Experimental Eclecticism

maybe its true what my marketing communications lecturer said. a person who dresses differently everyday is a person who is unsure of himself.

i bet my whole lecture hall can attest to the fact that i tend to have an acquired sense of style. as much as most people assume that i dress up purely for attention sake, inviting stares is not exactly my favourite pastime. the fact that i dont adhere to the uni's conventional dress code of t-shirt, shorts and sandals, doesn't mean you can stare at me.

but like my friend said, ''if you dont like the stares then dont dress so differently''

doesnt that then makes me common? a bourgeois. i believe that the biggest fashion crime is not mismatching tartans and plaids, but instead, dressing with no individualism. which in another word translates to being common. and for me, common is a bad word.


i have always seen my style as 'experimental eclecticism'. i dont stick to one style nor do i religiously replicate what i see on the runway. i do however dress according to the weather and my mood. so that means even if it's sweltering hot, i wont wear a jacket just for the sake of fashion. i would however substitute it with a vest instead as i am deeply in love with creating layers.

experimental eclecticism. experimental because i like to mix trends with my own personal touches. and eclecticism because i dont stick to one look (i.e. vintage). i find variety to be more fun.

so back to my first statement. is it true what my marketing communications lecturer said, that people who dress differently everyday means that the person is unsure of himself?


well, if being unsure means that i dont take fashion too seriously and that i like to have fun with how i dress, then i guess i'm probably unsure.

probably?
because i'm unsure, thats why it's probably. isnt definitely unsure an oxymoron? how can u be definite yet unsure at the same time.


nevertheless,

this entry begets the beginning of a new phase for www.ali-joe.blogspot.com. an endeavour where i blog about fashion, trends and also where i focus on my outfit photos. so let's pop the bubbly and i hope this new column excites you.





top : shirt bought from Philippines.
bottom : pleated pants from Marks & Spencers
shoes: loafers from Pedro
bag : Revoltage, cineleisure
glasses : tortoiseshell frames from Levi's




ciao!

christmas part 2

day 2 of christmas, i met up with my BMT mates.







just a simple dinner at waraku.





had a gift exchange after dinner where we picked names out of a hat and we get the present from whoever's name we pick.





headed over to esplanade where we just chill the night away.




loves!

christmas part 1

you know my entries are beyond backdated when i'm only starting to blog about christmas now. but i'm already trying my best to push out a lot of entries okay. i'm even blogging this over lunch at school. see! i'm such a dedicated blogger. HAHA!!

christmas this year was more like a boys night out.

on christmas eve i met up with my friends from Bedok Camp. since we didnt wanna stick to a stereotypical christmas dinner of turkey and the likes, we headed to sakae sushi for a japanese christmas instead. and we did a last minute impromtu exchange of presents.

unfortunately, not many could make it that night since the decision to meet up was so last minute. nevertheless, it was still fun!




i made gingerbreadman cookies for everyone that night!



quee, leon and me

i got the present that quee brought which was a turn lock. you know, those type of locks that you have to turn to the specific numbers to open it.

THANKS QUEE. -___________-'''

quee got a condom from leon and leon got my gift which consisted of toys that we used to play during our childhood.



me, shaiful, shahul, leon, quee.


afterwards we headed over to town and it was like MAJOR croswded that we didnt hang around for long.

christmas entry part 2 another time yeah. gotta go back to class now!

ciao

rant

as much as i am a perfectionist who loves to plan every aspect of my life. i have to admit, i HATE to plan gatherings. especially when everyone cannot give me a clear answer.

"thursday? i donno whether i can make it on thursday lei? i cant tell you now. maybe i tell you on wednesday or thursday morning?"

i seriously dont get it why people cannot confirm whether they can make it or not. its like they're probably waiting for something more fun to come up, and if none, then they will join us.

and for goodness sake, please stop using the excuse that you're too busy. its not like i spend my days sticking diamentes on my nintendo ds. i do have school. and if i can make time to slot in a gathering and plan it at the same time, i dont see why you cant take 3hrs off from your 'busy' schedule to have dinner with everyone.


one word to sum it all : EFFORT

it just shows how much effort you put into this friendship. friendship isnt just being able to click you know.


and to the bff, i got this song that is so apt for you right now.






maybe the term bff means just another word to you.



ps: i'm not angry. i'm just annoyed.

hopeless

so yesterday i planned to wake up at 10am today so i could go for a run at the park near my place.

i woke up at 9am today.


and its now 10.40am.

i've had 2 toast with strawberry jam.
1 scrabbled egg.
2 hot dogs.
1 cup of milo.
1 glass of ribena.
half a box of raisins.




run? what run?

