- Letter to my 4th of July -

"...In the blink of an eye

Just a whisper of smoke 

You could lose everything

The truth is you never know 

So, I'll kiss you longer baby

Any chance that I get

I'll make the most of the minutes and love with no regrets

So, I'm gonna love you like I'm gonna lose you

I'm gonna hold you like I'm saying goodbye wherever we're standing..." 

-Like I'm Gonna Lose You-

It's half past 1 am, 2 days before New Year Eve, humming along in my quiet room and thinking out loud. 

Do you have any special person who pops up in your head habitually over that one cooling summer night you are on your most chilling position with a beer or two or one melancholic raining evening, you have no one else besides finishing the most haunting and heartbreaking book or one beautiful spring morning, you just finished saying your prayer sitting at the kitchen table sipping a cup of freshly brewed coffee? For me, it will forever be you. 

I don't know when will I lose you or may be never will. But I can't afford to take granted of you and not to tell you these. 

When you take me out and hold my hand as we walk, the world is a little less heavy on my chest in that moment. I'll always need to feel this in one of those hard days.

When you tell me how good I look in that your favorite dress of mine, I'll always be recalling your eyes on me every time I wear it. 

When you talk to me late night at our favorite restaurant with your soft eyes sparkling at me, remember ending up telling you all of my desires, my secrets and my struggles? Your eyes will always be my soft-spot. 

When you trail your lips across my skin, I'll always be dizzy and make sure to still keep my head on straight because it always take my breath away. 

When you discuss with me everything which are personal to you, I'll never get over how special it really feels every time.

When you show me your flaws hoping I could love you less, I'll show you how stubborn I can be to persuade every single time you do that. 

When you plan your days ahead taking notes of my schedule and winking at me saying "time is the best gift a man can give", reminds me of my childish man-checklist which I'm pretty sure you are and will be always 10 out of 10. 

When your witty jokes are on point, I can't help but always laughing out loud feeling my world is now complete. You'll always be my happy pill that I need to take time and time.

The night gets darker & the list goes on. No matter what you do, I need you to understand my heart will be forever purely battling to see if it beats for you or for myself. I want you to believe love is black or white. There are so many mediocre things in life, love shouldn't be one of them. 

Wish you are sleeping soundly. Happy New Year!

- Carefree -

Don't ask me what happened to my "next post is going to be 2nd episode of Sakura City"! I hate when it happens. My thoughts are full of mess and I keep writing random thoughts down time and time. I'm trying to ignore all the signs of 'I'm stressed' and giving my full attention on fashion lately, afterall, I still couldn't find better distraction than styling and it's like one very good buffer from reality. We are launching our first local clothing brand called "HONEY & HANNAH Couture" in less than 15 days. Honestly speaking, it wasn't easy at all to start from scratch but only determination that counts to reach where we are now. And my full time job isn't helping too. Enough with complain talks! In conclusion, that is why I choose to post fun fashion shoot in between. I wish I could stay carefree sometimes.  

Flower crown, straw & floppy hat, bindi, boho chic dresses, feather headdress, white sundress, nose-ring, body chain, woven crop-top, cut-off ripped jean, gladiator sandal, suede boots, colored hair: yes I'm talking about a it's-always-okey-to-over-accessorized Coachella Season. In the history of fashion, Coachella always make a huge milestone that one simply can't miss mentioning about it. There is no Coachella in Myanmar doesn't mean that I can't dress up to catch up a little festive vibe. Just in time, it was just before water festival while Coachella was huge all over social media so why not I mixed this two up and came out with some bohemian fashion and do a shoot-out then I went for it. Unfortunately, the day didn't go well as we planned but we made the best out of it. 

My first look is just combination of a causal black crop top with big bow behind, a simple short, plaid shirt wrapped around waist,leather boot and some necessary accessories. The key to Coachealla, I personally think, is a great sense of accessorizing because I simply haven't seen any good Coachella trend with no accessory, some might even go for temporary metallic tattoo for decoration purpose. 

I had a deep thought wandering how I should style my long white lace sleeveless kimono which is definitely can give a festive Coachella vibe so I can't miss a chance wearing and paring with black floppy hat & gladiator sandal. There you go! I'm ready. And take note! babies, white lace never goes wrong for Coachella. 

