#the new york time style singapore

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Kiko Mizuhara // The New York Times Style Singapore

[novelizt]

✨ IT'S BEEN WAITING FOR YOU ✨

📸 1989 TV SONGFIC COLLECTION INCLUDING :

tim drake, draco malfoy, peter parker, gojo satoru, percy jackson, anthony lockwood

❗Unfinished prompts are subject to change. Fics with no hyperlinks are coming soon!

📷 TRACK 1 : Welcome To New York

“ IT'S BEEN WAITING FOR YOU ” — TIM DRAKE

you start life at the big apple and unexpectedly meet a fortune teller who informs you of the name of your future husband. you try not to think too hard about it, but it's difficult. considering your boss has the same name as your future husband.

📷 TRACK 2 : Blank Space

“ DON'T SAY I DIDN'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU ” — DRACO MALFOY

you act like a devil to get your husband to divorce you. only to discover that pushing him away only makes him hold on tighter.

📷 TRACK 3 : Style

“ WE NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE ” — TIM DRAKE

wayne enterprise heir x stark industries heiress

rivals in public, lovers in secret ; two heirs have an explicit arrangement because they can't risk their public image with anyone else.

📷 TRACK 4 : Out Of The Woods

“ WE WERE IN SCREAMING COLORS ” — ANTHONY LOCKWOOD

you think you're hard to love, but he loves you like it's breathing.

📷 TRACK 5 : All You Had To Do Was Stay

“ ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS STAY ” — DRACO MALFOY

you and draco meet again after he had ignored you years before. he wants to tell you why he'd left but he doesn't know how you'd react to him being a criminal.

📷 TRACK 6 : Shake It Off

“ PLAYERS GONNA PLAY ” — GOJO SATORU

it's embarrassing to know that the rumors about you reach other schools. one faithful day, gojo satoru gives you unsolicited advice about doing the shit you want because you'd get hate whether or not you'd do it anyway. a bottle of wine later, and you begin to think he's right.

📷 TRACK 7 : I Wish You Would

“ I WISH YOU WOULD ” — PETER PARKER

your long-time friendship with peter had gone sour. after years of trying to put you behind bars, peter tries to save you from kraven, but you're not sure if you can trust him anymore.

“ I WISH WE COULD GO BACK AND REMEMBER WHAT WE WERE FIGHTING FOR ” — ANTHONY LOCKWOOD

PEERING EYES OVER WROUGHT-IRON FENCES

📷 TRACK 8 : Bad Blood

“ STILL GOT THE SCARS ON MY BACK FROM YOUR KNIFE ” — DRACO MALFOY

turning from childhood friends to enemies, and then learning to tolerate each other after the war is a storm waiting to happen. especially when he had tried to kill you and failed.

📷 TRACK 9 : Wildest Dreams

“ SAY YOU'LL REMEMBER ME ” — PERCY JACKSON

you and percy agree to only see each other for the summer but as august draws to a close, it gets harder and harder to untangle your fingers from his.

📷 TRACK 10 : How You Get The Girl

“ FOR WORSE OR FOR BETTER ” — PERCY JACKSON

hitman! percy

percy is hired to kill an important man in singapore, not expecting to meet and fall for his target's daughter.

📷 TRACK 11 : This Love

“ THIS LOVE CAME BACK TO ME ” — ANTHONY LOCKWOOD

you're back in town. as promised, lockwood welcomes you with open arms. the only difficulty was the fact that you kissed the last time you saw each other.

📷 TRACK 12 : I Know Places

“ I KNOW PLACES ” — PETER PARKER

marvel x pjo crossover ; daughter of athena! reader

peter's only trying to protect you but you're more scared of him than you are of the monsters coming after you.

📷 TRACK 13 : Clean

“ I THINK I AM FINALLY CLEAN ” — ANTHONY LOCKWOOD

lockwood was cursed to be alone. you prove that your love can break curses.

📷 TRACK 14 : Wonderland

“ YOU AND I GOT LOST IN IT ” — TIM DRAKE

you and tim are thrown into wonderland by mad mod. the line between fantasy and reality blur; now, tim stares at you like he wishes you weren't enemies.

“ IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES 'TIL SOMEBODY LOSES THEIR MIND ” — ANTHONY LOCKWOOD

fantasy au!

you were a princess and you liked to dress in gold. one day, you're snatched by a dragon. come to find out that the dragon is a shape-shifting boy who thought you were a statue.

📷 TRACK 15 : You Are In Love

“ TRYING TO PUT IT INTO WORDS ” — TIM DRAKE

it's hard to find the right words to explain why you love tim.

📷 TRACK 16 : New Romantics

“ I CAN BUILD A CASTLE OUT OF ALL THE BRICKS THEY THROW AT ME ” — ANTHONY LOCKWOOD

you recruit the daring anthony lockwood to stage a relationship that will rile up the press.

