Musing | Spring favourites

Hello my lovelies. I thought I'd share my stumbled across treasures of September and October so far.

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Some words to help us all get through the day, week, month, year, life.

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My bucket list: Destinations

This is a lot different from my usual posts but that can be refreshing. One can only stand to spectate the evolution of "selfie queen" for so long. Here is your well deserved break.

This post will be focusing on places that make me sure I have the bugs of a wonder luster. I promise you, these are places I've fallen in love with through articles, photographs, films, books and word-of-mouth for non-consumerism reasoning (well aside from one or two).

These are places I would be an absolute sponge in, absorbing the culture and heritage. From Architecture, to food, to music, and to the way of life. That's right, not for fashion purposes hah (again, aside from one or two). 

Let's get into it. Not in any particular order, except the first few which will be cities I desperately need to visit (I'm talking about crumpling to the ground every time I see pictures of them, tears may or may not be involved...). 

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Reasons to go; gondola, pizza, cozy ambiance.

Number one of my list, every time. I just find every thing so charming. The canals and the brick housing are the number one star in my eyes. I love Italian food, I just know I'll love it even more eating real Italian food.

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Reasons to go; seaside view, Grecian food, history (especially their myths) and their blue accented buildings. 

I will be admit, this obsession came about after I read the Sisterhood of the travelling pants trilogy. Percy Jackson was what got me into the Greek Mythology from a young age.

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Reasons to go; Germany's amazing architecture. 

This picture I used is probably not the best to sum up Berlin but their Rococo buildings are what won me over in a heart beat, over their city's skyscrapers. I don't know if the Norse Gods mythologies are a big thing in Germany but I'd love to find out.

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Reasons to go; beaches, floating huts, lagoon, sunshine and killer scenery. 

I will not complain for Fiji or Hawaii either. Have you seen Lilo and Stitch? I feel like I will soak up the experience like that man who always drop his ice cream (yes I am aware that was in Hawaii).

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Reasons to go: canal houses and Anne Frank's house.

Another destination inspired from a book, The fault in our stars. I will read Anne's diary one day.

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Reasons to go; French pastry, the Eiffel tower, the love thickened air and...yeah...shopping.

Much much over done on so many bucket lists but it's one of the fashion capitals, you can't expect me to not long for such a place.

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Reasons to go; Big Ben, the Buckingham Palace, The Old Bailey and the citizen's accent. 

I will definitely lap up the sound of the English accent, or any other accents that happens to be there. What convinced me was in fact the film V for Vendetta. Hey what if England is turned into a communist country??? I want to see The Old Bailey before she's blown up. Plus, it's another fashion capital.

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Reasons to go; Disneyland, Golden Gate bridge and the golden coast.

I would absolutely be overjoyed if I could step foot inside THE Disneyland Walt Disney himself supervised the creation of. I don't know about the shopping culture there but knowing America I'm sure it'll be a 10/10.

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Reasons to go: Crazy amazing modern architecture.

I don't know much about the place but what I do know for sure is their name is exotic, they have the best hotels and their ingenuitive city/building structure looks like a made up lego land, but industrial. 

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Reasons to go; live music, beaches, Christ the Redeemer statue and hopeful during the time of a parade at Sambadrome.

Not going to lie...Fast and Furious 5 was what installed this lust.

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Reasons to go; Gothic cathedrals, shopping, The last supper and again, Italian cuisine.

Surprised surprised that I mentioned two Italian cities. Their cathedrals are so beautiful. I really want to see stained glass windows that date back centuries. I just have a weird fascinated with the country in general. Venice is my first pick most definitely but Milan comes straight after for being one of the fashion capitals. However I will still happily settle for any other cities. Contemplating on whether or not I should put Rome down as the third Italian city I mention...

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Reasons to go; authentic Japanese sushi and ramen (priorities, I've got them straight), cosplayers, bright city lights, adorable school uniform, blossom trees and crazy (and I'm talking imaginative all the way to down right loopy) inventions/products.

First Asian city I'm mentioning (only because I'm from Asia, there's not much of it that leaves me wondering). Tokyo is far from the life style of South-East Asian (my origins) and thus why it intrigues me. I think I will enjoy eyeballing all that is cute in the land of Tokyo. Oh and the ramen fantasy developed from the days I used to watch Naruto.

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Reasons to go: Time square, Statue of Liberty, Manhattan pizza and shopping.

I'll be honest, this city much swayed me with its retailer stores. How can I list three other fashion capitals without the fourth? This is by far the city that I value most for consumerism reasoning. Even though I know the New Yorkers are rude, I still very much want to go. Whenever I walk down Central Auckland, I love the feelings of being surrounded by other bustling Aucklanders. I like to think New York is the same but 10 times the fold. 

These are my top 13 but there are about a thousand other places I would love to visit like Rome, Seoul, New Delhi, Suva, Ottawa, Sydney, Shanghai and Morocco.

I hope you guys enjoyed these beautiful pictures as much as I did ♥

Tell me, have you ever been to any of these places and what were your experiences?

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Bag tour

I got a few requests on ask fm to make a post about all my bags (Either from multiple anons or the same keen-bean anon. Either way; ask and you shall receive ♥).

