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First came Helvetica in 2007. Then Objectified in 2009. Now, Urbanized - the final installment of Gary Hustwit's trilogy of documentary films about design. Typography + Product Design + Urban Design/Architecture! He couldn't have picked a better trio of subjects to endear himself to us design and documentary nerds forever.We watched the long-awaited Urbanized a few nights ago (with computer

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I love walls so much that I've decided to give them - pictures of walls that I've taken - a special new home -> ThisWallThatWall.Thanks to Ms Carpet who's been extolling the virtues of Tumblr (it really is easy-to-use), I spent a couple of days last week archiving photos of walls that I've shot and posted on this blog. Nearly five years' worth. Ooooh-wow!It was a thoroughly enjoyable exercise for

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(clockwise from top left) Cassis, White Sesame, Green Tea, Bamboo Ash + Black SesameWe picked this set of macarons at Cafe Cre Asion (we've been in quite often but I'm still not one of those girls!) last weekend because of their flavours and did not pay much attention to their colour until I came home to find that they make quite a good "mood board" for combos that I'd like to wear this

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With stark bright-white overhead fluorescent lighting + slipshod plating for added authenticity! Not that the food needed these touches to be "real"!You know how the boyfriend and I are forever on a quest to find the best Singaporean/Malaysian hawker-style fare in Sydney? Loving Mamak when they first opened until they disappointed us on subsequent visits with their lack of consistency...

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More "tartlet" than "tart", really. A traditional Chinese New Year delight.We didn't do anything fancy to welcome the Dragon Year (not that we've done much every year in Sydney anyway...family meal at my aunt's...maybe a steamboat party for our pals...and we didn't do both this year) so I thought I'd make some of my mother's pineapple tarts yesterday.It's been a while since I made some (and it's

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It pays to have a skinny-ass boyfriend who likes happy patterned/printed shirts as much as I do. I've always borrowed a few of his but more so lately with the brutal culling of my section of the wardrobe. I like how his slimmer-cut shirts sit on me - just a little bit over-size, comfortable but not sloppy. I also like how men's shirts, with their longer shirt-tails, work better for the way that

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A likkle picture of mine in The Big Issue!Their art director wrote me to ask for permission + I've always liked their "Helping People Help Themselves" ethos = a big fat "YES!" from a very flattered meAdded bonus: They used the picture to illustrate an article about how boring Summer TV programming is in Australia. A major grouse* in this household! All year round. How apt! Tee hee hee.* Before we

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"For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new."I've been meaning to share this Vanity Fair article by Kurt

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Happy Chinese New Year!Chinatown was a-bustling when we were there for yum cha lunch yesterday, the eve of the new Dragon Year. I was suprised to see that the City of Sydney had kept their bunny float from last year. And how the fabric dragon-makers have jumped on the neon brights trendwagon too. Haha. They've always used neon paint but always on darker colours like the auspicious red or orange.

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These are braised duck feet. Yuck! The thought of eating slow-cooked claw-y gelatinous chicken feet, feet that's been traipsing around in their own poo and digging up worms and such in dirt, grosses me out. These ducky ones with the stretchy web between the claws are a few notches up the make-my-skin-crawl meter. Ewwwww! But they made our pal G's farewell meal yesterday quite memorable. The

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At our friendly neighbourhood charity shop today. I wanted to adopt them all but the boyfriend gently reminded me of the almost-spartan life that I'm trying to lead this year. Yes. I hope they all go to good homes.

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Don't deny your dreamPreserve ourseleves (sic)Preserve our parksSmile! You'll live longerNew in the 'hood. All by the same artist who signs off with a wilting flower in a can. Spotted with Ms Carpet on a very short 15-minute walk looking for an eating place that could seat us immediately on a busy Friday evening.

