Why You Shouldn’t Buy An Engagement Ring
My father is a big fan of Zi Wei Dou Shu, eastern astrology, both my sister and I got a reading right after we were born. I know it is crazy to believe that the arrangement of the stars can predict my life, but there is something about it I cannot explain. The older I get, the more realize my reading is so accurate. I want to learn more so I don’t feel like a fool when people talk about it. It’s actually very important if I want to do business in East Asia.
Now, back to my reading, people with Puo Jun in the Self Court like me tend to have these set of qualities:rebellious, restless, overbearing, stubborn, tireless, energetic, edgy, can be uncommonly skillful, makes unpredictable moves and changes and difficult to understand. If you read my other blog, you know I told people that they should lie on their résumé, college is a bad investment, and smart women should marry money. Nothing about my point of view is normal. I don’t like to agree with mainstream media. It is the way a person with Puo Jun in self court thinks. We are rebels who don’t like to follow any rules. I am a woman who works in the boys club and dresses like a clown at fashion week.
Anyway this post isn’t about astrology, it is about engagement ring. Continue reading
Why You Should Stop Criticizing Models For Being Skinny
In an Asian community where everyone is wearing XS, small is NOT skinny. And if you wear medium, you are officially fat.
Most of us are having trouble finding clothes that fit. A lot of time, double-zero pants are still too big for me. Most of us don’t put any effort trying to stay skinny, we are naturally thin. Continue reading
Do You Need A DSLR Camera For Blogging?
When I just started blogging, I asked myself a question, “Do I need a DSLR camera for blogging?” All my fashion blogger friends swear by their DSLR, and they all told me to get one. If there is an Elle magazine for fashion blogging, a DSLR will be in the must have list. It is a necessary like the 50 shades of pink POI nail polishes. Back then it made a lot of sense to invest in one.
One day I was trying to find room for a gifted unwanted dress, it made me think. If I don’t let my friends tell me how I should dress, why would I let them tell me what I should purchase? Let’s the people who sold their souls to companies for invitations to exclusive parties or a free
dress tell you what to buy is never a good idea (sorry my fashion blogger friends I am too honest. Deal with it, you can unfriend me any time). I am too poor to listen to my friends. Continue reading
Life Is Not Sex And The City: Stop Shopping and Start Saving
Like most girls, I would love to to have Carrie Bradshaw’s lifestyle in Sex And The City. Who wouldn’t want a beautiful Upper East Side apartment with over 100 pairs of designer shoes in a big giant walk in closet? Her life seems so wonderful: writing for a famous column, partying at the most exclusive parties, wearing designer clothes from head to toe and dating a millionaire. It is beautiful but unrealistic. As a blogger, I know most writers don’t make a lot of money from writing, Or else every journalist and blogger would be a millionaire. Life is not Sex and The City, and most of us cannot afford to visit Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman or Saks every other day. If Carrie Bradshaw lived in our world, she would be in serious debt and she might need to write a frugal blog instead of a relationship column. There is actually a great book about a real-life-Carrie -turned-frugal-blogger (minus the millionaire boyfriend). Continue reading
{Giveaway} Join #SonicRevolution Chat & Win a Clarisonic
You know that I love Twitter Chats. I have hosted 3 different chats (#rbchat, #fashionchat, #photochat) and I’m going to launch a new chat very very soon.
I love my Clarisonic Mia 2 a lot. This beautiful device makes my life so much easier.
I also love brands that care about social media and building relationship. Continue reading
Is The Clarisonic Worth The Splurge?
It is another day of my 16 hour-work-day life. Working for a start-up is hard, but you cannot understand how hard it is until you actually work for one. It is even harder when I am juggling a full time start up life, freelance gigs, and help running family businesses. That is what an independent girl needs to do to follow her dream and feed her family. The mortgage doesn’t pay itself at the end of the month. Sometimes, I miss having the beautiful life, drinking good wine, eating good food, and looking fabulous. Who doesn’t want to have fun all day?
“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” ― Audrey Hepburn [Tweet this]
I hate the word IMPOSSIBLE. People always tell me everything I do is impossible, and I always prove to them that they are wrong! There must be a way to live a fabulous life even when I am working a 16 hour day. If Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO can have baby and run a Fortune 500 company at the same time, I can have a fabulous life while working for a start-up.
{ Giveaway } Win a HTC One X, courtesy of Rogers
What is a better way to celebrate a new beginning of a blog than giving back to the community?
You know my love affair with Google. A while ago, I really wanted to test an Android phone and Rogers was kind enough to lend me a phone to play with. The HTC One X made my iPhone looks like an ugly duckling. Who knew the iPhone would have this day. The HTC One X was like a couture dress and my iPhone was a thick, small and heavy H & M dress.
Beautiful phone + an OS that allows me to customize= Heaven
I really love the phone and my kind friends from Rogers offer to giveaway a HTC One X to one lucky reader from Canada. It was hard to say no .
Here is a contest for you guys. You know you want this sexy smartphone :)
Good luck gorgeous.
P/S: Please make sure that you activate your email subscription, or all your entries will be disqualified
My Perfectly Imperfect Life And The Blog
I deleted my old blog. It was not easy. But sometimes you need to do something that hurts and get over it. I am no longer the same person I used to be a few years ago.
I have spent the last 6 months trying to figure out what I am going to write.
At a point, I dreamed to write a blog like The Stranger blog by my sweet dearest friend Michelle Lara Lin with stunning editorial photos and provocative writing. We have a lot in common. Both of us have never finished college. I wrote a post explaining why I think college is a bad investment. Both of us are working in startup world and have no life. But I realized that I will be never able to write beautiful wordy posts like Michelle. Even Michelle thinks it is hard to write sometimes. Furthermore, I cannot see myself spending hours posing for beautiful editorial photos for my blog. There is nothing wrong about it, you know I adore Michelle and her blog. My tomboy side told me that it was not my thing. I am too practical to produce works like Michelle. I will just admire her beautiful artsy blog from far away. Continue reading