— FROM THE VAULT !!

📷 TRACK 17 : "SLUT!"

“ LOVELORN AND NOBODY KNOWS ” — PETER PARKER

a publication comes out, announcing that your hero selves are dating. now, you and peter have to distance yourselves because one, mary jane watson—renowned journalist, has been suspecting you of having an alter ego.

“ IN A WORLD OF BOYS, HE'S A GENTLEMAN ” — ANTHONY LOCKWOOD

lockwood is tasked with the important task of protecting a foreign princess, you. you discovered that you liked his boyish charms more than expected.

📷 TRACK 18 : Now That We Don't Talk

“ THE MORE I GAVE, YOU'D WANT ME LESS ” — CHILDE

how bad can it be, to sleep with the enemy?

📷 TRACK 19 : Say Don't Go

“ I'M YOURS, BUT YOU'RE NOT MINE ” — ANTHONY LOCKWOOD

fantasy au!

you are the heir to the throne, soon to be coronated. he is your loyal guard. when repressed feelings come bubbling to the surface, it's hard to keep away. except, he has to, because a prince should be standing next to you, not him.

📷 TRACK 20 : Suburban Legends

“ BORN TO BE SUBURBAN LEGENDS ” — PETER PARKER

you became strangers when you thought you'd spend your whole lives together. one faithful day, peter gets sucked into an old polaroid picture, returning to the day it was taken; your 18th birthday.

📷 TRACK 21 : Is It Over Now?

“ FAST FORWARD TO 300 TAKEOUT COFFEES LATER ” — PETER PARKER

you and peter agreed to stop whatever was happening between you two for his sake. it wasn't good to date your employer's daughter, after all. the task wasn't easy when you work at the same place.

📷 HIDDEN TRACK : Sweeter Than Fiction

“ PROVED ME RIGHT WHEN YOU PROVED THEM WRONG ” — PETER PARKER

a lot of people had a lot to say about peter when his identity was revealed. he revered how you stuck by his side through all of that, even if all you did was run a fan account.

Feel free to message me if you want to be tagged in a certain fic 😊 I'm open to just squealing about our boys and/or Taylor Swift !!

🦋 — @novelizt 2023

[allieebobo]

Merry Crisis—Developer's log

Romance-focused x Slice-of-life x Queer x Non-Euro-centric x Character-based

Demo | Features | Cast of characters | Back to Main Post | COG forum | Dedicated tumblr | Ko-fi

Wordcount: ~152k words

Prologue (24 Dec '21): The Departure ~19k words 

Rush home to grab your things and head to JFK airport (why exactly are you so late for your flight?)

Bump into Nat, who offers to give you a ride to the airport, because they’re... just that kind of ride-or-die (literally) friend...?

Charm, beg, or name-drop your way into getting on that plane despite your horrifying tardiness. Or: miss your flight despite your best efforts (or maybe you weren’t trying that hard?) - and spend one more night in New York.

Chapter One (10 Jun '22): The Arrival | 24 Dec ~51k words

Have your lift hijacked by Shay, your neighbour’s new tenant

Eat your favorite Singaporean food

Participate in your family’s unique Christmas tradition [Paint some ugly santa figurines, or bake and karaoke to your heart’s content or play mahjong]

Call your old friend Joony, and get lost in memories of your junior-college* days... Qiu (no surprise here) features heavily in those memories.

Have a ‘midnight heart-to-heart’ with your brother. (or not!)

Chapter Two (28 Jan '23): Christmas Day | 25 Dec !~48k words

Attend Christmas dinner with the extended family. Get embroiled in some true soap opera-style drama.

Ride off from the family dinner with Shay on their motorbike (to your mother’s horror), to a live music venue. Meet their bandmates, dance with Shay or perform on stage with the band

Call Nat, reminisce about the first and last time Nat had come to visit Singapore, and fight for a possible future together.

Sit in the park and stare out into the ocean—and have a flashback about your 18th birthday spent with your high school first love / soulmate.

End Christmas with a bang (quite literally) in Shay’s apartment.

Chapter Four (01 Jul '23): Boxing Day | 26 Dec ~55k words

“Morning after” scene with Shay if you chose to stay over

Mountain bike ride with Shay

Flashback of The Incident with Qiu

Meet Qiu again for the first time in years—either at the reunion dinner with your high school classmates, or at the coffeeshop below your block (if you chose not to go to the dinner)

[hockeyshmockey]

Carlos Sainz Insta AU

carlos x tennis player!reader

liked by f1gossip, pierregasly and 152,420 others

f1wags spotted in the Singapore paddock: tennis pro yn ln, and long time partner of the smooth operator. Ln comes to Singapore off the high of her win at the US open early last week, before losing to Coco Gauff in the Semi Finals.

