I'll Love Him And Call Him George

Hao Phong, Footnam
Savers, Footnam
Highpoint, Maribyrnong,
George Lane Way Bar, Melbourne
Trunk, Melbourne
Tasty Toasty Kebabs, Braybrook

Pro street artists painting the lane way
Skateboarders doing their thang in a half pipe
Live Aussie Hip Hop
So much ginger beer that I swear I've had my serve of 5 vegetables yesterday.


We had lunch with Joel and Helen in Footscray. We dont have to walk far to see a group of male junkies standing around in a circle taking a verbal and very emotional beating from a fellwo junkie lady. You can tell a junkie from a normal person by their tendency to group together or make friends with you if they are by themself. They also have a very determine walk and look in their eye. Their clothes are sports gear/comfort wear made of some parachute material or fleece. We passed about three groups of junkies. We went to a 'hip hop' store that stocks things like fake hip hop associated shoes and clothing, fake g-uni and dickies, oversized bling bling pendants in the shape of a dollar sign or Wu Tang logo, miniature pistol belt buckles... I visit the Filio shop with the sign outside that says 'We Don't Sell Fireworks' and bought some San Mig coffee mix that reminded me of eating breakfast on the beach in Bacolod. I love footscray. So much character.

This place is pretty cool. Dirty grungy. I met one of the bar owners and the manager (same guy) who was really friendly and hooked us up with free drinks and jagamiester shots. Ugh. Jaga without chaser. Disgusting. There was so yummy tasting food e.g. bbq lamb on skewers with garlic sauce. They were charging for the food but I didnt wanna pay. James was getting hooked up with free food so I just ate his left overs. The girl serving him called me a seagull. I didnt know if I shouldve said something nasty back or not.

I was hypnotised by the skateboarders rolling up and down the half pipes then resting on the pipe's edge. Flipping 180 degrees. I was standing on a crate by myself just watching. I cringed when they fell but I secretly wanted to see them hurt themselves. The half pipe took the entire space of the room. There was a doorway but the pipe came up to your chin. There was a temporary stair case that led up to the half pipe.. definitely not one for the disabled. The pipe must have been built inside the room.

I drank so much that my heart was beating so very fast. My chest was aching and my lungs couldnt inhale as much as it could to make me feel comfortable. There was a mixture of cigarette and Ironlak smoke at a very short distance and I think this got to me. I didn't know how to make it better and it was getting kinda serious. James got me some water and I stepped outside the marquee to get some fresh air. Standing helped me breath better.

I introduced james to my favourite kebab joint ever. EVER. He agreed. In fact, I want some now.

Hookaj Pipes for $65 at Footnam

Free Drink Cards at the George Lane Way Bar

Live Aussie Hip Hop

This was the time I was trying to get my heart beating again

Tried so many times to take a photo of these guys on the edge

Result: Unsuccessful

Street Artist Tools and Media

2nd Hand Loving

Because we cant all be virgins

I offered to drive Ate to Elsternwick. Big step for nervous driver like me. I was driving Ate's car which is different size and handling than my car. It was raining as well. I thought I was quite brave. 

I almost got into an accident. Missed the car in front by a centimeter because I swerved like crazy. My fault. It's okay. No one died.

Vista Laser Eye Clinic, Elsternwick

They had a Nespresso machine. Me and ate sure made use of that. After Ate intiated the coffee making, everyone else followed one by one. Everyone else is too shy. Pfft. If its there, its meant to be used. I had a hot chocolate. It was so good. Frothed milk makes a massive difference. 12 hours later and I'm still thinking about it.

Savers, Footscray

Oh yeah op shopping how I've missed your smell! I spent $80 here (after a 5% discount because I made a donation). I bought:

• Navy Blue Woolen Varsity Hooded Jacket  (will compliment my blonde hair)
• Green thick wooly jumper (will compliment my blonde hair)
• Slim black metallic 90's ankle length dress  (will compliment my blonde hair)
• Strange shirt collar  (will compliment my blonde hair)

Savers

When I tried on all my clothes, I would ask myself 'would this look good with blonde hair?' If yes, I buy. haha

Home, Kealba

Lunch is the last of my pasta bake

Bank West and Australia Post, Watergardens

Nothing interesting here.

