Why don't you get your heart to feel

So as you probably can tell already, I'm in a blogging spree. It's just that I'm kind of into bringing my camera around with me again, so I have a lot of photos. Another reason is that I really want to do something productive at the end of my working day, and I'm too exhausted to do anything else like watching a movie or working on my freelance projects, which means I've got blogging left only. So, there, bear with me.

Today I went out with Mia, which feels like ages since we last saw each other. I also wanted to pamper myself a bit, so we decided to go to a fine-dining place, which serves the best steak I've had.

I mean it was too romantic a place for us girls, but whatever!

Beef steak and mushroom sauce

We were being Inception-ish and shitz

I'm in love with Reflection-Mia

Then we went to Ngõ 89, a place that serves Northern Vietnamese traditional food and drinks, which I've been wanting to go for a while. It turned out quite disappointing. The food was okay, but I ordered a thing called "sữa chua nếp cẩm" which tasted like rotten fruit? I mean I guess that's how people like it, but I just cannot swallow that thing.

These cheese sticks were such a let down as well. They just tasted weird and... taste-less (?!)

My office lifestyle made me go home early because I was exhausted, but it was a fun night and I felt really relaxed. This has been a good week so far!

So I cross my heart and I hope to die

(I just remembered that I still haven't downloaded this song yet. Gotta go download the damn thing after this!)

So I have 10 more days before work starts, and yesterday I went shopping with my Mom. It was like my most fun and cray-cray shopping trip ever. It was raining like crazy the whole time but my Mom and I determinedly travelled the whole city and I got a lot of things. So this blog entry is basically just a haul post.

First of all, and I'm really excited for this, is another Lioele's Blooming Gloss

Lioele's Blooming Gloss in Cherry Red

So if you checked out my September Favorites you knew how I love these lip glosses. Like I think they're the best lip glosses I've ever tried. And then the other day I watched Jen's September Favorites and she mentioned this particular lip gloss, so I thought I might give it a try. And ohhhh my God, it's easily the prettiest lip gloss I've own. It has amazing color payoff and just like other Lioele's lip glosses, it feels so good on the lips. I fell in love with it right away and this thing is never gonna leave my bag wherever I go!

Then, as usual, none of my shopping trip would feel complete without some accessories. And look at these cuties that I got!

I'm so happy that I got a mustache ring, which would go really well with my mustache necklace! If you can't tell I'm just having a mustache phase. I need to get myself a mustache shirt!

Speaking of shirt, I got these two shirts

Uh- yeah, it says Harvard Law, which is lame because I don't go to Harvard and don't study law.
But whatever! I like the style and the color!

That's an ugly-looking hare!

I'm really into weird shirts right now, so *shrugs*

I'm also going through a blazer phase and I got this red blazer because I've already got a black one and I wear that thing all the time

And then the most interesting part of my shopping yesterday, I went shoes shopping. I just got over a phase where I only wore high heels or high wedges, and now I'm craving for some flat shoes. Which is why I've been looking for a nice pair of Oxfords or ballet shoes, but I found none that I really liked and ended up getting these sandals

They are really comfy and I think they go well with a lot of things, so they'll do when I am too lazy to put on proper shoes that look better but are way more uncomfortable.

And last but not least, the spotlight of this haul! Drumroll please!!! Ta-daa

Yes, I know I've got way too many boots for someone living in this freaking weather, but God knows how long I've been looking for a pair of dark brown leather boots, and these are just perfect for me. I just knew I needed these boots when I saw them in the store. And I know I'm gonna be wearing them a lot!

Oh and there's a very cool story happened yesterday. When my Mom and I were taking these things out of the bags and arranging them, we found a pair of shoes that we didn't buy

At first we thought they gave us the wrong ones because my Mom bought a similar pair of wedges in smaller size and a slightly different color. But we checked and my Mom still had her shoes! The thing is we went to three stores of shoes yesterday and none of us even tried these on, so we don't know where they even come from! Then my baby sister tried them on and they fit, so my Mom just gave them to her. We sort of feel bad for having these shoes that we didn't pay for, but we don't even know which store to return them to. I guess we just got lucky once in a while!

