japan 2009

ok going on vacation made this blogging business super difficult. the fact that i was staying in hotel rooms with other people also made it hard for me to concentrate on morning model shots. i do have tons of pictures from the trip that i will put up AND i knew i wouldnt have much time to take pictures so i carefully wrote down all of the items of clothing i packed just in cases.

japan this time around was a gajillion times different and better than my trip last year. its so different traveling alone, then traveling with 8 other people. i can sum up my trip in three words: FAT FOR LYFE. everyday there was breakfast, snacks, lunch, snacks, dinner, drinks and snacks, then late night food. yes...9 days and nights of drinking and eating huge meals and buying miscellaneous goodies from the convenient stores. i think 7-11 and family mart became our best friends!

it was a great great trip and the best thing is that im still on vacation for another week! i tried to make myself eat salad today but umm it was at a buffet.....

good deals in nyc

today my friend hana found the best deal EVER. monday nights seem like the times to dine about town in this city at lower prices in the nicer restaurants. we headed to paris commune for a ginormous steak, french fries and salad for....

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$12.95

...........wtf right? i was saying that i couldn't even get a steak at chili's or applebee's for

that price! AND we each took half of our steaks home. madness i say!

wow, this sounds like a yelp review, but it's so not. i don't think i have even posted a single yelp review since i got here.

before i talk about my monday, let me talk about my sunday (or lack thereof). it rained all day and i left the house only to hit up morton williams to do some grocery shopping. at home i cooked, baked, cleaned and packed. it was the best sunday ive had in a while. since i didnt leave the house, i didnt wear anything but sweat pants and it was perfection. sorry, but i dont have pictures of my perfection. id be too sexy and irresistable.

i left work super early today because my reservations at commune were at 7 and i had a few things i needed to get done today:

1) buy conductive thread

2) go to uniqlo

3) find presents

i was productive enough in an hour and a half to get all of those done. keep in mind that i only relied on my legs to get everywhere too.....im super woman!

i hate how cold it is in ny and i cant use my phone without taking off my damn gloves. so i looked online for those iphone compatible gloves. to my dismay they were almost $30...not to mention i would have to wait for them to ship and who knows when i would get them during this holiday rush. i did more google research and found out i could make them with conductive thread! the only problem was that i needed to find where conductive thread was sold but finally found it at the nyu computer store. when i got home tonight i tested t

he thread on my own pair of gloves and IT WORKED! friends with iphones and touch screens, be excited because ill be spending my 14 hour plane trip on friday sewing for you!!

sweater: club monaco

tank: wet seal

pants: express

hats! hats! hats!

i used to never wear hats in california. to me, only the stylish could pull it off...and i so was not the stylish. hats became a necessity in my winter move to new york and now i cant get enough of them! i always seem to buy the same types of hats, however.

i was wearing a hat during the day but i decided to change it up and take a picture from a dressing room. i think this is one of my most risque outfits where i try to be stylish.

top: BCBG

jacket: kensie girl

pants: leggings from strawberry

in the evening i finally hit up butter lane and paradis in the east village. paradis yelpers raved that their chocolate cookies are the best. the cookies were HUGE and when you bit into them they were still slightly raw. pretty darn good but still NOT a specialty's semi sweet. ive been hearing about butter lane for a while and have been meaning to go there because you can choose the cake and frosting and they make it in front of you! i must say that they were pretty bomb and is now one of the higher ranking cupcake places in ny.

i brought the desserts over to connie's where they were having a korean pork belly party for "good foods and good friends". i ended up leaving there smelling like delicious meat and probably 5 lbs heavier because the kim chi and mushrooms were fried in the pork belly grease. the only reason i changed was because i decided to go to a bar and didnt want dogs chasing me down the street.

the color purple

when i was in college, our sorority colors were purple and white and i was sooo not a fan of purple at the time. it wasnt until after college that i fell in love with purple: purple eyeliner, eyeshadow, clothes, SHOES!

i had two holiday parties to go today (lucky me...free food all day!) and for some reason i decided to wear purple all day!

here i am trying to give you a little peep show....of my tank! i wore this to work and to my holiday part. it was the closest thing i could get to the "festive" gear the coordinators suggested.

top: backspace (this amazing boutique on divis in sf)

camisole: aritzia (i wear this alot)

pants: xxi

the quality of this picture isnt too great but i used this dress to seduce connie at her holiday party. i should have gotten rid of the camisole inside to show some more skin hehe. that extra layer very much helped me.

dress: zara

camisole: wet seal (yes, wet seal)

tights: somewhere in japan? theyre argyle...you cant see it

lmj

my good friend caroline used to nickname me FML because i used to say "I HATE MY LIFE" or "F My LIFE" all the time. i would like to start using more positive sayings like, "I LOVE MY LIFE" and now, i have LMJ which is "I love my job"

today was my company's holiday party where we celebrated 70 years in business. what inspired me the most is that our 93 year old founder came to the party and gave a speech. he is the cutest man ever and surprisingly at his age very mobile and still super clever. listening to especially him speak made me pretty happy that i am at a great company. not only that, several previously higher up people also spoke and talked about the history of the company. i found out that the nba originally hired us in 1964 to start their pension plan! we also have other sports associations such as the nhl, mlb and nfl. dope-alicious!

