basically...
"This is a basics month," I announced to a friend when I returned from a lunchtime shopping jaunt (note to bosses - it was a very productive lunch appointment and I've got some good ideas I think we should develop).
"Do you have any other kind of month?" responded my friend, rather unnecessarily making fun of my inclination towards basics, I thought.
ANYWAY. This has been a rather good month for scoring the sort of everyday things I NEED to dress the way I like to dress and are so hard to come by. Today, I stopped by Massimo Dutti on the way back from my lunch, and while I was distracted by a good many number of things, I was delighted to spot this in the sale piles -
(I'm talking about the top.)
Super-soft, loose-fit lightweight knit t-shirts! The kind that I wear with everything from loosely over shorts to tucked into pencil skirts. For a mere S$16.90. I bought two whites, and was momentarily tempted by the mustard. But I wasn't feeling it.
(The other good stuff I got this month were a black cotton tank dress from Topshop - the kind that goes with everything and is perfect for layering stuff over - and a black long-ish knit cardigan with the perfect skinny sleeves and lovely Victorian-ish buttons on the cuffs.)
And this is what I wore today -
And by the way, after 48 years, Singapore's women's table tennis team has FINALLY broken our Olympic drought and scored a place in the women's team finals at the Beijing Olympics! We beat South Korea 3-2, and it was a terrifying, nail-biting trip all the way to match point, as shown by the tears of relief on team member Li Jiawei's face (picture below).
It's also a good time to remember Mr Tan Howe Liang, who won Singapore's first and, until now, only Olympic medal in 1960 in Rome, for weightlifting. Lonely no more, Mr Tan :)
As a child of immigrants to Singapore, I shouldn't be judging, but I can't help but think that it would be much more meaningful if it was a Singapore-born team instead of one assembled from our Foreign Sports Talent scheme. But why rain on their victory when our Singapore-born athletes aren't performing?
Picture of Singapore table tennis team from straitstimes.com
"Do you have any other kind of month?" responded my friend, rather unnecessarily making fun of my inclination towards basics, I thought.
ANYWAY. This has been a rather good month for scoring the sort of everyday things I NEED to dress the way I like to dress and are so hard to come by. Today, I stopped by Massimo Dutti on the way back from my lunch, and while I was distracted by a good many number of things, I was delighted to spot this in the sale piles -
(I'm talking about the top.)
Super-soft, loose-fit lightweight knit t-shirts! The kind that I wear with everything from loosely over shorts to tucked into pencil skirts. For a mere S$16.90. I bought two whites, and was momentarily tempted by the mustard. But I wasn't feeling it.
(The other good stuff I got this month were a black cotton tank dress from Topshop - the kind that goes with everything and is perfect for layering stuff over - and a black long-ish knit cardigan with the perfect skinny sleeves and lovely Victorian-ish buttons on the cuffs.)
And this is what I wore today -
And by the way, after 48 years, Singapore's women's table tennis team has FINALLY broken our Olympic drought and scored a place in the women's team finals at the Beijing Olympics! We beat South Korea 3-2, and it was a terrifying, nail-biting trip all the way to match point, as shown by the tears of relief on team member Li Jiawei's face (picture below).
It's also a good time to remember Mr Tan Howe Liang, who won Singapore's first and, until now, only Olympic medal in 1960 in Rome, for weightlifting. Lonely no more, Mr Tan :)
As a child of immigrants to Singapore, I shouldn't be judging, but I can't help but think that it would be much more meaningful if it was a Singapore-born team instead of one assembled from our Foreign Sports Talent scheme. But why rain on their victory when our Singapore-born athletes aren't performing?
Picture of Singapore table tennis team from straitstimes.com
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