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user I love that she and carlos are so supportive of each other!

f1gossip now everyone can stop worrying that she and carlos broke up

user im obsessed with her style

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ynln so proud of my carlito, many more podiums to come mi amor

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carlossainz it means the world to me that you could be here

user hahah, not in a funny way but in an im crying way

lilymhe missed you!! so glad you got to come this weekend

scuderiaferrari we couldn't say it any better!

liked by ferarri4l, f1gossip and 8,230 others

sportsgossip today's feature is going out to tennis player yn ln, and Ferrari F1 driver Carlos Sainz. The two met in Spain at an awards banquet for young Spanish athletes, and hit it off. Both can frequently be seen supporting their partner at respective events. Most recently, yn left New York the day after her semi final loss at the US Open to be able to make it to race day in Singapore. Seems this couple sees a lot of love, and has a lot of love for each other!

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user I love them

ferrarilover literal best couple in the paddock

ynfan they are so sweet, and the way carlos would jet across the world to see yn play

user this is what a supportive couple looks like! if he wanted to he would!!!

[h-o-timeline]

Love On Tour, Music In Numbers

Now that the greatest show on Earth is over, let's check the data for a moment.

Most popular song: "Kiwi", played 171 times.

Least popular songs: "Sweet Creature" and "Ever Since New York" each played only once.

Most popular show opener: "Daydreaming", played as opening 77 times.

Most popular main set closer: "Love of My Life", closed the main set 92 times.

Most popular show closer: "Kiwi", ended the show almost every time (167 times), except for the São Paulo concert on December 13 (where "Fine Line" was the final song) and the final concert in Reggio Emilia, where Harry finished with a special song written for the fans.

Most played album: "Harry's House." Harry played songs from his third album 1296 times.

Least played album: "Harry Styles." Obviously, since the tour was to support his second and third albums, he played songs from his first the least amount of times (480 times).

Photo credits: @/amymariephoto (on Twitter), @/lifewithlaurel (on Twitter), and @/photosbycat (on Twitter).

Now, talking about other artists...

Most popular cover: "What Makes You Beautiful," by One Direction, was played at every single show (169 times).

Most popular guest: Wet Leg sang with Harry on stage twice, at the same show, during the Portugal concert on July 18, 2023.

Now, locations...

Top 3 destinations for Love On Tour were the United States (86 shows), the United Kingdom (15 shows), and Germany (10 shows). The least visited countries were Chile, Colombia, Czechia, Hungary, South Korea, Norway, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Sweden, Singapore, and Thailand - they all only got one show each.

[justforbooks]

Le Crookie 🥐🍪

It was 3 February when the queues started forming at Boulangerie Louvard in Paris. Even in the sort of downpour that usually empties streets, clued-up teenagers gathered outside the family-run bakery in the 9th arrondissement, desperate to get their hands on one thing: its owner Stéphane Louvard’s invention, le crookie.

It’s a crisp croissant filled with American-style cookie dough, then baked to achieve a soft, gooey centre, and a video of the Frankensteined pastry had gone viral on TikTok.

Arriving a decade after the New York-based French pastry chef Dominique Ansel revealed the recipe for his cronut, the crookie is the latest in a long line of hybrid croissant offerings to cause international fervour. “We were very surprised,” says Louvard, who now sells up to 2,200 crookies per day. “We had to hire two additional people to be able to produce the necessary quantities. It was a little stressful.”

Bakeries across Paris have now started selling them. “My local is doing it, even though it’s not very trendy at all,” says Houssine Bouchama, director of Time Out Paris. Meanwhile, from Singapore to Toronto, copycats are making their own versions. Cookie Crumble, a micro-bakery in London, has been getting orders from across the country. Rhiain Gordon, founder of Babyfaced Baker in Edinburgh tells me it’s “unusual to see any left by 10am”.

To say that cross-bred takes on classic breakfast pastries have captured public imagination is an understatement. In 2013, when Ansel first brought the cronut, with its glazed doughnut outside and flaky pastry inside, to New York, they sold out so quickly that a black market arose on advertising website Craigslist. By the time it landed in the UK in 2016, it was with so much fanfare that Londoners skipped work to try it.

A muffin-croissant hybrid, the cruffin, was next, causing such a stir at Mr. Holmes Bakehouse in San Francisco that in 2015 the recipe was reportedly stolen. Then came the croloaf (croissant dough baked in a bread tin, debuted by M&S in 2016). There have been tacros (pulled pork filled taco-shaped croissants created by San Francisco’s Vive La Tarte) and cretzels (salted pretzels made with croissant dough, by Seattle’s Coyle’s Bakeshop).