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Have you read Cook Suck, a blog that reviews "meals that people upload on their Facebook or blog and are proud of for some reason"?! Ms Carpet told me about it on Friday night and I had a guffawing good time going through their complete back catalogue yesterday morning.The funny folks at Cook Suck would most probably say that the dinner I made on Thursday look like something a big Mastiff hound,

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At one time not too long ago, there were quite a few of these posters of my #1 puppy-pal plastered on walls around our 'hood. And then they were gone as quickly as they have been put up, before I could get a picture of them.This was a lucky find in a back alley over the weekend. Wooooo! When we took a different-from-our-usual route home from lunch.And, no, I didn't try to peel it off to take it

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Ah, yes! Another one of them quick-and-easy numbers. Red wine vinegar-glazed mushroom on a lentils salad. Half prefab-ed, half "cooked-to-order". Minimum time spent at the stove for more time in front of the television set. Yeah.The salad:Puy lentils (I like cooking mine with salt and thyme) + Spanish onion (pickled in red wine vinegar, sugar and salt) + spinach lightly-sauteed in olive oil with

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It's no secret that I have a thing for walls. In January 2011, I fell in love with a wall in a British-made film. A year later, another one in yet another British production caught my eye. What's it with British production designers and amazing walls?!I've been in a few jam/recording studios in my time but I never thought the humble sound-proofing foam could be made to look so sexy! Woooo! With

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I wrote earlier on in the New Year, at the end of a post, in tiny italics, about my slow-brewing need for an almost-spartan (by my standards) life. About my consumaterialism, about how looking into my bulging wardrobe and shoes+bags cupboard, these days brings me more hair-pulling angst than joy. Somehow, collecting and owning too many "pwetty things" just aren't so much fun anymore. For many

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And also the designers of one of our favourite chairs ever.We've read a lot about Charles and Ray Eames' life and work but nothing beats watching them amazing polymaths in moving pictures...This is another one of those documentaries that we can watch over and over again.Image of chair from here.

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So, like all good Wes Anderson fans, the boyfriend and I got pretty damn excited after viewing the trailer for his new film Moonrise Kingdom on Friday. The new-to-an-Anderson-film cast (Edward Norton! Tilda Swinton! Frances McDormand!), the look-and-feel, the plot...all had me squealing but my loudest "WHEEEEE!" was brought about by the fisherman/angler basket that Suzy, the young female lead,

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It's a little time-consuming but I like to pick the twiggy bits off rocket ("arugula" to the few Americans who read this blog..."Hello!") before I use the leaves. It's a look-and-(mouth)feel thing which is quite a big part of the whole eating experience, right? A rocket salad is so much prettier and tastier without the yucky stems. Does that make me a fussy pot? Some restaurants do it, some don't

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Not one of them prefab-ed numbers but still relatively quick and easy to make.Warm potato salad -> Make the lemon vinaigrette first up (lemon juice + zest, seeded mustard, a good olive oil & seasoning) + finely-chop some herbs (I used chives, parsley and tarragon) + baby capers, drained and finely-chopped + Spanish onions + blanched beans + steamed or boiled potatoes (quickly drain when done, pop

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Yup, the prefab-ing continues in the kitchen.There have been new and delicious concoctions but this one that I made up is one that I keep going back to. At least once every fortnight because it is that good and so quick and easy -> roasted pumpkin + browned onions + mashed roasted garlic + red quinoa (or some other seeds/pulses/grains-type things) + parsley (or any flavoursome soft-leaved herbs)

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We brought home another happy bag full of baked goods from the cute little Japanese bakery yesterday. This time around, I shnapped some show-and-tell pictures before we ate them all!The Hokkaido Pan (pic #3) was a repeat-buy. A soft milky bun (In Japan, I think they use milk from Hokkaido hence the name) baked with a thin coat of sponge cake-like mixture. Fluffy on the inside with a sweet golden

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It's that time of the year again when my Summer whites, in all their frothy, crispy, pleated, embroidered, lacy, crocheted and blinding glory, come out to play (some party pics from previous years here, here, here, here and here)!The boyfriend always joins the merry-making too with a vintage guayabera shirt from his modest pile. To me, they are the perfect white shirts with their embroidery and

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My #1 puppy-pal in the 'hood has owners who have a great sense of humour. I always look forward to finding these chalk doodles and scribbles on the pavement in front of their house. This is today's. I would "try" Dasher everyday! Whether he's had a bath or not. He's the sweetest thing ever!

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There. And there.Wall art on the side of Spring Court's cornershop. See work-in-progress photos on artist Jeff Canham's website. And a few more here, here and here on the Spring Court blog.

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From a cute little new Japanese bakery in Chinatown.We ate what we brought home in the happy bag too quickly for show-and-tell pictures. Only because the baked goods were so delicious!Fuji PanShop 1605 George Street (but the shopfront weirdly faces Goulburn Street)SydneyWebsite: fujitop.com.au

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= The Obliteration Room. Wooooooo! What fun!At Look Now, See Forever. Yayoi Kusama's current solo show at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Brisbane.From this newstory that the boyfriend just sent me. We love our Dotty Lady so maybe it's time for another little roadtrip up to good ol' Queensland.

