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The London Zoo was a bit disappointing. The animals looked so downtrodden. Human oppression - aren't we all victims of it. Again, this is why I want to go to the African savannah.

I am never believing in anything Discovery Travel and Living tells me anymore! Your mother is always right: the television lies.

The streets of Marrakesh were filled with single limbed beggars wielding large sticks to threaten tourists into submission. And donkeys. And men yelling "KONICHIWA". Also, there were 4-year-olds who really know how to swear at you if you don't give them money. Bloody hell. I was not impressed.

Managed, however, to procure some awesome silver rings in Essaouira and weird hippie rucksack at the airport (only because I had dihrams to spend and they didn't sell magazines or droolworthy snacks).

Also met a cute baby goat along the highway.

Big ass picture post coming.

I woke up at 645AM today and couldn't go back to bed. It's one of those painful things that everyone goes through once in a while for unknown reasons. I also felt like blogging about my recent acquisitions upon hopping out of bed:

My beloved Adidas sneaker heels. They are possibly the most comfortable things I've stepped in since my flip flops! I'm not sure why these babies look slightly brown here but it's definitely black.

My Gap platforms! Ordered from the States. Took 28 years to arrive because it went through various stops before it finally arrived at my door. After a month or so of waiting, my patience began to exponentially decrease and it wasn't before long that I was ready to chew the American postal system's head off.

I always get upset whenever I see models wearing Metallica t-shirts (especially this particular "Master of Puppets" one which has become quite commonplace) because I don't think very many people listen to Metallica properly anymore. It's become more of a fashion statement than proclaiming their fandom and it's irritating!

I mean, come on, I refuse to wear Iron Maiden t-shirts because I'd feel like an utter moron since I haven't heard any of their songs except "Fear of the Dark" and "The Flight of Icarus". I also don't wear Guns 'n' Roses t-shirts although they've been produced by Topshop for years now because I've only ever listened to "November Rain", "Mr Brownstone" and "My Michelle" properly.

Metallica's Symphony and Metallica album, however, was on my playlist for 3 months straight as I was studying for exams. I listened to them as I walked through Hyde Park, as I studied and as I slept (Linkin Park lulled me to sleep once upon a time many moons ago). And although I might be a new fan, at least when I wear their t-shirts (especially the 17-year-old vintage one I found on eBay), I don't feel like such a fool. Call me anal-with-a-stick-up-my-ass, but I am unashamedly so.

But really. I guess I don't look like much of a rocker/emo/metal head kinda person so the less informed stranger on the street would immediately assume that I've jumped on the rock-tshirt-donning bandwagon anyway.

Bah.

I thought about buying the dress below but decided my legs are too Chinese to pull it off. Sob.

I do, however, love this photo. Alexa Chung looks so typically Topshop against the NYC background.

The thing about selling on ebay is that they allow a refractory period in which you can bask in the glory of selling your items for x amount.

Then, come 15th of the month, they'll tell you that you now have x-20 left in your Paypal. And if x<20, then you can suck it.

In a shameless bid to make my body look decent, I spent 2 hours at the gym today.




Anyway, she shouldn't have opened for Britney. The juxtaposition was just a bit too much.

On a slightly different note, MATLAB won't run anymore on my Mac and I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

And for the lucky, lucky majority who don't know what MATLAB is, here's the Wiki: MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and fourth generation programming language. Maintained by The MathWorks, MATLAB allows easy matrix manipulation, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs in other languages.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are by far my favourite fashion icons. I don't care if people say they look like bag ladies because fuck, even if they do look homeless, at least they look good! Ashley may infinitely be more refined than MK in terms of style, but she doesn't cut enough edge. She rocks the monochrome look very well whereas MK dares to wear whatever she pleases and for this I admire her despite her 5'1" anorexic posture:


Again, those Balenciaga boots. I crave them like an obese Malaysian man would crave a large plate of double serving of wan tan mee, kah liu. Alas, I too crave a double serving of wan tan mee on a regular basis - which explains why I will never rock the heroin chic look.


Usually I don't go on shopbop.com because the things listed here are just way beyond my budget. However, since I'm at my wit's end with this final report, I decided to surf shopbop and I stumbled upon Elizabeth and James, MK and A's "cheaper" fashion label. Now, I get emails regularly from net-a-porter telling me how I should REALLY invest in some uber expensive pieces from E&J, Sergio Rossi and Christian Louboutin but typically I would just ignore this lest I go insane at the prospect of how I'll never own such divine goods that would immediately up my status fashion-wise - sad, but true re: what a materialistic ho I am. But today I saw these pieces over at shopbop and I cannot get over the awesomeness of the new Elizabeth and James jewelry!




I own a knock off of this ring in silver from Topshop that cost me £7. Needless to say it gives me green stains around my finger every time I take it off. I'm very sure this piece wouldn't.

Oh woe is meee!

Frozen yogurt from Snog and a portion of large fries from McD's will just have to suppress these horrendous materialistic cravings for now. Sniffle.