Dry Cleaners, Caroline Springs

Dropped off my newly purchased varsity jacket to blast away those germs

Brotherhood of St. Lawrence, Burnside

It hit me, I'm into the 90's fashion. It used to be all about the 80's but more and more I'm pulling out 90's gear. Here I bought a black mini skirt with an invisible zip and a small triangular slit on the thigh. 

Salvos, Burnside

This is the third op shop today. Going through everyones pre-loved shit is depressing because all I think about is waste waste waste. We are so wasteful!! There is no way all this shit will move, I see clothes that I seen months and months ago, its still here. And people are going out buying brand new clothes, which in turn encourages the industry to keep making, producing which then gives us the option to throw away our clothes for the sake of buying new ones. some of these clothes still have tags on them. Vicious cycles. I thought they only existed in the form of love triangles and running back to a shit lover. It makes me angry. People need to travel to the Philippines and see how lucky we got it here.

although in saying that, most of the clothes at the op shops are the cheap brands that produce clothes with a timestamp e.g. 'trendy' clothes. These brands include

• Cotton On
• Supre
• CK Morgan, DK, Sunny Girl or similar asian brands
• Target, Kmart or similar department store brands

which makes me think its better to pay a bit more for quality and timeless fashion that wont have u throwing away and buying from them again. I know you do it because its cheap and good for a short term but comon, vicious cycle. Get outa it. 

I bought this really cool black thick stretch dress. It was tagged as size 12 but when i fit it it was perfect.  I like things that are made in other places besides Asia. This one was made in Australia. Represent. Again, it was 90s in style. Slim, sleeveless. High floppy collar with one side higher than the other. This reflected on the hem where one side was higher than the other. Damn this dress is hot.



One of a kind

Home, Kealba

Printed my holiday documents. Sumpai.

Home, Taylors Hill

I was so hungry. Mum cooked fried chicken. I ate about 5 pieces with two serves to rice. I get full easy when I binge eat. I ate til I was about to pop and when the rice ran out I just ate the chicken. And then I ate Salt and Vinegar Pringles, Shapes and drank a cup of tea. Ahhhhhhh.. I'm fat :D

FILIPPINO CANDY!!!!!

Me and Ate rock our Jordons

Interesting basket bag with black/yellow/white ribbon weaving

Metal chain weaved with nude paten ribbon. 

I didnt buy it though

What an interesting dress! So 80's. Did you know this is tagged as a size 8??

How baggy is this dress?? I love it from the armpits up.

I digging this pattern metallic teal fabric.

How clever. How precious

I go through my old wardrobe and pull out some winter shit for this changing weather.

I remember this jacket. I used to wear it when I was a kid but now it fits me a bit better,

even though it is still massively oversized.

I want this on me.

We Never Lost Control

I have hit a personal record. Most shoe boxes in the boot of my car: 7. Carrying them out felt like I was working at D. Most shoe purchases in one go: 4. I bought another pair the next day.

Shoes of recent

I spent $197 on four pairs of shoes today at Myer. I went to Savers and redeemed at $30 credit note. I got a crazy shirt, a white cotton collared sleeveless shirt very similar to the one I bought previously, a metallic gold and black knit cardi, a 90's black cool bag.

Seeing my donations on the racks of Savers

Wow, $3.99? C'mon, it's worth more than that

Purchases today

Then I went highpoint to hunt down the shoes I was dying for at Myer Melbourne yesterday.. Except Myer highpoint didnt have it either. I bought four other shoes. It started with one pair. Oh these would be good for work, Windsor Smith are good quality, comfortable and relatively cheap shoes.. I pay for quality.. and they were 50% + 5% off = $38. Hey.. I kinda like these, I can wear these at my other work tmrw. They are also Windsor Smith and the customer yesterday talked bout how good they are.. try them on in my size... perfect fit. Practical, comfortable AND fashionable. Bonus! Ouch but they are $100. Hang on, buy one full priced item and get the 2nd one 50% off?? Should I?

