The absence of my holidays certainly makes my heart grow fonder of those carefree days. So much so that I finally decided to edit the photos from my Khaoyai trip in July, after putting it off for like four months now. I should have done so sooner cause the photos are friggin' hilarious lmao. I had a good laugh while I running through all the lame role-playing we did.

So in July, I went on a short trip to Khaoyai with my homegirls. It was a surprise trip Trisha and I planned for Miaolin's 22nd birthday. She only knew that she was going overseas just literally 3 hours before our flight. Even then, she had no clue where we were taking her.




^I myself wanna know wtf were we doing hahaha.

We wanted a trip that was kinda chill, and Khaoyai was just that! It's the kind of destination where you just spend most of your time sightseeing, taking photos, eating and catching up with your companions. And taking photos again. Everything was slow paced (not the kind of place you'll wanna go if you're looking for lots of adventure or activities), which was just what we needed.

Having a mini photoshoot everywhere we went just about sums up our entire trip. That and eating amazing local food/cafes recommended to us by our Khaoyai driver.

Yellow Submarine Cafe

Primo Piazza

This a very quaint, European-style spot that's full of beautiful buildings and a farm area that allows you to feed the alpacas. It's much smaller than we expected, but still a picturesque place that we enjoyed idling around! You need to pay an entry fee to enter the piazza.











When you pay the entry fee to Primo Piazza, the counter will also hand over to you coupons where you can redeem the feed for the alpacas.

Chok Chai Farm

Here, we got to try some amazing dairy products made from their cow's milk. Here, you're supposed to kinda follow a guided tour around the farm, but everything was spoken in Thai so we were actually quite lost.

But it's fine because the farm was beautiful!! There was a cowboy show, a dog show and some games that you can play to win prizes at the farm too. All of which, we went for and participated. It was quite cool!






Then we wounded up on one of their fields just to take more photos again heh.


^Furbreeze advertisement??

Palio Village

Another quaint, European-style spot, the Palio Village was one of my favourites! Compared to Primo Piazza, there was a lot more to do here since there were many shops, cafes, and galleries around. So whether you wanna appreciate local artworks, buy souvenirs, get some ice-cream or chill around the open area listening to live music, it's all there.

It's not that big a place either, but we love all the pictures it gave us.

Hobbit's House

Lastly, the hobbit's house!! This was actually an attraction we decided to add at the very last minute, because we weren't sure if it would we worth the hour's journey and extra money which we had to pay our driver to get there.

There were many other places in Khaoyai which we could choose from (Panther's Creek, Midwinter Green etc.) but these dining places just didn't appeal to us as much after we found this local night market that serves amaaaaazing street food at very cheap prices!! The Pak Chong Night Market is all three of our favourite! The only downside is the language barrier because not a lot of tourists seem to go there.

Anyway, I digress. The Hobbit House is the perfect attraction for those who love to take photos of themselves with small houses, props and random statues. That's us.





Wannabe cinderella on a pumpkin carriage with a lost Nike Roshe??


Clearly, we have very different impressions on what it's like to be on a horse carriage.



Birthday girl wanted to be Queen Daenerys of House Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons and breaker of chains lolol.





Me: Which idiot sold rotten things? Now this customer want to refund the whole basket?!
Miao: Confirm is this selling fish auntie la! Her fish always not fresh one. Spoil my vegetable business also.
Trisha: Eh hello, you better watch what you say hor. Limbu fish the best around here.



Okay at this point I am done with coming up with cringey captions for our role-playing nonsense LOL. Still, when you and your friends go all out to be extra, the results are hilarious haha.



At the Hobbit house, there's also this other mini Santorini section! It's just a superrr small area, but pretty nonetheless. The staff was also really nice that morning to allow us to explore the rooms in the Santorini part. Their rooms have this all-white interior with hints of blue.

Pete's Maze

Last stop, the maze!! Honestly nothing much here, just a maze which we got lost in while coming across sometimes creepy statues. Yeap.





So yes, Khaoyai is the perfect spot for you to go to if you all you plan to do is just sightsee and take pictures!! After the three of us had gone to Khaoyai together, we all agreed that it's the kind of place you'd want to go with your girlfriends.

Well, simply because only your girlfriends will be so enthusiastic and vain to want to take all these pictures HAHA. Because that's literally everything you're gonna do there.
If our boyfriends came along, they will just end up being the typical Instagram boyfriend. And knowing all three of our boyfriends, we know they won't enjoy the trip as much if all we did was take photos LOL. You know, guys being guys.

So yes, if you want to Khaoyai, come here with your girlfriends. Don't say I didn't warn ya.

Shooting my own grandmother for a school project is definitely one of the most noteworthy and intimate experience ever. Maybe that's an understatement, but I'm just at a loss for words to describe how the whole shoot was haha.

So in lieu of my year two first semester's project, we had to come up with our own brand (and range of products) under the theme of Modest Fashion. Of which, we can branch out into the sub-theme of Uniformity, which was what my group members and myself did.

Under the umbrella of uniforms and modesty, there's a lot which we can explore, such as military garments, Japanese kimonos and the likes. But we wanted to explore something a little unconventional from what our seniors and the fashion scene has already done, so we looked at our own roots and decided to do something very local: The Ahma Uniform.
The Ahma uniform is basically what most of us already know since our childhood days — remember the floral printed set garments, jade bracelets, reddish-brown sandals and free cloth tote bags that Singapore Chinese grandmothers always seem to carry around? Despite living vastly different lives, how is that many of them wore attires with an uncanny resemblance?

