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I just realised that the Mid Autumn Festival is coming up pretty soon, and now I have a craving for a slice of triple yolk lotus paste mooncake. Or a yam paste snow skin one.

About dinner the other day, we made Wiener Schnitzel for a dinner party for 12 people. The two of us, Christine my neighbour and I, made a grand total of 30 slices of schnitzel, each managing 3 oil filled cooking pans at any point of time.

I haven’t deep fried anything in a while (the horror of the oily face/hair/clothes afterwards!) but I’m reminded once again that a big outdoor wet kitchen is always a necessity in any house.

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I’ve been following the Spring/ Summer 2010 Fashion Week updates. I’ve never realised how many second or third tier (from Central St. Martin’s, nonetheless) designers who have shown for years during fashion week, but have yet to get enough publicity, if any at all. I wonder if their clothes sell at all.

Of course, the big names deserve their share of fame and publicity, it takes a lot of talent to make inherently unfashionably things like shiny, sequined tie dye print look good.

Thankfully the studs and leather look is out for good, I wonder what the blogshops are going to do with all that stock in 6 months’ time.

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The other day, a friend had a bicycle accident that resulted in a chipped tooth and a big bad scratch across her cheek. Of course we were thankful that the curb missed her eye by just a teeny bit, and her tooth, not nose, broke her fall, but I feel a bit apprehensive at the slopes now, especially during horrible traffic jams in the morning.

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I’m appreciating this method of designing from a form. Analysing the graphical patterns of a city is sometimes more substantial than filling our heads with airy fairy urban theories. Perhaps semesters in architecture school should be organised like that- vacations for reading and generating ideas, school term purely for execution and testing out of ideas.

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Because I have talked too much, here is a compact camera photo to end this post.

Copper Rust, by canal in Amsterdam