I tried on these Miss Shop shoes on for fun. They are comfy. They looked good with what I was wearing. They are light weight and ohhh... they look so good. I can wear them right now. A random lady with a pram comes up and tells me they look good.

Should I???? Yes I should. I neglected my sneakers and wore these babies straight away.

So thats three pairs. And what ever I buy, mum goes and buys the same thing. If I buy a bronze blush, she changes her mind from the nutmeg to the bronze. If i try on that shoe and decide to buy it, guess what? She will too. She wants to be me. I understand the effect I have on people.

I bought a skirt that I had been eyeing, down to $6. I bought Mel one too since she is leaving for Hong Kong tmrw forever with her new boyfriend Marty. How romantic. I also bought em lollies from a brand new botique store in Highpoint. They sold chocolates, lollypops and gummy looking things in corked glass test tube containers of all sizes. The labels and signage were PUNY! The place was called 'Happy Lab'. The mature men behind the counter wore glasses and white scientist coats. Someone who looked like the manager was instructing the asian guy of product placement, ticking things off his wooden clip board.

'Hello. Welcome to the Happy Lab'

I bought somethings. Mum walks in, umimpressed at this impractical fancy fluff of beautiful packaging. She says abruptly:

'So where are these things made, in china???'

Oh mum. You are all things graceful and elegant. Everyone in the store looks over at her. The manager looks over to see what the sales attendant says. He tells mum quietly, yes.

Lollies from Happy Lab

We met a nice mature lady at Gold Mark. They were having a 50% off everything sale. Mum tells every jewellery lady how she is dying to buy me a diamond ring with matching diamond earrings. She's been wanting to buy me this since I was little however, I have no interest in such precious rocks. Mum tells the lady I needed a graduation present. Mum gets the lady to pull out slightly different versions of extravagant bling, which I shake my head at. The lady asks me:

What do you like??

I show her the rings on my finger. A standard sterling silver handcrafted 'basket weave' ring from India and my fashion silver 'fang' two finger ring from Dangerfield. These I like. She tells me she used to be the same. Mum tells me off for showing interest in buying a nose ring.

Look! Your nose is infected. Its red.

No its not

Go to the doctors and buy killoide (?) cream, the lady says

It's not infected. It's fine

You remind me of my 16 year old daughter

And if im not mistaken, she said that with fondness. I was at the counter paying for my nose rings. She saw mum, eyes still lingering over the diamond rings. The sales lady said:

Lady: Tell you a secret. Choose the ring you want before your mum chooses one you dont like'

Me: It doesnt matter. She'll end up wearing it then

Lady: Just choose one, you'll appreciate it when you grow up. Let's choose one now.

Mum: So, do you like any?

Me: Nuh.

We leave. The lady mouths to me the words 'good luck'.

I went home and tried to shove this ring in thinking 6months of leaving my nose alone, this change over would be nice and easy. How wrong I was. Taking out my stud was a mission but I managed to do it without bleeding. But putting the ring it made it bleed and it wouldnt go through!!!! I shoved, and shoved but didnt want to tear too much or else the hole will close. I needed tissue to wipe up fresh blood. I was trying gently to put this in. Please dont close, please dont close, you are a bitch to get. I had visions of me in the Surfers Paradise public toilets. I was doing this the same time 18 months ago. I stopped with the ring and use my original stud, at least I know this one fits. I put it back without much more blood. Thank god you went back in. But that means no touching it for another few months until you fully heal! Ugh! Why do you have to be so difficult?!?