Since the global launch of TikTok in 2017, the appetite for these hybrid snacks has accelerated. In 2022, the suprême – a spiral of croissant dough stuffed with the pastry creme-filling of an Italian bomboloni doughnut – became a global sensation. Next came the croffle; croissant dough pressed in a waffle machine, popularised in South Korea by cafe chain Aufglet.

What is it about hybrid croissants that have captured global public imagination for so long? Meg Palmer, a research manager at market research agency Verve, thinks it’s because “there’s something about the merging that makes it more permissible to be indulgent”.

Pastries are also perfect for TikTok, she explains, because they look and sound great. “[In videos of] the crookie you see hands breaking through the croissant. You hear that initial crunch, and you see whether it’s got filling if it oozes out. It’s very sensorial.”

She ties the constant invention of hybrids to small businesses trying to stand out on social media. “They’re always thinking ‘what can be our hook?’ People do latch on to these trends, and they don’t just want a flat white and a croissant any more.”

Bouchama has seen the impact of this in Paris. “There’s an Americanisation of French patisserie going on; the desire to reach an international audience on TikTok,” he says.

Bakery Philippe Conticini in Islington is London’s main purveyor of novelty croissants. The chain launched in London in 2020 with classic French patisserie, but found it hard to survive.

“We’ve found we have to be creative all the time and follow the trends,” says Ludovic Carassi Del Villar, operations manager. The shop soft-launched its £5.90 crookie last week and is already getting calls demanding more.

Back in Paris, TikTokers are already moving on, says Bouchama: “Some bakeries are now experimenting with the pain au chocolat-brownie.”

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[pitheinfinite]

DigiFashion Forum 2023

Hihi, sorry for being away for so long. I've been working my a*s off lately 'cause I'm helping a friend to host an online forum. The event will be live stream on Youtube on March 29, well, in 6 hrs! XD. I just don't have time to write a decent tumblr post.😑😑😑

We have invited several outstanding leaders in the industry to share their insights on digital fashion. As a veteran TS3 player, I personally find this quite interesting. What we put on our sims is now something people have their avatars wear in Metaverse and it could be something duplicating/inspired by the real fashion world or something we can never have in reality. If you find what I wrote interesting, you might wanna join the event.

Check out the official site for further details and register (a simple process to help us screen the audience on the YT steam, and it's completely free of charge!) This event is not limited to industrial professionals. Anyone wants to know more about this emerging trend is welcome to join. See you then! 😉

Speaker overview:

Leslie Holden (Co-Founder The Digital Fashion Group, Brussel/BEL)

Beata Wilczek (Founder Unfolding Strategies, Berlin/GER)

Kun-Chou Tsai (Managing Partner Enlighten Law Group, Taipei/TW)

Olska Green (Founder & Designer Ecoolska, Lisbon/POR)

Rene Fang (CEO iStaging, Taipei/TW)

Jens Laugesen (Design & Creative Director Jens Laugesen, London/UK)

Sean Chiles (Co-Founder The Digital Fashion Group, Tábua /POR)

Dr. Roger Ng (Honorary Chairman Hong Kong Chinese Textile Mills Association/CHI)

Florence Lu (Associate Professor Shih Chien University, Taipei/TW)

René Petrevski (Business Development Manager STYLE Protocol, Berlin/GER)

Cheua-Hei Chan (Co-Founder Aurar, Berlin/GER)

Nico Owsianowski (Co-Founder Aurar, Berlin/GER)

Urja Kumbhare (Co-Founder & Director Opulentia Designs LLP, Mumbai/IND)

Hena Venugopal (CEO Envied Futur, Coppell, Texas/USA)

KC Man (Founder Virtual Touch Group Limited, Hong Kong/CHI)

Claire Chang (Founder Techmoi.com, Taipei/TW)

Jackaline Tang (Gaming Partnerships Manager Brand New Vision, Hong Kong/CHI)

Event Time:

March 29, 2023 14:00 UTC+8 (Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore, …) March 29, 2023 17:00 UTC+11 (Sydney) March 29, 2023 15:00 UTC+9 (Tokyo) March 29, 2023 13:00 UTC+7 (Bangkok, Jakarta, …) March 29, 2023 11:30 UTC+5:30 (New Delhi) March 29, 2023 07:00 UTC+1 (London) March 29, 2023 08:00 UTC+2 (Berlin, Paris, …) March 29, 2023 02:00 UTC-4 (New York) March 28, 2023 23:00 UTC-7 (Los Angeles)

[absquatulatexyaryan]

‿︵‿୨♡ Ｈｉｇａｎｂａｎａ ♡୧‿︵‿

Paring: Hyuga Norisha x OC

Genre: Fluff, Romance, Friendship, Action, Tragedy, Slice of Life, Light Mature(mention of blood, fight scenes and swearing) {P.S No Smut}

House Reference :

