Melisasa: Singapore

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

My favourite Singapore blogshops of 2016

Thursday, April 07, 2016

Brush lettering and water color painting

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Shorts and Skirts Substitutes - Culottes

Recently, I've been trying to avoid wearing shorts and skirts. Shorts makes me feel super conscious whenever I'm seated, and sometimes, the aircon is just too cold for it. Skirts requires me to wear safety shorts inside and it can get really uncomfortable and tight after a long day in school.

The alternative I've found is culottes.

To be honest, I took a while to catch on to the culottes trend. I always thought I would look too short in it, but the first few times I wore it, I was actually surprised by a compliment from my aunt (like old, and not fashionable nor in the same generation kind) that I looked taller in it. That just blew me away, and now they are my favourite clothing in my wardrobe.

When I was still buying my first pair of culottes, I got to say, it's not really not as straightforward to find the right pair. Some has a wider cut, while others are slightly slimmer, with a straight cut. My first pair had a really wide cut, and it looked really puffy on me. I ended up selling it on carousell, and currently I only wear slimmer cuts.

I recently bought this "Melissa Straight Cut Culottes" by NINE2FIVE on Zalora. They were just $26.90! That's pretty cheap if you compare it to the prices listed on blogshops, and they fit so comfortably

Another thing to take note, is to be careful of the translucency of the material, especially when purchasing white culottes. Most of the time you have to wear a nude underwear, or even skin coloured tights.

When wearing my culottes, I love to pair them with cropped tops, like these ones.

From RWB, love the skirt too <3

From taobao, only SGD$10 excluding shipping and all. I wear this exact piece with my white culottes all the time

And idk why, but the culottes goes so well with this pair of sandals that I have. I think the ankle strap really compliments the length of the culottes and brings out the ankle. I think this pair of flat would go great with the culottes too.

left: Sandals that I own. I got it from taobao 2 years back, and it's still surviving.
right: From Zalora, it's $29.90, definitely gonna be one of my buys in the near future. But I might just go on taobao to find a cheaper version. hehe.

So basically, it isn't hard to wear culottes, and they are so comfortable and flattering at the same time. Emphasis really lies in the cropped top though. It doesn't have to so short that exposed the tummy, but you wouldn't want it going more than an inch over the culottes, and ends up hiding your waist.

Monday, August 10, 2015

The weekend before school starts (part 2)

On Sunday, a couple of us went cycling around Cholula. We slept in till noon, had breakfast/lunch before heading out.

This was the route we took. It is approximately 15km, and took us about 3 hrs to complete.

There were lots of private residential areas along the way. Each area were guarded by security guards, like the condos in Singapore.

Along the way, we passed by this atas supermarket and couldn't resist stopping to take a look. There were lots of american brands and definitely the prices are higher than Walmarts.

We had a small chat with the mexican working the seafood counter. He is one of the few locals whom we met, that could converse in english. When we ask where he learnt english from, he said that he used to work in a restaurant run by Jews and had to speak english to converse with his boss.

Spotted this scooby dooby like vehicle outside the supermarket

Throughout the trip, we kept getting glimpse of this church, that could never be reached. We asked for directions, but it turned out to be wrong. Hoping to take another day out to locate this elusive church again.

At night, one of the guys cooked curry chicken and we had it with video highlights of the ndp playing in the background. Throughout the dinner, we sang along to the songs and played videos about Singapore and Lee Kuan Yew to the rest of the people who were interested and joined in our celebrations. Most of the people tried the durian sweets I brought and one of the Singaporeans gave out Singapore souvenir keychains.

There was the sense of pride that I felt from sharing about Singapore and I felt lucky to be in Singapore, when some of them shared that their country don't value national day celebration as much, and when they do not celebrate national day. The germans' national day is particularly interesting, where the citizens do not have any celebration or festivity, because their national day marked the end of the WW2, an event that was partly caused by them. It marked the day they fell and it is not a day of celebration, but rather a day for remembrance and reflection. As a result, they don't have a day where the whole nation come together to celebrate, and I find it a shame.

Although I do wish I was in Singapore enjoying the long weekend with friends and family, this experience is still something unique and one I would cherish.