I'm Loving...
Crazy cool street style from around the world. These ladies are just oozing a fabulousness that I cannot take my eyes off of.
I don't know how those fashion girls pull off some of their amazing looks, but it always seems to work. I just appreciate the inspiration to be a bit more daring in my own day-to-day wear!
Lady Gaga turns into a man
Lady Gaga is a man. Or at least, she poses as one in a new gender-bender fashion shoot. With her wardrobe of shocking outfits, she’s never been one to shy away from the outrageous.
But Lady Gaga seems to have managed to pull another fashion surprise out of her seemingly endless repertoire, by posing as a man.
A series of new photographs appear to show the controversial singer dressed in a series of suits and shirts, with her normally platinum hair gelled up in a dark quiff.
Gone are the usual extravagant costumes usually favoured by the star. In their place are sombre suits and conservative white shirts.
The photos were taken in London by renowned photographer Nick Knight and arranged by regular Gaga stylist Nicola Formichetti.
They are set to appear in a men’s fashion editorial for the September issue of Vogue Hommes Japan.
Formichetti has also posted the images on her blog, but mysteriously lists the model's name as 'Jo Calderone.'
However, one of Gaga's biggest fans, blogger Perez Hilton appeared to acknowledge the images are of the star whom he jokingly refers to as 'my wife'.
Lady Gaga is like, hotter than you. Image source: showstudio.com
Perez posted links to the pictures on his Twitter account. 'My husband, Jo Calderone! We're in love!' he wrote, before later adding: 'My man is so hot! Love him!'
Perhaps the pictures are Gaga's idea of poking fun at rumours that she is a hermaphrodite
'I love the rumour that I have a penis. I'm fascinated by it,' she said in a recent TV interview.
'In fact, it makes me love my fans even more that this rumour is in the world because 17,000 of them come to an arena every night and they don't care if I'm a man, a woman, a hermaphrodite, gay, straight, transgendered, or transsexual.
'They don't care. They are there for the music and the freedom.
'This has been the greatest accomplishment of my life - to get young people to throw away what society has taught them is wrong.'
Wedding Wednesday {I Still Do!}
I'm so excited to be back at Wedding Wednesdays - with my archives of wedding inspiration files and my love for wedding design details I just couldn't walk away from it all.
And I had a post all queued up to relaunch Wedding Wednesdays today - until I spotted the Vera Wang Spring/Summer 2011 collection. After that, I couldn't think of anything but tulle, layers, draping and that dusty amethyst!
images via vogue australia spotted on simply seductive
But I figure there's no better way to kick start planning for your I-do's (real or imagined!) than with classic bridal couture. Can you renew your vows after only 2 months - and get away with wearing Vera?!
Tasty Tuesday {Dining}
For me, where you eat is just as important as what you eat. We've (attempted!) to ban couch eating at our house. And now that it's summer I'd love to have every single meal al fresco if I could.
I'd be just as happy with a light and airy sunroom. A fun and funky dining space would also do just fine.
images via automatism, moodboard, dress design decor, & rebecca june
I would just like to put as much thought into where I sit to dine as to what's on my plate!
Lindsay Lohan In Her Usual Loose and Sexy Self
Here’s Lindsay Lohan out the other night in her sexy weird outfit on her way to do something, who knows, probably nothing very exciting now that she’s clean and sober (wink). Whatever it is she’s up to she’s looking pretty good doing it. I kinda like that she always has to wear sexy boots to cover up her anti-booze ankle bracelet, now if the judge could somehow force her to show me her boobs justice would be served.
Megan Fox is now married with Brian Austin
Megan Fox is now married with Brian Austin, as reported by TheInsider. According to Megan Fox’ representative the couple got married in private ceremony on the island of Hawaii.
Brian Austin and Megan Fox first meeting was on the set of the “Hope and Faith” show.
It will be Megan and Brian’s first marriage. Brian Austin Green has a son with Vanessa Marcil.
Star magazine reported that “They had a fairly large wedding, but there were clearly more security people than guests, It was very hush hush. Everyone was sworn to secrecy.”
