OUTFIT – London Southbank & Beanotown

Yishyene — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:32:00 +0000

Hello Friends! I am indeeeed still around. It’s a challenge to keep up with this blog stuff when the summer in London has been freaking awesome. I’ve been living in my bikini and visiting the parks just about every day. Also just got back from Lisbon recently, where I went to attend Optimus Alive and got to see one of my fav bands ever – Vampire Weekend. Life has been more than good and I’m sporting a LONDON TAN. I’m so dark and I now carry a bottle of SPF50 everywhere I go.. imagine, in London!!Here are some pics from when I took a stroll along the South Bank and visited Beanotown, just before the summer really began and when I still had to use a think jacket. I used to love reading Dennis the Menace (and Gnasher) in the comic books. The installation was really cool – you can still visit it, up until the 8th September 2013. Beano has been around for 75 years!! That’s SEVENTY-FIVE.

Jacket – River Island

Top – Monki

Pants – H&M

Shoes – Urban Outfitters

I kinda miss wearing a light jacket. Or maybe this is my inner voice telling me how much I miss the Copenhagen-bought parka that I lost in Rotterdam. But this could be an opportunity to get a new, less-expensive one.. it’ll be handy for when I go to Wilderness Festival in two weeks! Was looking at this selection of parkas (by New Look) – I like the jade green elephant print one.. what do you think? If it were neon it would already be in my wardrobe.. obviously

Yes I am

It was so tempting to WASTE my money on these Beano toys and candy.. they had so much crap that I’d LOVE to stuff my picnic bag with!!! But I practised self-restraint and simply eyed them..

You could go into ‘Dennis’ tree house’ and doodle on the walls.. Admittedly I was too lazy. And if I did go in I’d just end up drawing rude body parts all over and get kicked out or something.

People doing art and craft! It looked so boring yet relaxing.. hehe.

Many of my friends got very amused by this.. I just saw the floor decal and couldn’t resist. What ELSE is it for, right??

Trying to get some of the London skyline in.. I miss my pink hair (that I had for 5-6 weeks – it’s a faded ash purple now).

If you’re familiar with London’s South Bank, you’ll know that there was a big petition to try to save the iconic little skate park that’s been there for years. To find out more, click here. I almost ALWAYS spend at least a few minutes watching the talented skateboarders/bmx bikers doing their tricks there whenever I’m in the area. I hope it gets to stay!

It’s my birthday today so I’m off to celebrate in the sun now.. !

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Do You Remember.. Summer in London?

Yishyene — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:32:00 +0000

I’m having a very rare night in tonight – meaning I got to come straight home after work. This hasn’t happened in.. I can’t even remember. My life has been a non-stop cycle of ..having fun (hehe)! Maybe a little too much, cos I find that I now have to schedule in a time to do my laundry -_-Time to myself is AWESOME. I got to make my own dinner (very extremely rare occasion), catch up on Modern Family/New Girl, do some online shopping (three pairs of Kurt Geiger shoes I don’t need), complete some online French lessons, and even sit down to have ICE CREAM.Amongst all that, I also spent some time on Picasa trying to organise my bazillion photos and a particular set from September 2011 caught my eye. In the middle of this bloody cold winter.. do you sometimes forget what it was like when it was summer and the sun only went down after 9pm? When you drank buckets full of CIDER and jumped into the Thames on a sizzling day in Richmond? And then realise the Thames is disgusting and full of germs and godknowswhatelse when you feel sick the next day? errr…. yeah anyway..

London really comes ALIVE in the summertime and although it can be a bit depressing in all this darkness now.. we mustn’t forget the special ENERGY that fills the city just a few months ago! I don’t! It’s what keeps me going during those blah moments (winter blues?). I’m already in the midst of plotting out my festival itinerary 2013.

Here are some photos taken at the Southbank last year..

By the way, you Londoners will recognise this star flyer ride that’s rather a new summer installation on the Southbank. Last year, this ride cost £4 a go.. this year it went up to £7. Insane!

Below are pics of a suited street performer who, upon your monetary donation into his collection box, takes you and manoeuvres you into a certain position with himself to create a scene. It was super cool!!

Hmm. It feels weird to be blogging pics from so long ago.. but I’ve got LOTS to catch up on and it’s kinda nice to look back at old photos.

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OUTFIT – London Southbank & Beanotown

Do You Remember.. Summer in London?