Corset Diaries: Crazy a** heatwave!

The published temperature is 34 degrees Celcius or 90 Farenheit. It feels like being inside an enormous headache - the pressure and humidity... to avoid the risk of passing out on the MRT tracks, I've sent the corset to the cleaners and taking a break from waist-training. Wonder how the ladies of the British Raj managed?

Corset Diaries: Alice and the Pirates in Singapore

Alice and the Pirates have landed in Singapore! Well they've been here for a while but I just discovered the store, round the corner of the cineplex and I watch movies at the theatre probably twice a year. Fabulous to learn that there's a Gothic Lolita group and being the pendant, I'm glad to learn they're pretty purist! The usual mistake people make is to confuse Loli with cosplay - ugh!

Was delighted to see other corset wearers, although no one's waist-training but its fun to talk about crinolines... It's otaku/fangirl stuff.
Drool at the dresses and gorgeous skirts: http://black-alice-sg.livejournal.com/

Love, Elmo - found on Flickr

Love, Elmo, originally uploaded by Char-la-la.

Not a posed photo apparently... but an Elmo suit on an Ecuadorean street corner. Awwww.... creepy in a Charlie White way.

Corset Diaries: Sticky intestines, H1N1, post-colonialist Victorian neuroticism and Steampunk Perankan

T'was a coincidence that I hit the doctor's office for medical leave (2 days!) on the very same day H1N1 Patient Zero arrived in SG. I had been nursing this bug for the past week until things got so bad I had to remove my waist-cincher, something which I haven't done yet. Felt sick and nauseous. Two days recovering at home, meds gave me gastric problems, decided to put waist-training on hiatus whilst dealing with intestinal gas.

BUT I just realized that the trio of dolls I was working on was commissioned by an author of Victorian fiction! Faye L Booth: http://www.fayelbooth.co.uk/

... and I feel so privileged!

 
Why I collect art dolls of my characters
http://fayelbooth.blogspot.com/2008/03/newcomers-guide-to-my-character-doll.html

Insane humidity and weather notwithstanding, I declare myself the only dedicated waist-trainer (waffles aside) in this part of the earth. Am proud that our Victorian-colonalist history has produced a neurotic descendant (me lah!). Grandad was a self-confessed Anglophile who was puzzled and disturbed by the disruption of Independence.

Let's see - we are a society with a fusion of Confucian-Victorian foibles, wrestling with globalization, an influx of Asian foreigners, nostalgic for an imagined past  (in the form of "Little Nyona").

I suggest crinolines... and SteamPunk Perankan! Chinese-Baroque and Roccoco meets Asian technology, to be unveiled at the next IT Show.
Does that make you wanna regurgitate your Katong Laksa???

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit | Wake up call for the lazy, apatheticm, unmotivated.

"Dear Citizen: You’ve no doubt noticed that the world is a troubled place. People are apathetic, lazy, unmotivated. You’ve probably asked yourself: Why isn’t anything being done to stop this systematic decline? Well, you’ll be happy to know measures are being taken. We, your government, have decided society needs a wake-up call. So beginning today, we will randomly select a different citizen who will be killed within 24 hours of notification. We believe this will help remind all people how precious life is, and how important it is to be productive, active members of society. Thank you for your attention and your cooperation and participation in this new program."

Was motivated to blog this. Would love to see this proliferate online, in an Orweillian manner.
The original post from T. Brown