March 2011
4 posts
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank (via kari-shma)
“I will never say you look nice or compliment you” - carelessness, the most hurtful remark a person can make…let alone a boyfriend. I walked away and he didn’t follow.
I just want a cuddle yet they’ve never felt so impossible…
February 2011
9 posts
Realisations
When you just want someone to say they’re sorry, or rock up unannounced wanting to give you a cuddle, or call you in the middle of the night explaining they finally see it from your perspective…nothing sucks more than knowing that they never, ever will.
They’ll sleep soundly, and you’re left wide awake, puffy-eyed, still wishing…
Some realisations sting.
“I don’t particularly enjoy silent treatment…”
– Warranted or unwarranted.
Times like these
I wish I could just shop and giggle and eat cake and wear twirly skirts and do lunch and bake cookies and look at photos and travel and sponsor hundreds of children and be surprised by flowers and dance like Michael Jackson and speak French and hug my mummy and not over think and be in five places at once. In times like this, sometimes I just want to do it all…
“HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!! Love heart-shaped pizza, please…”
– And diamonds, if you feel like it.
Leave the cheese at home...
Sooo, Valentine’s Day is coming up and it’s awkward. I find it super hard to understand how anyone could be legit and take this day seriously with all the cringe fluffy gifts, samey same ‘I love you’ cards and enough crimson plastered in every corner to make even a heart surgeon throw up their ham and cheese sandwich.
I get it, some chicks and dudes love the mush - the...
January 2011
3 posts
“WHERE ARE THE BUTTERFLIES AND GIGGLES?”
– Constant comparison.
Drops of Jupiter...
Just came on the radio. I’ll never forget the time my mum went to buy my older brother Train’s latest album. She walked up to the sale assistant and asked whether he had ‘A Little Bit Of Mars’ in stock…”I think you mean ‘Drops of Jupiter’, miss”.
Oh Mumma Kooy, you are so easy to love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc
October 2010
4 posts
“Inspiration deficient. A love shake is needed.”
“Make something up; something to believe in, in your heart of hearts so you have...”
– The National - Mistaken for Strangers
Filling the mind
1- Home, Perth, my early morning cab ride to the airport, cuddling Mumma Kooy, the wedding…2- My Sunday hike, biking around Sentosa, pick-n-mix lollies, collapsing twice getting out of bed this morning…3- Friends that change overnight, memories, old messages, personal jokes…4- Kisses, ‘moments’, tummy butterflies, excitement…5- Winter, summer, the best bits of...
September 2010
13 posts
“35 - Love your body, yes, but if a cropped top is going to make you look like...”
– Style Magazine, October 2010 - ‘100 Rules to Being the Perfect Lady’ - Highly entertaining.
Sunday’s Pretty Icons - Belle &...
Ease your feet in the sea
Ease your feet off in the sea my darling it’s the place to be Take your shoes off, curl your toes, I’ll frame this moment in time Troubles come troubles go, the troubles that we used to know – Belle and Sebestian
“Don’t hurry, take it easy, watch the goats, find precious stones, follow...”
– No Ordinary View, Naomi Reed
My 31st story refuge
As I sit above bubbling water on a pagola swing, on the 31st floor in the closest thing I have to a home here, I like the view I see. I can see the ocean, the outlying islands; the lush, albeit highly artificial landscape of Sentosa; the tips of the CBD’s skyscrapers. I can see container ships and a farm of steel shells no doubt filled with a newly arrived expats’ comforts from back...
The song I'm killing:
New York - Paloma Faith.
“She poured the drinks and she poured the power, diamond girl who could talk for hours…”
“In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms...”
– Awakening
July 2010
20 posts
I have fallen in love with my mate’s...
In the mail
A boy is sending me songs. They’re perfect. They’re different and sound like a soundtrack to the ocean…like they wouldn’t feel out of place at a picnic by a crackling fire. They’re songs that could make winter feel warm and make summer seem endless. The lyrics are smothered in love, meaning, things that are true. They’re filled with the depth of the deepest blue...
Tea party
I’d quite like a tea party. I’ve actually been mulling over one for some time…but it has to be done right. I’d like a British bulldog in the corner on a plush, velvet cushion, and a tiered cake stand with strawberry shortcake tarts. I’d like miss-matching, vintage crockery, and boys wearing aged top hats juxtaposed with jeans and old Converse sneakers, and girls in...
“Give me boys in blazers and wayfarers, tapping xylophones, strumming acoustic...”
– Hats off to Tommy Burns
“Scanning through my tumblr dashboard is like asking for five more minutes in bed...”
– You just want more.
Wall art
I’ve been living in my loft apartment, 23 floors up, in the heart of the Singapore CBD, for roughly 6 months now and I absolutely LOVE it! It’s perfect for one person, it’s cozy yet modern, it’s super light and airy with warehouse-high ceilings…it’s becoming home. I’m hideously addicted to my colour scheme of brown, white and green, but I have absolutely...
“Note to self: never trust hot boys in Singapore…there’s always something wrong...”
Madness
And now I see the madness in me, it’s brought out by the presence of you. Now I know the madness lives on, when you’re not in the room…
I’d have to give up knowing, and give up being right. You inadvertent hero, you angel in disguise…