So yeap. That was our main motivation as we began on our research to find out why, and developed our own brand. Our brand, ahma (yeah okay I get it zero points for brand name creativity), came up with a range of bold, eclectic sliders that were inspired by the anti-slip sandals that ahmas are frequently seen wearing at home or at the wet market.







Each slider design is crafted according to a particular ahma character, as you can see in the photos. The red slider is the market ahma, the yellow one is the atas ahma, and the last one is the green thumb ahma. The shoe production process was craaaazy because it's not like any of us had any sewing background whatsoever. We just did what we could haha and it turned out amazing!

And since the ahma was our main inspiration, we decided to get someone's grandmother to be the model for the shoot. So I called up my grandmother, and she was more than willing to help me out since it was a school assignment. She had fun at the shoot too, since she got the chance to be dressed extravagantly in clothes that she would otherwise, avoid at her age haha.

The art direction and planning of the shoot was insane. It was running around from place to place, trying to find props and rent accessories or what not just so we can get everything that you see in the photos. Just imagine how much we spent on the food items alone...
Point is: Photoshoots are never as glamorous as you see in the photos. It's just a lot of effort, mess and mistakes to get that polished image.

The whole project was tedious (like always), but I actually enjoyed myself a lot throughout the making of this assignment. I'd say my group members felt equally enthusiastic about our whole work this semester too.




If you're keen to see our works, you can head down to LASALLE School of Fashion's exhibition to see more! Many other works will be there as well. More information can be found here (yes that is my photograph on the link!!)

While you're there, you can also get your hands on our free postcards! While stocks last. :)



I've been meaning to update my blog but the amount of work and assignments just make it impossible. Two months of inactivity on the blog means two months of grinding at school at my end. :')

The holidays are almost here! If I can find the time, I'll want to update on another project (a photobook) which I worked on this semester. And then after that, off I go to my month-long holiday/his post-ORD vacation with Han hehehe.

Photography: Mirabelle Koh
Model: Irina (NU Management)
Styling & Set Design: Effie Goh
Hair & Makeup: Jennis Wong


A rather recent shoot I did with Ohvola, where I got the chance to work with other talented individuals to produce a set of images that was unlike anything that we've done before! Over the top wardrobe styling, bold makeup and a whole maximalist retro setup.

It's always so exciting (and pressurising) to shoot a concept/look that I have never done before, but I love it! It's also one of the first few editorials I tried experimenting with much more closeups and the model just took the images up a notch with her stunning looks. Definitely one of my favourite shoots thus far, with very pleasing results heh.

Now that the school semester has begun, it's back to the grind once again and I'm not kidding when I say it's difficult to even find the time to blog. But I have been working on this particular zeitgeist assignment (which I got my best friends to model for me) so I'll be sharing that experimental piece of work hopefully very soon. Well, if I don't get too lazy that is hahaha.

School's been exhausting, albeit rewarding. Life's been relatively smooth too. And well love, I'm just so happy that Han has finally ORDed and is now in the midst of pursuing his career. Two years of his NS serivce is finally over, wew.

I went to Bruges, Belgium on a day trip. Since I came from Amsterdam, I had to start the day pretty early to make the best out of my time. I was considering visiting Brussels, but I prefer the quainter parts of the world, so I picked Bruges instead. A day trip was barely enough.

I'm just gonna make this a visual post of my day trip to Belgium! While I was there, I was mostly rushing around a lot due to time constraints so I doubt I'll be able to write anything helpful. So, just some visuals of what I captured while I was there. :)














Bruges was beautiful, and I thought that Belgium was all about chocolate (lolol but truth be told their chocolates are damn amazing) but their frites, beer and museums were quite amazing too.

Anyway, on a more personal note about my pretty normal everyday life, it's two days back into to school and I am already feeling the overwhelmed by the impending workload over the next 16 weeks.

I'm currently in my second year at LASALLE, pursing a BA in Fashion Media & Industries. The first semester is already proving itself to be difficult. I thought that first year was bad, but wew. We have already received our themes and assignment briefs and whilst none of them were anything less than demanding, the challenging assignments are what makes the work so exciting. The thought of the final product/outcome got me so enthused that I feel like all the sleepless nights, emotional breakdowns, belittling of oneself, hundreds of dollars burnt on materials and inexistent social life will all be worth it. Oh yes, I'm so excited already.

Well, I'm only halfway through Week 1 of school so maybe it's still too early to say. But one thing's for sure. I won't be able to update this blog as frequently now that school has resumed. Looking back at my archives, I practically post only once per month or none at all while school's on me. Sigh. I still have my Belgium and Khaoyai travel posts, as well as my previous semester school work (guess I won't be sharing them anymore... lol) that I have yet to share. But I will seriously try to do so.

Also, I've been planning on my December trip to Taiwan, Korea and Japan! While it's my third trip to Japan (you can read about the first and second trip), I'm so stoked to cover the less travelled areas this December.


Check out my other travel posts:
▶ First Steps into UK/Europe (part 1) - City of London
▶ First Steps into UK/Europe (part 2) - Edinburgh, Scotland
▶ First Steps into UK/Europe (part 3) - Amsterdam Central
▶ First Steps into UK/Europe (part 4) - Windmills and Fishing Villages in the Netherlands
▶ First Steps into UK/Europe (part 5) - Bruges, Belgium