Gold Class Movie Night

A quick post today to share what I wore to one of the many activities undertaken this long weekend. Aah, you've gotta love long weekends!

On Friday night, being Good Friday as there was not much to do, we decided to go for a late night movie. We had Gold Class vouchers that we'd been gifted and were waiting to use but tickets usually sell out pretty quickly for Friday nights. Luckily, this time we snapped them up just in time. We watched 'The Other Woman' - it wasn't great but who cares about the movie when you're in Gold Class at Crown Village Cinemas! 

Here's what I wore...

Black Waterfall Jacket: $139.95 (Dotti)

Ocre Silk Tank: *$5 (Dotti)

Animal Print scarf: *$9.95 (Sportsgirl)

Wet look Pants: *$19.95 (Glassons)

Black Soft Leather Ankle Boots: *$52.50 (Santini)

Outfit Total: $227.35

* = sale prices

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Good luck for the short week ahead and hooray for another long weekend next weekend! xx

Night on the town!

Saturday night + Australia Day + The City + Dinner in Hardware Lane + Drinks at Madame Brussels = Nuff said

What I wore:

   

Black Blazer: $24.95 (Valleygirl)

White & Silver Shimmery Striped Top: $19.95 (Glassons)

Cobalt Blue Skirt: *$10 (Ynot Chadstone)

Bag: *$34.95 (Forever New)

Bracelet: *$7 (Forever New)

Earrings: *$8 (ASOS)

Turquoise Heels: $120 (Hype)

Outfit Total:  $224.85

* = sale prices

We ate at Pop Restaurant and Bar in Hardware Lane. Shared a plate of Tapas and delicious Chicken Paella! 

Later we shared a pitcher of refreshing Amaretto Sour (between the 3 of us) at Madame Brussels

I'm not usually one to take photos in the "ladies room", but here I saw something I just HAD to share - an important message...

Bangkok Diaries - Part 2

SO, in Part 1 I managed to cover all the important stuff from my first day and a half in Bangkok, in Part 2 I'd like to tell you about the next day and a half - so we are still basically on Day 2.

Bangkok is famous (or should I say infamous?) for its night life. It's a party-town and there's no denying it. Bangkok looks like a different place altogether at night. A really good example of this was the footpath outside a subway station near our Hotel that has street-food hawkers and stalls during the day, gets replaced by this street-bar at night! It's the craziest thing I've ever seen!

A Street Bar Named Fantasy

But having a drink at Fantasy Bar will always remain a fantasy of mine. For our night out, we chose something a little more "up market", something more "high end", a little bit more "top tier"...hehehe...okay I'll stop with the stupid puns. Well, we went to a roof top bar & restaurant on the 63rd floor (now you get the puns ;)) of Lebua State Tower Hotel, called Sirocco. Have a look at the photo and see if it looks familiar - whether or not you've been to Bangkok, I'm sure most people reading this would've seen this Bar...

Hint: Like I said before, things in Bangkok look different at night than they do in the day...

Sirocco

It's where Hangover 2 was shot (refresh your memory here)! Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the Hangover movies, but I like movies in general and love to see places where significant scenes from popular movies were shot, in real life. Once you go all the way up there, and most people go because they know this place from Hangover, you've got to have yourself a...

Hangovertini!

Not the best tasting drink in the world, but its one of those must-do things. Unfortunately, when we got up there, we got to enjoy the outdoor area for only 15 minutes before it started raining and for safety reasons they moved us all to the indoor bar and restaurant so I couldn't take many photos - but the view from up there, as you can imagine, is ah-mazing! But for your viewing pleasure, here's my night-out-on-the-town outfit:

Black Tube Top: Approx. $10 (from years and years ago, can't even remember where from)

Blue Skirt: $20 (YNot, Chadstone)

Turquoise Low-Heels: $120 (Hype)

Gold Clutch: *$22 (Colette)

Bracelets: *$7 each (Forever New)

Layered Rhinestone Bib Necklace: Approx. $20 (Forever 21) 

Outfit Total: Approx. $206

* = sale prices

I luuurve this bib necklace I bought from Forever 21! It just completely changes any outfit. I've already worn it twice since I bought it and it didn't even feel like I was repeating a look.

Day 3 - Last Day in Bangkok :(. More street-food and sight-seeing :).

We had Goh Pao Gai (I think that's how its spelt in English) which is a spicy chicken stirfry with veggies and rice. Unbelievably good! Again cost less than a dollar.

Reclining Buddha

You just can't go to Bangkok and not see the Reclining Buddha temple! It's magnificent! The Buddha is HUGE and yet so calm and serene.

Meticulous restoration works at the temple

The Wat Pho (Reclining Buddha temple) is the largest temple in Bangkok. It looks just as majestic on the outside as it does inside. 

All this sight-seeing and touristy-stuff brings us to...you guessed it...Tourist Outfit - 2!

