What ridiculousness!  Naomi, we beg of you: friggin’ Keep. It. Together!

Totes made my morning, day, week: Zoolander 2.

Pick up your Chanel temporary tats here – $75 for 55 designs — the least expensive Chanel to ever adorn your body.

NAP’s wedding boutique just launched.  Guess where I’ll be spending a lunch hour or two?

(Chace Crawford, Ryan Phillippe, Kellan Lutz)

I’ve been missing out.  All these years of scrambling, waiting, pushing and sweating through the collections at the tents when I really should be hitting the menswear shows.  Case in point: Sunday @ Calvin Klein’s show.  *purrrrr*

As an Asian American whose heritage includes the use of a lunar calendar, I have the privilege of celebrating 2 “new years” each year.  I’ve always been struck by how distinct each of the celebrations are from one another.  The American new year is spent in lively celebration (parties and galas) and the emphasis is on forward thinking (resolutions and future plans), while the lunar new year is marked by inward contemplation (meditation on past offenses, relationships, accomplishments), reverence for the past (visitation of ancestral lands and resting places) and marked by intimate visits with family, friends and mentors.  They are distinct and almost polar traditions, but they complement each other and I’m happy to partake in both the American and lunar new years celebrations.

This year, unfortunately, all the members of my family are strewn about the globe for this very important holiday.  Even my folks are apart from each other, which has never been the case in their 30+ years of marriage.  Regardless of where they are, I’ll be keeping them in mind as I visit the buddhist temple tomorrow.  There, I’ll light incense as a gesture of remembrance for my ancestors, those in the distant past and those I’ve only just parted with recently.  I’ll wish for love and joy for all those I care about, and the people that they care about.  I’ll think of the year ahead and wish for my own courage and patience, grace and dignity, as I contend with any hardships that may arise, and the wisdom to know happiness and peace when I experience it.

I hope for all the same for you.

Chúc mừng năm mới.

Loubie keeps me company while I surf and blog.  Have you ever seen a more stylish pup?  <3

Update:  It’s true.  The fashion world, the art world was changed because you were in it, Lee.  You were brilliant, soulful, ridiculously charming in that terrible way that only you can be.  We were enchanted.  You left us too soon.  We’ll mourn your passing, but celebrate your life, your work, your vision.  We’ll miss you enormously, always.

The Daily Mail is reporting that the beloved Alexander McQueen has committed suicide.  I’ll update as I get more info or confirmation.

(outside my window, early this morning)

If you have not heard, NYC is currently being walloped by some major snow.  Both Paul and I are working from home today – he in the living room and I in the den.  The dog is having a hard time deciding who she wants to spend time with more and so is wondering in and out.

Good things about being snowed in:

• Conference calls and email answering… in PJs
• Homemade french toast for breakfast on a Wednesday morning – when does that ever happen?
• Stealing kisses midday
• Zoolander playing on the desktop while I type away on the laptop
• Nap during lunchtime

The bad thing about being snowed in?  Makes facing the aftermath of the storm (and the work commute!) so much harder tomorrow.

Got an invite from the Wedding Library to view Vera Wang’s Spring 2010 Bridal Collection, at the New York Palace, no less.  Alas, I won’t be in the city that weekend.  *sigh*

If you’d like to attend the event, tics can be purchased here.