fall is by no means one of my favorite seasons of all time

that being said, this season has lots of REALLY cool fashion trends

and so, being the usual big spender i already am, fall did nothing helpful to me economically all it did was to make my fall- shopping list even longer

however, not everyone can rock all the looks, as much as their fashionista self craves to

having been in the situation where i myself would buy whatever that catches my eye and then just leave it hanging on the hangers to die a long, slow death, i’d learned for the better and decided to not let anyone out there repeat the mistakes i’ ve done in past seasons

for each fall trends to avoid, there’d be trends to wear instead as i hope to be able to make  you people to not feel really depressed (can’t be TOTALLY not depressed) for not being to be able to don what models had on the runways

#1: harem pants

pardon me if you must, but the reason for havin SO many harem pants pics is that I JUST CAN”T GET ENOUGH OF THESE!!!

harem pants, or as i like to call it: Princess Jasmine pants are all the rage this season

made famous by MC Hammer, this baggy, parachute- style pants are seemingly ONLY wearable by the tall  and skinny females, undoubtedly this is true and and so to say that for most real women this AIN’T easy to pull off

MC HAMMER

the alternative ( for those who really wanna try, HOLD ON):pair a basic trouser with a colorful bag and coat

a word of caution: NOT to be tried by the FAINT- HEARTED or those who are STYLISTICALLY CHALLENGED

“People who are not fashion savvy should stay away from harem pants because they can go terribly, terribly wrong,”

“If you pair them with something too casual or too baggy, you’re going to make yourself look like a big balloon, and that’s unattractive.”

Suze Yalof Schwartz, executive fashion editor at large for Glamour magazine

here goes some of Schwartz’s tips for how to pull off the look:

• you don’t have to be model thin to wear harem pants. You just need to pair them with the right top and accessories
• women should dress up harem pants with high heels and a tailored top. Stay away from anything bulky on top
• men should dress down harem pants with sneakers and a T-shirt
• don’t over-accessorize! Think of the pants themselves as a statement piece
• the long version of harem pants looks best on most people. Stay away from the Capri or short versions
• choose solid fabrics over prints, which can look a little too retro

Vogue.co.uk , their tips:

• perfect for any woman with a slim top half – the voluminous silhouette of the trousers will level the playing field below the waist
• define a waist by always tucking in tops
• make the most of the season’s elaborate, waisted belts and use your midriff as a staging ground for adornment
• for the most flattering shape, keep it tight on top; a camisole top or tailored jacket is perfect
• if opting for volume on top as well as on the legs, be sure to always keep the waist cinched
• heels should be one thing: high

but, about really rockin harem pants, let’s just ask the man himself

“You can make a fashion statement, ” Hammer said. “You can move in ‘em. You can dance in ‘em. … It accentuates the movement, and it gives you freedom of movement. It’s a slight delay. You move, and then the pants move, so it brings a nice little flair.”

What about us??? The not- dancing ones???

“From your heart, you wear them, how you feel today,” Hammer said. “If it’s a sunshiny day and you have a certain pair that goes with the sunshine, and you want to put some bright colors with them, then you do that.”

with still quite some length to go on what to wear and not to wear, i guess it’d be best to make separate posts for each of the trends

if anything, i’d say that women most important assets is having nice hair of course, being well- endowed just makes it a plus

in my opinion, hair defines someone more than clothes can in ways that hair kinda like shows people a constant side of oneself as no matter how you style your hair on a particular day, the basic elements remain the same

unless, you go doing your hair as if its clothes that you can change everyday

i,  myself take great care of my hair but there are also those rather rare occasions at which i’d just not give a damn bout how its looking when i step out of the house

and yeah, that being said, it actually took me quite some time to decide on having blond streaks in my hair

at that time , i was somewhat torn between having a hair like Rihanna’s or keeping my hair in its original rebonded state

obviously, i went with the plan… but the final results ain’t what i was expecting coz i didn’t bleach my hair like what i should’ve done

and since i was ALSO only highlighting half of my hair, the streaks did not really show in my dark hair

anyways, i went to the hairdresser today to get new bangs as i always keep ‘em a-  changing and this is how it looks like

perusing few mags for new bangs, i came across these REALLY nice hairstyles oh, how i wish for ‘em

i love GREEN hair !!!

initially, the color i wanted to highlight my hair in was green

simply fell in love with this hair. OMG

but unfortunately, for that to be realized i’ve got to bleach my hair

and so… yeah, it’ll never happen anytime soon

but i’ll make sure that before i die, i’ll get this done, OR i’ll be kickin and scratchin my coffin for all eternity before some good- lookin vamp comes  around and let me get this done

GREEN ROCKS =K

gotta thank this for the bangs i'm havin now

s' pose Adam Lambert is behind this?

reminds me of a siren

simple and chic

with all that being said, i still love the hair i’m born with

WANNA LET YOU GO

Holding on

Seems the only right thing

With you, not letting go

Turns out to be a sick joke

One that should make me laugh

Smack myself for being a fool that I’m not

But, no

Doing just that, is nothing but wishful thinking

Only hoping I can, someday

Grasping at the bare strands of a wish

Is the best I can do

Pray upon a wishing star that my eyes cannot see

To wake up to a day I can finally free me of you

That the warmth of your hand on my bare skin

Is something that I do not want more of

Indulging upon the pleasure that is only you

Does not make me feel loved, instead its just the tequila working

Pining for something I’m not entitled to

Is too much to bear

For a soul whom her heart is fragile

Too fragile to be shattered time and time again

No matter how much of you to forget

I’ll do anything

For the incessant beating of my heart to keep on its pace

I’m not a volunteer of this love

As it is what we call it; unrequited

Enough is enough

With time running out

Can someone save me from this slow death?