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CHAPTER 2 (Part 1):

Seira's parents, who moved to New York when she was six years old and her brother was twelve, passed away in a car accident last year, leaving her and her brother in severe grief. When she told her brother Kiyoto and his husband Damien she had Glioblastoma and that she didn't have much time left, both were shocked, heartbroken then went hysterical saying they along with their 5-year-old son Zevin wanted to come back to her from Singapore where her brother was working as the president of a famous law firm that he established six years back while Damien never really disclosed what his family business was but she knew that he was a president of a very famous company that was working in various fields. So after a lot of heated arguments between the siblings about Seira going back to SWORD, it was decided that after finishing their pending work along with Zevin's examinations the three of them would join her at the house which was on now outskirts of Durma Ikka territory right beside the ocean. The area was called Beach Line. The house was spread across a large portion of land with a huge pond right in the centre. The house accommodated about twelve bedrooms spread across the house with a huge kitchen facing the sea, a spacious garage and other facilities. Though the house from the outside was designed in the traditional way but from the inside it was a perfect blend of modern meets traditional. Seira's Grandpa wanted to mix both styles for his grandkids so that they would be comfortable visiting them. Seira was too emotionally attached to the house after all she was born and brought up here and had spent most of her childhood here with her grandparents and her brother. She contacted her Grandpa's old friend Koji-san whom the house was left in care of by her Grandpa after his death to open the house completely before she had come. She hadn't even contacted her own cousin who lived here because she had been getting the house set with the furniture she had gotten from New York and then she got occupied with the construction work of her new shop. She and her cousin only kept in contact through texts while Kiyoto and he would call once a month to check over each other. Because of Seira's busy profession, she had been detached from not only her cousin but most of her high school friends. She would get updates about her cousin from her brother from time to time and from the text she and him would exchange whenever possible. 

Her brother was nevertheless still reluctant to let his little sister go. But after the heated argument between the two they agreed only on the note that Seira would never reveal her surname at least not until he arrived and had a weekly checkup by Demian's good friend and wife of his other good friend Dr Serizawa Leora who was the head neurologist doctor at JP Hospital which was the only large hospital in Toarushi district. Leora was the head of the neurology department and was familiar with Seira's disease. Seira asked about the surname thing only for Kiyoto to tell her that he would explain all of it when he joined her at the house so she agreed to it despite finding it very frustrating and fishy. When they had come to see her off Damien asked her to keep his number at the top of emergency contact because he knew Kiyoto would go into hysterical panic mode if Seira encountered any problem which she strongly agreed with and asked her to not hesitate in calling him if any trouble arises even if it's not a big one. He promised her that he and her brother as well as their son would join her at the house as soon as possible. Bidding them a warm goodbye Seira hopped on the airplane and left.

Seira, an exceptionally talented painter who held exhibitions all over the world under an anonymous name, had left her job and a very close friend behind with a vague note explaining her departure, packed her belongings and returned to Beach Line. Since she was a kid, her Grandpa taught her and her brother Kenjutsu. Even after moving to New York, Seira did not give up and continued her Kenjutsu training intending to become a professional. She even practised judo, karate, boxing, and gymnastics to improve her performance. However, after suffering a significant leg injury during her competition, Seira had no choice but to give up. When despair hovered over her, her brother gave her a canvas and paints and urged her to pour her feelings out on it because Seira tended to keep everything inside and cope with it quietly without asking for or allowing anybody to help her no matter how much it destroyed her inside. While undergoing treatment, Seira began drawing. That's where her mentor discovered her. The painting had him spellbound. The painting depicted a magnificent yet melancholy view of the ocean with a girl sitting by the coast. When he approached her and asked what the painting represented. She told him it was the place where she longed for.  The emotions she poured into the painting were reflecting on her. The strokes were a bit messy but they were beautiful in their own way. He was intrigued by her artwork when he asked her later if she was attending art classes. To his astonishment, she told him that it was her first time painting. He saw eminence potential in her. One thing led to another and her journey as a painter began.

Her Granny was the biggest influence in her life because of her love for flowers. Growing up, all she watched her grandmother do was arrange flowers and explain to her about their origin, meaning, and how to care for them, which led her to fall in love with flowers. In the back of her heart, she always wanted to have a small studio right next to the house, facing the ocean, where she could sell flowers to people who needed help expressing their emotions, just like her Granny did for people close to her. A small coffee shop in Oya High is where she first met Makio, who had just established an organization for orphanages in the SWORD district, while she was posting the pamphlets searching for full-time and part-time delivery people. They had formed a strong bond with each other. When she saw the pamphlets she told Seira that she has people she knows that would be perfect for the job. That's how Makio introduced her to two young sweet yet rowdy boys who had dropped out of school because of no money Shin and Kian readily agreed to deliver the flowers full-time. Both boys who had turned 20 and 19 were blood-related brothers who had been orphans since childhood and had grown out of the system which barely kept them alive. Both desperately needed jobs so they could get an apartment on rent, feed themselves and pay for their school fee. Hearing that Seira offered them not only part-time jobs but gave them rooms in her big house and told them that she would be paying for their schooling. She told them that no matter what happened going to school was necessary. Both Shin and Kian were extremely grateful to her and soon she became like an elder sister to the two.

