Style & Beauty 
Style is my second love next to words and language. Colour also. But that deserves a blog of its own!
![Christmas Jewels [From pixlis.com]](http://mingblue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/background-image-horizontal-lines-and-stripes-seamless-tileable-fuchsia-pink-maroon-22hjdk.png?w=150&h=175&crop=1)
A Gem of an Idea: Christmas 2012 Palette(2)
On short notice, I suddenly found myself supervising the colour scheme for the coupons to be used during my church’s upcoming Christmas Bazaar. Small job yes, but these coupons will have a high visibility from the time they are sold (a month from now) right up to the day itself, when it will be the… Read More ›
A Georg Jensen Watch For Cambodia
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. — John Keats. The Vivianna bangle watch by Georg Jensen is a thing of beauty. Designed in the early 1960s, this open-bangle watch remains a work of iconic watch design; the cool stainless steel encircles the wrist magically without a clasp, and the dial reflects light as… Read More ›
Yellow
Part Ten in a series on Colour. Yellow is the colour now in the Northern Hemisphere as spring skips into summer. Here in the tropics, yellow is always with us and sometimes taken for granted. Yellow is warmth without the burn, light without the glare, is resolute in the biblical charge to rejoice. If things… Read More ›
Gold
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay This beautiful poem, when heard with Stevie Wonder’s… Read More ›
White
The second in a 12-part series on colour. Each post will feature a colour poem. White is black’s perfect counterpart, is everything black pretends not to be. It is clean and serene, calming too, and optimistic. Unlike sand or beige, white is not a neutral, for this colour of all colours always makes a statement…. Read More ›
Beauty Is Evocative of Something Else
“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.” — Stendhal, French 19th century writer
The Revolutionary Fashionista
There once was a fashionista Who fancied herself quite a fashist (you heard me) She actually thought (now that’s quite a lot) That “fashionista” was wrought From a revolution fought in Central America. It was ’80s Costa Rica Or rather, Nicaragua Where a leftist party toppled Somoza, And picked a fight with the US-backed Contras;… Read More ›
Facing The Truth
It has come to this, that I am advancing toward a slippery slope. In like manner does life mimic a playground. In a playground, the slide is one of the most popular playthings, and in life, it can be a joyride, a sleighride, or a beginning in which there is no end. The slippery slope was… Read More ›
H-Hour
By all accounts, today has been a good day. Early this morning, I forced myself, and was successfully in the forcing, to change into running gear and head towards the park for a ‘slow run.’ I discovered that the 30-minute run was good for my cough; it vanished in all that time. Then I stopped… Read More ›
Top 10 Things To Do This Summer
This is a quintessential June day in the tropics–soft sunlight, clear blue skies thanks to devilish rain over the weekend, the breeze cool on my skin–which is precisely why I am thinking of the season of summer. Summer is June, July and August. A year ago today, it was summer in Tokyo, a day much… Read More ›
