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I need to stop doing the following varieties of eating:

Magazine eating via Cate Blanchett for Harper's Bazaar Australia, May 2011, where she epitomises the absolute goddess I've worshipped since Elizabeth. Edwina McCann, Will Davidson and Romance Was Born — you guys make intensely good shit together. Respect.

cr; Will Davidson for Harper's Bazaar Australia

And Jessica Stam looking delicious for RUSSH Australia, April-May 2011 — and also photographed by Will Davidson. Clearly everything he's shot this month makes my eyeballs giddy.

cr; Will Davidson for RUSSH Australia

Sartorial eating, resulting in my current state as a poor panda. So Zipia jeans appear to be getting shorter and shorter, while boob/chest-circumference are obviously shrinking across their tops and jackets. ARE YOU A WEBSITE FOR SMALL CHILDREN?? CAN YOU STOP GLOMPING MY LIFE?!!

It has been so long since an 8kg box of sartorial wank

appeared on my doorstep. *pets screen*

cr; Zipia.Net

It also appears everything in Mikkat Market was juiced from my subconscious style fairy and the breath of sartorial life filtered in.

cr; MIKKAT MARKET

Gluttonous weekend eatings as follows:

• Inhaled phở for brekkie after humping car bumpers in the queue to the multi-level carpark at Cabramatta. It was 9.30AM on a Saturday — WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING UP SO DAMN EARLY GO HOME SO I CAN EAT AND DRINK MY SUGARCANE JUICE/DIABETES-IN-A-CUP IN PEACE JEEZ.
• Didn't eat again til evening where our crew of eight demolished over $250 worth of gluttonous goodness at Cafe Mint. Goat cheese beetroot, olives, and the most succulent slab of lamb shoulder flaking off the bone at the merest touch. Do not get me started on the rose water and berry custard — there must be more future nomnoms as divine as this.

Slow-cooked lamb shoulder at Cafe Mint.

cr; Thang Ngo @ Noodlies

• Also made it to The Winery for SANGREEARRHHHHHHHHH (sangria. SEHN-GREE-AH noun; origin: sparkly piss of a magical unicorn birthed by the third moon).
• Pork belly Sunday courtesy of a family gathering — of which there tend to be many considering self was raised with le famille in my face since womb existence — followed by rice vermicelli stir-fry, dumplings, dragonfruit, white nectarines and other ingestible things of the Vietnamese variety.
• This was additionally followed by three pizzas, two massive pastas, Cokes and coffee shared between four at Parramatta, thus rendering self legitimately immobile and birthing food babies for much of the afternoon.
• Super lovely Japanese evening eatings in Burwood garnished with pistachio ice cream and red bean. Hearts.

This post was brought to you by Steven Moffat bringing all your childhood nightmares to life. IS ANYONE ELSE GIRDING THEIR LOINS FOR THE NEW SEASON OF DOCTOR WHO IN THREE WEEKS okay just me then. Why yes, I have been sitting here in my Amy Pond hoodie typing away trololololololo ~

Matt Smith, you delicious animal with the hair of ruffle-esque flair.

Alex Kingston, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill,

you too are also welcome to my pants.

cr; BBC @ YouTube

Also — yay for daylight savings! Not so yay for the 16°C wind careening through my window. Dear self, consider closing your damn window after hours lest your boobs freeze off from the chill whilst blogging. Love muchly, self.

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Reasons why I fail at blogging:

• Mastication through various cuisines during the quest for vaguely original blogging content — it is also considered a procrastination tool according to unconfirmed reports
• Signing up to too many things then becoming overwhelmed before embodying aforementioned dot point
• Every line of prose bleeds verbosity into the brain
• Binge on Robert Downey Jnr because no one else can make me feel the way he does — Harry Lockhart, I love you ~
• Stalking ebay for a Minolta SRT-100x camera with bits for under AU$100
• Windowshopping via ASOS / Zipia / Net-A-Porter / ebay

Here is a delicious photo I took to distract you from my failure at life-ing:

Korean BBQ.
Instigator of many a slow death by food babies.

cr; self @ Flickr

James Franco is a super student. Now everyone feel insignificant and let me know if you need some motivational speeching to help you along.

For the profoundly uninitiated, James Franco is studying a PhD at Yale University full-time and attended classes the morning after hosting the Oscars. He is also a "film director, screenwriter, painter, author, performance artist and actor, with several film projects in the works" — and he teaches a class at a private college on top of the aforementioned, thus positing all high achievers to crawl into a hole and die from inadequacy.

Here is James Franco's grandma calling the internet a bunch of pussies, complete with Franco trollface alongside.

cr; rodex7 @ YouTube

Speaking of James Franco — additional magazines spanked into my mutant piles recently included the following:

Let's discuss asylum-seeking kids in detention centres — almost half of them arrive without their parents with over 1000 currently detained while they await visas. In a multimedia report led by ABC journalists Nikki Tugwell and Eleanor Bell, the issue is confronting to say the least.

