keen on talking to him because I’m sorry, his pronunciation wasn’t very clear from the first place due to his Arabic accent so I tried to break off the conversation by putting my earphones back.

THEN TO MY ASTONISHMENT, he asked me ‘ARE YOU STRAIGHT?

WHAT.THE.HELL.

ANYWAYS, after a hectic schedule in Paris on the first day, all we did on the second day was just travelling across the country to Switzerland. I was a little down at first when I see itinerary list for the day as there was probably two things at most. But at the same time, I was quietly looking forward to Switzerland because my parents had always been telling me how wonderful it is whenever I ask them about their Europe trip decades ago.

But boy oh boy it sure was another gloomy day as it was drizzling for quite a bit during our whole journey.

It was pretty chilly and helll I was freezing in my sheer top! Of course I didn’t want to admit that in front of my family or they would reprimand me for wearing something so thin! :razz: I’ve always remembered seeing the newly advertised Kinder Bueno White in every magazines I read, so when I finally see it being sold at one of the snack stores, I stole my mummy’s money to pamper myself with Kinder Bueno. I have to say though that I still prefer the milk chocolate. Guess I’m just not used to eating white chocolate! :roll: Halfway through our journey, we spotted a castle on my left and doesn’t that just reminds you of the castle in Super Mario when we play as a kid?!?! :grin:

Midway through to Switzerland, we’ve made a short detour to a quaint town known as Beaune to spend a little bit of my dad’s money LOL time. As soon as we made our entrance, I could feel the peace radiating from the town already without even having to get down from the bus yet!

We were given the privilege to have our own lunch so relying on our instincts sense of smell, we went around sniffing and spotting for the cafe with the most patrons! While walking along the streets, there it was, the smell of grilled sandwiches and the sound of a busy restaurant serving its customers with a variety of mouth-watering food, we knew that restaurant would be THE ONE.

As everything was mostly written in French, thankfully the names were quiet similar to English and with the help of a pretty girl whom served our table that afternoon, we managed to pick our lunch without any problem and I dare say, this was one of the best meals I’ve ever had on my Europe trip. Though the simplicity, each dish was perfectly prepared! :smile:

As the saying goes, the way to a man’s heart is by filling up his tummy! So as cunning as I can be, seemingly that my Dad was happy, I went up to him and asked him if he could buy me a pair of red loafers from that a random shoe shop! One must not be afraid to take chances and go further! So there I was, pushing more buttons HAHAHAHHAA, I asked my dad if I could get a box of macarons! :razz:

I must say that not that I’ve tasted a lot of macarons but I could tell that these ones were good!! I was keen on buying more pastries because honestly, I’m a sucker for all things sweet but I sternly reminded myself that no, I wouldn’t be able to finish them! Although it’s just a small pastry store from a quaint town, Pâtisserie Wagner does wonders with their selection of pastries and desserts!

After spending a good two hours in Beaune, it’s non-stop travelling to Switzerland! As soon as we arrived, we were famished by then so we had dinner at one of the restaurants in the hotel called Penthouse. The meat was absolutely juicy and even more flavourful when it’s combined with creamy mushroom sauce! Funny thing was, it was already close to 9 and it was as bright as ever outside!!! So my parents and I took a brief walk outside the hotel just across the street to have a look at these colourful watches because they were so eye-catching from afar when I walked into the hotel earlier! Wished I could have a box of these beauties!! :razz:

Moving on to outfit pictures!

What I love about this top is it’s capelet collar because I guess somehow, having something over my shoulders makes me feel protected in a way hahaha! That’s why you see, superheroes have capes! And I’ve been buying these kind of tights because I love the idea of knee length socks but not so much of the socks itself because it tends to slide down as I walk, whereas these tights gives the illusion of you wearing a knee length socks and you need not have to worry of it sliding down your legs(!!) and having to pull it up over time and again. I’ve gotten so many questions whenever I wear these out because strangers would always come up to me and ask if those heart shapes were my tattoo! I think I’ll die if I put a tattoo on my thighs because as you all know, I’m highly intolerant to pain!!

Sheer Blouse with Pleated Capelet Collar from Topshop
Black Cuffed Shorts from Zara
Tights from Topshop
Accessories from random silver shop and Diva
Heart Pendant with Necklace from Dearest Mummy
Longchamp bag borrowed from Mummy

PS : Yes, I brought Minnie along with me for my entire Europe trip!! :mrgreen:

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