My Former Super Driver From Libnan is on STAR ACADEMY!!

DUDE! Okay, im the first to admit that i never watched Star Academy and can't really identify with the fan-fever but you have to be living under a rock not to know how all-consumingly important it is to the average, gum-chewing Arab teenager. So last summer i was in Libnan, remember? So we had this driver Michel, he was doing it as a summer job.He was the nicest guy ever, ya3ni he would get us figs from "jnainat" yadita and wait for hours on end, never complaining. And even got my aunt a doctor at Allah yi3lam what hour in the morning! Hes SO nice! And one time he even busted out into song in the car, to my aunt and mother's enthusiastic cheering! Hahaha. and now... HE'S ON STAR ACADEMY!!!! I SWEAR. NO JOKE. I mean, he told me he was auditioning but out of 20 THOUSAND PEOPLE...???!!! HE.LLO!!
So for the first time in my life im gona tell people to watch that show and VOTE MICHEL!!! cause he is a GOOD PERSON and i wish him the best of luck!!! And he originally wanted to pursue basketball but he broke his leg and couldnt continue.
Enough talking, this is him: (okay the video is obviously tackified by the editors but thats 7adda not his vibe)

Last Post Before Spring Break: The World's Most Elegant Watch

First of all, i would like to say, THANKS GUYS for your boycott of comments on my blog! You are the best. And second, i know that i mentioned before that i love cheap watches, but eventually, i want to get myself a really nice one. And I say get myself because i feel bad asking my mother for it because this beautiful, exquisite, superbly constructed wristpiece costs more than a nice house in the Philippines. Literally. Cost is no deterrent, however, and vulgar to mention in this case because it is quite simply a masterpiece.

Since i was a child, I've loved the watch of my uncle H. He is much older than my mother and like a grandfather to me. Everytime he would come over, he would have on this beautiful, flat, round faced watch with a simple gold frame. It had a white face and thin, spindly gold arms ticking softly, as if it was blinking. It was super-thin and glorious, civilization incarnated! Exactly like something Dumbledore would have, and it filled my childish eyes with fascination. I still adore that watch and want something exactly like it.

My favorite luxury watchmaker on the planet is Vacheron Constantin (mens). Their watches are the and i mean the, pinnacle of luxurious watches. The precision, the simplicity, the utter, divine, perfection of their Patrimony line and their vintage mens pieces is incomparable. Cartier is too commercial (every ninth grader in Kuwait has one on her wrist, stacked up among countless concert bracelets and strings). Chopard is the McDonalds of the world of horology and Rolex is only suitable for people over the age of 35. Its too brash for the younglings, it takes a LOT to carry off a Rolex. And I dont like their Oyster line. (Although some of their flat, grandfather vintage pieces are quite beautiful.

Anyways, this watch tells the time, weeks and day of the month too. Heaven.

Fav Blog of the Moment

Rumi Neely. A name to know. She has a ebay store and uses her site to promote it. Shes really cute and takes lots of pictures of herself in really fun clothes and shes really skinny and i love looking at skinny people. And she loves 90s stuff, like me. Major. Check her out.

http://www.fashiontoast.com/

My Tie, Bowtie and Me

This is basically along the lines of my daily school outfit. i dont know why my skirt is all bunched up and weird in the picture. it usually looks normal. And as usual, i dont know what to do with my hands in a picture. Loser.
This is me a while ago, wearing a silk tie tied in a Windsor Knot. The most impressive, elegant and "complicated" tie knot. Its not complicated it just requires a bit of practice. I had loosened it a bit when i took the picture so its not perfect. But nice, no?

oh and im wearing it with a mens shirt and mens cardigan.

I remember someone asking me a million years ago to show how i wear my bowties (NOT as headbands. The people at Charvet would never sell me another one if i did! :D )

I usually wear bright colors and today i picked fresh watermelon colors to cheer me up. This is my favorite Loro mens oversized cashmere sweater. And I had early morning classes. On top I wore my now trademark electric blue mens puffer ghetto hoodie jacket.

