Into the woods; with you.

Did a styled shoot with Happy Photo People (run by Kuan Yee) quite a while back (: 

The set-up, props and flowers were done up gorgeously by The Enchanted Tree SG, and the beautiful dresses (part 2 of the shoot would be coming up soon) were from Style Lease. The weather was great when we arrived in the morning and I was blown away by the venue as well; it was tranquil, serene and really lovely. 

We love photoshoots with Kuan cause she's great at making you feel comfortable and she'll direct you and your partner to test out different shots as well. She's a really funny and nice person to work with too! (: 

With Tzu's birthday just around the corner, I just wanted to post these beautiful photos captured by Kuan, of us. Thank you for these beautiful memories that we can keep! 

And, to Tzu, happy 28th birthday love. I love you, you crazy, crazy person. 

Of course, not everything is as rosy as it seems online, we have had our fights, nasty conversations and stubborn moments. But yet, the sun always shines through those terrible times, and I'm glad we've agreed to never allow each other to bring any unhappiness regarding us into the next day. 

It definitely isn't easy sustaining a relationship; we often talk about how work must still be put in and that we should never take each other for granted. After all these years, I'm glad we've never grown too lazy to stop keeping that spark going. Sometimes during those moments when I see you walking towards me when we are meeting somewhere, I smile to myself, thinking about how blessed I am to have you. 

Here's to celebrating more milestones, birthday, achievements together (': 

Love, Jo ♡

Growing up: hello October.

Now that I've moved on from being an undergraduate and prepping to become a teacher, things have definitely changed since. I'm not sure if I'm ready to take on responsibilities that seem so big; not just career wise, but financial and future planning aspects as well. But then again, who is ever ready for transition into being an adult? We are all just trying to keep afloat in this world.

"It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Because things change, and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody." - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

October's gonna be a trying month (and my birthday month too), but I think  I'll be fine at the end. 

Thankful for awesome friends that I have (both old and new), sisters who can't be more different but care indefinitely for each other, and of course, Tzu, who's always there to nudge me along the way ♡

Float on.

Love, Jo

Preppy fun! ☼

Ah, so I've abandoned my blog for quite a while now cause I've been quite swarmed with school. It's been quite taxing with the workload sigh. 

September's been busier than ever, with my full timetable kicking since the past week. Travelling to school just becomes such a chore to me because its a good 1.5 hours route to school everyday from Monday to Friday (so basically, waking up about 2 hours in advance of my class starting is barely enough time for me to get to school). Plus, it's extremely hard for me to get out of bed because hahaha I just love sleeping?!

Anyway, enough ranting; I will be a survivor -FLEX MUSCLES-

Can't explain how much I'm longing for December to arrive; I'm counting down to each weekend. 12 more weeks to the arrival of December heh so I can head off to BKK and Taiwan!

Onward to a fashion feature: here are some snapshots which the boyfriend took for Cleo and I on Friday! Thank you Tzu, for being so ever patient with my clothes obsession hehe ♡

Items featured:

Dress: Aforcade's Poppy Collar Dress

Bag: Lovebonito's Arlette Crossbody Bag

I have an absolute weakness for preppy items, and this dress is just too cute to be missed with its pleated skirting and contrasting white collar. We've paired it with Love Bonito's Arlette Crossbody Bag which is an adorable addition to my growing collection of bags with it's round body and eye-popping shades! (:

And yes, I'm guilty; I got both items in 2 colours. Hehe.

Love, Jo ♡

Love, me.

I'm trying to rush out a paper I'm supposed to finish by tonight because I've been procrastinating for forever ): and it's terrible because I really like writing things that I feel strongly about or things that I'm interested or things that make me reflect about experiences and life. And writing a chemistry paper about transition metal catalysis is nothing close to any of those cases stated above, so I'm just really super sian about it zz. The woes of a Science undergraduate.

This is so me right now hahahaha.

The boy is up awake to keep me company via Skype and I'm really appreciative about it that he's staying up together with me although he has absolutely nothing to do right now hahaha. So I'm actually watching him through the video secretly now while he thinks I'm typing away for my paper, when I'm actually blogging hehe.

And he shows me this story about this old man and the love for his wife, where they're been together for 70 over years, and his dearly beloved wife has just passed on recently.



I'm absolutely amazed and touched by the depth of his love for his dear wife and it brought tears to my eyes as I watched the video and read about his story here: http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/letter-from-fred-song-green-shoe-studio/.

It is truly bittersweet to hear him mention about how much he misses his wife, and that he just felt that it was all a dream and that the time they had together has just passed way too fast.

I guess it reminded me to always treasure the people you love and to probably appreciate and remember the good things in life. Because time just slips by and past so easily through our fingertips each passing day, and before you know it, it's gone and done. So instead of nitpicking and quarreling over little issues, perhaps we should live each day cherishing the people around us and to stop and smell the roses once in a while in life, instead of hurrying around and being lost in the rat race of success.

And, I just had this wave of inspiration to write this down right now, to remind myself of what I've watched from Fred's story today. Thoughts are always best being penned down, to remind ourselves of what we've learnt and felt at that particular moment, before we forget (:

And so, I've decided to post this in remembrance of this video, to remind myself to always treasure the times I've had and will have with Tzu and also with my lovely friends and family. Thank you for always being so understanding to my craziness and madness, and most of all thank you for loving me the way I am ♡ (: