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Alyssa W, Singapore. This is a site of things that inspire me, as well as my brain farts and creative juices. Views expressed here are my own. Background image is Adrift (2015) by my all-time favourite artist James Jean

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Christian Dior Haute Couture

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Today is happy socks day 😊

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I'm just a girl, sitting in front of @samuelwwr mummy's black pepper crab, asking it to be mine 🦀🦀🦀

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A quiet spot for lunch while waiting for my next appointment. It's so hot I can feel the heat rising off the ground and evaporating my eyeballs. (at Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum - 新加坡佛牙寺龙华院)

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Bold colour combinations in a Swedish apartment (more images here)

gravityhomeblog.com - instagram - pinterest - bloglovin

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Darn beautiful

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Even with illustrations, I am completely lost reading this book 😩 Picked this up based on recommendation 🙃

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Some of my favourite looks from Altuzarra and Jason Wu Spring 2016 Ready-to-Wear - they do look really similar in terms of silhouette, although Altuzarra is a bit more colourful and has sexier slits. Very wearable and relatively modest, and I’m very happy with these looks! If only I had the money, eh?

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Found on www.louisewhitehouse.com

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thatlitsite)

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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via larmoyante)

Quotes

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…I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort — and disappointment and perseverance.

Vincent van Gogh,“Letter to Theo van Gogh,” 9 Sept. 1882 (via vincentvangogh-art)

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Three-time Miss Singapore and weight lifter great-grandma

I had the God-given opportunity to interview Madam Ho Lye Toh, who’s the grandma of S. She weight lifted in her teenage years and won the title of Miss Singapore three times. I did think she was cool but I didn’t realise how interested people would be in the story – it’s been picked up by a news site and I’m trying to wrap my head around it…mostly because it’s my first big story with those kind of FB likes and social media stats etc. It’s a bit too premature for me to talk about what kind of interest she’s generating, but safe to say it’s definitely because she’s one of a kind!

You can read the article here. All images from Mdm Ho’s archives, while Mdm Ho’s portrait is taken by yours truly.

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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Albert Einstein (via thatlitsite)

A reminder not to take life tooo seriously.

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So dreamy...

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When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.

This is so important.  (via mcqueencat)

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Why has it taken me so long to see this video?! I love it!

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When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.” It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.

Sandi Toksvig, 'Top 10 unsung heroines' (via ninestories)