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I made this (crochet-covered beads from a kiddie bracelet that's too small for my adult wrist + green & white stripey parcel-tying string) in 5 minutes one morning a few days ago in an attempt to curb my hankering for one of these (all my plain tops/shirts/blouses want a new pal too!)...I've been going to Melbourne designer Emily Green's etsy shop to perv at her happy lolly-coloured necklaces

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We like how the Art Gallery of New South Wales, expecting crazy crowds at the Picasso - Masterpieces from Musée National Picasso, Paris exhibition, has introduced timed-entry tickets for pre-purchase.We bought our tickets online at home at 12.30pm, printed them out, walked down to the Gallery (stopping at the pub for a quick cheeky drinkie-poo in the sun along the way) and were still early for

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A fantastic bop-o-rama time was had by me and a super perv-o-rama time was had by the boyfriend (well, me too...their blunt fringes, long legs, wardrobe and musical instrument-wrangling skills...a complete PHWOAR package!) when we went to see the Dum Dum Girls play at the Oxford Art Factory on Monday evening. Wooooo! Can't think of a better way to kickstart the New Year! Especially when their

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Two more walls, from around our 'hood, that I love the look of but never photographed well because I always walk by at the wrong time of the day.Not today! Woo! The sun was out and in a happy spot. Plus I got a bonus prop in the second picture - the empty-beer-bottle-wrapped-in-brown-paper so artfully-placed by one of our friendly neighbourhood alkies. A regular feature on window sills, stoops

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Thought my new Munchies-pal would like a photo, before he gets eaten, with his colourful doughnut-pal on a bus stop ad.(This is my first ever tube of Munchies and I have to say that I felt a little let down. *sad face* Nestle, less caramel and more crispy biscuit centre, please!)

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Again. Haha. Our second Taiwanese "small eats" meal in one week.Five-spiced beancurd & deep-fried eggplant - today's picks from the display cabinet // Cold noodle salad (I love my cold noonoos!) // The boyfriend's pork chop curry (similar to the Japanese katsu curry) // More thirst-quenching frothy iced tea // Yeah!

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Mixy-mixy typography in this "hand-lettered"-style always makes me feel like playing Monopoly. You know, the Community Chest and Chance cards?

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We're looking forward to new adventures in the new year! Hope you are too! xx

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The Virgin Suicides came to mind when I saw the first of these neon green paste-ups around our neighbourhood. This one from yesterday is quite obviously a scene from an old-school porn flick? With a title that's a play on tennis-related words like "Grand Slam" and "balls" maybe? Looking forward to spotting the next one by the same artist.

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Will's baby reminded me of these pictures of a Garden Noam that we spotted sitting high up on a wall along Crown Street some time ago (it's sadly no longer there). Part of the Gnome Rebellion, I think. More pictures here.

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How To Make Jewellery with Tatty Devine was a little surprise (it was not on the shopping list that I gave her!) that my sweet pal Ms Carpet brought home for me from her recent holiday to London. She knows I love my Tatty Devine bling. And how much I like to make things. Hee.The one thing from this colourful happy book that I was most eager to try out was the Shrinky Necklace. They were all the

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And don't know what to do with it?Head over then to Wee Birdy where my pal Top Bird shares my recipe for some rumblin' rumballs made from leftover pudding. Very easy, I promise, and so much fun to make! For your New Year's Eve party this evening, perhaps?

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Photo by G"Haven't seen this one before!" was the note that accompanied this picture that my pal G sent me yesterday.It's new to me too! Wheeeeeeeeee! I'm happy to see that Will has stuck a piece that is much bigger that his usual on the streets of Sydney (G says this baby is along Liverpool Street, at the entrance to the World Square food court)! I hope there will be more* to come!And happy too

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We don't know why Cho calls himself the "Dumpling King" because there sure are no dumplings on his menu. Zilch.What this tiny eatery has loads of is Taiwanese "small eats" - little platters of savoury sides/appertisers - in the glass display cabinets that line their shop windows, tempting and taunting us as we wait for a table in the always-long queue.The small plates of delicious-ness are not

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Dream job!