Well apart from these babies I bought yesterday I also bought several things last week, like a new dress and two pairs of skinny jeans, but that's sort of long ago so I don't include them here.

Finally, I'm getting really excited and nervous at the same time because a big change is coming for me since I finished school and will start my internship on Oct 15th. I hope everything will turn out fine in the end!

The good is never easy, the easy never good

My semester break has officially started! I've spent most of this week marathon everything from TV series to movies and oh God, words cannot describe this feelings. I should have blogged earlier, but Blogger has been a bitch recently and all I've got to say is that Google should get their shit together!

First thing first, I bought two pairs of shoes last week, which was kind of exciting because I haven't bought new shoes for a while. I went through a boots-phase from last Christmas to late Spring this year, so when my old sandal wedges worn out, I looked at my shoes shelf and realized I only have boots left to wear, which is not a good thing at all in this weather, super hot and humid in the middle of raining season. So I went shopping and got these two babies

You can see I just had a pedi here~

Also I had a great time hanging out with my lovely pals before the break. People think I'm cold blooded and I probably am but I still love my homies and I won't kill them on a fishing trip as long as they keep me satisfied xD

Sushi set at Tokyo Deli

Shrimp tempura maki or something? With the delicious dynamite sauce xD

Macadamia ice-cream and green tea ice-cream. Yum! 

Manequins in love ♥ 

Corals in the Aquarium at Crescent mall

You haven't rolled on vacation mood if you haven't got a mani-pedi, and that's what I did today. Now the only thing left to do is going to the salon because my hair needs to have a break too!

It doesn't look quite like it but this is actually a pastel nude pink color which is adorable

Oh and look! I found a Gameboy iPhone case! I saw a case like this in some Youtube video but it was for iPhone 4 and I wasn't sure I could find that around here either, but last week I went looking for some new cases because I haven't got new iPhone cases for a while, and I saw this!

Doesn't it look so cool??!

So, that has been the going-on-smoothly-so-far beginning of my semester break. Until next time something interesting happens in my life xD

We're living in the broken home of hopes and dreams

Hey there~

I've just blogged two days ago, so you can just guess that this entry has nothing really interesting and/or important in it (as if my other entries did...) But I went to the flea market yesterday, which is a monthly event where people sell (a lot of) their handmade products. It was a-ma-zing! I've never been awed as much ever. They had all kind of stuffs from clothes to accessories to kitchen wares to scooters! If I could I would bring all of those things home because they were all absolutely adorable. So here comes my showcase of things I bought (which were a lot more expensive than I planned to pay)

Is there anyway that I wouldn't buy this notebook??!

This kiosk was amazing! I really considered buying all their stuffs because here, just look at what they had!!!

The venue where they held this flea market was packed with people. My friends and I were basically just trying to breath and not die in there. But it was worth it! And after that we went to the cinema

Isn't it in our nature to take pictures everywhere possible??!

This week is week 9 of our semester and things are guaranteed to go all crazy from here. I have a deadline this weekend which I haven't done a bit, and another one next week. Also another film, a web test, one essay and one website layout due within the next three weeks. Talk to me about time management, won't ya?!

The rest of the entry would be a few pages of my journal, which is not my actual journal, but just another assessment for school, so I was pretty much role-playing in there...

When I die I want to dance among the stars

I haven't blogged in a while because something happened around two weeks ago and I was sad, so I only stayed home and watched TV and did nothing, or at least nothing interesting that should be mentioned here. But my school started this week and I've pretty much caught up with life again.

I actually had a trip to Da Lat right after my last blog entry but that was pretty much my worst trip ever so I really don't want to talk about it now. Except I bought a new hat which is not very usable in Saigon especially in this season, but well, I've made all kinds of bad decisions on this trip, buying a hat could be the least stupid one.