Apparently ethnic media in Western countries find it hard to offer broader contexts when reporting on national issues outside of immigration topics. Is it premature to say "no shit, Sherlock?"

The issues with this swells with the fact that human cognition and conditioning has already assumed your bias with publication titles such as 'Asian Fortune' and/or 'Ebony' — do you see magazines with titles like "Caucasian Beer" or "Anglo-Saxons Ahoy" who align themselves as 'ethnic media' ('Caucasian' is an ethnicity in case you forgot)? Secondly, this bias affords little fair judgement on the context of any articles to begin with - and thirdly, they lack the resources to thoroughly cover the issues at hand.

Visibly Asian/"minority" journalists hoping to improve ethnic diversity in the mainstream media are not going to go out of their way to join a publication spouting ethnic minority issues. No, they are going to work themeselves into the main system and change it from the inside out. Reasons being that I am a cynical twat with feet firmly embedded in the ground because I am always wondering to myself — am I Asian first, then a journalist or the other way around?

Speaking of "ethnic media", here is a former Korean boy band member looking ridiculously pretty for Elle Korea. I like admiring beautiful people okay, though I probably facepalm if I saw such pretty specimens in real life.

Kim Jaejoong for Elle Korea

cr; twenty2 @ On Sugar

Still on Asianisms, Chinese parenting aims to achieve greatness, yet falls short with regret, according to the April issue of The Atlantic. Apparently Asians are the worst parents in the world if the global outrage to Amy Chua's infamous Wall Street Journal extract is anything to go by. Sandra Tsing Loh's divulges her take, citing a culture's hopeful efforts to achieve the calibre of uniquely talented individuals through a hard work ethic yet few result in true geniuses (see Mozart, Beethoven and the seeming abundance of Asian students in piano school). It's well worth a read and ponder.

One wonders if zombies are experiencing a resurgence with the modern proliferation of pop culture goodness. Stunning examples such as TV series, Walking Dead and the film, Zombieland (don't get me started on the brilliance of 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead).

More beautiful, pretty things for thy eyeballs to stroke:

Dion Lee for CUE. The structural minimalism! Beautiful muted colours! Delicious folds and neutrals akin to seasonal goodness (autumn, how I love thee)! Monies, where art thou?

Burberry makes me want to touch things inappropriately, but this is not exactly brand new information.

Burberry Chain-embellished Leather Bag
I am going to hell.

cr; Burberry @ Net-A-Porter

This post was brought to you by The Strokes giving your life meaning via their new song, Undercover of Darkness off their soon-to-be released album, Angles. This song has been lovingly smushed in my brain since it came out last month - yaaaaayyyyyyy. Hearts.

cr; thestrokesVEVO @ YouTube

In other news: you can read my considerably more coherent blog posts at Girl With A Satchel every Wednesday/Thursday, where I curate a column called Digital Gloss Files (because Erica is a ridiculously wonderful mentor and I love her forever). It's basically a round-up of geeky, tech and/or digital news AND IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE AN ACTION JOURNALIST when I'm really just a humble digital producer of sorts. Do leave Erica/self some love over yonder, oui/oui?

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Let's discuss beautiful people:

Amanda Seyfried for Interview Magazine, March 2011. She looks like a porcelain doll – it's amazing how far she's come since playing Karen Smith in Mean Girls.

cr; Mikael Jansson for Interview Magazine

Kim Soo Hyun for Marie Claire Korea, March 2011.

cr; Marie Claire Korea via Sports Chosun

James Franco trolling the internet with his freshly birthed Twitter and Facebook. I use the term 'trolling' with a sense of endearment - he stirs up the real world for shits and giggles. Like his Photoshopped shot of himself with cats, thus securing my reluctant peace with the fact that all my favourite male celebrities are closet cat ladies. Le sigh..

cr; James Franco @ Facebook

Ha Ji Won for W Korea, March 2011.

cr; W Korea via twenty2 @ onsugar

Beautiful off-duty shots during London Fashion Week 2011, courtesy of STREET FSN.

Both shots courtesy of HB Nam @ STREET FSNduring London Fashion Week 2011.

Fur coaty goodness shot found here.

Delicious rings found here.

Speaking of beautiful people, let's take a moment to appreciate the beautiful cranium bestowed upon Zadie Smith in her article, Generation Why? Old article is old, but she begs the question – how long is a generation these days? Particularly in reference to social media – does it last forever, encased in the archived internet files that we've so carefully and haphazardly curated during our existence?

Wow, short post is short and not very articulate at all. Regular brainjuice will resume with the next post. In the meantime, have some ear candy courtesy of Korean indie band Fanny Fink.

Fanny Fink - Good People
Uploaded by SimpleBanya @ YouTube

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