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1. Store-bought clothbound sketch pad with a homemade "gentle prodding" message for a boy who has stopped drawing. And who also loves Helvetica.2. For the same boy who's shorn most of his hair off recently. Less hair = more face = needs more interesting glasses. The Lemtosh from the MOSCOT Originals range, a reproduction of a style from their 1930-1970 archives.3. A book for a girl who loves

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1. Super-buttery (yeah!) candied ginger and cranberry shortbread - baked and beautifully-packed by our pal G2. Quite a few flourless chocolate cakes and carrot cakes from Bourke Street Bakery - I didn't have the time or energy to bake this year and these are my cop-out gifts for my aunt and my cousins. Our friendly neighbourhood bakery's Christmas pre-order service could be your saviour next year

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Rummy the Reindeer says..."HAVE A GOOGLY-EYED CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL!"I'm off to drop off some Rummy-fied pressies now. Hope you'll be all googly-eyed from all the feasting and merry-making by the end of today too! The sign of a fantastic time had! Woooooo! xx

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Not your run-of-the-mill yawnsville Christmas window displays at a few of my favourite shops in our 'hood. They are never boring all year round!Chee Soon & Fitzgerald // Sark Studio // The Kido Store // The Standard Store

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Vanilla ice cream on a warm sweet sweet potato mash (sounds strange but so good in the mouth!) and green tea ice cream with a red bean paste. All served with a totally unexpected sprinkle of conflakes (brought back sweet childhood memories!) and topped with delicately-sliced apple "fans" (so old-school that it made us all laugh). The sweet end to our multi-multi-multi-course "orphans" Christmas

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A little Christmas pressie that I brought home today for our little apartment. Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. We're not the "boughs of holly"-type people but pictures of cute likkle bwoys and girls? YEAH!This particular hand-tinted vintage photo of these rosy-cheeked brothers, I've been admiring for months in our friendly neighbourhood junk shop! The naturally-aged frame, the composition, the

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Freshblood Mr Sweet next to the Funky Buddha who's been around the block a few times.Mr Sweet reminded me of Mr Nice. Must be his retro-stylishness. And those dilated pupils.

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This little thing came to play on our balcony two evenings ago. I don't like buggy things but I think he's alright. So shiny that you can see my reflection on his back!

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Pho for lunch! (I like saying that. Tee hee hee.) At Pasteur today. Another old Chinatown favourite of ours which, strangely, hasn't made an appearance on this blog. And we've been getting our soupy rice noodle-y fixes there since 2004!This is our usual order. Refreshing fizzy lemon sodas to sip on while we wait for the "special" beef bowl for the boyfriend (very thin and pink beef slices + yucky

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I saved the Jenny Kee article, dated 23 October, to share with those of you, non-Aussie folks, who might not have heard of this 60-something-year-old Australian designer and artist who has led quite a life. And it's been sitting in my Drafts folder, forgotten, until last weekend when another cool old dudette was the cover girl for the fluffy section of the Sunday papers.Iris Apfel. You know I

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A cute new discovery in our old 'hood!We've just been to the Bourke Street Bakery near us in the morning so we left the Organic Bread Bar with only a small loaf of Christmas-y stollen. Super-buttery (more so than most that I've had), moderately-spiced (the way I like them!) and chock-full of fruit and nuts. One tiny slice after our fish 'n' chips lunch did me in. And I usually cannot stop at one.

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Cheeky Saturday afternoon drinkie-poos at The Local Taphouse, our old local. A #20 for me (refreshing!) and a #16 for the boyfriend (too "flowery" for my tastebuds).

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Jimmy sure is an enterprising boy!

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Another blue shirt that came back with Ms Carpet from her holiday. For the boyfriend. She knows he likes his greying professor-style elbow patches. Tee hee hee. I can't afford the super-patched Isabel Marant number (a chambray-lover's dream-come-true!) but I sure can borrow this "cleaner" version from the boyfriend. Yay!

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Of blue and grey to match the crazy Sydney (Summer!) sky I woke up to in the morning*.The "blue" is one of the few cute things that Ms Carpet (who, by the way, has stopped Blogspot-ing to go a-Tumblr-ing) "personal-shopped" for me on her recent trip to London and Paris. On my Topman list (for shirts for the boyfriend) was also a red bandanna-print shirt for me but they were gone when she got

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One of my specialties in the kitchen.To order some for Christmas, see Your Local Dealer.

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This new paste-up in our neighbourhood made me think of the Lisbon sisters. The Asian version.