T-shirt Dress + Coral Ballet Flats = 

The Perfect, Summery, Tourist Outfit

T-Shirt Dress: *$30 (Forever New)

Sunnies: $35 (Sportsgirl)

Bag: *$44.95 (Colette)

Coral Ballet Flats : *$15 (Rubi Shoes)

Assorted Bangles: Gift (Lovisa)

Outfit Total: $124.95

* = sale prices

My dress did cause a bit of a problem though, we were told we wouldn't be allowed to enter the Grand Palace because of its length, or lack thereof. TIP: If you want to visit the Grand Palace, wear full pants/a maxi dress - but we didn't really have time for it anyway. That's just something we'll have to leave for the next time we go to Bangkok. That evening we flew out of Bangkok....

Off to Phuket...

Next Post: Phuket Diaries. Coming Soon...

Zigzag Tights and Zara Blazer

Why do the weekends go so quickly and why does Monday seem to stretch forever! I've had to remind myself about 5 times today that 'its only Monday!' :( Anyway, my weekend was quite chilled out and fun. Caught up with a few friends, all of whom I hadn't seen in a while. Went shopping too. Finally wore the Supre Zigzag tights that I'd bought during the Chadstone VIP Night sale to my shopping-trip with my girlfriend on Saturday...

Love this chain-link ring!

Jacket: $34.95 (Pleather Jacket - Valleygirl)

Red Knit Top: $59.95 (Sportsgirl)

Leggings: *$16 (Supre)

Boots: $39.95 (Rubi)

Bag: *$44.95 (Colette)

Ring: $15 (Topshop)

Gold Collar: Gift

Outfit Total: $210.80

 * = sale prices 

On my shopping-trip I bought this Zara Floral Silk-Satin Blazer (among other things)...

I'd been wanting a floral blazer for a while now and knew Zara had some in their collection, so I'd been visiting the store weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) going all the way to the city from the burbs where I live and work to check if they had it. Plus I have a Gift Voucher for Zara that I wanted to use. Finally on Saturday I saw they had a few blazers out in store, but this one was the one I liked most. 

2 left in my size and 2 women got to the rack the same time as I did-just a fraction quicker than me. Both of them stood there, looking at the blazer, checking it out, contemplating. I just stood in between them both waiting for one of them to give it up for what seemed like about 5 minutes (but it probably wasn't that long) almost wanting to say 'neither of you seem to want it as much as I do, just give it to me!' And then one of them did! Hehe...I feel like I've fought hard for this one, and really earned it. ;)

Atleast now I have something to look forward to in my busy work-week ;). But have to remind myself that one must...

Let it snow!

Over the Queen's Birthday long weekend, we went up to Mt. Buller. We left at 5.30am on Saturday, to make the most of the weekend.

At sunrise we stopped to take in the views: en route Mt Buller

Day 1 Outfit

Day 1 Outfit close-up

Jacket(super-super warm): *$70 (Bardot Blanket Slouch Coat) 

Warm Leggings: $45 (Zara)

Gloves: *$13.95 (Portmans Piped button Gloves)

Boots: $60 (Spendless Shoes)

Sunnies: *25 (Witchery)

Scarf: Gift

Outfit Total: $213.95 

* = sale prices

We had 2 wonderful days at Buller!

I tried skiing - I won't say I skied. I just stayed on the beginners' slopes and tried not break any bones. (By the way, I didn't wear my "Day 1 Outfit" while skiing, don't worry, I was wearing proper ski-gear)

Day 2 Outfit (& finally it snowed!)

Jacket: *$35 (Valleygirl)

Faux Fur Scarf: *$27.96 (Jacqui E)

Jumper: *$27.96 (Portmans)

Jeans: *$49 (Zara)

Boots: *$40 (Iniu Shoes - South Wharf DFO)

Leather Gloves: *$33.95 (Forever New)

Cateye Sunnies: $30 (Sportsgirl)

Bag: *$44.95 (Colette)

Outfit Total: $288.82

* = sale prices

We ended Day 2 with this Hot Chocolate+Rasberry Liquor conconction by the fireplace!

On Day 3, we woke up to frost (we were staying at Merrijig in the foothills of Buller, so no snow there)! I finally got to wear the Glassons jacket that I'd bought for this trip even before booking the trip - the one I'd mentioned in this post.

Day 3 Outfit

Jacket: *$17.50 (Glassons)
Full-sleeves Top - Red: *$10 (Glassons)
Jeans: *$49 (Zara)
Boots: $60 (Spendless Shoes)
Black Snood: *$5 (Cotton On)

Outfit Total: $141.50

* = sale prices

We were about to go have breakfast when this photo was taken, and I didn't want to scare you with my 8am, no-makeup, grumpy, its-the-last-day-of-my-holiday, I'm-hungry-I-need-breakfast-now face, so I cropped it off. No need to thank me.
Hope you had a great long weekend too! All the best for the coming long weeks! Stay warm...