I played witih my rabbit today. It's so cute and fluffy. I hug it like I would a teddy bear and gently swing it side to side. I let it play amongst my new purchases and empty shoe boxes. I create obstacles for it to hide, climb and slide on. Towards the end of our play date I had her on my chest, I could fall asleep like that. The moment would have only been ruined if she pee'd on me. Which didnt happen thank you, maybe you really are toilet trained?

Work tmrw 12 -5pm. It's my first shift. Going in to pop my cherry. Hope it feels good. I'll probably walk out with another pair of shoes.

The Affordable Art Exhibition

19th May, 2011

There are benefits of working at Jwow besides getting drunk all time. Innocent Bystander were lovely enough to give us four free tickets to the opening night / VIP night of the Affordable Art Exhibition at the Royal Exhibition Centre in the Carlton Gardens.

The exterior

The point of today was to to grab some ideas of what sort of art work would be suitable to display at jwow. Alcohol was free. James facebook check in was:

'Sipping Innocent Bystander and looking at penis's'

The place was full of 30+ sophisticated suits and slim tall women in high heels. I, being in my holey jumper, sneakers and back pack was definitely out of place. But I was so thrilled to be at an art gallery. I just love them and miss them! I left today full of inspiration.

Inspirational images

I crashed at helens that night because we were all pretty drunk. Helen made me a snack.

Poor mans food and way of cooking

The next morning was helen's birthday. James and joel picked us up from Helen's. This was the day when james bought me undies. Thanks james. We had our hang over cure at Footscray and walked back to James car. He left his car keys in the engine, with the car running and we were locked out. We had a hard time breaking into James car. People were staring at us. But no one stopped us. I guess breaking into cars in Footscray is a common site.

James ended up buying a $5 stainless steel ladle from the asian grocers to use to jam open the sun roof. The ladle bent. James:

'Stainless steel my ass'

Facebook check-in:

Breaking into cars in Footscray

Joel opened up the sun roof with 'brute force'. Now he is known to open everything with brute force. so the day after the Affordable Art Exhitibion we were drinking again

Helens house

2 Days in Point Form

Friday: Jwow work from 3pm-2am Not busy Had a new guy in, his from South of London - giggles I was fkn tired and sweaty as I wanted all the customers to just GOOO HOOOOMMME! the party's over Went home, could not sleep til 6am Saturday: Woke up at 11:30am Helped ate dress as vietnamei gangster, all we needed to do was raid anio's rooms for asian things and make-do weapons Taught her the AZN Gangster stance + Westside finger gesture Gave her a profile/personality - Quang Phi Tram from Footnam Went to St. Albans for some Crispy Skin Chicken and Tomato rice since there was no food at home Got dropped at Vman and went back to St. Albans because Vman wanted to eat - only had an ice coffee this time Discovered Coffee fucks my stomach up Went back to vince's house to feel sick and eventually conk out for 5hrs Woke up at 10pm Go to Jasons house for a BBQ Birthday Ready to get my drink awwwn then find out Anio at the same party - drinks put aside, we keep our distance Watch Jason peer pressure everyone into binge drinking Laugh at Lily's sense of humour Catch up with The Kathy Leave Vman to get more drunk, The Kathy takes me home. Let's see what time I'll fall asleep now. I'm getting over my obsession. People get over anything if they are given enough time. I found this pic of a hot guy i a magazine. Complete with tatts, peircings, street wear and facial hair. Must photograph and post up.

I'm applying for another job to support the extravagant living of my future. I'm being less anal about what employers think of me, i want to convey more of my attitude and personality. its either you take it or leave it.

Here's what I wrote in the 'comment box' of my online Hype DC application:

Hi there,

I love sneakers. I have about 30 pairs. I estimated I spent about $3,000 on the collection and $5,000 if I calculated the full recommended retail prices.

I only wear a few pairs and the rest I keep crispy clean in the boxes for a rainy day. I was originally an Adidas fan but my loyalty has wavered and I buying more and more Nikey's and Puma's.

