Happy Friday!

It is always a good day to wake up to. And this week has been particularly big so sleep has been secondary in order to try and juggle and fit everything in.

I'm saying caught up with the girls and finding out one of them got married impromptu.
Over this dinner.

Or orchestrating the perfect office birthday celebration for the girl who put in every effort to organize my birthday this year:

Check out the balloon:






And organizing this kobe jones lunch with eleven of her closest and dearest at work:

I had the katsu tofu. A first time dish but certainly won't be my last.

She got a lot more gifts on the day too. We kid that her desk was a pop-up florist's

Just goes to show that it is worthwhile being nice and developing real friendships at work.

Who can forget it was fashion week too? I purposely tried out ombré nails in recognition of the fact:



 

Perhaps not quite ombré but certainly very attention grabbing.

Have been following many fabulous fashion bloggers' instagram's and tweets whilst mentally noting that peplums, neon colours, prints and sparkles seem to be the next season's choices. Gold eye makeup too according to Nikki from Styling You. A week ago i might have huffed at it, but i have fallen in love with the Hunger Games' characters this week, having devoured every page of the first book already of this Monday delivery:

So channeling Cinna's gold eyeliner seems to be understated chic to me now and i approve.

It wasn't just the fashion world that was celebrating in Sydney this week. TimTams had gone to town too with this Timtams-should-grow-on-trees get up:






I watched them set up late the night before and was pleased to see the final results:

But the week hasn't ended yet, no the weekend is yet to come where there are birthday drinks, reunion lunch and housewarming high tea.

Have a happy Friday my readers, and let today not be a hectic one!

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Things that I love(d)

With S gone, I got up to no good and found myself indulging in habits from days gone past. Days when I still bought designer bags and frequented The Purse Forum.

It all began when I found these shorts I hadn't worn for a while whilst wardrobe-purging. I decided to skip the elegance for one day and go casual Sunday instead.




The Cassette tape is S's hand me down iPhone cover until my bling pack arrives



 This is it: taking self outfit portraits, wearing said shorts with my puffy jacket, this used to be my look when I was pretending I was Japanese. Not really just liked their style for a few years back then.

Oh hey, you can also see my new bangs that I got for 2012!

I miss wearing my Pochette Marelle this way. Nowadays I just use it as a clutch. These days, I am more about my jewels than my bags, having gotten so much bling from the wedding. P from work is so jealous, she asks if she may convert to be Chinese so that she can get jewelry at her wedding lol!

Well, if you're interested, I am wearing my silver leaf diamond pendant from second aunty and my rings. And a super blingy BCBGMaxaria watch that I rock nowadays. Just a few things I didn't use to have back then.

Was about to hit the shops for a spot of groceries shopping when S comes home from his bucks so we go together and he drives instead of me walking to the local shops like I planned to. Mighty glad I did though cause who knew that they sell sushi now at Woolies??? I sure didn't!

Carrying it home in the car - balancing it gingerly on my thighs

 
Gave me a good excuse to rock out my Japanese cutlery. Yes I cook Jap at home enough to warrant pretty crockery.

The review: the sushi looked so good at the bar that I simply couldn't make up my mind which one to get. Eating it though, and mind you we are Japanese snobs, (we only drink green tea made in Japan) S and I could taste that the sushi had been sitting there and the rice had gone cold. The flavours are there, just not fresh-made-sushi-warm enough for our liking.

Still, now I know where to source sashimi from for the Chinese New Year dish I am making next weekend. Stay tuned! I promise pictures!

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Quiet weekend catching up

There is a bucks happening in Manly tonight & S has booked a room at the Novotel Sydney Manly Pacific and is staying over there. First night since coming back from the Honeymoon that we've spent apart from each other.

I don't mind much. I am coughing. Stopped S from sleeping well last night anyways. But spending an entire day by myself has been nice, catching up on blogs, ASOS dress shopping, cleaning up my wadrobe to make room for my new purchases...I even made Little Purple PolkaDots's Prawn fettucine for lunch before S left for his bucks (and I am sure he will be back for more of that one! Thanks E!).
Anyways, S and I were given vouchers to a Japanese degustation dinner in Surry Hills this week and we happily obliged as our dishwasher is kinda broken and we haven't had a date night since we got married. So voila, here's what we had:

This wasn't part of the degustation, it's my yellowfin tuna from Bistro Lily, the next day at lunch.

And this, is what I curled up with whilst Hubby was gone, a nice glass of cold bubbly...

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