outer sweater: H&M (bought when i was a tourist in ny in college!)

sweater: cashmere turtleneck from .....COSTCO!

pants: banana republic (i wear them a lot...they were $20)

in other news, it has been getting majorly cold up in this city. yesterday it was 30 degrees, and today was 20 with a windchill of 11. i am so so glad i invested in a long puffy jacket. i cant believe i didnt have one last year!!! but yesterday when i was wearing this AND the puffy jacket, i was sweating balls. BALLS!

you cant always get what you want, can you?

so im watching the season finale of glee and this song pops up. it seemed only appropriate to use it for the title of my entry today. since ive moved to new york, ive had a lot of trouble really living in new york. ive complained countless times to james that i felt that i am living a half-life here and that the only thing that keeps me here is my job. it made sense to me. nothing can always be perfect. you cant always get what you want, right? in san francisco, i had my entire extended family within 30 minutes driving distance, an amazing group of friends, and young man named yong suk. everything was pretty fabulous except i dreaded waking up everyday to go to work because i hate my job so much.

moving out east i have finally found a job i love, but i have gone through the year unhappy and wishing i was at home. i felt the friends i made here were not comparable to the ones at home. today i realized that im just a little brat. and that i DO have friends. sometimes its just hard for me to appreciate things! its totally possible to get what you want....

this is my outfit from wednesday which im super proud of because the whole outfit cost less than $20!!

dress: BCBG

tank: XXI

tights (not shown): dkny

i also have to mention that this is one out of 5 black and white dresses i own. they're all different patterns, but patterned nonetheless. i would have never thought of myself as a patterned dress person....but maybe i am?

sickness

wow ive been pretty bad at posting. my weekend was a little crazy to say the least. here is my outfit from saturday during the day.

sweater: fcuk cowl neck

pants: black leggings

pictures of saturday night will soon be up. mon definitely pulled through with some model poses!

im a little too embarassed to post what i wore on sunday and monday cuz well, they were the same thing. sexual...

when i could finally get myself back to work, i couldn't help but fall back on my usual

sweater: banana republic cardigan

cami: banana republic

pants: rampage plaid slacks

it seems that this year the change in weather has made me especially susceptible for getting sick. the way i get sick is i get halfway sick several times a year. when i was in california, i would get very sick once a year. which is worse?

it's christmas time in the city

christmas in this city is madness. its only december 4 and 5th ave is full of tourists! today i saw a line to go into abercrombie, and a mob around rockefeller center to watch the snowflake light show at saks, to name a few.

luckily work during this time of year is pretty chill so i left a little early to do some christmas shopping. living here has definitely put me in the xmas spirit and given me cheer. walking down the street was to me reminiscent of that christmas song silver bel

ls! well, except for the "meeting smile after smile" part, maybe because i wasnt smiling at anyone at huffing past the slow ass walkers. xmas cheer, my ass!

at the end of my journey was columbus circle where i went to sephora to see if i could pull off the red lipstick. the salesperson at sephora AND one at A/X said i could. since i was rockin the red, i thought i'd try to rock a model pose too. yay or nay?

sweater: nordstrom rack

tank: xxi

pants: banana republic

can't predict the weather

today i woke up and as usual checked the weather. it said 67 and possibly rainy and i got excited to change up my wardrobe and wear a dress. when i left work i realized what a noob i was. it was windy and cold and there was i walking around the city in a dress, a thin ass trench and ballet flats. it was probably 50 degrees with a crazy wind.

in college when jan and i were brainstorming about our website, we knew we had to factor in the wind to help with our recommended wear. how did i forget about wind chill today??

other than wind chill issue, i think ive gotten better at knowing how a certain temperature feels, and what to wear. and i definitely know that at a windy 50 degrees, i SHOULD NOT wear a dress!

dress: banana republic

i didnt put up a picture from yesterday, but i went to a concert yesterday and felt super preppy.

i think it was the button down shirt. or it was the grungy asses at the concert haha.

cardigan: urban outfitters

button up: club monaco

pants: xxi

i love cardigans

as i was deciding what to wear this morning for work, i made two observations:

1) i think i will end up wearing the clothing that i keep in my room more often. if you havent been to my apartment yet, you will be surprised (or maybe appalled) to know that d and i dont have closets in our rooms. the only closets are in the living room and btw are teeny tiny. therefore i have to keep the majority of my clothing in storage receptacles in my room. if i want to wear the stuff in my closet, i usually have to run across the living room....no fun

2) my pictures on my work days will all look the same because i have a ridiculous amount of cardigans....as in at least one in each color. this reminds me of my obsession in high school with russell sweatshirts. maybe when it gets warmer ill throw in some cute dress action. cuteness + model poses = sexual. too bad we'll have to wait through this horrid winter to see any of that! i can sense that ny is at the verge of winter. i think it must have been sub 45 degrees today and i felt the urge to bust out my new spanx today (thanks pooks!)

sweater: madewell

tank: aritzia

pants: banana republic slacks