The first time I went clubbing, my girl friends told me I needed to wear 'girly' shoes, they all wore high heels. My 'girliest' pair of shoes at the time where white Baby Phats with black satin fat laces and interior with a gold/diamond raised label on the side. I went clubbing for the first time in sneakers.

Please accept my resume and this expression of interest. I would really like to be surround by sneakers 24/7.

Thank you,

Yours faithfully,

Jennifer Sato

Approximately 7,665 Days Young

The calculation above was made by the multiplication of

Years of life X Days in a year

21 X 365

= 7,665 days

That is how old i am today. I had an enjoyable day, with my favourite baby, Vman =]

I regretfully woke up at 2pm today, I dont wake up unless someone else wakes me up. It's usually vman but he didn't this time. We had plans to go out to the city to eat and then it jwow for some bday drinks. Mum was cooking pancit and beef steak. she cooks me pancit almost every year on my bday, not bcoz its one of my favourites, but because long noodles symbolise long life. I don't get why mum cuts them short then. We were obligded to eat since mum said she'd spent all day in the kitchen cooking. Even vman had some, i think he liked it.

Today was cold and rainy. It was the same last year. Taking the train into the city, then tram to Lygon Street (for dinner), then tram back to jwow, then train back home and get picked up from the station wasn't ideal. We were lucky enough to get the car off vman's mum.

We drove to Lygon street for the 1st time and it as surprisingly easy. Russell street turns into Lygon Street?? Who wouldve known! We ate at this mexican restaurant called Amigos. I was awesome, awesom interior/lighting, service, location, menu layout and food. The quantity and quality is perfect there were no complaints from our table! the only thing that wud deter me from going bck is the price, nachos + two main meals + two non-alcoholic drinks = $94 It was about $25 pp meal and nachos were $15.

we drove to Lt. Lonsedale. we were blessed w good parking for the entire night. we hung out with some familiar faces, benny, hwi, barde, lee, jeremy, helen, jaime, elise and even kathy + jason came down for a chat and some drinks :) we were all a happy family.

i drank two rosebuds, half a glass of Moscato wine, half a glass of ice reisling, and 4 shots of frangelico. i wasnt tipsy at all. i destroyed my liver for nothing. my teeth were furry from all that sweetness.

driving home we had to take the Footscray road detour as there was a booze bus on Dynon road and man had been drinking.

Another Saver's Hit - So Good

Me and Nadya planned a day out today.

12:09 train from Watergardens, although it ended up being the 12:29 train.

Went to Footscray, Ate breakfast. I had vegetable and bean curd egg noodle soup while Nadya had Beef and Beef ball rice noodle soup. Then we went to Savers where we spend quite a bit of time. I found these pretty cool nikes and these even cooler Alifes. The Alife's were a mens size 11, they were beige/yellow in colour very cool and only $3.99! i planned to buy them and then sell them for triple on ebay. woo. but then i kept looking at the shoe, and when i did that i saw how yucky and gross buying stranger's shoes was. there were sticky black marks on the inside soles and black curly hair stuck to the glue. ew. i put them back. i dont wanna get sick.

I ended up getting this very cool vintage mirror. it's attached to a stand which allows it to be swiveled up or down. its perfect when putting on make up. I also found this crazy looking vintage jacket, it was yellow/green and red all over with triangular shaped material where the snap buttons go. i dont think papa or nadya liked my crazy jacket but it made me smile when i put it on, thats how i know this jacket is a must! ill post up pictures soon. theres a couple of other cool jumpers but its such a turn off seeing tomato sauce stains and human grey hairs embedded into the knits. yuck.

after savers it was Forges exploring. they are closing down, my childhood memories will be demolished with the building it once was =(

we then went pork roll buying and custard bun hunting. nadya tried olympic donuts for the 1st time and she loved it!

it was home time after that. Next adventure: Brunswick.'

Swivel Vintage Photo Frame/Mirror

$4.99 at Savers

Women's Sports Jacket

$9.99 at Savers

Song of the day: John Legend - Ordinary People