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The longest platter of sushi (and sashimi!) that I've ever been presented with! On our second visit to My Zakaya last weekend. And everything was as delicious as the first time!This little izakaya is definitely going to be our Chat Thai of the easy-Japanese-dining world. Plus the lovely boss-lady loves us already (she likes that we "order like Japanese people") and has promised that she'll get

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1. The movie poster // 2. The "Nancy Kwan" // 3. The Five-Point Cut on a young Grace Coddington// 4. The iconic "Mary Quant" on Mary Quant // 5. Chopping Mia Farrow's locks off for the film "Rosemary's Baby" // 6. The man!Some girls harbour dreams of being personally fitted for an outfit (or a whole season's wardrobe) by their favourite designer in his or her atelier. My equivalent of those girly

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It wasn't all "Will! Will! Will!" at the Outpost show on Cockatoo Island last Saturday...Wall art on a super-duper grand scale by Vexta and Roa (the details on those Australian animals are amazing!).Mini Graff! I love her work but I don't see enough of it on our streets. Her current series of works remind me very much of the suburban houses painted by Howard Arkley, another Australian artist

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Will Coles on Cockatoo Island! Pieces by my favourite street artist at one of my favourite places in Sydney! That and the beautiful weather (a rare dry day in between the many rainy ones we've been cursed with lately...in Summer!) really made my Saturday last week.It thrilled me so to see Will's billed large-scale works on show (particularly "Mermaid", the dangling giant fish-shaped soy sauce

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Since our old-favourite Tsukasa closed its doors last year, we've been on the look-out for a neighbourhood izakaya that can fill the void in our hearts and bellies. And by "izakaya", I mean one in the real Japanese sense - a very casual and cosy no-frills eatery, the sort where you pop into after work for some simple but delicious food that you wash down with beers or sake. Not a sushi bar (with

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1. The tropical-ly greens that I wore today.2. The golf-y greens (the pants, not the grassy bits) that the boyfriend wore today. No, we don't play golf. Yuck.3. A Royal Doulton plate with a happy green pattern named Navajo we found today in a charity shop. It is sitting on our table runner named Inka from Aura by Tracie Ellis, an Australian company that makes some pretty good-looking napery and

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There are a lot of made-up words and phrases that I've stopped using (some I've even forgotten about) since we moved from Singapore to Sydney. Pals back home, from years of shared experiences and all, have a firm grasp of Likkle Girl lingo. Here in Sydney, sometimes it takes too long to explain them to new pals and, like jokes, if you have to break down the punchlines or tell some long

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Haven't been able to get this oldie-but-goodie by The Bees out of my head since bedtime last night. Now that I've mastered the art of embedding videos (yay!), I thought I'd share this hilarious one with you.Get your best interpretive-dancing shoes on and hit "Play"! Tee hee hee.

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Which is not too different from all our Saturdays. Tee hee hee.1. The boyfriend and I usually start the day "treasure hunting". In the few charity shops in our neighbourhood. If it's the first Saturday of the month, the Surry Hills Markets (my favourite Sydney market!) will be our first stop. Last Saturday, we went to the RedWater Markets in Redfern Park for the very first time. I loved it for

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A very very old shirt that I re-discovered hidden in the boyfriend's side of the wardrobe and wore for the very first time on Saturday.This men's shirt was obviously way too big for me but I had to buy it (because I love Astroboy!) fifteen years ago in Kiddyland when Singapore still had a small branch of that fantabulous Japanese cutesy-shit nonsense superstore. I gave it to the boyfriend when

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Do you have as much fun shopping for gifts as gift-wrapping them? I do!The plan was to embroider or print some handkerchiefs* to give to our pal Slow Loris for his birthday but we had to settle for these pre-monogrammed ones from the shops because I ran out of time. To make up for the lack of effort in the pressie-making department, I got rid of the quite-ugly packaging the hankies came in and

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The green one is called "Lime Daiquiri". Cute!I buy and use a lot of Sharpies - I drain the ink of one nearly every month. And this is the first time I've seen one with a proper name on the sticky label. Like nail polish. If I'm Queen of the World, I'll abolish the use of boring (and sometimes long) article numbers on all colouring products (paints, coloured pencils, crayons, eye shadows,

