I just fell in love with Tim Walker's photography. I gasped and oohed and aahed at all the pictures, which are so magical and fairytale-ish. So i just sat and stared and wished I was the girl in the picture.

When I grow up and I have my dream house and my dream life, I'll invite you over for tea and we'll  talk about fairytales and happy endings and how our biggest problem was writing a lab report for chemistry.

While I'm on the subject of fairytales, I went to see The Princess and the Frog (while wearing a tiara through the mall) last night and it was awesome!

Anyways, I'm gonna go to sleep now and dream about Tim Walker's world.

The Victoria Secret Fashion Show...

which happened tuesday was fun.  I always look forward to it, not for the fashion but because it's so much fun.  The models smile and blow kisses, which is a nice change, and overall the mood is exciting.  Plus, Miranda Kerr is in it.

I love the little pink see through robe thing

And then they had this hippie-ish theme going which they called Pink Planet

awesome balloon train

then the Romantic Journey theme

and the newcomer Kylie Bisutti

Hanzel and Gretal and Lady Gaga

Ahh Annie Leibovitz and fairy tales, what could be a better combination?  I love these pictures so much, I think I'm going to buy the December issue of Vogue just for this editorial.

Grace

If you like to waltz with potatoes

The other night I stood in front of my door and smelt the air.  It felt like the air at my father's village on the border of Thailand and Burma (Myanmar now, I like Burma better) and smelt like it too.  Does that ever happen to you?  When you see or smell something and it takes you back to another time and place? I love it when that happens.  Nostalgia is one of my favorite feelings.

Is it fall yet!?

I just found out that Anna Sui will be doing a Gossip Girl inspired line at target!! The collection will be in stores sept. 13 through oct. 27 in only 250 stores--that was before i saw the collection.
I mean, it's not great. See for youself http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/06/check_out_anna_suis_gossip_gir.html#

But still, on the dawn of september 13, I will be searching for them at my local target.

What do you think?

Leaving soon...

I have 4 days left in Thailand. Summer went by so fast it seems like I just arrived yesterday.

There's so many things I wanted to do and didn't, and so many more pictures I want to take.
But right now it's midnight and I'm going to sleep. Goodnight!

A hill tribe on the border

I took a little trip to visit the long necked people in the hills of Thailand. Thailand has about 10 different ethnic minorities that live on the hills in the north. The women wear rings around their necks to make it look longer.

It's so beautiful and exotic, and the girls and women of these minority tribes are so pretty.

But of course they have a phone booth

Look at her gages!!

This is one of my favorite pictures from this trip. It looks so intimate and loving, I feel like I'm invading their privacy.

I really love the culture of these people, so I bought one of the neck rings as a souvenir.

Buddha's Day

I got a foot massage today while my parents got Thai massages. Since the Thai massage is two hours and the foot is only one, I walked a few blocks to the Lacoste store.

Then we went to Chedi Luang temple because it's Buddha's day. I'm not Buddhist but I love going to temples because they're so beautiful.

I don't really know of it, but it's an important holiday. School was is out for three days.

The temple was packed. I had to sit there for about half an hour listening to the monks pray.

Then it rained again.

I love this picture because the guy running really shows the chaos--everyone was coming out at the same time and trying to get their shoes and trying to figure out what they were going to do.

Next we had dinner at an Italian restaurant (I forget the name) a few blocks away. The staff there are all handicapped in some way. Our waitress was in a wheelchair.

The owner is an Italian man who contracted polio when he was a child and wanted to help people who would other wise be entirely dependent on other people.

Chiang Mai Zoo

My mom's friend and her 11 year old son (named Donut) came to visit us for a few days, so we decided to go to the Chiang Mai Zoo. A baby panda was born last month and the whole of Thailand is obsessed with her. We actually got to see her up close, she was so cute!! But each person was only allowed one minute and only 500 people a day. No pictures allowed, sorry, but she's all over the news.

It was raining the entire day so we wore raincoats. And even with the bad weather the zoo was packed.

There were so many people, I could hardly move--and they were taking pictures as if at a rock concert!

In the actual panda exhibit you could see the baby from a TV.

Then we went to get something to eat a a little market next to the exibit. It was extremely cramped with dirty puddles on the ground with no place to sit.

Donut bought some fried crickets and eggs.

I can't put all the pictures up because there's so many and we saw a lot of animals. But more importantly, they were selling paper made from panda dung. Picture frames, notebooks, keychains...even fans. COOL! Let's fan ourselves with panda dung!

Naturally, I bought it.
Hmm, smells like bamboo.

All the pictures

I finally got the long lost cord to my camera, and the pictures should all be in their right places.

City Lights

My mom and I brought my grandma to Chiang Mai for a few days. My grandma's village is soo country and little. They are surrounded by rice fields and corn fields and teak farms and rubber tree farms and cows and pigs and chickens and buffaloes.

