Summer Fruits

Since it's always summer here on the Rock, it is not something extraordinarily special (unless you're a student). Except, that it brings the widest variety of fruits at their cheapest: jackfruit, pineapples, melons and of course, mangoes! But of all the melons I have seen in my lifetime, I had never before come across this; and due to crowd fascination, I could only get one pound to try out, not the chance to ask the local name.

Last Sunday in Bookends

This came to me 1:30 one morning, right as I was riding the bus of a dream. I grabbed the scrap paper and pen at my head, and used my cell phone for lighting and then...

Chalkboard Dreams

My bedroom door is an ordinary ply, but of late I've had a serious urge for a chalkboard conversion to stream lines to a poem that have been swimming around inside me for more than a couple of days now. Right about now, the simple page of even my favourite notebook just will not suffice. I'm craving wide open surfaces on which to plot big letters, words and those somethings else that also need to get out. Lest I become feverishly frustrated, I went picture shopping on flickr and found some neat ideas I'm saving for future use in my dream loft.

I'm particularly loving this first one up. THIS is how I feel ... like writing from ceiling, wall to floor.


Chalkboard gorgeous and a neat door idea.

... and then, magic happens...

Own the look...

I'm also loving these looks from Forever21. Personally, I prefer more length on dresses but I LOVE how the subjects own the look of these über formal dresses with the most unlikely pairings - denim jacket and khaki vest.

Casual Chic

Janina Top .... Love. Love those shorts and that necklace ... all from the twenty8twelve collection at Bluefly. See ... short shorts can be classy. Take me shopping, pleaseeeeeeee.

Readers Bookshop

I'm glad the day I discovered Readers Bookshop - a little used and new books bookshop tucked neatly inside the Liguanea Plaza, Kingston. Housing a wall of tightly stacked books, this used books bookstore allows you the freedom to experiment with new genres, authors and styles at less than half the price. Trade in your already-read novels for a discount off your choices. Trade them in again when you're through reading or when you're simply ready to part with possessing them, and get a further but smaller discount off your next selections. These have been some of my finds: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Girl With The Pearl Earring, The Kite Runner and Midnight's Children, The Sound of Blue, Breadfruit, Promise Me and many others. Since the local parish libraries aren't exactly the places you can rely on to get those novels you've heard of and have grown anxious to read and with books now attracting a tax, Readers Bookshop is really a good trade off.

Summer Memories

Summer 'o6 was my best ever. I was lucky enough to fly into Maine experience my first camping trip, wallpaper a bathroom for the first time and attend the first ever bonfire held just for me. A lot of firsts - I know, Maine sure makes me sentimantal, as do its charming memorabilia. My favourite store was The Smiling Cow in Camden. I decided to make a virtual stop by and found these charming charms. The humour, sentiment, lobsters, and scents ... they all say, come back, come back!