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I had lovely Lyn, my pedicurist, paint my toenails a shiny aluminium foil silver one sunny day two weeks ago in anticipation of the arrival of my equally shiny leather platinum BAGGU.The bag finally arrived today (it took way longer than the last delivery) and the sun is shiny no more after nearly a fortnight of gloriousness. Boo. I like the idea of wearing silver in the day, under the glaring

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For days when I feel like wearing something girly but don't feel like sitting all lady-like with my legs crossed. Which is most days of the week, really (don't tell my mother!). And then there are the windy days.My smock dresses work best - tucked in, they look like the loose peasanty-type blouses I've always liked wearing. Plus with some creative tucking, I get to have some asymmetrical/mullet

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Fabric-A-Brac! What a clever name for a fabric and haberdashery market, right?!That's where we were yesterday. I would have totally missed it if not a morning chirpy text-tip* from my pal Top Bird! And the one-day event was just down the road from us. In a hired studio on the top floor of an old building that I've been dying to explore the interior of (I was not disappointed! It was an amazing

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Another brick wall that I like.

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Strawberry Chicken, anyone? What about Lemon Pork? The Banana Duck might be delicious too?

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1. A brown paper bag from the Library Shop at the State Library of New South Wales. A funny tea towel (for a non-Aussie pal) came in it, not a book.2. The life stories of a French man and five British dudes bought at various charity shops in the last few months. The boyfriend is a big reader of non-fiction while I usually like to escape to what I call "the fluffy-land" that fiction provides but I

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Remember how these cool dudes made me hunt down this old basket? Nearly two months later, a longer crossbody-able strap has finally been added! I'm still nowhere near as cool as the dudes are but I'm as pleased as Punch because the "modification" didn't cost me a cent!Two hinged rings (they are the safety pins of my D.I.Y. bag-modification world!) through the tiny gaps on the existing strap + a

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I've been eyeing this cute kangaroo fur koala face in the glass display cabinet of one of my neighbourhood charity shops for months! You know me and my animal-shaped bags and furry things. But he was more than what I would pay (in an op shop, or a vintage shop even) for something that needed a lot of restoring - sandpaper-ing the rust off, cleaning and "de-odour-ing" - so I left him, quite happy

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Japanese-style gift-wrapping with an Indian cotton hanky.I like the positions of the floral print on the package. Particularly around the sides. Like decorative friezes. It's like the hanky was made to wrap of this tin of Hello Kitty sweets! Tee hee hee. And the recipient can use it to wipe off traces of candy-chomping.She can turn it into arm-candy even (which I hope she will).Yay! To the simple

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I think sometimes we need accidents to remind us of how important the little things, things that we take for granted, are in our lives.I felt like a little spazzy this morning trying to do everyday things like putting my contact lenses in and doing up the buttons on my shirt. Speed texting? Forget about it!

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Another care package from my pal in Singapore! Poochie-wooch always sends the best things!I had to return the super-cute Cath Kidston for Uniqlo floral dress that she sent me for my birthday months ago because the length was not awkward enough for me. She took it back to the shop to swap for these stripey things (love the boat necks!) and sent them out again. The things she does for me!I love how

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Part IThis custom-made leather tote is my birthday present to the boyfriend this year.My first just-for-fun gift to him when we first started dating years back was a canvas tote that I embroidered and embellished (with totally ungirly boy-things, of course). I've long had a thing for boys with tote bags (crossbody bags and satchels are so boring and they create ugly creases in freshly-ironed

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(click on pictures to read recipes)Soba Noodles with Aubergine and Mango (I love a good cold buckwheat noodle salad!) and Castelluccio Lentils with Tomatoes and Gorgonzola (we love our pulses and blue cheese!) from Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi.I went back to work a month ago. Three days a week. Around 10 hours each day. On my feet. The last thing that I want to do when I get home is spend too much

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We said "bye bye" to our cute little Ikea plastic dining table on the first Sunday of October when our Ebay find, a 1950s extendable teak Chiswell + four chairs, was delivered. It was a sad affair for our old table has been with us since 2004 when we moved to Sydney. Its pals, the vintage orange vinyl diner's chairs, will miss it too because they've been together for just as long. But it had to

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Two Good Luck Cats spotted in one day!A newly (looks to me) spray-painted one on a garage door in a back alley near us. Love the cheeky gangster gold tooth! And the rat emblem on the gold coin. Does it mean that this household or business prefers rodents to the usual wealth and prosperity? Tee hee hee.At the cute little On Ramen. This Lucky Cat fan has replaced the big fat ceramic one on the