So we took her bowling. It was so funny to see her bowl for the first time, she looked so out of place, but I think she had fun. Also, we taught her how to use the elevator yesterday. Sigh, soon she'll be off hailing her own taxi and club hopping. lol, jk.

King of Pop

Michael Jackson is dead. It's so hard to believe and it's so weird. It just seems like singers and actresses and celebrities never die. Especially Michael Jackson.

For the past few years it seems like so many celebrities have died an unnatural death...must be all the botox.

Off to Phayao

My aunt was picking peanuts with her sister-in-law when I got there

xoxo
Grace

Shopping yesterday

Yesterday when I was in a good mood again I went shopping down Nimmanhemmin Road to get a new dress for tonight. They were a bunch of really cute boutigues and vintage, but most of the dresses were too big or too short or too long or not my style.

I found a pair of leather pants that fit me perfectly, and I've a secret desire to own a pair ever since I saw the young Lily van der Woodsen in the Valley Girls episode of Gossip Girl. They were a steal for 390 baht but my mom would buy it. That really depressed me.

We took a break and ate dinner at a cafe type restaurant, but my vegetarian lasagna was...not up to par, to say the least. Then my mom's friend came and my friend (the one who said my hair was messy) and I went walking around the city.

I almost steped on two cockroaches! TWO!!! 2!! I almost vomited from fear and disgust.

In the end I bought a dress after dinner, but now I'm having second thoughts about the dress. Oh well, you can't return stuff in Thailand

Update

Well, I finally got to get my hair washed an blown out. You know, life isn't so bad when your hair isn't messy.

I had lunch at a little hole in the wall restaurant on the ground floor of my building. A lady came and talked to the owner about the owner's dog, Cookie. Oh, I heard cookie is gonna have some babies. The lady seemed so nice I almost felt bad that I glared at her in the elevator this morning. But you know, bad hair days happen. And I guess I owe it all to that friend who told me my hair was messy. Because then I would have been walking around the city with messy hair. And I wouldn't have gotten a blown out.

And now we're going shopping again!!! I need a new dress because some friends and I are going to the theater tomorrow night. I'm not excited!! I've never watched a thai lakorn before.

... at the lakorn.

A thai lakorn is like a ballet. It's a story told by dancing and music, except it's thai dancing, not ballet.

Sorry, bad lighting...

Then we met up with some old friends

Ugh, what a terrible morning

I am not in a good mood. Today is the day where I go renew my passport, then go to that school to help take care of the kids.

I had my hair in a pony tail and I asked my friend if I should leave it up or let it down.

She said up. But you know, I don't like having my hair up. But she said when it's down it looks messy. messy. MESSY. ugh. messy, what a terrible word. It means there's a mess. And messes need to be cleaned up. I hate cleaning up.


So then I had to find my community service log. Well, it wasn't there. and then i went to the embassy with my messy hair. I told my mom i need to go to a salon and wash my hair.

We didn't go to a salon. So I walked around the American Embassy with my messy hair a a scowl on my face and looked meanly at everyone who stared at my messy hair.

And I canceled the school thing. Children can't respect people who have messy hair. What a terrible morning.

I am expecting

My aunt is coming with her 3 month old baby to stay with us for a few days. I've been so excited because I love babies. Its like when I was little when I played house. But this time the baby is real!! So I can't drop it like I use to.

The little baby is so blurry because he never stops moving!! I told my aunt he reminds me of a blob because he always squirms like a jellyfish. I will try to get a cuter picture.

Grace

Chic Human Beings in Korea

Oh my gosh. You don't know what trouble I had to get through to find to a computer with internet.

I had a four hour lay over in Korea which was no problem because there are so many designer stores:
- 3 Berburry
- 2 Chanel
- 2 Salvatore Ferragamo
- 2 Dior
- 3 Hermes

Then, I was standing in front of one of the Salvatore Ferragamo while waiting for my mom to go to the bathroom. The Korean girls were like not in comfy clothing. All of then were wearing scarfs, a girl in a fedora, all were wearing heels, a girl in a shirt dress and a floppy hat, one in cowboy boots, shift dresses, baby doll dress, OMG!

I felt so underdressed. So on my way back I will wear the most uncomfortable and chic thing I can find to go shopping at Incheon Airport. Because I was wrong. It is way more important to be fashionable than comfortable.

-Grace

Sometimes it's not about the journey, but the destination

eek! I don't mean to sound like a Twilight fangirl, but Oh em geee. I am leaving tomorrow. It's so sad but not really.

I read somewhere that back in the day people wore their Sunday best to ride in planes. Guys wear ties, women wore dresses and children looked like "porcelain dolls". Now, I'm not wearing anything fancy, but until I can find a fashionable and comfortable (pssh) riding on a plane outfit sweatpants will have to do.

-Grace