Within a week of Shin and Kian's arrival, the construction began. When Shin and Kian told her that they were planning to go to Oya High she felt something struck her. As far as she remembered her cousin was going to the same school and when she had asked him how was his first day he was very sceptical about it and never openly talked about it. Seira asked them what and how the school was that they were planning to go they told her about it all. It wouldn't be a lie if Seira wasn't worried by how they explained it. But looking at their excitement she chose to not say anything but she did tell them to put her as their guardian for the school form and medical form.

When Seira was explaining her ideas for the studio to Masatora Seki who was introduced by the Koji-san himself who would be in charge of the construction she couldn't help but remember all the moments she cherished. After she was done explaining to Masatora and signed the contract for the construction she walked up to the garage where her Grandpa's beloved Black Harley Davidson Night Rod (2006-model) was. The motorcycle which she remembered her Grandpa loved to ride around the town with her and her brother when they came during holidays. Not only was the motorcycle there but the cycles that she and her brother rode were there and surprisingly in good condition only some necessary fixing was needed and it would be as good as new. Her heart was filled with emotions. Her Grandpa kept the cycles even when he could have just given them up to anyone who needed them but he chose to keep them. She vaguely remembered that while living with her Grandpa and Grandma around here, many men followed her Grandpa in and out of the house. The last time she saw them was during her Granpa's funeral. When she asked her parents about who they were after the funeral was done, they seemed visibly tense, and her brother too avoided talking about it. Seeing this, Seira, despite her curiosity, stopped asking them about it. After taking it out of the garage Seira was filled with warm memories. She asked Shin and Kian if they knew someone who could check the motorcycle out to which they told her there was and took the motorcycle to Yamato's garage to get all the checking and cleaning of the motorcycle done so that she would have access to travel to Toarushi for her weekly checkup and within the SWORD district at ease until her bike was shipped. While the two were away, she bought used good-condition scooters for Shin and Kian from a catalogue sent to her by Teruo-san, Koji-san's son who managed a secondhand vehicle store in Sannoh and personally delivered them within an hour without her travelling there. When the two returned, they were taken aback by seeing the scooters. They were so happy that they nearly knocked Seira down with their hug. Seira only handed them the keys on the condition that they only use them for work and not for wandering around when they went to school or for fighting. She also told them that she would gladly drop the two of them to school once her car was shipped which they agreed to happily. The two were fully aware of her concerns and didn't want her to worry either.

  Seira entrusted the construction work to be supervised in her absence the two brothers visited all the orphanages in all the terrtories giving painting classes to the children and spending time with them. In no time she had become a favourite of the kids. Seira's illness was finally discovered by Makio, Shin, and Kian after she had a seizure and fainted while teaching kids painting at an orphanage near the border of Oya and Toarushi. While Makio was panicking calling Shin and Kian Seira's phone rang. It was Damien. Makio answered the phone and told him what had happened. He told her to rush to JP Hospital in Toarushi immediately. Upon reaching there Dr.Leora was waiting outside and immediately with her team rushed Seira to the ER. Shortly Shin and Kian came rushing. When Dr.Leora came out, the three of them asked her what was wrong with Seira. At first, she hesitated to tell them but Seira had already told her about them and what they meant to her. Because they were in close contact with her and episodes like this were going to be frequent she told them. When she told them that she had Glioblastoma in third grade and that Seira's days were numbered it felt like the three were hit head-on by a truck. When Seira regained her consciousness, Makio, Shin, and Kian cried rivers once again. Makio, Shin and Kian pleaded no, begged Seira to reconsider her decision and get treatment but she clearly had no intention of getting it. Seira told them that she wanted to walk towards her death without going through any treatment which she knew could give her only a couple of months and not a healthy life in the long run. Makio, Shin, and Kian were heartbroken after hearing her say that with her sweet smile. They respected her decision but that didn't mean they couldn't be extra attentive around her.

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[mrm101]

NS-26 New Shepard will be making launching its 26th sub-orbital flight at 14:00BST from Corn Ranch, Texas with six paying passengers onboard. It will be the 11th launch of the booster NS4 and the ninth flight of the crew capsule CC3 RSS First Step'.

Seat 1: Ephraim Rabin

Seat 2: Nicolina Rabin

Seat 3: Eugene Grin

Seat 4: Rob Ferl

Seat 5: Karsen Kitchen

Seat 6: Eiman Jahangir

Capcom: (Laura Styles ???)