Yes, i realize i do wear a lot of mens clothes. Ooh next time ill show you my GORGEOUSTINO new HUGE mens blazer i ordered from Andre 3000's new super-duper-hard-to-find brand Benjamin Bixby!

Song of the day: Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner.

Alligator Valentine

Today was one of those days when i just loved Paris. The sun was shining, i was wearing extremely comfortable clothes, my giant electric blue ghetto puffer-jacket and this granny i smiled at on the street even actually smiled back! In Paris!! WOW. I was taking a stroll down rue de Montessuy behind the Tour Eiffel and saw this completely random, insanely cluttered thrift-ish shop. I entered and an old woman emerged from behind all the dusty, ancient objects, blinked and said bonjour in an voice one would think was lost to history (just like in the movies!). I fell in love with this alligator brooch in the vetrina. I am obsessed with all reptile jewelry. Since forever. I love all snakes, lizards, geckos, alligators, crocodiles, frogs (okay a frog is technically an amphibian but whtv) adorning me, incarnated in silver, gold, bronze, brass, and all other metals. I dont know how long i've been wanting to make my own Cleopatra bracelet in Souk il Thahab but i never have the time (it been years actually). Its this giant gold snake winding up my entire forearm, dramatic, simple and striking! I dont know why i love those reptiles so much, it's just so very me. Perhaps its their unqiue reptilian beauty, a cold-blooded, perfectly formed sensuality, frozen solid and crafted in metals! Exciting! Half the day was basically over before i realized it was Valentines. So i guess that makes the alligator brooch the Object Of My Afffection today! I spent the rest of the day reading Anisha Lakhani's super-fluff book Schooled which i highly recommend to anyone who wishes to take a break from serious literature!

Best. Movie. Ever

You HAVE to go see this.

Beats the Best: November in February

Hey guys! So the best event-planning in Kuwait has a new blog. This will be updated 4 times a week and offers glimpses into private events and new products that November develops. They are an event-planning company with their own bakery in Kuwait committed to quality in the extreme. The founder travels to fairs and exhibitions throughout the year in places like London and Paris and picks out the best products to accessorize and enhance her events, bakery and fill her shop in Tilal. (this is her shop in Tilal complex, Shuweikh).

I swear im not just saying this cause im biased, seriously, her cakes are flipping OOTW (out of this world) ya3ni addiction, gain-20-kilos-i-love-this-stuff-im-gona-have-a-heart-attack-ship-me-off-to-Karlovy-Vary-good!! And her events are the epitome of taste and fun. Believe me, she wouldnt settle for anything less. She get almost all of her furniture made and designed it herself. The pictures? Thats all her.

She does everything, from major-general weddings to birthday parties, to simple get-togethers. Oh, and she is the one who always does the decor for Lenotre. Not a cutiya, she has major experience and can do basicallly anything, mashallah. She is completely devoted to her work and it really shows!

Oh BTW, if you're on a diet, just go on the blog or join the bakery's facebook group (there is another one for the event planning) and salivate at the pictures. It will strengthen your resolve and when you're skinny, go order a cake. :)

I stole pictures from her blog and Facebook groups.

Shraykom? What do you think?

For more, go to http://novemberblogs.wordpress.com/

I recieved this as an email

i see these wonderful people playing beautiful songs in the big metro stations in Paris and i always feel guilty for not stopping. i should.. this is amazing. its really amazing what we fail to notice in our self-importance. i recieved this as an e-mail. Its all true.



A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the
violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule. A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.
A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but
the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.
The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on. In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, tickets for Joshua Bell's performance at a theater in Boston were sold out and the seats averaged $100.
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?
One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing? Think about it...

And listen to his Ave Maria on Youtube. Fant. Tas. Tic

Spotted: Victoire

Guess who i saw yesterday while walking down Francois Premier? Victoire de Castellane!! ONLY MY BIGGEST JEWELRY IDOL OF ALL TIME!!!! For the losers still unfamiliar with the master, she is the genius behind Dior's phantasmic, superb, sublime, ridiculously imaginative and glorious fine jewelry. Lucky me.