Idle minds are the Devil’s workshop

Or how to empty your wallet when faced with a site outage First of all, my apologies to everyone who tried to access my site and found it no longer existed. There was a problem with the server which my host worked hard to rectify and I think its all alright now. Some comments [...]

Anne Dundas Jewellery Arrived!

About 2 weeks after I ordered my jewellery from Anne Dundas, I received my package! Shipping was quick - under 2 weeks from Australia to Malaysia and it came in a bubble envelope to protect the precious cargo inside. These are the 2 items I ordered. The first is a lampwork bead pendant on a silver [...]

Anne Dundas Handmade Jewellery

I recently noticed an advertiser taking out an ad on one of my sidebars recently and checked them out on a whim. The jewellery designer is Anne Dundas from Sydney Australia and something about her handworked designs called out to me. That and her End of Financial Year sale of up to 70% of course! I [...]

Am I an XS or is it just vanity sizing?

I’m not thin but neither am I large. In the local Asian brand market, I usually take an M (Medium) size for clothes without being over ambitious. Yet going into to Western (American, British or European) clothes stores, I find I’m fitting into sizes like XS, S (MNG, Zara, Banana Republic) 0, 2 (Banana Republic, Gap) [...]