The crew is (left to right in picture)

* Eugene Grin. Born in Ukraine, property financier. Lives in New York State.

* Nicolina Elrick

Model, property developer and IT venture capitalist. Based in Singapore. Certified helicopter pilot.

* Dr Elman Jahangir

Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology and Cardilogist at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre. HIs flight is sponsored by the MoonDAO spaceflight development organisation.

* Karsen Kitchen

Will become the youngest woman to cross the Karman line. Senior st University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill majoring in communications & astronomy. She has worked as a research astronomer at Green Bank Observatory, West Virgina and UNC Morehead Planetarium. She has conducted centrifugal G-force tarning and aircaraft zero-G gravity flights. She is currently trianing for ther SCUBA diving licence.

* Rob Ferl

Professor at Astraeus Space Institute, University of Florida. Studying how living organiums responde to extreme conditions. Working with NASA has conducted numerous experiments on the ISS. HIs work has shown plants turn off certain genes on and off in responce to changes in gravity and proved plants can grow in Luna regolith (in an Apollo surface sample). Chair of National Academies of Sciences Committee. Ferl will operate a NASA funded experiment on this flight.

* Eugene Grin

Born in Ukraine, property financer. Lives in New York State.

The plant experiment is from the University of Florida Instiute of Food & Agricultural Sciences (UF IFAS) with principle investigators (as well as Ferl) Anna-Lisa Paul Director and Professor at UF IFAS Biotechnology Research and Jordan Callaham Reserach Coordinator UF IFAS Horticultural Science. Ferl will attach plant samples in eight syringe like 30cm long fixation tubes to his thighs and lower leg, after one set is activated on the ground he will activate one set at separation, and another before reentry (fix them in a fixation medium). A ground control sample will also be activated at the same time. This will study how plants react during the transition too and from micro-gravity, because they respond very quickly. Pics: Blue Origin & University of Florida. Coverage at Blue Origin...

[chictape]

Kiko Mizuhara // The New York Times Style Singapore

[worldofasianfashion]

Sustainable Sophistication in Feminine: Grace Ling

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Written by: Demi Liu, California State University Long Beach

This week's fashion-exploring journal featuring Grace Ling will take you on a tour through the elegant fusion of conscious living style!

In 1997, Grace Ling was born in Singapore. Ling studied sculpture and performance art along with modeling before she became a fashion designer. Because of her lifelong interest in fashion, she produced several wearable sculptures during that period, which helps to explain how she developed into this multifaceted designer.

"A one-way ticket to New York." Ling began studying fashion design. She worked for well-known companies like Thom Browne and The Row while she was there. During her time there, Ling learned how to make high-quality clothing, which became a fundamental component of her design philosophy. 

Grace Ling utilizes 3D technology, CAD, and CGI to determine the precise quantity of materials required and produce waste-free products. By using 3D technology, sustainability in fashion prevents the waste of resources like labor, money, time, or facilities.

Ling finds inspiration for her work in everyday activities like taking the train. She draws inspiration from science fiction, modern art, furniture, etc. Furthermore, Ling's designs are a reflection of who she is. As much as Ling enjoys strange things, she also wants to look sophisticated and powerful when she dresses. 

"A sense of eccentric elegance and intelligent femininity" Grace Ling's designs incorporate elements of the sustainable and surrealist art movements. 

Stay tuned for our exploration of China's vintage fashion next week!

[fuzzyperfectionengineer]

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[gotzyredlips]

I still don't believe that this is the last day of the year in 2023, how fast does time fly?

To summarize this year, I don't have much to say except that my major accomplishments are twofold.

1 - I found the very best work place that I have never experienced before in my life at Mott MacDonald, that can fulfill my mandatory of living life, that I enjoy waking up and working there every day, nice people, work all in processes, and everyone respects each other, and of course, they love and care about who I am!

2 - I have lost at least 20 kg, which I had never done before. I owe it to P' Art, my code brother, who has been an inspiration to me since the day we met.

Next year goals in 2024,

- New York and Chicago visiting!

- Taylor Swift The Eras Tour, in Singapore.

I wish you all a very happy new year in 2024 and please believe me when I say, "if you really in a stimulating of success, trust me if you pushed yourself hard success in it, I will definitely be yours with no doubt!"

Dec, 31st 2023.

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[matthewrimamateardn632]

Photographic Inspiration: Raphael Mazzucco

Raphael Mazzucco is one of the world’s most influential fashion

photographers and contemporary artists, critically acclaimed for his singular eye and captivating aesthetic.

