UNIQUELY ME

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Checkered cotton top - Cotton On

Did you guys think that I was going to let my very uninteresting and unconventional personal style blog die off just like that? Heheheheh...well to be honest, I really thought it was going to die a natural death. But today, I decided that I was not going to let that happen! Today I decided that I was going to  continue to share my love for simple and comfy clothing and levitating pictures. Ready?

If you follow me on Instagram, you would by now get the notion that I love all things eye-candy. Yet you would not have seen any photographs of me in long beautiful dresses or anything trendy for that matter. I stick to my pants and simple tops as I have discovered that they get me places anyway. Right now, I am a HUGE LOVER of Cotton On stuff. I dig their comfy shirts in large sizes and I have ALL the colours of their checkered tops and not to mention their basic inner tops that every girl must have! Every now and then when I am out, I find myself patronising Cotton On and I always end up with something to take home...and quite often, end up with a huge hole in my pocket!

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Soft Jeans - Bershka
Seasoned white slip-on shoes - BATA

You won't be seeing much of my face or not seeing my face at all in this post because I was all about levitating today and I'd like to draw your attention to that. I love posing crazy for the camera and so levitating is my current 'crazy'. You most probably won't be seeing me pose in girly-full-length pictures, exclusively sharing with you outfit deets because let's face it, I am no personal-style-blogger material otherwise I would have been updating my blog pretty regularly to keep my audience. Since I am always clad in cotton shirts and pants or jeans, my self-acclaimed 'personal style' blog might just bore you in every bloody post. I am sure it already has!

Today, the husband and I took Lil' Muhammad to River Safari and Singapore Zoo. It was a day filled with a lot of walking and sweating in the sun so you can hardly expect me to be in a long sequinned dress and high-heeled shoes RIGHT.  In fact, you can hardly expect me to be in that outfit I just described any other day, from head-to-toe, because it just isn't me. So the outfit you see me in in these pictures is kind of my usual throw-on whenever I am out on a non-working day. Ok, see where I am going with this? I can hardly sustain a 'personal-style' blog if every single style in every post is similar. And I am simply too lazy to dress up and go out and pose just for sharing outfit deets purposes. I need to find more meaning when I stand before the camera. Ok, not that profound. I simple want to do something more fun instead of directing my husband to take my pictures at angles so that the brand on my shoes can be seen or my hijab would look more fab from the left and other what-nots.

On the hindsight I would like to take this from a different point of view and see it as me being Pte Ltd...which simply means being uniquely me. Heheh...

"Where's Mum going?" 

Whattabout that zebra-crossing?

I'm goin' for the dive son, bags and all.

All the action is THAT way son!

I hope you dig these levitating pics because I sure had fun creating them today. I look forward to doing more crazy stuff and sharing them with you. My blog might just undergo a transition of genré in time to come so continue stay tuned if you have been staying tuned. For now, Astala Vista baby!!!

PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS TO MY HUSBAND, MOKHSIN MOEHTAR

EMAIL: moski77@hotmail.com

FROM MY SISTER'S WARDROBE

What happens when I wake up one day, rummage through my wardrobe, and discover I have nothing decent to throw on? To my sister's wardrobe I go!!! And I always manage to find awesome pieces to wear because we share a similar taste in clothes. 

Our common pieces are usually jackets, blazers or cardigans thrown over loose tees. In these photos, I had on one of the cutest tees my sister has - coned ice cream all over! And the jacket I had on? Lovely cut and pattern! It was unfortunate that I could not get a good picture of my jacket from the back because it was black against my dark background. 

My scarf looks crumpled in the photo above and that's because I didn't iron it. But then again, I don't iron my scarfs. Bahahahah! That's how lazy I am and I'm cool with it. Hee!

JACKET FROM THE GOOD DEPT (JAKARTA)
CONED ICE CREAM LOOSE TEE FROM H&M
STRETCH DARK BLUE PANTS FROM GAP
OWL BAG FROM SINGSALE.SG
SCHOOL SHOES FROM BATA

And if you think school shoes are only meant to be worn to school, you are so wrong! I had my school shoes on from Bata and I love them to bits. Of course they are not in perfect white anymore just because I have worn them so many times and I am not exactly careful with my white items all the time. Oh my, I am revealing more and more of my lazy-I-don't-care attitude. Haha!

GOLD STAR BANGLES AND RING FROM LOVISA

So I had been harping on getting a Burton backpack from The Bag Creature for weeks and the husband took me there to get it. Like a kid in a candy store (as a friend of mine so aptly put it), I enjoyed my eye-candy moment. The bag I wanted was not available in the store and turned out that it was a good thing because the husband pointed out that the material for the Gravis bags was better than the Burton series I was eyeing.

OK! 'Nuff said! I bought a Gravis! WOOHOO!!!

GRAVIS METRO 2 XL in FOSSIL

THE BAG CREATURE is located at SUNTEC CITY

PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS TO MY HUSBAND, MOKHSIN MOEHTAR

AND SPECIAL THANKS TO MY SISTER FOR ALWAYS ALLOWING ME TO CRASH HER WARDROBE! MUCH LOVE!

