Archive | December, 2011

Where’s My Horse Going?

29 Dec

Instead of wearing my long low waist floral dress; guitar at the back seat of my old vintage convertible; sitting next to my dreamy unemployed artistic lover boy; in a foreign land, heading to nomadic adventures…

I find myself in smart black suit; suitcase at the back seat of a luxury sedan; sitting next to my loving husband; heading to business meetings in a metropolitan; punching in blackberry to remote control works in the office…

Sometimes, life goes on to a complete different direction… Werner Erhard once said, “Ride the horse the direction it’s going.”  And many times, we discover new passion and desire along the way. So, take it on and enjoy your rides.

Have a wonderful day.

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The Age of Abundance

27 Dec

For my entire adulthood, I was always lack of a dress, a pair of shoes and a handbag in my closet. And ever since I move to my new home, I have about 15 pieces of clothes in my wardrobe (for I left the rest in my parents house) and I have been living with it for 3 months now. And I thought to myself, probably I don’t need that many clothes after all.

We live in the age of abundance. The electricity to power daily necessity, clean and drinkable water, food products, fashion apparels and materials in any form. From Ipad to electrical toothbrush; from leather handbags to automobiles… We are living in the age of Have-It-All! How magical?! Everything that our ancestors ever dream of is now so easily available to us at the speed of light. (Think about mobile phones, aeroplanes, digital camera, air-conditioning etc…)

This abundance in life is exactly what drives us to increased wastage and distance to our inner self. We are a generation that is desensitized to wastage. Abundance caused imbalance to our life which makes us neglect our inner growth. Because we are too busy acquiring stuffs and we have too little time to live a real life and strengthen relationships. And sometimes we might thought “Why bother? We are living in the age of abundance!”. And this excessive comfort in life will only create temptation to engage wrongful consumption and lifestyle (oh-we-s0-need-that-to-be-happy kinda thinking).

This Christmas, let’s be aware of our wasting and make a commitment to reverse this trend. Cutting waste can have a measurable impact on the environment. No matter how good looking it is, we all know that our planet earth is dying. So, before your next purchase, think again: do I really need this? And recycle everything you could possibly think of and use less of them.

In this season of love, let’s think about contributing in conserving resources.

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

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How to Dance in Cheongsam?

24 Dec

I danced in my mum’s cheongsam on my wedding reception dinner. And ever since I posted my first dance pictures here, everyone has been asking: How did you do that?? Well, for bride-to-be who is keen on doing this,

It’s not that hard as we all thought!! And it looks beautiful…

And believe me, I have never had a full dressed rehearsal before the dinner. Which mean, what you have seen in the picture was the only time I did it! (OMG…I can’t believe I did that!!) Hehe… Here are a few things that you really have to take note of if you wanted to dance in a cheongsam:

1. The opening must be high. The higher it is, the better you can move your sexy legs around. A lower opening will result in stiffness in between your laps and basically you can only move your calves… And having said that, with a high opening, the are chances of exposing your panties. To counter that: wear a pair of stockings or wear a nude colour seamless panties :)

2. The designs of your cheongsam. Try to avoid sew-on beads and glittering pieces. It can scratch your partner or make him really uncomfortable and it might end up ruin your dance. If you like the “bling” effect, choose embedded crystals or golden embroidery design which pretty much do the same job and will certainly make your partner more comfortable.

3. Your shoes are the key! Choose a pair of nice fitting dance shoes. A pair of good dance shoes has a suede bottom for you to glide around the floor so that you can feel the floor under your foot. It gives you confident to move around without worrying too much about the steps and floor condition. (This is very important. Make sure you ticked this.)

4. The material of your cheongsam. Choose flexible fabric. It enhances your silhouette and body curve (which is the whole purpose of wearing a cheongsam). It will also enable you to move around at ease without worrying about the crease or wrinkling.

5. Get acquainted! Wear it and move around the house, jump, stand, squad and sway… The more you wear it, and get to know your dress, the more you know how to move around in it looking good.

I am really lucky to inherit this cheongsam from my mum and I admire every details of a cheongsam that depicts oriental beauty and glamours from the old time.

I hope you find the information useful and good luck with your dance!! XOXO

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