Art opening, dinner and friends

I honestly miss doing yoga with my friends. I'm currently trying to shake off an intense stress induced sickness that it has crippled my desire to get back to my exercise routine.

A few months back my friend Shaun visited me here in Siem Reap.

He was with his friends. I totally forgot they moved to Singapore so I didn't had a chance to meet them there early this month.

I invited them to the opening of the Arts's Lounge exhibit.

It's the first time I attended the Arts Lounge opening with me not working there. I had fun! No stress at all, hahaha!

That same week my friends from Phnom Penh visited Siem Reap. We had dinner at Trattoria Italiana. This pasta with truffles was heavenly! And kinda expensive, too.

Some of them were newbies in Siem Reap. All of them worked in the advertising industry in Phnom Penh. I heard a lot of Filipinos are prized there for their creativity.

While most of them went to Angkor Wat, I had a wonderful breakfast with Anne Marie and Karen at Central Cafe. Lifestyle lang. ;)

Then I went with them to buy tickets back to Phnm Penh and Karen shot this fab picture of me in the ticketing office. It says Fashion Dairy, non?

Top: DP 'Bird' print rolled sleeve top

Bottom: DP cotton jersey sweat pants

Accessories: Dr. Peepers shades, Comme des Garcons bag, Nike Air sneakers

Then we just hanged out at the Arts Lounge to see better the sculptures being shown. It was inspired by landmine atrocities thus the 'un-formed' and 'scarred' details of the pieces.

BKK looks

When I travel it's usually comfort over style that I think of. Also, it must be washable, easy to dry, and iron free. And light weight! I'm known to pack my DP collection plus my own personal effects in one wheeled luggage (currently I'm using a Rimowa). I'm too cheap to pay excess baggage. Sayang, pang shopping pa ang money, no. Anyhoot, my look:

Top: stripe tank from Japan Thrift Shop

Bottom: DP jersey drop crotch pants

Accessories: Thomas Sabo necklace, Converse sneakers and Longchamp x Jeremy Scott f/w 10 Le Pliage bag

Another look:

Top: Ouki 'vintage style' tee

Bottom: cotton linen DP drop crotch pants

Accessories: Thomas Sabo skull necklace, Moschino bag and Nike Air sneakers

This my friend Franco wearing my tank/tee shirt.

Bangkok with Friends

This trip to Bangkok was a while back with Loven, Faith and Franco. We were all craving for some dose of urban chaos and inspiration. We met up with Kawadjan and Julius at Greyhound Cafe. We all love Greyhound. Such an inspiring brand.

Kawadjan was back fresh from Manille then. He met up with Toxic and Karl and brought some pieces from the first collection of Paradigm Shift. Franco wanted to shoot the clothes in Bangkok for F Magazine. We had fun previewing the clothes.

Here's Kawadjan wearing one of the Paradigm Shift cape.

Clearly, Franco saw something to raise an eyebrow about. May tsismis, hahahaha!

Julius' friend Anthony came with us to eat dinner at Somtam.

This boiled fish dish didn't really tickled my palate.

My fave there is the crispy tilapia and their somtam with salted eggs on top. Somtam is one of my fave restos in Bangkok. Julius is always there so I'm guessing he's part owner.

Apres, we went to iBerry for some ice cream. I love the artworks on their walls.

This is us as our friends Toxic, Fabgelous and Inkarlcerating.

Franco and I wasted no time in exploring and checking out the many shopping areas.

We had brunch at Pepper Lunch

and a late lunch at this resto at Siam Square near wwa.

Then we shot Ria Bolivar for F Magazine with Loven taking the photos, moi as stylists and Franco as editor. We had so much fun and it was done guerilla style because we didn't have permits and all. Ria was such a pro!

Late in the evening we were treated by Joseph and Aileen Beloria for dinner. I wore the PS cape and decided it's gonna be my first PS piece.

This octupus balls is so yummy.

Our friend Karen joined us later in the trip. She wore the necklace I made for her.

We also met up with Franco's brother and his fiancee. They treated us for dinner in this wonderful barbecue place.

I ate tons of salmon and seafoods. Reminds me so much of Roxas City.

I also ate lots of tilapia done encrusted with salt and grilled. Needless to say we had too much to eat.

Suited

Top: Margaret Howell jacket, Subconscious neon green stripe tee

Bottom: Gap 1969 denim jeans

Accessories: Dior Homme bag, Nike Air sneakers

Sometimes I love the structure of a well made suit jacket and this vintage Margaret Howell fits the bill in my criteria for something quite minimal, classic but still very much modern.

I miss New York

Liz and moi.

Freedom and his Twirly Cone

So cute, non?