Scar and Perri

"Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. She was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening." 
~ Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love

On Waterloo Bridge, where we said our goodbyes,
The weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.
I wipe them away with a black woolly glove
And try not to notice I've fallen in love."
~ Wendy Cope, After the Lunch

The poem and excerpt found above are just lovely, noh? First encountered them last Thursday night while watching The Delicious Miss Dahl, a new cooking show, on The Lifestyle Network (originally aired on BBC2). The theme of that episode was romance and Sophie Dahl read those in between the actual cooking parts. I loved it. It was a lovely episode. The show had that air of nostalgia, romance and a vintage/old hollywood/so bloody English feel that I really like. Haha! If you must know, I love watching baking/cooking shows and my current faves are Everyday Italian, Barefoot Contessa, At Home with Giada and now this. I'm far from becoming a domestic goddess but these past few weeks I've been doing a lot of cooking and simple baking. I've run out of new books to read so I resorted to playing the piano and baking/cooking to keep me sane and stress-free. I'm a worry-er and very neurotic you see so doing all these are very important if I want the skin on my fingers to stay intact and not bleeding (I fiddle restlessly and pick on my thumbs' skin when I'm nervous w/c is most of the time, unfortunately).

Anyway, I love outfits like this. Preppy, androgynous, monochromatic and still feminine. This look was actually inspired by this photo on my tumblr (follow me btw!). When my mom saw me wearing this she said I looked like I was ready to traipse down the streets of London. And that's exactly what I felt like doing in this and when I saw that photo.

PS. Scar is short for Scarlet April (I'd like to think of her as my alter-ego) and Perri is short for Perriwether. If dear Perri is actually reading this...well, Scar misses and remembers you. Just thought their names went well with today's theme. :)

sheer blouse- WAGW

jeans- Lee

brogues- custom-made

satchel- Parisian Jr.

bow- from Ara

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Constant

This fringe necklace and tan satchel have been regular accessories to my outfits in school the past weeks. They go with just about anything and they instantly spruce up a rather plain jane attire. I wore the first outfit to school although I changed into my trusted pair of jeans because there is no way I'd wear shorts that tiny to school without being sent to the D.O. for breaking our conservative dress code policy and I didn't even think of wearing tights underneath it 'coz that would just make the outfit more uncomfortable for me. Besides, I'm more comfortable in jeans than in shorts. I wear jeans 90% of the time in school. But you don't see that often here on the blog 'coz they're usually not blog-worthy. Haha! But when I'm not in school, then I go all out with skirts, shorts etc! And that's what you see here (most of the time). :)

The second set of photos (the black and white ones) were taken by my college BFF Anna Banana at Ivy Hill in Taft (Anna's condo just across school). We were shooting our 2 to 3-minute film for our video production class and I was directing our team's director of photography (fancy name for cameraman) and talent. I'm practically ID 110 (pronounced as one-ten, I'm originally ID 109--one-oh-nine parang james bond lang eh haha) now because I deferred for 2 terms. Back then, I couldn't go a single night without crying thinking that it was the worst decision I've ever made. I wanted to finish school on time, finish it in just 3 years time. That was the plan. But now that I'm past that, I think that decision wasn't so bad after all. Now, I don't feel like I'm always racing against time. All I have to do is do things at my own pace. Anyway, I'm quite happy that I'm reunited with Anna Banana (you don't know how much that girl makes me happy!) and we shall be thesis-mates together with Meli. After all, school wouldn't be as fun without the company of friends. And that day (when we shot our video) was proof of that adage. Even though we only had to shoot a few scenes--15 screenshots to be exact but took us 60 takes--half of our day went into it. But it was so much fun because I was working with not just random schoolmates but with my friends! Our video prolly took that long to shoot because we were laughing most of the time. Haha! We had this elevator scene so naturally we had to shoot inside the elevator. What a sight we must've been to the peeps who went to use the lift. We--me, the camerawoman Kat, screenwriter/BFF Anna and our two actors plus the bulky camera, tripod and dolly--were cramped inside that small place trying to shoot, control the elevator, usher in the people and also trying to keep ourselves from laughing when we make a mistake. In the end, that elevator became a sauna. Yep. Haha!

PS. Eeep. I'm trying to grow my fringe out (for the nth time!) but I cut it even before it becomes looong enough to be considered as "not bangs" because well...just look at my face in those photos! My cheekbones are as high as skyscrapers and are so very prominent when my fringe is in that awkward stage! Eck. What do you think? Grow it out or not? A 'lil help please? :)

blouse- mom's

gray tank- Landmark

shorts- Vintage Forever Shop

fringe necklace- Bubbles

satchel- Coconut Gold

brogues- from Taiwan

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