DRESS LIKE A PRINCESS

H&M Conscious Collection Party wear

Tulle dress, £149.99

White lace dress, £199.99 // Black jumpsuit, £39.99 // Blue dress, £59.99

You might never see this coming, but yes I am talking about Fashion, and I am pretty sure that I would be the last person of the world that you would think of writing about fashion! Anyways, today I came across the Vogue Facebook pages and saw this beautiful collection from H&M. I must say I am not a very dress person because I can never find the 'perfect' dress because I have a uh-rather petite and strange proportion body -  which results me in always windows shopping!

I am IN LOVE with the Tulle dress (above). The silhouette is beautiful, I've always liked this kind of silhouette in dresses, bottom heavy, very elegant, it has a very strong wow factor. It really reminds of me of those Disney princesses moments.

That's it for now, Keep carry on.

JANUARY

Feijoada Portuguesa

After returning to UK, I have stayed in Kent for two days then somehow we all (Ed&Co) decided that we should all go up North for Christmas. That was almost 7/8 hours drive?! And I remember it was the 20th December while we were on the road, joking about if we will be still on the road when the 2012 apocalypse reaches us at 12AM.. Haha! While I was spending my first week of holiday there, it was just chilling out with friends, cooking and watching movies. Random road trips in North, random visit at Valdos university's library, Christmas shopping for our Portuguese meal, Christmas sale at Manchester... Good times. Its always the simple things that matters.

Hot Pot

I returned to Northampton in my second week. Definitely made the wrong choice to return on the 27th of December! Everybody tries to get around with trains as its the first working day after Christmas. It was so busy that I had to stand with my three heavy bags of luggage on the way for over an hour, it a cramped little space with all these people, never again. And I almost missed my changing train as... I'm just clueless about directions plus the delays occurred that day had made all the trains in the wrong places. Never trust me with my directions.

Returning to Ntown, means good yummy home cooked food by Michaels parents, it feels like home when I return in Macau. I love home cooked food. Also being in a familiar places makes u feel happier too, like meeting up with old friends... :) 

 I didn't realise how much I've missed everything. I feel so sad returning!    

Half way now...

That's it for now, Keep carry on.

DECEMBER

December, the month of celebrations! Why? Because, somehow a lot of my friends birthdays fall into this month, including myself and my twin brother, there's also Christmas and New Years, how exciting!  There's also Christmas holidays, which means I'm returning to UK! I can't believe how much I've missed there. I miss having the very normal freedom of knowing where I go, having a kitchen with tools that let's me cook freely, having friends that could just go on a random trip to the grocery store. Speaking about kitchen, I do not have an oven here, I can't even bake :(

Birthday Birthday Birthday, me and my brother had been planning for this birthday trip since November. He and his girlfriend, my fellow Macanese Valdo and his housemate Brian are coming to Paris! We are having a birthday weekend in Disneyland :D I'm 22 and I've never been to Disney... - YES. People would ask me why I still haven't been to the Hong Kong Disneyland, and my 100% answer would be: Everyone had been there and they said it wasn't very good so they will not return. So the result is... I have no one to go with Haha!

They've spent 4 days in France and we've visited the main attractions in Paris and Disneyland. Disneyland is magical and I'd definitely be visiting again as I couldn't go on all the attractions and it wasn't a very good weather to begin with :(  after the trip, I've returned to UK.

That's it for now, Keep carry on.

NOVEMBER

Sacré-Cœur, Paris November, 2012

After almost two months I've been here, I'm a bit settled now. Regarding to my art school, its still proving difficult... It's all about language problems I guess. I don't speak much French and the other students doesn't liked to speak in English (that's what I assume anyways!).

The art school is very small compared to my university, I guess its a specialised school, that's why there's only around 200 students and maybe 20 staffs or so. It is situated in the centre of the city, next to the cathedral, so I always walk by all these stores and window shopping. To be honest, there are not many shops that interest me at all.

I've been put into second years with the other French students, in the first term I do every subject with all the different pathways students. My subjects are Philosophy, Art, Photography, Graphics, 3D, Colour and Material, Architecture, Design and one optional subject to chose from Design culinaire, Design vegetal, Sound Design, Video and Life Drawing; I chose life drawing as I'm in group B, I cannot do video until next term. I have to say when I've received my timetable I was quite shocked, the normal hours are 9AM-18PM! And I have to go in almost all day everyday, totally different from my last 4 years of sixth form and university timetable, it almost feels like n I'm back in school all over again. And the subjects, are totally out of my comfort zone, I avoid anything that's three dimensional as I've never been very good at it, and there's Architecture.. My biggest nightmare. I believe that I didn't do that well at my second year with the environmental graphics.. But I'm glad that I did get help from my brotherly-like friend Boris :).

Apart from doing all these subjects and long hours of studying, I also got enrolled into another school just for French language lessons. I'm so glad I have this lessons as I know that some other Erasmus students do not have it. I go to this American-French business school to learn French with these other students from that school, its compulsory for them because its part of their degree. People in there are really nice, and most of them are international students! Its nice to find someone that shares the same boat as you. The best thing about it, is that I can speak English freely! The down side is that, when I enrolled, they have already started the course for almost 6 weeks! I'm lucky that I've studied French for four weeks in summer, so it would be easier to catch up, its would be another story for those who haven't learnt French at all...

Me and Michael went to Paris for a weekend. We went to the main attractions and we met up with Izzy and Ben for a meal.

Louvre Museum, Notre Dame Paris, Centre Pompidou, Sacre Coeur, Eiffel Tower, Pont D'arts

That's it for now, Keep carry on.