2015 - Here I come.. a new year...new inspiration and memories

2015. January

It's been a busy start of the year, and if you are in Australia...happy Australia Day!

26 January...today consisted of a trip to Market City > Review > Forcast > Bus to Kinokuniya > Stroll through QVB > Myer > UNIQLO > Top Shop  > Sephora > Zara > Zu > Marcs.

JANUARY.TWENTYFIFTEEN.

Summer is melting through January... time to get your favourite flowy straw hats, sandals to hit the beaches, joggers for some bush walking, hats and sunglasses to embrace
(or survive) the heatwave.

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Fashion Fix

• Want for Winter - quilted black boots.
• Cute Herschel or similar backpacks.
• For work - peplums are figure hugging and flattering (pending on a good style no horizontal lines.
• Style alert : Checkered shirts - red, purple, blue, black, white, green, all colours were evidently visible across alot of Europe stores including Berksha, Zara, H&M and Vera Moda.

Shopping Fix

• A wrap-up of a great beginning to fantastic fashion from USA, Europe and Japan!
• H&M, GAP, Forever 21, UNIQLO and ZARA have opened up in Macquarie Centre!
• To add to that, for all the beauty lovers out there, Sephora has opened in Pitt Street Mall, along with the flagship UNIQLO in Mid City Centre.
• Muji is on its way and so is Mark & Spencer!
• p.s: Sale time @ H&M and Zara. 
• H&M shopping spree... deep orange dress with orange belt, black/yellow floral elastic dress, dotted white black pants, white symbol black work pants, biege dress pants, navy blue swimsuit set, floral skinny jeans, denim shorts and more.
• Forcast - Cece Peplum Wine skirt

Music Fix

*English, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean Music*

          

 
• A-Mei 张惠妹 - 這樣你還要愛我嗎
• A-Mei 张惠妹 - 三月
• A-Mei 张惠妹 - 偏执面
• Big Bang - Number One (classic never fades)
• See - Ya - Shoes + Part 2 - Crazy Love Song (bittersweet love song)
• Tablo - Eyes, Lips, Nose
• Coastline Feat. Madelin Zero - Alone With You(Chillout Remix) (I can't help but immerse myself in a different realm wrapped in memories, when I'm listening to this song.

A-Mei's new album Faces of Paranoia deserves a mention, highly recommended, a soulful, emotionally powerful album from talented A-Mei. The clips are unique, her voice strong and moving - be prepared for a great music fix when you decide to reminiscence the bitter sweet memories of love. 

TVB TV fix Wrap of 2014 Must watch

• Tiger Cubs 2 7/10- if you like drama and action this is a series for you, the sequel to the popular and successful Tiger Cubs 1 - only 10 episodes, but 90 minutes per an episode. Featuring Linda Cheng.
• Triumph in the Skies 2  9/10- starring Chi Lam Cheung, Myolie, Fala Chen, Samuel Chan, Ron Ng and an array of star studded cast, you can't miss this fun, mellow, romantic, energetic, inspiring and scenic sequel to Triumph in the Skies 1 from 10 years ago. If you don't like the sweeter things... you will at least love the flight simulations and airport theme throughout the film, and hopefully appreciate more of the hard work by air hostess, pilots and airport staff day to day.

• Over Achievers 8.5/10 - starring Miss Hong Kong 2013, Raymond Wong and a star studded cast. A brilliant strong cast, great theme song, interesting modern story line that evolves around social media apps, shares and the office.

Movie Fix

• Horseplay (Hong Kong) - 7/10 (Kelly Chen, Wong Cho Lam) A story that involves a trip from Hong Kong to Europe to recover lost artefacts. A feel good, nice movie if you don't want to delve too much into action, strategy or mind boggling movie material.
• Girls (Hong Kong) - 7/10 - (Fiona Sit, Vaness Wu) - a cute movie about three girls, their complicated love lives, their friendship and ...beautiful dresses and parties - an overall feel good friendship movie.
• Aberdeen (Hong Kong) - 8.5/10 (Miriam Yeung, Gigi Leung, Louis Koo)- moving, very believable story line with a serious look at social concerns and acceptance.
• Tiny Times 3 - 6.5/10
• Women, Men and Children - 8/10 - Featured at the St.George Open Air Cinema 2015 - this film explores the problems faced by our society today due to social media, technology and basically the inability to put down the phone or laptop,in return of a book. We sometimes forget to communicate to each other in the most powerful ways that we were always meant to.
• Penguins of Madagascar - 6.5/10
• Theory of Everything (must see list)
• Hunger Games 7/10
• Edge of Tomorrow - 8.5/10 - Brilliant movie, story line, message and plot
• Interstellar (must see list)

Quick Fast Food Fix

• Lauduree pastries... literally anything from the Champ Elysses store... beautiful,crispy pastries
• Hermes -Petit Biscuits
• Pods - Cookies and cream flavour
• Korean bento spicy pork $12.50 - lunch @ Rhodes Shopping Centre - comes with spring rolls, a prawn tempura, vegetable tempura, miso soup and vegetables. There is also a hamburger bento box which comes with potato noodes $15.00
• Incredible fried chicken (spicy and fried original)$18/$16
• Hot Star chicken @ Hot Star (from Taiwan!) $7.95
• The Burger Project $9 up burgers - Kimchi beef burgers, bacon and egg burgers, beef cheese burgers, fried chicken burgers yes anything to do with burgers - created by chef Neil Perry, a nice hangout with friends, don't forget to try their fries too!
• Pork dumplings and handmade noodles
• Pork Roll from Rhodes J's Catering $5 for a pork roll - yum!

Tech and Anime Fix 

• Want list - Danboard,Sony smart watch and Oculus 3D glasses

Life Fix

• Sometimes you have to be a shark and attack the day!
• Walk and talk like a winner
• Do what is essential
• Have priorities and objectives
• Make your own rules
• Ask for what you want
• Be grateful, and have a grateful heart.
• Find and see the beautiful in others

Hope you have a lovely month bloggers and blog walkers, happy new year 2015!  Liz~ xx