Though I know it would hurt like hell to get out alive

This is my destiny

To not be able to love you

Someone else has to do it

Remember me with my last goodbye

For I am doing you a favor

This is what you have been wanting all this while

To be rid of me

Good riddance to her, I can already hear you say

You jumping and cheering with a bottle of beer in hand

Not for the victory of your favorite football team, but for me

The one girl whom you know you ain’t gonna love

Remember me as that girl is all I ask

before i start with my first poetry post, i gotta say this: i’m a sucker for all things poetry

for some reason that i don’t know what it is, i’m just not cut out for this particular form of literature

my heart yearns to write poems, but yet all i can do is just envy my sis writing poems

but now, anything goes because i just had to get my thoughts and feelings down on a piece of paper

too much had happened lately in college and if i don’t get on with this, i’m SO gonna break

LOVE IS DEEPER THAN LUST

Was a willing victim of lust

That soon became my love for you

Thought that getting myself in the game

Would not hurt

Always thought I could handle

Hiding what little hurt I had felt at times

Behind a shield of skin and bones

A pinch of hurt grew to a handful

Now I realized, no longer can I take it

My logic wants a break from you

But my heart would never agree

Letting you go

Like taking out a big chunk of my very self

I’ d say, is near impossible

It’s Love… by ~nanami-yuki

if there’s ever gonna be a good reason for malaysians to recycle, it’ll definitely be for the money

okay, maybe this view of mine is rather stereotypical, but i’m gonna prove that i’m right on this

i’d like to state though that the group of people i’m referring to are those of our parents age

tonight, i went shopping at KLCC and bought this really nice pair of shoes from nose (a homegrown shoe retail outlet)

when i was at the cashier, this one salesperson told that if i were to bring the shopping bag the next time i came to buy shoes, then  i’d be entitled to have a rebate of 10%

a good idea, i’d say it’s definitely a good marketing strategy and one smart move to help mother nature

back to the main idea of this post, i  reckon that if there’s no financial benefit  involved, this whole  save- the environment thing will just go down the drain

take, old newspapers, for example

we all know how common it had once been to hear the blaring of loudspeakers coming from a van/ lorry cruising through each and every street in a neighbourhood

repeatedly, one would hear the same words comin out from the speakers and growing up with all these i’m sure many of you would’ve known the words by heart, even if you don’t understand the meaning of it

this is what the recorded voice would say, “Collect old newspapers, collect old magazines, collect (whatever used reading materials the mind can thing of) and collect old batteries (not papers only… yeah)

for those of you who don’t know, the drivers are actually newspaper collectors who’s gonna pay you for the papers that they are soon to get from any of the people of the houses

for quite some time, collecting newspapers from house to house was a big thing and, even then, recycling wasn’t a common practice

we, malaysians at that time were all about using and throwing things; being wasteful

but, when it comes to old newspapers, people are just too glad to be involved

it’s pretty obvious that these people  don’t give a damn bout the environment or whatsoever, all they care for about is the money that they are going to be able to make

there’s still one last (but not least, i suppose) instance of this malaysian attitude that i wanna show you guys here

if you are a frequent visitor to roadside stalls and coffee shops in malaysia, you’ve probably seen or experienced enough to know that people just LOVE to make money with the name of charity

i’m not really sure if all of us always decide to ignore these people because we know these people are liars, or simply for the reason that these people are FUCKIN ANNOYING to disturb when we are busy working our taste buds to satiate our hunger, or thirst

hmmm… maybe we just DON”T CARE  of people that do really NEED our HELP somewhere out there???

from how charity is used in the earning of money, once again i’m back to recycling (add money to the equation)

there’s this one famous welfare society that i’m sure most malaysians would’ve heard of before: Xim Phou Moon (XPM), who is always having all those kinds of drive for people to ‘recycle for charity’… yeah, right

so, do you think that these people would do something charitable without gaining anything in return??? And, recycling too at that.

man, there’s  no way in hell. Not now, not EVER.

this is what they do.

they’d have some kind of large collection bins at random places, especially around housing estates and by putting these bins everywhere one could dump whatever old things that they wanna recycle into it… the items would then be so- called be given to the needy for use

in actual fact, these people would make profit here, not recycle… well, even if they do, it’d be only a small part of the collected items

saying this, i do have pretty good evidence to support my words

my family and I used to quite often give away old and used reading materials to this society

however, after quite some time, we stopped being kind enough to not throw all these stuff away. Why, you ask?

that’s because  somehow, we found out that while we people are giving away stuff for charity (having been made to believe that) , the people  of this society, instead,  take the stuffs for themselves and sell it once again at a price that is of much profit

AND, to show you how profitable this act is, the signs are everywhere;

this society do have many lorries to help those who want to donate bulky items by helping to transport the items to their centres, plus they have many of the shops in which they resell the items that are donated by the public

so now you know why i think as i do, and with that,  i don’t think that the day for me to be proven wrong would come if  the majority of malaysians still think that money is everything

a shoutout from me to my fellow malaysians

Don’t recycle, or try to save our planet if  all you want to see at the other end is ONLY money, money and more money.

Everyone’s gotta do their part in saving and caring for the environment

Start trying your best to go green from today onwards

I’ve been doing all I can and wish there’d be even more for me to do *sigh*

At least i can blog about it =K

We, malaysians should make being environment- conscious a part of us and let the world know that