Growing up and Selling out?

UPDATE: [11/24] Wahaha. Christie's actually retracted their offer and filled the opening with someone else, since I took two whole long weeks to tell them I'd take the offer. *Phew!* I've been spared from corporate slavery!

One reason to make this legit: I put on 5 lbs since I started my intership. Imagine what will happen if I work there for 2 years...-> 80 lbs of extra blubber =o

Want to die at the prospect of having to wear a suit, or any article of clothing that can make me look like an OL (Office Lady) for the remainder of my living years. As of now my alma mater hasn't yet taken me back to the womb of her endless corridors as an employee. Which means I'd have to accept Christie's offer, my one and only in the past 6 months, and stay in HK, servicing people with too much money to know what to spend it on.

Say goodbye to idealism and wave hello to cruel reality, CY.

In uni profs taught kids like me to look forward into the future and do great things that benefit many. Now I'm gonna have to learn to look backwards (as if I don't do that often enough already) and start studying old, antiquated, sometimes dilapidated things that only a small minority appreciates.

Tadao Ando x Louis Vuitton

exhibit at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, as yet another celebratory act for the 150th anniversary of the world's most counterfeited monogram. It didn't occur to me that cool architects too, like household-name artists, can collaborate with luxury brands on projects other than flagship store designs. Well worth exchanging that hard-earned mileage for...

Universal Symbol of Brands: Louis Vuitton travels beyond time and space ルイ・ヴィトン 時空を超える意匠の旅

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Osaka, 10/2 - 12/25;
Mori Musuem of Art, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, circa 1/21...

Not so Haute anymore?

After Todd Oldham, Cynthia Rowley, Isaac Mizrahi, Matthew Williamson and a whole generation of late 90's UK designers, Karl Lagerfeld too is jumping onto the crossover bandwagon of chainstore collaborations. This November sees a post-diet, Hedi Slimane cladded Lagerfeld dallying with H&M. The result? Sleek silhouettes decked in black and white, reminiscent of 80's New Romantics / androgyny. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff, but good enough for office wear. I have to say the chi-chi ad for the collection is a whole lot dirtier and a hella more exciting.

Update: [12/2] Word has it that KL pulled out, after H&M insisted on producing the line in larger sizes. KL refused to compromise his designs for the non-stickmen population.

The only reason to live in the States. Right now.

Bridget Jones, single working Everywoman, Western femme-dom icon is returning to the big screen on Nov 12th.
How long I wonder, will it take to reach these shores?

Nostalgic for not-at-all-bad Brit food

Am direly craving for a proper Sunday roast after accidentally catching BBC's Food Heroes: Another Helping, hosted by Rick Stein. Why wasn't roast pork with apple sauce so cracklingly good looking back in my boarding school days? Saliva glands continued to work hard as he piped up apple pancakes with custard and cider =d Hmm custard... perfect comfort food.

Will now be haunted by visions of pork chops (note to HKers: of the edible kind), roast beef, lampchops, Yorkshire puddings, roasted potatoes etc until I find a place in HK that serves all the works the proper British way. For tomorrow at least, I'd have to make do with a full-on, full fat, full cholestrol "high fun yeen" [shredded crab feast] at Lau Yuen, as a mini self-consolating gesture for turning one year short of a quarter century old. *deep sigh at the rapid aging process*