SIM suck less because of them.

you know the reason why my entries are so god-damn overdued is because i tend to spend a lot of my time editing the photos. and when i do this i get damn tired to actually blog about it. to solve this problem, i'm gonna edit my photos lesser and try my best to update my blog regularly.

that shall be included into one of my new year resolutions. haha! not bad right? not as far fetch as having 'to lose weight' or 'exercise more' 'start exercising' as a new year resolution.

right now, i have a gazilion photos in my 'To Blog' folder, so these few weeks, expect a vomit of camwhoring endeavours. wahahaha!


before the end of exams, my uni friends and i decided that we should head to town after the last paper and have dinner or something.

after much contemplation about where to eat, all the way from SIM and throughout the cab journey we finally agreed on fish and co!






another thing that we also planned to do after exams was to head the clubs!

made our way to Butter Factory until we found out that everyone of us was underage. ho ho ho! i never expected to be underaged for anything especially at my age right now, which is 18, in case you were wondering. ahem.

in the end we decided to go to St James -Powerhouse. never been there before so i kinda expected the crowd to be infants as the age limit is rather low. but most of the people there were around mid 20's. and the music was really good too!!






my uni mates sans weiliang who couldnt make it that night.




some other new people i just met that night.




yee ling! my favourite person to disturb in school! hahaha! whoopah!! (inside joke)




relax one corner.




dancing the night away!



xoxo

The Tea Party

i'm not dead. i've just been preoccupied with school and other stuff. yes, i know my entries are like more backdated than the VCR but you just have to bear with it yeah. once i get into the swing of things with school and all, i'll make sure i blog regularly okay.

anyways, here is the much delayed The Tea Party.




invites were sent out weeks in advance so that people had enough time to rsvp. i do apologise for the number of people who were not invited to this party. i wanted to make it as small as possible so that it felt like more fun than work for me. quality over quantity they say.

and so The Tea Party was held at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.







for the past few days it has been raining heavily somewhere around the afternoon so i kept having this constant fear of it being a drenched picnic. however, i thank my lucky stars that there was not one drop of rain the whole day and night!


i decided to make the picnic potluck so that everybody felt involved in the picnic.which is also a good excuse because i was broke. wahaha!!






and the food turnout was fantastic! we had more than we could actually eat. when i walked around, i noticed other picnickers had sandwhiches, fruits and simple packet drinks. well, compared to theirs, we could actually feed a village in africa. we had a few subway sandwhiches, kfc, pizza hut, 3 huge bags of Lays potato chips, 4 tupperware of fruits, god knows how many canned drinks, 2 huge containers of campbell's mushroom soup, curry puffs, french loaf slices, homemade cupcakes and probably some other stuff that i forgot.

well you can't exactly call it a picnic when you have a feast.






there was a performance by some kids later in the evening and the placed started to fill up with all of their families. and coincidentally, joy's younger sister was performing later on.




there were quite a few kids around the area that was just running around and playing with bubbles and thankfully, we got these 3 to scare them away from coming near us. HAHAHA!




some photos of maddie's holga before it turned dark.






nice right? makes me feel like getting a holga too!!


and then it got dark, and more and more picnickers started to leave. but i somewhat find it kinda cool to have a picnic at night. so rebellious.

LOL







and then it was time for the birthday cake segment. but this time around instead of getting a birthday cake i decided to bake vanilla cupcakes with lemon butter icing.




totally forgot to take a close up picture of it but there were damn pretty can? i slogged my entire morning just to bake and decorate these cupcakes before the picnic. hahaha!








packed up and headed to dempsey to chill the night away.





it was a really fun and fantastic afternoon and evening. i really enjoyed everybody's company!



love ya guys! lets do this again!