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Green Stripey T - Zara, Scarf - vintage Balmain, Pants - Skunkfunk, Shoes - Isabela Capeto for Melissa~ I can't not think of the "rule" that Ms Carpet told me about not too long ago whenever I wear my favourite colour combo these days. I still want to know who wrote it and why and good ol' Google hasn't been very helpful. Boo.~ I went super-matchy-matchy that day with a change of watch strap. Tee

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In the cute printed sundress - Ms CarpetIn the the cute printed cup - my double-scoop of Breakfast of Champions (chunks of buttery croissant + jam in a tangy yoghurt gelato) and Salted Caramel + White Chocolate from MessinaOnly four of those cups were ours. We (Ms Carpet, Meeps, the boyfriend and I) couldn't have eaten that much ice cream after many cheeky afternoon drinkie-poos and a huge

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The boyfriend saw my arrangement of the happy eggs (very rare to find so many of them in one box!) and said, "What's playing in Fridge Theatre?" Haha.

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Two new flavours from Caramel Corn's range of 40th(!!!) Anniversary specials!Almond Caramel - their already-caramel-y corn puffs coated with a layer of golden almond-flavoured caramel. Caramel-on-caramel = PHWOAR!And Milk Caramel - same idea as the the almond one but not as exciting. Still good, though. Eaten like cereal in a bowl of milk.And a new copycat (pun not intended) version we found in

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Between our sushi lunch on Liverpool Street and post-meal macaron treats on Alberta Street, we discovered these! It's been a while since we've spotted street art that excites.Some quick Googling when we got home yielded this. (Hello, Penelope Cain! We love your Mr Fox!)We're going on a treasure hunt soon armed with the map. Yay!

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I swear I didn't wake up this morning and went, "Oooh! I feel like wearing loads of netty holey things all at once."The op-shopped-very-long-ago crocheted shorts were a conscious decision because it's a shorts-wearing kind of day and I've finally found some girly boxer shorts of the right length, cut and colour to wear under (I'm not one to do flash-my-knickers-on-purpose-sexy. It's not even sexy

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Which got "fixed" to go into a salad with this contraption that Ms Carpet brought back from Vietnam for me.It was the first time that I've used it and man, it was sharper than it looks and I think it comes close to my Microplane on the "Best Kitchen Tools Ever Invented" list. A useful souvenir/gift-for-pals to take home if you're ever in Vietnam!

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Like Donkey Kong!The boyfriend's current favourite op-shopped t-shirt. I like it too.I wonder if the Johnny's Bananas ape in Entourage was modelled after Kong.

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Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore split after 27 years of marriage. Sad sad news. The first thought that popped up in my head was: "If they are not going to grow old together...Kim knitting booties for her grandchildren in her rocking chair on their porch with Thurston next to her re-reading old copies of music magazines...is there hope for the rest of us?"My pal Ben had this to say: "

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Saturday. A late lunch of fish 'n' chips and prawn dumplings in a chilli soy sauce at the quaint little Mohr Fish just around the corner.Sunday. Fried green curried prawn mousseline, gai yaang chicken and prawn dumpling noodles at the latest addition to our beloved Chat Thai chain in the new-ish (but boring) Westfield Mall on Pitt Street.It's a hard life when you love dumplings but do not eat

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Sometimes, I think, when I go on a lot about something (the colour blue, in this case), I kind of will strange cosmic forces to work in my favour?I wasn't looking for a pair of blue sunglasses. I already have a pair. Or any sunnies. I have too many of them that I don't wear enough of. And what did I find when I popped into my "secret" neighbourhood op shop last weekend, after a whole week of "

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Another old blue thing. A very well-travelled one!The boyfriend op-shopped this vintage Mexican hand-embroidered (how cute are the lovebirds!) chambray top for his mother when he was in university in Melbourne years ago. Way before we met.She found it too big when he gave it to her in Singapore and never wore it. He passed it on to me soon after we met because he thought it was my "kind of thing"

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There was of course a lot of squealing and gasping-for-air when I first saw the sack-like denim looks from Stella McCartney's Spring/Summer 2011 show on style.com last October. I've never been into that whole capsule wardrobe thing but if I'm ever forced to downsize, these pieces, for denim- and chambray-mad me, would be it! In a dream world, that is, where money grows on trees in the vast

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