I just went to a salon that's why my hair looked lovely

Also I think last time I forgot some very nice stuff among the things I bought in Hongkong. First of all this set of Kenzo perfume

I've wanted Kenzo perfume since forever but like, I don't use perfume very often so I don't want to invest much money on it. When I saw this set in a store in Hongkong with a sale up to 60% I knew I had to have it. And these bottles smell so good, I just tried one out today. It literally smells like flowers, so natural and fresh, not very heavily scented but lingers like you have a flower hidden in your pocket. I am totally in love!

Second of all, I don't think I've shown this lovely necklace

Haha my bed sheet looks nice

It's actually a bunch of such gorgeous rings I would definitely buy each one of these separately. I'm really happy that I bought it, especially after I saw how well it went with my clothes and other accessories.

Finally, I went shopping the other day with my bestie and we got ourselves some very cute stuff, which made both of us very happy.

I bought a dark grey tank top with really thin white stripes to mix with another shirt I bought in Hongkong, and then I got this lovely floral laced top

Isn't it just so cute and feminine?

which I wore to class today

I also found a new owl necklace

You see, the thing about collecting a specific item of accessories is that at some point you'll find it very difficult to find a new piece of that item that you actually think is unique and cute. Just like how I've had too many owl necklaces that recently I couldn't find any new one to buy until this little baby. It was pretty much love at first sight and I was like, I must have it!

It's just perfect, everything I want and more!

It's soon to be weekend and I think this week has gone pretty well as far as I care. I'm still sad but I know I can't just spoil my own bad habit and annoy everyone else. It's gonna be better real soon. This too shall pass.

I thought the sun rose in your eyes

So I've been back from my Hongkong trip a week ago but my laziness has got the better of me (again), and because I've got the memory span as short as my cat's tail (you'll get it in a bit, just know it's really, really short) I can't recall all the things I've intended to blog when I first got home. Well what I absolutely have to say is that, Hongkong is such a weird place.

First, it was hands down one of my most fun and comfortable trips for a while, despite how small the hotel rooms were. And yeah I mean hotel rooms, as in plural, because I got to stay at 2 hotels in 4 days, and it was more fun than inconvenient. In the hotels there were these small guide cards for tourists

There were so many of them

And I thought it was so clever and convenient. It's easier to carry around than a brochure and because it's once card for each location it probably is more detailed or more focused. I don't know but I was really impressed with this.

I was also impressed by how many types of money are used in Hongkong. And by types of money I don't mean like many currencies. They're all Hongkong Dollars, but there are at least 2 designs for each money bill.

4 different $20 HKD bills, all usable

And finally, the weirdest thing about Hongkong is how difficult it it to find internet connection, and how complicated it is to use it once you've found one. In hotels you have to pay $100 HKD for each day of internet connection and they don't have wi-fi, just cables, so I couldn't use it on my phone anyways. Out of 5 coffee shops and diners there could be like 2 that have wi-fi but the proxies are way too complicated and annoying for 20 minutes using the internet (Yeah, each time you set the proxy you can use the internet for 20 minutes. WTF?!)

One of the best part of the trip surely was visiting Disneyland. I totally loved the design and how detailed they were. I spent most of the time wandering around looking at stores and signs, even toilet signs and trash bins. And then after sunset they turned the lights on and it was totally magical. Never a thing out of place, different styles for each area. My distorted OCD was satisfied.

When I was in Hongkong the weather was very chilly and all the shops were selling mostly winter clothes. All the clothes I could buy was t-shirts (only one) and jumpers (a few), the ones that are less heavy and can actually be used in Vietnam sometimes when it's cool.

However, I did get to buy 3 pairs of boots, which could totally make up for anything. 

Absolutely my favorite purchase on the trip. Now I wear it with almost everything: shorts, dress, jeans, leggings, etc. 

I also bought a backpack, which I wanted to buy forever but never found one that I like

And while choosing souvenirs I got myself a new key chain

My old key chain broke and I couldn't resist this cutie right at first sight