A 'LEVITATING' SATURDAY

OVERSIZED LARGE BIRD PRINT COTTON THREE-QUARTS SLEEVES BLOUSE FROM H&M
COTTON DRAWSTRING PANTS FROM H&M
STRIPE WALKIES FROM DIVIDEND BY H&M
MUSTARD YELLOW BACKPACK FROM H.A.N.D - THE PLANET TRAVELLER
BLACK AND GOLD BANGLE FROM LOVISA
WHITE SPORT WATCH FROM ICE

The bulk of the morning was spent on deciding how to spend our Saturday. We thought about taking a walk at Changi Boardwalk but the sun was relentless. So it was a no-go. Lil' Muhamad was adamant about going HIPPO BUS-watching. It has been his favourite past time ever since he grew obsessed with the open-top bus. As a mother, on many occasions, I was tempted to take him on the bus just to make my sonny boy happy. But as usual, my husband reminds me that the reality is, the tour is much too expensive for locals. And AS USUAL, he is right. 

In the end, we decided, HIPPO BUS-watching would be our plan for the day. 

So we hopped into our car and landed ourselves at Coffee Bean Suntec City, where we had a cuppa and where Lil' Muhammad had his fill of marvelling at the open-top tour buses. I mean the café was strategically located right above the road where the buses travelled. 

It was a relaxing morning I must say. The husband and I managed to have a good chit-chat session while Lil' Muhammad kept himself 'busy' (refer to picture below)... heh.

 

I absolutely loved my outfit today. Not because I was in H&M from head to toe. It was really because I was in size L for everything. ROOMY is the word! I am not one who like to have my clothes sticking to my body and look like I am all wrapped up like a tortilla with my fats sticking out in all the wrong places. Oh yes, I DO have fats, lots of dem fats! But it's ok. 

Like I always say, MY IMPERFECTIONS PERFECT ME. 

So I hope you enjoy the following photos and thereby realise...why I came up with

 'Levitating' Saturday as the title of my blogpost today.

BEAUCOUP D'AMOUR!!

Lil' Muhammad's Outfit

BLUE SLEEVELESS TEE FROM GAP
THREE-QUARTS DRAWSTRING JEANS FROM H&M KIDS
BROWN SANDALS FROM KIDDY PALACE

AND SHE GOES A HIPPITY HOP A SKIPPITY SPOT!

A CAFÉ WINS MY HEART WHEN IT IS EMPTY AND I HAVE IT ALL TO MYSELF.
AND ALSO WHEN ITS FURNISHINGS MATCH MY OUTFIT...BAHAHAHAHA!!!

AND A RESTAURANT WINS MY HEART WHEN IT SERVES AWESOME HOT SOUP WITH A RICH ASSORTMENT OF MEAT AND VEGGIES TO SATISFY MY SOUP CRAVINGS THAT I HAVE EVERY DAY! ALL HAIL SEOUL GARDEN!

AHA! SO THE LIL' ONE SPOTS A NEW TEE FOR THE SECOND HALF OF OUR DAY AFTER LUNCH.
RED SMALL MICKEY MOUSE PRINT TEE FROM UNIQLO KIDS

BE YOU! ONLY YOU ALONE CAN ADD COLOURS TO YOUR LIFE.

Photography credits to my husband, Mokhsin Moehtar.

One Kimono, Two Scarves

I never feel the necessity to spend loads of money on my wardrobe because I employ my 'mix-n-match' skills to my outfits. So by putting together pieces I have from my closet, I usually find myself decent outfits for my days out. In this post, you will see that I have on the same outfit but matched with two different maxi hijabs on two different occasions. And they both look pretty ok...well, to me at least. The advantage of being one who wears the headscarf is that I get to change just my headscarf to turn my whole outfit into a whole new look. That makes it easy on my pocket! I wonder if any of you out there can relate to this?

Those of you who follow me on my Instagram would probably have seen me in this Kimono top before. That's ok 'cos I don't deliberately go on a shopping spree just to post pictures in my blog. What you see now and probably will be seeing in my upcoming posts will most definitely be me donning on existing pieces I have had for a long time in my closet. I love the idea of leveraging on what one has. 'Mix-n-Match', that's my motto! And I say it again...it goes easy on my pocket! Hahahaha!

So I leave you with the following pictures of an uber simple outfit I threw together with a Kimono top, a loose blouse and a pair of tapered jeans. The first few spot me in a rich green headscarf and the other cluster of photos, in a rich purple headscarf. I usually go easy on the scarves and settle for block colours so that they don't 'kill' my outfit...if you get what I mean. 

Enjoy!

XOXO

My Outfit

Floral Kimono Top: ASOS

Grey Capped-Sleeves Loose Blouse: Zara Women

Tapered Loose Fit Jeans: Lucky Jeans (only available in the USA)

Black Loafers: H&M

Cross Body Sling Bag: Longchamp

The One With The Other Head Scarf and The Adorable Toddler in Orange

Lil' Muhammad's Outfit

Tee: GAP

Comfy Stretch Shorts: Uniqlo Kids

Helmet: HEAD

Photography credits to my husband, Mokhsin Moehtar.