Let's get started.

Tribal - $15 - bought of a friend
Black and brown - $20-$25(?) - Strandbags

These two bags are ones I used the most, hence the photo caption. I'm currently using the tribal bag as my school bag. The bag is quite deceiving as it seems like a just-here-to-look-pretty kind of bag but it surprising holds a Mary Poppins-like quality to it.
The black and brown one I used when I'm going out with friends and have to carry my bulky camera along with my phone and wallet. It also goes with any outfit, girly or tomboy.

Nightmare before Christmas - Price unknown - Gift from mum when she came back from Holiday
Stripe beach bag - $10 or $15 -  Thrift store in the city (name of the store did not leave a lasting impression on me I'm afraid)

These are for days I dress a little on the crazy side. When my looks aren't polished, and scruffy, but with a purpose.

Leather - Price unknown - Secondhand from a friend (Daisy)
Patterns - Price unknown - Gifted to me by my aunt

For when I have too much to carry or know a lot of shopping will be done. Generally I'd lean towards the leather one if my outfit is more girly.

 Mocha - Price unknown - Secondhand from a friend (Anh)
White - Price unknown - Gifted to me from my cousin (Beverly)

For when I have to attend formal parties and will only be carry my phone and maybe lip balm.

 Roxy - Price Unknown - Bought of Flybuy
Teddy - Price Unknown - Gifted to me by my aunt

I use the floral one when I'm heading to the beach. As for the teddy, it doesn't often see the light of day but I used to tug it along a lot back with I was going through my "kawaii" phase. Heavy emphasis on the quotation marks. I just keep it because it looks cute.

Satchel - $15 - Just Jeans
World map - $10(?) - Thrift store, St Vincent De Paul (Chapel rd)

I use the satchel when my outfit is a little experimental. The world map one hasn't been used much so I can't really say when I'd wear this little fella. It just has to call out to me when I'm standing in my outfit and trying to decide on a bag.

Guess - Price unknown (and I don't want to know @_@) - Secondhand from a cousin (Beverly)
Leather - $10-$20(sorry not to sure) - A cousin shouted the bills for me when I was buying this baby in Cambodia

I've never used the Guess one because I never wear anything posh enough but it's branded so it sits in my closet with an occupation of looking pretty. The leather one is used when my outfit is very lady-like and proper.

Hope this post cured your curiosity my lovely readers.

See you in my next post ♥.

Snippets of my room

*EDIT* I was requested to make a room tour video but after uploading, my video no longer works! I'll try again in future so for now here are some pictures.

I was going to caption the pictures but I'm going to give me readers more credit for their ability to identify books as books and earrings as earrings.

Ta for now lovely readers and if you have anymore requests send them to my ask fm.

Room tour

Room tour time! I was planning on doing this when I got internet but this is seeming to drag on. I'm borrowing my cousin's internet right now and since my photos are already prepared, I figured why not.

Well that is all from me. I love having the privacy of my own room and it has a lock. The house is pretty much perfect except for our extremely close placed neighbours and the disguising gray coloured garage door but both are easily ignored by me and so I'm pretty happy in this new house. I pray to Buddha we don't move anytime soon and just want a place to call home until forever. Oh another down side it that internet is extremely hard to get in our area and the only provider available for us wants us bankrupt from the looks of things. Our house also doesn't show up on google maps or gps because it's so new and so we have to give people directions the old fashion way (keep going straight and then turn left, that u turn and back flip into Narnia). Ordering pizza would not be a privilege for us without the pizza man thinking we're trying to lead him into a forest -sigh-. Hopefully these problems will disappear within 1 to 2 years (well the close neighbours will be forever but so far, people keep their blinds shut and I haven't had the mishap of over seeing a 90 year old showering).

If you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history

School is starting again tomorrow. I feel like this holiday actually felt longer than 2 weeks, while others would disagree. It's because I haven't been doing much this holiday and so I had nothing to murder my time in cold blood like everyone else's. But like everything, it came to it's natural death and is now on its death bed, how tragic. I'm actually looking forward to school despite what others think. Though I am a bit concern at how fast the last term flew by, like if I blink, Christmas would be here any minute.

I packed my bag already and decided to do a "what's in my bag" post:

1. School bag, a denim material, from Cambodia, gifted to me from mum. 

2. Books and folders for the day's subjects, on some days, my sport gear or my A3 graphics folder and graphics pencil case, yes I have a separate pencil case. 

3. Planner, I love my planner, I forgot it at home twice last term and was so dysfunctional on those days. 

4. Pencil case, my calculate lives in there too. 

5. Wallet, holds my lunch money (duh), ID and Driver's license. 

6. Phone, so ancient but I'm not a phone person and so it does the job. 

7. IPod, not always but from time to time I bring it to use while I study. 

8. Hand sanitiser, which makes my life a lot easier at school (people say I use to much, I beg to differ, I'm pretty sure no one likes smelling like salt and vinegar chips). 

9. Spray, I never use it but I just like the security of knowing I can if I need it *paranoid*. 

10. House key and USB, I never use the USB, don't even know why it's there. 

11. Lip Blam, I don't use it often either but again, to give me the option to if I choose. 

12. Old candy container which I use for my retainers.