scary posh

oh, she's posh spice? but i thought she's scary spice! look, that head has grown frighteningly too big for the body. or the body has shrunk too small for the head. or... whatever.

images grabed from here, here and here.

cocky tale

there's a fee for being cocky? of course, they meant corkage, silly. but then again, why not? yeah, make arrogant badasses pay! though a hundred baht (or roughly 3 usd) is a tad too cheap, don't you think?

of bread and slippers

this is exactly the kind of slipper that one cannot wear when one is desperately hungry...

image grabbed from here.

plants vs. shoebies

"the book project shoe fleur: a footwear fantasy began with a picture of a leaf I had taken for a client,' says michel tcherevkoff. 'the leaf was turned upside down and I remember saying out loud to no one in particular, ‘that leaf looks like a shoe.’ And, after a move here and a twist there, I had created my first shoe fleur..."

*****

the flowers, er, shoes are exquisite. in form, they could rival the manolos of this world and turn misters louboutin and choo a little green with envy. luckily for the three kings of shoebizdom, they have no reason whatsoever to compete with these objets d'art for they exist only in the mind of the artist tcherevkoff and all the lovely, lovely pictures he took.

images and quoted part grabbed from here.

sneakers = snickers

the chewing gum shoe. walking on real gum is a lot of trouble. but a fake one pretending to be a heel at an angle like this? now that's double trouble.

the high heel-less chucks. 5 stars for ingenuity. 1 star for usability.

of course, they're witty. nobody said they aren't. but the thing is, they belong exactly where they are right now which is at the museum.

images grabbed from here.

hate the birkin, love the other

[1] the birkin is a whopping 10000 usd; the other birkin, a mere 25 usd.

[2] the birkin is like a high-maintenance girl that requires a lot of moolah to keep her looks. the other birkin is more like your simple wash and wear kinda gal.

[3] the birkin is an investment so pricey you could end up broke in the next 5 years or so. the other birkin is hardly an investment. but it won't mess up your bank account either.

[4] with the birkin comes a certain image and that means more cash flowing out of your wallet. the other birkin is down-to-earth so no pretensions and, therefore, no extra expenditures necessary.

[5] most times there is a long wait for the birkin, given its importance and limited supply. on the other hand, the other birkin is extremely accessible. in fact, it could be your very own diy project.

[6] finally, anything that comes with a high and mighty price tag is no laughing matter. so the birkin is, most definitely, not among the funniest things on earth. meanwhile, the humble other birkin is made with a healthy dose of humor. it could bring a smile even to a frustrated birkin lover's face.

images grabbed from here and here.

japanese lesson for pinoys

upon growing calls from his own party to quit in the face of his plunging popularity due to a broken promise to move a u.s. marine base, japanese prime minister yukio hatoyama resigned.

yes, resigned. i know, i know, it's totally unheard of in our local political scene where highly unpopular leaders, despite public clamor for them to leave office, hold on to their positions like drowning men to lifesavers. isn't it any wonder this country is sinking?

*story from here.

image grabbed from here.

summer hatin'

a plumpish friend i've known since childhood just bade summer goodbye, a little too gladly i couldn't help but notice. why is it that most if not all summer haters are ex-chubby-girls-turned-fat-ladies who happen to belong to the filipino race? ugh.

if you ask me i really think big, pardon the pun, of those supposedly "bikini-challenged" caucasian women who proudly strut their stuff at the beach in, well, yes, bikinis. woot. woot.

image grabbed from here.

manila, manila...

manila, circa 1960s.

manila, circa, uh, present.

and this is what we call progress?

images grabbed from here and here.