The couple is reported to be spending their night at the Four Seasons Hualalai hotel.
Megan Fox is now married with Brian Austin
Megan Fox is now married with Brian Austin, as reported by TheInsider. According to Megan Fox’ representative the couple got married in private ceremony on the island of Hawaii.
Brian Austin and Megan Fox first meeting was on the set of the “Hope and Faith” show.
It will be Megan and Brian’s first marriage. Brian Austin Green has a son with Vanessa Marcil.
Star magazine reported that “They had a fairly large wedding, but there were clearly more security people than guests, It was very hush hush. Everyone was sworn to secrecy.”
The couple is reported to be spending their night at the Four Seasons Hualalai hotel.
Tasty Tuesdays {Because You Are What You Eat!}
I talk about a lot of different things I love here - fashion, style, design, decor, travel...but one passion I've yet to delve into is...food! I am an out and proud foodie and take this love very very seriously.
It's gotten to the point where I just had to share some of my favorite eats with you. So I give you a new Apartment 34 feature ~ Tasty Tuesdays! Since talking about food could easily overtake everything here, I knew I had to limit it to just one day a week (at least to start!).
To kick it all off, I thought I'd share a few of my favorite honeymoon meals.
I judge most things by the number of good meals I had, so I made a point to make sure we ate very well throughout our honeymoon travels. Whether it was old Amsterdam cheese, apfelkuchen and beers by the city's canals, or lovely lunches of polenta with squid ink sauce paired with an excellent Valpolicella in Venice we made sure to savor each and every morsel.
1) tortellini in Borghetto 2) traditional Dutch seafood in a modern way at Spelt 3) Venetian cicheri 4) beet risotto at Spelt 5) polenta with black ink sauce 6) Dutch breakfast at Gartine 7) dessert on the Amsterdam canal 8) black ink spaghetti 9) pumpkin tortellini with amaretti
We tried to sample the local speciality of each city we visited. It ranged from fantastic handmade tortellini outside of Verona, to a beautiful beet risotto (in Amsterdam no less and it was divine!). Feel lucky I didn't take pictures of every gelateria we sampled because those posts would dominate Tasty Tuesdays for weeks.
Now back at home, I'm still hankering for those amazing dinners. I highly recommend my italian speaking readers check out La Cucina, a stunning italian cooking magazine. Every recipe makes me drool all over my keyboard.
Sunday-Supers, the Brooklyn-based cooking school on which I have the biggest foodie crush, also recently held an all italian dinner with delicious recipes. You can check it out here.
Bon appetito luvies!
*Mrs. E
And the Winner Is...
My dears, apologies for the day getting away from me! I've left you hanging about our giveaway - terribly sorry for the delay.
Without further ado, the lucky winner is....
chewing the cud towel photo by elizabeth messina via kiss the groom
(by random.org selection) Stephanie! Congratulations! Stephanie, email apt34 {at} gmail {dot} com to claim your prize!
Thanks again to Apartment 34 sponsor Wendy Mink Jewelry for the generous giveaway.
Gettin' Gussied Up
Well my dears, I hinted at a big announcement for Apartment #34 last week. A lot has been happening in my world of late, but little of it has been in blog world. The big announcement is....that is all about to change!
After more than 2 years and nearly 900 posts, I think it's high time I pretty this place up a bit!
In the coming days and weeks you're going to see changes in a variety of things here including a subtle facelift for Apartment #34, long overdue updates to links, new weekly features (Tasty Tuesdays anyone?!) and new sponsors.
My most exciting endeavor is a little something I'm calling Apartment#34creative. While planning my wedding and reception, I caught the creative services bug something fierce and so now I'm hoping to take all I learned and help others create the special occasion of their dreams!
This is all in the beginning stages, but I was just too excited to wait to tell you. Things are going to take awhile to set, so keep checking back and let me know if you enjoy what you see or have ideas or suggestions.
And if you have a party you need help to plan it's not too early! Feel free to email me now apt34 {at} gmail {dot} com. I aim to make Apartment #34 your go-to destination for all things style. I hope you'll like it!