After years spent honing his craft in Italy, France and Amsterdam, his arrival in New York City garnered attention from some of fashion’S elite and he went on to create iconic imagery for the likes of Victoria’sSecret, Guess Jeans, L’Oréal, Ralph Lauren and Bergdorf Goodman.

His imagery has appeared in L’Officiel, French and Italian Vogue, Marie

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imagery but celebrity portraiture of notable actors including Benicio Del Toro, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Elizabeth Banks.

A two-year tour of exhibitions in Milan, Florence, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Singapore, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City was met with critical praise. Following the tour, Raphael immediately launched into an artwork and photo essay book collaboration with music impresario Jimmy Iovine and rap producer Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. He has been

profiled by major titles like The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and The New York Times. Paris Vogue has also featured Raphael several times, commenting that his style ‘oozes sensuality and charm’.

[fayewonglibrary]

Faye Wong's January dates may perk up Chinese concert market here (1994)

It is confirmed - Hong Kong pop queen Faye Wong will bring her hit concert to the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Jan 13 and 14 next year.

The Best of Faye Wong Concert '95 may mean a boost for the depressed market for Chinese gigs here. In the British territory, all tickets for her 15 shows (Dec 22 to Jan 5) were reportedly snapped up within two hours after going on sale.

Mr. Jimmy Loh, managing director of Jasper Productions, says he expects the singer, 26, to do equally well here.

He is pricing tickets from $50 to 175 - a far cry from the $300 he charged for the top seats at Jacky Cheung's show here in March.

He says: "The unprecedented ticket-pricing of $300 for Cheung's concert may never come again because Cheung is by far the hottest entertainer around.

"The production costs of Wong's concert is lower because she is relatively new and we are also using a stage with three sides instead of a centre-stage.

"We also hope to lower ticket prices because the turnout for certain Cantopop concerts here has not been too good."

Alan Tam's concert in late July saw the Singapore Indoor Stadium barely 60-percent filled.

George Lam's June date at the Harbour Pavilion was only 80-percent attended, while Leon Lai's April gig had an 85-percent turnout.

The Wong concerts in Hong Kong and Singapore are the first time the China-born is performing together with boyfriend Dou Wei. The Beijing rock singer will play drums.

One can also expect a visual treat from Wong who is noted for her bold image. This is a result of a one-year hiatus in New York in 1992 after recording her first three albums.

She was discovered at the age of 18 by one of Hong Kong's most influential voice coaches, Tai See Chong. He also trained three of the four Heavenly Kings - Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, and Leon Lai.

She made her singing debut in 1990; her first hit was the Cantonese song, Easily Hurt Woman, which inspired a Mandarin version by Cally Kwong.

The track is from Wong's fourth album. This and her subsequent work, Unregrettably Obsessive, sold 300,000 copies each in Hong Kong alone.

The daughter of an engineer and a classical singer who left for Hong Kong from China in 1988, Wong also pens her own lyrics and has been praised for the verses in her hit, Unregrettably Obsessive.

She also has a say in the numbers that go in her albums.

Her latest album, Sky, which hit the shelves more than a month ago, has been hailed by critics as one of the year's best Mandarin albums.

Most of the tracks are originals, and from famous tune-smiths like Huang Shu-chun and Wang Chung-yan.

Wong's style is unrestrained and natural. Her albums like Sky and Mesmerized have an ethereal, dreamy quality and suit her sweet, crystal-clear voice.

Some have come to associate her singing style with that of The Cranberries and her individualistic and alternative stage persona as resembling that of Western contemporaries Bjork and Rickie Lee Jones.

She was even thought to be a shadow of veteran Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng when she first launched her career.

But as Wong moves gradually towards assuming the mantle of Hong Kong pop queen from Sally Yeh, she is displaying an increasingly unique style of singing.

In fact, the young woman pipped Yeh to win the Best Female Vocalist award at the Commercial Radio Hit Awards in Hong Kong in January.

And a week later, she lost the Jade Solid Gold Awards best female vocalist title to Yeh by only a small percentage.

Wong is also the only woman to make this year's list of top-earning entertainers in Hong Kong with an income of $4 million from albums, concerts, movies, and advertisements.

Says Polytechnic student Eric See: "I'm looking forward to the concert since this is the first time Faye Wong is performing in Singapore. The pop phenomenon is hard to miss."

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SOURCE: THE STRAITS TIMES

[williamsonjohn]

The Finest Online Collections of Luxury Abayas: Elegance at Your Fingertips

In the sprawling, ever-evolving world of fashion, certain garments stand the test of time and cultural shifts. Among these is the abaya, which has been gracefully donned by women in the Arabian Peninsula for centuries. Today, the digital era has ushered in a renaissance for this traditional cloak, elevating it to luxurious heights and making it accessible worldwide. The finest online collections of luxury abaya online are a testament to this transformation, bringing unparalleled elegance to our fingertips.

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