Not to forget that funky print long pants are also definitely perfectly go along with festival. My designer sister bear never fail to make me disappoint & delivered what I need exactly just in time. And just like that, this hippie is styled head to toe accordingly and more than ready to rock and rave. 

Sorry for my fashionably late post guys!I should have more productive with fashion updates. I also know I'm so blessed knowing a lot of people are sending me personal messages supporting me. I adore each and every one of you and I wish I won't disappoint you all. 

Ciao,
With so much loves, 
Astraea 

- Sakura City - Part I

After 4 months away from New Year when I did promise I'll focus on blogging, It's finally time to present my japan travel diary as first post of 2015. I have been trying my ass off to give sometime for blogging out of my work schedule, gym routine, social life, reading time and researching for my secret mission. Have you guys ever felt that you've been inspired so hard by every little things happening in your life and feeling you can do everything but your voice is lost somehow and somewhere along the way that your ability to do things got disrupted? Well Hi 5 if anyone is gonna raise their hands and that's when writing comes into my life to keep myself still on the right track. 

October 27, 2014 10:28 pm 
It's kinda difficult to recall every details of the trip since it's almost 5 months away but some memories are vividly clearly captured in my eyes. Let's rewind some time back to a date on October, it was night of Oct 27, We took off to Tokyo Narita International airport with ANA airline. Call me a noob but it was honestly my first time experiencing long hour flight which was exactly almost 8 hours with such a fully equipped airline . I didn't really felt like it was long because I was having time of my life listening to recent Taylor Swift 1989 album and reading "the fault in our stars" with unlimited supply of Asahi beer over the clouds. I myself am a quite an entertaining person so 8 hours passed in a blink of an eye. 

October 28, 2014 - Day 1
After morning 4am breakfast, the announcement comes in that plane was gonna land soon. Time checked: 7am! safely landed and fall morning cooling breeze of Tokyo was welcoming us. I was already in love with Tokyo along the way. Another 2 hours comfortable car ride to "Imperial Hotel" where we were going to stay for next 10 days. Even in my super sleepy half awake eyes at that moment, I knew this place is superb. A little tour around the hotel area while waiting for check in time was supposed to be super duper chilling if only I wasn't wearing heel. And sometime after 2 hours of walking around, I learned that this area is called Ginza, most luxurious part of  Japan where all the great grand branded shops and crazy expensive department stores are located and for the record, I witnessed Dior Launching event for the first time and it was just like in TV. 

A little tour around my room where I'm missing so much right now! I stayed there alone for 10 days, of cause I felt so attached to it: Morning breakfast alone at the side of the window along with hot coffee, solo fashion show (trying out everything I bought), night long hot bubble shower, stalking bloggers hours with super fast wifi till midnight. Like any other luxury hotel, their room service and hospitality is effortlessly superb. 

That evening, finally, I felt fully charged after long nap and energized for a little exploring night life of Tokyo at Shibuya. I bet everyone would recognize this junction from most of the movies where a lot of people appear crossing the road out of no where when the light goes green and disappear again when it's red like it's not even possible. 

October 29,2014 - Day 2 
The soft sun arrays woke me up way too early that morning, no wonder Japan is a country which get to see the sun first, 6am and the sun is already shining bright. I couldn't endure cold crisp air at first and had love-hate relationship with it for a while. Breakfast at Muji was simply authentic and lovely. I love the whole concept of how they mix 2 opposite idea of tradition and modern. 

I must have a lot of fate with Harajuku street since I spent most of my money there. For all the fashion junkies out there, this is a must place to go when you were in Tokyo. That's another thing I love about Japan, you can learn at least one thing from everyone you met on the street. They were all dressed up and layered for fall in every matching possible fashionable way. Their smiles and accents are way too polite that for a second, I wished I study here instead of Singapore. 

I met my friend from hometown here at I called it "the greenest Starbucks I have ever been to". This sweet girl made my short stay more meaningful by giving a tour around the city and she knows me too well that brought me to perfect places of my taste and even captured my ootd pictures patiently. 

Well.. I fall in love with ideas, words, places, nature every now and then and may be that is the reason I have so much reasons to live with no negative thoughts dawning me down for long. Likewise, I learnt everything I can while I was there: people, ideas, fashion, foods.  More to come on my next episodes of Sakura City. Hint: I'll take you to a Disney tour. 

With so much loves,
ASTRAEA
XOXO