Cheers,
Mrs. E
PS. The winner of the Wendy Mink giveaway will be announced at 4:00 pm this afternoon - so enter now!
Students Having Sex in Classroom Punched Peeping Janitor
A primary school janitor was making his rounds when he found that he could not open the door of a classroom. When he forced the door open, he was greeted by a shocking sight. In front of him, sprawled on the teacher's desk, were two teenagers - stark naked.Siew Teng Cheok (photo), 72, ended up being punched in the eye when he tried to stop the boy from escaping.
The janitor at Tao Nan School in Marine Crescent in Singapore told The New Paper that he chanced upon the teenage couple during a routine check of the classrooms at about 5.30pm on Monday. He said they looked no more than 19 years old.
Siew would usually open the door to each classroom and look inside to make sure that no student had been left behind. When he reached a second-floor classroom in a quieter corner of the block, he found that its door was stuck.
After forcing it open, he realised that a chair had been used to prevent it from opening. That's when he saw the naked couple. When they saw him, the youth darted off the table while the girl hid behind it. Said Siew: "I got a shock when I saw a naked man jump down from the table. He looked like an apeman. I could have had a heart attack.
"I told them, 'This is a school, you can't do such things.' The boy said to me, 'Uncle, don't interfere.'" The youth told the girl to get dressed and then ran to the classroom door still naked.
Siew wanted to lock the intruders in the room but before he could find the key, the boy had reached the door. The two of them got into a tussle at the door with Siew trying to close it and the boy preventing him from doing so.
The girl, who had got dressed, slipped out of the room while her friend held on to the door. "I just stood back and let the girl go," said Siew.
The boy then went back in and got dressed. Siew then took out his mobile phone to call the school's operation manager. "The boy probably thought I was trying to take his photo and he snatched my phone,"he said.
The youth then fled from the classroom. "He ran downstairs but he could not get out as the door (on that side of the building) was locked, so he came back up," Siew said. "He was carrying a backpack so I held on to it as he ran past me. I told him, 'Give me back my phone.'"
The boy, who was holding Siew's phone in his right hand, threw it on the floor, turned around and punched Siew with his left fist. "I fell after he hit me. My left eye was in pain and when I felt it, I realised it was bleeding.
Police Officers Confirm there are Ghosts in Pudu Prison
Well, if only the police had been kinder in their execution of duties, the ghosts may decide to go elsewhere. The tearing down of this historical landmark at Pudu would release the ghosts to the open, and will come back to haunt UMNO and the Barisan Nasional. Just watch how they ended history and ended themselves in the coming months....THE older the structure, the more likely it is to be haunted. Given the chequered history of Pudu Prison – which dates back to 1895 – you can be sure it has more than its fair share of ghostly tales.
Abu Bakar Juah says it was common to hear things at night – footsteps where no one was supposed to be, chains rattling, and even hearing someone or something taking a bath when everyone is locked in.
“We normally shout out loud that we are merely trying to make a living and tell whatever that’s out there to leave us alone,” he says.
Haji Aziz Haji Idris tells of an encounter while on duty at one of the guard towers when he was still a young officer.
“It was shortly after midnight and I was on night duty with another person when I saw an officer approaching. As we had been trained, I banged my rifle on the floor and shouted out ‘Everything all right, sir!”
Aziz says the figure said nothing but raised his hand, and then suddenly disappeared.
He also remembers one particular bunk in the warder’s dormitory which everyone tried to avoid.
“Anyone who slept there would be sure to feel an unseen force pressing down on his chest. They may try to shout or move but will be helpless to do anything,” he says, adding that some would rather sleep on the floor than use the bunk.
Abu Bakar also recalls a weird phenomenon – a ball of fire the size of a football that suddenly appeared and rolled out of sight.
“It happened every once in a while, and in cycles. Everyone would be talking about it for a while,” he says.
But the scariest tale is that of a recurring apparition of a woman. Aziz believes it was the ghost of a woman who was hanged there.
“She had tried to kill herself previously by slitting her throat. She survived but before she was fully recovered, the execution order came,” he says.
“She was brought to the execution chamber and hanged – but because of the injury, her head was literally torn off. It was a gruesome death and that is the ghost that many people have seen.”
He recalls an encounter with this apparition.
“I was on duty at Block D, where death row is located, and directly above the execution chamber is a huge anchor stone.
“Out of the corner of my eye I saw a figure sitting on this stone. Malays believe ghosts’ feet do not touch the ground, and when I bent over to look, the figure disappeared,” he says.
But a fellow officer’s encounter was even more shocking.
“Once, a police officer was interviewing prisoners and it was getting late. However, he said that he could interview one more, and I went down to bring another one.
“As he was filling in some forms he saw a figure sitting down. Thinking it was another prisoner he looked up, only to see a headless woman with blood flowing down her chest. The officer ran down the stairs as fast as he could,” he says.
Aziz believes Pudu Prison is a very “dirty” place and in some places is a giant graveyard.
“During World War II, the British buried Japanese soldiers there, and when the Japanese took over, they buried the British there.
“The ghosts here are real,” says Aziz.
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Authorities begin tearing down historic Malaysian jail
By Melissa Goh
KUALA LUMPUR: The walls of Malaysia's historic Pudu jail have started coming down.
For the onlookers here, it was part of their history coming down.
The wrecking ball moved in on Monday night to start work on the controversial redevelopment of one of Kuala Lumpur's icons.
When the clock struck 10pm, the first wall of the 115-year-old Pudu prison came crumbling down.
Hundreds of people watched on and traffic came to a standstill as bulldozers moved in full force.
Many Malaysians fail to understand why the government insists on demolishing this historical building despite widespread protest. Some are picking up pieces of the fallen walls as souvenirs for their future generation.
Mrs Liew and her son and daughter were among the crowd scrambling to collect remnants of the building that used to boast one of the longest murals in the world.
She says:" I'm very sad because it's a part of our history, they (children) like the building very much. It's very beautiful."
Others had hoped that the authorities would keep the facade of the building, or at least one of the walls intact.
One person says: "I've travelled around the world to China, Europe, they are preserving. Why can't we do it?"
But the Malaysian government decided that Pudu prison was not suitable to be made into a heritage site because it's not something that the country is proud of.
Efforts to promote it as a tourist destination had failed.
The MP in charge of the area in downtown Kuala Lumpur felt differently.
Fong Kui Lun, MP, Bukit Bintang, says: "Whether it's good memories or bad memories, I think it witnessed the development of Kuala Lumpur and the people are very concerned because Pudu jail is one of the landmarks"
Historians are lamenting the loss of yet another iconic building that served as a reminder of Malaysia's social history.
Some of the more prominent inmates who had been housed here included Mona Fandey, the witch doctor behind one of the country's most notorious murders and gangster Botak Chin.
The Day Lady Gaga Bites The Dust
Here is Lady Gaga biting the floor at Heathrow Airport, embarrassing herself in front of a few hundred travels while attempting to be the weirdest most outrageous looking person. Lady Gaga wore another one of her dumb outfits the other on her way to catch a flight from London to New York, and this time her shoes fought back in anger for making them look so stupid. She strutted around at first on her 12-inch boots but then, as was inevitable, she collapsed in a fleshy heap like a fat kid falling out of a tree.
The bad news is that she didn't do the fall from the top of some concrete stairs. She really needs to be careful where she steps, especially in those boots that were certainly not made for walking around in. Perhaps it’s time she think twice about some of the costumes she put on. The last thing any of her tween fans want is to find out her tours have been canceled because she lost her step. Anyway, how the hell this talentless twit is where she is is beyond me. The only thing I can come up with is tween girls are way too powerful. Katy Perry is another one but she is cool because she has huge breasts.
The bad news is that she didn't do the fall from the top of some concrete stairs. She really needs to be careful where she steps, especially in those boots that were certainly not made for walking around in. Perhaps it’s time she think twice about some of the costumes she put on. The last thing any of her tween fans want is to find out her tours have been canceled because she lost her step. Anyway, how the hell this talentless twit is where she is is beyond me. The only thing I can come up with is tween girls are way too powerful. Katy Perry is another one but she is cool because she has huge breasts.
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